Everyone knows that Britain and the United States are "iron buddies" and they are closely behind each other. Of course, Americans are "big brothers" and the British are just "little brothers" waving flags and shouting. In the two Gulf Wars, the British army was the absolute "No.2 main force". Especially in the Second Gulf War (Iraq War), the British army sent a large number of troops headed by the 7th Armored Brigade to participate in the war. Only Australia symbolically sent some non-combat troops to other countries. From this point alone, it can be seen that it is impossible for British chariots to fight American chariots under current international conditions. Therefore, "Samurai" versus M2 "Bradley" is just a typical and real simulated ring competition.
Let's see what these two "Wulin experts" have!
There are not many infantry fighting vehicles that have been tested in actual combat in the world, only BMP-12, M2 Bradley, Samurai and AMX- 10P. BMP 1/2 has participated in the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Iran-Iraq war and the two Gulf wars, and has a poor reputation. AMX- 10P participated in the Gulf War of 199 1, and did not undertake major combat tasks, so its role was limited. Only M2 and samurai infantry fighting vehicles participated in two Gulf wars.
199 1 0/00 hours of ground combat in the Gulf War at the beginning of the year was a severe test for M2 infantry fighting vehicles that had never participated in actual combat before. During the Gulf War, the US military dispatched 2,200 M2 infantry fighting vehicles. From the practical application mode, the "bradley" chariot is mainly used for high-speed mobile operations, which not only needs to March 400 ~ 500 kilometers from east to west at high speed, but also takes the form of attack and pursuit, so the occupants mainly fight by car, relying on the 25mm cannon and Tao anti-tank missiles on the chariot to exert their power, and the chance for infantry to get off the vehicle is very small. Someone in the US military said: "In the ground battle of the Gulf War, M2 infantry fighting vehicle played the same role as M 1 main battle tank rather than supporting M 1 tank." This evaluation is not low. From the reliability point of view, the availability rate of M2 infantry fighting vehicle has reached over 90%. In the case of fighting, this is a very difficult thing. From the practical application effect, M2 infantry fighting vehicle is mainly used to attack Iraqi tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, and the crew of M2 fighting vehicle rated 25mm cannon as "accurate and powerful". The 25mm tail-stabilized armor-piercing projectile with depleted uranium core can penetrate not only the main armor of Soviet-made BMP 1/2 infantry fighting vehicle, but also the main armor of T-55 tank in continuous shooting. The Tao anti-tank missile on M2 tank can penetrate the main armor of Iraqi T-72 main battle tank within its range. The long-range target recognition ability of the thermal imaging sight on the M2 chariot is stronger than that on the M/KOOC-0/A/KOOC-0/tank, so that it often happens that the crew of M2 reports the long-range target orientation of the Iraqi army to the crew of M/KOOC-0/A/KOOC-0/tank. All these make the M2 chariot famous and its value doubled. The problems exposed in actual combat, such as insufficient M2 protection and weak identification ability, have played a guiding role in the improvement of "bradley" chariot.
In this Iraq war, hundreds of M2A2 infantry fighting vehicles from the 3rd Infantry Division of the US Army participated in the war, especially in the two "daylight raids" of the US Army in early April, which led to a bold "armored assault operation". Bradley and abrams are really beautiful.
During the Gulf War, the British army dispatched more than 300 samurai infantry fighting vehicles. Dramatically, the "Samurai" infantry fighting vehicle became famous in the Gulf because of an accidental accidental accidental injury-the US A- 10 attack aircraft reimbursed two Samurai infantry fighting vehicles, which really can be described as "the water washed away the Longwang Temple". But in the later battles, the performance of "samurai" was remarkable, especially its high reliability. Sixty-nine "Samurai" infantry fighting vehicles of the British 7th Armored Brigade marched for 300 kilometers, all of which could be put into battle. In this Iraq war, British "Samurai" infantry fighting vehicles stormed Basra, and "Samurai" and "Challenger" played a huge role together, and the soldiers of infantry fighting vehicles played an important role in riding and getting off the bus. In a sense, the battle of the British army is much more "tragic" than that of the American army, and the "samurai" infantry fighting vehicle has once again withstood the test of war.
M2 and samurai infantry fighting vehicles are products of 1980s. M2 was put into production in 1980, and was equipped with American troops from 1983. The number of M2/M3 series vehicles reached 6,882. "Samurai" infantry fighting vehicles have been equipped with British troops since 1987, and now the number of equipment is 789. Basically, they are chariots of the same era. If we take a popular word to evaluate it, we can use a famous saying in the movie "Tunnel Warfare": "Every village has its own ingenious methods".
