Chapter 490 Future Military Development

The confrontation exercise was launched immediately.

If it were other troops, it would take a lot of time just to prepare for the exercise.

However, for the light combined brigade, the 81st Division, and the tank brigade, they can conduct confrontation exercises at any time.

The light combined brigade, the heavy combined brigade, and the medium combined brigade are training every day and conducting small-scale internal exercises. Each branch of the army is exchanging offense and defense, and testing at any time to find out what deficiencies there are in the construction of the combined brigade, what omissions there are in the defense, and what loopholes there are in the offense.

Spears and shields have always developed together.

There is never the sharpest spear, and there will never be the thickest shield.

From the beginning of the construction of the combined brigade, the troops were required to be able to set off immediately after receiving the order and to be able to fight immediately after arriving at the battlefield.

The 81st Division and the tank brigade have arrived at the Malong Military Training Base for ten days and a half months, and have long been engaged in training.

As the troops to be transferred to the south later, the training intensity is also very high, and they are also required to fight immediately after receiving the order.

Command, this is the confrontation exercise command, you can easily see the real-time situation on the battlefield.

"That is now. If we wait until later, we are equipped with enough helicopters, fighters, bombers and missiles, and we can use missiles and the air force to beat the 81st Division and the tank brigade!" Liu Tao said next to the old man.

An old man in military uniform looked unconvinced, "Winning the war only with missiles and the air force? How is this possible! Nonsense!"

Liu Tao's idea was too scary.

For any commander of this era, the air force and missiles are auxiliary in war.

The core is still the war of ground forces.

The navy and the air force are all auxiliary.

No one thinks that a war can be won by relying on the air force alone.

Liu Tao smiled. He knew that the domestic air force was still stuck in the supporting role defense thinking of "cooperating with the army in combat and striving for victory in national air defense operations."

Just like the guiding ideology of the Soviet military force construction, the air force is used to support the army's ground forces to attack, ensure air superiority, and prevent ground combat forces from becoming targets of the enemy because of losing air superiority.

MiG-29 is considered a relatively advanced fighter.

At the beginning, the Soviet military positioned this fighter as a front-line tactical support fighter.

It was only used to support the front-line operations of ground forces, so the combat radius was too small and was called the short-legged king by the world.

Among the advanced fighters of the Soviet Union, the Su-27 was the main force of the air force, while the MiG-29 supported the army.

This does not mean that this combat idea is wrong.

It can only be said that this combat idea is suitable for the Soviet Union, because the Soviet army has always been rushing to play the S3 season, and the Soviet Union has been calling for the liberation of all mankind for decades.

Large-scale combat, tank torrents, etc., are all for the S3 season.

The Soviet Union is the only country in the world that can decide when to play the S3 season, and there is no problem with its military construction.

But for China now, this combat idea has some problems.

Because China's judgment on the world situation is that peace and development are the mainstream of the world today.

In other words, China's judgment on the world situation is that the S3 season will not start in the next 10 to 20 years, or even 30 to 40 years.

S3 season will not start, at most it will be a proxy war or a local war!

China has the initiative!

As long as it is not with the Soviet Union or the United States, it will have an advantage against any party.

In this case, it is natural to focus on something and make some choices, rather than having everything.

In the battle between a big country and a small country, the advantages of air force and missiles were fully demonstrated in the Gulf War and the Kosovo War.

Of course, this is also very expensive, and the more advanced the weapons, the more expensive they are.

Some people would say that the Gulf War awakened the armies of most countries, including China, and frightened the military experts who had always dreamed of building a steel torrent like the Soviet army, so that the armies of countries around the world understood that after the construction of mechanized forces, they should turn to science and technology and informatization. The future war is a high-tech war and an information war.

Of course, some people would say that the Gulf War led the global military astray, because it was a war that only the United States could afford, and the target of the war did not have long-range attack means. If it were other countries, they could use aircraft or missiles to attack those bases. Without military bases, the war would naturally be fought in a different way.

This kind of gameplay is difficult to play between small countries, medium countries, and big countries.

For example, in the war between the Western Pacific and the Eastern Pacific, such a war between superpowers requires more than a hundred times more supplies than the Gulf War, and then military bases can be attacked with long-range missiles, and it is impossible to gather such a large amount of supplies.

However, this kind of gameplay is suitable for big countries against small countries!

Liu Tao previously believed that the combined brigade is only a basic version now, because there are too few missiles, too few helicopters, no fighters, no bombers, no early warning aircraft, electronic reconnaissance aircraft, electronic jammers, etc.

If he follows his idea, then the 81st Division and the tank brigade can be directly destroyed by the air force and missiles alone.

However, even if it is only a basic version of the combined brigade, and it is a light combined brigade, Liu Tao also wants the light combined brigade to win a hearty victory and completely defeat the 81st Division and the tank brigade in this confrontation exercise.

He hopes to use this confrontation exercise to tell the leaders that future wars can no longer be won by numbers.

A light combined brigade can defeat a current Type A division!

The future war situation is not something that people of this era can know at all!

Of course, let alone domestic military strategists, even the Soviets and Americans do not know their future military development direction. The Soviet Union and the United States are exploring the future military development direction after realizing the construction of mechanized troops.

For example, after experiencing the Korean War and the Vietnam War, the Americans have been confused and have become unable to fight. They have not participated in a decent war for more than ten years.

In the Gulf War, the Americans themselves did not have the confidence to win, which can be seen from the fact that they prepared 50,000 body bags in advance; when it came to the Kosovo War, the Americans were even more worried about too many casualties, so they only sent out air force bombing, but eventually won the war.

The victory of the air force was also seen by senior generals of various countries after the Kosovo War, and it is also a fact.

The image of the invincible US military is not something that this era has. The current military mainstream believes that if the US and the Soviet Union go to war, the US military will not be able to defeat the Soviet army, and the US military can only withdraw from the Asian, European and African continents and retreat to the Americas. Even in the worst case, even South America will lose control and can only dominate North America.

The image of the invincible US military was established after the Gulf War against Iraq, and the victory after a long period of missile attacks and air force operations in the Kosovo War, and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and there was no opponent of the same level, punching kindergartens and kicking nursing homes!

As for the US military fighting against real military powers, it has not happened in the future.

Thirty years later, the Slipper Army slapped the US military in the face with slippers, and the US's determination was stronger than ever.

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