War is about logistics. You can never expect soldiers to become the world's best army with hungry stomachs and crude weapons! --- "Kong Chen Quotations"
Li Weidong walked into the base center and saw a busy Xinhua in the base headquarters.
"It's been a while since I've been here, the changes here are so great!" Li Weidong sighed.
Because Li Weidong had to go to the front lines of the North Vietnam battlefield in person before, he handed over the construction here to the base assistant Xinhua. Now the changes in the base are almost unrecognizable to him.
As for Li Weidong's praise, Xinhua remained indifferent and just reported on the work of the base in accordance with the regulations: "Your Excellency, Commander! The space restrictions have been lifted, and the medium and light armor series of the tank factory can be put into production."
Due to the upgrade of the base system, base assistant Xinhua has become more humane, and his tone of voice when speaking is no longer the cold feeling before.
If her body didn't still appear in the form of a three-dimensional illusory projection, it would generally be difficult to distinguish her from normal people.
"The ban on the tank factory has been lifted!? Then we can produce tanks?" Li Weidong said in surprise.
The idea of building a tank has now become a big resentment for Li Weidong. Sitting in Baoshan but not being able to use it, let alone how frustrating it is.
As a loyal fan who admires the torrent of steel armor in Red Alert, Li Weidong's adrenaline will surge when he looks at those very powerful tank information every day.
But the ideal is plump, but the reality is skinny!
Xinhua's next words made Li Weidong fall from heaven: "I'm sorry, Commander! Your wish may not be realized now!"
"What's going on? Didn't you say that the armor series has been lifted? Why can't it still be produced?" Li Weidong asked in confusion.
"Because the armor series is divided into light armor, heavy armor, and super alloy armor along with its defensive capabilities!" Xinhua said matter-of-factly, as if he was despising Li Weidong's ignorance.
After Li Weidong's external inquiry, Xinhua further explained the division of armor series.
For example, trucks, light armored vehicles, and pocket motorcycles all belong to the light armor series. They are generally fast and have greater lethality against infantry.
But the disadvantage is that the protection is weak. If they encounter shelling or trigger a mine, even the infantry can threaten them with explosive bags.
The T34 and Tiger tanks that Li Weidong most wanted to manufacture were both heavy armor series. For these weapons, infantry no longer poses much of a threat to them.
Even if it is bombarded, as long as it is not unlucky enough to be directly hit at a weak point, small-caliber shells can almost be ignored.
The last super alloy armor is something Li Weidong is currently beyond his reach.
Can you imagine those "monsters" weighing dozens of tons, racing on the road at a speed of 72 kilometers per hour!
And at a distance of two thousand meters, using a 1 mm depleted uranium alloy core discarding sabot armor-piercing projectile, can it accurately penetrate more than 400 mm of armor of a battleship?
Their armor is forged from super-strength alloy. It may not be outstanding in thickness, but there is a big gap compared with the Tiger, but its defensive capabilities can also be called abnormal. [For details, please refer to the American M1 main battle tank.
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"Light armor should be light armor! It's better than nothing!" Li Weidong also thought about it and stopped worrying about this issue.
Even if we can't equip heavy tanks now, there will always be opportunities in the future, and we can still make them run away.
And you can't make a fat man in one breath. There is still a long way to go to change the armor of Hainan Army's mechanized troops, so let's start with light armor!
"Xinhua, drop out the information on the light armor series of weapons and let me have a look!" Li Weidong said.
"Yes, Commander!" Xinhua immediately started busy.
I looked through some of the light armor information that Xinhua had retrieved, but there was no armor weapon that Li Weidong was very satisfied with.
Suddenly, Li Weidong saw the Japanese Type 97 medium tank above. Li Weidong could not help but despise the blind arrogance of the Japanese even more.
This Type 97, which weighs only 15 tons, has the nerve to call it a tank? No wonder the system classifies Japanese tanks into the light armor series.
Li Weidong once read a post on Military Iron Blood, saying that in December 1944 during the Anti-Japanese War, a National Army soldier, Deng Zhonghua, knocked over a Japanese tank while driving a heavy truck loaded with cargo.
At that time, Li Weidong still didn't believe it. After all, the gap between tanks and trucks was still quite big. But now that he has read the information about the Type 97 tank, Li Weidong is convinced of it.
Beyond the categories of Japanese weapons, Li Weidong has a deep understanding of the petty nature of Japanese weapons. It can be said that he only saves money when he can, even if he puts a lot of effort into his underwear, he only uses a small piece of cloth to cover his little brother.
Although the design of the Japanese army's grenade launchers was good, the Hainan Army, which already had the Panzerfaust rocket launcher, had little demand for it. Anyway, Li Weidong did not like the Japanese army's equipment.
Soon Li Weidong found a piece of equipment that he liked. It is very suitable for the current Hainan Army and is also of great help to the navy's combat capabilities.
Dodge, an American truck.
It performed very well in World War II. The United States produced more than 400,000 Dodge trucks during World War II. It was so outstanding that some later historians attributed the U.S. military's victory in World War II to it.
Together with other partners, it not only ensured that the U.S. troops participating in the war were fully motorized [each infantry division of the U.S. military is equipped with 8 transport squadrons, which can transport the entire division's personnel and equipment at one time].
Moreover, the quantity was sufficient to ensure timely and sufficient logistics for the Allied forces on the Western Front. The result was that the US military used extravagant supplies, which made any Allied leader who witnessed this feel sad.
Moreover, Dodge has also been given a large amount of aid to American allies. Not to mention the United Kingdom, even the Soviet Union, which has different social ideologies, has received 400,000 American trucks.
These trucks account for more than half of the number of trucks in the Soviet Union, and if calculated in terms of transportation tonnage, they may exceed 60% of the total transportation units of the Soviet Union!
In China, the long rows of Dodge trucks on the China-India Highway and the China-Myanmar Highway are worth remembering by every Chinese.
Maybe you think that the Dodge's 2.5-ton load capacity is not that big of a deal. Some people even say: My agricultural truck can pull 7 tons of sugar cane and it can run very well on rural dirt roads.
But I think that if your agricultural vehicle can pull 2.5 tons of cargo and climb 60% of the soil slope (about 37 degrees) without roads, then please call me to pay tribute to your agricultural vehicle.
In fact, those overseas Chinese volunteers always drove her to load 7 tons of cargo and cross the famously dangerous China-India Highway and China-Myanmar Highway.
The most important reason why Li Weidong is interested in the Dodge truck is to use it to complete the full motorization of the Hainan Army. The Hainan Army now not only controls Hainan Island, but also controls a large area of North Vietnam.
Moreover, in this era, it is unimaginable how bad the road conditions in the countryside were. The lack of large-scale transportation vehicles in the army's logistics was very unfavorable for the Hainan Army to go north to fight the war.
With the current strength of the Hainan Army, if it does not become fully motorized to increase the movement speed of the troops, then once a battle breaks out on the front line, the Hainan Army will probably fail to respond in time, resulting in a defeat on the battlefield.
This is something Li Weidong never wants to see, so his idea is that the Hainan Army cannot be fully mechanized at this stage, but it can try to be fully motorized first.
With super mobile combat capabilities, the Hainan Army can appear on the Eastern Front battlefield today and emerge from the Western Front battlefield tomorrow, catching the opponent off guard.