Chapter 606, Alice and the Value of the Umbrella
After a long time since the start of the war, Alice, who has remained in Washington after an encounter, has once again attracted the attention of many generals. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 InfoAs Lone Wolf III and Aquila 2 returned to base, far away in an office at the Pentagon, she was sitting with three Army generals.
"I don't know who the three of you are?"
It had only been ten minutes, and Alice was still unsure of what they meant.
The general at the head groaned slightly, and said: "Today's operation is the first time that Miss Wang's troops have shot, although we can all see that the main credit is due to the AC-130 that arrived at the end, but the battle of the ground forces has also been seen by us." ”
Alice rolled her eyes silently, and sure enough, she saw the general say: "We all saw that the situation at that time was that the ground detachment named Alpha No. 1 first encountered an enemy attack on the Gobi, and after annihilating the enemy army, it quickly got rid of the full speed of the armored force. Although your three Apache helicopters played a lot of roles in this process, we also saw the performance of that armored vehicle. ”
It turned out that such a big circle was made to express this meaning. At present, the U.S. Army is the mainstream of the M2 "Bradley" infantry fighting vehicle, which began to equip the troops in 83 years, and the performance is naturally very good, but it is still much worse than the one designed by Alice for herself, no wonder these soldiers will be hot.
She smiled modestly: "Grizzly is an armored vehicle designed and produced by our own side, and if the War Department likes it, of course we are happy to provide products." It's just that at the moment, this kind of armored vehicle is only produced for its own use, so if the War Department wants to adopt it on a large scale, I will have to expand the production capacity, which requires a lead time. ”
The three generals all laughed, knowing what it meant, and one of the lieutenant generals said, "As long as the performance is excellent, everything will not be a problem." That armored car is called Grizzly Bear, its mobility on the Gobi is simply breathtaking, and its firepower should not be underestimated. Miss Wang, can you tell us more about that?"
Since it is a private armed force participating in the war, the mission sent is relatively independent, and people here in Washington may not have the energy to understand it in such detail, even in the war zone. It's remarkable that Alice has provided her troops with so many Apache helicopters and an entire company of soldiers with Barrett sniper rifles. But in the case of only armored vehicles, it is enough to know that they are armored vehicles, and then ask people to understand their performance in detail, the War Department is not so idle.
But today, when you look at the performance through satellites, you can't help but think they don't care.
"The Grizzly is an eight-wheel drive armored vehicle that can carry two drivers and a squad of nine soldiers, weighs about nineteen tons, has a maximum speed of about 100 kilometers per hour, and has a combat range of about 500 kilometers. It can conduct urban and rural warfare, especially in urban combat, and thanks to the Caterpillar diesel engine with a maximum power of 257 kilowatts, and the use of MD3066P automatic transmission and semi-active liquid-gas suspension, it can easily cross a two-meter-wide trench and climb a 30-degree slope with ease. ”
"It uses special bulletproof tires with excellent bulletproof and lightning resistance, and the tire pressure central adjustment system can adjust the tire pressure according to road conditions. Our measurements at the Blackwater base show that it has good driving performance on both soft and hard grounds, and can even drive smoothly on muddy and rough trails at speeds of 96 km/h. ”
"In terms of weapons, it's not the old-fashioned kind of soldier shooting at the front of the car. The fully computerized remote-controlled weapon system can simultaneously command two anti-tank missile towers with a 7.62mm caliber machine gun for self-defense, equipped with automatic watch and tracking devices, and its ceramic armor can also resist any ammunition under 14.5mm in size. ”
"That's the approximate stats for the grizzly bear you saw today. Since it is also a new product, we only have this model now, and the fire support type is being intensified. In the new model, we will remove the anti-tank weapon tower and add an eighteen 105-caliber gun. ”
Finish everything you need to say cleanly, and then just wait for the other side to reflect.
It takes time to think, and the purchase of a new armored car is not something that can be decided by just three people, Alice is not surprised that she did not immediately get a positive answer, anyway, she knows that she will definitely make a profit.
The design of the umbrella grizzly armored car is derived from the Stryker wheeled armor that the U.S. military will only install around 2000. After all, compared to the M2 "Bradley" infantry fighting vehicle currently used by the army, the performance of this model is so good that it is definitely far behind the other party.
At the very least, the remote-controlled launch weapon system alone was enough to make this group of soldiers covetous. Fortunately in the year 2000, even if the current arms dealers were to develop a new vehicle right now, they might not have thought of this new type of assistance system on the spot. Because unlike the research and development of new aircraft, armored vehicles are more concerned with practicality and cheapness, such as the kind of high-end equipment that is directly linked to informatization, which is too much of a test for designers to keep pace with the times.
