"Smack~~" The General Staff of the Soviet Army, Marshal Ogarkov, Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army, who had just returned to his office, angrily threw a stack of documents in his hand to the desk:

"This stubborn old fellow, does he have to toss the country to death before he is willing? Artillery, artillery! What can China do even if it has advanced artillery? Without a powerful air force, a strategic rocket force with 100 shots and a powerful reconnaissance and command system, what is a single piece of artillery?

"My dear Comrade Ogarkov, just say a few words!" Before Marshal Ogarkov finished speaking, his old friend who came in with him, General Iva Shutin, Deputy Minister of Defense in charge of Soviet military equipment, hurriedly stopped him, then closed the door in the office, and then walked quickly to Marshal Ogarkov's side, and said in a serious whisper:

"You must know that you have opposed our powerful defense chief on the Afghan issue, and you held diametrically opposed views with him at the meeting just now, and if today's words reach his ears, I am afraid of you."

"What is there to be afraid of? Am I not right at the meeting?" Ogarkov's sudden interruption made Iva Shutin a little overwhelmed, but Ogarkov didn't care about this, but continued in pain:

"The future trend of military development will inevitably undergo profound changes along with the rapid development of the field of electronic information, and what we need to do is to tilt resources toward the field of military electronic information so as to lay a good foundation for future changes.

The 'air-ground integrated warfare' proposed at the beginning of this year is to take military electronic information technology as the core and strengthen precision guidance, information collection, and flat command capabilities, and the implication of the 'theory of large-depth operations' aimed at our military is very obvious, but our defense chief is a good one, holding on to the experience of the Great Patriotic War several decades ago; in his eyes, nuclear weapons are big sticks, and artillery is heavy hammers, and no matter how much he invests, he will not feel distressed. It's just that if this continues for more than ten years, we will be thrown away by the United States by a few generations, and by then we will not talk about active offense, but it will be very difficult to actively defend!"

Marshal Ogarkov was recognized in the Soviet army as a theoretician of the new military transformation, and his military thinking and strategic vision were second to none in the Soviet army at that time. It's just that his thinking is too advanced and incompatible with the traditional military doctrine of the Soviet Union, so he has been squeezed out and suppressed by conservative forces in the military.

Among them, the most active was the Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Ustinov, and the two disagreed on army building and strategic judgment, and I don't know how many times they quarreled. Especially on the issue of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, due to Marshal Ogarkov's fierce opposition, he almost tore his face with Marshal Ustinov, and then the relationship between the two was even more tense.

At the just-concluded emergency meeting on the investigation report on the Sino-Vietnamese artillery battle, the two Soviet bigwigs once again stood up to each other, and the reason was naturally the issue of new artillery, and Marshal Ustinov was angry at the fact that China's new artillery had caused the Soviet Union to lag behind in the field of artillery, and instructed the military industry department to develop a new artillery that surpassed China at all costs.

As for the instruction of Marshal Ustinov, Ogarkov, who is the chief of the General Staff of the Soviet army, firmly opposed it, believing that the existing artillery of the Soviet army was sufficient. The top priority at the moment is to devote resources to the field of military electronics, which has more potential for development, enhance the command and coordination capability of the Soviet army, and use the advantages of new technologies to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army.

Once again, two different ideas on army building clashed in that small meeting room, followed by a-for-tat quarrel, although in the end Marshal Ustinov relied on his power to suppress Ogarkov and forced the order to develop a new artillery on the head of General Iva Shutin, Deputy Minister of Defense, who was in charge of Soviet military equipment.

Of course, the result of this meeting was naturally unhappy, and the two marshals were even more annoyed, especially Ogarkov's mood of being able to help the world but not being reused, which added to the deep helplessness in addition to anger. As his old friend, General Iva Shujing knew very well about this, so he patted this old friend on the shoulder, and just wanted to open his mouth to convince him. was stopped by Ogarkov's raised hand, and then reluctantly continued:

"I know what you want to say, I understand those words, but I just don't want to, now even China has begun to use electronic information technology to improve the combat capability of their artillery!"

