Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1277 Airborne Forces
Su Liguo did not live up to expectations. It only took a week to produce a batch of electronic tubes and they passed the acceptance inspection... Electron tubes are actually not high-tech gadgets. As long as the materials pass the test and the equipment is used, high-quality electronic tubes can be produced. There is no difficulty, which is why New China has a professional electronic tube factory not long after its establishment.

(Note: The first professional electronic tube factory in China is Nanjing Electric Factory, founded in 51)
This has gone to Wang Xuexin's big worry. Being able to produce electronic tubes is not only a matter of developing computers and developing intelligent missiles in the future, but also can provide the main parts for military equipment such as radar, radio, and radio. It can be said that it is a change from the past. Disadvantages of importing from abroad.

If anything, the high-purity metals needed to produce electron tubes still need to be imported from abroad.

However, the road needs to be walked step by step, and the food needs to be eaten at one bite, and the industry must move forward step by step in a down-to-earth manner. When all industries have a certain level and scale, they will naturally form quantitative changes to qualitative changes and rise to another level.

This thing is taboo to step too quickly, otherwise the modern Asan is the best counterexample.

Wang Xuexin couldn't take care of so many things, so he could only and should hand them over to Su Liguo for management.

What Wang Xuexin can pay attention to is to form an airborne force in Liyuan.

The first batch of airborne troops was an airborne regiment with 1500 people.

This number is determined by the number of C47s... 50 C47s can carry about 1400 people at a time, that is, about one regiment can be airborne at a time (the extra people are used for elimination preparations and replenishment).

To be honest, Wang Xuexin was very embarrassed to form this airborne regiment.

Because the airborne troops are also required to be elite... This is determined by the mission of the airborne troops. The airborne troops are parachuted to the enemy's rear to fight, and they are surrounded by the enemy almost as soon as they land. If they are poor quality troops, they basically don't need to fight. If you are annihilated or captured by the enemy in two and a half times, it is better not to airborne, because this way of playing is to airdrop equipment and prisoners to the enemy.

However, most of the elite soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were taken away by the mechanized troops, and now the airborne troops have to recruit elite soldiers... First of all, these elite soldiers may not be considered elite soldiers, and secondly, the troops are being drawn layer by layer like this. How can there be no opinion?

If it was before, this would be easy to handle. It would be to hold a big contest among the troops, let the soldiers show off their abilities, and then the winning soldiers would be selected and incorporated into the airborne regiment.

But now all the troops are not interested in the form of the big contest... In order to get that little prize, they have to pay their own good soldiers, which is not worthwhile, so many troops really hide their soldiers who do not support them to participate.

Wang Xuexin thought about it and decided to start with the equipment first.

He drew up an equipment list for the airborne regiment before the conscription started: company-level radio, folding rifle, steel helmet, multi-functional engineer shovel, spring field rifle as a sniper unit, and [-]-type mortar .

Then Wang Xuexin intentionally revealed the list of equipment, and soon it spread throughout the army.

As a result, the army has not yet started to form, and all the soldiers in the army are looking forward to it:

"Good guy, these are all repeating rifles! They are still folded!"

"What's a folding repeater rifle?"

"The butt of the gun can be put away!"

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It is no wonder that soldiers of the Eighth Route Army did not know what "folding" was. During this period, infantrymen still used a large number of pull-bolt rifles and basically did not have the concept of folding buttstock until Hans' MP40 submachine gun ushered in the foldable era.

This has successfully attracted the interest of the soldiers, because this is a rifle that is not even equipped by mechanized troops, and there is also a helmet... At this time, none of the Eighth Route Army can be equipped with a helmet, and all of them are cloth military caps.

Not to mention the radio station, even the first level can be matched with it, which is beyond the imagination of ordinary troops.

In fact, as a paratrooper, it is necessary to enhance communication, because the paratroopers are often scattered everywhere after parachuting to the target location, and they need more communication equipment to coordinate with other troops.

Helmets are also necessary, otherwise, if you accidentally hit your head with a rock or something during skydiving, you will lose your combat effectiveness. Of course, Wang Xuexin will not let the airborne troops take this risk because of saving the steel of the helmet.

But the soldiers didn't see it that way. They immediately recognized that the paratrooper was the elite of the trump cards, so when they were officially recruited, they rushed to sign up one after another, but they couldn't stop them.

In fact, the repeating rifle with a foldable stock hadn't even been produced yet.

But this is not a difficult task. All Wang Xuexin has to do is send someone to send Su Xin the blueprint of a steel collapsible gun stock.

Because the other parts are exactly the same except that the wooden fixed butt is replaced, there is almost no difficulty in production, except for the extra iron that increases the cost.

It is said that when Su Xin saw Wang Xuexin's drawing, he also praised it: "It is much more convenient to fold the stock of the gun and use it for airborne troops. It will not bump into it in the narrow cabin, and it will not be too long when parachuting. Injury! This little Northeast, why does he have everything in his head!"

Of course Su Xin didn't know that this was just common sense to Wang Xuexin.

For modern Wang Xuexin, of course, it is impossible to make the same mistake as the devil's paratrooper, carrying a samurai sword and carrying a [-] cover... This is what they call "a tradition that cannot be compromised", and it is equivalent to letting some officers and soldiers commit suicide on the battlefield.

The steel helmet was also designed by Wang Xuexin.

In fact, it cannot be said that it was designed by Wang Xuexin. Wang Xuexin just drew the appearance of our army's 65-style paratrooper helmet.

The 65-style paratrooper helmet has a beautiful and practical appearance, and more importantly, a simple structure and easy production. It will be a relatively classic piece of equipment in China that will serve for a long time in the future.

In this regard, Wang Xuexin believes that the best is the best.

If there are more advanced helmets, the Eighth Route Army will immediately face problems such as production difficulties and unqualified materials.

As a result, the formation of the airborne troops went smoothly beyond imagination, and more than [-] elite soldiers were recruited from all over the country in just a few days.

Of course, these "elite" can only be put in quotation marks.

Because they don't know anything about airborne combat, whether it is strategy, tactics or skydiving experience, it can be said that they are poor and useless. From commanders to soldiers, they need to be trained, which is no less difficult than forming a mechanized force.

However, Wang Xuexin believes that under the pressure and demands of the war, they will soon grow into a qualified airborne elite.

(End of this chapter)