Chapter 487 Weapon Test
Now the other party has not been able to effectively find that he is still alive. If he rashly launches an attack and exposes himself, it will give the opportunity to attack wildly by the reinforcements of the US warships behind him. For the safety of the lives of the officers and soldiers of the entire submarine, Gongro had no choice but to give up this attack.
However, giving up attacking the destroyers on the sea surface does not mean that Chen Tao will immediately go back in a dilemma. He was keen intuition and quickly realized something else.
"The course is 153, and the distance is traveling northward."
"Captain, won't we report the changes in the US military to the rear immediately?" The first mate was a little surprised.
"No, the Americans can pull the reinforcement ships so quickly. In the past, the unit density was not so large in this sea area. What does it mean that the other party increased its escort force?"
"Captain, you mean..."
"Yes, it may be a precursor to the U.S. Navy landing operation. The entire Philippines' east coastline is long and there are many islands, but there are not many places that meet the landing attack. Many islands and coastlines have dense coral reefs and reefs outside. If it meets the most suitable landing location for the U.S. military, then this is the only place."
Yan Bi Chentao found a new chart and pointed it into a place with his fingers.
"Collection of needs suggestions! If you have any problems you find in combat and life, please report to me as soon as possible. It will be overdue! This is a major issue that improves us from weapons and equipment to close-fitting trousers. If you have good ideas, please bring it up!" Li Jianbiao held a notebook and shouted outside the tent area.
"Company Commander, this is from the fifth row. Infantry boots are prone to sand here. Can you add an extension condom to the gaiter to prevent sand from entering the boot?"
"Company Commander, this is from our cooking squad. The vegetation here is sparse and inedible. The Westerners don't like to eat vegetables. The newly equipped dehydrated vegetables are not very good. I hope to get more tea."
"Company Commander, this is our firepower platoon. The six-tube grenade gun is very useful, but the spring sheet used for automatic rotation is easy to enter the fine sand here, causing slight obstacles. The maintenance time span is more than half compared to the design time. I hope the above can solve this problem."
"Company Commander, I just thought yesterday that if I could distribute more transparent plastic bags into the emergency survival bag. Australia is too short of water. If one day we get lost or enter the water shortage area, transparent plastic bags can come in handy when looking for water in emergency."
"Well, this idea is good. I saw you fiddling with these things on the ground and in the bushes two days ago, just trying this thing. The information is good, and the pictures and texts are rich. There are two typos, but there are generally no errors and promising. If you report this thing, you will probably be able to make a contribution. You will have to treat you at that time."
One by one, the opinion list was collected. After collecting the last demand proposal list, Li Jianbiao carefully put the orders into a waterproof buffalo leather bag and sealed them. This information will be handed over to the convoy that is about to transport new supplies to the rear and bring them back to the military headquarters for the initial review there.
For issues such as the supply varieties raised by the kitchen team, the military will directly adjust and respond. Of course, the premise is that there are ready-made resources and conditions to solve. If the military does not have the ability to solve it, it will be handed over to the various departments of the theater for coordination and resolution. If the theater cannot solve it, it will be submitted to the relevant units of the Ministry of National Defense for resolution.
There is a small building located in Guangzhou City. This is the equipment branch office established by the China National Military Logistics General Assembly Department. The main task is not to distribute materials and materials to various troops, but to continuously collect and organize various feedback from the frontline and the Logistics Department.
After fighting for so long, there are so many equipment, from underwear on soldiers to military coats that are cold and cold-resistant in the north, combat uniforms that are adapted to Southeast Asian climate,
From the rifles in the hands of soldiers to the intercontinental missiles equipped by the strategic artillery units, as well as the planes, tanks, warships, ships and submarines, as long as they are related to the combat of the troops, they are responsible for collecting opinions from the troops and dividing them and then transferring them to the research institute or production units for relevant improvements and encouragement.
