Compared with the PLA's synthetic troops reform, the Taiwan Army's "joint troops battalion" organization speed is very fast. Since the Taiwan Army announced on September 5, 2019 that it had organized its first joint military battalion in the 586th Brigade, the Taiwan Army's relevant combat effectiveness verification has been completed not long after a year.
▲ Another meaning of fast is...I haven't changed much
According to the information disclosed by Taiwan's "Ministry of National Defense", according to the results of completion of verification, after the joint troops battalion gradually obtained with the main combat equipment, the average maneuverage rate of its strike force can be greatly increased to 70 kilometers per hour, an increase of 20 kilometers per hour from the past. Therefore, it is believed that the joint troops have all-round independent combat capabilities and tactical flexibility, which is more in line with and adapt to the combat environment of highly urbanized and complex terrain in the future ground defense operations.
▲ Taiwan’s island infrastructure is not bad, so the maneuvering speed is mainly the equipment’s travel ability
For a combat area like Taiwan Island, where the ground is not wide, the maneuvering speed of 70 kilometers should be said to be quite considerable. After all, the highway mileage from Taipei City to Hsinchu City is only more than 80 kilometers. According to this maneuvering speed, if the Taiwan military's anti-landing operations are set along the coast of Hsinchu area according to the setting of the Taiwan Army's anti-landing operations, under the ideal situation of preparation in advance, the troops under the Guanzhi headquarters stationed in New Taipei and the 269th Brigade of Mechanized Infantry Stationed in Taoyuan can both maneuver to the Hsinchu area within one hour, and reinforce the 542nd and 584th Brigades of the Armored Brigade in this area, thereby double the scale of the strike forces invested in counterattacks. If we count the 234th Mechanized Infantry Brigade and the 586th Armored Brigade from Taichung, the scale of the gathering of troops is even more considerable. Of course, the Taiwan army has been very confident in tracing the speed of retreat in history, and there is no need to doubt it.
▲ 90 kilometers, hour after quarter of an hour, soldiers are very fast!
However, if you carefully appreciate the first-class Taiwan Army's set, it is not difficult to find some confusing points: According to the Taiwanese media, the traditional army's mechanic brigade has a speed of up to 100 kilometers per hour and a CM11 and other combat vehicles. However, the tracked chariot slows down the troop's maneuver speed during maneuvering, so the organization of the "Joint Battalion" is mainly to improve the maneuver speed of the original mechanic stomp unit; but the joint battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion's battalion'
▲ The Taiwan military's mobile preparation for the war in the past two days is somewhat of a bit of a response to the US election...
At this time, we have to savor its tactic. The Taiwan military has an important premise in improving combat effectiveness: it gradually acquires equipment in conjunction with the main combat. What is the specific main combat equipment? Needless to say, of course, it is the two key equipment of the Taiwan Army, namely the M1A2 Abram tank and the CM34 30mm machine cannon combat vehicle. Although the size of a joint battalion of 1-2 chariot companies and a joint brigade of 3 brigades, the 108 M1A2s bought by the Taiwan Army could not fit into several joint battalions, not to mention that when these tanks could be delivered, the Taiwan Army did not care, and the organization was changed, verification was done, and the conclusion was also drawn. Didn’t the Communist Army say that it is good: “It is better to wait for people than to wait for people”. That’s what it means!
▲ More troops can only be used for what they are...
From a standard point of view, the main purpose of the Taiwan Army's joint battalion is to nominally improve the combat effectiveness of the troops while reducing the scale of the front-line combat personnel in the combat troops, thereby increasing the proportion of the Taiwan Army's organization and showing the appearance of practical combat training. However, on another level, there may be other ideas for this kind of organizational adjustment.
▲ The Taiwan Army's organizational reform was actually aimed at weakening the front line, which is amazing.
Before the People's Liberation Army carried out military reform, the Taiwan Army's most enjoyable combat plan among various military promotions was the so-called "united brigade attacked the Moban camp". The reason was nothing, mainly because of the high winning rate. Because compared with the joint brigades with all kinds of infantry, artillery, tanks and equipment, the PLA's Moon Infantry Battalion firstly has no tanks, the second is that there are no anti-tank gun and anti-tank missile , and the third is that the team's artillery only has 82mm mortar and anti-tank rocket launcher , which is at an all-round disadvantage in terms of force and weapons. In the deduction of the Taiwan Army, it is an opponent with a "small scale" but at the same time "easy to bully". If the opponent is an infantry battalion, then a larger number of infantry fighting vehicles and anti-tank missiles will significantly increase the losses of attack impact; if the opponent is a regiment-level unit... not only is the scale too large, the coalition brigade cannot occupy the advantage of force, but the People's Liberation Army has even a tank battalion, which has better performance than the Taiwan Army, so this deduction cannot be pushed forward.
▲ must be such a motor camp, otherwise it will not be able to defeat... After the reform of
, the situation encountered by the coalition brigade is even more embarrassing: go up and chew the PLA's synthetic brigade directly, everyone knows that it is actually the PLA's synthetic brigade; gnaw the heavy or medium synthetic battalion , the PLA's serious tanks, amphibious assault vehicles, wheeled tanks and infantry fighting vehicles are all killed by CM11/M60A3, and the 120mm mortar howitzer of the battalion is no less powerful than the 155mm howitzer. If you really fight, you don't know who will kill you; if you fight light high-machine synthetic brigade... You think well, you have to meet it. In this case, if you want to meet a "easy bullying" object, you have to further refine it, such as using the coalition battalion to attack a company of the People's Liberation Army... Anyway, it's a war game deduction, as long as you can win, it doesn't matter whether I'm realistic or not.
▲ Damn it! You guys got the wrong type of camp!
Of course, no matter how the Taiwan Army organizes it, it will now encounter this difficult-to-solve embarrassing problem - insufficient new equipment. After all, Taiwan's total military expenditure is limited. With priority to meeting the air and navy, the Taiwan Army's equipment will only "spend small money to do big things" for a long time. For example, among the nearly 1000 main battle tanks currently in service in the Taiwan Army, the M60A3, which accounts for half of the total, was exchanged for purchases from the United States by "scrap iron prices". Now these tanks and the expensive CM11 are facing technological backwardness and retirement, but the United States does not have cheap tanks as they were back then. Although the Taiwan Army has made every effort to buy 108 M1A2s, the shortage is ultimately insufficient. Whether it is to "allocate" them in the form of a coalition battalion to disperse their already limited advanced equipment or to comprehensively improve the combat effectiveness of the Taiwan Army's armored forces is a topic that depends on how the Taiwan Army itself uses.
