In the ice and snow, a group of dwarves stood in the ice and snow, holding binoculars and looking at the target in the distance in front of a short slope.
The target was very weird, it was very huge, but it had a very weird shape.
If viewed from a pure side, the target is in the shape of a Z, with an inclined plane directly in front of it. There is also a horizontal steel plate directly above the slope that presses the slope.
"Fire!" The leader of the dwarf engineer gave the order, and a dwarf officer next to him looked at the soldiers next to him.
With everyone's expectations, a group of soldiers pulled the firing rope of an artillery piece, and the 76 mm caliber artillery fired a shell.
Most of the dwarves' anti-aircraft artillery are 76 mm in diameter. They increased the volume of the gun chamber, lengthened the length of the barrel, and increased the chamber pressure, so they strengthened the muzzle velocity and increased the weight of the artillery. At the cost, the power of this anti-aircraft artillery is increased.
In the absence of better anti-tank artillery, using this anti-aircraft gun to anti-armor is a helpless move, but in fact it is the right medicine.
Experimental results have proven that this temporary anti-tank gun has excellent armor-piercing effect and can easily penetrate steel plates of more than 80 mm at a distance of more than 500 meters.
This is equivalent to saying that at a normal combat distance of about 700 meters, this artillery can threaten the front armor of the No. 4 tank, and it can indeed be said to be a qualified anti-tank gun.
The only drawback is that the weight of this kind of artillery is a bit excessive: the metallurgical technology of the Dwarf Empire is not as advanced as that of the Tang Dynasty, so it has no choice but to increase the weight of the artillery, which is also a compromise.
The huge artillery impact blew away the snow around the artillery position. When everything fell silent, everyone was looking at the target in the distance.
"There was no penetration..." Everyone saw that there was only a scary bullet mark left on the tilted steel plate, and there was no hole after the penetration.
"Still not penetrated?" When the dwarf officer heard the news, he looked at the engineer beside him in surprise: "Isn't it only 70 mm thick?"
"It's probably similar to the theory I calculated before." The leading engineer raised his arm: "Let's go! Go over and have a look! If I guessed correctly, the shell was bounced."
Everyone walked step by step through the snow to where the target stood 500 meters away. They saw the blackened bullet marks on the sloping armor.
"It was deformed, but it was indeed not penetrated." An engineer looked at the slightly dented bullet marks and said with some regret.
"The trajectory of the artillery shell was deflected." Looking at the horizontal steel plate above the sloping armor, and seeing the hole in it, an engineer following behind said in surprise.
"As I predicted, this tilted design was deliberately designed to deflect cannonballs." The chief engineer came to the conclusion: "The engineers of Tang State must have found this genius method after calculation."
"In other words, is this a good idea?" The military representative on the side, the dwarf officer, asked curiously.
"It's definitely a good idea. Didn't we calculate that if tilted to a certain angle, the defensive effect of a 70 mm thick steel plate can be close to that of a 100 mm thick steel plate." The dwarf engineer pointed to the target in the distance. Several scrapped targets spoke.
They have done a series of experiments before. As long as the tilt angle is enough, even 80 mm thick armor can easily resist the bombardment of 76 mm caliber anti-aircraft guns at a distance of 300 meters.
"Can we use it?" The dwarf officers were most concerned about this: if their Ice Empire could also use this technology, then they could take a big step forward in tank technology.
Recently, they are thinking of ways to introduce a special kind of steel from the Tang Dynasty. As long as the introduction is successful, they can reduce the weight of the 76 gun.
Coupled with the sloped armor design, the Ice Empire's tanks can achieve significant improvements in armor and firepower. Coupled with radio technology... the performance of the Ice Empire's tanks may not be inferior to that of the Tang Dynasty!
"Okay, recently I have also been thinking about how to apply this technology to the design of new tanks. I have to say that the brains of the weapons designers of the Tang Dynasty are really amazing." The chief engineer nodded, expressing great admiration. Weapon designers of the Tang Empire.
Ever since seeing the Victory Parade of the Tang Empire, the Ice Empire has always attached great importance to studying the Panther tanks of the Tang Empire.
On the contrary, the dwarves were not very interested in the No. 4 tanks of the Tang Empire, because they felt that such tanks had been used from the Tang-Qi War to the Tang-Hua War, and were actually seriously lagging behind.
