In the busy airport, a worker is mixing concrete. The entire construction site is very busy, and there are facilities under construction everywhere.
The workers used shovels to stir the concrete, and complained to their colleagues across the street about their hard work: "It only took a few days to change, and then it was changed again."
Originally, this airport was a strategically important airport. It had just been put into use, but it had to be rebuilt due to technical upgrades.
For a country that is not very wealthy in the first place, investing a lot of manpower and material resources in this kind of thing is indeed a very irritating thing.
Look at the Tang State. Today they say they will build a dam, tomorrow they say they will reclaim land from the sea, and the day after tomorrow they say they will start building a subway. The people of that country are called happy, right?
If you look at the common people in various countries in the Eastern Continent, they are all hungry and emaciated, and they have to keep building various military facilities every day. It is simply miserable.
It would be okay if it was only repaired once, and everyone would work harder and finish the repairs, but in fact these airports are being repeatedly built and updated with various facilities.
These very important combat readiness airports were built according to the standards of the Tang Empire, or in other words, according to standards that could be barely used.
There is no way, and it is not that the military that manages these airports is willing to waste people and money, but that the weapons in their hands have evolved so fast that their infrastructure cannot keep up with demand.
Previous airports for piston engine fighters and bombers were very simple. As long as the road surface was compacted and a flat runway was ensured, the buildings next to it were not particularly important.
Yeongbi Airport is nothing more than building a command tower, building dormitories next to it, and building some random buildings, and that's pretty much it. The ammunition depot and oil depot don't even need to be that big, because the aircraft itself consumes less ammunition and fuel.
That's too much.
Later jet fighters had much more complex requirements for airports. First of all, these more sophisticated aircraft required runways that were stronger and more expensive.
The airport runways of the past, especially those used as field airports, are no longer suitable for use and can only be renovated and redesigned.
In addition, this type of jet fighter requires more fuel. Refueling trucks alone are not enough, so enough fuel depots must be built to ensure the supply of fuel.
Therefore, large oil depots and ammunition depots need to be built outside the airport...even the quality of the oil itself is required, which makes the amount of work more than a little larger.
Now the problem is even more serious. The Tang Empire did export many new weapons and equipment, but these weapons and equipment seem to have become more sophisticated, or "hypocritical".
Missile launch vehicles need launch sites, high-performance jet fighters need larger and more complex airports... Even the tanks exported by the Tang Empire have become more sophisticated and complex.
In fact, the Tang Empire exported many good weapons and equipment to other countries, such as M4 tanks, Panther tanks, etc.
But these tanks have also become a burden to these countries. In the past, their tanks could be repaired in the field, but the sophisticated Panther tanks could not do this.
When the Tang Empire used it for itself, it relied on its large logistics force and high efficiency, which could still ensure its use in combat. Other countries, such as the Yangmu Empire, purchased Leopard tanks and could only use them for defensive operations.
Because if these tanks drive out and attack from a long distance, they can destroy them all...
The same goes for fighter jets. In the past, you could actually repair it by setting up a shack at a field airport. The tools were simple and the environmental requirements were low.
Now, we have to seal the factory building at all times and operate as dust-free as possible. Precision screws even require the use of professional tools.
What's even more unethical is that the corresponding engineers must follow the procedures conscientiously. Otherwise, every time they repair the engine or replace the accessories, they are likely to find a few extra screws.
Every part is very delicate, and many faults require professional equipment to detect and repair - these problems have greatly increased the army's dependence on the logistics support system.
In addition to hardware, logistics training has also become a bottleneck in improving the combat effectiveness of various countries: soldiers using advanced weapons cannot be trained casually.
In the past, training a soldier only required teaching them how to use firearms. The most complicated thing was just the maintenance of firearms and other issues.
Nowadays, it is too complicated to train soldiers: except for traditional light infantry, all arms have more complex operating modes, which require every soldier to understand.
Not to mention, pilots and tankers and other advanced arms. In order to train submariners, naval aviation, navigators, radar operators, communications corps... all countries have invested not even a little bit of manpower and material resources.
What makes people desperate is that in the composition of modern armies, such soldiers account for an increasingly higher proportion, and the role they play becomes more and more important.
At the same time, the cost of training these arms is getting higher and higher, and it is also getting more and more expensive: there is no way around this. After all, what these high-tech arms are doing now is several times or even dozens of times what it used to be.
Take pilots as an example. Today, a jet fighter pilot needs to operate more than three times as much as a piston fighter pilot. If a piston fighter pilot is poorly trained, he can at least still fly the aircraft; but if
A jet fighter pilot was so poorly trained that he couldn't even take off.
For a jet fighter pilot to straf rockets on the ground requires hundreds of hours of flight time, and each takeoff wears out the aircraft and consumes expensive fuel.
Therefore, most pilots are almost warriors made of gold, and each of them has to consume countless costs to feed and grow up... Of course, the biggest cost is actually the time invested.
During World War II, the lighthouse country could supplement the loss of pilots with a large number of glider enthusiasts, but in the era of jet fighters, there was almost no way to do this.
Therefore, a large number of pilots can only be trained before the war. It is impossible to replenish a large number of pilots during the war... The problem is that if you have money and experience, you can do this, but if you have no money and no experience, you will easily collapse.
Already.
The so-called rich countries in later generations spent money to purchase a large amount of advanced weapons and equipment. As a result, they could only rely on these weapons and equipment to fight World War II-style wars. In fact, a large part of the reason was that they were restricted by the logistics support training model and other conditions, which ultimately led to
