Chapter six hundred and ten in one sentence
.Just as I thought, for a long time after the war, the main battle tank had occupied the throne of the tank king for a long time.
One reason is that most capable countries have nuclear bombs washed away, and their industrial capabilities have been seriously regressed, especially scientific and technological talents, which have suffered heavy losses. When they finally caught up with the Siberian Tiger tank's technical indicators meeting most performance requirements, China's newer tanks once again pulled the other side thousands of miles away.
But this is a later story. Even in the next few years of World War II, no tank in the world can meet the technical indicators and performance requirements of Siberian Tiger tanks, with perfect power and defense ratio, strong maneuvering ability, and powerful artillery. Everything is so perfect. Siberian Tiger tanks are well deserved to be the most eye-catching tank king in this time and space.
What makes the world crazy is that many parts in the Siberian tiger can be used interchangeably with his predecessor, the Siberian tiger, whether it is production or maintenance, must fascinate all tank maintenance technicians in the world.
One of the reasons for Patton's pain is that Union Star is not the opponent of Siberian Tiger, and what he is even more painful is that the more than 500 Union Star tanks invested in Port Augusta are the first few products on hand in the United States. I still remember clearly that Eisenhower handed these Union Stars to him and said to him earnestly: Although this tank has good performance, it is really difficult to produce. The processing of many parts is not able to grasp some production processes because it cannot understand the technical performance indicators and some production processes are not mastered. The production speed is really not as fast as the Sherman-style tanks. If this batch of Union Star tanks is damaged, it will not be able to obtain more Union Star tanks in a short period of time.
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Although Patton hated the new Chinese tanks on the other side that destroyed their beloved things, he also had some curious guesses: the output of the other party's new type should not be high. If the output is high and the capacity is large, it should have entered a large number of units."
Patton was wrong about this. As the battles later extended to every corner of the world, such new tanks appeared in the places where Duan Guoxue Hongqi pointed out. The Siberian Tiger main battle tank is just like his predecessors, and the Yiwu type production capacity is relatively low. A large number of factories have gradually mastered the various production processes of high standards and high technology requirements over the years. With many manufacturers being able to produce various parts, it means that the assembly plant can have enough parts to start more assembly lines, and the increase in production means that the production cost is reduced. Now in China, the Shaoxing main battle tank has stopped production and switched to producing this more advanced Siberian Tiger.
However, by the end of the war, the production capacity of the Siberian Tiger main battle tank did not exceed 90% of the production capacity of China's production workshops. There are many reasons for this. One is that although the Shao-style was stopped, the various troops still had a lot of stock. After all, this guy is strong enough, and the number of opponents that can threaten it is not large. The number of heavy tanks in the Soviet Union was not large, and the number of destroyed by the opponent was small, so the demand for replacement of each unit was not large. Another reason is that until now, large-scale tank wars are not many, and many second-line troops have been eliminated by the main forces on the front line. Shao-style main battle tanks are basically sufficient to use. The last reason is that the oil supply and consumption. There is no need to use 200 tanks to fight with one hundred tanks. If the number of large-scale fuel-consuming tanks in the army is too terrifying, it will increase the cost of war consumption. For China today, there are too many national economic construction in China that requires funds to get rid of poverty and become rich.
The battle on the ground ended in the day before the beginning of the day when both sides threw bombs and consumed each other. After all, the protagonist of the first day was not the army, but the air force and the navy. Although the commander of the army had some complaints about this, after thinking about it for so many years, the army has always been a pig's feet in the war. Now with the development of modern warfare, the single strength of a certain branch of troops is deformed, and the army has always accepted the benefits of air superiority for a long time. You must not forget your roots. In the words of Chen Lixin, who has been a soldier and commander in the local armed forces for many years, he has never been bombarded and fired by other people's planes!!
The first day of the battle was huge, and the United States' third special-mix fleet, which focused on target, suffered the heaviest blow. The Chinese Air Force launched a total of four waves of attacks, and the attack lasted until the evening. Moreover, the next morning, the H-6 bomber formation, which had received a certain rest, launched another pursuit battle, sending the last part of the ships into the seabed. After the last warship was sunk or seriously injured, 80% of the third special-mix fleet's warships were sunk and severely injured in the final battle. Although the seven battleships finally fled back to Geng with their tough bodies. One or two of them had lost most of the combat capabilities. The escaped Gonglikoufan was sent back to the United States.
