In fact, as long as you think about it a little, you will know the biggest problem of turretless tanks, the turret provides the ability to rotate left and right, so that the tank gun can aim at any target, if there is no turret, then it can only be achieved by the rotation of the hull. In the past, tanks did not have the ability to shoot on the move, and had to stop and fire anyway, so it was acceptable to move and change direction by moving on tracks.

But now, if the tank stops firing, then wait to become a live target for the opponent, and if the tank wants to shoot in the middle of the march, the gun commander must be very depressed, unless the target is directly in front of him, otherwise his cannon will not be able to hit at all.

So, the turret is a must.

The current turrets are built very large, and the armor has to be thick enough, because there must be people in the turret, and the turrets in the West are even taller, because they need to accommodate three Westerners who are tall and tall, and the Soviets are also in order to save space, so they deliberately find a small man of 1.5 meters to drive a tank.

If there is no one in the turret, the turret can be greatly reduced.

Westerners will be very depressed again, because they don't have an automatic loader, and at least a loader must be left in it, and Soviet tanks have long been self-loading, so it's not a problem for them, as long as they change it, they can turn the turret into an unmanned turret, so that the turret will lose weight? You can carry a 140 mm cannon barrel.

Qin Zhenhua is thinking about it now, but he actually said it at the beginning of the way, and when it comes to the future? Actually moved him? I'm a genius, huh? If you design a tank like this, there are so many benefits!

He said that his own heart was itching.

"That is, the commander and the gun commander are still needed? Where do they sit? "Kartsev's proposal to Qin Zhenhua? It's very important, so, finally gave up the suspicion just now? It's starting to think about it seriously.

There's no one in the turret? Doesn't that mean you don't need a commander and a gun commander? These people? Where to sit?

This is a new problem.

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"Sitting in the front, of course." Qin Zhenhua's mind is open? Immediately found the place.

There's no other place, huh? In the back is the engine, there is no one in the middle turret, do not sit in front, where to sit?

"I can't squeeze it." "There are up to two people sitting in front," Kartsev said. ”

In the past, during World War II? Tank is a five-a-side? The first two? Three inside the turret? Two people in front, one is the driver, the other is the radioman and the machine gunner in front? This person is important.

But with the development of technology, there is no need for a specialized radioman, the machine gunner is not so important, there is only one person left in front, so now even if it is changed, at most one more person will be added to the front, two people will be at most, three people, it will definitely be crowded, is it necessary to lengthen the front body? So what exactly is the picture?

"There are only two of them." Qin Zhenhua said.

Since three people can't let go, it's better to sit two people, Qin Zhenhua is right, so much so that Kartsev began to wonder if he was old and couldn't keep up with the trend.

The first five people, became four, cut off the radioman, four, became three, cut off the loader, three people, how did it become two?

Two people? Two people, is it enough?

To drive a tank, you have to have one person, what about the other? Commander and gunner?

This can't be done at the same time, after all, the mission of the commander and the gun commander are different.

The commander is responsible for observing the surrounding situation, determining the threat level, and indicating the target data to the gun commander, who needs to bind all kinds of shooting elements to complete the steps of accurate aiming, the two are indispensable, after decades of development, it is considered the most suitable combination, and now, there is actually one person left?

When aiming and firing, you don't look around you? How dangerous is that, what if someone fires at them at this time?

At this time, Kartsev also had doubts in his heart, but he didn't ask, Qin Zhenhua had already begun to explain.

"With the continuous development of technology, we believe that the task of the artillery commander can be replaced by a computer." Qin Zhenhua said: "As long as the commander indicates the target, the on-board computer can complete all the steps of aiming and shooting, control the tank to fire, so that the position of the commander can be removed, so as to become a two-person driving system." ”

"No, it can't be." Finally, Kartsev did not fully agree with Qin Zhenhua as before, and finally began to express his doubts: "How can a computer replace a human operation?" Computers are always dead, and without human control, computers are nothing. ”

"Of course, it is definitely impossible now, but we are pre-researching technology, and what we are pre-researching is not now, but technology in ten or twenty years." Qin Zhenhua said: "Twenty years ago, could our tanks fire on the move? Is it possible to aim and shoot accurately at a distance of two thousand meters? Now we have done it, because technology is constantly improving, and now, we have done a lot of work by relying on the fire control computer, calculating all kinds of shooting elements, and we can already hand it over to the computer to complete it itself, then, after the computer technology develops faster, can't it replace the gun commander? ”

Kartsev continued to shake his head: "No, no, I don't think it's possible. ”

Qin Zhenhua spread his hands: "If that's the case, then I have nothing to say, let's continue to inspect your T-72 tank production line." ”

Since it can't go on, let's not talk about it, anyway, the discussion of the future tank is just a small episode, the Soviet Union's electronics industry is not as rapid as the West, and the electronic equipment on the tank is not as much as the West, so it is not easy for them to accept the idea that this electronic equipment can dominate everything. In this regard, Qin Zhenhua felt a little despised for this great tank designer, where did you have the courage at the beginning, you dared to steal the model explained by the above to change the beams and columns, this kind of head-off thing has been done, now, I believe that the future world will be controlled by computers, is it so difficult? You're certainly not a sci-fi fan! In fact, if you don't cut the gun commander, you can cut the driver, and you can drive yourself in the future. Well, forget it, don't talk about this, the other party won't believe it.

"You have tanks, you have always used cast turrets, and when you get to the battlefield, if you want to continue to increase your protection, is there only one way to add reactive armor?" At this time, the turret had also been installed, and it was still a smooth cast turret shape, and Qin Zhenhua couldn't help but raise new questions.