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"The infantry regiment's light anti-aircraft weapons have been finalized, and the next step is heavy anti-aircraft weapons, which will be equipped to the division headquarters and headquarters. If the scale increases in the future, we will have to at least add an air defense regiment!

Both of these require large anti-aircraft weapons, the best of which are anti-aircraft guns. Let's take a look at what they have!"

Mall anti-aircraft gun interface:

FLAK18 88mm anti-aircraft gun: 500 military merit points. [Maximum range meters, maximum firing height 8800 meters]

M1939型37毫米高射炮：400军功点。【最大射程8500米，最大射高6700米】

M1型40毫米高射炮：450军功点。【最大射高4600米，有效射高2700米。】

Type 59 100mm anti-aircraft gun: 800 military merit points. [Maximum firing height meters]

Origen 20mm anti-aircraft machine gun: .350 military merit points. [Effective range 4500 meters, maximum firing height 3400 meters]

Boleda 20mm anti-aircraft machine gun: 380 military merit points. [Effective firing height 1500 meters]

Madsen 20mm anti-aircraft machine gun: 400 military merit points. [Effective range 2000 meters]

Type 25 400mm twin anti-aircraft machine gun: 5500 military merit points. [Maximum firing height 3000 meters, effective firing height meters]

FIak30 20mm anti-aircraft machine gun: 380 military merit points. [Effective firing height 2200 meters]

65式双管37毫米高射机关炮：1000军功点。【最大射程8500米，最大射高6700米，有效射高3000米】

74式双管37毫米高射机关炮：1500军功点。【最大射程8500米，最大射高6700米，有效射高3000米】

Type 72 85mm anti-aircraft gun: 1500 military merit points. [Maximum range meters, maximum firing height meters, effective firing height meters]

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This time Xu Le watched very seriously. After all, anti-aircraft guns are mainly used to defend against bombers. If the enemy dispatches bombers, they will either launch large-scale bombing on the frontline positions or destroy the headquarters.

The division headquarters is the command center of the 176th Division, and the headquarters is the soul of the entire force, so it must be guaranteed to be foolproof.

Unless the troops are transferred, the location of the headquarters will not change, so large-caliber anti-aircraft guns are needed.

Originally, Xu Le had set his sights on the Type 59 100mm anti-aircraft gun, which has a firing height of over 1 meters and can attack all current aircraft.

But after seeing the Type 72 85mm anti-aircraft gun, he changed his mind again. The Type 59 anti-aircraft gun was indeed much more powerful, but its total weight reached 10 tons. Although it would not be easily changed once it was equipped, such a big guy always felt unsightly.

Moreover, the performance of the Type 59 anti-aircraft gun is not that strong. Strictly speaking, it imitates the Xiong country's KC19M2 anti-aircraft gun, a product of the late 40s. Xu Le is used to the gap across generations, so it must be at least 10 years.

The only contemporary weapons in the army nowadays are the MG42 general-purpose machine gun and the Bofors M1930 mountain cannon. The reason why he did not replace these two is mainly because the MG42 is too powerful. In the current situation where the army is short of manpower, the MG42 machine gun can indirectly make up for the gap.

However, the logistical pressure on MG42 was too great. There was no shortage of bullets, but even if there were enough trucks, it would not be easy to keep up with the consumption of one gun.

As the saying goes, success or failure depends on the firing rate. Although gun barrels do not require military merit points to exchange, the infantry are all automatic weapons, and their firepower far exceeds that of the enemy. At this time, the super-fast firing rate of the MG42 machine gun seems to be a waste. It is impossible to carry dozens or hundreds of gun barrels during combat.

The Bofors mountain gun can be said to be the strongest mountain gun of the same period. Its performance in all aspects far exceeds that of other mountain guns. Moreover, small-caliber mountain guns will be eliminated in the future because of their low firepower, so there will be no other choice.

Whether it is MG42 or Bofors, they will be eliminated after a period of time and replaced with more matching equipment according to the needs of the troops.

Back to the choice of anti-aircraft guns, the Type 72 85mm anti-aircraft gun is an anti-aircraft gun independently developed by China, specifically used to replace the bulky Type 59 anti-aircraft gun.

The full weight in marching state is 6300 kilograms, and the full weight in combat state is 5900 kilograms, which is almost half lighter than the Type 59.

The gun's loading system uses an automatic program control circuit, which has a high rate of fire and shooting accuracy; it uses a hydraulic march-to-combat conversion device; the follow-up system utilizes thyristor technology and composite control principles to improve the gun's tracking accuracy and aiming speed.

The artillery is equipped with an 860 small gun-aiming radar, a new 3-meter rangefinder, and an electromechanical (or digital) director. The artillery has all-weather combat capabilities and has four aiming modes: automatic, semi-automatic, hand-cranked aiming, and manual.

"It's selected. This is it. It will be the headquarters' heavy anti-aircraft firepower! A Type 72 anti-aircraft gun crew consists of seven people. The headquarters' safety must be guaranteed. We need to equip it with 7 guns to form a direct anti-aircraft battalion."

Purchase 27 Type 72 85mm anti-aircraft guns, consuming military merit points.

"This is a fixed anti-aircraft gun. We also need to build a highly mobile anti-aircraft machine gun, an anti-aircraft machine gun between the Type 77 anti-aircraft machine gun and the Type 72 anti-aircraft gun. In this way, the air defense force will be completely complete."

Finally, Xu Le chose the Type 74 twin-barrel 37mm anti-aircraft machine gun.

This gun is improved on the basis of the Type 65 37mm twin-barrel anti-aircraft gun, and its automatic mechanism and internal ballistic performance are basically the same as those of the Type 65 37mm twin-barrel anti-aircraft gun.

In order to improve the automation level of the artillery, a tracking system was designed. The system is used in conjunction with radar, director and diesel generator to turn the artillery into an all-weather weapon system, enabling the artillery to continuously and automatically track fast-moving air targets and carry out firing based on the firing parameters output by the director.

The main reason for choosing this machine gun is that it can operate 24 hours a day, all weather, and can track automatically. The artillery only needs to be proficient in operating the system, and the double-barreled rate of fire can reach more than 400 rounds per minute.

Also purchase 27 guns and organize them into the division's direct air defense battalion, and consume military merit points.

There is a difference between being directly under the headquarters and being directly under the division headquarters. A division only has a division headquarters. Generally, only troops at the army level and above have the title of headquarters.

However, the three major departments of the 176th Division were established in secret. In theory, they are the highest departments of the army, and the division headquarters are under their jurisdiction. It's just that they can't be made public now, otherwise it will definitely attract an investigation by the National Guard Military Committee or the Military Control Commission.

Xu Le was the commander of the 176th Division and the highest officer in the army, but he was also the young marshal and the highest authority in the headquarters.