Volume 12 Prelude to the Great War Chapter 39 Tear down the east wall and make up the west wall
Speaking of the thugs, the fact that he and the National Army are compiling the Bu Da Women's Medal is a direct consequence of the lack of equipment and mules. 【】
As chief of the General Staff, Xiang Linghui must have known that Wang Yuanqing would carry out a major disarmament after the Indian War and greatly reduce military spending, so during the Indian War. As an army general, Xiang Linghui took advantage of all available opportunities and laid the foundation for the army's long-term development. According to the information provided by Li Cunxun, during the entire Indian War, the war expenditure and special expenditure of the Republic exceeded one trillion yuan, of which about one yuan, that is, the near dollar, was misappropriated by the General Staff, and about one dollar was spent on the army.
In a sense, Pei Chengyi is Xiang Linghui's accomplice.
As far as Pei Chengyi knows, during the war in India. After being transferred by the front-line command, but not used in the war, there are as many as 100 million dollars, and most of these funds are used to purchase weapons and equipment that cannot be used on the battlefield in India. The main battle tank was improved from the old main battle tank of the first 3. Because Pei Chengyi was the front-line commander at that time, and Xiang Linghui deliberately protected him, he didn't know exactly where the embezzled funds were spent. At best, it's just speculation. After seeing the information provided by Li Cunxun, Pei Chengyi knew that most of his guesses were not wrong. The address of this site has been changed to: except for the coo, please click on the continent to read!
Before the end of the war in India, the Republic Army launched a program for the development and procurement of weapons and equipment called "Key Projects", which involved as many as a number of weapons and equipment projects, and the start-up funds for these weapons and equipment projects all came from war expenditures during the Indian War. Other words. Xiang Linghui embezzled! For example, 100 million yuan of war funds were basically spent on this key project, and each project received an average of 400 million yuan for the thugs. these items. Including what Pei Chengyi had guessed a long time ago. Lead main battle tanks.
In addition to not introducing the main battle tank, the outside world has long known that there are also individual self-defense weapons codenamed "porridge," portable high-pitched multi-purpose missile systems codenamed "Chi," and strategic projection infantry fighting vehicles codenamed "Zhen." Relatively speaking, except for porridge and relaxation, other weapons and equipment projects are improvement projects.
In fact, this is what is actually happening in the Army.
Pei Chengyi has worked in the equipment office for more than a year and is very aware of the army's equipment bait.
Because the Republic Army has never developed individual self-defense weapons, and in the past, non-combatants were equipped with pistols and submachine guns, so the individual self-defense weapon system had to be developed from scratch. One of the most critical reasons why the project was approved was that when it was submitted for approval, the estimated cost of opening and procurement was less than $1. Although the final investment was serious, it was a project to ensure the safety of the lives of about 10,000 officers and soldiers of the main force and about 10,000 officers and soldiers of the second-line troops. It's nothing at all.
Actual combat has proven, most of the time. Non-combatants who have not undergone rigorous combat training are no match for combatants when it comes to using self-defence weapons such as pistols and submachine guns. There was not even a chance to resist. For non-combatants, who make up about two-thirds of the total strength of the Republican Army, there is an urgent need for a portable, moderate-range weapon for individual self-defense that can effectively deal with an enemy wearing combat protective clothing.
In fact, as early as the end of the 202 era, the United States and other Western countries put forward a similar concept of equipment exhibition. At the beginning of the first century, the Belgian company launched the Kou and the German company launched the Yi 7 are relatively excellent individual self-defense weapons, and the two individual self-defense weapons have been successful in design, but they have not been able to equip the troops on a large scale for only one key reason: the newly designed gun cartridge.
When the Republic Army proposed the development of individual self-defense weapons, the first thing that came to mind was to use the guns and ammunition of the past.
