My Italian: Chapter 541 Airborne

The water tank project has made phased progress, which is naturally gratifying.

But for the Army, the water tank project is just one of many development projects. Although it has the blessing of the king's attention, the Ministry of War has too many things to keep in mind, so when the news of the phased completion of the project came, Beno, who is the head of the four divisions of the Ministry of War, is in charge of military technology research. General, after seeing the news from Lieutenant Colonel Valorum, he thought about it carefully.

"Well done, send a telegram of encouragement."

This telegram of encouragement is the award from the War Department.

The War Department is more concerned with another project than it is with a somewhat inattentive approach to the water tank project.

The Garcia Army Training Field is a large training field of the Army in the north. The field covers more than 100 square kilometers and can be a large field for division-level and even military-level confrontation.

And today, a unique exercise is going on here.

I saw three airships slowly flying by in the sky, and behind the airships, parachutes appeared one by one, and the white parachutes slowly fell to the ground like dandelions. In the distance, a group of officers with epaulettes , is holding a telescope to observe the situation of its landing intently.

"Your Excellency Minister, what you are currently seeing are the first and second companies of paratroopers in our airborne regiment who are performing parachuting missions. They are responsible for giving priority to airdrops to the enemy's rear, carrying out bridges, transportation hubs, command posts, and other strategic and tactical targets. ."

Next to Simeone, a colonel was explaining the Italian paratroopers who were parachuting in the air.

That's right, the paratroopers have already appeared in the Italian Army. This is not someone's reminder, but the arms developed by the Army itself.

After the airship was successfully developed, the Army purchased several airships. In addition to being used for transportation at the beginning, the Army is considering other uses for its good carrying capacity and ignoring the characteristics of the terrain. One of the most exciting for the Army is the air-to-ground attack, as well as the airlifting of troops behind enemy lines to destroy and seize key points.

For ground attack, I have considered installing artillery on the airship before, but I found it to be very unreliable. The recoil of the artillery is unbearable for the airship. If you can't shoot too many guns, it will cause damage to the airship's skeleton. In the end, the ground attack decided to use bombs.

As for the airborne troops bypassing the enemy's defense lines and attacking at their weak points, this must be said of the airborne troops in front of them.

The unit was formed a year and a half ago, and was headed by Colonel Higgs, who had the most idea of ​​airborne behind enemy lines.

Colonel Higgs took the newly formed airborne regiment and trained for a full year and a half. The airships in the army's hands have been cooperating with his training for most of the time, and now he can finally pull it out and see the world.

I saw the parachuting soldiers gradually landed one by one. These soldiers immediately converged in twos and threes, and gradually gathered together like a river. Half of them quickly seized the commanding heights of the surrounding hills and set up weapons to guard.

The other half was quickly cleaned up in a flat open space, and the stones, small shrubs, and scattered trees were all cleaned up with the assistance of the soldiers' shovels. Several soldiers immediately took out a white cloth and spread out a cross, as if to guide the air. There are three such crosses, each of which is nearly 100 meters apart.

After a while, several airships appeared in front of everyone.

"Minister, the airship that has arrived at the moment is carrying a series of aircraft landings. They mainly use aircraft landings. Of course, if necessary, they can also conduct parachuting."

As for Colonel Higgs' words, Admiral Simonyi replied casually, and he still carefully observed the situation of the exercise through the telescope.

The airship came very quickly, and it didn't take long to bring the cleared airborne site. I saw three airships slowly descend to the ground. After the airship landed, the hatch was opened, and a team of soldiers, led by officers, were fully armed. ran out.

The process is quick, just a minute or two. The airship that completed the transportation immediately took off, leaving the landing site for the airship waiting behind.

After the two landing companies landed, except for one company to defend the landing field, the other three companies quickly attacked and advanced in a zigzag pattern.

"Well-equipped, well-trained and organized."

A visiting general praised the training level of the airborne regiment.

For this sentence, none of you present objected, because the airborne regiment really deserved this sentence.

Well-trained and organized, that's because the airborne regiment was originally an elite recruited from various units. And this year and a half, the army is giving what it wants, and Colonel Higgs is also capable, how can he not be elite.

One more thing, in the airborne regiment, the worst soldiers are senior soldiers, but most of them are non-commissioned officers, and the officers are generally high-ranking and low-ranking. The squad leader is a large number of second lieutenants, and even two company commanders are still. Major rank.

As a result of the current situation, on the one hand, it is preparing for the expansion of the airborne troops, and on the other hand, it has a lot to do with weapons and equipment. Now there are many types of weapons in the airborne troops, and the requirements for officers are higher.

So how tall is it?

A squad of airborne troops is equipped with 10 m88 Carcano lances, yes, lances. Because of the airborne relationship, longer rifles are not easy to carry, so shorter lances are used instead.

In addition to 10 cavalry lances, a squad of airborne troops also has a Leveri light machine gun.

That's right, a machine gun!

In this day and age, no national army has assigned machine guns to squads. At present, it is basically equipped with battalion and company level, and there is no equipment even in the platoon. The airborne troops are the first of its kind in history, and they can be used directly in the class in one step.

In addition to one light machine gun for each infantry squad, the airborne troops are also equipped with two Maxim heavy machine guns at the company level. Such a luxurious company firepower configuration will not be out of date in thirty years.

However, the airborne troops are equipped with so much machine gun firepower, considering the characteristics of their troops, and fighting deep behind enemy lines, if the firepower is not enough, it is to send food, so it must strengthen enough firepower.

In addition to machine guns, there are currently fewer artillery pieces that paratroopers can use. At present, in addition to the newly developed mortars, the largest artillery piece of the airborne regiment is the 75mm mountain gun.

This is also due to the fact that the airship can not choose a venue, otherwise their airborne troops can only use mortars.

The mortar here is the result of the latest development in Italy. It has changed the current mode of base launching in various countries. The genius adopts the mode of integrating the propellant and the shell, and uses the bottom needle to impact the launch. This changes the current model of mortars weighing hundreds of kilograms in various countries, and directly reduces the mortar to dozens of kilograms.

And not only has the weight gone down, but the range has also gone up. Under the guidance of a certain prophet, the mortar using spindle-shaped shells can hit a range of 2,100 meters.

It can be said that such a change is a technological revolution, and countries in the future will inevitably learn from Italy's practice. Cannons weighing dozens of pounds can be easily moved by manpower, UU reading www.uukanshu. Although the com is not very accurate and consumes more shells, the advantages of high mobility and curved shooting are enough.

Italy has developed two types of mortars, 81mm and 100mm. At present, these two kinds of mortars are given priority to be equipped with airborne troops. It is light and flexible, and has a good range.

In front of the army's top management, the airborne troops performed very well from landing, raiding the target, and then sticking to waiting for assistance. The whole exercise was praised, which made Colonel Higgs very happy.

"It's done very well. The airborne troops need to be expanded. The existing more than 1,000 people are too few. I need you to expand it to 6,000 people within five years."

Simeone's words made Colonel Higgs immediately hold his inner joy, and he answered loudly. "Please rest assured, Minister, within five years, we will definitely train 6,000 airborne troops that are even more elite than before."

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