Over the years, the Tang Empire has been replacing its weapons and equipment, especially those that have begun to cause chaos to its logistics.
The first thing to be eliminated was the Leopard tank. This kind of tank generally has two sales, one is sold to the Chu State, and the other is sold to the Yangmu Empire.
As the Tang Empire eliminated most of its Panther tanks, the production line of this type of tank was sold to the Yangmu Empire more than a year ago.
Today, the Yangmu Empire is the country with the largest number of Panther tank equipment, and they are also very satisfied with the combat performance of this tank. The only shortcoming is the logistics and maintenance of this type of tank. The complex Panther tank has indeed caused a lot of trouble for the logistics troops of the Yangmu Empire.
There is no way around this, because in a sense, the Panther tank is a "special weapon" that wants everything and pursues perfection in everything.
Its armor protection is quite high, its maneuverability is also very good, its ammunition load is very good, its firepower is powerful and its sighting system is advanced - is such a perfect weapon really reasonable?
Of course it's unreasonable.
The Panther tank just piled all the problems into the production and maintenance links. No matter how perfect it performed on the battlefield, it was rubbish in terms of manufacturing and logistics.
Again, the Panther tank may be a good choice for the Tang Empire, which has strong logistics and first-class manufacturing capabilities, but for the Yangmu Empire, it is not as good as imagined.
Weapons and equipment always have a focus. It is basically impossible for all-round weapons to exist. This is an unchangeable fact.
Take military vehicles as an example. Soldiers want the vehicle to be stable and comfortable, which requires the vehicle to have a good shock absorption system.
At the same time, a good military vehicle should also have qualified protection capabilities, including mine protection and protection against stray bullets and direct bullets.
To be mine-proof, the vehicle chassis needs to have enough clearance from the ground, which will inevitably lead to the vehicle's center of gravity being raised. The raised center of gravity will increase the shaking of the vehicle, which in turn affects the comfort and stability of the vehicle mentioned above.
The heavy armor protection will in turn increase the pressure on the shock absorber system and affect the working status of the shock absorber system.
Even if the best shock absorbers are used and thicker armor is installed, whether the vehicle's engine can provide enough power for the increased weight and allow the vehicle to maintain sufficient speed will become a problem.
Install a more powerful, powerful engine? Choose a more reliable matching clutch... Then a new problem comes again, the vehicle has insufficient oil and the stroke is short.
Without strong power, vehicles lose their meaning of existence. Insufficient horsepower reduces off-road capabilities, and soldiers cannot pass through dangerous areas in a short time, which in turn affects the survivability rate of soldiers' vehicles.
Excessive fuel consumption in turn restricts the use environment of the vehicle, making it unable to meet the needs of soldiers.
For thicker armor and more horsepower, install a larger fuel tank? In order to protect this fuel tank and carry more fuel, does the car's horsepower have to be wasted on transporting its own fuel?
The vehicle is heavy, has a thick shell, and is dull and poorly ventilated. The failure rate of such a vehicle has increased. The thick armor has become a huge obstacle to repairing the vehicle. An engine hatch that can withstand 7.62 mm caliber bullets cannot be lifted without hydraulic assistance... …
In order to prevent such a heavy car from sinking into the mud, it is necessary to reduce the pressure and increase the ground contact area of the wheels - increase the width of the tires, or simply use stacked double-layer tires.
Well, after coordinating this series of problems, adding more water and more water, you just barely solved the various problems of the vehicle itself.
We must know that the fuel consumption of this car increases by one liter for every 100 kilometers, so an army equipped with 300,000 such cars will consume an additional 300,000 liters of fuel for every 100 kilometers it advances. Under normal circumstances, the fuel consumption of military vehicles is very exaggerated, and it is possible to have more than two liters or three liters.
This is not just that the entire army has advanced 100 kilometers, but also the round-trip consumption of transporting these oils, plus the scrapped oil and worn tires of these vehicles...
Is your head already big? Don't worry, the transportation capacity occupied by the transportation of newly added oil and other materials was originally allocated to transporting arms, ammunition and food supplies. Now do we need to arrange additional vehicle transportation for these things?
Well, after a whole set of complicated calculations and coordination work have been completed, and it is estimated how many additional vehicles are needed, the whole thing can only be considered to have hope of ending.
The whole process started with just adding some protective steel plates to a military vehicle - in the end the country had to reserve more than 10,000 tons of gasoline for these protections.
Normally manage these reserves, find a place to reserve them, and keep the gasoline in a usable state...a new round of calculations begins again.