With that, Ogarkov picked up the document from his desk again. Then he came to General Iva Shujing and counted it with his fingers:

"The content is in this same report, from the detected signals and the accurate and effective removal of sporadic mortars of China's artillery guerrilla warfare against Vietnam after the Sino-Vietnamese artillery battle, an extremely obvious conclusion can be drawn, that is, China has been equipped with a high-performance artillery reconnaissance and school firing radar system, such a force multiplier is written in black and white in the report, but our decision-makers only stare at those tank artillery with façade, but the real core things are blind, I am really alas!"

Ogarkov didn't finish his words, but that sigh said a thousand words, and then sat down on the sofa next to him, picked up the vodka on the coffee table, poured two copies, and motioned to General Iva Shutin, who was already sitting beside him, and then took a drink from the wine glass without waiting for the old friend to reply, and then leaned back on the sofa and said lightly:

"I'm just complaining to you, in fact, I also know that you don't feel good in your heart, especially the new artillery development project that was forcibly assigned this time, and there is not even a minimum reference for comparison models, just based on a few speculative data in this report, it is not easy to develop a gun with better performance!"

"Yes!" Ogarkov's words can be said to speak to the heart of General Iva Shutin, a sentence of comprehensive transcendence is easy to say, how to surpass, how to surpass, in which aspect to surpass, all need a specific goal and program, but now China's new artillery does not know what it looks like, let alone specific performance parameters, without a reference model to insist on the development of a comprehensive performance of weapons and equipment, it can be described as difficult, General Iva Shutin is also a first two for this, because of this, when listening to Ogarkov's words, General Iva Shutin couldn't help but nodded:

"So I have asked the General Military Intelligence Service to assist, so that they must get the specific situation of China's new artillery, at least a few specific photos, otherwise it will not be possible to carry out research and development at all!"

"Well, that's good, the General Directorate of Military Intelligence is more at ease than the KGB!" Although Ogarkov said plainly, Iva Shutin still heard some extraneous meanings, and couldn't help but lean towards the scheming chief of the Soviet General Staff, while Ogarkov smiled with satisfaction and leaned over and whispered a few words to this old friend.

After hearing this, General Iva Shutin's eyes suddenly widened: "My dear friend, let the General Intelligence Bureau spy on the Chinese artillery radar, you can give it personally"

"There are some things that I can't come forward for, you know!" Before Iva Shutin could finish speaking, Ogarkov patted him on the shoulder and said unquestioningly:

"Besides, these old guys are stubborn, so we can't watch the red army created by Lenin be destroyed like this, so"

"Comrade Marshal, I promise with my military rank that I will handle this matter properly!"

Hearing this answer, Ogarkov's face finally showed a long-lost smile, and although Ivashutin was also smiling, he was secretly complaining in his heart, and his head was about to crack with pain

And at this moment, the headache is not only General Iva Shutin, far away on the other side of the ocean, in the US Washington Army Artillery and Ballistics Research Room, the director of the research room, Dr. Kelvin, is also a headache, at this time his eyebrows are tightly locked, constantly flipping through a top-secret information personally sent by the CIA Deputy Director Miller, and from time to time he whispers softly:

"155mm caliber, effective range of 42 km, ammunition of peculiar shape"

"Doctor, do you think it was Dr. Boole who introduced the so-called 45-caliber concept to China earlier? According to intelligence, the source of the technology of the 45-caliber artillery being developed in South Africa is China!"

"It shouldn't be 45 times the caliber!" As soon as Miller's words fell, Dr. Kelvin shook his head affirmatively: "I have worked with Dr. Bull in this laboratory for many years, and I know very well what the shortcomings of his 45x caliber gun are, even if the artillery radar guidance is applied, it will not have such a high accuracy!" As he spoke, Dr. Kelvin suddenly remembered something, and then stared at Miller in front of him and asked seriously:

"Mr. Miller, how did you get this information?"

"You can rest assured of the reliability of the information, a Vietnamese journalist who experienced this battle and has deep connections in the Vietnamese top ranks learned about it, although he himself is a staunch red element, but when he meets a woman, hehe"

Although Miller's words were not finished, the disdainful sneer made it all clear, and Dr. Kelvin did not care about this, but continued to ask:

"Does he have any more detailed information? Even if it's a blurry picture!"

Hearing this, Miller hesitated for a moment, then shook his head helplessly, and Dr. Kelvin couldn't help but smile wryly when he saw this: "This is really a mysterious new Chinese artillery" (to be continued). )