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Hummer combat vehicle, once the well-deserved king of the battlefield!

But now he is old. Judging from the recent frequent bombings of roadside stalls in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is this battlefield king that has made the US military pay a heavy price.

It is true that the Humvee gives the U.S. Army the ability to maneuver quickly, as well as the same powerful combat protection and fire support capabilities, but it also costs the U.S. Army huge casualties.

You must know that the very wide and flat shape of a Humvee gives this vehicle a very good battlefield concealment ability. It can avoid sub-munitions or rockets fired from a distance.

But it is also its wide and short body that makes this car suffer a very large impact once it is attacked by a roadside bomb.

So you will often see a Hummer worth hundreds of thousands of dollars being blown to the ground by a simple IED made from a gas bottle.

And once the Humvee is attacked like this, the number of casualties will be directly multiplied by four or five. After all, no matter how rich the Americans are, they still cannot afford to equip every US soldier with a

The size of a Hummer.

So there is no need to wait until the later stages of the war. Even now, the US military has begun to feel that the Humvee can no longer meet their needs. They are considering a comprehensive replacement and gradually retire the Humvee from the combat order.

However, several car companies in the Tianlu Dynasty are not aware of this. The combat vehicles developed for the military are actually based on the Hummer.

For example, the so-called xx warrior was mentioned and ridiculed more than once in later generations. Someone once said this.

Call me Warrior? How dare you? Just copy an American’s leftovers and change the front face and car logo. How dare you call me Warrior?

Even if it is plagiarism, you should be creative, okay? The things you copy are not as high-tech as the products developed by Americans in the 1990s. Don't look at the 6.5-sound V8 engine used in other people's Hummers, but their every hundred

The fuel consumption per kilometer is only 0.16 liters. This is a pure hardcore off-road vehicle weighing more than three tons. The ability to achieve such fuel consumption shows the skills of the Americans.

On the other hand, what about the so-called Warrior? They still use Cummins and diesel engines imported from Japan, and there is no need to mention fuel consumption.

In fact, in terms of the most detailed aspects, the anti-rust paint alone is enough for us to learn for decades...

And you actually lick your face and say that your car has complete independent intellectual property rights, so why do you still use Cummins diesel engines? Why not the diesel engines you produce yourself?

Thinking about the so-called combat vehicles that were produced in later generations and were installed by the troops of the Tianlu Dynasty, Jin Xiaoqiang could only keep shaking his head. Although there was a breakthrough in imitation, after all, his concept was already outdated.

It is true that the car has been built, it should be worthy of celebration, and it has been installed in the army, which also shows that this car must have certain advantages, but the key is the attitude of those officials. If you open your mouth and shut up, you will only talk about it. If this car is really

It's so awesome, so do they dare to take this car to the battlefield for testing?

At that time, Jin Xiaoqiang could only lament his misfortune and be angry at him for not fighting. But at that time, he was just a grassroots citizen. It was not his turn to take responsibility for such a major event that worried about the country and the people. It was not his turn.

He wanted to give advice, so as a knowledgeable person in the automobile industry at that time, he could only register a vest and post a few complaints in the forum.

But things are different now. The military came to his door and asked him to help design a model, a brand new combat model that meets the needs of war in the new era. The situation is different.

In his opinion, as long as he intervenes, that kind of imitation Hummer will never be allowed to continue to run rampant in the Tianlu Dynasty's army. In short, he will not be afraid of offending people because of this.

After he sobered up, Jin Xiaoqiang's mind flashed with the combat models of later generations. After choosing from them, the one that satisfied him the most was the Knight, which was called the beast of war after the Hummer.

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After the U.S. military experienced the second Iraq War, it launched two new military vehicles. One of them was the new mine-laying vehicle mrap, and the other was the xc2v. However, these two models were reborn after Jin Xiaoqiang's time travel.

At that time, they were not put on the battlefield in large quantities and were tested by war.

Therefore, Jin Xiaoqiang does not plan to copy these two models, because these two models are too avant-garde, and according to the current development trend of the Tianlu Dynasty's army, they have not yet made plans to expand externally and replace a large number of combat vehicles.

, just to catch up with international trends and mainly to act as a deterrent, then those two models can be ignored for the time being.

