Not to mention Zheng Chaolin, even the other officers and soldiers on the two 100mm wheeled assault guns under his command were all dumbfounded when they saw the scene in front of them under the dim light.

I saw six Type 05 155mm self-propelled howitzers and four Type 03 300mm heavy rocket launchers rumbling past in the open space not far away!

You must know that these two pieces of equipment are big guys with a net weight of about 40 tons. With the carrying capacity of the Yun-18NB transport aircraft, only one can be loaded at a time.

More importantly, these two types of equipment are useless to transport the guns, and they must be equipped with complete command and support equipment to exert their combat effectiveness.

Obviously, the Air Force's Yun-18NB transport plane also sent the command and support equipment for the two types of artillery.

Zheng Chaolin counted carefully, the artillery radar vehicle, the artillery command vehicle, the artillery reconnaissance vehicle, the ammunition supply vehicle, and the engineering repair vehicle happened to be the company-level organization of the two types of artillery.

That is to say, during the training on the snowy plateau this time, in addition to the 122mm wheeled self-propelled howitzers of a battalion of their blue army brigade, the 100mm wheeled assault guns of a battalion, and the 122mm wheeled rocket launchers of a company, the 120mm wheeled rocket launchers of a company In addition to the self-propelled howitzer, it is also reinforced by a company of 155mm self-propelled howitzers and a company of 300mm heavy rocket launchers.

You must know that the artillery establishment of the Blue Army Brigade is fully equipped. An artillery battalion has 18 artillery pieces, and an artillery company is equipped with 6 artillery pieces.

Of course, heavy artillery such as 300mm rocket launchers are not included in the traditional establishment, but a battalion with 12 guns and a company with 4 guns.

So calculated in this way, the number of artillery with a caliber of 100mm or more in the Blue Army has reached 58.

Capable of covering any target within a range of 2 km to 120 km.

Whether it is quantity or quality, compared with the army troops deployed in New Delhi at the southern foot of the Himalayas, I do not know how many times stronger it is.

You must know that the largest artillery caliber equipped by the New Delhi Army in this area is only the Soviet-made 120mm mortar, and the only barrel artillery is the British-made 105mm howitzer.

As for the FH-77B 155mm heavy artillery that New Delhi politicians are talking about, there is not even a shadow.

It’s not that the front-line troops don’t want to equip them. The main reason is that the number of this artillery is too small and expensive. The New Delhi headquarters firmly holds it in their own hands and will not let it go easily. Secondly, the most important thing is that this artillery is heavy. It is too big, and the infrastructure leading to the plateau is too poor, resulting in poor roads that cannot bear such heavy equipment at all.

Because of this, there is no practical effect at all except for a mouthful.

Of course, if the caliber ratio does not have a certain advantage in quantity, it can also form a deterrent to the surrounding area.

But the problem is that the number of artillery equipped by the army in the New Delhi plateau area is also pitifully small.

The entire plateau heavy army group adds up to nearly 50,000 people, equipped with only two regiments of professional artillery!

Looking at the regiment-level units, it seems to be the case. In fact, the actual establishment of the artillery regiment of the New Delhi Army is the artillery battalion of other countries, and it is still a downsized artillery battalion, because each regiment is only equipped with 12 artillery pieces.

There are only 24 teams in the two regiments, which is less than half of that of the Blue Army.

It’s just that there are not many artillery establishments, but the staffing of the Artillery Corps in New Delhi is full of ten. Each regiment has at least four or five hundred people. There's really not much difference between groups.

As for range...

The farthest is 23 kilometers. This is because the air in the plateau area is thin, and the shells can have a chance to hit farther. Otherwise, the strike range is only 18 kilometers.

No matter how far away, the plateau garrison in New Delhi has no choice but to help, because apart from ordinary standard ammunition, they have no special ammunition such as bottom row artillery shells, rocket extended-range artillery shells, and laser-guided artillery shells.

Even the most basic ordinary ammunition, the ammunition base of the artillery unit of the New Delhi plateau garrison did not meet the requirements of the training program.

No way, who made New Delhi’s basic ammunition unable to be self-sufficient and can only rely on imports, so that the ammunition reserves of the entire army are pitifully low. Coupled with the bad road conditions, it is already a miracle that the troops in the plateau area can have ammunition reserves , what more bike?

Otherwise, why are the artillery units absent from several exercises?

Is it because the artillerymen don't want to fire two cannons to shake their prestige?

Of course not, but New Delhi really can’t afford it when the artillery fires. The so-called golden ten thousand taels is really not a joke in New Delhi when the cannon fires!

Because of this, facing the super artillery firepower configuration of the Blue Army Brigade, Zheng Chaolin was not the only one who was shocked. Major General Anil, who was located in the Jinguancheng Consulate, was even more frightened and broke out in a cold sweat through the open video live broadcast.

Because in addition to strengthening a company of 05-type 155mm self-propelled howitzers and a company of 03-type 300mm heavy-duty rocket launchers for the Blue Army, Anil also found a company from the screen, a total of 12 96A-type main battle tanks and 4 vehicles. The launch vehicle, a radar vehicle and a communication command vehicle form the Hongqi-16B field air defense missile company.

However, what frightened Anil the most was not these, but the construction and production brigade that was raided for combat readiness this time.

The main combat equipment equipped by the entire army is a series of light mechanized equipment derived from 8*8 wheeled armored vehicles.

Whether it is an artillery or an assault gun, whether it is a command vehicle or a repair vehicle, the chassis are exactly the same, the only difference is the weapons or equipment mounted on the chassis.

Seeing this scene, Major General Anil, who was born in the army, popped into his mind a concept of army formation proposed by the US military a few years ago, the so-called "Strike Combat Brigade".

That is to use the 8*8 Stryker wheeled armored vehicle as the basis to form a series of equipment including artillery, assault, anti-armor, infantry fighting vehicles, ambulance, and emergency repair, so that it can rely on the powerful transport aviation force of the United States to achieve 48 The new army combat concept that reached the world within hours ~lightnovelpub.net~ Its original idea was to deal with the heavy tank groups that the Soviet Union invaded Western Europe.

Although the Stryker wheeled armored vehicle has little defense and thin blood, it can’t compete with the Soviet heavy tanks on paper. However, the Stryker wheeled armored vehicle relies on a wheeled structure, and its mobility far exceeds that of Soviet tanks. Therefore, it can rely on Western European tanks. The towns and well-developed road network carried out mobile defense operations against the Soviet heavy armored forces that swooped over.

As long as it can be dragged to the US military's heavy troops across the ocean to land and support, it will be considered a victory.

Because of this, the combat effectiveness of the "Stryker Combat Brigade" is not weak. However, with the end of the Cold War and the internal adjustment of the US military, especially after the continuous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the "Stryker Combat Brigade" has never been able to resist heavy The regular army of the armored force has been reduced to a security brigade that can only deal with illegal armed forces.

So the so-called "Strike Combat Brigade" gradually disappeared over the years.

Unexpectedly, after so many years, Anil finally saw the real combat power of the "Strike Combat Brigade" envisioned by the US military in the video, but the "Stryker Combat Brigade" here was not American. But domestic!