If you ask which country in the world is in most urgent need of landing equipment, it must be Rabbit. So Tang Mo didn't even have to search hard to find a lot of landing equipment in Rabbit's pocket.
Many people must not have thought that the Rabbit amphibious landing instructor of the year was Yingjiang. At that time, the young and promising second son of Kaishen purchased many armored vehicles from Yingjiang that were not shipped back to the country.
Some of these armored vehicles were directly used to beat rabbits of the past, and some that were in poor condition had their parts taken away and thrown into scrap recycling bins as scrap metal.
After Rabbit's million-strong army crossed the river, he found these discarded scraps in the scrap collection station, and then felt sorry for the waste and picked them up for his own use.
Relying on these unwanted LVT tanks discarded by Eagle Sauce, Rabbit established his own amphibious combat vehicle unit - there is nothing wrong with you saying that Rabbit is a fan of Eagle, after all, he is a 70-year-old fan who came uninvited.
Therefore, there is no need to worry when choosing amphibious landing equipment in the Tang Empire. Just choose Rabbit: Type 63 waterway tank and Type 77 waterway dual-purpose armored vehicle.
These two weapons do not have much technical content, and their basic technical requirements are a little more complicated than World War II armored vehicles. However, they are indeed genuine amphibious armored vehicles, which greatly enhance the troops' beach landing capabilities.
What’s even more interesting is that the chassis of this 63 amphibious tank is still the chassis of a 122 mm caliber self-propelled artillery. In this way, the Datang Empire was even ready to replace its own self-propelled artillery chassis.
The only regret is that the Tang Empire did not have a 122 mm caliber howitzer, so it could only make do with a 63 chassis large vehicle carrying a small gun and a 105 mm caliber howitzer on its back.
There was no way, the 155mm caliber howitzer was too heavy, the 63 chassis really couldn't be carried on the back, so I had to give up after the experiment.
The shortcomings of the 63 chassis, or the shortcomings of the 63 car family, are not without them: the protection of this vehicle is too poor, and the 63 tank can only be equipped with the mature 75mm artillery that the Tang Empire already has, and its power is really not impressive.
People are satisfied.
Although compared with the main tanks of other countries, the power of the main gun of the Type 63 amphibious tank is not bad, but compared with our own tanks, the gap is not as big as usual.
Because of the recoil problem, the 63 tank of the Tang Empire cannot use the 88-caliber gun and 105-mm caliber gun used by its own country. It can only settle for the next best thing and use the slightly inferior 75-gun to make do - because the Tang Empire is
The 85 gun used in genuine 63 tanks has never been produced.
After such a modification, the 63 tank of the Tang Empire was just a "second-rate product" with a thin skin, insufficient firepower, and a stretched sight system.
Compared with those main battle weapons that are full of technology and have superior performance to other countries, the Marine Corps' Type 63 tank can simply be described as a shame.
This is not the most pitiful thing. The Type 63 amphibious tank cannot fire on the sea due to the stretched sighting system. Even if it can barely fire, it cannot hit the target at all.
Therefore, the only mission of this kind of tank is to go ashore with the infantry, and then attract fire to cover the infantry to seize the beachhead position.
As for then...the only thing left is for the tank landing ship to send the serious 59 main battle tank ashore, take over the work of the 63 tank, and crush the opponent.
Because the Army is equipped with a large number of Type 113 armored vehicles and is reluctant to eliminate them (it has no time to eliminate them), the Navy can only purchase Type 77 dual-purpose armored vehicles for its own use.
After all, unlike Rabbit, which has a large number of 63 armored vehicles that can be converted into amphibious armored vehicles, the Navy and Army can only do their own thing, and then in turn use the Marine Corps armored vehicle chassis to modify self-propelled artillery.
In short, with the development of weapons in the Tang Empire, uncontrollable chaos spread within the army, and many equipment had a strong transitional and experimental nature.
After experiencing the torture of updating equipment such as Butcher fighters, Stuka dive bombers, and Flying Fortresses... as well as the Army's No. 4 tanks, too many generals have begun to prefer to equip a small amount of experimental equipment to see the situation.
Everyone is worried about whether they will encounter a similar situation again in the future if they continue to pile up the amount of equipment as hard as they did in the past.
They don't want to experience the embarrassment of having good equipment but not being able to use it again, so even the 59 tanks and J-6 fighter jets, which have extraordinary performance, the Air Force and the Army are not in a hurry to equip them.
Everyone is waiting for better equipment, especially the Air Force: they would rather wait for the legendary Type 7 fighter jet than continue to equip the Liuye, which barely has all-weather combat capabilities.