Let the soldiers discuss it themselves, and Alice will only have to provide the information. Based on the shell, it can have a variety of functions with only minor modifications, which is a major feature of armored vehicles. Three-defense reconnaissance vehicles, anti-tank guided missile vehicles, medical ambulances, mortar vehicles, engineering vehicles, armored personnel carriers, command vehicles, and fire support vehicles, with just one sentence from the general, she easily explained all these improved basic data.
Of course, the matter of ordering a new armored car, at this moment, is just an episode for both Alice and the people of the War Department. The war is ongoing, and now is the time when the war is hot, so let's go back to the order or something, and keep an eye on the situation in the bay first.
Ground operations can be viewed in two streams. One is a special detachment, whose mission is to conduct fire reconnaissance of the front-line units of the Iraqi army and to seize a number of Iraqi outposts. It is precisely on the basis of these thorough preparations that the ground offensive of the US and multinational forces is proceeding smoothly in three stages: breaking through the defensive line, conducting operations in depth, and encircling and annihilating them.
Alice took on half of this work alone. Thirty Apaches, dozens of Black Hawks and Chinooks, the latest AC-130s, and a full 3,000 main battle soldiers and armored vehicles, if it weren't for the fact that she had not been able to avoid a high shock, she would not have had much trouble taking them all.
And then there is the main attacking force. On the first day of the 24th, the Eastern Route Army, composed of two divisions of the US Marine Corps and the Joint Arab Forces, took the lead in breaking through the Iraqi defense line on the Kosha border in multiple directions, and directed its way towards Kuwait City.
At the same time, the Western Route Army, composed of 10 divisions from the United States, Britain, and France, broke through the Iraqi defense line in many directions along the Saudi-Iranian border and advanced in depth from south to north to southern Iraq. The 101st Air Assault Division of the US 18th Army also carried out airborne operations more than 80 kilometers north of the Iran-Saudi border, establishing the first logistics supply base for the multinational force to fight deep into Iraq.
On the third day, the Eastern Route Army of the Multinational Force cut the Iraqi troops in Kuwait and thwarted the counterattack of the Iraqi armored mechanized units in the outskirts of the city, annihilating about 10 divisions of the Iraqi army, and the French 6th Light Division of the Western Route Army defeated the Iraqi infantry division. Although during this period, the Iraqi president personally went to the front line in southern Iraq to organize anti-encirclement operations, but he was also unsuccessful, so on the 26th, he ordered all Iraqi troops in Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, shrink the front, and prepare to resist in the Basra area of southern Iraq.
However, the results can be imagined: from the 27th, the US and British armored mechanized units carried out encirclement and annihilation operations against the five Republic Guard Divisions and other elite units of the Iraqi army, while the US Marine Corps and the Joint Arab Forces surrounded and annihilated the Iraqi troops on the periphery of Kuwait, and the KLA troops marched into the city of Kuwait, officially announcing the liberation of Kuwait.
The 100 hours of ground warfare before and after all set a new record for the speed and efficiency, the large amount of personnel mobilized per unit of time, and the high dependence on the degree of informationization. The scene in front of him was watched by the news media all over the world, 37 days of air raids and 100 hours of ground warfare, the total strength of the 600,000 multinational forces and the number of 200 casualties, how many countries were completely shocked?
Alice knows it.
More on that, more on that later.
After the war is over, the people in the Ministry of Defense have also made time, and it is time to have a good chat.
The door to the highest-level conference room opened, and Alice walked inside, and as far as the eye could see, there were all executives and generals who could scare civilians to death.
The leader was President George H.W. Bush, who had only been in office for four years and had just achieved the greatest achievement of his tenure. The Secretary of Defense, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Director of National Security, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Army, and Air Force filled the room.
"Wow, what an honor. ”
As soon as she entered the house, she saw such treatment, and Alice would say something like this: "Mr. President, you are going to scare people to death." ”
Amid the laughter of the crowd, Bush Sr. got up and asked her to sit down, and said with a smile: "You are our greatest hero in this war, and if we did not have a new information network system led by Cisco, how could we have fought so easily." Yes, please sit down first. ”
Alice deserves this evaluation completely. Just kidding, as a person who has experienced the real information age, what is the difficulty of designing a network command system for the Ministry of Defense at this time. Although she just waved her hand to write an article, the value of this information to the authorities is not surprising that it is sealed in the X-Archives of S.H.I.E.L.D. and kept tightly!
In this way, she sat down in a sass.