() And is Taiwan now ready for a long-term, extensive war? Liu Fu’s answer is: no.
Although Taiwan has been preparing for war since around 1888, due to its poor foundation and lack of resources and manpower, even though it has been more than 20 years, it is not enough to join a protracted world war.
Now Taiwan's army has expanded three times, and the number is only about 100,000. Since Taiwan's total population is only about 7 million, the standing army cannot increase much. However, Taiwan implements an all-military service system, which was inherited by Liu Fu.
What we learned from Switzerland, a permanently neutral country, to put it simply is that every citizen aged 18-45 must take one month out of every year to serve in the garrison near where he is located, or choose to serve for 25 years at a time
months, and men and women are equal, and women have the same rights and obligations to serve as men.
Although this all-military service system has only been in place for about 10 years, in a state of war, Taiwan can mobilize 500,000 trained troops within a week, or nearly 3 million trained troops within a month, and
These armies are all fully manned and ready to go into battle immediately. Because after Taiwan's military service, except for those large and heavy equipment, all other weapons and ammunition will be taken home by individuals for safekeeping until the next time they serve.
, your own equipment will be carried by you, and the military is only responsible for regular replacement, inspection and replenishment.
Of course, this is a method that is chosen under extreme conditions. When the strong years go to the front line to fight, no one will plant the fields in the countryside, and most of the factories will have to stop working. This method is not so much fighting, but
The enemy must be defeated, and the longer the mobilization takes, the greater the side effects will be. When the country's war reserves are exhausted, the country will basically collapse.
In addition to military resources, there are also weapons and ammunition. Now the standing troops of the Taiwan Army have been equipped with AK-05 semi-automatic rifles. This rifle has further reduced its caliber, from the original 7.62 mm caliber to 5.5 mm caliber, and the bullet
There are also original long pointed bullet cases that have become the current short rounded bullet cases, and the steel bullets are hollow and filled with lead.
The effective range of this rifle has been shortened to 350 meters, but the weight and recoil of the entire gun have been reduced by nearly 30%, and the accuracy of continuous shooting has also been improved a lot. It has been tested in actual combat on the Philippine Islands and on many small occasions.
Changes were made, and finally all were installed in the army in 1910.
Since the caliber of the warhead is relatively small, the amount of fired ammunition is also reduced accordingly. After the warhead is fired, its flight state is not stable. After entering the human body, it will flip and break due to resistance issues, thus greatly enhancing its ability to cause damage.
, during the inspection on the Philippine Islands, researchers and soldiers found that if this kind of bullet is used to shoot an enemy at a long distance, the bullet hole will expand several times. Sometimes the bullet is shot from the abdomen, and the fragmented warhead will be found in the thigh.
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And since the weight and volume of bullets are reduced, the amount of ammunition carried by each soldier can be increased, and the logistical pressure will also be reduced.
In addition to small-caliber semi-automatic rifles, the Taiwan Army also has two snipers in each squad. The bk-01 sniper rifle used by these snipers was developed based on the original ak-01 semi-automatic rifle.
Sniper rifle, but this sniper rifle does not adopt a semi-automatic structure, but changes back to a more troublesome single-shot mode.
There are already semi-automatic rifles, why abandon the semi-automatic and adopt the more primitive single-shot manual mode? In fact, at the beginning, researchers also developed a semi-automatic sniper rifle, but the precision could not meet the requirements, and due to the sniper rifle's
The bullets have more charges and the recoil is greater. For the semi-automatic mode with more parts, the failure rate is also very high, so it was eventually abandoned by the developers.
This 7.62mm bk-01 sniper rifle has a total length of 1200mm, and its effective range can reach 900 meters when using a special sniper bullet with an extended shell. It has a 10-round magazine, manual feeding, and a total weight of 4kg.
, wearing a special scope with 8 times magnification and 6-degree field of view, and a bracket on the front of the butt.
In addition to semi-automatic rifles and sniper rifles, each squad is also equipped with a squad light machine gun. This model tk-04 light machine gun also uses a 7.62 mm caliber and fires standard 7.62*34 rifle ammunition at a rate of
It has a speed of 450 rounds, can be fed by drum drum or ammunition chain, and can be operated by one person.
The establishment of the Taiwan Army neither followed the Qing Dynasty Army nor completely imitated other countries. Instead, it was copied from Liu Fu's memory and the generals of the Army Department explored and improved bit by bit.
formed.
The current minimum unit of the Taiwan Army is a squad. A standard infantry squad is full of 15 people, including 13 soldiers and squad leaders and deputy squad leaders. Each squad has 2 snipers, 2 machine gunners and 11 riflemen, and according to Taiwan
The Army's training manual stipulates that every soldier needs to be proficient in using rifles, squad sniper rifles and squad machine guns, so machine gunners and riflemen are not fixed, but snipers are generally fixed, and they are assigned to each squad.
The two most accurate shooters.
In addition to the standard infantry squad, there is also a fire support squad with a full strength of 15 people, including a squad leader and a deputy squad leader. The entire squad is equipped with 6 60mm or 80mm mortars with 200 rounds of ammunition, Badger type
One armored vehicle; according to the Taiwan Army's training manual, every soldier must learn to drive and simply maintain cars and armored vehicles. Therefore, the driver is free to drive, whoever drives or whoever is asked by the squad leader can drive.
Every three infantry squads and one fire squad, plus the platoon leader, deputy platoon leader, and two professional communications soldiers, form a platoon, with a full strength of 64 people.
After the first Taiwan Defense War, the War Department discovered that armored vehicles were very good weapons for infantry offense and defense. Since then, each infantry platoon has been equipped with a Mausoleum reconnaissance armored vehicle and two Badger troop carriers.
Armored vehicles and a small number of three-wheeled motorcycles.
Every 3 infantry platoons and a cooking squad, plus the company commander, deputy company commander, division chief, and 2 professional medical soldiers form an infantry company, with a full strength of 197 people. Considering that the platoon-level unit has been equipped with fire support
Squads, armored vehicles, and platoon-level units will no longer be equipped with separate fire support units.
Every three infantry companies and a reconnaissance platoon, plus the battalion commander, deputy battalion commander, and three military doctors form an infantry battalion, with a full strength of 670 people.
Every 3 infantry battalions, a field artillery company, an engineer platoon, plus the regiment commander, deputy regiment commander, and guard squad form an infantry regiment with a full strength of 2,288 people. A field artillery company is generally equipped with 8 75mm guns.
Howitzers and corresponding tractors, ammunition trucks, armored vehicles, engineering machinery and other equipment, and due to the artillery's fighting style, there are also some command and communication personnel.
In Taiwan's military rank system, the military ranks of soldiers are divided into 1 type and 5 levels, from low to high, they are private, fourth class private, third class private, second class private, and first class private; the military ranks of officers are divided into 4 types and 10 levels.
, from lowest to highest, they are ensign, lieutenant, captain, major, lieutenant colonel, colonel, major general, lieutenant general, admiral, and marshal;
Since Taiwan's military has been established relatively recently and has rarely participated in wars, the current Minister of National Defense, who symbolizes Taiwan's supreme military commander, has the rank of major general, while the rank of marshal is of an honorary nature and is generally held by the head of state during wartime.
Responsible for.
Relative to the military rank, it is the position. The squad leader is generally held by a third-class private. From there, the platoon leader, company commander, battalion commander, regiment commander, brigade commander, and division commander correspond to the first-class private, second lieutenant, and lieutenant respectively.
, captain, major, lieutenant colonel, and Taiwan does not have a standing military establishment. Only in wartime, different numbers of divisions will form group armies to adapt to different scales of battles.