Don’t underestimate the seemingly simple and easy tasks here. For the equipment equipped by the troops, after a new equipment is tested on a small scale, the manufacturer will track the quality of the product and the problems reflected in the use of the troops for a period of time.
If the equipment passes the qualification, it will start to be equipped on a large scale. However, after the equipment enters the large-scale promotion and use of the entire army, it will be selected and sorted by the branch office located here and then handed over to the manufacturer.
Therefore, this unit is actually quite detailed in its internal work, including dress, firearms, vehicles, aircraft, ships, etc., and has detailed classifications in major projects. So although this unit does not occupy a large area, it is small and complete with all the internal organs.
"Director, this is the information compiled this week. It contains feedback from the combat troops on the situations of the use of some new and old equipment on the new battlefield, as well as some suggestions on some problems and problems in the use of some logistics equipment. The last part is some new weapons and equipment ideas that the troops hope to obtain. One of the projects has been raised again, and we have combined the opinions of each war zone and found that several war zones urgently need such equipment."
Chen Yongtang submitted a thick document to the director opposite who had just started working. The director did not pay much attention to the previous two parts. He just browsed and read them and jumped to the last part. This part was exactly what Chen Yongtang said, and it was about the problems or equipment issues that the combat troops urgently needed to solve in actual combat life.
To a certain extent, in this weekly routine work, the last major item is the focus of these people's work. After all, the first two items are just requirements for improvement of some equipment, and these can be directly handed over to the production unit to solve.
The last item is often the lack of equipment in combat troops or currently not available. The officers and soldiers on the front line need new weapons and equipment to better complete the battle.
The director opened the first focus on the last major project, and the document summarized the opinions of officers and fighters of more than 30 divisions and first-level front-line combat troops.
They found that in front-line combat, the Chinese Air Force will give priority to the opponent's air force and key units such as the airport. The effect of this is to allow the Chinese army to gain higher air supremacy.
By mastering air supremacy, you can easily strike and support ground forces to fight against the enemy's ground forces. After the enemy loses air supremacy, the enemy will have a large number of scattered targets such as guerrillas, scattered soldiers, villages, convoys, etc. without protection.
Guns and small bombs of various caliber are most effective and cost more reasonably to deal with these targets.
When more than a dozen scattered siege soldiers were found, machine guns and machine guns were very effective, and the power of machine guns was slightly insufficient when bombing several trucks. It was a waste to choose an aviation bomb and even if it was 50 kilograms or hundreds of kilograms. It was even more unprofitable to choose a cluster bomb, and it was easy to cause accidental injuries when fighting at close range between the enemy and us.
Therefore, both the Air Force and the Army need an attack aircraft with strong firepower and long-stayed fire. The weapons of this attack aircraft carry the cannons and machine guns of traditional attack aircraft to ensure the power of firepower strafing.
However, it does not carry powerful aviation bombs, but hopes to be equipped with direct aiming and rapid-fired weapons to attack, which ensures the accuracy of the attack and reduces the consumption of ammunition and extends the time for such attack aircraft to stagnate the air patrol.
The plan was originally proposed by the Far East War Zone. The Equipment Branch Office did not pay much attention to this weapon at the beginning. After all, this is just an idea.
However, when more and more front-line army combat units and the air force began to react to this issue, the personnel from the Equipment Bureau handed over the issue raised by the troops to the Logistics Assembly Department for discussion, and the Logistics Assembly Department also discovered the value space demand for this weapon.
When facing scattered targets, this weapon can reflect the most suitable and economical combat effectiveness. When more than a dozen scattered soldiers gathered together before they could disperse, a shell shot from hundreds of meters away could easily be eliminated without waiting for the traditional attack aircraft to correct their course and then scatter the bombs and give them time to scatter the escape.
