When You Get "Killed" In A Chinese Wargame Smoke Pops Out The Top Of Your Helmet

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Making training as realistic as possible is an absolute imperative for any major modern military. For obvious reasons, troops can't actually shoot at each other during force-on-force exercises, so you need some other way to register hits and misses and make it clear for everyone involved. A new Chinese state television segment about the People's Liberation Army's massive and curious Zhurihe Training Center, the topic of a recent War Zone feature, shows one solution to this problem: helmets with laser tag-like sensors with small colored smoke canisters on top that go off when you get "killed."

 

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