Military industrial hegemony

Chapter 1207 N Variations of Wheeled Armored Vehicles

As for the firepower of this wheeled infantry vehicle, Jiang Chen and his company do not have the qualifications nor the ability.But someone has it, that is the B17 factory, Jiang Chen has ordered the technology research and development center of the B17 factory to start working on the supporting weapon system for this wheeled infantry vehicle.According to the preliminary plan and Jiang Chen's requirements, this wheeled infantry fighting vehicle is a multi-platform serialized infantry fighting vehicle equipment system, which can be equipped with different weapon systems according to needs.In fact, the body has not changed much, and the main change is still in the weapon system.

For example, under Jiang Chen's plan, there are a total of six variants or derivatives of this car.First of all, the first one is a wheeled infantry fighting vehicle. This vehicle is mainly equipped with a [-]mm machine gun and a [-]mm coaxial machine gun.The main function of this vehicle is to play the role of fire strike and fire suppression of the tank, used to support infantry operations or fire suppression on enemy positions, cover our attacking troops, or armored personnel carriers.

And this second model, it should be said that it is the most basic model, is a wheeled armored transport vehicle, which is used for the transportation of infantry.Therefore, the firepower of this armored transport vehicle is relatively weak. It is mainly equipped with a [-]mm vehicle-mounted machine gun, which is used for fire defense and fire support.Of course, according to requirements, it can be replaced with a [-]mm automatic grenade launcher, or an unmanned remote control weapon station, etc.In terms of positioning, this car is also directly delivered to the infantry squad.The entire vehicle only needs two crew members to complete the driving and fire defense, but it takes up too much establishment.

As for the third car, this is a deformed armored assault vehicle.It is equipped with a [-]mm smoothbore gun, which is used for rapid deployment, key area control and ground assault, destroying enemy armored targets, field fortifications, killing and wounding the enemy's vital forces, capturing predetermined areas or Target.Of course, this wheeled assault vehicle is also equipped with a [-]mm coaxial machine gun and a [-]mm anti-aircraft machine gun on the top of the turret for air defense and body protection operations.And it can also be changed into an unmanned remote control weapon station according to the needs and so on.

The fourth variant is a wheeled self-propelled howitzer, which is mainly equipped with a 120mm (mainly aimed at foreign countries, if our army equips it, it can be replaced with a 120mm caliber) howitzer.The main function of this vehicle is to provide fire support tasks, cooperate with tanks or other armored vehicles, or combat troops.Provide fire support for it to wipe out the enemy's vital forces, suppress enemy firearms, destroy field fortifications and firepower points and other tasks.Of course, this car is not equipped with a coaxial machine gun, but a [-]mm anti-aircraft machine gun is installed on the turret for air defense and body protection operations.

And the five models are actually deformed on the basis of armored transport vehicles.In addition to pretending a 120mm vehicle-mounted machine gun on the roof, it is used for air defense and body protection operations.On the basis of the crew compartment originally used to take members, the roof of the car was modified to become openable, and a 360mm mortar was added to the car body.It can rotate [-] ​​degrees in the car body and fire mortar shells.This vehicle is mainly used to support infantry operations, conduct fire support, fire coverage, fire point clearance and other combat tasks.

The sixth model is a wheeled self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, which is mainly equipped with the integrated system of ammunition and gun developed by Jiang Chen in the B17 factory.Of course, according to the condition of the body, the ammunition and gun integration system equipped on this wheeled infantry fighting vehicle has also been modified accordingly.For example, the barrel of the Gatling cannon is reduced, and the caliber of the Gatling cannon is reduced.It can be replaced according to different needs. The [-]mm three-tube Gatling cannon can also be replaced with a [-]mm seven-tube Gatling cannon.It can also be replaced with a high-firing [-]mm nine-barreled Gatling machine gun.In terms of missiles, a brand-new Chasing Wind B improved extended-range process air defense missile is used.The entire vehicle can be used for low-altitude process protection combat missions of accompanying armored clusters, and can also be used as a process air defense system for fixed-point field air defense tasks.

Of course, there are many such transformations.For example, the engineering vehicle model used for rescue and repair missions of such armored vehicles.Its main installation is the mechanical boom, and what it carries are related emergency repair equipment and emergency repair personnel.There is also this reconnaissance model for battlefield situation detection search.In addition to the necessary azimuth firepower, such as [-]mm anti-aircraft machine guns, or unmanned remote control weapon stations.It is mainly equipped with some reconnaissance equipment, such as this visual camera, infrared and thermal imagers, radio signal search and analysis equipment.There are also some water sources, soil, air detection equipment and so on.

In addition, there are armored command vehicles for command, battlefield communication vehicles for communication, armored ambulance vehicles for battlefield rescue, and special ammunition transport vehicles and so on.However, these are all improvements and evolutions based on this wheeled armored vehicle. These are not urgent or important.After this armored vehicle comes out, these derivative models will come naturally and appear naturally.

As for the weapon systems of the first six deformed vehicles, Jiang Chen was handed over to B17 Factory to be responsible for the development, which can be regarded as a cooperative project.Both parties are responsible for the parts they are good at, and they have joined forces to jointly create a wheeled armored vehicle with excellent performance in all aspects.Of course, these weapon systems cannot be obtained by the B17 factory alone.Especially for some heavy weapons, the B17 factory has no experience in this area.Therefore, it is still necessary to cooperate with other relevant military industrial units and conduct joint research, which can be regarded as driving the development of a considerable part of the industry.

Of course, there are still many people or units who care about this wheeled armored vehicle.For example, in the army, from the army, to the navy, to the airborne troops, they are all interested.But for the paratroopers, Jiang Chen could only apologize.Because in the requirements of the airborne troops, the weight of this vehicle must be controlled within [-] tons, and it is also required to be able to be airdropped.In this regard, Jiang Chen could only reject the proposal in this regard, and reasoned that a model would be developed specifically for airborne troops.

Fortunately, the requirements of the Army and Navy are fairly normal.What the Army requires is nothing more than firepower, maneuverability, and protection capabilities, and the main requirement is protection capabilities.Because the original 86-wheeled battle house was too poor, the Army has been dissatisfied, so it wanted to seek a new wheeled armored vehicle with better protection.What the navy requires is a wading capability, mainly sea/water travel speed, wave resistance performance, wind resistance performance, sinking resistance performance, and passing performance on sandy beaches and so on.And these, after the basic model is developed, the research and development personnel will improve the classification design according to the specific requirements of the user to meet the needs of users.

Of course, it is not only domestic companies that care about the progress of research and development, but also some foreign customers.And this is the order that Jiang Chen most wanted to win. For this reason, Jiang Chen specially arranged for people to find out the specific requirements of these customers, so that they can carry out targeted design and development.

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