Faced with a small fleet of several trucks, a fifty-kilogram aviation bomb exploded and destroyed one, but other vehicles could still escape around. Traditional attack aircraft had to be pulled up again for heading correction attacks. It was not only inefficient but also time-consuming and fuel-intensive. The money for gas alone might not be worth burning like this, let alone if the key figures in the target took the opportunity to escape the consequences of such delayed combat opportunities.
"I remember this project has been reported to the General Assembly Department. Who is following up on this project now?" After carefully reading the information, the director gently lifted up his heavy glasses.
"Captain Wu Pengtao is in charge of this project. He is now testing several prototypes with technicians from the Air Force Research Institute and the United Aircraft Manufacturing Company. The director, now he can receive opinions on the demand of various combat troops on this weapon every week. Is it necessary to increase the demand level of this weapon from the level of emergency?" Chen Yongtang pointed to the report, which listed a large number of demand units and made his own suggestions.
"Agree, let Wu Pengtao complete the prototype test as soon as possible and put it into the battlefield for trial. What can be produced in the test area only verifies that the product can be used, but whether it can be truly practical and applicable must be determined after testing on the battlefield."
With a big sign, the speed of development of this new equipment was increased by two levels, which means that this weapon will be developed with priority over weapons with a slower demand than it.
At the same time, a certain Air Force shooting range in Wuhan, on a huge hill, target areas of several sizes were drawn with lime circles to facilitate the discovery and positioning of aircraft bombers and attackers.
Although this positioning is very incompatible with the actual combat needs of the Air Force, please don’t get me wrong. This is just a target for training junior pilots and bomb droppers. After all, everything needs a gradual process. An ace pilot or ace bomb dropper also starts with the most basic aiming and shooting bomb drops.
On the shooting range on the other side of the mountain, there are several simulation goals such as used tanks, vehicles, simple buildings and houses for more advanced students to practice.
On the scheduled observation deck, dozens of soldiers of different ranks were gathered here. They were using telescopes of various magnifications to observe the bullseye or the air. In the sky, three planes taking off from the airport not far away were roaring here.
"Whether this thing can be put into use on the battlefield as soon as possible depends on this experiment! God bless you!" Wu Pengtao pinched the telescope and looked at the rod-shaped objects of different sizes protruding from the fuselages of several large aircraft, and secretly murmured in his heart.
After the test, the results were very successful. Both the weapons and the aircraft cooperated perfectly, and the targets on the ground were wiped out under various weapons.
But this does not mean that the weapon product has passed the final acceptance. The weapons outside the shooting range only filled in some spaces in the long acceptance item of the acceptance form. Almost half of the spaces have not filled in the name of the acceptor. Most of these half of the spaces are things that need to be tested on the battlefield before they can be filled in.
After all, everything on the shooting range is dead. Only by taking it to the battlefield, tested things on the battlefield that are complex and possible in any situation can we determine whether this new equipment can become a weapon for installation.
"Congratulations, congratulations to you for passing the first trial." A colonel extended his hand to congratulate Captain Wu Pengtao, who was responsible for the weapon testing project, after signing the last name in the first part of the acceptance report.
The first instance he mentioned was whether weapons and equipment could be used or whether they could pass the first acceptance review check on the test site, and this colonel was an important person in charge of the process just underway.
"Thank you, the first trial has been passed, but whether you can get the recognition of the front-line soldiers still needs to go through the second trial. The last time I came here to see Colonel Huang was two years ago. I don't know if the colonel is free tonight, so I went out to sit together and helped me give me some advice..."
Wu Pengtao asked the other party carefully because he knew that Colonel Huang had handled too many things about the Air Force armed equipment and had quite rich experience. Perhaps the other party could give him some good opinions on the second trial.
"Well... I'll be exempted from sitting. There are too many new equipment to test now, so I can't be busy. But looking at your guys, I really have something to say." It can be seen that this colonel still doesn't like social engagements very much.
"Col. Huang also asked him to speak out!" Wu Pengtao felt a little cold when he heard the first half of the sentence, but the second half made his ears suddenly burst out, for fear of missing the next word.
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