The development speed of China's navy and air force in recent years can be said to be changing with each passing day, and compared with the upgrading and development of China's army equipment, it is more than a little inferior to the navy and air force!
Indeed, in the building of a modern armed forces in the 21 st century, the navy and air force account for an increasing proportion of the armed forces, and the more superpowers they are, the more attention they pay to the development of the navy and air force.
In modern warfare, it is basically rare for the conflict between countries to be so tragic as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and most wars can basically establish absolute superiority in the war by winning air and sea supremacy before the war.
However, no matter what war is fought in the end, it is still up to the army to solve the final problem, so no matter how strong a country's navy and air force are, the development of the army should not be underestimated under any circumstances.
The PLA Army has also accelerated the pace of equipment upgrading after the 17-year military reform, especially the heavy composite brigade of the Chinese Army after the military reform, which has made the enemy talk about the existence of a change of color.
The reason why it seems that the army has changed little and the update iteration speed is slow, mainly because the army's equipment is too complex and there are too many types, and the huge army population base is also doomed, and the army's refitting can never be completed in a day or two.
Recently, at the Baghdad Defense Exhibition in Iraq, China's defense industry exhibited a missile known as the world's smallest anti-tank missile, which immediately attracted the attention of many countries after the exhibition, and if the PLA Army can be equipped with such missiles in batches, I believe that our army's combat effectiveness will definitely reach a higher level!
How small is this anti-tank missile, exactly?
The fact that China's defense industry dares to say that this anti-tank missile is the smallest in the world proves that its weight and volume are certainly much lower than other products of the same type.
In order to understand the performance of this product, the female reporter who broadcast the live broadcast of the defense exhibition specially tried to operate this individual missile, and this female reporter could complete the launch operation of the missile according to the instructions of the staff alone without having experienced military training.
According to the staff of the defense industry, the NQ-202 individual anti-tank missile has a diameter of only 40 mm, a length of only 65 cm, and the weight of the launcher plus the missile is only about 3.5 kg.
In addition, the national defense industry also specially made a spare bomb backpack with a loading capacity of 6 for this missile, the weight of the entire backpack plus 6 anti-tank missiles is just 7.2 kg, and the entire launch equipment plus 6 spare bombs is only about 10 kg, which is not even comparable to the daily training weight for the PLA!
Maybe you don't know how small this small missile is, take the Javelin anti-tank missile, which is the most mainstream in the world today, for example, its whole set weighs about 22 kilograms, and China's previous lightest anti-tank missile is also more than 20 kilograms.
Of course, it is not appropriate to compare the QN-202 with the heavy one, but the QN-202 can reach more than half of the weight of its competitors even if it is compared with some of the more mainstream light anti-tank weapons in the world today, which gives him enough competitive advantage!
QN-202 has superior performance and a wide range of application scenarios!
As we all know, both missiles and artillery shells determine the power of caliber, and the power of China's QN-202 anti-tank missile will definitely decrease after the missile is lightweight.
The size of the QN-202 is destined to not penetrate today's mainstream heavy armor like those heavy anti-tank missiles, but this anti-tank missile with very small size and weight has a penetration depth of about 80 mm for heavy armor, although there is no good way for heavy main battle tanks, but against armored vehicles and personnel carriers with armor of only 30 mm, it is basically easy to wear casually!
Even the QN-202 can penetrate in the face of some old tanks' weak armor, but light anti-tank missiles like the QN-202 are not destined to be used against tanks, those armored vehicles and the enemy's light mobile forces are its first choice!
Although the QN-202 anti-tank missile is small, it also has a range of almost 2 kilometers, and it also has the function of automatic target tracking after launch, and its advanced guidance head allows it to have a very high hit rate against moving targets.
In addition, the most important point is that QN-202 can also shoot down most low-flying UAVs, which is particularly important in the battlefield where UAVs are becoming more and more widely used.
In addition, if a squad is equipped with such anti-tank missiles in batches, an ambush and sneak attack on the enemy's motorized lightly armored targets will inevitably have an unexpected effect!
In addition, in the Middle East and Africa, this light anti-tank missile can definitely play an outstanding role against terrorist armed pickups, backward armored vehicles and personnel carriers.
On the whole, the smallest anti-tank missile developed by the national defense industry still has a very broad application prospect, and if this missile is equipped with the PLA troops, it will also greatly enhance the PLA's individual combat capability!