Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 527 Anti-aircraft gun

Sun Erwei looked helpless: "Wang, I think you should follow Skinner's advice and choose the Bofors anti-aircraft gun instead of the M1..."

"I said it!" Wang Xuexin interrupted Sun Erwei: "Bofors is not suitable for us!"

Sun Erwei spread his hands together: "Tell me the reason!"

"Our artillery is not as good as devils!" Wang Xuexin replied: "You should be aware of this. If our army is equipped with such short-range anti-aircraft guns, it will only become a target for enemy artillery!"

Sun Erwei had to admit that Wang Xuexin was right, Bofors did not have much survivability when the artillery firepower could not suppress the enemy.

Sun Erwei didn't expect this, because Ying Jiang had never worried that the artillery's firepower was not as good as the enemy's.

but……

Sun Erwei smiled and asked back: "So, do you think the M1 anti-aircraft gun is suitable for you? Do you think that as long as the range is long enough, you can avoid the enemy's artillery? Do you think the M1 anti-aircraft gun is no problem?"

Sun Erwei walked back and forth twice in front of Wang Xuexin, put on a look of hating iron but not steel, and asked: "Do you know why we don't equip M1 in batches?"

"No, I don't know!" Wang Xuexin replied.

This is the truth. Wang Xuexin didn't know much about anti-aircraft guns. He didn't even know about this gun until he heard Skinner's introduction.

"You don't know anything, Wang!" Sun Erwei shook his head and said, "Let's put it this way, its range is 19 kilometers, do you know what that means?"

Wang Xuexin was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately understood... beyond visual distance!

Then Wang Xuexin thought of another thing: radar.

Things beyond visual range are usually used in conjunction with radar.

Anti-aircraft guns are different from howitzers. Long-range howitzers are actually beyond the visual range, but this can be compensated by the cooperation of artillery observers.

The reason is that the long-range howitzers deal with enemy infantry and artillery. These targets move slowly and the artillery has time to react.

The target of the anti-aircraft gun is the aircraft... The speed of fighters in this era generally reaches more than 400 kilometers per hour, which is about 1 kilometers per minute, and some are even faster. For example, the top speed of the Devil's Zero War is 533 kilometers per hour.

If you also use the artillery observer method to deal with fighter planes, several processes are required: observation, calculation, and then sending the coordinates to the antiaircraft artillery unit, and then the antiaircraft artillery unit adjusts the elements according to the coordinates, adjusts the time of the shell and fires the shell...

This process will take a few minutes at the fastest, and the target has already flown out of the bombing range and may even have completed the bombing and left.

This is also the reason why the range of the anti-aircraft gun given by Mao Xiong is only 4 kilometers, and the range of Bofors is only 7 kilometers... Without the cooperation of radar, the ultra-long range is meaningless.

Although Wang Xuexin knew this, he didn't answer, because he knew that these things are commonplace in modern times, but this era is a proper black technology.If he answered, he didn't know how to explain it.

Sun Erwei continued: "Our naked eyes can only observe targets about four kilometers away, Wang! The telescope can barely reach six kilometers... This is still in good weather!"

Wang Xuexin nodded.

Take Devil 97 with a wingspan of 14.55 meters as an example. The full area displayed four kilometers in the air is equivalent to standing at a distance of one meter to see a grain of rice. As long as there is a little cloud or fog, it is difficult to find.

Sun Erwei leaned down and asked Wang Xuexin: "So, Wang! The range of the M1 is 19 kilometers. How do you hit those invisible targets?"

Then Sun Erwei stood up again, and said with full pride: "We can, because we have something called radar. Our combat method is to use radar to detect enemy aircraft tens of kilometers away, and then use This anti-aircraft gun destroys targets on the road, understand? We even developed an anti-aircraft gun with a range of 25 kilometers for this..."

When Sun Erwei said this, he stopped talking, because he thought that Wang Xuexin would not understand even if he continued, so there was no need to spend more time talking, as long as Wang Xuexin understood that this anti-aircraft gun was not something they could use.

Then Sun Erwei joked: "Maybe, you can also buy our radar! But I don't think this is something you can afford!"

This is not that Sun Erwei is joking. Although the radar of this era is bulky and its performance is not good enough, it is the most advanced equipment of this era, so the cost is very high. It takes millions of dollars.

At the same time, Sun Erwei also believes that the Eighth Route Army does not need to be equipped with radar at all, but it is just a few anti-aircraft guns. Equipping radar is a huge waste.

Wang Xuexin nodded and said, "You are right, Sun Erwei! But I still want to buy M1!"

Sun Erwei looked at Wang Xuexin in confusion, and asked, "Why? You didn't understand..."

"No, I understand!" Wang Xuexin interrupted Sun Erwei: "But... Although we don't have radar, we know where the enemy's planes will appear! That's enough!"

Sun Erwei was taken aback for a moment, then nodded slightly with his mouth half open: "You mean, your tank?"

"Yes!" Wang Xuexin explained: "If there is anything in the Eighth Route Army worth bombing by the devils, it must be tanks. If the devils must bomb our tanks, it means that wherever our tanks appear, the devils' planes will eventually where. So, do we still need radar?"

Sun Erwei couldn't help being stunned.

There is nothing wrong with what you said. The Eighth Route Army is not like the stubborn army. The stubborn army has an airport, a warehouse, and a power station... The only valuable thing in the Eighth Route Army is this tank unit, and the purpose of the 97 heavy bombing that the devils transferred is also very clear. It is used to deal with these tanks, especially the T34.

In this way, the location of the Devil's plane is almost certain.

If this is the case, the M19 anti-aircraft guns with a range of 1 kilometers can certainly play a role... They can adjust the parameters in advance, adjust the timing of the shells, and even do a test shot, just waiting for the devil's fighter to appear.

"But..." Sun Erwei said, "You've used this tactic once and you'll know it..."

"So what can we do if we know?" Wang Xuexin asked back: "Don't you bomb our tanks?"

Sun Erwei was questioned.

What this is saying is that even if the devil knows, there is nothing he can do. Either bomb or not bomb.

For bombing, you have to face the anti-aircraft artillery barrage preset by the Eighth Route Army. Not bombing... is exactly what the Eighth Route Army wants.

Then Sun Erwei asked again: "What if the devils bomb the anti-aircraft guns?"

"We will not let them succeed!" Wang Xuexin replied: "First of all, it is not easy for them to find the exact location of the anti-aircraft gun. Secondly, this kind of medium-caliber anti-aircraft gun that can be towed by a car can be hidden in the air-raid shelter in only one minute. !"

Sun Erwei thought for a while, then nodded and said: "Okay, Wang! You won, this tactic is no problem!"

(End of this chapter)