February 8, 1983, 3 p.m. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

About 5 km from the east bank of the Oder River on the territory of the former Polish People's Republic

Blizzards continue to wreak havoc in Central Europe, with visibility of less than 500 meters.

Although the large-scale beta offensive has not yet begun, intermittent small beta attacks are already a daily routine for front-line countries.

A large beta invasion naturally requires full preparation. However, small-scale beta events have sometimes become opponents for experimenting with new weapons.

The Gunn Morsdorf Tank Battalion, which is part of the Stasi Armed Police Force, is testing weapons, because they have just introduced the first new tank in the Soviet Union, the T-80!

This company, like the rest of the Stasi, was an elite group selected from the National People's Army, not only in terms of quality, but also in terms of absolute political obedience to Stasi's rule.

Even so, the status of Stasi's tactical aircraft unit is still far more than that of the tank unit, because the tank army has a history of mutiny in the past, so it has been monitored and suppressed in East Germany for a long time, even the tank unit under the banner of the Stasi armed police force is still like a stepmother, and needs to accept the leadership and monitoring of the werewolf tactical aircraft brigade, which is equivalent to cooperating with the vassals of the tactical aircraft unit.

For example, the test of the new tank unit this time is nominally to cooperate with coordination, but in fact, the werewolf brigade is monitoring the safety of the rear formation, and there is no intention of going into battle at all.

And the werewolf brigade was accompanied by Soviet officers in charge of arms sales.

The Soviet Union is also unlucky now, originally selling tactical aircraft to East Germany, and tanks, weapons with low added value, were not the main products promoted by the Soviet Union.

However......

Due to the sudden emergence of China's tactical aircraft and the seizure of the Soviet market in East Germany, even if the Soviet Union's tactical aircraft were reduced to the cost price, they could not compete with China's tactical aircraft.

Because, in addition to the cost, there is also the issue of performance.

The FC-1 Thunder tactical aircraft provided by China is a real second-generation tactical aircraft, which is more advanced than all the tactical aircraft of the Soviet Union in terms of fire control, maneuverability, and protection capabilities.

Even the American F-14 tactical aircraft, which was just put into service in 1982, is equipped with AIM-54 "Immortal Bird" missiles, which can be launched beyond the visual range, and the missiles can fly at low altitudes to avoid being hit by the light level, and moreover, they have terminal guidance that automatically locks on to the target after approaching the target. However, the cost and carrying capacity of missiles are too small, a tactical aircraft can carry up to 6 missiles, even if it is a submunition design, each missile can be divided into 12 warheads, and only 72 rounds.

Later, the Soviet Union abandoned the F-14, an expensive tactical aircraft. At the same time, after abandoning the advanced immortal bird missile technology, the Soviet Union obtained the production authorization, and its second-generation tactical aircraft can be compared with China's Thunder.

But then again, similar to the American Immortal Bird missile system, China has long had it. It's just that because I didn't think it was cost-effective, I didn't let the tactical plane load it. But it's not a bother to really add this weapon, but the price-performance ratio is really much, much more expensive than the shells of the cannon.

The United States later gave up, also because this technology was too advanced and not cost-effective, and the American Immortal Bird missile was a kind of beta missile, but the principle was to use the computer chip of the missile to induce beta aggregation. Of course, because it is equipped with this missile, it is easier to be detected by radar, and its combat performance against people is very poor.

In addition to this, the cost of the Immortal Bird missile is also very expensive, and small-scale experiments are okay, but the large-scale use, used against the endless beta, its expensive cost, makes it seem flashy.

In a word...... The Soviet Union was forced to sell tank-based low-tech weapons to East Germany, and there must have been tears in their eyes! The money you make from selling tactical machines, the money you can make with 10 tanks!

What's more, the parts required for the maintenance of tactical aircraft are a constant source of profit!

The elimination of Soviet goods in the GDR brought great losses to the Soviet military industry. This loss is almost permanent, after all, the Soviet Union could not come up with a cost-effective tactical aircraft like the FC-1 Thunder to sell to its allies!

If it weren't for the sake of the face of the Soviet military-industrial system, the Soviet army would have imported cheaper Chinese arms.

