Two Hundred and Sixty-Five Expensive Wars
On the frontal battlefield, the troops of the puppet empire scattered and retreated, leaving behind a bunch of worthless puppets to defend against Alan Hill's pursuit. Many defenders of the Holy Demon Empire didn't know about this.
These abandoned soldiers stayed on the ground to wait for the destruction of Ailan Hill. In just one morning, their line of defense was breached by Ailan Hill. After repeated battles, Ailan Hill pushed the line of defense southward. 70 km.
However, after that, Ailan Hill also gave up the pursuit, stopped on the spot, and began to rest and replenish. The reason is nothing else, because after a fierce battle, the frontline troops of Ailan Hill suffered huge losses.
If it hadn't been backed by the westward railway, if it hadn't cut back some of the supplies that had been replenished to the 9th Army, the 1st Army might not have been able to support it on the second day of the counterattack. Now that they stopped to rest, General Walter breathed a sigh of relief.
Just when the 1st Army stopped moving south, Serris's wartime economic meeting was convened on time. All senior officials in charge of production and the military left in Serris attended the meeting.
After all, the issues discussed in this meeting were left over from the fierce battle of the puppet empire.
Minister of Defense, Archduke Higgs Castner expressed emotion at the meeting: "This may be the best war we mortals have ever fought in history! We have defeated a powerful magical empire, and the enemy even We didn't break through our defenses!"
He was right, whether in terms of scale or results, the battle between Ailan Hill and the puppet empire was absolutely unprecedented. The number of troops on both sides involved in the war was fierce, and the battle was brutal. The results of the Mortal Empire surpassed any previous battle.
"Yes, but I'm sure that this is the most expensive war we've fought so far." Looking at the rough statistics, Gurlo answered with pain.
In order not to be defeated in the battle against the puppet empire, the 1st Army, the main force of Ailan Hill, suffered heavy losses yesterday. The ammunition consumed is countless, and the cost is really touching.
Des didn't have much resistance to spending money. He was the first to witness the rise of Alan Hill, so in his subconscious, he firmly believed that Chris had the magical power to return after a thousand dollars was spent.
But even so, he was still surprised by yesterday's consumption, and he agreed with Gurlo's statement: "Yes, the consumption of one day yesterday, the gold coins we threw out, is almost the sum of all the wars launched in human history in the past. It's almost cost."
You know, just over four years ago, Seris' annual revenue was only about 1,000 gold coins. At that time, Chris was still worried about his tax tribute, and when a country started a war, it was nothing more than spending tens of thousands of gold coins, or hundreds of thousands of gold coins.
But now, in a battle, the total value of the air-to-air missiles consumed by Ailan Hill has far exceeded the amount of 100,000 gold coins.
Now you know why so many modern air-to-air missiles use infrared combat missiles? Because radar-guided missiles are more expensive... From the seeker analysis, infrared-guided missiles are really cheap, so cheap that many technologies can even be extended to the civilian field.
The radar-guided missile seeker is very expensive, and the two sides are basically not on the same level. Therefore, even in the most wealthy countries, the seekers of air-to-air missiles are mixed. Long-range air-to-air missiles with over-the-horizon range use radar seekers to highlight their performance that they can be ignored after launch, and short-range air-to-air missiles use infrared guidance. Lead, cost control also have more reasonable performance indicators.
Of course, the wider locking range of the infrared seeker is also one of the main reasons why most combat missiles choose infrared seekers. However, the cheap price is indeed a reference reason. The Mika air-to-air missile is a counter-example, and the price is scary...
Alan Hill for special reasons,
Inexpensive infrared seekers cannot be used, so only expensive radar seekers can be used, which is also a very tricky choice for combat missiles.
After all, the size of the infrared seeker is small, the missile can be made smaller, the maneuverability is better, and it is easier to hit the target of the size of the magician.
Having said that, if Alan Hill enters the technical field of the second-generation infrared air-to-air missile, then these problems can be solved: thermal imaging infrared guidance technology is much more reliable and resistant to interference than the earlier pure thermal induction guidance technology.
If you count the assistance of other guidance modes, the new infrared combat missile is not unusable, on the contrary, it will join the air-to-air missile camp to strengthen the guidance weapons of the Airland Hill Air Force.
At least, when using infrared guidance, the locking area is very huge, which is an unparalleled advantage when launching air-to-air missiles at close range and at a large angle. No radar seeker can replace such an advantage.