On the beach, the Type 63 amphibious tanks and the Type 77 amphibious armored vehicles, which were soaking in the seawater and moving like snails, had begun to land. The not-so-wide tracks picked up gravel and began to release smoke, making the entire landing site like a fairyland.
The choking smoke made some soldiers begin to curse. At this time, they had already occupied the enemy's first position in accordance with the drill procedures.
Next, they will continue to advance and establish a defensive position outside the beach to prevent the enemy's counterattack. In addition, the troops that follow up ashore will also have to shoulder the heavy responsibility of clearing out the surrounding enemies and supporting the main force to continue landing.
A tank landing craft with a front that can be opened left and right has begun to unload tanks. The 59 tank, which is lower in appearance and has better defense, drove out of the cabin and showed off its power on the beach.
The soldiers who landed later had order. They were no longer chaotic, but they were still tortured to death by the smoke released by their own people.
The first batch of soldiers to land sat on the roof of the "bunker" and poured sand from their shoes. This was a simple camouflage built with sandbags and sand, and was regarded as a bunker.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The passing tank turned around in the gap in the barbed wire fence, and the commander, half of his body exposed, looked up at the friendly troops on the "bunker" and reminded loudly:
: "That thing will be used again in the future, don't break it."
"I know! Our shoes can't blow up the enemy's 'bunker'!" An infantry squad leader slapped the sandbag sitting under his buttocks and shouted to his comrades with a smile.
Compared with the last landing exercise conducted on Dongwan Island, the effect of their exercise this time can be said to be very good. The experienced soldiers no longer panic, everyone is orderly, and it looks like a strong army in the world.
Everyone knows that the army of the Tang Empire is invincible, but who knows how many exercises and training they conducted secretly?
Understanding new weapons and mastering new tactics require training to maintain them. To form a weapon into combat effectiveness, it does not just need to be distributed to the troops.
You have to form a system around new weapons and rely on this system to crush the enemy's system in order to win. If you can't do that, then the existence of new weapons will have no meaning.
The topic currently being studied by the Air Force is to combine radar with aircraft to create a new air combat theory and build an all-weather air force.
The Army's idea is to modernize its combat vehicle chassis as quickly as possible, implement a new combat vehicle family, simplify logistics support, and bring equipment types back to the normal range.
You know, the Air Force now equips a lot of aircraft models, and the Army has even more models.
There are three types of tanks. Recently, the Panther tank has been eliminated with great difficulty, but there are still many No. 4 tanks in service in the army.
This is not what worries them the most. What worries them most is the various equipment variants that have been extended: including No. 4 tanks and tank destroyers, tank maintenance vehicles and self-propelled artillery.
The No. 4 tank is still the "war horse" of the Army. It continues to serve without complaint and exerts its residual enthusiasm in the artillery, armored forces, and infantry.
It's just that it is too old, so old that tanks from other countries are almost as advanced as it, so the Army no longer dares to continue to put it on the front line to participate in battles, and most of them are reserved for second-line troops.
"If we really join the war... I really don't know if we will still dress up like a festival and rush to the enemy's beach." Cao Fei asked, holding his sniper rifle and sitting on the beach watching the 59 tanks that came ashore.
Your own partner.
In order to ensure the safety of the soldiers, all landing troops participating in the landing were issued orange-red life jackets. This thing looked really festive when worn on the body, seriously reducing the sense of urgency of the landing troops.
As a sniper, Cao Fei's landing order was not high on the list, so by the time he climbed onto the beach, the "battle" was over. Although the air was still filled with a choking smell, there was still a thin layer of air around him.
There was a lot of smoke, but everything seemed to be back to normal.
"This thing is to prevent us from drowning." The observer poured water into his boots and explained without raising his head: "I heard that the color can also prevent sharks."
"The last time we really fought on Dongwan Island, there weren't so many messy things. The enemy was vulnerable at that time, and we won without any suspense." Cao Fei recalled the battle he participated in at that time and affirmed with great experience.
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"Forget it! At that time, your enemy did not have Maxim heavy machine guns, sniper rifles with 3x scope, 200mm artillery, reinforced concrete bunkers, barbed wire and submachine guns." His observer put on his hand.
He picked up wet shoes and mocked his partner.
He was right. With the spread of technology, all countries in the world have changed. Although the Tang Empire still occupies an absolute advantage, locally, the advantage is actually not that obvious.
If you say that the Tang Empire was wrong to spread technology, that may not necessarily be true: if the Tang Empire did not sell so much technology, Tang Mo would not have been able to complete his own industrialization so quickly.
But if you say that selling so much technology is right, it seems inaccurate, because the iteration of technology has indeed increased the cruelty of the battlefield, which may really make the Tang Empire pay more in the next war...
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I have something to do today, so I will only update once, and I will make up for the third update tomorrow.
