The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 250 Three Killer Weapons

Slowing down the pace of weapons development does not mean not developing them.

For example, the tracked armored gun in front of Liu Tao looks somewhat similar to the Type 81 122mm self-propelled howitzer, but if you look closely, you can find the difference.

Because its main gun is not a howitzer, but a mortar.

The so-called mortar-howitzer is a combination of a mortar and a howitzer.

This is exactly the Type 81 120mm self-propelled mortar.

Its characteristic is that it can fire both grenades and mortars, can hit targets on reverse slopes, and can also hit all targets that can be hit by howitzers.

虽然120毫米自行迫榴炮口径比122毫米自行榴弹炮要小2毫米，但是它采用的是45倍口径，威力甚至不比155毫米的榴弹炮差。

The elevation range of the gun is -4 degrees to +80 degrees, and the directional firing range is 360°. It can fire pursuit shells, grenades and anti-tank grenades. It can aim and fire directly or indirectly, and the maximum amount of on-board ammunition is 45 rounds.

而这81式120毫米自行迫榴炮最大射程9.5公里，榴弹最大发射速度8发/分钟，迫榴炮为10发/分钟，反坦克榴弹为4-6发/分钟。

Other aspects are no different from the Type 81 122mm self-propelled howitzer.

Looking next to it, there is a strangely shaped equipment. The bottom is a tank chassis, but the top looks like a truck, with long tubes.

This is none other than the Type 81 122mm rocket launcher, which uses the Type 81 light tank chassis. Those long tubes are rocket launcher tubes, and there are 40 of them in total, which means that it can be equipped with 40 rocket shells at a time.

This rocket artillery shell has a rich variety of shells, including anti-explosive bombs, prefabricated fragmentation bombs, fuel-air explosive bombs, incendiary bombs, guided missiles, extended-range bombs, cluster bombs, terminal-sensitive bombs, etc. It can fire all 30 rockets in 40 seconds. When launching 4mm guided rockets with 122 canard control wings, the maximum range is about 40 kilometers, the minimum range is about 20 kilometers, the circular probable error is less than or equal to 30 meters, and the effective killing radius reaches about 28 meters. When launching extended-range rockets, the range can reach about 50 kilometers.

It can even launch cruise missiles when necessary!
It is no exaggeration to say that this weapon rains bullets on the enemy.

Next to the Type 81 122mm rocket launcher is a vehicle with an even more peculiar shape, with no main gun, heavy machine gun or anti-aircraft machine gun, and a flat top.

However, as Liu Tao entered the cockpit and pressed a button, a device emerged in the middle of the top. There were two missiles on each side of the device, for a total of four missiles. This was the Type 81 anti-tank missile launcher.

In addition, there are 12 missiles placed in the magazine of the vehicle, which can be loaded into the ready-to-launch position automatically or manually at any time.

The tank's armor defense is the same as that of the Type 81 light tank.

The launch system can launch two missiles in one minute at the fastest speed. The missile has a diameter of 152mm, a minimum range of 100 meters and a maximum range of 5000 meters. The missile is powerful and can penetrate armor vertically to a depth of 1.2 meters.

It can be said that this anti-tank launcher even poses a threat to the Type 80 main battle tank.

Currently, any tank in the world, whether it is the T72 main battle tank or the Leopard 2 main battle tank, will most likely be destroyed if hit by one shot from it.

Currently, Liu Tao has arranged a technical team to master the technology for these three types of equipment.

The other two weapons are fine, but Liu Tao has no plans to export the Type 81 anti-tank missile launcher for the time being because it poses a great threat to the Type 80 main battle tank.

Even if it is exported, he will make a simplified version, reducing the armor-piercing power and the maximum range so that it cannot destroy the Type 80 main battle tank.

Otherwise, it will be difficult.

This is a bit like the sharpest spear and the hardest shield. Liu Tao made a phone call and asked Li Fuguo to send three soldiers to drive this equipment away so that it would not take up space here.

As a result, Li Fuguo actually came in person with his soldiers.

看到81式120毫米自行迫榴炮、81式122毫米火箭弹、81式反坦克导弹发射车，李富国双眼都在发光着。

With these three pieces of equipment, the attack firepower of the combined brigade will be greatly enhanced.

The Type 81 120mm self-propelled mortar howitzer has a power equivalent to that of a 155mm howitzer, which has enormous destructive power.

The Type 81 122mm rocket will be the only long-range strike firepower of the combined brigade. It can launch an attack on the enemy from a distance of forty or fifty kilometers. The rain of bullets will definitely be the enemy's nightmare.

The Type 81 anti-tank missile launcher will be a nightmare for enemy tanks. Any enemy tank armor defense will not be able to withstand the attack of anti-tank missiles. The enemy's main battle tank will only be destroyed when facing anti-tank missiles.

Although the Type 80 main battle tank is powerful enough and Li Fuguo likes it very much, it does not prevent him from liking more means of attack. Nothing makes him happier than destroying the enemy's main battle tank.

They only had one of each of the three pieces of equipment, which was far from the establishment of a heavy combined brigade, but Li Fuguo was already very satisfied.

He had been thinking that Liu Tao was busy with the restructuring and had no time and energy to develop new weapons. The most optimistic estimate was that new weapons would be developed for the combined brigade only after the Spring Festival.

Now we give one piece of each of these equipments. As the production increases gradually in the future, more and more equipments will definitely be given to the combined brigades.

"You're going to the capital in two days, why did you come here in person?" Liu Tao said, "Why don't you spend more time with your family during these two days?"

Li Fuguo and Liu Tao will go to the capital in two days, but Liu Tao is returning to the capital for vacation, while Li Fuguo is going to the Higher Military Academy for an 8-month study.

In theory, only officers at the rank of division commander or above are eligible to attend the Higher Military Academy, and Li Fuguo is only a brigade commander now, so he is not eligible. However, because Li Fuguo is the head of the armed forces department of Panshan Group, a member of the party group, and a deputy department commander, he has also reached the standard of a division commander, and coupled with the special nature of the combined brigade, Li Fuguo was able to attend the Higher Military Academy.

During the time when Li Fuguo was studying, the combined brigade was led by the political commissar Zhao Guoping, assisted by two deputy brigade commanders and the chief of staff.

In addition, one hundred battalion and company-level officers went to other military academies for formal training.

However, it is not a three-year program, but an eight-month crash course.

Zhao Guoping was responsible for assessing who could go to the military academy to study, with the level of cultural knowledge as the basis for the assessment.

Li Fuguo said: "What's the point of matching? I stay at home more and my wife is not used to it and she complains about me."

"And that bad boy at home is so naughty. He will definitely talk back to me the next day when I get home. I'd better just ignore him so that I won't be bothered." Li Fuguo said helplessly.

His wife is working as a director of the Women's Federation at Panshan Machinery Factory, and Li Fuguo's son and daughter are both in primary school.

Li Fuguo is usually in the army and only goes home on leave once a week or two. When he is busy, he only goes home once a month.

Of course, this situation is much better than when Li Fuguo was in the army. At that time, he could only go home for leave once a year.

(End of this chapter)