NEW MECHANIZED INFANTRY REGIMENT CHAOYANG ARMY BKS AL-1, CHINA (SANITIZED)

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• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2011
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 15, 1982
• Content Type: REPORT

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NEW MECHANIZED INFANTRY REGIMENT
CHAOYANG ARMY BKS AL-1, CHINA
.(SWN) SIGNIFICANCE: SECOND FULL MECHANIZED INFANTRY REGIMENT
IDENTIFIED IN THE SHENYANG MILITARY REGION.
2. (SWN) REMARKS: A NEW MECHANIZED INFANTRY REGIMFNT WAS
IDENTIFIED AT CHAOYANG ARMY BKS L- IN THE SHENYANG MILITARY
REGION (MR) ON IMAGERY ALTHOUGH
SUBORDINATION IS UNDETERMINED, THE REGIMENT IS LOCATED NEAR
THE 119TH INFANTRY DIVISION OF THE 40TH ARMY. IT IS THE
SECOND FULL MECHANIZED INFANTRY REGIMENT IDENTIFIED IN THE
MILITARY REGION. THE REGIMENT CONSISTS OF 124 M-1967 ARMORED
PERSONNEL CARRIERS (APC) AND TWO ARMORED VEHICLES. A BATTERY
OF 85/100MM ANTITANK GUNS, A BATTERY OF 37MM ANTIAIRCRAFT GUNS
AND 62 CARGO TRUCKS WERE ALSO PRESENT. THIS FOIJTPMF.NT WAS
PRESENT ON IMAGERY (NPIC IAC 222
HOWEVER THE APC'S COULD NOT BE IDENTIFIED AT THAT TIME BECAUSE
OF POOR INTERPRETABILITY.
(SWN) IF THIS UNIT IS SUBORDINATE TO THE 40TH ARMY, IT WOULD
BE THE THIRD MECHANIZED INFANTRY REGIMENT SUBORDINATE TO A
MAIN FORCE INFANTRY DIVISION IDENTIFIED IN CHINA. THE OTHER
TWO ARE WITH THE 190TH INFANTRY DIVISION OF THE 64TH ARMY IN
THE SHENYANG MR, AND THE 112TH INFANTRY DIVISION OF THE 38TH
ARMY IN THE BEIJING MR. TWO OTHER MECHANIZED INFANTRY
REGIMENTS WERE PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED IN CHINA, BUT ARE
SUBORDINATE TO INDEPENDENT TANK DIVISIONS. ONE IS WITH THE
1ST ARMORED DIVISION IN THE BEIJING MR, AND OTHER. IS WITH THE
SECOND ARMORED DIVISION IN THE NANJING MR.
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