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Humvee combat vehicle, once deservedly the king of the battlefield!

But now that he is old, judging from the recent roadside explosions in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is this war king who has made the US military pay a heavy price.

It is true that the Humvee gave the U.S. Army the ability to move quickly, as well as the same strong combat protection and fire support capabilities, but it also caused the U.S. military to pay huge casualties.

You must know that the very wide shape of a Humvee gives this car a very good battlefield concealment ability, and it can shoot bullets or rockets from a distance to avoid places.

But it is also his wide and short body that makes this car very impactful when it is hit by a roadside bomb.

So you often see that a Humvee worth hundreds of thousands of dollars is often blown to the ground by a simple IED made of a gas cylinder.

And once the Humvee is attacked like this, the number of casualties of combatants can be directly multiplied by four or five, after all, even if the Americans have money, they can't do it, to the point of equipping every American soldier with a Humvee.

So there is no need to wait for the later stage of the war, even now the US military has begun to feel that the Humvee can no longer meet their needs, and they are thinking about a comprehensive redress and retiring the Humvee from the combat sequence one after another.

However, now several car companies in the Celestial Empire are not aware of this, and the combat vehicles developed for the military are actually based on the Humvee.

For example, the so-called xx warrior, in later generations, has been ridiculed more than once, and someone once said so.

Called a warrior? Are you embarrassed too? Copying the leftover things from an American, you change the front face and change the car logo, you dare to call it a warrior?

Even if it's plagiarism, you have a little bit of creativity, okay, the things copied are not as high-tech as the products developed by the Americans in the nineties, don't look at the 6.5 sound V8 engine used by the Hummer, but the fuel consumption per 100 kilometers is only 0.16 liters, this is a pure hard off-road vehicle weighing more than three tons, and it can achieve such fuel consumption, which shows the skills of the Americans.

And what about the so-called warriors? The diesel engine used by Cummins and the introduction of this is not to mention the fuel consumption.

In fact, in terms of the most details, just people's anti-rust paint is enough for us to learn for decades......

And he actually licked his face and said that his car has complete independent intellectual property rights, so why do you still use Cummins diesel engines? Why not your own diesel engines?

Thinking about the so-called combat vehicle that was born in later generations and was installed by the troops of the Celestial Empire, Jin Xiaoqiang could only keep shaking his head, although there was a breakthrough in imitation, but after all, he was already outdated.

The car is not fake, it should be worth celebrating, and it is equipped with troops, which also shows that this car must have certain advantages, but the key is the attitude of those officials, if they open their mouths and close their mouths, they will only talk about it, if this car is really so awesome, then do they dare to take this car to the battlefield to test it?

Jin Xiaoqiang could only mourn his misfortune and be angry at him at that time, but at that time he was just a grassroots fart, and it was not his turn to take on such a major matter of worrying about the country and the people, nor was it his turn to point fingers, so at that time, as a knowledgeable person in the automobile industry, he could only register a vest and post two sentences in the forum.

But now it's different, and the military came to his door and asked him to help design a model, a new combat model that meets the needs of the war in the new era, and the situation is different.

In his opinion, as long as he intervenes, then he will never allow the kind of Humvee-like four dislike to continue to run rampant in the army of the Celestial Empire, in short, he will not be afraid of offending people because of this.

After waking up, Jin Xiaoqiang's mind flashed the combat models of later generations, among which he was most satisfied, after the Humvee, he was called the war beast Knightxv.

After the second Iraq War, the U.S. military has launched two new military vehicles, one of which is a new mine-laying combat vehicle MRAP, and the other is XC2V, but these two models, when Jin Xiaoqiang was reborn, were not put on the battlefield in large quantities and were tested by war.

Therefore, Jin Xiaoqiang does not plan to copy these two models, because these two models are too avant-garde, and according to the current stage, the development trend of the Celestial Empire army, there is no plan to expand externally, and a large number of combat vehicles are replaced just to catch up with the international trend, and mainly to play a deterrent role, then those two models can be temporarily ignored.

