Chapter 61 Future Military Power
Compared with the highly-watched "Brahma", several other new weapons and equipment are: people are paying attention to...
The Army's "Xingtian" ground weapon system platform was also launched at the same time as the "Brahma" technology verification machine.
As the "system platform Xingtian" that the Army is most concerned about is also an unmanned combat platform based on the "neural electronic computer system". According to the Army's vision, "Xingtian" is not a single weapon system. Instead, a subsystem of main battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, airborne fighting vehicles, and amphibious fighting vehicles is developed by the Marine Corps. To be precise, it should be an electromagnetic gun, armored reconnaissance vehicle, a mobile counterattack system, and a logistics support vehicle, which can quickly change roles and is a future land warfare system platform with a benefit to the times.
There is no doubt that the Army has raised too high demands.
Although the development difficulty was reduced by adopting "modular" design during development, no country has sufficient technical reserves, whether it is the Republic or the United States.
Taking the main battle tank and infantry fighting vehicle as an example, according to the requirements of the army, the universality of the combat platform must be above the blur. By replacing the main gun, ammunition loading system, protection system and other subsystems that determine the nature of the combat, as well as control software, the role conversion can be completed within minutes; although the design involved in the development has made its best efforts, in the computer simulation design at the end of the year, the universality is only Macao, which is far from meeting the requirements of the Army.
The excessive technical difficulty did not dispel the Army's enthusiasm.
In the eyes of most people, the Xingtian system or similar unmanned combat systems will sooner or later replace all the existing main combat equipment of the Army and become the well-deserved king of land warfare. Even Xiang Yinghui has this view, otherwise he would not have spent tens of billions of military spending to develop the Xingtian system. It is just that in the eyes of more people, the Republic's Army spared no effort to develop the "Xingtian" system, not to obtain the unmanned combat platform as soon as possible like "Brahma". After all, the environment of land warfare is more complex and the equipment intelligence requirements are higher. Unless the technology of neural network computers has made leaps and bounds, the "Xingtian" system can only stay in the primary development stage. The real purpose of the Army is completely opposite to the Air Force and the Navy. By developing the "Xingtian" system, the most basic technical reserves are completed and the development of the real army's unmanned combat platform is laid. In other words, "Xingtian" is not the ultimate goal of the Army, but just a means to achieve the goal.
No matter what the purpose of the Army is, the "Xingtian" system, which does not even have a verification platform, will definitely not be able to enter the battlefield.
When the General Staff Department asked the technical verification platform and the test troops to participate in the war, "Xing Tian" was still conducting basic designs.
Relatively speaking, in addition to participating in the development of the "Brahma" technology verification aircraft led by the Air Force, the Navy is not very enthusiastic about unmanned combat platforms, mainly because the Navy has a higher degree of systematization, whether it is surface warships or submarines. It requires dozens, even thousands of officers and soldiers to operate. Before the intelligence of neural network computers is improved, the Navy will definitely not be willing to let the "brain" with only locust-level levels dominate the marine battlefield.
The Navy's main energy is focused on "energy weapons".
This decision is more or less related to Navy Commander Lin Xiaolei.
After the Japanese War, the Republic's Navy was the first to carry out military ideological changes. Although many people believe that the Republic's Navy was at the forefront of its thoughts and had a lot to do with the "Four-Country Sea Basin Battle", because that naval battle made the navy's main strike force a decoration, but what really promoted the navy's military thinking change was not a far-reaching naval battle. It was the new mission shouldered by the Republic's Navy.
If the Republic wants to surpass the United States, it must build a strong enough naval force. It must carry out naval construction in advance.
Although humans have already stepped out of the atmosphere, and some people have even proposed to establish colonies on the moon and Mars, before finding another planet suitable for human survival, the earth is still the only home for humans. No matter how high or far they fly, they will have to return to Earth sooner or later.
On the ocean that covers more than 70% of the earth's surface, the navy is the absolute dominant force.
It can even be said that in the absence of large-scale immigration to outer space, the ocean has become a new home for human survival.
Tiannian. The global population has exceeded 100 million. According to the UNESCO evaluation report, the global land can only feed thugs. For example, B. What’s more serious is that although the temperature rise rate has decreased after the gradual promotion of controllable fusion nuclear power plants, the sea level will rise in rice in the next year, and most of the land suitable for human habitation and cultivation along the coast will be submerged by seawater. If solutions cannot be found before this, such as reducing the speed of sea level rise, developing crops with higher yields, changing the basic farming model of agriculture, etc., human hope can only be the vast ocean.
In fact, some countries have taken action.
In the past year, the Dutch parliament approved a ten-year investment of over 4-Bay Dutch to carry out all seawalls in the Netherlands with the future guarantee of the country: to ensure that nearly half of the land below sea level will not be submerged by seawater because the climate becomes worse.
