manynovel #425 - Rapid Reaction Force Lite
#425 - Rapid Reaction Force Lite
Regarding the matters of the Aviation Regiment, Ren Zhong couldn't provide Old Li with enough helicopters for him to squander.
However, Ren Zhong now had another mysterious piece of equipment in development that could keep Li Yunlong busy for a long time.
The Lynx all-terrain four-wheel-drive vehicle, in the Main World, was a toy produced by an agricultural vehicle company, who knew it would inadvertently become a favorite on the battlefields of a certain major country.
When Ren Zhong first saw this vehicle, he almost laughed at its ugly appearance.
But after learning about its performance in detail, he didn't hesitate to buy several for Liang Xiaofeng and his team to study and optimize the design. Although Liang Xiaofeng didn't know what Ren Zhong wanted him to do, this vehicle was at least a mass-produced product made by a domestic manufacturer. Even if his factory in Black Africa were to copy it, it wouldn't be appropriate.
Moreover, the cost of this vehicle was much higher than the various overloaded pickup trucks based on their own agricultural vehicle chassis. In order to achieve all-terrain four-wheel drive, the materials and structural design had to be greatly strengthened. Most importantly, the body had to be very compact, which was completely inconsistent with the characteristics of the Black African region's demand for large, capable, and load-bearing vehicles. If it were a purely passenger vehicle, its comfort level couldn't compare to off-road vehicles. For the Black African market, it was completely a white elephant.
However, Liang Xiaofeng didn't haggle over the task assigned by Ren Zhong. He instructed a research and development team to carefully "micro-innovate" on its basis, and conducted small-scale prototype production tests. After confirming the adjustment of some materials and structures, the engine displacement was increased, making the new model even stronger than the mass-produced original version.
After the micro-innovation, Ren Zhong didn't let the Black African factory in the Main World mass-produce this vehicle. Although in Ren Zhong's view, militarizing this vehicle would still have some appeal for the Black African market, after all, the price of this all-terrain vehicle was quite expensive compared to agricultural vehicles, but it seemed very affordable compared to real military armored vehicles and pickup trucks.
More importantly, on the roads of Black Africa, this vehicle was much more adaptable. It could run on any road, and its wading depth was as high as 0.4 meters or more, easily traversing muddy and rugged terrains.
In terms of load capacity, when used for transportation, it could compactly carry a squad! Or a maximum load of over 500 kilograms. With such a load capacity, in the Main World, it could be loaded with heavy and light machine guns, anti-tank missiles, man-portable air defense missiles, anti-aircraft machine guns, and other powerful weapons to directly participate in combat operations. Taking the 120mm mortar widely equipped by a certain army as an example, this all-terrain vehicle only needed two vehicles to carry one gun and one basic unit of ammunition, that is, a mortar squad composed of two vehicles could drag the gun and a basic unit of shells to carry out mobile strikes at any time, which greatly improved firepower and battlefield mobility.
For large-scale positional warfare, such all-terrain vehicles were not comparable to armored vehicles and tanks, but in some special occasions, such as reconnaissance, small-scale rapid response, and facing local forces lacking heavy firepower, Ren Zhong felt that they had a very strong practical role.
Therefore, seeing that Li Yunlong was a bit idle, Ren Zhong thought of this. It just so happened that the all-terrain vehicle in the Bright Sword world had already begun mass production. Originally, Ren Zhong wanted to build it for each company-level reconnaissance detachment, but after seeing Li Yunlong, Ren Zhong felt that he could do a little more.
"Let me build a rapid reaction force?" Li Yunlong took Ren Zhong's "Rapid Reaction Force Formation Plan" and, after reading it carefully, Old Li fell into silence.
According to Ren Zhong's plan, the entire rapid reaction force would be roughly a battalion-level scale, a strike brigade consisting of 4 helicopters and 30 three-wheeled motorcycles, and two ground strike brigades consisting of 60 Cheetah all-terrain vehicles, of which 30 Cheetah all-terrain vehicles would each carry a 5-man strike squad, including 1 machine gunner, 1 sniper, and 3 assaulters;
8 Cheetah all-terrain vehicles were modified into 107 rocket artillery mobile vehicles, and 8 Cheetah all-terrain vehicles were modified into 100mm mortars, which were 4 artillery groups respectively, one vehicle carrying the gun and the other carrying the shells;
4 Cheetah all-terrain vehicles were modified into 20mm anti-aircraft dual-purpose machine gun air defense groups, and the other 5 were modified into 5 heavy machine gun groups, and finally 5 were modified into 5 120mm single-barreled rocket launcher groups.
The number of people is not large, but the combat effectiveness and mobility are very strong.
According to Ren Zhong's plan, long-range mobility will be carried out by Y-8 transport aircraft, with the ability to deploy globally 24 hours a day!
"Brother Ren, this rapid reaction force of yours has so few people, if you really throw them onto a strange battlefield, I feel like they won't be of much use. This strength is enough to occupy checkpoints and block enemies, and under suitable terrain conditions, with enough ammunition, they can hold off a division for three to five days, but if it's really a remote place, our subsequent large troops can't get up there so quickly, I feel like the significance isn't very great." Li Yunlong saw the global deployment above and subjectively believed that this was going to be a world war.
If that's the case, even if you have a battalion-level armed force, even if the deployment speed is fast, it won't be of much use. Faced with a country, a small force can neither destroy the country nor easily protect itself.
"What are you thinking? The main task of this rapid reaction force is not to let you fight a big war, but to respond to counter-terrorism and local regional military conflicts." Ren Zhong knew that Old Li didn't have the experience of many small-scale military operations in the Main World, so he misunderstood the direction.
"For example, if our factories and mines in a certain country in Southeast Asia are suddenly besieged by rebels, and the local government forces request our reinforcement, we must be able to quickly dispatch troops to rescue them. The goal of our rapid reaction force is to have the ability to carry out rescue-type military operations on a global scale to cope with guerrilla forces of dozens or hundreds of people. Of course, it can also be invested in some small-scale military operations on the border."
Ren Zhong simply explained his thoughts, and Old Li understood.
"Okay, I'm idle anyway. I feel that the concept of a rapid reaction force that Brother Ren has proposed has some potential. I'll write a report later and request the establishment of a pilot program." Li Yunlong said a little excitedly.
"Chief of Staff Ye will coordinate this matter. This is not a big deal. A battalion-level force, Chief of Staff Ye can coordinate it and file it for record." Ren Zhong was already familiar with the operation mode of this matter.
People are already formed, and there is nothing special about the weapon preparation. The demand is not large, and Ren Zhong coordinated military production. All-terrain vehicles can be used by Li Yunlong for free trial first. Among them, the most difficult to get is the helicopter. Anyway, it is dispatched from Li Yunlong's own troops, and there is no need to make any major moves.
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So this matter was quickly put into operation.
Li Yunlong had another fun place to start moving.