The reason is simple, guns and ammunition are highly consumable materials, and even in peacetime, they will be consumed in large quantities during scraping, so the inventory is very large, and if you switch to new bullets, it will inevitably lead to high system costs. It is on the basis of this requirement that the Republic Army proposed that it could be completed with only a small amount of 100 million yuan, and that about 10,000 sets could be purchased. After the project was launched, several designs with new cartridges were put out first, and only two designs using ring-millimeter rifle cartridges were shortlisted. The problem is that there is a serious problem of overpower in individual self-defense weapons using rifle cartridges, which leads to the quality and size of the system exceeding the design indicators, making it lose its basic elements as individual self-defense weapons. In the words of the director of the Army's Logistics Equipment Department, who was in charge of the project at the time, if the individual self-defense weapon was a small assault rifle, it would be better to purchase the assault rifle directly. As a direct result of the first round of bidding, the entire procurement idea was reinvented, allowing for the use of completely new design cartridges. In the second round of bidding, the "Shellless Ammunition Proposal" submitted by the "Firearms and Ammunition Company" under Zhongzhong Group won perfectly, and finally won the system development and procurement contract with a total value of nearly 100 million yuan. According to the contract, the Firearms and Ammunition Company will not only provide the army with more than 10,000 sets of individual self-defense weapon systems, including 10,000 guns, 10,000 sets of precision aiming equipment, and 1,000 sets of night vision devices, of which the above two types of equipment will be mainly provided to scouts and special forces of front-line combat units, but will also provide the army with about 10,000 guns and ammunition and supporting ammunition equipment, including 10,000 standard magazines and 10,000 enhanced magazines. Because the basic requirements of no-dismantling and washing are taken into account when designed, it is not necessary to provide cleaning equipment separately, and if necessary, it can be purchased separately. When selling overseas, the firearms and ammunition were supplied with matching dismantling and washing tools. It is undeniable that the new individual self-defense weapon based on the technology of caseless shells is sufficiently advanced. Although its unit price is as high as 70,000 yuan, excluding the cost of supporting equipment and ammunition, the actual purchase price is less than 30,000 yuan, which is twice that of the assault rifle of the same era, but as a combat equipment that exceeds the scale of the assault rifle in the army of the Republic and will be the main weapon of hundreds of thousands of non-front-line combatants, the development and production of individual self-defense weapon systems can be regarded as satisfactory. Unfortunately, due to cost considerations, at the bidding stage. The Republic Army ruled out electromagnetic guns based on energy weapon systems proposed by the "Future Weapon Systems Company", a subsidiary of AVIC.
As a matter of fact, due to the influence of the purchase of individual self-defense weapon systems, the project was established as early as before the outbreak of the Indian war, and it was intended to be finalized and tested after the end of the Indian war. Although in the eyes of many, the key reason for the discontinuation of individual electromagnetic weapon systems is technology, the problem of funding is just as serious. To put it simply, if there is sufficient investment, we will certainly be able to break through the most critical technologies within a few years, so that the "individual all-electric combat system," including individual electromagnetic weapons, will be comprehensively popularized, so that the infantry combat effectiveness of the Republic Army will be greatly enhanced.
The problem was that after the war in India, the Republic Army did not have enough money.
You must know that not to mention the estimated purchase price of the "individual all-electric combat system" with a unit price of several million, even the estimated purchase price of the "individual electromagnetic weapon system" is more than 10,000 yuan, and according to the consistent style of military projects, when the actual procurement is made, the price is very likely to increase by 40,000 yuan. Even if about 40,000 infantry out of 70,000 front-line combat units are equipped, the entire procurement cost is as high as 100 million yuan, including development and supporting equipment. The total investment in the system must be more than 100 billion. There is no doubt that such a plan will not be supported.
In fact, it was Pei Chengyi who broke the plan.
While working in the armament office, he included the Army's individual electromagnetic weapon system in the list of "the best equipment fighters" and ended the program at the end of the year.
It can be said that the individual weapon system is the epitome of the entire army equipment system.