What he wanted to consider was to produce a combat vehicle that could be comparable to the Humvee, but could make up for the shortcomings of the Humvee, and at this time, the knight born in Canada came into Jin Xiaoqiang's sight.

When it comes to this model, many people may not know much about it, but if you mention the famous movie "Fast and Furious 5" in the later world, the Dwayne Johnson drove an armored combat vehicle that crashed through the wall of the bank vault and was unscathed, so everyone may have an impression!

The show car in that movie is called Gurkhalapv, and his prototype is the Knight XV from Canada, and the birth of this Knight XV was not prepared for war, he was born as a crossover luxury bulletproof SUV.

At the beginning, the design concept of this car was developed by a helmet company specializing in the development of armored vehicles in the United States because of the increasingly tense security situation around the world, and later in order to do a good job of this knight XV, they also set up a new company in Canada, and named it Conquest Company.

Of course, if you look closely at this car, you will know that the origin of this car is actually traceable, his original prototype, that is, the T98 tank that came to Russia for a period of time, that is, the once famous Russian battalion commander tank.

This monster was born in the hands of a small Russian company, the Armored Combat Group, which was a military-industrial enterprise in the former Soviet era, and later after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this company made a living by building safe cash trucks for banks.

Later, in 95, American capital began to enter the Russian market in a big way, and General Motors at that time targeted this company and cooperated with it.

At that time, GM was well aware of the shortcomings of the Humvee, that is, as a transport combat vehicle, the Humvee did not have enough battlefield protection, but with the Russians, the Americans found the answer.

So the two sides cooperated, and soon this battalion commander tank was born in 97.

General Motors introduced the entire GMC pickup technology to Russia, from the skin to the engine, to the suspension chassis, etc., and then let the armored combat group put a thick layer of skin on the car.

So the once famous battalion commander was born, but unfortunately GM miscalculated, this car weighs nearly five tons, even if they come up with an 8.1-liter V8 engine, it can barely cope, and their suspension of pickup trucks is even more terrifying.

This hybrid has never been able to get the favor of the Russian military from beginning to end, from the expensive price to the thin and worrying chassis spring suspension, as well as the sky-high maintenance costs, as well as the different operational ideas of the two sides, so this car ended up in the Russian Ministry of Defense only ended miserably, and did not get a single order.

Later, the Americans finally found a good sales outlet for this car, that is, the ultimate high-end SUV consumer market, and it was the car that was repackaged in luxury and exhibited at the Abu Dhabi International Defense Exhibition, and this car was very popular in the private high-end defense market, and won a certain reputation.

The later Canadian car yard produced the Knight XV, which was simply developed based on this car, and the design of the body almost copied the battalion commander, and made corresponding changes.

But in terms of chassis and engine, because the year of birth was about ten years later than the battalion commander, so the development of the automobile industry for so many years has made up for those shortcomings, and the conquest company has also made a lot of internal changes to the Knight XV, making the Knight XV more suitable for combat and new defense needs.

Compared to the Humvee, this Knight XV, anti-mine, anti-grenade, can withstand the attack of any 7.62 mm caliber weapon, so in terms of armor protection, this car still has nothing to say.

This Knight XV was later used by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan when it was blown up by street IEDs, but it was quickly abandoned by the U.S. military.

The reason is very clear, that is, the power of this car, and the chassis are too inferior!

The protection ability of this knight XV is very awesome, and the armor is also very complete, it is indeed true, but his weakest point is his turf and engine.

The Cavalier XV was powered by a 350-horsepower turbocharged engine from Ford, which was a bit too weak for the car's body that weighed more than five tons.

And he also uses Ford's F550-level general-purpose pickup truck chassis, and it is this site that makes this Knight XV finally fade out of the US Department of Defense's procurement list.

For the same reason, that is, the territory of this F550 is really not enough for the complex combat terrain!

These are all weaknesses for the knight's model, but for Jin Xiaoqiang, it may not be, so as long as he can do a good job in these two aspects, then this car can still be made into a combat vehicle that is truly suitable for the battlefield!

(To be continued)