These are all things to come. The basic situation now is that air-to-air missiles are still expensive radar-guided, and the price is still high. In yesterday's battle, the MiG-21 launched a total of 190 Sparrow missiles at various targets. The hit rate is less than half.
Even so, this missile has already shown its strong future potential: less than 100 missiles that hit the target have killed dozens of targets, including the dragon, and the damage effect is very good.
"Is it so scary?" Hearing Des's emotion that the cost was staggering, the curious Chief of Staff Luo Kai asked subconsciously.
"We have fired a total of 72 Scud ballistic missiles from yesterday to today, and more than half of them are the latest solid rocket motor models..." Glancing at Luo Kai, the general of the newly established Strategic Missile Army said.
This can be said to be quite a huge expense. You must know that a Scud missile is expensive. Dozens of them are shot in one go, and the price is also very touching. Hearing this news, Luo Kai immediately closed his mouth.
It's okay for his staff to command the battle, so let him consider these costs, which makes him a bit of a headache. Yesterday he only thought about winning this sudden encounter, but he didn't think about the cost issue...
Under this kind of thinking, yesterday's 1st Army and 11th Army used whatever they could find, and basically used the latest and most expensive weapons that Alan Hill could find now.
"It's not just Scud, ordinary rockets, including Katyusha, and larger models... We consumed more than 600 a day and night... Cluster bombs also used a lot." Another officer added. .
"We shot 39 air-launched Super Hound missiles, and one crashed. Do you know how expensive these missiles are?" Another air force general glanced at General Buttoria who did not speak, and then took care of himself. followed by adding.
"Just yesterday, we had more than 1,700 planes, taking off more than 4,000 sorties in total, and pouring more than 8,000 tons of bombs and artillery shells on all the places we could hit." Butolia said at this time. Then he added: "Do you know how expensive these bombs are? There are expensive armor-piercing bombs, as well as napalm and cloud bombs... Ordinary bombs are cheap in comparison."
Modern warfare is all about banknotes! Not to mention such high-intensity large-scale operations, even if it is a small-scale anti-guerrilla operation, the military expenditure consumed by the US military in the 21st century is enough to make people jaw-dropping.
Looking through the records in front of him, Des glanced at Chris, who was sitting in the first place: "The troops poured at least 200 million rounds of bullets yesterday, and about 200,000 rounds of large-caliber artillery shells. There were 27 cannons that were scrapped. There are 3 cannons with more than 100 barrels, and the barrels need to be replaced before they can continue to be used."
what is this concept? About one second, two shells landed on the position of the puppet empire! In one day, the shells kept falling two times a second, and there was no pause for a second! More than half of the entire war zone has been covered by bomb craters, the soil has been loosened, and some small highlands have even been blown into small basins.
Just digging through the nearby soil, you can find either the remains of the puppet, or the blood clots of people, of course, metal shrapnel, and bullet casings that fall under your feet and can't be picked up and recovered.
"To supplement such a huge consumption to the front line, the train will use a considerable number of trains, and this does not include production problems." The official in charge of the railway opened his mouth to express his difficulties: "We are already reducing the number of trains to the 9th Army. We have supplies, but if we want the 1st Army to return to the level of the day before yesterday, we need at least 50 trains of supplies."
"Let me give an example, yesterday's consumption of ammunition was enough for the Arante Empire to go bankrupt four years ago." An official closed the report in front of him, shook his head and said.
Another official beside him sneered: "Bankrupt? They can't come up with that much money at all! You haven't counted the fuel consumed yesterday, and the soldiers killed yesterday... God knows how much we spent yesterday. , it is estimated that another Serris can be built..."
Taking off each fighter is expensive. Until the 1990s, Huaxia fighter pilots spent very few hours of flight training each year. The purpose was to save fuel in the strategic reserve and reduce the training cost of the troops.
A jet fighter takes off to fight once, which is almost enough to buy a Nissan car. Yesterday, the MiG-21 fighter jet took off and fought desperately, and even shot down a dozen of them. It can be seen how much fuel they consume. huge.
"Higgs' oil production has been expanded tenfold to support the war! Our oil fields in the Dothan Empire are also producing crude oil, which is good news. There are also oil fields in the Jesno Empire..." Responsible for Oil Production officials report.
"Looks like it's General Coria going south to make money..." An official in charge of finance was relieved when he heard this, shook his head and sighed softly.
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