As for the method of the PLA's cross-sea landing operations, everyone must be able to say one, two, three. For example, our operation will probably have several stages such as assembly and boarding, sea crossing, surprise landing, and expanding and consolidating the landing area. However, the defenders will definitely arrange various obstacles on the beach to delay our landing, and the method of arranging a large number of mines and mines on the sea and beach will be an important "killer" for the defenders on the island. After all, this cheap defense method with easy deployment, strong concealment, and high lethality will cause great distress and casualties to our vanguard during the surprise landing phase. So, in the face of this tricky anti-logging method, don't we have no choice?
The defenders on the island are practicing Deploying anti-tank mines
Taiwan island is practicing to defend our landing at the mouth of the Danshui River
In fact, this anti-landing method is not a new tactic. Historical battles have already proved that in the face of the absolute strength and technological advantages of the landing party, the defense's delusion has always been in vain. However, our army has practiced cross-sea landing operations for decades and explored a large number of tactics. Even when our weapons and equipment were still very backward in the early years, we began to combine various weapons and equipment to meet operational needs. In recent years, with the installation of a large number of new weapons and equipment, we have also been in line with the world, and we have explored a set of new tactics suitable for landing on the beach in the Taiwan Strait area and breaking down various anti-landing obstacles of the defenders.
The barrier-breaking plow can dig out buried mines and clear road obstacles. The vehicle is a special armored tracked vehicle that can quickly clear the obstacles and mines arranged by the enemy on the beach, and quickly open up a safe passage for our army's subsequent landing of the armored unit . This new type of amphibious armored demining vehicle is equipped with minesweeping plows, barrier wall blasters, rocket blasting bombs, passage marking devices and other equipment. It can rely on the two adjustable-depth mine-sweeping plows placed in front of the vehicle to strip the mines under a certain depth of soil and clear them to both sides of the road; It can also be destroyed with roof-lifting MLRS.
The blasting cables fired in the red circle
Two-row in-line Demining Cleaning range of blasting cables
Of course, the main business of this new type of amphibious armored vehicle is still "mining", so there are suspected minefields in the direction of advancement At the same time, a blasting and mine-sweeping launching device with an adjustable elevation angle installed on the rear of the roof can adjust the angle according to the distance from the minefield, and then launch a "rocket blasting cable" to blast and mine the minefield, so that one time can Open up a 4-meter-wide and nearly 100-meter-long safe passage for the follow-up armored troops. And this kind of blasting cable filled with a large amount of high-strength "Black Sokin" explosives is mainly composed of explosives, shells, detonating cords and connectors at both ends. Generally, there is a special rope behind the blasting cable fixed on the vehicle after firing. It can prevent the whole rope from clumping together in the air due to inertia, and cannot achieve the effect of in-line landing explosion to clear the minefield. But if this rope is cancelled, then the whole blasting rope will be huddled together and fly towards the target. At this time, the blasting rope of about 100 meters will become a large "explosive package". ever used.
American M136 "Volcano" mining vehicle
However, because the use of landmines on Taiwan Island is currently relatively restricted, it is not easy to carry out large-scale mine laying on the island. And because there are frequent people and boat activities in a large number of beach areas along the island, so there is no long-term mine-laying condition to prevent landing. Therefore, Taiwan Island began to submit an application to the United States to purchase the M136 "Volcano" mine-laying vehicle in 2021. . The American M136 "Volcano" mine-laying vehicle is actually an automatic mine-laying system developed in the 1980s. It has a vehicle-mounted version and an airborne version. It can quickly deploy a large number of anti-personnel mines and anti-tank mines in designated areas. Customers like Dao who have "just needs" for temporary maneuvering and quick minelaying.
"Volcano" mine-laying vehicle is laying mines
"Volcano" mine-laying vehicle contains 6 mines in each mine-laying barrel, this vehicle-mounted mine-laying system can carry out mine-laying operations at a speed of 10-90 kilometers, and the projected mines will be scattered on the ground Within a distance of 25-60 meters from the vehicle. Generally, it takes an average of about 10 minutes for a mining vehicle to launch all 160 mine barrels, and the speed of the vehicle can be used to adjust the density of the minefield. Because of the need to abide by the international restrictions on killing and killing civilians, the mines launched by the M136 "Volcano" mine-laying vehicle are all visible on the surface, and these mines will be automatically deployed within 4 minutes after being launched and landed, with timeout and automatic failure. And it can be set in advance to self-destruct after 4 hours, 48 hours or 15 days.
The U.S. military gives priority to its own airborne version of the "Volcano"
. However, in order to avoid the restrictions of the "Ottawa Treaty", the U.S. unblocked the automatic mine-laying system that had been sealed for 20 years in 2014, and canceled the anti-personnel mines. The ability to lay anti-tank mines is retained to circumvent treaty restrictions. Therefore, even if Taiwan Island now buys the M136 "Volcano" mine-laying vehicle, it can only use anti-tank mines to carry out delayed operations against our army's landing troops. But now there are two "flaws" on Taiwan Island that cannot be resolved.
Our army's unmanned combat vehicle
The hovercraft can ignore beachhead mines and go deep into the inland
First, the M136 "Volcano" mining vehicle will be given priority to the US military after it is unsealed by the US military. Moreover, the U.S. military currently only needs to equip the "airborne version" used by helicopters, and has not considered the vehicle-mounted version; On the air-cushion landing craft , unmanned combat vehicles, and a large number of helicopters, the traditional landing tactics of crawling inch by inch on the beach were abandoned. Moreover, Taiwan Island submitted an application to purchase 14 M136 "Volcano" mining vehicles from the United States in 2021, and did not receive a reply from the United States until the end of 2022. And even if the United States agrees to sell it, it is estimated that this large minelaying vehicle, which cannot be used until Taiwan Island confirms the start of the landing operation, will hardly escape our Wuzhi attack on the beach. From the perspective of
, I am afraid that our new amphibious armored demining vehicle may not be of great use by then!
