Chapter 833: Helicopter
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To be honest, China's production of tanks and trucks is not comparable to that of the United States, but now that the United States is at war, countless planes and tanks are defeated every day, so that the huge military production of the United States needs to supplement the war losses, and there is less equipment for continuing to expand the army.
As for China, although it has experienced many foreign wars since 1939, the Sino-Soviet Olav conflict in 1940, China's invasion of six Southeast Asian countries, and the attack on Russia. However, China's own losses in these military operations are not large, and in the largest of them, in the Russian campaign, China lost about 600 tanks, and this figure is nothing for China's tank production capacity.
Because the consumption of war losses is very small, although China's overall military spending and resource investment are not as good as those of the United States, the pace of military expansion is much faster than that of the United States.
Judging from China's current industrial base capacity, it is possible to build more than 50 divisions into infantry divisions established in 1942 in the early stage.
After obtaining the approval of the domestic industrial department, the army officially began to implement the 1942 infantry division establishment, in which a division has a total strength of about 15,500 men, with 12 155-mm howitzers, 54 105-mm howitzers, 6 75-mm anti-aircraft guns, and 63 57-mm anti-aircraft guns. In addition, there were 60 twin-mounted or triple-mounted 12.7-mm anti-aircraft machine guns, six 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, 80-mm and 60-mm mortars, and a total of nearly 900 machine guns, including 6.5-mm light machine guns and 7.9-mm heavy machine guns. There are more than 7,000 semi-automatic rifles, more than 7,000 pistols, and a large number of bazookas, gun-mounted grenades, and so on.
In addition, a very important change is that divisional units with semi-permanent surnames will be assigned a Reading Tank Battalion, which will be the same as the tank battalion of an armored division.
Of course, the above establishment is the most optimized establishment, and in fact, even those standing infantry divisions can not fully achieve this, in light weapons is not a big problem, mainly in heavy weapons, because the production of 105 mm howitzers is also limited, plus there are a large number of new infantry divisions are also waiting for 105 mm howitzers to be used as divisional artillery firepower, it is more difficult to draw enough 105 mm howitzers as regimental artillery use.
On the one hand, due to the insufficient production of heavy weapons, and on the other hand, because the Chinese army is deployed in a very wide area, some of which are fighting in the northern plains, some are fighting in the southern mountains, and some are fighting in the jungles, so in the specific implementation, it is no longer necessary to uniformly use 105 mm howitzers and 57 mm combat defense guns, and the troops fighting in the northern region are modified with 105 mm anti-tank guns, and the troops in Central Asia and Siberia are completely replaced with 57 mm anti-tank guns. In the Southeast Asian theater of operations, the troops still use 75mm howitzers as regimental artillery, and since there is no armor force to deal with in this area, they continue to use 37mm combat defense guns.
Generally speaking, the units deployed in Southeast Asia and the southwest of the Chinese Army are generally weaker in terms of heavy weapons firepower than those deployed in the north and Central Asia, whether they are infantry divisions or armored units. This can be seen from the fact that the main force of the northern armored division is the T9\12 series tanks and the T15 medium tank, while the armored units in the south are equipped with the T10 southern tank \T8 light tanks.
In addition to the most important changes in the infantry division, the new establishment in 1942 also included changes in mountain infantry divisions, changes in amphibious warfare divisions, and then small adjustments were made in armored divisions and mechanized infantry divisions.
When the new establishment was implemented in 1942, the guard division also began to adjust according to the establishment, but the guard division has always been different from the establishment of the army troops, and the combat mode is also very different, so the army's large-scale establishment changes have little impact on the guard division, and the guard division only absorbed some details of the army division, such as the most basic infantry squad tactics to continue to optimize the combat mode of the guard division.
"In terms of combat effectiveness, the combat effectiveness of the army infantry division after the change has increased significantly, although it is not as good as us in terms of weapons and accessories, but the development of the army is also very fast, it seems that it wants to catch up with our pace!" A major general of the guard division said.
But Lieutenant General Lin Jingfei snorted coldly: "They think beautifully, although their equipment level and combat effectiveness have been greatly improved, but compared with our guard division, there is still a very big gap. ā
Lin Jingfei said that he was actually on active duty with the concept of stealing, because everyone knows that a composite regiment of the guard division is as high as more than 8,000 people, and some divisions of the Soviet army with relatively small troops are only seven or eight thousand people, are you embarrassed to say that this guard regiment is a regiment?
