Chapter 408: Exercise (1)
On a midsummer night, deep in the Inner Mongolia Plateau. On the ancient battlefield where Genghis Khan waved his whip, there was a large-scale exercise field with an area of thousands of square kilometers, composed of deserts, grasslands, mountains, trenches, etc. in Asia, the most modern and modern army,
This is a super-large training ground that supports training in complex electromagnetic environments of various armies in the Army. Its vast space can fully support the training and exercises of the army-scale.
But today, the only small-scale new tank battalion confrontation exercise was held in this huge training ground.
The two battalions that acted as the Red Army and the Blue Army were the same elite tank regiments from the earliest 99a2 main battle tanks installed in China. They are basically comparable in daily confrontation practices. They can be said to be old opponents and old comrades who know themselves and enemies.
All the tanks in this exercise use 99a2g main battle tanks, which is a new generation of main battle tanks that have been upgraded by using 99a2 to upgrade and transform through improved armor and power systems. Of course, there is another difference that the Red Army has completely upgraded the software system this time, using the latest successfully developed data link and theater joint tactical combat system, while the Blue Army still uses the original system.
Two exercises in different environments will be carried out today. The first is a purely two tank battalions without any external interference. The second is a confrontation between the two sides in a strong external electromagnetic storm environment.
Before the exercise began, Lieutenant Colonel Wang Shengcai, the battalion commander of the Red Army Tank Battalion, was worried because his battalion accepted this new electronic combat system for less than a month. Although the electronic combat system led by Duke was extremely simple and easy to understand, everyone could operate it in just a few days.
However, since the combat prompts given by the system during normal training are often very different from what everyone usually judges manually. Usually, it is recommended that multiple vehicles concentrate on attacking a common target. Without actual combat inspection, the tank battalion has a strong suspicion mentality of the system.
This is natural. They are the latest tank regiment of the entire army equipped with 99a2. The familiarity with the 99a2 tanks has almost reached its peak. Many tactical shooting skills that the soldiers have explored have been well rewarded in many exercises in the past. The winning rate of internal confrontation is 50% and the winning rate of external confrontation is as high as 90% to make Wang Shengcai, the battalion commander, very pleased.
However, today the superiors required that they must fight according to the electronic combat system prompts, which was equivalent to completely abandoning a complete set of tactics that were effective in daily life. How could he feel at ease? Although this was just an internal confrontation, in the entire battalion, this was a war and no one was willing to lose.
What's more, they are now claiming to be driving the most advanced main battle tanks in the country. The leaders watching the battle today are said to have the chief of the Military Commission. Battalion Commander Wang feels extremely stressed. People who serve in the army cannot rely solely on the good or bad weapons. In their eyes, everyone's equipment is actually the same this time, and there is no difference in hardware. If they lose too ugly, everyone will not be laughing at the lack of equipment.
Compared with Battalion Commander Wang's anxiety, Duke, who first entered the military exercise command, felt very novel. Many things he saw and could not see on TV are now displayed in front of him, which made him, a non-military fan, have a strong interest.
Among a group of senior officers who shine with stars, Duke is the only casual viewer in the eyes of the training base guards. If he hadn't seen him follow the chief of the military region, he would have been arrested and locked up in a small dark room with his current look.
"Duke, how about it, there are many fun things in the army. It's easy if you want to come and play often." Mr. Liu looked at Duke's novel and excited look and couldn't help but smile, "As long as you are willing to serve as the chief scientist of the assembly, I will apply to Chief Leader No. 1 to allow him to approve you to join the army as a special talent and directly take the rank of major general, then you will be the youngest general in the entire army."
If this is true, Duke is not only the youngest general in the entire army now, but also the youngest general who has never been able to succeed since the founding of the country.
If it were military fans like Dong Feng and Zhao Jianwu, they might have agreed without hesitation when they heard such an invitation. Generals are not something that ordinary people can do. Then how big blue smoke can emerge from the ancestral tomb, let alone Duke is only over 26 years old now.
Although Lin Shuai once set a record of being the commander of the 4th Army of the Red 1st Army during the war, he did not yet have military ranks at that time and could not be considered a formally recognized general.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was no such opportunity again.
Although Mr. Liu is a leader of the Military Commission, he can only apply for special treatment from No. 1, so this suggestion is really amazing.
But when Duke heard this, he smiled and did not answer Mr. Liu's words. Instead, he focused his attention on the huge curtain wall of the exercise command center. He used the Salt's new display screen to fully display the Red and Blue Army Tank Battalion that was fighting the exercise at this moment.
In order to comprehensively evaluate the impact of the new system on combat power, in addition to shooting on the preset camera stations in fixed highlands, several helicopters were also sent in the air to shoot, and all the details must be displayed. Duke, a special audience, can master the materials and further optimize the newly developed electronic combat system.
These are very confidential materials, but Mr. Liu took out a lot of heavyweight and even strategic benefits from Duke, and has decided to pull Duke, a scientific research monster, tightly on the military scientific research tank. Therefore, except for things that are not related to research, Mr. Liu is now open to Duke, hoping to further "squeeze" Duke through the exposed weaknesses.
In the mind of Mr. Liu, Duke is now a chief scientist who is not named in the entire army.
"Are you ready?" Old Master Liu glanced at him and turned to a deputy general of the Beijing Military Region.
"Chief, you're ready." The general who carried two general stars on his shoulders replied respectfully. Although he was a big shot in commanding thousands of troops, the gap was not a small part compared to Mr. Liu. There were still many almost insurmountable hurdles in the middle to reach Mr. Liu's current status.
"Then let's start." Old Master Liu said lightly, sounding the alarm for today's exercise attack.
This first exercise simulated an encounter between the two sides. Both the Red and Blue armies met and fought a real tank battle in the plains. After a command, more than 30 tanks of the Red and Blue armies each immediately made a huge roar. The latest and improved engines made the tanks reach the maximum speed of travel quickly, and bursts of yellow smoke were stirred up on the plains.
On the huge curtain wall of the exercise command center, tanks rushed towards the opponent like yellow dragons.
Chapter completed!