Chapter 48: Lethal Weapons
Of course, Hai Ge also understands that even if the government forces have an advantage on the battlefield, no one can guarantee that they will be the final victors. The world is always in flux, and today's advantages are likely to lead to tomorrow's disadvantages, and as long as the earth has not taken its last breath, change can happen at any time.
As Chenggong said, although the government army relies on the upper class to obtain strong financial support, so it is in a position to build weapons of mass destruction that are much more advanced than the militia, but the militia army is many times larger than the government army.
In terms of fighting motives, the proletarian alliance is also more popular. From the time of the catastrophe to the present, they have defended much more than the simple right to live. Who said that in order to save one's life, one must bow down to the owners of social wealth and obey his fate? What they paid with their lives was dignity and freedom. The solar cataclysm destroyed people's peaceful lives, but it could not destroy their spirit of upholding justice.
Haige pondered fiercely, focusing on the weapons used by both warring sides. From the panorama, he can easily call up images of military factories, as well as arsenals where finished weapons are stored.
Inside and outside the government army's munitions factory, the scene was busy and lively, and everywhere you could see the workers making weapons and the work at hand.
On the mobile production line, there are no parts for fighter jets or nuclear submarines, and all weapons are designed and manufactured only around land warfare.
A kilometer from the military factory, on a wide lawn illuminated by searchlights, several tracked infantry armored fighting vehicles that had just left the factory and had been painted snow-white in appearance were parked.
According to Chenggong Introduction, the prototype of that combat vehicle is the American AIFV armored infantry fighting vehicle, with an aluminum alloy welded structure and a gap armor steel. Don't look at the current AIFV's external image has not changed much, the interior has actually been completely renewed. The advanced nature of its times is first reflected in the rapid improvement of the engine: the 6-cylinder V-shaped water-cooled turbocharged diesel engine of the past has been replaced by a lightweight, amazingly powerful hydrogen-oxygen engine.
Military figures have successfully installed the engine used in the rocket propulsion system into the military armored vehicle, which has increased the movement power of the armored vehicle by hundreds of times. So although the new AIFV still looks the same, the actual road speed has been increased from 61 km/h to 300 km/h, the climbing degree can reach 80%, and the weight has dropped from 13.7 tons to 6 tons.
Hai Ge looked at the weapon inserted in the armored car and asked, "Is that a machine gun?" ”
Successfully replied: "In the past, it was the Erkon 25-mm KBA-B02 machine gun, but that kind of machine gun has long been left aside by military science and technology at the end of the century." Armored vehicles are now equipped with short-range, all-weather surface-to-surface tactical missiles called 'Lances', which can launch nuclear warheads with a yield of 1,000 tons. It can also fire nerve gas warheads, which can hit targets up to 200 kilometers away. ”
"Nuclear warheads, and nerve gas!" Hai Ge shuddered to hear it. Even if the government forces abandon the most advanced laser weapons, these "ancient" weapons can still kill civilians on a large scale!
If you go on to "visit" again, in addition to land mecha and weapons of mass destruction, the ordnance reserve is also full of non-electronically controlled cold weapons, such as swords, stone crossbows, etc., and even blood droplets that can spin off people's heads!
"Could it be that these things will also be used by government forces on the battlefield?" Hai Ge was confused, and he didn't know why those people still added such useless "toys" to high-energy weapons.
The successful answer is easy to understand: even traditional lethal electronically controlled weapons are constrained by communication networks and harsh natural environments. In case the anti-aircraft gun is dumb, the missile system is paralyzed, and the bullets in the chamber are exhausted, it is still the invention of those primitive people that can be used for the last resistance.
The repetition of the "Invention ...... of Hominids" is naturally associated with the militia camp in the south of Greenland.
Human society is an extremely complex combination, and no matter how developed the brain is, it is difficult to guess where the tide of human technological development will turn in the event of a huge social change. The Arctic continent at this time is the best verification of people's various speculations.
The upper class side was well-armed and had plenty of food and grass, but the rulers did not dare to go to the front line and face to face with the militia groups. In their eyes, the militia is like a locust swept from the northern wilderness, densely obscuring the night sky of the Arctic, no matter how extreme the attack is devised, it cannot be eradicated fundamentally, and the black cloud is only constantly expanding, and there is no sign of dissipation.
Most of the combatants hired by the government army come from the oppressed and poor classes, so military recruitment has become a fatal wound in the upper class, and the militia group can always take advantage of various recruitment loopholes to send spies into the government military area, and even infiltrate the ice castle where the rich live, to carry out assassination and looting. The danger of spies is far greater than that of missiles or anti-aircraft guns, and the government army is so defenseless that one-third of the production force of the military factories opened by the coalition government is always "serving" the proletarian alliance. The Icecastle's radar defense system could not withstand the "rats" that came up from the ground, so it often suffered heavy losses.
When he saw the equipment in the Proletarian Alliance's arsenal, Hai Ge was amused. There are also various types of combat vehicles and long-range attack weapons, which are almost replicas of the arsenal of government forces, although much smaller in number and scale.
In addition, the militia is far inferior to the government army in terms of training and standardized management of the army, and it is not too much to describe them as scattered.
Government forces often lose expensive weapons, but in a sense they do not depress the senior officials of the coalition government. Based on the successful analysis, Hai Ge also believes that they have every reason to be optimistic, because the militia group has become afraid to act rashly after being given the weapons they have given them as treasures—and if the weapons are scrapped by sabotaging the communication network, they themselves will suffer a fatal blow.
However, the last words of success caused Hai Ge to think deeply.
"The solar cataclysm is an ongoing process, unleashed with unstoppable destructive force that sooner or later will tear the Earth's atmosphere to pieces," Chenggong said. This is the inevitable result of the development of the catastrophe to the end, and no matter how clever the scientists on the earth are, they cannot turn the tide. Therefore, those cold weapons will eventually become the only weapons that can be used when the human war is carried out to the end. It is difficult to say how the government forces will be able to withstand the onslaught of the militias they call 'locust swarms'. This can be called the return of the primordial when the planet dies. ”
The third world war on Earth is about to take place on the eve of the destruction of humanity by the sun. And the final form of battle will return to the ancient era from the missile era when the two sides of the battle did not meet until death, and become a close-range bloody fight with knives, guns, clubs, and crossbows and arrows?
If this war could really last until the end, Hai Ge had already guessed who would be the last to laugh.