All he had to consider was to produce a combat vehicle that could rival the Hummer, but also be able to make up for the Hummer's shortcomings. At this time, the Knight, which was born in Canada, came into Jin Xiaoqiang's sight.

When it comes to this model, many people may not know much about it, but if you think about the armored vehicle in the famous movie "Fast and Furious 5", Dwayne Johnson drove it through the wall of a bank vault without being damaged.

car, so maybe everyone will have an impression!

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, his prototype car is the Cavalier XV that came to Canada, and the birth of this Cavalier XV was not originally prepared for war. It was born as a crossover luxury bulletproof SUV.

The original design concept of this vehicle was developed by a helmet company in the United States that specializes in the development of armored vehicles because of the increasingly tense security situation around the world. Later, in order to improve this Knight XV, they also established a new company in Canada.

company, and named it Conquer Corporation.

Of course, if you observe this car carefully, you will know that the origin of this car is actually traceable. Its original prototype was the tank T98 that came to Russia for a while and was quite famous.

, which is the once famous Russian battalion commander tank.

This monster was born in the hands of a not-so-famous company in Russia, Armored Combat Group. This company was a military-industrial enterprise in the former Soviet Union. Later, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this company specialized in building security for banks.

cash transport truck for a living.

Later, in 1995, American capital began to enter the Russian market in a big way. At that time, General Motors took aim at this company and started cooperation with it.

At that time, GM was very aware of the Hummer's shortcomings, that is, as a transport tank, the Hummer did not have sufficient battlefield protection. But with the Russians, the Americans found the answer.

So the two parties started cooperation, and soon this battalion commander's tank was born in 1997.

General Motors introduced the entire GMC pickup technology to Russia, from the skin to the engine, to the suspension chassis, etc., and then asked the Armored Combat Group to install a thick skin on the vehicle.

So the once-famous Battalion Commander was born. Unfortunately, GM made a wrong calculation. This car weighs nearly five tons. Even if they used an 8.1-liter V8 engine, it can barely handle it. And theirs is a pickup truck.

The suspension is even more frightening.

This hybrid has never been favored by the Russian military from the beginning to the end. From the extremely expensive price to the worryingly thin chassis spring suspension, as well as the high maintenance costs, as well as the different requirements between the two sides.

Combat ideas, so this car ended up in the Russian Ministry of Defense, but ended dismally, and did not get a single order.

Later, the Americans finally found a good market for this car, that is, the ultimate high-end SUV consumer market, and it was this car that was repackaged in luxurious packaging and exhibited at the Abu Dhabi International Defense Exhibition.

, this car is very popular in the private high-end defense market and has gained a certain reputation.

The Cavalier XV later produced by Canadian Automobile Co., Ltd. was simply developed based on this car. The body design was almost copied from the Battalion Commander, and corresponding changes were made.

But in terms of chassis and engines, because they were born about ten years later than the Battalion Commander, so many years of development in the automotive industry have made up for those shortcomings, and the Conqueror company has also made progress on the Cavalier Fifteen.

In this century, many internal changes were made to make the Knight XV more suitable for combat and new defense needs.

Compared with the Humvee, this Cavalier XV is mine-proof and grenade-proof, and can withstand attacks from any 7.62 mm caliber weapon, so in terms of armor protection, this vehicle still has nothing to say.

This Knight XV was also used in small quantities by the US military when the US military was bombed by IEDs on the streets in Iraq and Afghanistan, but was quickly abandoned by the US military.

The reason is very clear, that is, the power and chassis of this car are really inferior!

It is true that the protective capabilities of this Knight XV are very good, and the armor is also very complete, which is true, but its weakest point is its territory and engine.

This Cavalier XV uses a 350-horsepower turbocharged engine from Ford. This engine is really a bit too weak for the body of this car that weighs more than five tons.

Moreover, it also uses Ford's F550-level general-purpose pickup truck chassis, and it is this chassis that finally made this Cavalier XV disappear from the US Department of Defense's procurement list.

The same reason is that the territory of this f550 is really not enough to cope with the complex combat terrain!

These are all weaknesses for the Cavalier model, but not necessarily for Jin Xiaoqiang, so as long as he can do a good job in these two aspects, then this car can still be built by him.

A combat vehicle truly suitable for the battlefield! (To be continued