"Daddy! It's not that you don't know that in the positional warfare between the two sides of World War I, the problem of trench footage was criticized. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info In the damp and muddy trenches, if the soldier's feet can't wear a pair of good socks, and they are stuffy in the hot and humid shoes for a long time, it is very easy to have fungal infections and become rotten and itchy! ”

Chen Xu felt that his toes were a little itchy as he spoke, and he took out his slippers and rubbed them on the sand of the playground a few times before he felt a little more comfortable, and then said: "Not to mention that our soldiers went to the deep mountains and old forests on the border of Vietnam, which was even worse than the German-French battlefields in Europe back then. If the soldiers do not wear this special socks and close-fitting clothing, the skin is very easy to be infected by bacteria and ulcerate, a good pair of socks is more important to the soldiers than the guns in their hands, socks are combat effectiveness! ”

Chen Xu deeply knows that fighting in the hot and humid primeval forest is a fatal thing, so he tries to work the soldiers' underwear and combat uniforms, and widely uses wear-resistant, antibacterial and waterproof mixed materials as the first line of defense to protect the safety of the soldiers.

It is said that the U.S. military is armed to the teeth when they go abroad to fight, and in Chen Xu's view, the army of the flower growers must not only be armed to the teeth, but also to the toes, and the whole body must be prepared to minimize any external factors that affect combat effectiveness.

For military materials, it does not cost money to produce these things, and after mass production, the cost is reduced to the limit, and it only costs a material cost. What is more expensive is the cost of research and development, and sometimes the cost of research and development of an advanced piece of equipment alone accounts for more than half of the procurement cost.

Military items are to be used on the battlefield, and they have higher requirements for reliability in the face of various extreme use environments. For example, helmets, in order to be harder, lighter and more shock-resistant, it is necessary to develop special materials with extremely high technical content, and the research and development process is long, and the cost of research and development expenses increases.

If it's just a steel helmet, it's really cheap, and you can stamp it out directly with iron sheets on the lathe, dozens of dollars a piece.

For example, something as simple as field rations is not cooked and put into the package, but needs to integrate the characteristics of nutrition, taste, and storage resistance.

If a qualified military field ration is to be fully met with the needs of the battlefield, it will take two or three years of research time, and the cost of research and development will rise gradually.

The soldiers and horses did not move, the grain and grass went first, and the ancient army had to prepare the soldiers' rations and the forage of the war horses first, which shows that food is the most important material. In modern times, the soldiers are still those soldiers, but the war horses have been replaced by cars that do not have to eat grass, and instead of tons, tons of fuel are used.

These low-tech equipment is not bad, because Chen Xu can directly come up with design drawings, so the military materials produced by Southern Heavy Industry Group are very cheap. This is also the reason why the mace bazooka produces 100,000 rockets at a time, and Chen Xu doesn't blink his eyes, which costs a little material and labor costs, and the cost of these rockets is cheaper than artillery shells.

Chen Xu: This is just a special case, the research of real high-precision and sophisticated weapons is completely to burn money, and in later generations, more and more attention will be paid to modern warfare, and weapons will become more and more sophisticated and expensive. Few countries can afford to play modern warfare anymore.

Purely in RMB, the cost of a 100,000-ton Ford-class aircraft carrier of the US imperialists is as high as 70 billion. This is only the cost of the ship itself, not counting the future maintenance, wear and tear of parts, and the cost of eating, drinking, and sleeping for thousands of people on board, if you include the escort fleet, logistics support ships, and air force fighters, it will be hundreds of billions of dollars.

With such an expensive fleet, how many countries in the world can afford to play? In addition to the monopoly of the United States imperialism, there is only the outbreak of the rich planters, the second conventionally powered aircraft carrier has not yet been launched, and the domestic military fans are already clamoring for the country to hurry up to 100,000 tons of nuclear power, steam catapult is not enough, and the most advanced electromagnetic catapult must be used to satisfy everyone's desires.

In order to save money, Britain's latest Queen Elizabeth two-ship island aircraft carrier has a displacement of only 65,000 tons and the Liaoning, in order to save money, only the sliding take-off deck and conventional power are selected, and there is no need to use the complex and expensive steam catapult and nuclear power system.

As for the aircraft carriers of the Asan family, it doesn't matter if you don't mention them, their aircraft carriers are not weapons! Rather, it is the decorations that the Navy has bought back for billions of dollars to put on display.

No matter what other countries think, anyway, the Chinese know that no matter how advanced the weapon is, the power in the hands of the A-3 soldiers will be at least three folds. In the hands of the Chinese army, a rifle can shoot the power of a heavy machine gun, but in the hands of Ah San, a heavy machine gun is inferior to a pistol.

