Chapter 169: Self-contradiction
The next day.
The long journey is tiring, but the time to go abroad is precious, and it will not give everyone more time difference, after a night's rest, the next day, a group of delegations came to the Leeds Royal Arsenal.
Generally speaking, when a group of foreign delegation arrives, they should first arrange to go to the production line to investigate, get off the production line, and finally go to see the shooting range, and now, the proud British first came to the shooting range with the inspection team.
"It's to show their superiority." Qin Zhenhua and Wang Erzhu walked together, both at the back of the inspection group, after all, the front was the position of the big man, and now, while walking, Qin Zhenhua was talking to Wang Erzhu about something.
After all, Britain is an old military power, and they have always been complacent about their modern military power, at least in front of their own side, they are quite arrogant, and seem to have forgotten that they have beaten them all over the ground on the battlefield of a certain country in the east.
Now, they're on the shooting range with them, and of course they want to show off their advanced tanks and show them their modern tanks.
Actually, the tanks of the British, went to the other extreme.
The three major indicators of the tank, mobility, firepower, protection, in the domestic thinking, the first pursuit is firepower, can not penetrate the enemy's armor, everything is in vain, under the premise of firepower first, can take into account mobility and protection, so that these are balanced development, naturally better.
However, the British are not, and the British pay the most attention to protection.
Just look at the tonnage of tanks, now the tonnage of the main battle tanks in the world is about forty tons, and what about the British? Their tanks, which are already more than fifty tons, are close to sixty tons!
Because the weight is too large, the engine can't keep up, and the suspension system can't keep up, so the maximum speed of their tank is only more than 30, which is not as fast as their own 59 tank.
This is probably also people's thoughts, if you protect it, you can save your life.
For example, now, next to Minister Zhu and Commander Huang, the old general who is talking and laughing is called Robert Hart, who is the deputy chief of staff of the other party's army, and when he was just introduced, he himself said a word with a smile.
"I fought with Hobert." As he said this, the noble chief of staff, who was wearing a suit and bow tie, said with a smile as he showed off to several deputy in berets beside him.
In the British army, this sentence represents glory, because Hobert, the most dazzling tank commander in World War II, is as famous as Guderian.
Now, with a smile on his face, Robert introduced everyone as he walked, with the characteristic arrogance of the British, which, of course, was not very prominent, and was well concealed.
"Now, our main production is the Chivoltan main battle tank, which is the first in the world." With his introduction, a group of people had already arrived at the entrance of the shooting range, where a tall and powerful tank quietly stopped in front of everyone.
As a former armored soldier and now the deputy chief of staff of the army, Robert attaches great importance to tanks, and now, he is not wrong to say that this is the first in the world.
"Our tank, which weighs 56 tons, has our newly developed Chobham armor in the main armor compartment in the front." Robert said proudly: "At present, there is no artillery in the world that can penetrate its frontal main armor, especially the gun shield. ”
After speaking, he pointed to the turret, and he could see that the front of this turret was no longer the shape of casting, and the surface looked flat, completely in the shape of welded armor.
Speaking of Chobham armor, it is enough to make the British proud, in the development of tanks, the performance of tank guns is getting stronger and stronger, and it can easily penetrate 300 mm of homogeneous steel, or even deeper, but the armor technology is stagnant, and if the turret front is 200 mm thick, the weight of the entire tank soars to fifty or sixty tons.
Therefore, this once caused a lot of headaches for the engineers who developed tank armor, until an armored research institute in the British town of Chobham developed this armor that uses ceramics as a protective material, which greatly increased the protection capacity at once!
This armor was named Chobham armor.
Not only did they use this armor on their newly developed tanks, but they also added this armor to the modification of the main Chivoltan, which greatly improved the protection of the tank.
Everyone looked over and looked at this welded turret, and they were very envious.
The cast turret has a smooth shape and can form a perfect bulletproof slope, but the cast turret cannot fit into the composite armor interlayer, so now, the development trend of the world's tanks has begun to tend to weld the turret.
As for the turret in front of him, Qin Zhenhua walked through countless heads, looked at it, and continued: "This is not a new research and development at all, it is just an extra layer of protection added to the outside of the original cast turret, well, maybe it can be called a milk cover." ”
Bra? Wang Erzhu was embarrassed for a while, Brother Zhenhua, we have such a rare opportunity, are you here to gag?
Although we use Chinese, there must be other translators nearby, so let's tear it down like this, okay?
At this time, the previous introduction continued, Robert pointed to the front of the turret, the thick and long tank gun, and said: "Look here, our L11 tank gun, caliber 120 mm, this is the most powerful tank gun in the world!" It can penetrate the main armor of any enemy tank at a long distance! ”
The equipment of the British is also very interesting, they developed the L7 105 mm tank gun, which became the standard tank gun of NATO, and was used in the tanks of many countries, but they themselves did not use it in their new tanks except for modifying their own Centurion tanks after World War II.
Their Chivoltan uses a 120 mm tank gun, and the larger the caliber, the greater the power of the tank gun! The performance of this tank gun is definitely higher than that of the L7.
Now, he is standing next to this tank, pointing at the barrel with his finger, looking majestic, this gun, which is 55 times the caliber, naturally looks even thicker.
At this time, Robert unnaturally also showed arrogance, his arrogance is justified, this is the heritage of the old empire, envy, right?
At this time, most people are sighing for the other party's advanced technology, that's right, Chobham armor is the best tank armor in the world, and this 120 mm rifled gun is definitely the first in the world!
Just as everyone sighed, a voice came from behind, which was standard and fluent in English.
“Set your own spear against your own shield,which will win?” (Poke your own shield with your own spear, who wins?) )