The Netherlands is strengthening the "court wall" and some countries can only relocate the whole country.
Four, after many countries rejected immigration requests, the Maldives government announced that it would use the national wealth to order old sets of "mobile cities on sea" with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons over the year, allowing people across the country to obtain habitat when their land is submerged.
The Maldives' actions were somewhat tragic.
Facts have proved that the ocean is not only the carrier of human interaction, but also the hope of human survival.
The ocean is so important that the Republic must have a strong navy.
The Republic's Navy carried out military ideological changes to serve the overall national strategy.
Because the construction cycle of the navy lasted for decades, the development of the navy was relatively conservative. Historically, the development of any powerful navy was very conservative, but the rising stars were more radical. For example, when Britain dominated the world, France was very radical in naval construction thinking in order to challenge Britain's hegemony. Not only was it the first to develop breech guns, but it was also the first to equip to torpedoes. Although the Republic's Navy was not the most powerful navy, in the long-term development, the Republic's Navy could not make any mistakes in the direction, and could not take too risky.
Not being sloppy does not mean rejecting new technologies.
Compared with the Army and Air Force, the biggest feature of the Navy is to tap the potential of existing technology.
In other words, when the Army and the Air Force are working hard to develop unmanned combat platforms, the Navy focuses on "energy weapons".
With the construction of large combat platforms as little as possible, the Navy attaches great importance to system combat capabilities.
In order to improve the strike capability, the Navy's enthusiasm for developing electromagnetic guns is really greater than that of the Army. While the Army was still complacent, the Navy had already thrown billions of dollars to develop a new generation of "coil electromagnetic guns". In addition, the Navy also attaches great importance to the development of various new ammunitions.
From a technical perspective, coil electromagnetic guns are much more advanced than orbital electromagnetic guns. They not only have higher energy conversion efficiency, but also have greater load and initial muzzle velocity.
In prison, the first coil electromagnetic gun used for technical verification fired its first shot at the Navy Aviation Base in Qinghai. Although affected by the initial design, many performance indicators were not as good as the orbital electromagnetic guns that had been equipped with the Navy, the test results greatly increased the confidence of the Navy. The following year, the Navy increased its investment in research and development and required relevant individuals to complete the testing work of the technical verification stage as soon as possible, and carry out sample gun manufacturing and testing.
In order to develop a new hypersonic anti-ship missile, the Navy's investment was quite amazing, and its performance indicators were changed again and again, resulting in repeated changes in the basic design. For example, in terms of ballistic selection, it was initially determined to be a cruise missile, but later it was changed to a ballistic missile. Finally, a "cruising ballistic" plan was developed.
Because the Navy did not participate in the Sino-Indian conflict, Xiang Yinghui did not attach much importance to the Navy's experimental equipment.
More importantly, Lin Xiaolei is a guy who is indifferent to the need for money. Apart from opening his mouth to ask for funds, he never cared about Xiang Yinghui's attitude towards the navy. In his opinion, the navy will sooner or later surpass the army and will become the number one branch of the Republic sooner or later. At that time, the Chief of Staff will not be the commander of the army, but the commander of the navy!
To be honest, Xiang Yinghui was very annoyed by Lin Xiaolei.
If Wang Yuanqing hadn't been protecting Lin Xiaolei, Xiang Yinghui would have been replaced by the navy commander long ago.
Of course, the Navy is not without new weapons participating in actual combat inspections.
At Pei Chengyi's request, the Navy Command sent several new missiles to the air base in the Ximu area. Although Lin Xiaolei repeatedly asked the Navy's aviation force to participate in the war, Pei Chengyi firmly asked the Air Force to carry out combat missions, because the types of missiles sent by the Navy were also jointly developed with the Air Force. There was no situation where the Air Force could not play.
Pei Chengyi did this, and there was some intention to suppress Lin Xiaolei, because Lin Xiaolei was the competitor of the next Chief of Staff.
After Xiang Yinghui finished reading several documents, Pei Chengyi handed over a cigarette.
"Overall, the main test is that the unmanned combat aircraft Pei Chengyi lit a cigarette for himself. He said, "We and the United States all believe that future wars are the world of unmanned combat weapons. If we can prove the ability of unmanned combat weapons in actual combat, we can speed up the development and equipment replacement. If the situation is just the opposite, we have to find other good strategies as soon as possible and at the same time make the United States go astray.
“Have the combat operations been arranged?
"All have been arranged. The combat orders have been issued to the participating troops Pei Chengyi glanced at his watch and said, "The thugs, the strike force has set off, and the first round of strikes will begin in five minutes."
"Let's wait and see. The thug. Xiang Yinghui stood up. "This is a rare opportunity."
Ji Chengyi also stood up.
Chapter completed!