Chapter 1256 The exposed problem

This is indeed the case. The Air Force dispatched such a large-scale transport fleet to carry out the strategic airlift mission of army battalion-level units. In addition to the military struggle in the southeast coast, the most important purpose is to use this strategic airlift. Let’s find out how the air force transport unit can cooperate with other services, especially the army, in an emergency.

  After all, equipment is one aspect, and how to use it is another aspect.

  Workers must first sharpen their tools if they want to do their jobs well, but if you have a sharp tool but don’t know how to use it, that's no use.

Because of this, the headquarters did not set up any special plans for this, but selected the battalion commanded by Xiaoman from the army. After all, as a motorized infantry battalion in name, it is actually a replacement. The trump card of the light mechanized battalion in China is still very suitable for air transport.

Whether it is a Type 92 infantry fighting vehicle, a PTL-97 type 100mm assault gun, or a 120mm howitzer on the same platform, the total combat weight does not exceed 20 tons, and Lianyun-17 can easily carry a Type 92 infantry. In addition to the tank, an EQ140 military truck can also be mixed.

  If it is replaced by a heavy mechanized battalion, the overall material volume will double, and 40 large and medium military transport aircraft will not be enough; and the simple light infantry is too thin to reflect the Air Force’s ability to form a strategic airlift.

  Only the battalion commanded by Xiaoman is not big or small.

  However, the battalion under the command of Xiaoman was suitable. However, when the headquarters did not set up a plan and deliberately "let it go," the air force and the army exposed many problems as soon as they contacted each other.

Lined up of large and medium-sized transport aircraft and more than one hundred sets of army equipment are piled up on the runway of the airport in a disorderly manner. Whether it is the air force dispatcher or the army logistics director, they are so busy that they don’t take up any land. They were all screaming dumb, but they were still disorganized.

  No way, no matter it is the Air Force or the Army, no one has experienced such a large-scale structured airlift, and even these large air transport aircraft of the Air Force have very limited loading of the Army’s main battle equipment.

Which type of vehicle should be installed, which model is suitable for mixing different vehicles, which type is suitable for mixing personnel and equipment, whether it is appropriate to reverse into the engine room or drive directly into the vehicle, the driver's skills are not good enough How to command and coordinate...

  It can be said that when the battalion commanded by Xiaoman arrived at the airport, the problems followed one after another, and even the chief officers of the two services would pat each other on the table for the dispatch of a vehicle.

  Fortunately, whether it is the Air Force or the Army, there is a tenacity in the bones of refusing to accept defeat. Use it twice if it fails once, and try three times if it fails. In short, try to find the most suitable loading plan.

  The two military services were busy in the base until midnight, and only then did they find a practical and fast loading plan.

  For example, the imported Russian-made Il-76MD nacelle plant is more than 20 meters long and can carry three 92 wheeled infantry fighting vehicles.

  Yun—18NB has a cabin length of more than 17 meters. It can be loaded with two PTL-97 100mm assault guns or 120mm howitzers on the same platform, or a PTL-97 100mm assault gun and two 212 jeeps.

  As for Yun-17, since the cabin length is only 12.7 meters, it can only be loaded with two 92 wheeled infantry fighting vehicles at full capacity.

The new type of large transport aircraft called Yun-19 by the Air Force has a take-off weight of 138 tons, but the basic indicators are not much different from that of Yun-18NB. More accurately, Yun-19 is replaced on the basis of Yun-18NB. It is equipped with an improved version of the WD-64plus turbofan engine with greater thrust.

Except for the engine, other aspects are almost the same as those of the Yun-18NB, except that the thrust of the engine is greater, which achieves miraculous performance, which makes the maximum take-off weight of the Yun-19 more than the 125 tons of the Yun-18NB. 13 tons.

  So the loading situation of Yun-19 is exactly the same as that of Yun-18NB.

  After such experiments and explorations, 40 large and medium-sized transport aircraft loaded the 700 officers and soldiers of the battalion commanded by Xiaoman and 128 sets of equipment, together with a base number of ammunition, through a mixed method.

Of course, many problems were exposed during this process. The first is coordination. It is obvious that the Air Force and the Army are too optimistic about this strategic airlift. As a result, countless troubles ensue after the actual operation hours, which led to the original three-hour loading. Time dragged on for 10 hours.

  That’s all, the key is the large-scale transportation secret Mizaza in the base. More than one hundred sets of equipment from the battalion under the command of Xiaoman also swarmed, making the scene very chaotic at one time.

  So that the head responsible for the coordination on the scene said more than once angrily: "This is peacetime. If it is a wartime, it will be done like this, and the base will have to be dealt with inside and outside of the base."

  The second is the adaptability of equipment.

  Before carrying out similar large-scale integrated strategic airlifts, the air force transport aviation units with Yun-18NB and Yun-19 were in hand. To be honest, some of them could not look down on the Il-76MD strategic transport aircraft imported from Russia.

  Always talk about the airborne equipment, the airplane is still like a tractor, and you can’t feel the enjoyment of flying at all. The key is all second-hand goods. How can the brand-new airplanes such as Yun-18NB and Yun-19 come to be comfortable?

When it was really able to carry out actual combat missions, the Air Force discovered that only the Il-76MD strategic transport aircraft has the highest loading capacity of all models. It can carry three 92-wheeled infantry fighting vehicles. Not to mention, the rear hatch lifts A 212 Jeep can also be fixed on the board.

The load capacity of   Yun-18NB and Yun-19 is not weak, but due to the size of the cabin, it cannot be as efficient as the Il-76MD. On the contrary, the loading efficiency is extremely low due to various reasons.

For example, the tail lift doors of two transport aircraft were not optimized in the design, resulting in extremely low height, not to mention military trucks such as EQ-140~lightnovelpub.net~ or 212 Jeep. Carrying can only be mixed with some guns, ammunition or small logistical items.

  In such a comparison, the Air Force discovered that although Lao Maozi’s things are a bit rough, all applications are based on actual combat. Compared with this, similar domestic products are still a bit immature.

  Because of this, after this strategic transportation exercise, the Air Force issued more than one hundred suggestions for improvement to several domestically-made transport aircraft manufacturers, China Ascendas.

  This is the case for the Air Force, not to mention the Army. In the past, the option of air transportation was not considered in equipment design and development.

After this strategic airlift exercise, the Army found that the previous equipment design ideas could not meet the actual needs of rapid response in the future. Apart from others, the barrel of the PTL-97 100mm assault gun was made too long, so large. The Yun-18NB and Yun-19 can only be loaded with two vehicles at full capacity, which is terribly inefficient.

Therefore, before the end of the strategic airlift exercise, the Army proposed to the design unit to improve the PTL-97 type 100mm assault gun, not to mention, it simply stopped all the follow-up PTL-97 type 100mm assault guns, and made the production of this equipment. The development unit almost didn't go crazy.

  (End of this chapter)