In terms of main battle tanks, long before the outbreak of the war in India, that is. When it did not attract large-scale equipment to the troops, the army launched a follow-up research project, that is, to develop an advanced ground main battle platform with completely concave performance and oriented to the era of the century-leading blade. Because in the development of the dish lead with. At the time of Yingkou, the army tried the universal platform of the chassis of the two ground main battle equipment with the versatility of the ship, and achieved relatively satisfactory results, so when the "future ground main battle platform" was launched, the army put the versatility in place, requiring that on the same chassis, according to different operational needs, various main battle equipment including main battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored transport vehicles, and airborne combat vehicles were exhibited, and later as the Marine Corps joined the project, it was also required to have the ability to improve into amphibious combat vehicles.
There is no doubt that so many requirements have made the "future ground main battle platform" very high, which has led to the slow progress of research and development. At the end of the war in India, the project was still at the stage of theoretical development, not to mention solving the main technical problems, and even how many technical difficulties were not figured out. There is no doubt that it is impossible for such an equipment project to survive, and Pei Chengyi did not hesitate to be classified as a good and far-reaching person.
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In fact, long before the outbreak of the war in India, the Army began to improve the ratio, to be precise, targeted. Problems exposed in the process of equipping the troops. The manufacturer is required to make a small range of modifications, and the modified dish is named the dish because the change is not large, it is difficult to distinguish it, and it has been equipped. Similar changes have been made in the troops, so in addition to the equipment number. The Army did not use this codename. In this way, improvements are continuing. Citation. The Army used this number.
And. Do not cite comparisons. The introduction of the main force has enhanced the strategic mobility capability.
Because the focus of the Army's reform is to improve its strategic mobility capability and the ability to defeat any enemy thousands of kilometers away, all main battle platforms, including main battle tanks, are required to have a sufficiently powerful strategic mobility capability. The improvement scheme is also not complicated, that is, to increase the modularity of the combat platform. According to the needs of the operation, the top guide can not only be very flexible equipped with protective armor divided into a total of levels, when the highest configuration, can resist all the troops that have been equipped, as well as the anti-armor weapons that are being developed, but the mobility will be greatly reduced, and the combat module and power module can also be replaced. Because it uses an all-electric drive, so. It is even possible to replace the walking module. In the words of the chief engineer in charge of the project, when necessary,. The crew of the lead can turn it into a wheeled tank in 8 hours. Of course. In practice, the tankmen petitioned to let the trailer carry the main battle tank forward, and did not change the tracks for tires. The Army is improving. At the time of introduction, the replacement of the running gear was mostly proposed to hype the concept and force the opponent to make greater efforts on all-electrification, so as to prevent the opponent from making major breakthroughs in other aspects, such as protection and firepower.
So it is with the main battle tank. The same goes for infantry fighting vehicles.
At.! The mouth of the king is improved on the basis of the mouth. The nephew is an immature project. The biggest feature of the project is to improve the asphalt, a large number of mature technology, and enhance the general ability. It is precisely in this way that in addition to the ability to carry an infantry squad, it is not much different from the main battle tank in other aspects. If necessary, the crew compartment can be dismantled within an hour, turning the concave into a real main battle tank.
To the surprise of the Army, because of the success of the concave mother, the production of the old was reduced by more than half.
What everyone didn't expect was that the Zhaoyi anvil, which was driven on the basis of Xu's mother's strength, had obtained orders for bladed knives in the thug country in just 3 years, and nearly half of them were "main battle tank models." That is to say. For these allies or friendly countries of the republic with limited financial resources and limited military size, it is impossible to purchase too much main battle equipment for the army, a main battle platform that can play the role of both main battle tank and infantry fighting vehicle, even if some important performance is reduced due to versatility, is also the most ideal choice. Because of the large number of fat babies exported to the otter coat variant cars, a total of stunned countries have been stunned by the order of ribs and the intention of the car. According to outside estimates, in the future, the total export volume of Fei Yiqiang and its successor models is likely to exceed 30,000 units, becoming the best-selling ground main battle equipment in the century. The performance is very unsatisfactory. Fortunately, "the introduction series and the fat blade series are produced by the same company, as long as the sales volume is much more than the blade series, the Vcd does not lead series, at most a little extra profit will be lost."
