The fruit is said to be the end of the century to the beginning of the century. Because the most powerful enemy suddenly came to the gate. If the United States has tasted the sweetness of several smooth regional wars and lowered the importance of its armored forces, then the several regional wars that have followed, especially the Korean Peninsula War and the Indian War, have caused the US authorities to once again attach importance to the building of armored forces and put them in an important position as a military force on the ground.

In a sense, the Korean Peninsula War was an eternal wound for the US Army.

Although as early as the beginning of the century, the United States lost a war in the same place that should not have been lost, but the United States did not lose that war shamelessly, because the relevant figures released by the Republic of China for more than 10,000 American GIs were 10,000, and the number of casualties was higher than that of Gaokou, and the US troops finally stuck to the 38th parallel and did not allow the volunteers to invade South Korea. In contrast, the Korean Peninsula War was a complete fiasco, with more than 30,000 U.S. troops killed and tens of thousands captured, as well as the loss of South Korea.

According to the post-war summary of the US authorities, among the major factors that led to the fiasco of the US military, the lack of sufficiently strong armored forces ranked second, second only to the lack of fast and efficient strategic projection capabilities.

Since then, the United States has accelerated the construction of armored forces.

In fact, after the Peninsular War, the U.S. Army and Marine Corps in addition to putting all... In addition to the series of main battle tanks sent to the garbage recycling station, the main battle tanks have been completely improved, and the main battle tanks have been jointly opened. The problem is that this critical project, which is related to the combat capability of the Army and Marine Corps, has not been able to gain the consistent support of members of the US Congress during the storm of the Great Depression. Before the end of the Great Depression, the project was cancelled three times and launched three times. It was not until the beginning of the year that the first result was achieved, that is, the prototype of the first main battle tank was officially launched at the Chrysler Heavy Ground Equipment Company in Detroit.

It's a pity. Shun was born backward!

It has already been mentioned. Because of the lack of several key raw cakes, the United States was unable to produce the kind of high-strength alloy armor used in the main battle tank. More importantly, at the time of development, the United States did not know much about high-strength alloy armor, so it did not consider using it.

The result is simple. The U.S. Army simply gave up and asked Chrysler to develop an improved model.

Van Xin is that by the time the U.S. Army made this request, the four had already obtained fragments of armor than the main battle tank. Knowledge and awareness of high-strength alloy armor; The American company Bath Steel also has the capacity to produce slightly inferior alloy armor. Because the U.S. Army urgently needed an advanced main battle equipment to replace the Shyness and be able to confront the main battle tanks of the Bowl Series of main battle tanks, the U.S. Army put forward two improvement requirements after consulting with Bath Steel.

It is an increase in the level of armor protection on the basis of paste, and it is not necessary to reach the level of the introduction, as long as the main battle tank born before the introduction is passed. The second is the use of the most advanced electromagnetic gun, which must ensure the ability to penetrate the frontal armor of the dish within four meters. It is better to improve on the basis of the existing electromagnetic guns. Because Bath Steel said it could deliver the first batch of alloy armor within two years, the U.S. Army listed the delivery of the first batch of prototypes in Tsubouchi when it signed the contract with Chrysler.

It must be admitted that the United States has an extremely strong industrial base.

Because Milk 2 is the first ground main battle platform in the U.S. Army to use the modular design principle, targeted improvements are straightforward. Chrysler is only the general contractor of the system, and in addition to the development and manufacturing of the basic platform, it is also responsible for system integration, that is, assembly. The armor of the tank was provided by Bath Steel, the artillery part was supplied by Belize, a subsidiary of General Electric, the sighting system was provided by a subsidiary of Ericsson, and other travel gears, power systems, etc. were handled by special companies. In other words, when it comes to improvements, the company responsible for each system only needs to comply with the interface specifications, and some systems need to ensure that the size does not change too much, and does not have to think too much. And it is possible to decide which systems to improve based on actual needs.

This is too. Introduce the design ideas of the series of main battle tanks and the concave one for the series of infantry fighting vehicles.

It can be seen that the basic design ideas are not worse than those of the plate, but they are inferior to the top guide in their respective systems, especially in the most critical protection, firepower and power systems. Exactly. When developing a plan for improvement. The U.S. Army's requirements are very clear, that is, in the order of firepower, protection and mobility, the priority is to ensure firepower, then protection, and finally mobility.

Maneuverability is not a big problem, there are three companies in the United States that can produce military guide motors with a power of more than one kilowatt, the key is to look at the power density, that is, the ratio of power to quality. Because the U.S. Army did not put forward excessively high protection requirements. It's just that Chrysler uses the alloy armor opened by Bath Steel, and the armor is reasonably distributed within the full range of combat weight, so it is difficult to overdo it in terms of protection ability. According to the thinking of the US Army, if it cannot improve its defense, it must catch up with the opponent in terms of firepower, and it must not suffer losses.

