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US Marines GAVE UP on having tanks - reason is PLA can kill them just like video games, but PLA can kill EVERYTHING this way!

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美陆战队决定放弃坦克:与中国交战时很容易被击毁

2020年03月30日 10:28 环球时报



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《陆战队时报》网站报道,2018年和2019年,美国海军陆战队举行了一系列演习,帮助他们下定决心,放弃坦克和其他过时的装备。这些装备在与中国这样的强大对手交战时,非常容易被击毁。
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[美国海军陆战队的M1A2坦克]
演习后的总结报告说:“战场上首先开火的部队具有决定性优势,那些能够在敌军远程火力杀伤区内作战的部队,比那些必须迅速机动离开交战区的部队更有战斗力。”
因此,陆战队决定放弃坦克,削减火炮和轻型航空攻击平台。这带来了一些指责。几十年来,坦克往往在高强度作战和城市战中成功发挥作用,是地面部队的大威力平台。
但是从中东地区的交战来看,在精确打击武器、无人机和监视系统泛滥的战区,坦克装甲车辆的生存力是成问题的。
例如,土耳其在2月发动了针对叙利亚政府军的攻势,击毁了上百辆坦克装甲车辆、数十门火炮,打死了数百叙利亚军人。
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[土耳其的TB2无人机]
土耳其公布了一些无人机的图像。远程火炮和航空兵联合起来,几天之内就从空中严重打击了叙利亚装甲兵。叙利亚政府军完全无从防御这种远程打击。哪怕坦克藏进建筑物和灌木丛中,也难逃空中传感器和热像仪的眼睛。
由于大量先进反坦克武器在全球冲突地区的存在,以及非政府武装开始拥有远程无人机,问题更加严重了。
在利比亚,反政府的利比亚国民军对联合国支持的利比亚政府军发起了无人机战争。阿联酋向前者提供了中国制造的翼龙2无人机,航程达到2000千米,采用卫星链路控制,装备了中国制造的红箭7空对地导弹。
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[埃及装备的翼龙2]
美国海军陆战队的报告中说:“机动性在武器交战区中具有很大的优势和作战紧迫性。”
陆战队希望能把重点转向无人地面系统、无人机、火箭炮和远程火力,用十年时间把火箭炮连的数量从14个增加到21个。

U.S. Marine Corps decides to abandon tanks: easily destroyed in battle with China
U.S. Marine Corps decides to abandon tanks: easily destroyed in battle with China
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The Marine Corps Times website reports that in 2018 and 2019, the US Marine Corps held a series of exercises to help them make up their minds to abandon tanks and other outdated equipment. These equipment can be easily destroyed when fighting against a powerful opponent like China.

[M1A2 tank of the US Marine Corps]

总结 The summary report after the exercise said: "The troops that fired first on the battlefield have a decisive advantage. Those capable of operating in the enemy's long-range fire kill zone are more combative than those that must move quickly out of the combat zone."

As a result, the Marine Corps decided to abandon tanks and reduce artillery and light aviation attack platforms. This brings some blame. For decades, tanks have often played a successful role in high-intensity combat and urban warfare, and are a powerful platform for ground forces.

But judging from the war in the Middle East, the viability of tank-armored vehicles is a problem in war zones where precision strike weapons, drones and surveillance systems are flooding.

For example, Turkey launched an offensive against Syrian government forces in February, destroying hundreds of tank-armored vehicles, dozens of artillery pieces, and killing hundreds of Syrian soldiers.

[Turkey's TB2 drone]

Turkey released some images of drones. The long-range artillery and aviation united and severely hit the Syrian armored forces from the air within a few days. Syrian government forces have no defense against such long-range strikes. Even if the tank is hidden in buildings and bushes, it is difficult to escape the eyes of aerial sensors and thermal cameras.

问题 The problem is exacerbated by the presence of a large number of advanced anti-tank weapons in conflict zones around the world, and the start of long-range drones by non-governmental armed forces.

In Libya, the anti-government Libyan National Army has launched a drone war against the United Nations-backed Libyan government forces. The United Arab Emirates provided the Chinese-made Pterodactyl-2 drone with a range of 2,000 kilometers, using satellite link control, and equipped with a Chinese-made Red Arrow 7 air-to-ground missile.

[Egypt equipped pterosaur 2]

The U.S. Marine Corps report states: "Mobility has a great advantage and operational urgency in a weapon engagement zone."

The Marine Corps hopes to shift its focus to unmanned ground systems, drones, rocket launchers, and long-range firepower, and to increase the number of rocket launchers from 14 to 21 in ten years.
 
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