Chapter 1,304 Who’s Right?

Crescent Island is located northwest of Koro City.

Since the establishment of the high-tech industrial park on Anga Island, the production line of Phantom Helmets has been moved from nearby offshore platforms to Anga Island.

Now this offshore platform has been transformed into a deep-water port, used to dock the guardian-class frigates that have been modified by Future People's military industry, as well as some experimental equipment such as submarines designed by Future People Heavy Industries.

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

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

The short and compact cross-section looks more like a tank than an armored vehicle, but the weapon layout is basically the same as that of a general armored vehicle. The circular tubular external air tanks hanging on both sides of the armor can be used to control the submersible height through drainage. A screw propulsion device is installed at the tail end to provide power for the amphibious assault vehicle during diving.

The top of the armored vehicle is equipped with an electromagnetic rapid-fire cannon, and the mass bullets accelerated to the limit can easily tear through the light armor of ordinary infantry fighting vehicles. The self-loading rockets hung on both sides of the turret can fire both armor-piercing and high-explosive rockets.

With both deep penetration and firepower, this amphibious assault vehicle named after "Crocodile" can easily handle both street fighting and amphibious operations.

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

"good."

With armored vehicles and other lightly armored groups and mechanized infantry as the main force, supplemented by high-penetration main battle tanks such as the Hunter II, it emphasizes rapid attack and soft target killing. This is the tactical thinking of the Star Ring Marine Corps. The future military industry's research and development direction on army weapons is basically in line with this idea.

The specific manifestation is that in all research and development projects, there is almost no trace of main battle tanks.

There is naturally a reason why such a phenomenon occurs.

Since the advent of the electromagnetic gun, the asymmetry of attack and defense of armored units has been differentiated to the extreme. It is no exaggeration to say that the mass projectile accelerated to ten times the speed of sound by the Type 50 electromagnetic gun can not only easily penetrate the front armor of the M1A2 main battle tank, but can also escape from the back of their buttocks.

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

Put aside the black technology of Star Ring trade,

Give a very simple example.

The standard ammunition for the Type 9.9 tank in China is 125mm armor-piercing projectiles. The latest media report has a deep penetration of 1000mm (some say 1800mm, but this is too fantasy and cannot be used as a reference). Its imaginary enemy M1A2 tank has the strongest protection probably right in front of the turret. Its horizontal bullet resistance is equivalent to 850 mm of homogeneous steel, and its inclination coefficient is 1.3. The equivalent thickness of depleted uranium armor may be higher, but it will not exceed 1000 mm of homogeneous steel.

What is the concept?

Even if the thickest part is used to withstand beatings, m1a2 may not be able to withstand a Type 99 shot.

Of course, the reverse is also true.

If you meet "within 2000 meters", whether it's crispy or mt, it will basically be taken away with one shot.

This is also the reason why Europe has been reluctant to equip 140mm tank guns. In addition to military expenditure issues, the most fundamental reason is that it is not necessary.

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

However, for modern warfare with diverse anti-tank means, losing mobility is often more fatal than losing armor.

The current development ideas of future people's military industry are based on the instructions issued by Jiang Chen, and Jiang Chen is referring to the world history in the apocalypse. From the middle of the 21st century to the early 22nd century, the main battle tank was indeed cold treated for a long time.

It wasn't until the emergence of imaginative designs like the Prowler and Spider Tank that the main battle tank regained its usefulness. But by this time, the boundaries between tanks and infantry fighting vehicles were actually quite blurred.

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

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

"How many Gators do we have in total?"

"Currently we have only ordered twenty vehicles from Future Military Industry." Ivan replied.

"What do you think of that thing?" Jiang Chen then asked.

Not understanding the meaning of Jiang Chen's question, Ivan hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded truthfully, "The performance in several exercises was quite good, and the landing combat capability of the Marine Corps has indeed been greatly improved. .”

"Then buy five hundred of them," Jiang Chen smiled and said casually, "What can twenty of them do? It's still too little."

Ivan silently wrote down this sentence and prepared to have someone do it immediately.

"By the way," Jiang Chen suddenly changed the subject and looked at Ivan, "How many reserves do we have?"

As if he felt that what he said was not accurate enough, Jiang Chen added another sentence at the end.

"You know, I'm referring to the mercenaries."

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

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

Ivan looked calm and asked in a lowered voice.

"Is there going to be a war?"

When he asked this question, the old man'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 system of the Ministry of Aerospace. Including the orbital airborne troops and the power armor brigade, although the name is also collectively called the Halo Marines due to habitual reasons, they are two completely different systems from the Halo Navy and Marine Corps that Ivan currently commands.

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

Although he also believed that war was not a good thing, he still couldn't help but feel itchy. Whenever he heard about which orbital airborne brigade of the Star Ring Trade had achieved such victory somewhere, he felt more and more unhappy.

From the boss's words, he faintly heard an unusual meaning.

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

Because the last time he visited the Crescent Island military base frequently, the Battle of Mindanao that shocked the world broke out not long after.

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

"Who can say anything about war?"