Chapter 2397: Firepower is king

Major Yang organized the Herizhu Base. For Major Yang, it was his base camp. His subordinates and the Air Force also faced off. It was a multi-armed integrated unit. However, speaking of the root cause, he was still Subordinate to the Army, Major Yang came out of the Vulture Special Forces, originally the Army.
However, Qin Guan didn't expect Major Yang to have this kind of military consciousness, so it was even stranger: "Brother Yang, what kind of medicine are you selling in the gourd? You should just say it."
Speak directly? Major Yang had a smile on his face: "Brother, this time our Navy’s 203mm naval gun looks majestic."
Everyone knows about this conflict at sea. The navy’s 203 mm naval gun was also famous in this naval battle. The performance of this naval gun is simply too powerful and has become the world’s most powerful gun. The famous naval gun was originally more powerful than it, the Iowa-class gun. As a result, the Iowa-class gun exploded. Compared with the two, the 203 mm naval gun of our own is naturally more famous.
"Yes." Qin Guan said: "There were still many people who questioned our large-caliber naval guns. In our case, firepower is king."
Firepower is king in the Han country, and it is also a realization after the experience of suffocation at that time. Back then, it was Xiaomi and rifle. I don't know how envious of other people's machine guns and submachine guns.
"Yeah, you are right, firepower is king." Major Yang said, "I am here this time for this 203mm naval gun. We hope to transplant this naval gun to land and become ours. A self-propelled fire support heavy artillery."
When researching and developing at the beginning, in order to reduce the difficulty, the first is to develop the 203 mm naval gun that the navy needs. After all, this type of naval gun needs to be carried on a warship of several thousand tons and requires additional weight reduction design, but that is also It has a larger volume and weight than a land-based artillery system. If you want to transplant this heavy artillery to land, you need a self-propelled artillery. There must be a lot of difficulty.
The army has long been jealous. You must know that strong firepower has always been the army’s tradition. The army’s current artillery with the largest caliber is still 152 mm, which has long been behind. Although it is now developing a 155 mm gun, this It's not as powerful as the 203mm fastened artillery!
Major Yang came to Qin Guan with this idea.
Hearing Major Yang’s words, Qin Guan couldn’t help raising his eyebrows:
Brother Yang, our army has long changed shotguns. Large-caliber rockets and various close-range ballistic missiles are enough to sweep the ground on the battlefield. Why, you still like our small weapon?"
"This is not a small weapon, this is the most powerful artillery!" Major Yang said: "Do you know? Our army, that has always been the king of firepower."
For the Army, the most important thing is firepower!
The army has always advocated firepower since its birth. Now, the army already has this capital. Of course, it needs more powerful firepower. Large-caliber artillery can blast through the mountains and Haitian. This kind of momentum , It will be able to make the enemy desperate.
Major Yang’s Herizhu base is here to study how advanced weapons are used, but it does not only include advanced weapons, but how conventional weapons can achieve the greatest value in modern warfare. This is the object of Major Yang’s research. Therefore, Major Yang is certainly interested in this artillery.
"You want this artillery, moreover, self-propelled?" Qin Guan continued to ask.
"Yes, this kind of large-caliber artillery will inevitably become a thorn in the enemy's eyes. On the battlefield, if it can't quickly shift its position, it will definitely become the enemy's target." Major Yang said.
Artillery is the of war. Similarly, artillery is also the target of the enemy’s attention. On the battlefield, as long as the artillery begins to fire, once the opponent has modern weapons, such as battlefield detection radar, it can easily be determined based on the trajectory of the projectile. The position of the artillery, thus incurring the opponent's blow.
Back then, the Han country used this technique to deal with monkey artillery. Now, the artillery on the battlefield detects radar and the spread is quite powerful. Therefore, for artillery, enter the position, spread out, and set a few bases. The ammunition of the enemy should be fired quickly and efficiently, and then transferred quickly. Under normal circumstances, it should not exceed five minutes. Otherwise, the next moment, the opponent’s shells will fly over.
Therefore, in artillery, towed artillery is slowly withdrawing from the stage of history. Self-propelled artillery is equipped with more and more vehicles. Towed artillery requires vehicles to tow, and man to control and move into and out of combat. It is quite slow and can easily become an enemy's target. The self-propelled artillery is different. This equipment itself is a vehicle and does not require various supporting devices when firing, so it is quite easy to expand.
However, the cost of this kind of artillery is much higher. It is precisely because of various demands that Han Guo has developed a truck cannon, which uses the truck chassis to carry the artillery, which can greatly reduce the cost compared with the crawler chassis.
However, the off-road capability of this method is not very high, and it is impossible to carry a particularly large-caliber artillery. This kind of 203 mm naval gun is definitely not acceptable with a truck chassis. A crawler chassis must be used, even if it is Tracked chassis, you can also imagine how huge this chassis is.
"Yes, we should also develop this self-propelled artillery system." Qin Guan said: "However, when developing, we definitely can't take the path of the Eagle Country."
The Eagle State actually has this type of artillery. This is the M110 self-propelled howitzer series. The Eagle State began to develop it in the 1950s, and it was finally successfully developed more than ten years later. After several improvements, the most advanced model is the M110A2. This was successfully developed by the Eagles in the early 1980s. Although it is also a self-propelled artillery with a crawler chassis, the chassis is relatively small and only a carrier for towing the artillery. This artillery system does not have a battle chamber, and both artillery and gunners Being exposed to the outside, once the enemy fires back, it is easy to suffer personnel losses. Moreover, it also leads to too little ammunition on the artillery chassis. It has only 2 shells, so the continuous shooting ability is very weak.
Therefore, this kind of chassis cannot meet our own needs. We must have a more advanced chassis. Moreover, this 203mm artillery is only a technology of the 1960s, and its performance is lagging. In terms of range, even if When launching the rocket extended-range projectile, it did not exceed the range of 30 kilometers, and it was even worse than the newly developed 155mm artillery.
What we want to develop must be the most advanced 203 mm self-propelled howitzer that uses modern technology. It is improved with our current naval gun. What should I use on the chassis?
If there is a chassis that can accommodate this 203 mm artillery beast, it is estimated that there is only one kind. In Qin Guan's mind, a name, Crusader, appeared.