What does the synthetic brigade mean?

Synthetic brigade refers to synthetic battalion.

Synthetic brigade pays attention to a high degree of synthesis, synthesizing infantry, armored infantry, armored force, artillery, air defense, special forces, engineers and other arms. Now, although the army has synthetic brigades, infantry brigades and armored brigades at the same time, synthetic brigades are the mainstream. Now, when discussing brigade-level troops, it is generally discussed by taking the synthetic brigade as an example. The brigade headquarters of the synthetic brigade is very small, only the general staff, political department and security department of the brigade, as well as several units directly under the brigade headquarters, including guard company, reconnaissance company, communication company, health team, information station and so on.

Generally, the synthetic brigade has five synthetic battalions, including 1 air defense battalion, 1 fire support battalion, 1 artillery battalion, 1 armored battalion and 1 integrated support battalion. From the results, the synthetic brigade covers many arms, such as infantry, artillery, armored forces, engineers, air defense forces and so on. And the degree of informatization is very high. Because it has several battalions, each battalion has hundreds of people, plus the staff of the brigade, a synthetic brigade has about 6,000 people.

In other countries, only the mechanized infantry regiment of the French army (the regiment of the French army is equivalent to the battalion) simply synthesizes infantry and tank troops. In addition, more importantly, our synthetic battalion has also strengthened its ties with the army aviation, air force, special operations forces and electronic countermeasures forces. The synthetic battalion is equipped with Beidou terminal and digital mobile network equipment, which can call armed helicopters and air force fighter-bombers to launch air strikes against the enemy in time, and electronic countermeasures forces can suppress communication interference in enemy areas.