The total combat weight of M2 infantry fighting vehicle is 22.7 tons (M2A2 is 27.2 tons), with 3 crew members and 6 crew members (7 in some cases); "Samurai" infantry fighting vehicle has a total combat weight of 28 tons, with 3 crew members and 7 crew members. The contour pairs of the two are shown in the left picture, for example.
From the side of the two cars, at least the following two points can be seen. First of all, in the general layout, the two have something in common: the cockpit and power cabin are in front, the war room is in the middle, and the crew cabin is in the back. This is also the usual layout of infantry fighting vehicles. However, M2' s crew arrangement is relatively loose, which is conducive to fighting by car, while the seven crew members of Samurai sit face to face, which is not conducive to fighting by car, but the crew room is relatively compact. Secondly, it can be seen from the side that the "Samurai" infantry fighting vehicle is "a little smaller" than the M2, and its shape is more compact. This will have an impact on the protection performance of both. From the arrangement and selection of shooting holes, we can also see that they are obviously different. There are six shooting holes on the M2 infantry fighting vehicle, two on both sides of the vehicle body and two at the rear of the vehicle body, while the shooting holes on the samurai are simply cancelled. Some people think that fighting by car is a major feature of infantry fighting vehicles, while others think that the downloader is "shooting blindly" when driving. In contrast, BMP- 1 infantry fighting vehicle has 9 shooting holes, BMP-2 has 8 shooting holes and BMP-3 has 5 shooting holes. Sweden's CV90 only has a shooting hole in the back door of the car body. On the M2A2 model, "Bradley" cancelled the shooting holes on both sides of the car body, leaving only two shooting holes at the back door. It can be seen that in recent years, the newly designed infantry fighting vehicles have a tendency to reduce the number of shooting holes.
Some military experts believe that the "samurai" infantry fighting vehicle is mainly carried by the following vehicle, and the cannon on the vehicle plays the role of fire support. Samurai is an enhanced battlefield taxi. Although this view is a little extreme, it also makes sense.
Firepower contrast
In the choice of main weapons, M2 infantry fighting vehicle is quite different from samurai fighting vehicle.
The main weapon of M2 infantry fighting vehicle is 1 M242 "Viper" 25mm cannon, which is equipped with electric chain-type ammunition supply device and has strong firepower. The firing rate is single shot,100,200,500 rounds per minute and * * *, and the shooter can choose. The types of bombs are tracer penetrator, tracer incendiary bomb and tracer training bomb. Ammunition base: 300 rounds to be sent and 600 rounds in reserve. When launching a towed armor-piercing projectile, it can vertically penetrate 66 mm thick homogeneous steel armor at the shooting distance of 1000 m, which is more than enough for ordinary infantry fighting vehicles. Starting from 1990, install M9 19 armor-piercing projectile with stable tail. Speaking of the M9 19 bullet, there is a short story: in the Gulf War of 199 1, the M9 19 bullet happened to be mounted on the M2 infantry fighting vehicle, which was very precious. According to the regulations of the US military, after the M9 19 is fired, the impact point should be observed. The first shot hit, and the second shot was not allowed. It was very stingy. Of course, I called casually afterwards.
The main weapon on the samurai infantry fighting vehicle is the1l12a130mm bin Laden gun. This kind of "bin Laden" gun uses recoil to realize automatic loading, and the magazine supplies bullets. Each magazine can hold three shells or two magazines. It can achieve single shot and six bursts, the maximum firing rate is 60 rounds per minute, and the ammunition base is 250 rounds. The types of bombs used are: towed penetrator, towed incendiary Grenade and towed training bomb. When launching a towed armor-piercing projectile, it can penetrate 40 mm thick homogeneous steel armor at a shooting distance of 2000 meters, which is enough to penetrate the main armor of BMP infantry fighting vehicles. As can be seen from the picture on the right, "Samurai" is superior to M2 only in terms of the armor-piercing power of artillery. However, in terms of firing rate and ammunition base, the Viper of M2 is better than the Bin Laden gun on Samurai.
As for auxiliary weapons, both of them are equipped with 1 7.62mm parallel machine guns. However, the configuration of anti-tank missile launchers is very different. On the left side of the turret is a "Tao" anti-tank missile launcher with seven missiles. In the Gulf War, it was with the "Tao" missile that we dared to compete with the Iraqi main battle tanks and destroyed many Iraqi tanks. There is no anti-tank missile launcher on the "Samurai" at all, and it does not have the ability to fight enemy tanks.
Compared with the fire control system, the fire control system of M2 infantry fighting vehicle includes all-electric turret drive, two-way stabilizer and day and night gunner sight with thermal camera, which has the ability to March and fight at night. The weapon system of "Samurai" has no stabilizing device, and the fire control system mainly includes gunner and commanding day and night sight. There is no doubt that the fire control system of M2 is slightly stronger than that of Samurai.