It is such improvements that are focused on firepower.

If it weren't for the fact that the Belize company had a technical problem when opening the spiral electropaste. The U.S. Army, which led to the second push of the entire project, was eager to get a main battle tank that could compete with the lead, and it was likely to become the world's first main battle tank equipped with a spiral electromagnetic gun.

Strictly speaking. The orbital electromagnetic gun only solves the problem of the presence or absence of electric contact guns.

If you want to completely replace artillery and even tactical missiles and other weapon systems with electromagnetic guns, you can only pin your hopes on spiral electromagnetic guns.

The reason is simple, there are too many flaws in the orbital electromagnetic gun.

Don't say anything else. The effectiveness of the rail electromagnetic gun is very problematic.

Because currents of up to tens or even hundreds of thousands of amperes need to pass through the ammunition when it is used, the ammunition used in the rail electromagnetic gun must have good electrical conductivity. In the case that the output energy of the electromagnetic gun is not very large, this problem is relatively easy to solve, such as using metals with good conductivity, enhancing voltage, and so on. As the output energy of the electromagnetic gun becomes larger and larger, ordinary metal is no longer a good conductor, and the cost of increasing the voltage is higher, so conductors must be used. In order to reduce costs, the ammunition engineers of the Republic have thought of many methods, such as setting up a guide channel in the middle of the projectile body, or attaching a layer of conductor to the surface of the shell, the former is suitable for electric contact guns with low range requirements such as tank guns, and the latter is suitable for electromagnetic guns with high range requirements such as naval guns. However, regardless of the method used, conductors are very expensive, resulting in the high price of artillery shells, and ammunition is a large-scale consumable material, which often overwhelms the army.

If the current is not allowed to pass through the ammunition, this problem does not exist.

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In a spiral electromagnetic gun, an electric current flows inside a spiral coil. A pound of magnetic field is generated, which is pushed forward, so only the ammunition itself needs to be a magnet to be able to do plus motion under the impetus of the magnetic field. Because there is no need to play the role of a conductor. So the shell does not even need to come into contact with the barrel. This greatly improves the service life of the barrel. All in all, the spiral electromagnetic gun has many advantages, but there is a very serious disadvantage, that is, the energy utilization efficiency is not high. Because this is a basic defect, no matter how it is improved, the energy utilization efficiency of the spiral electromagnetic gun is only about one-tenth of that of the orbital electromagnetic gun. In the case that the power system is not enough. It is also normal to give priority to the orbital electromagnetic gun. As the performance of the power supply equipment increases, it can provide sufficient energy. It is only natural to focus on the spiral electromagnetic gun. The problem is that the energy utilization efficiency is not high, resulting in the need for a larger input energy with the same output energy, which also increases the burden on the system and makes the whole system more complex. In fact, this is precisely the key problem of the spiral electromagnetic cannon that has not been available for a long time and cannot be officially equipped with troops.

There is no need for spiral electric guns, and the US Army can only choose rail electric guns with higher output energy.

As a matter of fact. It is not difficult to increase the armor-piercing ability, other things being equal, the armor-piercing ability of the shell is proportional to the energy per unit area on the armor-piercing path. There are two ways to improve the armor-piercing ability, one is to directly increase the exit kinetic energy of the shell, and the other is to reduce the diameter of the shell. In general. Both approaches will be used. After World War II, the tail stabilized deshelling armor-piercing projectile was able to rise rapidly, because when the muzzle kinetic energy could not be greatly improved, it could be used to improve the armor-piercing ability.

The U.S. Army's choice is more straightforward, that is, to increase the muzzle kinetic energy.

There is no way to do this, because before the breakthrough in the material process, the length-to-diameter ratio of the electric contact gun armor-piercing projectile used by the US Army has reached the limit and cannot be further improved, and the armor-piercing power cannot be increased by reducing the diameter of the armor-piercing projectile. Increasing the muzzle kinetic energy is not so simple, in the case of a certain caliber, there is an optimal aspect ratio. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the caliber and at the same time improve the quality of the shells in order to achieve the purpose of increasing the kinetic energy of the muzzle.

Thankfully. The United States has a very solid foundation in this regard.

Blade at the end of the year. Chrysler delivered the first batch of Fighter main battle tanks to the Army ahead of schedule.

Intense testing continued until the beginning of June. Because the U.S. Army authorities were extremely anxious, it took only half a year for the Aberdeen test site to complete the most important test work, and Zhengshan basically met the army's requirements for improvement, and had the value of mass production.

With the report, the Pentagon submitted its procurement plan to Congress before July.

It is precisely for this reason that several billions of dollars were allocated in the budget for that fiscal year, in addition to the purchase of enough thug field vehicles to equip an armored brigade. Chrysler will also be entrusted to drive an infantry fighting vehicle with the same notch performance on the same chassis, and the general rate of the chassis of the new infantry fighting vehicle will not be less than the general rate, so as to save maintenance expenses.

