[116] The 65-year army firepower evolution was completed

The three of them faced a large table of dishes, chatting while eating, and the two chiefs took Xiaoqiang to drink a bottle of Wuliangye with bad intentions, and Xiaoqiang's amount of wine was basically dizzy. After the luncheon, the three of them did not delay and returned to the conference room to continue to discuss arms purchases.

As everyone knows, old China did not have its own complete military-industrial system, and the weapons and equipment of our People's Liberation Army basically relied mainly on battlefield capture. As far as artillery and firearms are concerned, they come from all over the world, produced in 98 arsenals in 24 countries on Shijie, and have as many as 110 varieties and models. If our army were to open an arms department store, it is estimated that it would have the largest number of miscellaneous brands in the world, and there would be a dazzling array of goods. There are as many as 13 types of rifle calibers ranging from 6.5mm to 11.43mm, and there are dozens of models of various firearms.

Xiaoqiang was really unable to see it, and because he had money in his hand at this time, he hurriedly tossed out a comprehensive dress. However, the success of the outfit change still depends on whether the firepower has been strengthened.

In Xiaoqiang's view, the firepower of the 1950 side is still slightly insufficient even after the change of equipment is a prominent problem, before entering the Korean war, the Northeast Bureau distributed 2000 Molotov cocktails to the troops, that is, "Molotov cocktails", have you ever seen this thing in the regular army on shijie? The volunteers brought ...... There are 2,000 of them...... There's no way, there's not enough artillery, there's not enough machine guns, so you can't bring a kitchen knife to charge your firepower.

Therefore, the firepower of the infantry can only be continuously strengthened, not weakened, and the infantry depends on firepower to a certain extent.

After Xiaoqiang's previous purchase of 3,000 Type 85 Gaoping dual-purpose heavy machine guns was taken back, they were unanimously praised by all the generals, which can be described as rave reviews, but they all complained that 3,000 were too few. So Xiaoqiang then began the procurement of anti-aircraft machine guns and heavy machine guns.

After all, our opponent has a numerical advantage in machine gun weapons, so Xiaoqiang can only make up for this disadvantage by increasing the number of them.

This work is not difficult, after Xiaoqiang smashed 2 billion, he fished out a lot of 12.7mm Gaoping dual-purpose heavy machine guns and 14.5mm anti-aircraft machine guns that were retired and sealed in 2011, a total of 20,000 units, plus hundreds of millions of tons of ammunition, this price is really not expensive. Among them, the 56-type 14.5mm quadruple high-rise machine Xiaoqiang likes it the most, a tough thing, in addition to the flying * machine is very deterrent, how powerful the flat-firing infantry or firepower point is does not need to be explained.

Among these models are the Type 58 14.5mm Duplex, the Type 77 12.7mm Machine, and the Type 85 12.7mm High Machine. As far as logistics is concerned, the supply of ammunition for heavy machine guns only needs to be 12.7 mm, and the antiaircraft machine guns at the regiment and battalion level only need to be issued with 14.5 mm ammunition, thus greatly reducing the pressure on logistics.

All high-altitude aircraft, in fact, are dual-purpose, the plane comes to strafe the aircraft, and the infantry comes to harvest the infantry. Especially for infantry, the lethal effect is not to say, a shot can cut people into two parts without being next to each other. For enemy pillboxes, the high planes can either penetrate and destroy, or if they can't penetrate, they can also destroy the erected weapons at the enemy's fire points, or form fire suppression at the enemy's points. This feature was very practical for the PLA in the 1950s, even if it was used for 20 to 30 years, it would not lag behind.

The 12.7mm machine is a bit different from the 14.5mm machine, the 12.7mm is a heavy machine gun, and the flying machine is a side job. For the 14.5mm tall aircraft, the flying * machine is a regular business, and as an infantry auxiliary firepower, it is a side job.

