Although the Japanese army had already begun to attack Yoshio Shinozuka when he was defeated in the last time (to be precise, when he was initially resisted, he noticed it and asked people to get out of the car to collect it. If they could still take care of it when they fled,
This, that's a lot of work.) A few rocket launchers (Note 1) obtained by picking up corpses are imitated, but it will take some time to mass-produce them, let alone official installation, so
At present, the Japanese infantry anti-tank mainly relies on hollow-charge rifle grenades. Although its penetration depth is enough to destroy thin-skinned Japanese tanks, compared with rocket launchers, rifle grenades are far behind in both range and accuracy, and this
The other three types of weapons that can effectively deal with armored vehicles in the 1990s: long-range artillery groups, aircraft and anti-tank guns are also unsatisfactory with the current equipment status of the Japanese army.
Since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese Army's large-caliber heavy artillery has suffered extremely serious losses. In addition, Japan's industrial base is poor, especially the lack of large-scale forging equipment. Therefore, the production speed of heavy artillery is very slow, and most of the production capacity is occupied by the navy. Although Japan in this time and space
The Navy has freed up a lot of large-caliber artillery production capacity by abandoning the Yamato-class battleship construction plan, but they have also lost many more cruisers and destroyers than in history. Even if these warships are not suitable for aviation
It is also indispensable for the mother formation, so it must be repaired and newly built no matter what. In addition, the air defense problem has attracted the attention of the Japanese base camp in advance, so anti-aircraft guns also need to be mass-produced, which will also seriously occupy the production capacity and capacity of high-performance artillery.
Precious high-quality steel resources, coupled with the expansion plan of the Japanese armored forces, which also requires a large amount of high-quality steel, under the negative impact of these three-pronged approach, how many truly large-caliber heavy artillery can the Japanese Army be able to produce?
As a result, the Japanese's large-caliber heavy artillery production plan has been repeatedly reduced. The 240mm heavy howitzer and 150mm cannon originally planned were replaced by the 150mm howitzer. The latter was quickly replaced by a 105mm howitzer with a smaller caliber and significantly lower production difficulty.
And this is actually
Only military-level troops are qualified to be equipped with "heavy artillery". As for the hard-working Japanese division, except for a few "aces", the largest caliber artillery in the basic establishment is only 75mm, and the production cost is lower, such as mountain cannon and 70mm caliber.
The proportion of Type 92 infantry artillery is increasing day by day. And this means that
The maximum caliber of the Japanese's so-called "long-range artillery group" is 105mm, and unless a shell of this caliber directly hits the tank, it cannot cause any substantial damage to the tank, even the Type 95 light tank with the thinnest armor.
Same thing. And those who use long-distance direct fire to bombard
If you want to hit the tank directly, the hit rate is simply negligible. Not even one of the 10,000 rounds may be able to hit directly. In other words, the Japanese's current so-called "long-range artillery group" can only deal with unprotected tanks.
Infantry is of no use in anti-tank combat...
As for anti-tank aircraft, the Japanese can't even count on them. Although due to flight restrictions, both the North China Air Force and the Soviet Aid Air Force aircraft arrived at the north bank of the Huaihe River with little time left in the air, which seriously affected the
Combat efficiency cannot be fully grasped.
Air supremacy on the north bank of the river; but the Japanese planes also could not take advantage. Under the premise of 50/50 air supremacy, each other's air power was restrained by the other side. Therefore, it was obvious that the Japanese army did not have enough power to attack the armored cavalry.
The division launched a massive air raid.
And if the Japanese army sends a smaller aviation formation, no matter whether they use bombing or cannon attack on the top of the tank, the flying height cannot be too low. Otherwise, it is impossible to hit a point target like a tank. However, since the formation of the Armored Cavalry Division,
It has been specially set up since
The special unit of "anti-aircraft tanks" (actually self-propelled air defense systems) currently has more than 30 vehicles in number. They include self-propelled dual-mounted 37mm anti-aircraft guns based on the early Type 81 light tank as the chassis, and the captured Japanese 95
Type light tank as the chassis of the automatic
We will implement twin-mounted 25mm anti-aircraft guns and a 7-tube 13.2mm anti-aircraft machine gun "Phalanx" system using the same chassis. If you want to rely on these self-propelled air defense systems that have been eliminated from warships to completely ignore the threat of enemy aircraft, it is tantamount to wishful thinking.
But in the air power of both sides
Under the premise that the forces are basically balanced, a straw is enough to break the camel's back and ensure that the Japanese aircraft dare not attack easily. Therefore, the Japanese's anti-tank system has lost another level, and it is also the most efficient in the complete anti-tank combat system.
That part of...
As for the Japanese anti-tank guns, there is probably only one professional combat anti-tank gun at present, which is the Type 94 37mm rapid-fire gun copied from the German anti-tank gun of the same caliber. Its performance is limited by its caliber.
Not outstanding, but also because
The Japanese were unwilling to use capped armor-piercing projectiles with no explosive effect, but foolishly insisted on using armor-piercing explosive projectiles, which not only increased the difficulty of production, but also reduced its already not outstanding penetration by almost one-third (
Test results at 500 meters),
It's okay to deal with Japan's original Type 95 light tank and those thin-skinned armored vehicles, but for the Type 81 light tank that uses new low-alloy armor steel, even if it's the earliest model, it's still difficult for the Japanese anti-tank guns to penetrate it.
only 12
mm-thick frontal armor, similar to the Japanese's own improved version of the Type 95 light tank, the Type 98 light tank, and the Type 97 medium tank, which has thicker armor and larger tonnage.
There is no need to take it to heart.
In fact, the real threat to the tanks of the Armored Cavalry Division is the Type 92 infantry cannon, multi-purpose light artillery such as the 75mm mountain gun that can lower the muzzle to flatten the trajectory for direct-aiming artillery fire. Because of their larger caliber,
And the amount of equipment is larger (in the basic establishment of the Japanese army, combat anti-artillery is only equipped for
Horse-made permanent or ad hoc divisions [independent mixed brigades are special, so we won’t discuss them here], and their number is still not as large as that of infantry artillery, and those three-unit divisions are generally not equipped with combat defense artillery.)
, as long as armor-piercing or armor-piercing bullets are replaced, the threat to the armored cavalry division tanks cannot be ignored.
Note 1: In fact, the accurate name of the RPG series "bazooka" should be rocket-propelled grenade, which is not the same type of weapon as the narrow definition of rocket launcher. However, after the Chinese translator made a mistake, the Chinese have become accustomed to calling it "bazooka" for decades.
There is no need to correct it here, it can be regarded as a convention.
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