For this surprise inspection of domestic combat readiness, New Delhi is full of magic, but the relevant domestic aspects are extremely serious.

It took only 28 hours for the Blue Army Brigade to complete the assembly at the training ground at an altitude of 4,500 meters in the snowy area and start the adaptive combat readiness training. The exposed problems began to be summarized.

At first, Zhuang Jianye didn't pay attention, because he, the top leader of China's take-off, didn't participate in a hundred of similar summary and evaluation meetings over the years, and you have more than eighty.

Usually, the big guys sit down and talk a little gossip, and then under the guidance of the big leaders who participated in the meeting, they each boast about their business, and finally come to a perfect conclusion of hello, me, hello, everyone, and the meeting will be a success. it's over.

Therefore, Zhuang Jianye was a little annoyed when he heard this kind of meeting, and also because even if he had a meeting, he would not be able to make an ugly Yinmao. It was a complete waste of time, so he might as well sleep at home for a while.

But this time when Zhuang Jianye walked into the meeting room, he realized that something was wrong, because the first few leaders, headed by the head of the Air Force, all had a sullen face.

Sure enough, after the meeting started, a headquarter leader in charge of presiding over the meeting startled the participants including Zhuang Jianye as soon as he spoke...

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

"The basic performance of the 09-type wheeled armored vehicle needs to be improved, especially the continuous combat capability in the plateau environment, which is still far from the requirements of the troops..."

"The airlift performance of the integrated platform equipment is poorly balanced, causing troops to spend a lot of unnecessary time when installing and leaving the aircraft..."

"Based on the current exercise situation, the combat effectiveness of the assault force composed of wheeled armored vehicles is still not satisfactory, so we suggest that we develop light armored mechanized units for plateau and mountain combat as soon as possible..."

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The leader of the headquarters talked about more than 20 problems exposed by related equipment in one breath, and the old face of the person in charge of the relevant company was so ugly that he almost became a ghost.

But I couldn't say a word of rebuttal.

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

In addition, the plateau and mountains in the country and the water-net rice fields in the south are more suitable for the deployment and combat of this lightweight mechanized force, so the headquarters took the Blue Army Brigade as a pilot to explore the feasibility of this type of combat mode.

Practice has proved that this model does have unimaginable advantages in the area where the water network and rice fields are criss-crossed in the south, 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 of 18 100mm wheeled assault guns. Apart from a little decent mobility, both defense and firepower are somewhat unreliable.

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 100mm low-pressure rifled gun equipped, 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-level tank like T-72M1 equipped with explosive reactive armor, it is still very powerful. Somewhat weak.

Especially in long-distance alignment, 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 adaptability of the 96A main battle tank in plateau and mountainous areas is not good. In addition, its own weight is too large, and there are great restrictions in the face of complex road conditions in plateau and mountainous areas.

Therefore, the headquarters hopes that relevant companies can develop a light armored vehicle suitable for plateau and mountain 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 logistical support were also very prominent, and the leaders of the headquarters who spoke pointed out one by one with a calm face.

I thought it was all over like this, but who knew that the head of the Air Force picked up the microphone and said bluntly: "The leadership of our headquarters has already summarized it very comprehensively. Let me add two sentences here. In fact, this time we What I really want to strengthen for the Blue Army is the 99A main battle tank. Unfortunately, we currently have the largest load capacity—18NB. After reducing the fuel load, the load capacity is only 45 tons, which simply cannot hold the 50-ton 99A main battle tank. Make our assault force weaker by at least 20%..."

As he said that, he turned his gaze to Zhuang Jianye, who was always looking at his mouth and nose, and his nose and heart: "Comrade Jianye, you have to think about this matter after you go back. The transport planes we have now cannot cover all the army equipment. , which has a considerable impact on our possible rapid deployment operations..."

It’s not just the 99A main battle tank. In fact, the Yun-18NB still has a lot of equipment that can’t be carried. For example, the Zhi-20 series helicopters upgraded from the ZB-15 helicopter of China’s Tengfei, the cargo compartment of the Yun-18NB cannot be loaded.

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

This has greatly restricted the mobility of the Army Air Assault Force. Not to mention, the rapid deployment of heavy equipment is also limited to only a few traditional methods.

If you add all kinds of medium and long-range ballistic missiles of the Second Artillery Force, the limitations of the Yun-18NB are indeed not small.

Not to mention anything else, just for this surprise inspection of combat readiness, the Y-18NB transport planes involved in the operation carried out an average of four transport missions each. UU reading www.uukanshu. com

If there is a more powerful transport aircraft, maybe two sorties per transport aircraft can deliver a large-scale formed unit to the snowy plateau.

Because of this, even if the head of the Air Force said nothing at this meeting, Zhuang Jianye would still promote this issue after returning, not to mention that China's take-off has not been idle in recent years, and it has long been on the follow-up model of Yun-18NB A feasibility study was carried out.

Now that the head of the Air Force mentioned it this time, Zhuang Jianye also followed suit and showed his plan: "It's like this, China Tengfei has noticed the limitations of the existing transport aircraft, so in the past two years we have begun to use this A preliminary feasibility study has been carried out on the issue.”

"Oh?" Hearing Zhuang Jianye's words, the chief of the air force was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't expect that China Tengfei had already started research in this area, so he said impatiently: "Then tell me!"

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