Chapter 1791: 1792 technology is improving
Chapter 17911792 Technology is improving
For a commander, there is an anti-aircraft gun on the position and there is no anti-aircraft gun. Those are two different things. As for whether the anti-aircraft gun is useful and how useful it is, that is something that needs to be considered after it is available.
The coalition forces do lack a large number of anti-aircraft artillery weapons, especially weapons that can threaten the Tang Army's fixed-wing aircraft.
If played insidiously enough, quadruple-mounted or twin-mounted anti-aircraft guns can actually cause trouble for the Tang Army's armed helicopters when concealed. This can be easily seen from the battle damage figures: the aircraft that the Tang Army lost the most was the Hind armed helicopter, followed by the ground attack aircraft Thunder.
Both of these aircraft emphasize close support, especially armed helicopters. They often break into enemy positions and perform face-on attacks, so the probability of being shot down is quite high.
You must know that during World War II, there were actually many things that could form dense barrages at low altitudes, such as small-caliber artillery, heavy machine guns and other weapons.
It is impossible to suppress so many weapons, so the Tang Army has recently been adjusting its rules for the use of armed helicopters, trying to avoid letting its armed helicopters penetrate deep into the enemy's territory alone.
On the other hand, the Tang Army is constantly transporting more advanced weapons to the front line, of which air-to-surface missiles account for a large proportion. Whether it is the Tang Army's Thunder Attack Aircraft or the Hind Helicopter, they are actually big consumers of air-to-ground missiles.
In the past, because such missiles were relatively scarce, no one was willing to use them. Therefore, when performing simple tasks, they often chose cheaper and more abundant rockets.
However, as the war continued to advance, the weapons production capacity in the Tang Kingdom's rear areas also continued to increase. Missiles that were originally expensive and troublesome to produce gradually began to become cheaper due to the large production quantities.
Therefore, the Tang Army can now often have its armed helicopters carry four air-to-ground missiles to perform strike missions. With these missiles, the armed helicopters can complete their suppression missions in a relatively safe place a few kilometers away.
Similarly, thunder and lightning attack aircraft no longer need to take risks by swooping and strafing to kill targets on the ground. Although such technical actions look very powerful and full of momentum, they are actually very dangerous.
Frequently, planes find that their fuselage is covered with large and small bullet holes after returning home. Such injuries also seriously affect the attendance rate of the Thunder attack aircraft unit.
Now, the Thunder attack aircraft can hang multiple anti-tank missiles like the Intruder attack aircraft to attack the enemy's armored clusters.
These missiles have longer range, higher accuracy and greater power. The Thunder attack aircraft can carry ten missiles in a single mission and can easily destroy an entire deployed tank platoon. This is no joke. If there are four Thunderbolts lingering on the battlefield, a tank battalion's attack will almost be in vain.
Completely different from the Allied Forces' state of trying to use bizarre methods to improve the technical level of their own troops' weapons and equipment, the Tang Empire, under the guidance of their Emperor, followed a path that had been proven to be problem-free.
They are testing several small-caliber assault rifles on the battlefield at the same time. At the same time, they are also experimenting with more advanced individual cruise missiles. These weapons still look very avant-garde now, but they will soon be proven to be useful in future wars. value.
Tang Jun is also testing the application of remote-controlled aircraft on the battlefield. This thing was originally a toy for children, but now it has been directly taken to the battlefield for experimentation. Although it is still quite different from a drone, in some places it can indeed complete many dangerous tasks: even if it is controlled by vision and remote control, sending a grenade to the enemy's trench is more difficult than It's much safer to rush and throw.
The coalition forces are not completely devoid of development. They are indeed strengthening the armor thickness of their tanks and are looking for ways to reduce the threat posed by the Tang Army's individual rockets to the tanks.
This is also something that can't be helped: if our own tanks can't even defeat the enemy's infantry, then the purpose of the armored force's existence is lost, right?
At least, the Tang Army's individual anti-tank rockets must be prevented from penetrating the frontal armor of one's own tanks, right? In this way, the Tang Army's anti-tank difficulty can be improved and their anti-tank costs can be increased.
You don't need to think about it to know that the number of anti-tank rocket launcher equipment in an army must be many times more than the number of anti-tank missile equipment. As long as the anti-tank rockets are disabled, the opponent's anti-tank capabilities will naturally drop by a notch.
Of course, the coalition engineers no longer considered that their tanks could compete with the Tang Army's tanks: the two sides were not at the same age in terms of fire control systems and main gun power, and they had lost confidence in competing with the Tang Army.
If you want to penetrate the main armor of Tang Army tanks, you must at least be able to penetrate homogeneous steel with a thickness of more than 800 mm. This data is a conservative data they speculated, which means that it is barely possible to achieve this level. hope.
But it is impossible to achieve this with the current 75 mm caliber tank guns and 90 mm caliber tank guns of the coalition forces.
So everyone began to consider increasing the caliber of the tank gun to 100 mm or even 110 mm to cope with the Tang Army's armor advantage.
Regrettably, after a series of experiments, the 100 mm caliber tank gun was still unable to penetrate the front armor of the Tang Army's tanks. The 110 mm caliber tank gun could barely penetrate it, but its weight and recoil were seriously excessive.
To withstand the increased size and recoil, the tank must be heavier and the turret larger. This will inevitably increase more defense area and add more weight.
The weight contradiction is piled on the engine power, so the new tank needs a stronger engine to provide power. The higher the engine power, the higher the fuel consumption, and the fuel tank will naturally have to be larger.
Therefore, a series of modifications have become a game of adding too much water, adding too much face, and adding too much water. A better engine, a larger body, stronger protection, higher firepower... all of this combined will inevitably equal more manufacturing costs.
What originally took the time to build two tanks can now only produce one turret. The technical personnel of the coalition forces had to embark on a path of no return similar to that of Santoku in World War II.
They are trying to create an alien version of the Tiger Tank...or to put it more exaggeratedly, they are trying to create an alien version of the Tiger King Rat Tank at all costs!