Chapter 1697

New Delhi is full of magic for the domestic surprise inspection of war preparedness, but the relevant domestic parties are extremely serious.

It took only 28 hours for the blue army brigade to assemble at the training ground with an altitude of 4500 meters on the snow plateau and carry out adaptive combat readiness training. Soon, Zhuang Jianye received a notice from the relevant parties in Beijing and began to summarize the problems exposed in the combat readiness surprise inspection.

At first, Zhuang Jianye didn't care, because he, the leader of China's take-off, didn't attend 100 similar summary and evaluation meetings for so many years. You also had more than 80.

Usually, the big guys sit down and gossip, and then under the guidance of the big leaders attending the meeting, they blow each other's business, and finally come to a perfect conclusion of Hello, I and everyone, and the meeting can end successfully.

Therefore, Zhuang Jianye was a little annoyed at such meetings, because even if they were held, they could not produce ugly Yin Mao. It was a waste of time. It was better to sleep at home for a while.

But this time, after Zhuang Jianye walked into the conference room, he found that something was wrong, because several leaders led by the head of the air force were all taut.

Sure enough, after the meeting began, a head office leader in charge of presiding over the meeting startled the participants, including Zhuang Jianye

"There are many problems exposed in the equipment aspect of this combat readiness surprise inspection..."

"The basic performance of type 09 wheeled armored vehicle needs to be improved, especially the continuous combat capability in plateau environment. Compared with the requirements of the army, there is still a long way to go..."

"The air transport performance of the integrated platform equipment is very poor, resulting in a lot of unnecessary time for the troops to install and leave the aircraft..."

"Judging from the current drill, the combat effectiveness of the assault force composed of wheeled armored vehicles alone is still unsatisfactory. Therefore, we suggest that we should develop light armored mechanized forces for plateau and mountain operations as soon as possible..."

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The leader of the headquarters said more than 20 problems exposed by relevant equipment at one go, and the old face of the person in charge of relevant enterprises was ugly and almost turned into a ghost.

But another refutation could not be said.

Type 09 wheeled armored vehicle and various supporting equipment developed on its basis have a strong experimental nature. After all, the concept of "Shrek armored brigade" of the U.S. military is really attractive.

In addition, the highlands and mountains in China and the paddy fields in the south are more suitable for the deployment and operation of this lightweight mechanized force, so the headquarters took the blue army brigade as a pilot to explore the feasibility of this kind of operation mode.

Practice has proved that this model does have unimaginable advantages in the area with vertical and horizontal rice fields of southern water network, but in the plateau and mountainous areas, the limitations of this model are not satisfactory.

The most prominent is the assault force.

The blue army brigade itself has only one battalion, 18 100mm wheeled assault guns. In addition to the slightly passable mobility, both defense and firepower are not on the table.

Especially in the face of the attack of anti tank missiles and large caliber recoilless guns, 100mm wheeled assault guns have almost no effective means to ensure their own safety.

As for the 100mm low-pressure breech gun, although it can deal with the first and second-generation tanks such as T62 and t55, it still seems that the firepower is weak when it comes to the third-generation entry tank such as t-72m1 equipped with explosive reaction armor.

Especially in long-distance alignment, the 125mm tank gun of t-72m1 can completely crush the 100mm low-pressure wire bore gun on the wheel assault gun.

Because of this, the combat readiness surprise inspection will strengthen a company's 96a main battle tank for the blue army brigade.

However, the problem is that the adaptability of 96a main battle tank in Plateau and mountainous areas is not good. In addition, its weight is too large, which has great limitations in the face of Plateau and mountainous areas with complex road conditions.

Therefore, the headquarters hopes that relevant enterprises can develop a light armored vehicle suitable for plateau and mountain operations as a special armored assault force to make up for the current defects

In addition to armored assault forces, the problems of artillery, air defense and logistics support are also very prominent. The leaders of the headquarters who spoke calmly pointed out one by one.

I thought all this was over. Who knew that the head of the air force picked up the microphone when he came, To put it bluntly: "The leaders of our headquarters have made a comprehensive summary. Let me add a few words here. In fact, what we really want to strengthen for the blue army this time is the 99A main battle tank. Unfortunately, we have the largest carrying capacity - 18nb. After reducing the fuel load, the carrying capacity is only 45 tons, so we can't put down the 50 ton 99A main battle tank, which makes our assault force weak by at least 20% …”

Then he turned his eyes to Zhuang Jianye, who had been watching his nose and heart: "Comrade Jianye, you should think about it when you go back. Now our transport aircraft can't cover all the army equipment, which has a great impact on our possible rapid deployment..."

It's not just the 99A main battle tank. In fact, yun-18nb can't carry a lot of equipment. For example, the zhi-20 series helicopter improved and upgraded by China Tengfei in zb-15 helicopter can't fit in the cargo compartment of yun-18nb.

In addition, the direct-8 plus heavy helicopter that the army is preparing to purchase on a large scale cannot be loaded.

This has greatly limited the mobility of the army air assault force. Needless to say, the rapid deployment of heavy troops is also limited to only a few traditional methods.

If we add all kinds of medium and long-range ballistic missiles of the second artillery, the limitations of yun-18nb are indeed not small.

Not to mention anything else, in this combat readiness surprise inspection alone, the yun-18nb transport aircraft participating in the operation carried out an average of four sorties.

If there are more powerful transport planes, two sorties per transport plane may be able to send a large-scale formed unit to the snow plateau.

Because of this, even if the air force chief did not say anything at the meeting, Zhuang Jianye would also promote this issue when he returned. Moreover, China has not been idle in recent years, and has long carried out a feasibility study on the follow-up model of yun-18nb.

Since the head of the air force mentioned it this time, Zhuang Jianye pushed the boat along the water and highlighted his own plan: "well, China's take-off has noticed the limitations of the existing transport aircraft, so we have begun to carry out a preliminary feasibility study on this issue in the past two years."

"Oh?" After listening to Zhuang Jianye's words, the head of the air force was stunned. He didn't expect that China's take-off had begun research in this field, so he couldn't wait to say, "tell me!"

"OK..." Zhuang Jianye nodded. "We think that the successor model should be benchmarked with the C-17 strategic transport aircraft of the United States. Therefore, our preliminary assumption is that the maximum take-off weight of the new strategic transport aircraft is about 250 tons, the empty weight is about 120 tons, the maximum load capacity is 65 tons, and the range is more than 10000 kilometers."