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Following the tank phalanx are various self-propelled artillery phalanxes.

As early as 1914, the Russian Empire produced the world's first 76mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun mounted on a truck chassis. The first self-propelled howitzer was developed by France in 1917. Shortly after the birth of the tank in World War I, the French installed a tracked tank on the chassis of a tracked tank in order to make the heavy towed gun more maneuverable and able to quickly think about shifting positions in various terrain conditions. A field gun with mobile cross-country performance. However, the self-propelled artillery at this time did not have armor protection and was only suitable for fire support of infantry.

The world's first turret-type self-propelled artillery with armor protection was made by the Germans. The towed anti-tank guns that emerged in World War I were poor in mobility and protection. Germany believed that only by making these artillery guns run as fast as enemy tanks could they effectively fight tanks. In addition, because the artillery caliber of the early tanks was small and the firepower was weak, there was also a need for an artillery that could accompany the tank, provide fire support for the tank, and have certain protective properties.

In September 1939, Germany occupied Czechoslovakia and obtained a large number of Czech-made 47mm anti-tank guns with relatively superior performance at the time. In 1940, during the Battle of France, the Alcatel Company in Berlin, Germany installed this gun on the chassis of the No. 1 tank and designed and manufactured a box-shaped armored turret with an open back. The turret could not rotate, but the gun could turn left and right 15 degrees. This is the world's first self-propelled artillery with armor protection, and also the world's first self-propelled anti-tank gun. It has good results in actual combat. It was used as the main anti-tank weapon of the German army until 1943.

Various self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, assault guns, howitzers, mortars, rocket launchers, and mortars with calibers ranging from 20mm to 40mm, 50mm, 75mm, 88mm...all the way to 380mm dazzled everyone in the audience, especially the last five 380mm assault vehicles. When the tiger passed by the auditorium, the famous saying of German Chancellor Bismarck, "Truth is only within the range of a cannon!" rang in everyone's minds. With such a terrifying caliber, that's just what the Germans say. Can those who resist it withstand this guy's shot? !

The self-propelled artillery phalanx all drove past in the panic of everyone. Next on the scene were giant wheeled special vehicles. These vehicles carried cylindrical objects, and some cylindrical objects had "flying wings" on them. ", and some only have a few fins at the rear. The lengths of these cylinders also vary, some are only a few meters long, and some are more than ten meters or even twenty or thirty meters long.

"What kind of weapon is this?" Everyone couldn't help but whisper.

"I don't know, it must be a secret weapon." They saw that there were no follow-up phalanxes in the distance, which meant that these cylindrical objects were the finale.

Just listen to the commentator continue to explain. "Everyone, I believe you have all heard of the 'flying bombs' that our army used to attack London, England. Not long ago, these 'flying bombs' also bombed Washington and Moscow. Now, I would like to introduce to you this epoch-making weapon, the 'cruise bomb' Missiles' and 'ballistic missiles'!"

"Oh God!" Everyone on the viewing platform was shocked when they heard that the maximum range of these missiles could be as high as 10,000 kilometers and the terminal speed could reach more than ten times the speed of sound. What is the concept of a range of 10,000 kilometers? The Germans can attack the entire United States and the Soviet Union on their own homeland, and at speeds exceeding ten times the speed of sound, it is impossible to intercept them. In this way, the United States and the Soviet Union will only be beaten!

Before everyone could recover from the shock, the roar of an engine could be heard in the distance, resounding throughout the sky.

"..." Everyone looked at the helicopter formation hovering in mid-air in stunned silence. Only a few of them have seen this kind of aircraft with their own eyes, and most of the rest have either only heard of it or have never heard of it. At this moment, they all looked at these aircraft with surprised faces without wings or propellers. Helicopter above the plane.

During this period, German helicopters also developed rapidly. Previously, Mi-4 helicopters were loaded with machine guns, grenade launchers, rocket launcher nests, etc. and used as armed helicopters. Now equipped with real armed helicopters. It's just that Yannick once again had trouble choosing, because there were two armed helicopters for him to choose from. One is the Soviet Mi-24 "Hind" and the other is the American AH-1 "Cobra".

After pondering for several days, Yanik chose the Mi-24 as the Army Aviation armed helicopter. Anyway, the helicopter development of the Army Aviation has been heavily biased towards the Soviet style, and he did not mind having another Mi-24.

Moreover, the Mi-24 has many advantages, such as simple maintenance: Americans once commented that this helicopter is similar to a tractor and can be maintained in the open air; it has strong ammunition compatibility: cluster bombs, fuel-air bombs, high-explosive bombs, and 57mm~240mm rockets ammunition, 23mm cannon, machine gun pod, 30mm automatic grenade pod, 30mm artillery pod, AA-8 "Aphid", anti-tank missiles, basically everything you can think of can be installed, and I even killed one with a rocket. F4 (During the Iran-Iraq War on October 27, 1982, an Iranian AH-1 encountered an Mi-24, and the AH-1 called for an F4 fighter. In the face of the F4 whose firepower and size far exceeded its own, this The Mi-24, which should have surrendered, gave it a try: the two sides made head-on contact at low altitude. When the F-4 was preparing to climb, the Mi-24 suddenly launched four rockets that were supposed to be used for ground attacks into the nest. All the ammunition poured out, and the unlucky F-4 was directly hit and exploded in the air! This move of the Mi-24 not only set a precedent for an armed helicopter to shoot down a fighter jet in actual combat, but was also the only actual combat example in which the armed forces directly faced a fighter jet and achieved results. ); Thick skin, thick flesh and lots of blood: It is simply a flying human shield. On the battlefield in Afghanistan, it often patrols near the airport, blocking the stings of transport aircraft such as the Il-76 that are taking off and landing; and it can also transport soldiers ( The original V-24 plan of the Mi-24 was just an assault transport helicopter), which could carry a squad of Soviet soldiers, brave the hail of bullets, and occupy the commanding heights before the Afghan soldiers; it is equivalent to combining the American Black Hawk + Apache It can do everything, but this also leads to the feeling that the Mi-24 is not doing its job properly (it can do everything, but cannot do everything). After all, the number of troop transports is not as large as that of the Black Hawk (the "Black Hawk" can carry 12 fully armed commandos, or It can force 18 lightly-armed personnel), and its combat effectiveness is not as strong as the Apache; therefore, there is a joke in later generations that it is "the best weapon and equipment among transport helicopters, and the most capable of transporting people among armed helicopters."