For a commander, there is an anti-aircraft gun on the position and there is no anti-aircraft gun. Those are two different things. As for whether the anti-aircraft gun is useful and how useful it is, that is something that needs to be considered after it is available.
The coalition forces do lack a large number of anti-aircraft artillery weapons, especially weapons that can threaten the Tang Army's fixed-wing aircraft.
If played insidiously enough, quadruple-mounted or twin-mounted anti-aircraft guns can actually cause trouble for the Tang Army's armed helicopters when concealed. This can be easily seen from the battle damage figures: the Tang Army lost the most.
The aircraft is the Hind gunship, followed by the ground attack aircraft Thunder.
Both of these aircraft emphasize close support, especially the armed helicopters, which often break into enemy positions to deal damage, so the probability of being shot down is quite high.
You must know that during World War II, there were actually many things that could form dense barrages at low altitudes, such as small-caliber artillery, heavy machine guns and other weapons.
It is impossible to suppress so many weapons, so the Tang Army has recently been adjusting its rules for the use of armed helicopters, trying to avoid letting its armed helicopters penetrate deep into the enemy's territory alone.
On the other hand, the Tang Army is constantly transporting more advanced weapons to the front line, of which air-to-ground missiles account for a large proportion. Whether it is the Tang Army's Thunder attack aircraft or the Hind helicopter, they are actually large consumers of air-to-ground missiles.
In the past, because such missiles were relatively scarce, no one was willing to use them. Therefore, when performing simple tasks, they often chose cheaper and more abundant rockets.
However, as the war continued to advance, the weapons production capacity in the Tang Kingdom's rear areas also continued to increase. Missiles that were originally expensive and troublesome to produce gradually began to become cheaper due to the large production quantities.
Therefore, the Tang Army can now often have its armed helicopters carry four air-to-ground missiles to carry out strike missions. With these missiles, the armed helicopters can complete their suppression missions in a relatively safe place a few kilometers away.
Similarly, thunder and lightning attack aircraft no longer need to risk swooping and strafing to kill targets on the ground. Although such technical actions look very powerful and full of momentum, they are actually very dangerous.
Frequently, planes return home and find that their fuselage is covered with large and small bullet holes. Such injuries also seriously affect the attendance rate of the Thunder attack aircraft unit.
Now, the Thunder attack aircraft can hang multiple anti-tank missiles like the Intruder attack aircraft to attack the enemy's armored clusters.
These missiles have a longer range, higher accuracy, and greater power. The Thunder attack aircraft can carry ten missiles in one mission, which can easily destroy an entire deployed tank platoon. This is no joke, if there are four Thunders wandering around the battlefield
On the battlefield, a tank battalion's attack would almost be in vain.
Completely different from the Allied Forces trying to use weird and bizarre methods to improve the technical level of their troops' weapons and equipment, the Tang Empire, under the guidance of their Emperor, followed a path that was proven to be problem-free.
They are testing several small-caliber assault rifles on the battlefield at the same time. At the same time, they are also experimenting with more advanced individual cruise missiles. These weapons still look very avant-garde now, but they will soon be proven to be useful in future wars.
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Tang Jun is also testing the application of remote-controlled aircraft on the battlefield. This thing was originally a toy for children, but now it has been directly taken to the battlefield for experiments.
Although it is still quite different from a drone, in some places it can indeed complete many dangerous tasks: even if it is controlled by vision and remote control, sending a grenade to the enemy's trench is less expensive than
It's much safer to rush over and throw it.
The coalition forces are not completely devoid of development. They are indeed strengthening the armor thickness of their tanks and are looking for ways to reduce the threat posed by the Tang Army's individual rockets to their tanks.
There is nothing we can do about this: if our own tanks cannot even defeat the enemy's infantry, then the purpose of the armored force's existence is lost, right?
At least, the Tang Army's individual anti-tank rockets must be prevented from penetrating the frontal armor of one's own tanks, right? This will increase the difficulty of the Tang Army's anti-tank operations and increase their anti-tank costs.
You don't need to think about it to know that the number of anti-tank rocket launchers in a unit must be many times more than the number of anti-tank missiles. As long as the anti-tank rockets are disabled, the opponent's anti-tank capabilities will naturally decrease.
Go down a notch.
Of course, the engineers of the coalition no longer considered that their tanks could compete with the tanks of the Tang Army: the two sides were not at the same age in terms of fire control systems and main gun power, and they had lost confidence in competing with the Tang Army.
If you want to penetrate the main armor of Tang Army tanks, you must at least be able to penetrate homogeneous steel with a thickness of more than 800 mm. This data is a conservative data they speculated, which means that it is barely possible to achieve this level.
I hope.
But it is impossible to achieve this with the current 75 mm caliber tank guns and 90 mm caliber tank guns of the coalition forces.
So everyone began to consider increasing the caliber of the tank gun to 100 mm, or even 110 mm, to cope with the Tang Army's armor advantage.
Regrettably, after a series of experiments, the 100 mm caliber tank gun was still unable to penetrate the front armor of the Tang Army's tanks. The 110 mm caliber tank gun could barely penetrate it, but its weight and recoil were seriously excessive.
In order to withstand the increased volume and recoil, the tank must be heavier and the turret must be larger. This will inevitably increase more defense area and add more weight.
The weight conflict is piled on the engine power, so a brand new tank needs a stronger engine to provide power. Higher engine power will naturally lead to higher fuel consumption, and the fuel tank will naturally have to be larger.
Therefore, a series of modifications have become a game of adding more water, more aspects, more water. Better engines, larger bodies, stronger protection, higher firepower...all this adds up.
, which must equal more manufacturing costs.
It used to take the time to manufacture two tanks, but now only one turret can be produced. The technicians of the coalition forces had to embark on a path of no return similar to that of Santoku in World War II.
They are trying to come up with an alien version of the Tiger Tank...or to put it more exaggeratedly, they are going to create an alien version of the Tiger King Rat Tank at all costs!