A total of eight aircraft carriers were killed, five of them were killed, one aircraft carrier and four light aircraft carriers. As for the transport ships carrying the 4th American Armored Mechanized Division and the 3rd Marines Division, they became the key targets of the attack. Nearly 60% of the officers and soldiers sank into the cold seabed with the ships, and one percent of the officers and soldiers were lucky to have time to escape because the ships did not sink quickly. However, these soldiers and survivors were drifting without food or water on the sea and suffered from cold wind for three days and became prisoners of temporary passengers on the ships that China rushed to, and only a few soldiers and sailors were rescued by Australian, American or other white passing ships. As for those who were not rescued, God would accept them.
When the final outcome of the Third Special Mix Fleet was sent to Nimitz by telegram, Nimitz was as dull as if struck by lightning. Although the Fourth and Second Special Mix Fleet attacked the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet to surround Wei and rescue Zhao. It also sank three Chinese destroyers and several destroyers, and even those strange warships, the Chinese still resisted the casualties and killed most of the ships of the Third Special Mix Fleet. The loss of this ship was nothing to the Americans. Not to mention any injuries, but the losses of more than 43,000 people in the fleet were definitely one of the biggest pains in the hearts of the Americans. Moreover, most of these soldiers were Army or Marine infantry. They did not die on the battlefield, but died in burning ships without any effect, and died in the cold sea water. This ending, Nimitz and all Americans would not want to see it.
It is still unknown how much impact this news will cause when it is passed back to the United States. After this day of battle, both sides suffered losses, but no matter how they look at it, the United States suffered a huge loss. A whole special mixed fleet of tens of thousands of infantry and a large number of equipment were sunk to the bottom of the sea. This loss is a huge loss that has never been seen in the history of the founding of the United States.
Moreover, after paying such a huge loss, the failure to obtain corresponding benefits will make the people view this matter.
Although he gained some results in the raid of China's expeditionary fleet, no one dared to mention how heavy the result he had paid. Less than 20% of the fighter jets sent by the Fourth Special Mix Fleet could fly back. As an auxiliary attack, the second Special Mix Fleet sent out and the last remaining aircraft were only a few of them stumbled back with injuries. The two Special Mix Fleets now basically no longer have the ability to send aircraft to fight, and the remaining number of aircraft was even difficult to protect themselves. Given the fate of the Third Special Mix Fleet, Nimitz immediately ordered the two fleets to drive eastward to avoid the opponent's strike radius.
As for the more than 500 aircraft that participated in the attack on the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet, most of them became wreckage that floated around the Chinese fleet or sank to the bottom of the sea.
Long after the war, this place has always been a holy place for the diving party. Although the submarine tombs of the Third Special Mix Fleet were even more huge and spectacular, due to the depth of the water, the sea outside Lincoln Port attracted the diving party to become a favorite place. At the same time, not far north, the position of the Australian-American coalition forces on the east coast of Port Augusta was also the favorite place for the diving party. Here, there were too many Western soldiers and ordnances buried quietly under the ground, silently telling one tragic story after another. These stories were silently telling how the Chinese killed one Western army after another at that time, and how the fierce artillery fire brought up a large amount of soil to bury them underground and become corpses.
The first day of the Battle of Port Augusta ended like this. But this end was not the final end. This was just the beginning. After being beaten and Barton were wiped out, they returned to the command center in a dusty manner and sat on the chair for a long time. After a long time, Barton slowly said a famous saying that will always be remembered in history books:
In this battle, when the Chinese attacked Port Augusta and Australia, I thought that this was just a sudden attack like the Chinese and Japanese devils, and that the Chinese would retreat step by step with the Japanese devils. But as the battle gradually escalated, I found that the things that we Americans, especially the Americans, were proud of, had no effect in front of the Chinese. Aircraft, cannons, tanks, warships, and even soldiers were far inferior to the other side. Some were just defeated and humiliated again and again. Before coming here, I was sure in my heart that this war would eventually turn into a massacre battle. My prediction is probably correct, but my prediction was wrong, because the slaughtered party would be us,
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