[115] Anti-aircraft artillery is the basis of air defense

Xiaoqiang continued to make the list, this time he asked for anti-aircraft guns.

You must know that air defense cannot rely only on fighters, and countless war experiences have proved that antiaircraft artillery is always the backbone of the air defense system, especially for air defense in key areas and for air defense of important supply lines. Even the most important achievements of the former Yugoslavia in fighting the advanced aircraft of the US military were created by antiaircraft artillery, not to mention that in 1950, antiaircraft artillery was an irreplaceable weapon for air defense.

Historically, during the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, our army concentrated all the antiaircraft guns and antiaircraft machine guns captured from the Japanese, and only barely equipped an air defense division, which could only be used for air defense in a few key strongholds. This bit of family background can be said to be gone in a few dozen.

Xiaoqiang hurriedly made a request: "I hope to package all the 37-mm and 57-mm anti-aircraft guns that our army has decommissioned and mothballed, and in addition, hasn't our army completely eliminated 85-mm and 100-mm anti-aircraft guns?" I'm all inclusive, too. ”

Hua Huiling gasped: "Do you know how many?" You've got it all. ”

Xiaoqiang said: "How many?"

Hua Huiling shook his head and said, "This is confidential, you don't need to inquire, you can't cover it anyway." In addition to handing over these decommissioned anti-aircraft guns to the militia for training and use, a large number of them are used as strategic liliang reserves, anyway, you can tell me how much you want. I'll give you a reference, heavy anti-aircraft artillery is used for the defense of key areas, with battalions as the basic structure, generally do not move, 85 mm or 100 mm heavy anti-aircraft artillery battalions, each battalion 18 heavy anti-aircraft guns, equipped with a set of fire control radar and anti-air search radar, can effectively defend the enemy's high-altitude bomber group. ”

Xiao Qiang said in his heart, this is what I want, and if I have 10 battalions, I will not be afraid that the US military bomber group will strike at my important rear stronghold. However, the air defense radius of the heavy anti-aircraft artillery battalion is 8 kilometers, and it takes at least 20 battalions to cover and protect our supply lines.

So he continued to listen to General Hua.

"In order to prevent the enemy from launching a low-altitude raid on our anti-aircraft artillery positions, your heavy anti-aircraft artillery battalion also needs at least one 14.5mm anti-aircraft machine gun company to protect it, each company with 8 4-pack 14.5mm anti-aircraft guns. In addition, each battalion must be equipped with field towing vehicles, ammunition transport vehicles, fuel transport vehicles, anti-air search radar and fire control radar vehicles, searchlight company vehicles, power generation vehicles, command and communication vehicles, in short, the equipment price of a battalion is more than 50 million yuan. The cost of 100mm anti-aircraft artillery shells is also very expensive, and the installation of radio proximity fuses or mechanical timing fuzes, just mechanical timing fuzes, that thing is a high-precision watch that can resist 30,000G overload. The purchase price of this shell in 81 years is 600 yuan per round, and the minimum price of each shell in stock is 5,000 yuan. ”

This offer scared Xiaoqiang a lot, and it was so expensive to raise a 100mm anti-aircraft artillery battalion together.

As if to strengthen Xiaoqiang's confidence, Hua Huiling continued: "In history, there are 16 detachments under the jurisdiction of 63 regiments under the jurisdiction of our army's antiaircraft artillery units and subordinate air defense units that have successively aided Vietnam in round battles, with a total of about 150,000 people, of which the air force antiaircraft artillery units have 8 batches of 7 divisions, 26 regiments, 8 independent battalions, 9 searchlight battalions, and 14 radar companies.

In view of the characteristics of the activities of US planes, the vast number of commanders and fighters of China's antiaircraft artillery units aiding Vietnam have studied a variety of mobile and flexible tactics to give full play to the might of the antiaircraft artillery units and strike at planes with superior equipment of the US military. In the course of three years and seven months, the Chinese Air Force joined the artillery unit to fight US planes 558 times, and scored a glorious record of shooting down 597 US planes and damaging 479 planes.

Xiaoqiang, you see, how strong the fixed air defense capability of the anti-aircraft artillery unit is. ”

After speaking, Hua Huiling looked at Xiao Qiang's face and pondered.

Xiao Qiang said: "Don't blow it, I know that the turtle originally planned to fully retire the 100mm anti-aircraft gun in the 80s, but he was really stupid by the Gulf War, and when he saw that the Red Flag 2 anti-aircraft missile in his hand was about the same as scrap iron, he quickly dragged the 100mm anti-aircraft gun out and re-equipped dozens of anti-aircraft artillery regiments, you can't help it."

However, if New China in 1950 had a large number of 100mm anti-aircraft artillery battalions, it would have really been able to solve a big problem. At the beginning, our army built a front-line airfield in Korea, but the U.S. B-29 "Super Air Fortress" bombed every month, and our army did not build the airfield until the end of the Korean War. With powerful anti-high-altitude heavy anti-aircraft guns, the construction of front-line airfields and airfield air defense is not a problem. ”

Xiaoqiang said: "Let's not mention the incident in 1965, now our army has fully withdrawn the 100mm anti-aircraft gun, and it is useless for you to seal it in your hands, it is better to sell it to me cheaper." ”

Hua Huiling was refreshed: "In this way, you will give 40 million for the full set of equipment of each battalion, and you will take away all the weapons, equipment, and vehicles, including a set of spare gun barrels." I'm so happy, how about you buy more? ”

Xiaoqiang said: "I want 50 battalions." ”

Huahui Ling couldn't close his mouth with a smile and shouted happily.

Xiaoqiang slandered: "20 billion, of course it's happy." ”

But it said: "Another 100,000 rounds of 100mm shells and 1 million rounds of 14.5mm anti-aircraft machine gun shells." ”

Zuihou set a total amount of 3 billion.

Hua Huiling continued to sell: "It's not enough to have a 100mm anti-aircraft gun, you can't just defend against large bombers, you always have to buy some light anti-aircraft guns to deal with the enemy's fixed-wing attack aircraft and fighters." Your army division's mobile air defense can't always run around with 100mm guns.

What do you think of the 57mm anti-aircraft gun? One battalion is equipped with fire control radar and search radar, and has two companies under its direct jurisdiction as a divisional or corps-level air defense. You buy some 37mm anti-aircraft guns, company formations, with optical sighting equipment, to directly solve the air defense at the division or regimental level. ”

Xiaoqiang was tempted by what he said, and directly sold the full set of equipment of the 50 57mm anti-aircraft artillery battalions in the mothballed storage and the full set of 37mm anti-aircraft artillery equipment of 200 companies at the price of cabbage. With a large amount of ammunition and barrels, another 50 billion is gone.

Xiaoqiang spent money painfully, quickly poked the computer in his hand, poked it a few times, that's right, it is already 25.7 billion expenses, and the collection of old goods has received an astronomical amount, which is also unprecedented. Looking at the appearance of the two generals Hua Yuan, there is no doubt that Xiaoqiang has been regarded as a boy who scatters wealth.

General Hua was actually thinking in his heart at the moment: "Do you want to send a few guards to Xiaoqiang when you go back, this kid is a rich man, and he hugged him, so there is no need to worry about the modernization of our army in the future." ”

General Yuan Kedi saw that it was not too early, so he hurriedly arranged for everyone to temporarily adjourn the meeting, ran to the banquet hall of the Bayi Building, and set up a table according to the standard of receiving the commander-in-chief of foreign armies. Xiaoqiang was indeed hungry, so he shook off his cheeks and ate violently.