The double-layer armor steel plate of the No. 4 tank is a good proof: most of the No. 4 tanks currently equipped by the Tang Empire have double-layer armor in the front, and a layer of steel plate is temporarily installed outside the main armor, so The protective power cannot reach 80 mm thickness.
Because it has participated in two wars, the thickness and installation form of the armor of Tang's No. 4 tank are actually no secret.
Cyric obtained the wreckage of the No. 4 tank. Later, as the war progressed and the war broke out between the Dahua Empire and the Tang State, there were more and more wrecks of the No. 4 tank.
Even due to mechanical failure, the Dahua Empire also captured the overall relatively intact No. 4 tank, and it was a later model of the No. 4 tank with a steel plate installed on the front and skirts on both sides.
Later, the Dahua Empire itself and the Cyric Consortium conducted various artillery shooting experiments on the No. 4 tank, and the conclusions were similar: the front armor of the No. 4 tank is about 80 mm, which is approximately equal to 90 mm or more in various countries. Armor.
The reason why Tang's two-layer armor protection level is still so high is not because the integrated armor is better than the steel armor of other countries. It is because it is mixed with rare metals such as molybdenum to improve the performance of the steel. Therefore, compared with the steel armor of other countries, Much better in performance.
After experimenting with the protection of the No. 4 tank, various countries have new requirements for their new tanks: they generally increase the frontal protection of their tanks to about 80 mm, and some extreme ones even install 90 mm thick armor. .
This directly led to the serious overweight of tanks in various countries, low mobility, and extremely poor passing performance. But in order to fight against the Tang State, all countries had to endure such shortcomings.
The technicians of the Ice Empire took a different approach. They began to study the Leopard tanks that appeared in the Tang Empire's military parade.
As a result, they really learned something: at least on the surface, they could figure out some meaning of the sloping upper armor through reverse engineering.
The results of this experiment can be used in reverse to develop your own tanks, saving some of the weight wasted on protection, which in turn improves the tank's maneuverability.
When the weight is reduced, the pressure on the traveling mechanism will also be reduced, and the failure rate will naturally be lower. This is an extremely important indicator on the battlefield.
In turn, the tank is lighter, the power remains unchanged, the failure rate is reduced, and the number of spare parts required can naturally be reduced, and the logistics personnel can also be reduced accordingly.
These benefits may not seem obvious when taken individually, but they are commendable when taken as a whole: the fuel consumption of an entire tank unit will be reduced by a large margin, which means that the tank unit can advance further with the same fuel consumption!
Just think about it and you will know the advantages contained in it. It was only at this moment that the relevant personnel realized that the Tang Empire's weapon and equipment design ideas turned out to be so profound.
"Experiments have shown that the boxes installed around the turret of the No. 4 tank can also increase protection..." Before leaving, the chief engineer mentioned the experience they accumulated from the No. 4 tank.
"Then install a similar design on our tanks! Plagiarism is not shameful, right?" the military representative expressed his opinion.
"That's right." The chief engineer nodded and agreed with the military representative: "Even if we can't build a tank more powerful than the Tang Army's Leopard tank, as long as it is stronger than the tanks of other countries, it will be fine. .”
Next, as long as good steel is imported, their plan can begin. Soon, the new generation tanks of the Ice Empire will be put into experiments.
It's not just the engineers of the Ice Empire who are busy. Just like when that great era came in the history of the earth, engineers and scientists from all over the world are practicing their madness in whimsical ways.
The Goblin Kingdom used two gasoline engines in tank development to increase the power of the tank. They went to the other extreme: regardless of fuel consumption, they simply enhanced the performance of their tanks. However, whether this kind of oil tiger is effective or not still needs to be tested on the battlefield.
As a naval power in the south, the Dorne Empire is trying its best to enlarge diesel engines and use them on their warships. I don’t know what they think. In short, they just believe that oil extraction machine power is the development direction of future warship power.
The Lions Empire showed great wisdom in this regard. Because they had the foundation of Bunas, they did not take such a detour, but chose a moderate path. Their designs are quite satisfactory, with nothing out of the ordinary.
In short, everyone is exploring the future and starting the competition with little knowledge: Although it looks clumsy and ridiculous, it is indeed the aborigines of this world who, inspired by the technology of the Tang Dynasty, take their own immature steps towards the future. The future in their eyes.
As for whether the future will be what they imagined, no one knows yet - or in other words, the only person who knows what the future will look like is in Tang State at this moment.
(End of chapter)
