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For this domestic surprise inspection of combat readiness, New Delhi was magical, but the relevant domestic parties were extremely serious.

It only took 28 hours for the Blue Army Brigade to complete the assembly at the 4,500-meter-high altitude training ground in the snow-covered plateau and launch adaptive combat readiness training. Soon after, Zhuang Jianye received a notice from the relevant authorities in the capital and began to conduct a surprise inspection of combat readiness. The exposed problems began to be summarized.

At first, Zhuang Jianye didn't care, because he, the leader of China's take-off, did not participate in a hundred of similar summary and evaluation meetings for so many years, and you also had more than 80.

Usually the big guys sit down and chitchat, and then under the guidance of the big leaders attending the meeting, each business will talk about each other, and finally come to a perfect conclusion, hello, me, hello, everyone, and the meeting will be triumphant. ended.

Therefore, Zhuang Jianye is a little annoying to hear of this kind of meeting, and because even if it is opened, he can't make a ugly man. It's a waste of time. It's better to sleep at home for a while.

But this time, after Zhuang Jianye walked into the conference room, he found that something was wrong, because several leaders headed by the chief of the air force were all sullen.

Sure enough, after the meeting started, a headquarter leader in charge of the meeting opened up, and the participants including Zhuang Jianye were taken aback...

"This surprise inspection of combat readiness has revealed many problems in terms of equipment..."

"The basic performance of the Type 09 wheeled armored vehicle needs to be improved, especially the continuous combat capability in a plateau environment. Compared with the requirements of the army, there is still a long way to go..."

"The air transport performance of the integrated platform equipment is very poor, causing the troops to spend a lot of unnecessary time when installing and leaving the aircraft..."

"Based on the current situation of the exercise, the assault force composed of wheeled armored vehicles is still unsatisfactory. Therefore, we suggest that light armored mechanized units for high-altitude and mountain operations should be developed as soon as possible..."

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The head of the headquarters talked about more than 20 problems exposed by related equipment in one breath. Hearing that the old faces of the heads of related enterprises were so ugly that they were almost a ghost.

But another rebuttal could not be said.

The Type 09 wheeled armored vehicle and the various supporting equipment developed on its basis have a strong experimental nature. After all, the US military's "Stryker Armored Brigade" concept is really attractive.

In addition, the plateaus and mountains in the country and the water-net rice fields in the south are more suitable for the deployment and operations of this lightweight mechanized force, so the headquarters will use the Blue Army brigade as a pilot to explore the feasibility of this type of combat model.

Practice has proved that this model does have unimaginable advantages in the areas where the rice fields of the southern water network are vertical and horizontal, but in the plateau and mountainous areas, the limitations of this model are not satisfactory.

The most prominent is the assault force.

The Blue Army brigade itself has only one battalion with 18 100mm wheeled assault guns. Except for the mobility, which is a little passable, neither defense nor firepower are on the table.

Especially in the face of anti-tank missiles and large-caliber recoilless artillery, the 100mm wheeled assault gun has almost no effective means to ensure its own safety.

As for the equipped 100mm low-pressure rifled gun, although it can deal with first- and second-generation tanks such as T62 and T55, it is no problem, but if it encounters a third-generation entry tank such as the T-72M1 with blasting response armor, it still looks firepower. Somewhat weak.

Especially when aligning at long distances, the 125mm tank gun of the T-72M1 can completely crush the 100mm low-pressure rifled gun on the wheeled assault gun.

Because of this, this surprise inspection of combat readiness will strengthen a company of 96A main battle tanks for the Blue Army brigade.

But the problem is that the 96A main battle tank is not well adaptable in plateau and mountainous areas. In addition, its own weight is too large, and there are great restrictions on the plateau and mountainous areas with complex road conditions.

Therefore, the headquarters hopes that relevant companies can develop a light armored vehicle suitable for high-altitude and mountainous operations, as a special armored assault force for the army, to make up for the current shortcomings...

In addition to the armored assault force, problems in artillery, air defense, and logistics support were also very prominent. The leaders of the headquarters who spoke with a calm face pointed out one by one.

I thought it was all over. Who knew that when the head of the Air Force was approaching, he picked up the microphone and said straightforwardly: "The leaders of our headquarters have already summarized it very comprehensively. Let me add a few words here. In fact, this time we What I really want to strengthen for the Blue Army brigade is the 99A main battle tank. Unfortunately, we currently have the largest carrying capacity-18NB. After reducing the fuel load, the carrying capacity is only 45 tons. It is impossible to fit a 50-ton 99A main battle tank. We weakened our assault power by at least 20%..."

As he said, he turned his gaze to Zhuang Jianye, who had been watching his nose and his heart: "Comrade Jianye, you have to think about this after you go back. The transport planes we have now cannot cover all the army equipment. , This has a big impact on our possible rapid deployment actions..."

It is more than the 99A main battle tank. In fact, there are still many equipment that can not be carried on the Y-18NB. For example, China Ascendas ZB-15 helicopters improved and upgraded the Zhi-20 series helicopters, but the cargo compartment of the Y-18NB could not fit.

There is also the Zhi-8plus heavy helicopter, which the Army is preparing for large-scale procurement, which cannot be loaded either.

This has led to significant limitations on the mobility of the Army’s air assault force, not to mention, the rapid deployment of heavy equipment is also limited to only a few traditional methods.

If coupled with the various medium and long-range ballistic missiles of the Second Artillery Corps, the limitations of the Yun-18NB are indeed not small.

Needless to say, just for this surprise inspection of combat readiness, the 18NB transport aircraft involved in the operation performed an average of four transport missions per aircraft. UU reading www. uukanshu. com

If it is blessed with a more powerful transport aircraft, two sorties per transport aircraft may be able to deliver a large-scale formed unit to the snow-covered plateau.

Because of this, even if the head of the Air Force didn’t say anything at this meeting, Zhuang Jianye would push forward on this issue after he returned. What's more, China hasn’t been idle for taking off in recent years. It has long been on the follow-up model of 18NB. A feasibility study was launched.

Since the head of the Air Force mentioned it this time, Zhuang Jianye followed the tide and revealed his plan: "That's it. Ascendas in China has already noticed the limitations of existing transport aircraft, so we have started working on this issue in the past two years. A preliminary feasibility study was conducted on the issue."

"Oh?" Hearing Zhuang Jianye's words, the Air Force chief was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that China's take-off has already started research in this area, so he couldn't wait to say: "Then tell me!"

"Okay..." Zhuang Jianye nodded: "Our research believes that the successor model should be benchmarked against the American C-17 strategic transport aircraft. Therefore, our initial assumption is that the new strategic transport aircraft has a maximum take-off weight of about 250 tons and an empty weight of about 120 tons. , With a maximum load capacity of 65 tons and a range of more than 10,000 kilometers"