However, as a pioneering work, the Type 26 tank had many shortcomings and unreasonableness, so its production was not large, only about 200 tanks.
What really equipped the Ming army in large quantities was the Sanyi tank, also produced by Yanjing National First Heavy Machinery Company (referred to as No. 1 Machinery Company).
The chassis and turret have been greatly adjusted in appearance. The interior space is more spacious. The total combat weight has been increased to 9.3 tons. The three-person crew has been replaced with a 115-horsepower six-cylinder air-cooled gasoline engine. The front armor has been increased to 20mm. Weapon configuration Using a 38.4㎜ short-barreled artillery and two machine guns, the maximum road speed can reach 36㎞/h.
At that time, Yiji Company also imported three famous British Vickers MkE tanks. This was an excellent inter-war tank. If the total authorized production of countries around the world is included, there would be as many as more than 10,000 tanks. It was the most common tank in the world at that time.
[Vickers MkE light tank]
The original intention of Yiji Company was to see if there was any reference, but after the evaluation, it felt that there were no highlights except the suspension system, so no changes were made. In the end, it just borrowed from the balanced suspension developed by Vickers, which is cheap, durable and has a considerable cost-effectiveness ratio.
In terms of comprehensive performance, the Sanyi tank and its improved models can be said to have reached the first-class level in the 1930s.
The T-26 light tank of the same period had a total weight of 10.5 tons, a crew of three, a 90-horsepower gasoline engine, an armor thickness of 15mm, a weapon configuration of a 45mm long barrel cannon and two machine guns, and a maximum speed of 30km/h. .
The T-26 is a typical partial science student. It is very fierce in terms of firepower. When tanks in most countries are only equipped with 37mm guns, it has taken the lead in using 45mm guns.
Now, the reason why Lin Xi calls both Type 26 and Type 31 "old" is naturally because the new tanks are already being tested and are preparing to be put into production.
Four prototypes of the trial-produced Type 36 guerrilla fighting vehicle have completed preliminary evaluation at the Laizhou Proving Ground in Shandong Province. The results are satisfactory and can be put into production with only minor modifications. The Army plans to place the first order for 200 vehicles.
At the same time, heavy-duty attack vehicles are also being developed. Wuhan Yangyue Automobile Company and Yanjing National No. 1 Heavy Machinery Group have come up with various design plans and are currently preparing to manufacture prototypes.
However, it is still unclear who will win in the end. It depends on who can be slightly better at the Laizhou Proving Ground in the future.
On August 7, according to the Sun and Moon News Agency in Madrid, the Spanish National Army captured Badajoz in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula and wielded a butcher knife. At least four thousand people were massacred.
This is an ancient city, a key place from Spain to Portugal, with prosperous import and export trade, and built with forts and moats. Perhaps it was impregnable in ancient times, but now it was easily captured by the National Army.
In Taurus Square in the city, thousands of civilians were driven here and then massacred by the National Army with machine guns. At the same time, it is said that two Ming businessmen and four attendants were also robbed and killed?
Although they are in a submarine, they are not isolated from the rest of the world, and sailors can still receive radio signals at many frequencies.
Short-wave communication radios are generally only used when sailing on the water surface, while long-wave communication radios can be used during underwater diving, because short-wave communication cannot penetrate deep below the water surface.
The characteristic of long wave is that the transmission distance is quite long, the signal attenuation is very small, and it can penetrate rock formations and sea water, so it is suitable for long-distance communication on the ocean. However, due to the low frequency, the amount of information carried is very small. 1kb of data may cost more than ten It will take minutes to be sent.
Ultra-long wave communication is even more exaggerated. It can only transmit 1-2 bits of data per minute. As we all know, one English letter is 8 bits, so Americans usually send a combination of three English letters every fifteen minutes for the most basic situation report. .
The soldiers didn't care at all about the civil war in Spain. Nowadays, when nationalism is relatively high, some people even applauded it.
Most people had no sympathy for the more than 4,000 Spanish civilians who died in Badajoz. On the contrary, they cared more about the several Ming Dynasty businessmen who were killed.
"This is Spain's own fault. It was very prosperous hundreds of years ago, and then declined out of control."
"In Luzon, around the time of Chongzhen, the Spaniards massacred three times, and tens of thousands of our people were killed."
"Look, if you come out to fool around, you will have to pay it back sooner or later."
"This doesn't count, does it? Spain is currently fighting each other internally. If one day it is burned, killed, and looted by outsiders on its own land, it will be retaliation."
At this moment, the Lixia Jia-2 was passing through the Paracel Islands. Except for those on duty, dozens of submariners had left the cabin and were sitting on the front deck of the submarine, making jokes.
Zhou Changfeng thinks it is not difficult to understand the simple concept of soldiers - repay kindness with kindness and repay grievance with straightness.
Benevolence, justice and morality depend on the situation, and the targets of the united front are not chosen casually.
"Sir Zhou, these days are so good."
Ling Su also left the cabin. He walked down from behind the control tower and came to Zhou Changfeng's side with a smile.
The latter was leaning on the control tower at the moment. Hearing this, he replied: "I have to say that submarine soldiers are really miserable."
The temperature inside the cabin is as high as 40 degrees, and the power cabin often soars to over 50 degrees. Staying in it is like a sauna. After working for half a quarter of an hour, the sweat on your body feels like a heavy rain.
It’s okay if the temperature is high, but the key point is that this is at sea, the humidity is also very high, it is hot and humid, and a wet piece of clothing may not dry for ten days and a half, and may even get wet as it is dried.
There is a smell of diesel everywhere, even the drinking water has a faint smell of diesel.
There are various pipes everywhere in the small cabin, and the nooks and crannies are also filled with extra supplies. The folding beds and hammocks combined can only sleep half of the people, so the submariners can only sleep in shifts.
After Zhou Changfeng and others boarded the submarine, they were specially arranged into the torpedo room. Under the folding bed were torpedoes filled with hundreds of kilograms of high explosives. Although being with these things made people feel uneasy, the torpedo room was It's already a relatively spacious and dry place.
The submariners are willing to give up such a good place, which is a tribute to Zhou Changfeng and his party.
"What we do in our profession is to lick blood with the tip of a knife. Only the bravest and toughest people can be qualified as submariners." Ling Su took two bottles of wine and a bag of peanuts and sat down nonchalantly.
Zhou Changfeng also sat down on the deck, and the two drank peanuts from bottles.
The high risks and hardships faced by submariners have given them many special treatments, and ordinary regulations are often ignored by them. Even after returning to Hong Kong, no matter how arrogant they were, the military police at the base would turn a blind eye.
They are anomalies in the Navy.
If a medium-sized submarine has not returned home after 70 days at sea, it will be directly recorded as the death of all crew members, because a medium-sized submarine can only carry 60 days of food supplies at most; a large ocean-going submarine can only carry 100 days of supplies because it can only carry 90 days of supplies.
Not even taking into account the circumstances of disappearance and rescue, such simple, crude and cold rules are rare.
"Things are going to change in the past few years. Some people once said that the peace after the European War would last for at most twenty years, and now it is coming to an end." Ling Su threw a peanut into his mouth, then raised his neck and took a big sip. He said vaguely: "When the naval arms treaty expires at the end of this year, we will probably build a large number of new ships."
(End of chapter)
