Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 1400 1401 Busy Airport

  In a busy airport, a worker is mixing concrete. The entire construction site is very busy and there are facilities under construction everywhere.

Workers used shovels to stir concrete, and complained to their colleagues across the street about their hard work: "It only took a few days to change, and then it was changed again."

 Originally, this airport, as a strategically important airport, had just been put into use. However, it had to be rebuilt due to technical upgrades.

 For a country that is not very wealthy to begin with, investing a lot of manpower and material resources in this kind of thing is indeed a very irritating thing.

 Look at the Tang State. Today they talk about building a dam, tomorrow they talk about reclaiming land from the sea, and the day after tomorrow they start building a subway. Only then can the people of this country be called happy, okay?

Look at the common people in various countries in the Eastern Continent. They are all hungry and emaciated. They have to build various military facilities every day. It is simply miserable.

 It would be okay if it was only repaired once, and everyone would work harder and finish the repair. But in fact, these airports are being built repeatedly and the various facilities inside are updated.

 Construct these very important combat-ready airports according to the standards of the Tang Empire, or in other words, according to standards that can be barely used.

 There is no way, nor is it that the military that manages these airports is willing to waste people and money, but the weapons in their hands have evolved so fast that their infrastructure cannot keep up with demand.

 The previous airports for piston engine fighters and bombers were very simple. As long as the road was compacted and a flat runway was ensured, the buildings next to it were not particularly important.

Yeongbi Airport is nothing more than building a command tower, then building dormitories next to it, and adding some random buildings, that's pretty much it. The ammunition depot and fuel depot don't even need to be that big, because the aircraft itself doesn't consume much ammunition and fuel.

 The requirements for airports for later jet fighters will be much more complicated. First of all, these more sophisticated aircraft require stronger and more expensive runways.

 The airport runways of the past, especially those used as field airports, are no longer suitable for use and can only be renovated and redesigned.

In addition, this type of jet fighter requires more fuel. Refueling trucks alone are not enough, so enough fuel depots must be built to ensure the supply of fuel.

  Therefore, large oil depots and ammunition depots need to be built outside the airport...even the quality of the oil itself is required, which makes the amount of work more than a little larger.

The problem is even more serious now. The Tang Empire did export many new weapons and equipment, but these weapons and equipment seem to have become more sophisticated, or "hypocritical".

Missile launch vehicles need launch sites, and high-performance jet fighters require larger and more complex airports... Even the tanks exported by the Tang Empire have become more sophisticated and complex.

 In fact, the Tang Empire exported many good weapons and equipment to other countries, such as M4 tanks, Panther tanks, etc.

 But these tanks have also become a burden to these countries. In the past, their tanks could be repaired in the field, but the sophisticated Panther tank could not do this.

When the Tang Empire used it for itself, it relied on its own large logistics force and high efficiency, which could still guarantee its use in combat. Other countries, such as the Yangmu Empire, purchased Panther tanks and could only engage in defensive operations. Because if these tanks drive out and attack over long distances, they can destroy them all...

The same goes for fighter jets. In the past, you could actually repair it by setting up a shack at a field airport. The tools were simple and the environmental requirements were low.

 It’s okay now. The factory building must be sealed at all times and operated as dust-free as possible. Precision screws even require specialized tools.

What’s even more unethical is that the corresponding engineers must follow the procedures conscientiously. Otherwise, every time they repair the engine or replace the accessories, they are likely to find a few extra screws.

Each part is very delicate, and many faults require professional equipment to detect and repair - these problems have greatly increased the army's dependence on the logistics support system.

 In addition to hardware, logistics training has also become a bottleneck in improving the combat effectiveness of various countries: soldiers using advanced weapons cannot be trained casually.

 In the past, training a soldier only required teaching them how to use firearms. The most complicated ones involved nothing more than the maintenance of firearms.

 It is too complicated to train soldiers now: except for traditional light infantry, all arms have more complex operating modes, which require every soldier to understand.

　　Not to mention, high-level units such as pilots and tankers. In order to train submariners, naval aviation, navigators, radar operators, communications troops... all countries have invested not even a little bit of manpower and material resources.

What is desperate is that in the composition of the modern army, such soldiers account for an increasing proportion, and the role they play is becoming more and more important.

At the same time, the cost of training these arms is getting higher and higher: there is no way around it. After all, what these high-tech arms are doing now is several times or even dozens of times what it used to be.

Taking pilots as an example, a jet fighter pilot today needs to operate more than three times as many things as a piston fighter pilot. If a piston fighter pilot is poorly trained, he may at least be able to get the plane out; but if a jet fighter pilot is poorly trained, he may not even be able to take off.

 Having a jet fighter pilot strafing rockets on the ground requires hundreds or thousands of flight hours, and each takeoff wears out the aircraft and consumes expensive fuel.

 So, most pilots are almost warriors made of gold. Each of them has to consume countless costs to feed and grow up... Of course, the biggest cost is actually the time invested.

During World War II, lighthouse countries could supplement the loss of pilots with a large number of glider enthusiasts, but in the era of jet fighters, there was almost no way to do this.

Therefore, a large number of pilots can only be trained before the war. It is impossible to replenish a large number of pilots during the war... The problem is that if you have money and experience, you can play like this, but if you don’t have money and experience, you will easily collapse. .

The so-called rich countries in later generations spent money to purchase a large amount of advanced weapons and equipment. As a result, they could only rely on these weapons and equipment to fight World War II-style wars. In fact, a large part of the reason was that they were restricted by the logistics support training model and other conditions, which ultimately led to Their tactics were behind the times.

 (End of this chapter)