The question is what kind of advantage can be gained by paying such a price: war is not a chess game, and whether your truck is stronger and safer than someone else's truck has any practical significance.
It cannot be said that it is completely meaningless. Improving the survivability of every weapon and every soldier on the battlefield is the goal that technicians strive for. They hope to reduce casualties and increase the combat effectiveness of every unit.
But in real situations, most of the time the situations encountered on the battlefield are complex and unpredictable. If your infantry encounters an enemy tank, shouldn't they just surrender instead of fighting?
In fact, no. In most cases, even if infantry without any anti-tank capabilities encounters enemy tanks, they will do their best to delay the enemy's attack and block the enemy's advance.
To put it more heart-breakingly, even if you only have a dagger and a brick, you still have to go up and have a try with the enemy's tanks. This is a soldier's responsibility!
So many times, the efforts of technicians are not rewarded. What they racked their brains to come up with cannot be said to be useless on the battlefield, it can only be said to be better than nothing.
You see, after decades of unremitting efforts, technicians finally enhanced the armor on the front of the tank to the equivalent of more than one meter of homogeneous steel, but suddenly they found that top-attack ammunition was all over the streets.
Heavily armored tanks no longer face armor-piercing projectiles shot by damn enemy tanks. They have to withstand the challenges of drones, individual cruise missiles and anti-tank missiles.
What a vehicle that has painstakingly built up armor may not encounter is enemy assault rifles and light machine guns. It is very likely that it is a 40mm caliber anti-aircraft cannon that has been leveled and fired.
After comprehensive consideration, relevant decision-makers will usually make trade-offs and ultimately come up with a more compromise option.
In fact, during World War II and for a long time after the end of World War II, countries around the world had no plans to add armor to transport vehicles.
But later, the Lighthouse Country began to play the role of police around the world. The army increasingly emphasized lightweighting, and soldiers often needed to maneuver in transport vehicles. Only then did they begin to pay attention to the protection of transport vehicles.
To put it bluntly, they are basically using transport vehicles as armored vehicles, and because the opponent's heavy firepower is seriously insufficient, armored vehicles are used to replace tanks.
This is the origin of the so-called Stryker Brigade: bullying kindergarten children who don't even have decent anti-tank missiles, so they can bully them with thin-skinned and large-stuffed armored vehicles.
Unfortunately, as kindergarten children have become more and more vicious due to the arms trade in recent years, the Lighthouse Country itself has had to start giving up its light troops and reacquire the Abrams main battle tanks that it had previously looked down upon.
The Tang Army does not need to take this detour, because the Tang Army has always been building its main battle force in accordance with the standards of the Continental Army. The Tang Army has never given up on the development and deployment of heavy weapons and equipment, and army commanders also attach great importance to the use of armored vehicles.
Yes, the Tang Empire never thought of using transport vehicles such as Humvees to replace the role of armored vehicles. In the eyes of Tang commanders, transport vehicles are transport vehicles and armored vehicles are armored vehicles.
After learning from the experiences and lessons of Desan and Mao Xiong, combined with the theory of rabbits, Tang State developed large-volume categories of tracked armored vehicles and wheeled armored vehicles respectively to meet the mobile protection needs of the troops.
These weapons and equipment are much easier to use than welding armor on a jeep. At the same time, this also provides enough chassis options for the Tang Empire's self-propelled artillery and other functional vehicles in the future.
Another point worth noting is that the Tang Empire adopted more advanced American management standards when producing these Soviet weapons and equipment.
In this way, the quality of weapons and equipment is improved, and it also creates favorable conditions for the subsequent improvement and development of these weapons and equipment.
The production process and other standards of Mao Xiong are really too rough, which is related to Mao Xiong's own industrial development route. That model of latecomers catching up is completely different from the current situation in which the Tang Empire leads the world.
The Tang Empire was using American production methods to produce Soviet-style weapons and equipment, and it was not following the stupid and rough path of the Soviet Union.
Therefore, although the Tang Empire adopted a large number of Soviet-style weapons and equipment, it adopted a more streamlined and reasonable design approach in terms of logistics and maintenance. It can be understood that the Tang Empire is trying to use the specifications and standards for manufacturing F-16 to produce J-7 in the future.
In the same way, Tang Mo is adding safer fire-fighting equipment, more advanced sensors, and more sophisticated manufacturing standards to his "Rabbit Tank", preparing to develop it into a more comprehensive "Super 99 Main Battle Tank" in the future. ".
For the Tang Empire, the performance of weapons was actually just the final appearance. What made it truly powerful was that the manufacturing standards run by Tang Mo's group were no longer on the same level as those of other countries.
(End of chapter)
