Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 1016 1017 is not on the same plane anymore
Over the years, the Great Tang Empire has been changing its weapons and equipment, especially those that have begun to mess up its logistics.

The first thing to be eliminated is the Leopard tank. Generally, this kind of tank has two sales outlets, one is sold to Chu State, and the other is sold to Yangmu Empire.

As the Tang Empire eliminated most of its Leopard tanks, the production line of this type of tank was also sold to the Yangmu Empire more than a year ago.

Now the Poplar Empire is the country with the largest number of Leopard tanks, and they are also very satisfied with the combat performance of this tank.The only shortcoming is the logistics and maintenance of this type of tank. The complicated Leopard tank has indeed caused a lot of trouble for the Yangmu Empire's logistics troops.

There is no way to do this, because in a sense, the Leopard tank is a "special weapon" that wants everything and pursues perfection.

Its armor protection is quite high, its maneuverability is also very good, its ammunition load is very good, its firepower is powerful, and its sighting system is advanced-is such a perfect weapon really reasonable?

Of course it is unreasonable.

The Leopard tank just piled all the problems into the production and maintenance links. How perfect it is on the battlefield is how rubbish it is in terms of production and logistics.

Again, the Leopard tank may be a good choice for the Tang Empire, which has a strong logistics and first-class manufacturing capabilities, but for the Yangmu Empire, it is not as good as imagined.

Weapons and equipment always have a focus, and it is basically impossible for almighty weapons to exist. This is an unchangeable fact.

Taking military vehicles as an example, soldiers hope that the vehicle can be stable and comfortable, which requires the vehicle to have a good shock absorption system.

At the same time, a good military vehicle should also have qualified protection capabilities, including anti-mine capabilities and the ability to prevent stray bullets and direct bullets.

Mine protection requires sufficient clearance between the chassis of the vehicle and the ground, which will inevitably lead to an increase in the center of gravity of the vehicle, which will increase the shaking of the vehicle and in turn affect the comfort and stability of the vehicle mentioned above.

The heavy armor protection will in turn increase the pressure on the shock absorption system and affect the working state of the shock absorption system.

Even with the best shock absorbers and thicker armor, it's a question of whether the vehicle's engine can provide enough power for the added weight to keep the vehicle going fast enough.

Then install a high-power, powerful engine?Choose a more reliable supporting clutch...Then new problems come again, the fuel of the vehicle is not enough, and the travel is short.

Without a strong power vehicle, the meaning of its own existence will be lost. If the horsepower is insufficient, the cross-country capability will be reduced, and soldiers will not be able to pass through dangerous areas in a short time, which in turn will affect the survival rate of soldier vehicles.

Too much fuel consumption in turn restricts the use environment of the vehicle, making the vehicle unable to meet the needs of soldiers.

Install a bigger fuel tank for thicker armor, more powerful horsepower?In order to protect the fuel tank and carry more fuel, does the car have to waste more horsepower on transporting its own fuel?
Heavy weight, thick shell, dull and poor ventilation, the failure rate of such a vehicle has increased, and the heavy armor has become a huge obstacle to repairing the vehicle. An engine compartment cover that can hold 7.62 mm caliber bullets cannot be lifted without hydraulic assistance... …

In order to keep such a heavy car from sinking into the mud, it is necessary to reduce the pressure, increase the ground contact area of ​​the wheels - increase the width of the tires, or simply use stacked double-layer tires.

Well, after coordinating this series of problems, after adding more water and more water, you just barely solved various problems of the vehicle itself.

To know that the fuel consumption of this car increases by one liter per 100 kilometers, then an army equipped with 30 such cars will consume an extra 100 liters of fuel every time it advances 30 kilometers.Under normal circumstances, the fuel consumption of military vehicles is very exaggerated, as many as two or three liters are possible.

This is not because the entire army has advanced 100 kilometers, and the round-trip consumption of transporting these fuels, plus the scrapped engine oil and worn tires of these vehicles...

Is your head already big?Don't worry, the transport capacity occupied by the transportation of newly added oil and other materials was originally allocated to the transportation of ammunition, ammunition and food supplies.Now these things, is it necessary to arrange additional vehicle transportation?
Well, a whole set of complicated calculations and overall planning work has been completed, and it is roughly estimated how many new vehicles need to be added. The whole thing can only be regarded as the hope of seeing the end.

The whole process started off as a preparation for adding a little protective steel to a military vehicle—and the last country had to stockpile more than 1 tons of gasoline for these protections.

Usually manage these reserves, find a place to store them, and keep the gasoline in a usable state... A new round of calculations has begun again.