After buying the Gaoping heavy machine gun, he wanted to buy a mortar and a recoilless gun, Xiao Qiang stretched his back, swallowed the tea in front of him, the alcohol was mixed with exhaustion, he really felt a little tired, and it was a bit beyond Xiao Qiang's ability to talk about it for a day, especially in the case of one to two, Yuan Kedi and Hua Hui Ling Er Lao in front of him were simply a perfect match, and Xiao Qiang was stunned for a moment.

As soon as they heard that Xiaoqiang wanted to buy mortars and recoilless guns, the two immediately praised the mortars and recoilless guns that our army had retired and mothballed, and the focus was on the price, whether it was a gun or a shell, it was quite cheap.

Xiaoqiang is not verbose, eat 10,000 mortars in one bite, considering that our army already has a lot of 60mm mortars in 1950, 82mm mortars are the majority in this procurement, and the 56-type 160mm mortars with low accuracy and bulky are basically accompanied, which can be used as howitzers. Equipped with a part of the mothballed imitation American-made 107mm mortars, it can be used wherever the company goes, and the captured American-made mortar shells can still be used. Some 100mm mortars were also procured as regimental firepower, which would greatly increase the firepower delivery capacity of regimental units in 1950.

The firing range and ballistics of the mortar greatly make up for the firepower gap between the gun and the artillery, after all, the power of the gun is incomparable with the gun, and the flexibility of the gun is something that the artillery that needs a tractor cannot learn, and the mortar is such a panacea. Suffice it to say that with mortars, there is regimental artillery support, and the more mortars a regiment has, the stronger its attack capability.

As for the recoilless gun, Xiaoqiang chose the Type 65 and Type 78 82mm recoilless guns that are easy to carry. Both calibers are the same, the shells are universal, and it is really destructive to hit fixed fortifications and pillboxes at a distance of 1,000 to 2,000 meters. After all, the 40 rocket launcher is relatively close to the distance requirements, so in direct fire at medium and long-range targets, it is necessary to have flexible and mobile fire support such as recoilless guns.

These 20,000 mortars plus 5,000 recoilless guns, including countless ammunition, cost Xiaoqiang another 1.5 billion.

Suddenly, Xiaoqiang was excited, and quickly calculated the price again, 29.2 billion, it's too bad, it's a bit over, I was going to spend only 28 billion, but now it's already exceeded. But you still have to buy it.

Xiaoqiang's arms procurement this time has nothing to do with weapons, not to continue to buy guns and artillery, but to purchase communication equipment. As soon as they heard Xiaoqiang say what he wanted to buy, he actually wanted to buy an old-fashioned walkie-talkie, Yuan Kedi and Hua Huiling were dumbfounded.

They knew that Xiao Qiang would buy it according to this idea, and he would eventually run to the purchase of individual infantry equipment, but they didn't expect that people really wanted to buy garbage...... You must know that walkie-talk equipment is different from guns and ammunition, after the guns and ammunition are sealed, they will be used after thirty or fifty years, but walk-talk equipment requires more stringent maintenance to survive.

There was once a walkie-talkie of our army that broke down, and I went to the logistics to change it to a new stock, but there was no sound. Later, I opened it and found that after a long time in stock, the oxidation of the joint caused the resistance to increase and lose its function.

General Yuan said: "Xiaoqiang, I advise you, it's better to buy a new one, and the old one is not insured after all." Besides, the old style was too large and weighing.

Then again, there should still be a little bit of stock of tube walkie-talkies, but I'll give you all the military districts in the country, I'm afraid it won't exceed 500 units in stock, and I can't guarantee that you can still use it. ”

Xiaoqiang has an unspeakable secret, he can't bring a bunch of transistors to scare the US imperialists, right? In this case, the US imperialists are not crazy to shift their strategic focus to the western Pacific. Who can rest assured that a hostile country with black technology has come out of it? Even the big brother of the Soviet Union is afraid that he will salivate.

Xiaoqiang nodded and said, "Then let's put this one first." ”

Yuan Kedi and Hua Huiling were a little confused by him, why don't you buy old goods if you don't have old goods? So he promoted our army's export-oriented radio station, but it hit a soft nail, and Xiaoqiang was really not interested in it.