After going around the camp with Wen Chaoyang and discussing the next work, Li Mu returned to the company headquarters, took out his notebook, and immediately fell into thinking about the development of the 107th Company with a pen. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

What he meant was obvious, the advantages of the Type 09 wheeled armored platform were not fully tapped.

The appearance of the Type 09 wheeled armored platform is to make up for the shortcomings of the Type 92 wheeled combat vehicle, relatively speaking, the Type 09 wheeled armored platform has stronger all-terrain combat capabilities, greater load capacity, and no less maneuverability.

Outwardly, the most noticeable difference is that the Type 09 wheeled armored platform is eight-wheeled, while the Type 92 wheeled combat vehicle is six-wheeled.

Li Mu heard the gossip that the Type 09 wheeled armored platform can maintain a cruising speed of 120 kilometers per hour if it uses the highway for maneuvering, and even higher if necessary. In terms of speed alone, it is comparable to civilian cars.

The reason why it is believed that the troops that were first equipped with the Type 09 wheeled armored platform did not give full play to the performance of this type of equipment is not that they will not be able to use it, but that the nature of the troops limits the performance of the equipment.

To date, the army does not have a light fast combat unit in the true sense of the word.

According to the configuration of light fast combat units compiled by the military research department, there is a very obvious feature: Light fast combat units are fast combat units built on a unified light and highly mobile combat platform. The Stryker Brigade is represented in the U.S. Army.

With the Stryker wheeled armored vehicle as the core combat platform, it is called the Stryker Brigade.

The same 8-wheeled light armored vehicle, the Type 09 wheeled armored platform is no worse than Stryker's. If you refer to the naming method of the US military, then the 107th Company can be called the Type 09 combat company.

The U.S. Army's deployment of the Stryker Brigade in the Pacific Theater in 2008 means that the U.S. Army has completely abandoned the traditional concept of heavy artillery and heavy armor, and is moving towards a lighter development direction with rapid reaction capabilities and the ability to cope with new types of wars and regional conflicts.

Therefore, it makes sense to say that the entry into service of a new type of equipment may mean a change in the direction of strategic development in the entire army.

Although Li Mu was far from having the influence to influence the direction of the Army's development, this did not prevent him from judging the decisions of the upper echelons on the strategic direction.

The development of the ground forces of the army is very obvious, and the development of heavy armored equipment and light equipment is developing simultaneously. This is a decision made in accordance with the overall national defense strategy, the Chinese military does not need global intervention, the first purpose is to safeguard the integrity of the country's territorial sovereignty, so the heavy troops with strong firepower and strong defense capabilities must develop steadily.

In the face of changes in armed conflict under the new situation and the needs of international peacekeeping, the development of lighter combat units cannot be stopped. Taking 10,000 steps back, as a major country in the world, China's armed forces have never thought of leaving shortcomings in their military research and development system, equipment system, or troop establishment system.

I must have what you have, and I must have what you don't have.

From another point of view, one of the prerequisites for the US Army to completely abandon heavy armored forces is that they believe that there will be absolutely no world war in the next 50 years, and to put it bluntly, there will be no war with China in the next 50 years.

What's more, after 2010, the U.S. Army has abandoned the plan to completely abandon heavy troops, and still maintains hundreds of thousands of digital heavy troops equipped with a large number of main battle tanks.

Even, Li Mu conspired to believe that the US military proposed to completely abandon the concept of heavy artillery and heavy armor, and did not hesitate to dismount dozens of research and development projects, including the Crusader howitzer system and the Comanche stealth attack helicopter, whose fundamental purpose was to induce the Chinese army, which had gradually entered the rapid upgrading of armaments!

The clumsy Cold War mentality is just that the current Chinese army is not the Soviet army of the past.

In the environment of conventional ground warfare, heavy troops still have an irreplaceable and solid role, just like the load-bearing pillars of buildings.

In the past two years, the U.S. Army has actually tasted the bitterness, the Stryker Brigade was beaten apart by guerrilla rockets in urban combat in the Iraq War, and the heavy units equipped with Abrams main battle tanks were able to maneuver easily in urban combat. It forced the U.S. military to develop supporting equipment suitable for urban combat on the basis of the Abrams main battle tank, rather than building on the Stryker brigade.

Each has its own advantages and disadvantages, and it is undoubtedly not a wise approach to choose one over the other.

The Chinese Army has a large number of motorized infantry units, and building a part of the light and rapid combat units on this basis is also a necessary action in the process of promoting mechanization. In other words, whether it is a heavy unit or a light combat unit, it is a requirement for the mechanization of the whole army.

In fact, light mechanized combat units have appeared in some military districts, albeit in terms of designation, but in fact they are all units with light armored vehicles as the core combat platform. However, one thing is more frustrating, these light mechanized combat units still have a large number of artillery units and a certain number of main battle tanks.

This is what traditional thinking is at work with.

Since it is necessary to engage in rapid reaction and improve the ability to respond and maneuver, there is no need to keep heavy equipment in a forward-looking manner. For example, the main battle tanks, among the main battle tanks in service, a large number of 96 and 99,59 have been retired in batches, and those big guys who are forty or fifty tons at every turn, the Air Force simply does not have transport aircraft capable of carrying them. Moreover, in terms of road maneuverability, tracked combat vehicles are simply inferior to wheeled combat vehicles.

The reason why Li Mu said that those troops did not give full play to the advantages of the Type 09 wheeled armored platform was that the lack of clarity in the establishment was an important reason.

If the establishment does not fit, it is useless to change the operational thinking, because you do not have the conditions to implement it, and there is no way to transform literal things into combat effectiveness.

Thinking of this, Li Mu strengthened his determination to build a light and rapid combat unit thoroughly. The tip of the pen touched the words, and began to write down the ideas and analyses of the light and fast combat unit, and the 107th Company was a miniature version of the unit, gaining experience from the formation of this company and training officers.

A few minutes after writing, Li Mu furrowed his brows again, and there was some bitterness on his face. The U.S. Army's light rapid combat unit is built on a well-established battlefield information-based command system, the so-called C4ISR system. And such systems in our army are still in their infancy and simply cannot provide great help.

A deep sense of helplessness spread all over his body, Li Mu sighed slightly and continued to gallop, there was only one way, to imitate the simulation method used when compiling the reform experimental class.

The last word was written, at this time it was close to noon, Li Mu packed up and walked out, he should go to see the group of "officers and soldiers" under him. (To be continued.) )