It's not an impossible thing, it's a very possible thing.

In fact. Citations with. The chassis of the blade has approximately versatility.

Because of the opening time in the dish lead with. After the blade series, Chrysler used it as a ground main battle platform from the beginning, and it can drive infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled electromagnetic guns, material delivery vehicles, armored command vehicles and other main battle equipment on the same chassis. Because the U.S. Army has long decided to adopt a series of main battle tanks in large quantities, Chrysler has improved it when it comes to Shun. Since the funds were pooled, the development of an infantry fighting vehicle with the internal code name "Hydra" began. It was precisely in this way that, after approving the purchase contract of Shan, the Chilesler Company immediately took out the mountain and sent the prototype of the knife to the Aberdeen test site at the beginning of that year.

The test results also satisfied the US Army.

Because the US federal government still had a special budget of about 100 million dollars that was not spent, it had to be admitted. Brandino is indeed a master of financial management, so at the beginning of the year, the U.S. Army successfully obtained the purchase of infantry fighting vehicles and fighters, increased storage compartments, and improved the defense budget for individual combat capabilities.

It was at this time that Blucher began to reorganize the European legions.

Although according to the original Pentagon's plan, "the first mass-produced mountains and four will be provided to the 8th Army stationed in the Philippines, then the 6th Army stationed in Australia, and finally the 1st Army of the Chopping Regiment, as well as the U.S. Marine Corps." According to this calculation, it will not be until after the 10,000 years of force, or even the year of Tian, that Blucher's European army will be able to change its uniform.

I have to say. Blucher's influence in the US Army was very great.

As he swam underwater, the Pentagon received new equipment in July, the second of which received new equipment before the first mass-produced mountain was delivered.

Exactly. By the end of the year, the 1st Fighter Armored Division and the 3rd Infantry Division had completed the rearmament work.

Because in the second half of the year, the Democratic Party led by Brandino lost the general election, and according to the practice in the United States, in the year of the change of power, the current government can only use half of the budget, and the other half of the budget must be reserved for the next government, or consult the president-elect to decide how to use the federal budget. So Brandino consulted Landers and, at Landes's request, increased defense spending. As a result, by the end of the year, the 4th Infantry Division and the Le Infantry Division stationed on the mainland had completed the rearmament work. At the beginning of the year, after Landers moved into the White House, he approved a special defense budget totaling $400 million, so the production provided by the first thugs to the two Marine Divisions was transferred to the U.S. Army to arm the old infantry divisions waiting to be replaced. That is to say, by this time, except for the O Infantry Division, which had also completed the refitting work, it was just that it was not able to complete the training work after the refitting in accordance with the standards.

Compare it and you can see that the U.S. Army has changed its outfit from the year of the blade to the year of the secret thug to the year of pressure. At that time, the republic was preparing for war in India. This proves that the US authorities were preparing for a war in the Middle East long before Blandino's tenure.

In a sense, Blucher was so confident that the appearance of the thug was not unrelated.

According to Chrysler's propaganda, it is the only advanced main battle equipment in the world that can compete head-on with the main battle tank without introduction, and the performance is better than that of Russia's lower nu after the lower gu, the Russian authorities changed the naming convention of the tank, and the official number of the lower nu should be the lower device. According to the propaganda of the Ural Vehicle Factory, the performance of the Witch VCD is even more advanced, as well as the French "Charles de Gaulle." "German" leopard. Advanced to the old years, only slightly worse than the introduction of the Republic, it is one of the best main battle tanks in the world. In several tests and demonstrations organized in the United States, Zhongshan also performed well, such as a cannon that pierced through the millimeter-thick steel plate of the knife outside Wanli Meter, and blocked the armor-piercing bullet from the blade meter away, and so on. These performances have also won several overseas markets. For example, the British authorities abandoned the self-driven "Challenger 4" main battle tank and decided to adopt the British version, and several relatively wealthy countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United States also symbolically purchased a quote. However, all export yellers will not be officially delivered until after the end of the year, because Chrysler will have to serve the U.S. Army first, and it will have to spend time refining for exports.

Objectively speaking. The comprehensive performance of the thug is certainly not as good as that of the outlet, but with the capital to fight hard with the counterpart, if it can occupy an advantageous position in the encounter, it will definitely pose a fatal threat to the outlet. As for whether he can take advantage of the 3 olds, I am afraid that even Blucher does not have much confidence.

Anyway. The armored battalions of the US army have taken up a favorable position. And there is an imminent encounter with the Iranian army.

It was also at this time that the large unmanned reconnaissance plane sent by Yuan Chenhao arrived near the battlefield. Therefore, when the armored forces of the US Army attacked, Yuan Chenhao was able to grasp the front-line battle situation in a timely and accurate manner, and the commander of the Iranian army was also very aware of the battlefield situation.