Business Insider got access to a US Army Special Operations Forces training exercise at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where visitors stepped into a simulated scenario: a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
Category
🤖
TechTranscript
00:01Business Insider had access to some of the training and capabilities of the U.S. Army Special Operations Forces at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, last week.
00:09And here's what we saw.
00:10The annual interactive exercise put visitors in a hypothetical scenario involving a Chinese attack on Taiwan.
00:17The first part of the exercise focused on assessing the threat.
00:20It shifted into high gear when drones simulated an attack, leaving some actors wounded and prompting special operations to demonstrate crisis and medical responses.
00:28Then, operators conducted a raid into enemy territory with the goal of opening up a temporary air corridor for follow-on forces.
00:36Business Insider watched as the initial assault team took control of the area and then used a counter-uncrewed aerial system to defeat enemy drones.
00:43With the air corridor open, forces from the 75th Ranger Regiment and the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment flew in on MH-47 Chinook helicopters,
00:54scurried down ropes onto the top of enemy buildings, and staged an explosive breach of an enemy command and control center.
01:01First-person view drones were also used to provide the team's critical situation awareness.
01:06The overall exercise gave BI a close look at how the Army's Special Forces are training amid a larger shift away from counterterrorism and counterinsurgency towards great power competition against the U.S.'s key adversaries, namely China and Russia.
01:20First-person view Anime
01:38First-person view Universal