It seems like it’s basically the end of towed weapons systems like artillery right? I did find this reddit post about the same for the US military: https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/1bv7ah6/the_end_of_an_era_us_army_signals_shift_away_from/
It always seemed like towing a weapon would be a huge time-sink. Someone in the comments mentioned that the US military is designed for imperialism (my word) so they need stuff that is lighter-weight to transport on aircraft. So I guess with Chinese systems being actually designed for defense and not having to move them on airplanes, having them on vehicles makes sense.
The one that really stood out to me was the one the english announcers on the CGTN stream called carrier based laser defense, which was in the parade integrated into truly massive trucks.
These things? Absolute UNITS, I’m guessing the gigantic truck is to carry the generator/capacitors needed to use them.
Yeah what is the massive truck for, given that the laser goes on a ship? Maybe the truck has a big battery or capacitor or something in it? I guess the most obvious explanation is they also have a land-based laser in the works but they finished this ship-based one first, or something like that? I thought I heard that some of these new energy weapons are ship-based because they couldn’t figure out how to fit the massive hardware needed for it into a smaller form factor yet.
could just be that they put them on trucks to show them off in the parade
given the enormous amount of resources that went into the celebrations, building a few custom trucks so they could include their cool new naval laser doesn’t seem all that far-fetched
I was thinking about whether they made the trucks just to show off in the parade, but if they were just showing off, surely they wouldn’t bother integrating all the guts of the system and could just put the emitter head on a smaller vehicle. The sheer size of the trucks carrying them implies to me that the whole functional system is in there.