Located in Crescent Island to the northwest of Koro City.

Since the establishment of the high-tech industrial park on Anga Island, the production line of Phantom Helmets has been transferred from the nearby maritime platform to Anga Island.

Now this offshore platform has been transformed into a deep-water port to dock guardian frigates that have been transformed by the Future Human Military Industry, as well as some experimental equipment such as submarines designed by Future Human Heavy Industry.

Standing on the maritime platform outside Crescent Island, Ivan showed Jiang Chen the latest equipment of the Star Ring Marine Corps.

"This is the latest design of Future Military Industry, the 'Crocodile' Type 20 amphibious assault vehicle. It can submersible ten meters underwater, quickly attack the target coastline, and cover the infantry to land..."

The short and compact section looks more like a tank than an armored vehicle, but the weapon layout is basically the same as that of an ordinary armored vehicle. The circular tubular external air tanks hanging on both sides of the armor can control the submarine height by drainage rushing, and the tail end is equipped with a spiral propulsion device to power the amphibious attack vehicle during diving.

The armored vehicle is equipped with an electromagnetic rapid-fire gun on the top. The mass bomb accelerated to the limit can easily tear apart the light armor of a general infantry combat vehicle. The automatic loading rockets suspended on both sides of the turret can fire rockets of two types: armor-piercing and high-explosion.

It has both deep penetration and firepower. Whether it is street fighting or amphibious combat, this amphibious attack vehicle named "crocodile" can be easily competent.

Jiang Chen tapped this weapon tailor-made for the Star Ring Marine Corps and gave a two-word evaluation.

"good."

With light armored clusters such as armored vehicles and mechanized infantry as the main force, and high-level battle tanks such as Hunting II as the auxiliary, emphasizing rapid offense and soft target killing, this is the tactical idea of ​​the Star Ring Marine Corps. In the future, the research and development direction of the military industry in army weapons will basically be carried out in accordance with this idea.

The specific manifestation is that in all R&D projects, there is almost no shadow of the main battle tank.

There is naturally a reason for this phenomenon.

Since the advent of electromagnetic guns, the offensive and defensive asymmetry of armored units has been differentiated to the extreme. It is no exaggeration to say that mass bombs accelerated by the fifty electromagnetic gun to ten times the speed of sound can not only easily penetrate the front armor of the m1a2 main battle tank, but also can jump out from behind their butts.

In fact, even without the next-generation weapons such as electromagnetic guns, the offensive and defensive asymmetry of modern main battle tanks has gradually emerged.

Putting aside the black technology of Star Ring Trade, give a very simple example.

The standard ammunition of the Type 9.9 tank is 125mm armor-piercing bomb, and the latest media reports of the deep penetration is 1000mm (there are also some people say 1800mm, but this is too fantasy and will not be used as a reference). Its imaginary enemy m1a2 tank has the strongest protection point probably in front of the turret, with a horizontal anti-support capability equivalent to 850mm homogeneous steel, and an inclination coefficient of 1.3. The equivalent thickness of depleted uranium armor may be higher, but it will not exceed 1000mm homogeneous steel.

What is this concept?

Even if you take the thickest place to resist the beating, m1a2 may not be able to resist the next 99-style one shot.

Of course, the same goes for the other way around.

When you encounter "within 2000 meters", whether it is crispy or mt, you will basically take it away in one go.

This is also the reason why Europe has been reluctant to equip 140mm tank guns. In addition to military spending issues, the most fundamental reason is that there is no need.

Even when facing the front armor of the latest main battle tank, it can easily penetrate within 2,000 meters with a 120mm tank gun with a hard core armor-piercing projectile. If you want to effectively defend against a 120mm (including Russia's 125mm) tank gun, you must significantly sacrifice maneuverability.

However, for modern warfare with diversified anti-tank methods, losing mobility is often more deadly than losing armor.

The current development ideas of future military industry are referenced by Jiang Chen, and Jiang Chen is referring to the world history of the apocalypse. From the mid-21st century to the early 22nd century, the main battle tank was indeed cold-treated for a long time.

It was not until the brain-level designs of the Prowler and Spider Tank appeared that the main battle tank had its place to use. However, by this time, the boundary between the tank and the infantry fighting vehicle was actually quite blurred.

The Prowler may still be able to find the shadow of the tank. As for the spider tank...whether that thing looks like a tank?

After walking around the sea platform twice, and returning to Crescent Island, Jiang Chen looked at Ivan and asked.

"How many crocodiles do we have in total?"

"At present, we have only ordered twenty vehicles from Future Men and Military Industry." Ivan replied.

"How do you think that thing is used?" Jiang Chen continued.

Without understanding what Jiang Chen said, Ivan hesitated for a moment and finally nodded truthfully, "He performed quite well in several exercises, and it has indeed greatly improved the Marine Corps' landing combat capabilities."

"Then buy it for 500," Jiang Chen smiled and said casually, "What can twenty cars do? It's still too few."

Ivan silently wrote down this sentence and prepared to ask someone to do it immediately after a while.

"By the way," Jiang Chen suddenly changed his mind and looked at Ivan, "How many reserves are there?"

It seemed that he felt that what he said was not accurate enough, Jiang Chen added another sentence later.

"You know, I mean those mercenaries."

"Including the recruits being trained, there are a total of 30,000!"

"Too few." Jiang Chen shook his head, "I think it is necessary to increase the number of 'protocol workers'."

Ivan asked with a clear expression, lowered his voice.

"Are you going to fight?"

When asked this, the Russian's pupils suddenly flashed with excitement.

Since the establishment of the Ministry of Aerospace, the Star Ring Trade Aerospace Defense Force has been included in the Ministry of Aerospace system, including orbital airborne troops and power armored brigades. Although the names are collectively called the Star Ring Marine Corps due to habitual reasons, they are two completely different systems from the Star Ring Navy and Marine Corps commanded by Ivan.

It is precisely because of this that although Star Ring Trade has been using troops to the outside world, there has been no movement for Ivan and the others.

Although he also thought that war was not a good thing, he still couldn't help but feel itchy. Whenever he heard about the orbital airborne brigade of the Star Ring Trade, which achieved victory, his heart became less and less uncomfortable.

From the boss's words, he vaguely heard a trace of unusual meaning.

Including the boss, who has always focused his work on space issues, suddenly visited Crescent Island and rarely inspected the military training situation. These are all very intriguing actions in themselves.

Because the last time he frequently visited the Crescent Island military base, the Battle of Mindanao, which shocked the world, broke out soon after.

However, Jiang Chen did not give a clear answer to Ivan's inquiry, but just smiled faintly, leaving an ambiguous answer.

"Who said it well like war?"
Chapter completed!