Considering that the combat effectiveness of the Taiwan Army and the People's Liberation Army are too far apart, the Taiwan Army began to want to fight against the People's Liberation Army who landed on the island by laying mines. On January 19, the Taiwan Army officially began to try to purchase the "Volcano" land-based mobile minelaying system from the United States under the name of the "Nine Fronts Project".
M139 belongs to the aerial mine-laying system
"Volcano" mobile mine-laying system is divided into different models according to the different platforms. M139 belongs to the air minelaying system, and M136 belongs to the land mobile minelaying system. The Taiwan Army wants to purchase this time, which is the M136 land mobile minelaying system. The M136 land-based mobile mine-laying system is based on the M977 heavy-duty military truck, which can conduct rapid mobile mine-laying.
In fact, the layout of the platform is not important. The core of the "Volcano" mine-laying system is its quick mine-laying tube. This fast mine-laying tube can carry 6 special mines inside, which can be thrown and laid by the propellant in the mine-laying tube. The US military's approach is generally to use a mix of 5 anti-tank mines +1 anti-infantry mines inside a single quick mine-laying tube to prevent opponents from using engineers to quickly mine-sweeping .
At the same time, in order to further enhance the deterrent ability against deminers and personnel, all anti-personnel landmines and anti-tank mines are equipped with timing self-destruction devices, which can detonate by themselves after reaching the set time, and strengthen the defense against the opponent's deminers. lethal and psychological deterrence capabilities.
The entire "Nine Fronts Project" did not mention the use of landmines produced locally in Taiwan Province. Therefore, the M136 land mobile minelaying system to be introduced by the Taiwan Army is estimated to be from the M977 heavy-duty military truck, rapid mine laying tubes to special mines. Considering that this is a surface defense weapon, the overall purchase price may not be low.
However, the biggest problem facing the Taiwan Army's "Nine Fronts Project" is not the funding problem, but the supply problem. The "Volcano" excited and not tired system was developed in the 1980s and entered service in the US military in the 1990s. It has been discontinued for many years. The current self-use model of the US military is also a refurbished stock.
If the Taiwan Army wants to purchase the "Volcano" mobile minelaying system, it may face the problem of no suppliers. After all, the purchase volume of the Taiwan Army is not enough to support the restart of the production line. Therefore, if the Taiwan Army can really buy the "Volcano" mobile minelaying system in the end, it is likely to be stocked in the United States 20 or 30 years ago.
After talking about the "Volcano" mobile mine-laying system, let's talk about the PLA's rapid demining capability on the battlefield.
When it comes to battlefield demining, many people may still have the impression of manual demining in the early days, that is, demining engineers wear heavy explosion-proof suits and carry detection equipment to manually demining. Of course, it cannot be said that there is no such thing now, but the People's Liberation Army will not use manual demining to deal with the "Volcano" mobile mine-laying system.
The design purpose of the "Volcano" mobile mine-laying system is not to cause heavy damage to the opponent through rapid mine-laying, but to set up a huge minefield to prevent the opponent's troops and personnel from passing quickly through fast and large-scale mine-laying. Its biggest shortcoming is that all mines are not buried in the ground, but laid on the surface.
In this case, if the troops want to quickly pass through such minefields, they can just use demining vehicles directly.
The People's Liberation Army is currently equipped with many types of mine-clearing and mine-sweeping vehicles. The "GSL" series has developed corresponding models of mine-sweeping vehicle and obstacle-removing vehicle . And it is divided into two series of crawler type and wheel type, which can adapt to the needs of different troops. Under normal circumstances, when demining and clearing obstacles, rocket demining vehicles are used to detonate some surface mines first, and then use mechanical chains, demining devices, etc. to clear the remaining sporadic mines and open a safe passage. .
This demining method has a disadvantage, that is, the obstacle removal vehicle needs to be manually driven to clear the mines, and there is still a certain danger. Therefore, in recent years, our army has also begun to develop and equip some new mine-clearing vehicles, such as laser mine-clearing vehicles, which can use high-power lasers to destroy landmines at long distances.burn. Another example is the JY905-S unmanned mine-sweeping vehicle, which can be remotely controlled to clear mines, which is safer.
Therefore, we don’t have to worry too much about the “Volcano” land-based mobile minelaying system that the Taiwan Army wants to purchase. China has already begun to develop and equip a large number of this rapid minelaying system during the Sino-Vietnamese border self-defense counterattack . Even in the combat system of the U.S. military, the "Volcano" mobile minelaying system is only used as a lagging weapon, which will not have a great impact on our army.
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