Chapter 448: Choosing a Weapon Module
The production of the tank page did not stop because of the 100 Apocalypse tanks, and then Li Lan ordered another 200 Rhino tanks for construction.
Both the Apocalypse Tank and the Rhino Tank are now Level 2 units, with 20% increased defense and firepower.
If it weren't for the fact that this war came too quickly, the U.S. M1A2 would have become a good prey for the second-class Apocalypse tank. The frontal armor may not be able to resist the M1A2 with the second-level Apocalypse tank, but with the side and back armor, the M1A2 will definitely not be able to withstand the attack of the second-level Apocalypse tank.
Through many experiments on the test field, it has been proved that the second-level Apocalypse tank is higher than the ordinary first-level Apocalypse tank in any aspect. Again, the same is true of the Rhino tank, especially in terms of firepower, which has been greatly strengthened, mainly focused on armor-piercing and armor-piercing capabilities.
At present, Li Lan is not choosing to produce the tanks for sale, but to fill up the number of battle losses again, so now he chooses to build a second-level enhanced version of these two tanks.
The construction time of two hundred Rhino tanks is twenty days faster than the construction time of one hundred Time Apocalypse tanks, and only one hundred days is enough.
Next, Li Lan did not stop, he still needed to build other types of combat vehicles. Multipurpose infantry fighting vehicles are built at a rate of six hours, and multipurpose tracked vehicles are built at the same time as infantry fighting vehicles.
Compared with the production of tanks, the production of multifunctional infantry fighting vehicles and tracked vehicles is much more troublesome, and when choosing to build, Li Lan also has to arrange the selection of weapon modules.
Many of the features of a multifunctional infantry fighting vehicle can be done by an anti-aircraft tracked vehicle. There is such a big difference in the tonnage of the two, in the weapon module. There are some differences, too. In order to make the best use of these two battlefields. At each production, Li Lan carefully dispenses the weapon modules.
Before. As for the selection of the weapon module of the combat vehicle, Li Lan only stayed in the imagination, and now there is a high-intensity actual war as a test of the performance of weapons and equipment and the actual combat level, which makes Li Lan's heart more spectrum, and the choice of weapon module allocation is more grounded.
After all, any weapon and equipment is for the purpose of serving the war, and no matter how powerful the data is, it still needs to be verified on the real battlefield. Otherwise, no matter how good the theory is, it is just talk on paper. Whether the weapon is advanced or not, whether it can make every component play its full play on the battlefield, and what is the long-lasting combat capability of the weapon under high-intensity confrontation? These are the things that a full-fledged weapon really must-have.
Just like the AK-47, it has endured for decades because it still plays a very important role on the battlefield, and for soldiers on the battlefield, practicality will always be greater than advancement. It's easy to see why. It's like if you take a futuristic sci-fi weapon, but you don't have to go to the battlefield without actual combat testing and various technical run-ins, what if you get stuck without a few shots? That's for soldiers who have actually been on the battlefield. They can choose a weapon that is familiar and stable, rather than a weapon that looks like it is trendy but has not been tested in battle.
The Red Alert armament does not exist on the run-in issue, from contact to the base now. The weapons and equipment used by Li Lan's men have not had a single accident, of course. This needs to rule out improper operation. What Li Lan has to consider is how to choose the weapon module. It is more in line with the needs of the battlefield.
The many problems that broke out in this war provided him with very good references.
The Red Police Corps has exposed a lot of problems in this war, and the combat coordination of the arms is quite good, but they are all minor problems that can be solved in the future training of soldiers. But on the issue of the distribution of equipment and weapons, some problems arise.
At the intermediate level, Li Lan produced a part of the multi-purpose infantry fighting vehicle using a 120-mm assault gun module, and this weapon module was placed on a multi-purpose infantry fighting vehicle, which was very effective against an army weaker than himself. It can quickly provide effective and powerful fire support for close contact battles, and it is precisely on the battlefield of Bossaso and Somaliland that this weapon module has shown excellent speed and firepower with multi-purpose infantry fighting vehicles. Let the soldiers on the battlefield, get good support.
However, in the battle with the coalition forces, a big shortcoming of the multi-functional infantry fighting vehicle was directly exposed, that is, the defensive ability and high-intensity battlefield survivability. Because it was equipped with a 120-mm assault gun, according to the old custom, the soldiers of the Red Guard Corps liked to cooperate with it in the attack. However, this time, the enemy he faced was not the armies of those countries in the Third Realm, but the elite army of the Realm of the World.
A very direct result is that this infantry fighting vehicle equipped with a 120mm assault gun has no extra living space at all, and the US army's individual anti-tank weapons can easily destroy infantry fighting vehicles that are undergoing fire support. After all, when conducting point-to-point fire support, the speed of the multifunctional infantry fighting vehicle will be reduced, which gives the enemy a good chance.