Among the army's main battle equipment, another major player is the artillery platform.
Because the electromagnetic cannon fighters were already fully equipped, the army artillery had long parted ways with the armored forces. To be precise, with the exception of the base platform, artillery was largely unconnected with the armored corps. More importantly, rely on the advantage of range. The electromagnetic gun pays more attention to the performance of the system, rather than a single performance such as range, power, and shooting. In fact, from the very beginning, due to the limitations of the energy system, the electromagnetic gun was designed according to one system.
Relatively speaking, artillery was the most affected. According to the original plan, the Republic Army will purchase the first spiral electromagnetic cannon by Yo Nian, and gradually replace the orbital electromagnetic cannon in the following years. In order to sell the orbital electromagnetic gun to more countries and continue to maintain its technological leadership. After India's war, because the development of the festival is too large, a number of key technologies have not been solved, and no one can guarantee that it can be solved before the yo year, plus the early investment B has greatly exceeded the plan, so the development project of the spiral electromagnetic cannon was discontinued and replaced by an enhanced orbital electromagnetic cannon. Although after Lin Xiaolei served as the chief of the General Staff, the spiral rail electric cannon project was highly supported by the Navy, mainly because the caliber of the orbital electromagnetic cannon was inherently limited and difficult to continue to improve, so the Navy needed a more excellent electromagnetic cannon system, but the spiral electromagnetic cannon system developed by the Navy did not have high requirements for integration quality, and the initial design index was a thug crazy ton, and when the Army presided over the project, the initial index was Wang Stew. And it is required at the time of the formal equipping of the troops. Reduced to cylinder tonnage for air transport, even if the development is successful, it can only be used on large warships In fact, even if a cruiser is equipped, the integrated quality of the spiral electromagnetic cannon system must be controlled within the tonnage, and if a destroyer is equipped, it must be controlled within the tonnage.
For the Army, it can only pin its hopes on the enhanced orbital electromagnetic gun.
According to the information provided by the Military Intelligence Agency, four combat units of enhanced orbital electromagnetic guns have been prepared, and the maximum firing range has been increased from the original 4 kilometers to 6 kilometers under the use of extended-range ammunition. Theoretically speaking, under the condition that the quality of the shells cannot be further improved and the minimum lethality must be ensured, the persuasion kilometer is basically the ultimate range of the orbital electromagnetic gun.
Of course, in line with the principle that something is better than nothing, the Army is accelerating the procurement of enhanced orbital true magnetic gun systems.
Because the introduction and comparison are all improved on the basis of the original equipment, the enhanced orbital electromagnetic cannon system has become the only main combat platform purchased by the army in bulk after the year of the blade. It can be said that in order to get the best electromagnetic guns for the old combat units, the army has given up a lot of things, including the high-profile "Future Air Tactical Platform" project led by the Army Air Corps.
In a sense. Among the various branches of the army, the best life is the army aviation.
In accordance with the requirements of the third military reform, because the functions of the support aviation units of the army and the air force overlapped, the functions of the two branches of the armed forces were redivided, and the support aviation units of the air force were only responsible for the operation of strategic transport aircraft. It is equivalent to handing over the tactical transport aircraft to the army aviation. In other words, Lu Hang got a big piece of the cake from it. Part of the funds originally used to operate tactical transport aircraft were allocated to the Army Airlines.
Of course, in the quiet situation that the whole family is not having a good time, Lu Airlines cannot stand alone.
The same as with armor, artillery. After the war in India, the army aviation did not have a plan for the development and procurement of new main battle equipment.
Because the ground aviation is already very high, the strength should not be underestimated in the case of only making improvements.