Comparison of protective performance
The advantages and disadvantages of protective performance are the most difficult to compare. However, according to the information we have, we can still make a general judgment. M2 is similar to Samurai infantry fighting vehicle in that its body is fully welded with aluminum alloy armor, which can prevent the attack of 14.5mm armor-piercing projectile and 155mm shell fragments.
The front and top of the M2 turret are equipped with steel armor, and the inside of the armor in the main position is lined with Kevlar fiber. The vertical plane and the rear of the car body are separated sandwich armor, which consists of two layers of high-hardness steel plates with a thickness of 6.4 mm and an aluminum alloy back plate with a thickness of 25.4 mm. The spacing between the two layers of steel plates is 25.4 mm, and the spacing between the steel plates and the aluminum alloy back plate is 89 mm The spacer armor is a kind of composite armor, which has a good protective effect on armor-piercing projectiles and anti-tank missiles. A layer of steel armor is hung on the first third of the bottom of the car body to enhance the protection against anti-tank mines.
The turret of "Samurai" adopts fully welded steel armor structure, and it is said that the upper part of the turret adopts "Chobham" armor. The bottom of the car can resist the attack of 9 kg TNT equivalent anti-tank mines.
Generally speaking, Samurai and M2 are at the same level of protection, while Samurai is slightly better. Because from the total combat weight, "Samurai" is slightly heavier than M2; From the outline, "Samurai" is smaller than M2. The result of this trade-off naturally has different effects on the protection performance.
Interestingly, during the Gulf War, both M2 and Samurai strengthened the armor protection of the main components and added extra armor on the side and front of the car body. One of the key points of improvement of M2A2 and M2A3 is to enhance armor protection and increase the total combat weight by 6 ~ 7 tons. It is said that the improved M2A3 infantry fighting vehicle can resist rocket launchers, and its protection level even exceeds that of medium-sized tanks in 1950s.
Comparison of operability
The power unit of M2 infantry fighting vehicle is VTA-903T water-cooled turbocharged diesel engine with the maximum power of 378kW. Its transmission device is HMPT-500 automatic transmission device. This is a hydrostatic mechanical transmission device with transmission power as high as 500 horsepower, which is the first in the world when used in armored combat vehicles. Its characteristic is that part of the power is transmitted by hydraulic oil and the rest by machinery. The transmission devices of M 1 and "Leopard" 2 main battle tanks have hydrostatic steering machines, but they can only realize one function of stepless steering, while the transmission device of M2 can realize two functions of stepless steering and stepless speed change. This kind of transmission device has the advantages of small volume, high transmission efficiency, light operation, stable operation and reliable work, but the machining accuracy is quite high and the price is relatively expensive. The action part of M2 adopts torsion bar spring suspension device. The maximum speed of the chariot is 6 1 km/h, and the maximum travel distance is 400 km. M2 tank does not have the ability to run directly on water, but with the help of floating dock, it can reach the highest speed of 7.2km/h by paddling on the track. It takes only 15 minutes for a passenger to set up a tent.
The power unit of the "Samurai" chariot is a V-type 8-cylinder water-cooled diesel engine with a maximum power of 404 kW. The transmission is a hydro-mechanical gearbox with four forward gears and two reverse gears. The action device adopts a torsion bar stepping suspension device. The maximum speed is 75 km/h and the maximum stroke is 660 km. In terms of performance data alone, the mobility of samurai is slightly better than that of M2. However, the transmission of M2 represents the highest technical level in the world today.
It is worth mentioning that Britain's "Desert Warrior" infantry fighting vehicle for export was modified from LAV25 turret of Delk Defense System Branch of the United States, with a 25mm cannon and a "Tao" missile launcher on both sides of the turret. As an option, you can add up to 7 shooting holes. In this way, "Desert Warrior" and M2 are more and more alike.
How?
Through the above comprehensive comparison, it can be seen that M2 and samurai infantry fighting vehicles have their own advantages and disadvantages, which are basically the same grade, and it seems that M2 is slightly better. However, if the "samurai" really want to fight face to face with M2, how can they fight this battle?
As the commander of M2 chariot, he should give full play to the advantages of long-range firepower and use anti-tank missiles to attack "samurai" at a long shooting distance. The commander of "Samurai" chariot should take advantage of its slightly better protective performance and lower shape to carry out close combat with M2 chariot and take it by surprise. It should be said that both Samurai and M2 are capable of destroying each other within range. Whoever has the right tactics and can strike first will take the lead.