And in the battles of the city, the eight-wheeled infantry fighting vehicles were often blocked in front of the ruins, and it became very difficult to advance to support the infantry in battle, which would lead to the soldiers on the front line being in a dangerous situation because they were not supported by heavy fire at close range.
On the battlefield, another weapon quickly solved this problem, and the shortcomings of the multifunctional infantry fighting vehicle could be easily compensated for by the 120 mm assault gun weapon system installed on the multifunctional tracked vehicle. The multi-functional tracked vehicle, which can weigh up to 20 tons in battle, not only has a good defense capability of individual weapons, but also can climb over the ruins that are not raised, and directly support the engagement point.
Of course, in other respects, a multifunctional infantry fighting vehicle is better than a tracked vehicle, the wheeled speed and mobility are not comparable to the tracked vehicle, and on the plains, the speed of the wheeled armored vehicle will be far behind the tracked one. Therefore, when transporting infantry to the front line for combat, multifunctional infantry fighting vehicles are more suitable than tracked vehicles. It can also be appropriately equipped with a 30mm rapid-fire cannon, which saves more space in the car and is used to carry soldiers.
In terms of combat vehicle air defense, multifunctional tracked vehicles are also inferior to multifunctional infantry fighting vehicles, mainly in terms of mobility. Because the weapon modules and anti-aircraft weapon modules given by the base are the same two models. One is a quadruple 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun and four short-range anti-aircraft missiles, which is a normal projectile-gun system. This anti-aircraft weapon is mainly used to combat helicopters.
Another weapon module is a quadruple medium-range air defense missile system, which has four launchers similar to the Chinese Hongqi-7 air defense missile, and this module also has its own targeting and detection capabilities, which is mainly used to deal with ground attack fighters, and can also be used as an important means of battlefield mobile air defense.
In this war, multifunctional tracked vehicles, those combat vehicles equipped with anti-aircraft weapon modules, are much inferior to multifunctional infantry fighting vehicles in terms of survivability, because multifunctional infantry fighting vehicles can quickly transfer the launch position at a speed of more than 140 kilometers per hour in an emergency, while tracked vehicles have no way to reach a high speed of more than 100 kilometers because of their excessive weight. With the quick reaction of the opponent, the tracked vehicle often does not have time to escape, and will be found and then subjected to firepower.
However, in the battlefield reconnaissance, although the speed of the multi-functional infantry fighting vehicle is very fast, but the effect is not as good as the tracked vehicle, in addition to the tracked vehicle is more suitable for all-terrain, the main consideration is the survivability to enter the enemy reconnaissance.
Nowadays, the modules of these weapons do not give Li Lan the trouble of choosing, and the next modules are selected to be built, and he will choose according to the performance and combat effects of various weapons in this war.
No more, no less, Li Lan chose two hundred multifunctional infantry fighting vehicles, of which forty-eight chose anti-aircraft weapon modules, two anti-aircraft weapon modules, each of which accounted for half of the number. Twenty-four chose the assault gun module, although the weakness has been exposed in the symmetrical war, but this weapon has a very good effect against those countries in the third world. After all, in many cases, speed can determine a war, or it can be a decisive battle between the life and death of a soldier. The remaining twelve vehicles, used for reconnaissance and patrol, only one 12.7 automatic heavy machine gun were carried on them, and the rest were used for battlefield reconnaissance. Twenty-four vehicles have chosen to install anti-tank weapon modules, which will serve as anti-tank combat with infantry on the battlefield. For the rest of the combat vehicles, Li Lan chose the normal multi-functional infantry fighting vehicle mode, and the main task was to quickly transport soldiers to the front line.
After that, he chose two hundred multi-purpose tracked vehicles, which came from the Soviet camp in the game, and did not have the same two-dimensional shape as shown in the game. Li Lan also gave it a lot of combat missions, and one hundred and eight of the two hundred vehicles were equipped with 120 mm assault guns, which would be used as medium tanks in the infantry, and half of them were built by him as amphibious ones, and would be assigned to the Marine Corps. The remaining ninety-two vehicles were installed by him with a reconnaissance module, a troop transport module and an anti-tank module in turn.
In the allocation of weapon modules this time, Li Lan combined the effect of the actual combat battlefield and then considered the survival of the soldiers, and then selected the weapon modules. In the future, he will also develop a strict mechanism for the use of the commander's reference. To put it simply, for example, for the same fire support mission, the commander must first consider the strength and various attributes of the battlefield, and then choose whether to let the multi-functional infantry fighting vehicle or the multi-purpose tracked vehicle go to support according to this mechanism.
This may be a bit like the U.S. Army's armored troops combat manual, although the content is different, but the starting point is the same, all so that the armored troops can ensure the safety of the infantry as much as possible while considering their own safety. (To be continued......)