"Tiger 01 reports, infrared detector found target! 20 degrees to the right, 2000 distance. It's a tank, with more than 200 in number! ”

The steel torrent of T-80 tanks has already begun to find the target.

"Attention to the companies, shoot backward as the battle code says. Prepare to fire, use grenades! Although this is the first time we are fighting with a new weapon, don't panic - go, go and receive guests. ”

At the command of the order, 12 steel beasts, the 125mm smoothbore guns equipped with the T-80, the strongest main battle tank in East Germany, began to roar.

Subsequently......

The light spots of the real beta in the monitoring screen are disappearing one by one!

"How's it going, Major Bremen?" The technical development officer of the Central Corps of the Soviet Union asked with a smile, "I think the performance of the T-80 should satisfy your country...... Right? ”

The Soviet officer was fluent in German, but his accent was full of Russian.

"The experiment has only just begun, and it's too early to draw conclusions." Bremen replied in standard German.

Bremen was not a military rookie, at least she knew that the Soviets liked to recommend new equipment to their allies. Then, collect the actual combat data of your allies and make improvements.

If the performance in actual combat is really good, then the Soviet army is likely to equip and increase the scale of production. And the performance in actual combat is relatively poor, and it is the allies who suffer anyway.

Of course...... The United States has also done a lot of this kind of thing.

Anyway, this kind of "ally" is nothing more than a fat sheep to pay protection money to the two major arms dealers. The arms trade is sometimes not necessarily a way to pay protection fees for the arms themselves, but more often than not.

For example, West Germany and Japan purchased a large amount of equipment from the United States, and even though West Germany and Japan had the industrial capacity and the ability to produce most of the weapons themselves, they were still forced to purchase them from the United States. This is how expensive protection fees are paid.

The relations between East Germany and the Soviet Union were the same before. Even though East Germany had a good industrial strength, it was forced to buy a large amount of weapons and equipment from the Soviet Union.

A large number of defective new weapons of the Soviet Union, or weapons that the Soviet Union was preparing to eliminate and sell in clearance, were thrown at the GDR in large quantities, so that the GDR would spend real money to buy them. In the past, the Soviet Union stationed troops in East Germany, and the East Germans were not in a position to refuse when the territory was next to each other.

Now, the GDR has the right to refuse, firstly, the hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops have been withdrawn from the GDR. Second, the Soviet Union already had very few European territories, with a population of no more than 2 million and an army of no more than 500,000, and was basically on the front line of the war against the beta, and had no ability to interfere in the internal affairs of any European country.

It was for this reason that it was not necessary for the GDR to continue to pay expensive protection fees to the USSR and buy all sorts of Soviet rags.

"Your country's introduction of China's FC-1 Thunder in terms of tactical aircraft is not a good choice." "At least, a lot of problems will arise in terms of logistics," the Soviet officer said. Originally, you were armed with the MiG-21, you had a large number of spare parts, a large number of maintenance personnel who were familiar with this tactical aircraft. After the replacement of China's new tactical aircraft, if it wants to be popularized on a large scale, it is necessary to train tens of thousands of maintenance personnel, which will take a long time! ”

"Our country's maintenance personnel are working hard to train, tenfold their efforts, to speed up the popularization of FC-1." Major Bremen said solemnly.

The Soviet officer was almost angry, but quickly held back and did not have a seizure.

At present, the tactical aircraft of East Germany can hardly be seen from the Soviet Union, and a small number of MiG-21 tactical aircraft are only for improvisation, and with the destruction of the old Soviet version of the tactical aircraft, the East German is not ready to buy this weapon anymore.

After all, the FC-1 Thunder is far superior to the Soviet one!

Not only the units of the East German National People's Army, but also the Stasi Armed Police Force, also fully adopted the FC-1 Thunder produced under Chinese license.

Because, because of the FC-1 Thunder, the Soviet Union forever lost a large customer for the procurement of this tactical aircraft. In the past, the Soviet Union could sell at least 200~500 tactical aircraft to East Germany per year.

Now not only has this customer been lost, but there are also concerns that the East German version of the FC-1 Thunder will even be sold to other Warsaw Pact countries after mass production...... (To be continued.) )