What is meant by safeguard technology

Technical measures taken to make military equipment performance intact. According to the type of equipment is divided into ordnance, automobiles, tanks, aircraft, ships, missiles, communications, engineering, chemical defense, oil equipment and other technical security. The U.S. military called technical support, the Japanese military called equipment maintenance.

Brief history of ancient times there has been a simple maintenance of cold weapons. With the emergence of firearms, the construction of weapons is becoming more complex, maintenance tasks increased, began to have in charge of the maintenance of the officer or department. World War I cars, tanks used in combat, the greater the use of artillery, weapons and equipment maintenance tasks are more onerous, many of the armies of the countries involved in the war began to set up specialized maintenance institutions, but the maintenance force is small and scattered, can not adapt to the needs of the troops in combat. The Second World War troops mechanized, motorized degree of rapid increase, most of the armies of the countries involved in the war have established a unified leadership, more sound maintenance institutions, to protect the troops played an important role in combat. After the Second World War, due to the widespread application of electronic, jet, atomic and other technologies in the military field, the armies of some countries are equipped with a considerable scale of technical security forces, formed by the scientific research, service and repair units, repair detachments, repair factories and relying on the national industrial strength of the equipment technology security system.

The main contents include: ① maintenance, mainly to make the equipment in the specified period of use to maintain a perfect state, ready to start at any time. Generally according to the complexity of the equipment and the use, storage, storage, seasonal replacement, etc., is divided into regular maintenance and irregular maintenance. ② repair, according to the use of equipment, repair content and the complexity of repair technology division of labor. Usually includes the whole machine disassembly inspection, replacement and repair of all unqualified components, or repair and adjustment of damaged parts, as well as troubleshooting in general. The purpose is to restore damaged, worn, and faulty equipment to the specified condition. Battlefield repair, in accordance with the principle of in situ repair, take the replacement of the main repair and, if necessary, dismantling and repair methods to implement. ③Inspection is to check the technical condition and reliability of the equipment in various states. It is divided into regular inspection and irregular inspection as well as inspection before and after use and in use. According to the complexity of the equipment, the use of sensory judgment and the use of gauges, meters and other special equipment for testing, monitoring, calibration, laboratory testing. (4) Modification is mainly to change the line structure and installation position of the equipment and its parts, increase, decrease or replace the parts, as well as change other parts of the equipment, in order to improve or enhance the performance of the equipment and prolong its service life. Modifications need to be carried out on the basis of research, testing and scientific identification.

The supply of maintenance equipment is an important condition for the completion of technical support. According to the use of various types of equipment and maintenance level of distinction, pre-specified should be equipped with the variety and quantity of equipment, supporting the storage of boxes, sets of supplies.

System and organization of the implementation of different countries. U.S. Army at the Department of Defense level, in charge of facilities and logistics by the Assistant Secretary of Defense is responsible for the development of maintenance management policy, specific work by the Army Equipment Development and Supply Command, Naval Equipment Command, Air Force Logistics Command, respectively, the implementation of the organization. The technical support of the Soviet Army is organized and implemented by the service departments of missile ordnance, armored tanks, and automobile tractors by system for units above the group army level, and by the repair detachments and equipment users under the division and sub-division units, which are organized by the special deputy technical commanders. In the Japanese Army, the maintenance organization of each central supply office and local supply office is responsible for the rear repair of damaged equipment, and the military and divisional field maintenance teams carry out replacement repairs and limited spare parts repairs on damaged equipment. The technical security of the Chinese People's Liberation Army is organized and implemented by the competent departments of various types of equipment under the unified planning and coordination of the relevant departments of the General Logistics Department.

The development trend in order to adapt to the requirements of modern war on technical support, many countries attach importance to the study of reforming the system, means and methods of technical support. Mainly: adjust the maintenance organizational structure, strengthen the troops at the grass-roots level maintenance forces, improve the speed and quality of maintenance; reliability as the center, to carry out maintenance theory research and testing to extend the service life of equipment, reduce routine maintenance projects, saving maintenance costs; emphasis on the standardization of maintenance equipment, generalization and interchangeability, to ensure that the battlefield repair needs; the use of electronic technology to develop and improve the rapid fault detection devices.