The versatile "Lynx Car" can be equipped with various weapons and can also be transformed into an ultra-light all-terrain cooking vehicle

As a country known for its delicious food, my country has a persistent pursuit of delicious food. This is especially true for the PLA. After all, "the army fights with its stomach", and ensuring three hot meals is the best guarantee for morale. As long as conditions permit, the PLA will do its best to provide officers and soldiers with freshly cooked food, with a combination of meat and vegetables. The cooking training of the PLA kitchen class is really quite high-level, and it is known as the "troop meal" cuisine. The famous "field fried sugar color" made reporters and netizens salivate.

Of course, the PLA also has packaged field self-heating food, but this is emergency food and is only eaten when necessary (there is no time to cook or it cannot be transported to the rear). The main requirements are that it can be stored for a long time, self-heat quickly (the temperature is very high, almost all the first time the evaluation was shocked), and quickly provide nutrition and calories to the officers and soldiers. There are requirements for taste and taste, but they are not that high. After all, the previous set of requirements will definitely have an impact on the taste and taste. The author has also tried it, and it cannot be said that it is not delicious. You can feel that the R&D personnel are trying their best to ensure the taste and taste, but it is still not as good as freshly made food.

This is high in calories, and you will get sick of it if you eat it for a long time, and it will also cause excretion problems

The latest is the 17-type self-heating ration. Currently, the main types on the market are 09, 13 and 17, and they have also received good reviews from travellers. The review is: "The 13 self-heating ration has more staple food, the 09 has more snacks, and the new 17 is the big brother among self-heating rations."

Therefore, each branch of the People's Liberation Army has a variety of mobile cooking vehicles to prepare meals while on the move.

Except for airborne troops and air assault troops.

This is not to say that the PLA does not attach importance to these two military branches. As air transport branches, their load-bearing platforms are really limited.

The army has its own cooking cars, the navy has warships and military ports, and even the more crowded submarines have special kitchens. After all, "a good cook is equal to half an instructor." The Air Force eats directly at the station. The Rocket Force, combat detachments and joint logistics support forces are all operating on the ground and use cooking cars like the army.

The People's Liberation Army's new high-altitude cooking vehicle

The conditions on a submarine are quite harsh, and eating is one of the few entertainments. The food standards for submarine soldiers are the highest in the People's Liberation Army.

However, airborne troops and air assault troops mainly use transport planes and helicopters for mobility. In the past, my country's aviation industry was not well developed, and the performance of transport planes and helicopters was average, so every inch of space and every gram of weight of the equipment carried by the troops had to be carefully considered, so there was no such cooking vehicle. At present, field microwave ovens and shallow trays of food are directly airdropped, and then the officers and soldiers move them to the "Mengshi" vehicle or other light trucks.

Airdrop field microwave ovens and small diesel generators

The microwave has quite complete functions

Prepackaged shallow dishes

Just heat it up and eat it, very fast

But this is still pre-prepared food, and the taste is still insufficient. The officers and soldiers still hope to eat freshly made hot food.

On the one hand, this depends on the improvement of my country's aviation industry capabilities, which can provide better flying vehicles, such as the Y-20 and Z-8L (that is, the Z-8 wide, which can be driven into the "Lynx", while the previous models of Z-8 cannot). The carrying capacity has been greatly improved, and larger platforms can be carried and airdropped.

The other is the all-purpose "Lynx" family.

The Lynx all-terrain vehicle has developed three generations and dozens of models, which are very popular among troops. The third generation is six-wheeled as shown in the picture, and the second generation currently widely equipped is eight-wheeled.

The "Lynx" cooking vehicle displayed at the Zhuhai Air Show attracted a lot of attention. This is really a "cute little thing" that can solve the problem of "eating hot meals" for airborne troops and air assault troops.

Bobcat CS/VP114X4 ultra-light all-terrain cooking vehicle

This vehicle is based on the original 4X4 all-terrain vehicle version and is lengthened by one section.

The assault vehicle that made a splash in the Western Joint-2021 exercise

Its export model is the CS/VP11 4x4 all-terrain vehicle, so this vehicle has suspension. After all, the food cannot be shaken out while driving. The crew is also three people, a cooking team, and a cooking squad has almost three vehicles.

There are "handrails" for tying up the front truck bed and the top, which can be used to tie up and carry some raw materials. The back is the "operation room", which can be seen to be arranged quite compactly.

There are two pots directly behind, the left one is a steamer for cooking staple food, the right one is a frying pan, the six plastic boxes with bag lids in front are seasoning boxes (salt, MSG, pepper, starch, aniseed, sugar), and the white buckets on the upper shelf are liquid seasonings such as cooking oil, soy sauce, vinegar, cooking wine, etc. There is a water valve in the middle, four vegetable bowls on the left, where the officers and soldiers put the dishes after cooking, and two places to wash the vegetables on the right.

Steamer, can be used to steam buns, dumplings, flower rolls

This is a wok, a big pot that is unique to the army.

You can see the words on the seasoning box, and the hydraulic rods and hinges indicate that this operating table can be folded up.

On the right side (facing the rear of the car as mentioned above) is a double-door refrigerator (on the far left of the picture), and what should be a large microwave oven or steamer. In the upper left corner is the workbench, and the small handle below should open to reveal a stove.

The three boxes on the left contain cooking utensils, tableware, seasonings, etc. The flipped-down hatch is a chopping board, which is very delicately designed.

Such a vehicle can provide meals for a platoon of officers and soldiers. Three vehicles can form a company, which just matches the organization of the kitchen squad.

To be honest, if this car is civilianized, it can even be driven out to set up stalls...

This car will probably be seen in some PLA units soon. After all, "eating hot meals" is the eternal pursuit of the Chinese people.