Great Power Ship

Chapter 235 Mechanization

After the army leader finished speaking, a noncommittal smile appeared on his face: "Then what you refer to is not only the Type 79, but also the established plan of the Type 74 heavy-duty pontoon bridge."

After listening to the army leader's words, many army leaders nodded in unison.

Before the Type 79 heavy pontoon bridge, the domestic pontoon bridge troops used a heavy pontoon bridge called Type 74.

它由96只河中舟，32只岸边舟、16艘汽艇以及144辆解放牌CA—30型越野卡车组成。

You should know that Jiefang CA-30 truck is the first off-road truck in China, with an off-road load capacity of 2.5 tons, which is a typical medium-sized truck.

And that's why the army leader just now had a strange expression.

Just look at the number and you will know that the scale is not so bloated and huge. Usually, only the pontoon bridge brigade directly under the military region has such an establishment.

The problem is that large scale does not mean high efficiency.

When the 74-type heavy pontoon bridge is fully deployed, only one belt-type pontoon bridge with a total length of 120 meters and a load of 60 tons can be laid, which is really not enough for the establishment of a brigade-level unit.

After all, there are many rivers in China, especially in the southern water network area. The average width of the river is more than 120 meters. It is simply unacceptable that a pontoon brigade cannot cover most of the rivers.

It is precisely because of this that the Engineering Corps has developed a more efficient Type 79 heavy pontoon bridge.

But the problem is that the efficiency of the 79-type heavy-duty pontoon bridge has improved, but the weight of the single-body river boat is also much larger, requiring a heavy-duty off-road truck with a carrying capacity of 7.5 tons to carry it.

But this brings another problem, that is, areas with poor road traffic such as mountains and hills in the southwest cannot be equipped with Type 79 heavy pontoon bridges, which will affect the operational efficiency of the troops.

That is to say, the army had already tried the pontoon bridge equipment carried by heavy off-road trucks and medium-sized off-road trucks, but the effect was not good. Therefore, they had such a reaction after hearing Wen Dawei's small improvements.

In this regard, Wen Dawei's reaction was the same as before, without too much explanation, but explained a few words to the staff around him, and then saw the warehouse door not far away opened, and immediately drove out two cars from inside. Jiefang brand CA-30 off-road trucks are commonly equipped in the army today.

It's just that it is different from the common car body covered with canvas behind the cockpit. The back of the two vehicles in front of them is equipped with a metal box like a yurt.

Before the many army leaders present could understand what was going on, they saw two vehicles driving to a nearby natural lake. Then the two vehicles turned around and reversed quickly. Soon the rear wheels were buried in the water. The metal box on the rack slides into the water, and then quickly unfolds to form a water boat that can pass a CA-30 off-road truck.

Seeing all the army leaders here, they didn't think much of it. After all, the boats in the water are deployed in this way, but the heavy vehicles are W-shaped, and the light vehicles are V-shaped, no matter whether it is Chinese or foreign.

Therefore, what Zhujiang factory showed was not a big surprise. Most of these leaders who have been baptized by the flames of war have long been familiar with it.

But just when these army leaders felt bored and were about to refocus their attention on the DPZ-076 76mm naval gun, the next movement of the two deployed water boats in the natural lake immediately made the eyes of many army leaders freeze.

The moment the two water boats were unfolded, there was a burst of water splash at the back of the body, and then the two water boats wandered wantonly in the natural lake like real ships.

"Your water boat...how...how..."

Seeing this scene, one of the leaders immediately opened his eyes wide, and then pointed to the two water boats that were having fun in the natural lake, stammering and not knowing what to say.

You must know that whether it is Type 74 or Type 79, the water boat is a pure metal box structure, and it does not have any water maneuverability except for carrying heavy equipment.

Therefore, the deployment tasks on the pontoon bridge are heavy, and all need the cooperation of shore boats and motorboats, that is, use these maneuverable ships to push or drag the boats in the water to a designated position.

It can be regarded as the standard configuration for the deployment of Chinese and foreign pontoon bridges.

The effect is naturally good, otherwise it would not be adopted by the pontoon bridge forces of so many countries.

But there is also a problem, that is, the overall flexibility is not high, and the deployment time of the pontoon bridge is too long.

The principle that the world's martial arts can only be broken quickly is not only valid in the world of martial arts, but it has always been practiced on the real battlefield.

Because there may be subversive variables every minute, which will affect the battle situation, and the pontoon bridge, as a large engineering workload and with obvious targets, is the focus of local air and ground firepower.

Because of this, how to quickly deploy a pontoon bridge on a river and make the attacking troops pass smoothly has become a key research direction of engineering troops in various countries.

One of the practical directions is to realize the mechanization of pontoon troops.

It is about to endow the water boat with no maneuverability with maneuverability, and it can realize the effect of a shore boat and a motorboat in the water, thereby forming a pontoon bridge of various lengths.

The benefits of this are obvious.

Cancellation of a large number of shore boats and motorboats makes the pontoon bridge force more lean and efficient; at the same time, the timeliness of the pontoon bridge is also improved several times.

The deployment time that originally took several hours was reduced to half an hour. If you are well-trained, you can complete a 20-meter-long heavy pontoon bridge in about 150 minutes, which can pass through main battle tanks.

The benefits to the troops simply cannot be described in words.

But the problem is that although this kind of mechanization has many benefits, not all countries can do it, because it involves many technical difficulties such as the hull, power, and mechanism.

More importantly, compared with ordinary non-motorized water boats, the cost of water boats with mobility will also be greatly increased.

In addition, due to the special shape of the boat in the water, the maneuverability in the water is not good, but if you want to quickly complete the deployment of the boat bridge, subtle operations are inevitable.

So a reliable operating system is an unavoidable difficulty.

All in all, it is very difficult to realize this kind of mechanized heavy pontoon bridge equipment.

Unexpectedly, the Zhujiang factory actually did it.

I saw two water boats forming a horizontal wide-body water transportation circle in the natural lake for a while, carrying two off-road trucks side by side to wander in the center of the lake, connecting vertically for a while, and then loading a 212 jeep to ferry from one end of the lake to the other.

The whole process does not require a wharf or the cooperation of other boats. It only needs four operators to control the movement of the boat in the water, and all the rest is handed over to Zhoushang's hydraulic control components.

Seeing this, a leader from the engineering army suddenly looked at the head of the leader who was watching the demonstration in the lake with a telescope, and said very firmly: "Boss, we engineers must have several sets of this thing!"

(End of this chapter)