Thirty or forty years ago, the equipment of our army was still in a very backward situation, and the West not only ridiculed China's backwardness, but also carried out all kinds of slander against China.
But with the passage of time, the Chinese industry has been striving for self-improvement, pointing fingers, hoping that China can purchase advanced equipment from the West, and China can independently develop all kinds of blind new equipment, completely disdainful of buying Western equipment. This is a huge leap.
The world is very amazed and admired.
So, among the Western equipment that China has not been able to purchase, if you review the three more important equipment together, many netizens and military fans now have a solid potential for China's scientific research strength and military exploit development, which really cheers up the people. It was so right not to buy it back then. Now let's buy what is in our country and ignore it.
The first destroyer of the "Sheffield" class.
The period when our Navy is eager to strengthen the armament of new types of ships. This impressed many military fans. Even Zhang Zhaozhong, the national secretary, felt envy and anxiety when he visited advanced foreign ships when China's navy was backward in equipment at that time, and even expressed his uneasiness and worry about the cause of national defense with tears in his eyes.
At that time, the British "Sheffield" class destroyers were relatively advanced ships, with a displacement of 4,000 tons, installed four gas turbines with sufficient power, a speed of 29 knots, and a cruising range of 4,000 nautical miles.
You know, many netizens seem to be dissatisfied with these parameters today, and a few decades ago, such destroyers were considered a comprehensive advantage. At that time, the British side took the initiative to recommend and promote our country, convincing our country to buy destroyers of this type, and even exaggerating.
Show off the merits and combat effectiveness of this destroyer.
When it was almost signed, Argentine anti-ship missiles sank two Sheffield-class destroyers in 1982, directly exposing the shortcomings and shortcomings of actual combat capabilities. Design flaws and their own weakness are exposed, how can we, the Navy, see such equipment.
Naturally, the previous intentions cannot be abandoned.
The R&D team knows shame, races against time, and develops its own equipment, and must break the technological monopoly of the West and achieve independent design and construction.
Today, more than 30 years later, the Chinese Navy has set a world record for the renewal speed of various ships, China's 0.55 million tons lead the world, full of vitality, and can even carry Eagle 21 missiles, with the terrifying power of sniping and destroying aircraft carrier battle groups, and it is simply unable to catch up with the British destroyers of that year.
Many military fans proudly said that because China did not purchase British destroyers at that time, compared with the current 10,000-ton large drive and several other types of destroyers independently produced by China, our fans are proud. It's really not worth buying foreign ships.
There are no second purchases of F16 fighters.
The U.S. fighter enjoys a good reputation all over the world, and the F16 fighter is also a model with strong comprehensive combat strength, and it is also a best-selling model in the military foreign trade market. There was a period of détente between China and the United States. At that time, the fighter model of the Chinese Air Force was only the J-6 fighter. In the war.
J-7 and other old models, the design concept of backward power is obviously insufficient, aviation equipment is constantly upgraded, replaced.
At that time, the U.S. military's F16 was a powerful aero engine in the United States, with abundant kinetic energy and aerodynamic deployment and the ability to carry the most advanced fighters, which seemed to be enviable advanced fighters. In the war.
At that time, China hoped to be able to purchase such fighters and hoped that the Air Force would increase this advanced equipment, but China had the sincerity to buy it, but the United States was very vigilant. The foreign trade version model provided, many of the functions are indirect versions, and important equipment has also been cut.
In this way, the F16 has changed from a very advanced fighter to a beggar's version of the configuration, and in the face of this situation, even if our country accepts the foreign trade version of the F16, it has no practical significance. After comprehensive consideration, China decided to abandon the invalid version of the import plan.
There was no purchase of this foreign trade version of the "chicken rib fighter".
Now look at our air fighters. The J-20 airborne aircraft has stealth capabilities, strong combat effectiveness and rapid reaction capabilities. The J-35 was developed in four versions of the land, sea and air trainer aircraft, becoming a dazzling fifth-generation fighter version.
In addition, our bomber-6 and other aircraft also have very obvious characteristics of strength. Strategic bombers bombing 20 China has also been successfully developed, looking back at the American F16 fighter, compared with the existing fighters in our country, there are no shortcomings, and it was not purchased at the beginning, which is really correct.
In the third paragraph, I didn't buy the "Leopard" main battle tank for two weeks.
Our country wants to buy the German "Leopard 2" main battle tank, which was built in Germany in the 70s. At that time, our country compared this tank at the level of the old Type 59 tank, which was considered advanced, and the Leopard 2 used a 72-mm smoothbore gun at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour, and the strike was very powerful.
Night operations equipped with thermal imagers were also able to accurately hit targets, and the fire control system with rapid response was also the envy of our country at that time.
But at that time, our country hindered the purchase because**. Germany said at the time that the unit price of a tank was 1.8 million US dollars, and the technology and production line could be provided in the later stage, which was a big test for China's procurement ability that year, and in the end, due to financial reasons, the Leopard 2 tank was not successful.
But still missed.
At present, China has independently developed the Type 99A main battle tank, which has the comprehensive combat effectiveness and deployment of the Leopard 2, the combat ability and armor-piercing ability to make the enemy panic, and the radar detection and fire control system, night vision devices and other equipment are at the world's leading level.
Endurance and a maximum speed of 82 kilometers per hour far exceed all the parameters of German tanks, and many military fans disdain to buy foreign **, and the Chinese ** workers can say with peace of mind that they have a stronger level.