Chapter 1572: New gun

"In the equipment sequence of the Blue Army brigade, the positioning of the tank is very clear. It is an MT... ahem, the abbreviation of "Main-Tank" in English. It is a powerful breakthrough force on the offensive end and a major barrier on the defensive end. Part of the attack output." Tan Zhenhua continued his introduction to the Blue Army brigade: "Tanks need to form and maintain the front, but in many cases, attack output does not necessarily depend on tanks. This is that in our synthetic battalion, we have an artillery. The reason for the connection."
When he said this, he was interrupted by Ding Wei again: "Chief of Staff Tan, I just wanted to ask. Take our division as an example. In our Huaxia's establishment outline, the artillery regiment is directly under the direct control of the division. Of course, there are also cases of temporarily disassembling and strengthening part of it to a regiment that undertakes important combat tasks during the war, but like you, there is no way to directly organize an artillery company to accompany the tank battalion. Can you explain how you do The reason for doing it?"
"Of course there is a reason. Although the tank also has artillery, it is a typical direct-pointing firepower. Take the "90" type main battle tank, the standard equipment of our Blue Army, for example. Although the caliber smoothbore gun can also fire grenades, but due to factors such as chamber pressure and elevation angle, the farthest range is barely up to 5 kilometers, and at that distance, the accuracy is not good, but in the actual combat environment, there are many times. It is necessary to attack the enemy beyond this distance or to hide in hidden bunkers such as trenches. This is powerless for direct targeting. When our blue army is organized, it is required to be able to complete a certain scale of combat tasks independently with battalions. At this time , The battalion level needs to have enough curved firepower that can accompany the actions of the armored forces, so we will equip each armored battalion with an artillery company. By the way, our current artillery company is equipped by the former Soviet Union. The "2S9" crawler-type 120mm self-propelled mortar, the NATO code-named "M1981", is a rifled gun. The car uses the BMII paratrooper chassis and is powered by a 240-horsepower water-cooled diesel engine. The maximum highway speed is It has reached 60 km/h and the total combat weight is 8.7 tons. Because of the use of a tracked chassis, it has the ability to accompany main battle tanks and armored vehicles to perform operations in harsh geographic environments on non-paved roads; the gun can fire anti-personnel blasting bombs and destroy Armour bombs, rocket extended-range bombs, smoke bombs and other types of bombs have a maximum range of 8.85 kilometers when launching anti-personnel blasting bombs; by the way, because the "Blue Army" tank battalion must be dispatched with this type of artillery, so The tactics of ambushing a group of tanks with a few soldiers using anti-tank missiles and other weapons will hardly be effective."
Ding Wei nodded again, and secretly kept the name "2S9 crawler 120mm self-propelled mortar" in his heart-because after a brief introduction by Tan Zhenhua, he has discovered that this trick of the "Blue Army" may be very useful. !
Fighting against tanks has always been an important issue for infantry. For this reason, from the beginning of World War I to World War II and to the recent years, the anti-tank weapons in the hands of infantry have changed from the first anti-tank gun to the later. Recoilless guns, bazookas, and anti-tank missiles that have become popular in recent years are probably the fastest weapons in infantry. Their range is getting farther and farther and their power is getting bigger and bigger-but there is the same, almost all These anti-tank weapons are all aimed directly, and the range of direct aimed weapons is bound to be limited!
For tanks, the best way to solve this type of weapon threat is naturally to eliminate those who have these weapons first, but it is really difficult for tanks to achieve this goal-because The body-barreled weapons equipped on the tanks are also aimed directly, and have a limited range!
In fact, the so-called "infantry coordination" tactics were first invented, and one of the very important purposes is to use more flexible infantry to solve the threat of various infantry anti-tank weapons faced by tanks.
But now the "Blue Army" has obviously opened up a new way to solve this problem-when their tanks are performing combat missions, not only are they accompanied by mechanized infantry, they can even attack trenches or other concealed with curved fire. The enemy's mortar behind the bunker!
The problem that a tank cannot solve can be solved to the greatest extent by combining and matching with other equipment. The person who came up with this method must be a genius!
Huh? Wait a minute, it suddenly occurred to me that this Dr. Tan who looked at the gentlemanly in front of me, seemed to be someone who was bold and ingenious but proved absolutely effective in two consecutive battles. The initiator of the tank tactics, then, this time , Could it be him again?
Whether Tan Zhenhua made this adjustment to the Blue Army armored battalion organization is actually not important. What is important is that Ding Wei has decided that after returning from this exercise, he must find a way to test the actual combat effects of this new organization-but This "2S9 crawler 120mm self-propelled mortar" is not a China-made product. As a foreign "security company", the Blue Army can naturally find ways to obtain it through various channels, and with the current situation, the international weapons black market Everywhere is full of these former Soviet-Russian weapons of unknown origin, but for him Ding Wei, this problem is almost insoluble, unless...
"Master Ding don't have to worry too much about the source of this gun." Tan Zhenhua clearly saw what Ding Wei was thinking, and then told him good news: "As far as I know, the final assembly side also took a fancy. This type of self-propelled mortar is in talks with Raksha on the introduction of a series of technology and authorization of the gun with Raksha. I believe that there will be results soon. Well, I think, maybe within two years , Commander Ding will be able to see the domestically produced version of similar tanks. At that time, you can test some brand new tactics as much as you want."
Tan Zhenhua can say this, of course, he has the confidence, as for the reason, it is also very simple-because the person who recommended this gun to the final assembly is himself, and he directly reported to Minister Cao, which was introduced in the previous article. Yes, because of the "Dongfeng 3" export case, Minister Cao has a great affection for Dr. Tan. He himself was born as a professional artilleryman. He also went to the former Soviet Union to receive special training, so he saw Tan Zhenhua After providing the sample car, I immediately felt that it was a good thing. After that, the famous "Cannon King" of China Hua Xia Master Zhu inspected the gun from a professional point of view. The final conclusion is that the current technology of China is to imitate the gun. This gun is not very difficult, and it is even possible to make it better than the original one-of course, given the current relationship between China Huaxia and Raksha, he does not recommend direct imitation, um, it is better to spend a little money to get the authorization. That’s good, so there is the next negotiation between the final assembly and Rakshasa. According to Tan Zhenhua’s knowledge, the negotiation went smoothly and the price China Xia had to pay was not high. Therefore, he did not continue to be interested in mixing up, just proposed , I hope that when the domestic version of this gun is released in the future, his "Xiangjiang Defense Company" can become the overseas agent of this gun.
He didn't plan to sell how much, but just count it, just the local oil tyrants in the Middle East, buying a thousand and eight hundred, isn't it too much?