The question is what kind of advantage can be gained by paying such a price: war is not a game of beasts, and whether your truck is stronger and safer than other people's trucks, is there any practical point.

It cannot be said that it is completely meaningless. Improving the survivability of every weapon on the battlefield and every soldier is the goal that technicians strive for. They hope to reduce casualties and increase the combat effectiveness of every unit.

However, in real situations, the situations encountered on the battlefield are complex and unpredictable most of the time.If your infantry encountered an enemy tank, wouldn't they just surrender instead of fighting?
In fact, it is not. In most cases, even if infantry without any anti-tank capabilities encounters enemy tanks, they will do their best to delay the enemy's attack and block the enemy's advance.

To put it more heartbreakingly, even if you only have a dagger and a brick, you have to go up and try against the enemy's tanks. This is the responsibility of a soldier!

So many times, the efforts of technicians are not rewarded.The things they racked their brains to make, can't be said to be useless on the battlefield, it can only be said that it is better than nothing.

You see, after decades of unremitting efforts, the technicians finally enhanced the armor on the front of the tank to a homogeneous steel equivalent to more than one meter, but suddenly found that the top attack ammunition was all over the street.

The heavily armored tanks are no longer facing the armor-piercing projectiles fired by the damn enemy tanks, they have to withstand the challenges of drones, individual cruise missiles and anti-tank missiles.

It is not necessarily the enemy's assault rifles and light machine guns that the armored vehicles have encountered, but it may be a 40mm anti-aircraft cannon that has been fired flatly.

Under comprehensive consideration, relevant decision makers will generally make trade-offs, and finally come up with a relatively compromised option.

In fact, for a long time after World War II and the end of World War II, countries around the world had no plans to add armor to transport vehicles.

It was only later that the Lighthouse State began to play the role of a policeman around the world, and the troops increasingly emphasized light weight. Soldiers often needed to travel in transport vehicles, and only then did they begin to pay attention to the protection of transport vehicles.

To put it bluntly, it is basically using the transport vehicle as an armored vehicle, and because the opponent's heavy firepower is seriously insufficient, the armored vehicle is used to replace the role of the tank.

This is the origin of the so-called Stryker Brigade: bullying kindergarten children who don't even have decent anti-tank missiles, so they can use thin-skinned armored vehicles to bully people unscrupulously.

It's a pity that in recent years, as the children in kindergartens have become more and more fierce because of the arms trade, the Beacon Country itself had to start giving up its light troops and regain the Abrams main battle tanks that it looked down upon before.

The Tang Army does not need to take this detour, because the Tang Army has always been building its main combat force according to the standards of the Continental Army.The Tang army has never given up on the research and development and deployment of heavy weapons and equipment, and the commanders of the army also attach great importance to the use of armored vehicles.

Yes, the Tang Empire never thought of replacing the role of armored vehicles with transport vehicles such as the Humvee. In the eyes of the commanders of the Tang State, transport vehicles are transport vehicles, and armored vehicles are armored vehicles.

After learning the experience and lessons of De San and Mao Xiong, combined with the rabbit's theory, Tang Guo developed the large-volume category of tracked armored vehicles and wheeled armored vehicles respectively, which met the mobile protection needs of the troops.

These weapons and equipment are much easier to use than welding armor on a jeep, and it also provides enough chassis options for the self-propelled artillery and other functional vehicles of the Datang Empire in the future.

Another point worth noting is that when the Tang Empire produced these Soviet weapons and equipment, it adopted more advanced American management standards.

In this way, the quality of weapons and equipment has been improved, and favorable conditions have been created for the subsequent improvement and development of these weapons and equipment.

Mao Xiong is too rough in terms of production process and other standards, which is related to Mao Xiong's own industrial development route.That model of catching up late is completely different from the current situation in which the Tang Empire is leading the world.

The Tang Empire is using American production methods to produce Soviet-style weapons and equipment. It is not following the stupid and rough path of the Soviet Union.

Therefore, although the Tang Empire adopted a large number of Soviet-style weapons and equipment, it adopted a more streamlined and reasonable design idea in terms of logistical maintenance.It can be understood that Datang Empire is trying to use the specifications and standards for manufacturing F-16 to produce J-[-] in the future.

By the same token, Tang Mo is adding safer firefighting equipment, more advanced sensors, and adopting more sophisticated manufacturing standards to his "Rabbit Tank", preparing to develop into a more comprehensive "Super 99 Main Battle Tank" in the future. ".

For the Tang Empire, the performance of weapons is actually only the most extreme appearance. Its real strength lies in the fact that the production and manufacturing standards operated by Tang Mo's group are not on the same plane as other countries.

(End of this chapter)