After the outbreak of the Russian campaign last year, the guard division and the previous war period, quickly formed a reinforced regiment and sent to the Siberian region to participate in the war, although the number is only the number of the second guard regiment, but the part under its jurisdiction makes others feel surprised, this second guard regiment has a tank battalion, two infantry battalions, a self-propelled artillery battalion, a self-propelled air defense battalion, a mechanized reconnaissance company, in addition to these combat units, in fact, there are more non-combat units, including a baggage battalion, A sanitary battalion, an engineer battalion, an ammunition company, a communications company, and so on, with a total strength of more than 8,000 people, equipped with more than 70 tanks, more than 100 full-tracked infantry fighting vehicles, and then a bunch of half-tracked and wheeled armored vehicles, and all kinds of jeeps and trucks add up to more than 1,300 units. To put it bluntly, the equipment of this 2nd Guards Regiment is not much weaker than that of a mechanized infantry division, and it can be considered a miniature version of the mechanized infantry division.
Moreover, the infantry firepower of the Guard Division was also the most powerful, and they were the first in the army to be fully equipped with semi-automatic rifles in 1937, and they were more powerful than the infantry of most mechanized infantry divisions at that time.
After all, the regiment commander with the rank of major general in the whole army, the battalion commander with the rank of colonel is only one guard division, but there are only more than 3,000 other regiment commanders, but the composite regiment of the guard division is as high as more than 8,000 people, which is in the past with a major general commander.
In fact, if you have to say that this kind of establishment of the guard division is actually more like a division and three brigades, and one division has three brigade-level warheads, and the concept is somewhat advanced.
And the most fundamental reason for this advance is not that the guard division feels that this kind of establishment can make the combat strength stronger, but that it feels that this is the only way to expand the strength of the guard division. Chen Jingyun and the army have limited the establishment of the guard division, anyway, it is a guard division, and no matter how much you toss, it is still a guard division.
However, Lin Jingfei and the officers of the guard division system were naturally unwilling, and after coming up with the so-called composite regiment model, Lin Jingfei also wanted to get a divisional aviation brigade equipped with fighters and front-line bombers, but as soon as this idea was put forward, it was ruthlessly suppressed by the air force, and Wu Shizhong even shouted that if Lin Jingfei dared to build a guard division aviation team, he Wu Shizhong would dare to carry a saber to his door.
In the face of such heavy pressure, Lin Jingfei had to give up the tempting idea of equipping the guard division with fighters and bombers, but this did not make Lin Jingfei dispel the idea of establishing a guard division aviation. After Lin Jingfei saw that the Air Force was not allowed to equip them with fighters and bombers, he changed his direction, not aiming at fixed-wing aircraft, but putting his hope on rotary-wing aircraft, well, that is, what later generations often call helicopters.
Of course, the helicopters of this year are still very primitive, although all countries have developed and even equipped, the Germans are the first to equip helicopters, and the United States is also developing it, and China, which has always prided itself as a military power, is naturally no exception, and there are all kinds of R&D plans in the huge military R&D system, not to mention helicopters, and all kinds of bizarre R&D plans, such as air aircraft carriers that can take off and land planes in the air, and rocket fighters and even research UFOs......
So China now also has the research and development of helicopters, but even Chen Jingyun, who knows that helicopters will play a great role in later generations, does not have much confidence in the helicopters of this era, because the helicopters in these years are really too primitive, and it is extremely difficult to let them fly, and it is difficult to use them for combat purposes if they barely fly, at most it is to transport the wounded and the like, in Chen Jingyun's heart, the helicopter can only be developed in the fifties at least, and it is still too early.
But Lin Jingfei had great expectations, and after watching the test flight performance of a helicopter, he sent a research and development contract, asking the country to develop a helicopter with practical surnames, and he was ashamed to say that as long as he could get it, money was not a problem.
At this time, the guard division reflects his unique surname, don't look at the guard division has only one division, but it is completely outside the army, he has his own division of the staff department, equipment department, logistics department and a series of institutions, the procurement of materials and weapons research and development equipment are their own decision, and the army has nothing to do.
Although this guard division is small, it has all kinds of organs.
Thanks to the equipment research and development and procurement mechanism of the guard division, the research and development of this helicopter has been strongly supported by the guard division. Today, more than a year later, when Lin Jingfei found Chen Jingyun and asked for approval for the guard division to set up a helicopter brigade, Chen Jingyun was surprised to find that the helicopter had been made by the guard division, and it looked like the surname was not bad.