In addition to the super expensive weapon of the aircraft carrier, in the era when the fourth-generation aircraft is about to replace the third-generation aircraft, an F35 costs almost 1.4 billion, who can afford such an expensive aircraft? NATO member countries, especially the Europeans, hate the United States to death, and the British's new aircraft carrier is all counting on the F35 as a carrier-based aircraft, but the Americans' pre-sale price makes the British feel like they are worried, and they do everything possible to reduce the performance of the aircraft carrier in order to save money, and the result is that the Americans use carrier-based aircraft to make money.

A Tomahawk missile is 9 million, and the US military kept firing Tomahawks during the Iraq War, which is actually equivalent to throwing Rolls-Royces into the sky.

If you buy a Rolls-Royce, you can drive it for decades, and when the Tomahawk is launched, it becomes a pile of worthless debris, and even collecting scrap is a lot of hands.

But this is war, the act of turning expensive war materials into waste, and the senseless consumption of money and materials......

Many people don't understand why humans fight, it's actually very simple, if someone spits on you, will you fight back?

All right! You can hold back, but they'll slap you again!

You're the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, so what if you can hold back! People will soon attack your family, such as bullying your wife or something, and at this time you will definitely pick up a kitchen knife and cut it!

This is human nature, no matter how honest you are, there will always be bastards in real life who will provoke you and make you unbearable and end up swinging a knife at each other. The same is true for countries and countries, just like the US imperialists are the bastards, the flower growers do a good job and make money, and they always want to come over and make trouble for us, and they want to make the flower growers bankrupt.

This is also the reason why the international environment is so turbulent now, because the bullying of US imperialism all over the world has aroused the anger of the heavens and people. Countries with a strong eye are already holding chips and preparing to bet, waiting for how the rising flower planters will deal with the arrogant US imperialism, no matter who wins or loses, as long as the small country bets right, it will always get a lot of benefits.

In 2011, France-led NATO forces launched a war of aggression against Libya, codenamed "Odyssey Dawn", and France dispatched the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier battle group to bomb Libya indiscriminately.

The people of the world saw that Kadazui was defeated and finally died under the air raids of the West, and France seemed to have won.

But the layman looks at the excitement, and the insider looks at the doorway. The European-led NATO forces bombed Libya indiscriminately for three months, and the war was only halfway through the war when it was declared out of ammunition and logistics. The Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier battle group is also frequent, and the entire fleet has been consumed in just three months, which has made the French feel so painful that some of them can't bear it.

In the end, I had to turn to the United States for support, and let the American dad dispatch B2 and launch Tomahawks to maintain the war situation, otherwise the army would be withdrawn halfway through the war, and the face would be lost to the moon.

This can also be seen from the essence of Europe's external powers, and it is so difficult to fight a local regional campaign, and if an all-out war is launched, these countries will not last long at all, and it will completely become a game for the strong.

The consumption of materials in modern warfare is becoming more and more serious, and since the beginning of World War I, the black hole of war has begun to emerge, and Britain and France have been preparing for this battlefield for a long time, and the combined reserves of artillery shells in the two countries exceed 10 million rounds, and they both feel that so many artillery shells can be fought for three or five years. The result was unexpected, both countries had exhausted all their stocks of artillery shells in three months, and finally had to activate civilian production and build a large number of artillery shells.

Not only cannonballs, but almost all military supplies are in short supply, and the old European empires such as Britain, France and Germany have almost taken out all the money they have accumulated over the past hundred years to make equipment, which can be said to be to the extent of smashing pots and selling iron.

By the time the war mode of World War II escalated, the consumption of materials was even more tragic, and the whole of Europe was directly bankrupt, and if there was no Marshall Plan for the United States, it is estimated that Europe would not be able to recover now.

During World War I, the German army produced a total of 8.2 billion rounds of ammunition, and by World War II, the German army consumed 21 billion rounds of ammunition.

The ancient tomb of the Han Dynasty in Yiwan, which planted flowers, unearthed a weapon and equipment statistics book, which told that an arsenal in Donghai County of the Han Dynasty stored 530,000 crossbows, 130,000 spears and weapons, more than 20 pieces of leather armor and armor, and 240,000 pieces of swords.

Ancient wars already cost so much, let alone modern times.

Interestingly, there were still a lot of supplies that didn't have time to be consumed after the end of the First World War, the most obvious of which was canned meat. These supplies were not destroyed, but were kept as such, and then distributed to soldiers in World War II.

In fact, during the First World War, Britain and France were even eating salted jerky during the Napoleonic Wars, but the soldiers refused to eat these foods that tasted slag at home, and the soldiers chopped the fat in the jerky to make firewood, or used it as bricks to smash at the enemy...... (To be continued.) )