The sound of the engine is particularly high-pitched.

The sound of the gas turbine is completely different from the kind of high-pressure oil pump pumping diesel engine, but it is a bit like standing in front of a helicopter plane, and like the howling of a turbocharger, but the sound has increased a lot, stimulating people's eardrums with a faint pain.

However, just like those motorcycles that like to bomb the streets, in the eyes of those riders, this feeling is handsome enough, and it is this kind of eye-catching feeling, and Derek at this time is also like this, he listened to the roar of the turbine engine, and said to everyone: "This is the most powerful power system in the world, now, let everyone see the wonderful performance of our M1 tank." ”

The M1 tank was the first tank in the world to use a gas turbine, and one of the great benefits of this tank after using a gas turbine is that it is highly maneuverable.

That's right, although it uses a 1,500-horsepower diesel engine like the Leopard-2, but when comparing diesel engines, you can't simply compare a power data, but also compare the torque, and compare the matching with the transmission system.

The gas turbine maneuver is tens of thousands of revolutions, and at low speeds, even hundreds of revolutions can be maintained, which has a fairly wide speed output range, and what are the benefits of this? Of course, it's time to speed up.

Just like a drag race, you can often see a gasoline car changing gears on the red line, accelerating rapidly with the roar of the engine.

However, diesel cars do not have this benefit, why? Because diesel cars have low speeds.

The minimum speed is a few hundred rpm, but at high speed, the diesel engine is only more than two thousand rpm, which means that when the diesel car is running, it must often switch gears, when the gasoline car has only five or six gears, the diesel car already has eight or nine, or even more gears, in order to take care of the defects of the low speed of the diesel car and prevent dragging.

This is even a bit similar to electric cars, most of which do not have a gear lever because they don't have to change gears at all and have a large rev range.

Of course, in order to make the tank have higher performance, it still has an automatic transmission with four forward gears, at this time, when the test finally began, the driver James in front of him stepped on the accelerator to the end, and the 55-ton tank, in front of everyone, came a beautiful start action.

The whole action is smooth and impeccable, if you calculate, you can divide the full weight of 1,500 horsepower by 55 tons, you can get about 27 tons of power, and this is still measured by the full weight of the battle, as for the tank in front of you, this value has reached about thirty.

At this time, in front of everyone's eyes, the gas turbine of the M1 tank emitted black smoke, and rushed out so quickly, when the moment it started, the roar of the gas turbine suddenly became smaller, which was reduced in the engine speed brought about by the moment the torque converter was turned on, however, no one cared, even if the gas turbine was held back to a few hundred revolutions, it would not go out, and relying on this powerful power system, it roared and rushed out, the whole process, making people drool enviously.

"I'm afraid this acceleration can be in less than ten seconds." Mahmoud said.

As the most experienced tank officer, Mahmoud knows what the significance of this action is, in a tank battle, when he finds that the opponent is aiming at him, or even when he finds that the opponent's tank gun is about to fire, his tank can quickly start and drive out, in principle, as long as the opponent's shells fly over, his own side has walked half a commander, you can greatly reduce the probability of being hit.

This is a theoretical basis for the tank's ability to speed up.

Hearing Mahmood's question, Derek said smugly, "Ten seconds? In our tests, we were able to run in less than six seconds, which means that it only took about five seconds. ”

The ability to speed up from 0 to 32 kilometers per hour, even if it is a Leopard-2, takes seven seconds, and this M1 tank only needs about five seconds to complete!

Of course, this can only be completed by the earliest model, especially the test prototype in front of me, which was replaced with Chobham armor and depleted uranium armor in the later stage, which was heavier than the previous time, and finally reached about sixty-five tons.

Now, this performance is world-leading, and Derek is very proud.

Our gas turbines have many disadvantages, the purchase price is high, and it is not convenient to use diesel, but compared with those shortcomings, the advantages it brings are enough to wipe out.

This is the most advanced tank engine, and it makes the steel monster of the tank fly!

The tank is still accelerating, and you can see the black smoke of the engine suddenly disappear from time to time, and suddenly rise again, that is, it is switching gears, and every time you switch gears, it will bring different changes in the load, and when finally, when it soars to the top speed, in front of everyone's eyes, there is only black smoke left.

"Now, it's on a maximum speed display, and our tank can fly to more than 70 kilometers per hour." Derek said.

Due to the limitation of the track, none of the tanks can run to 100 kilometers per hour, and 70 kilometers per hour, it is already a very anti-natural existence, take Lao Ba's 59 tank as an example, only 50 kilometers per hour of the maximum speed, this is still before the tank engine is not worn, under normal circumstances, it can only run thirty or forty, now, the maximum speed of people, is almost twice that of the 59 tank.

"Okay, now I'll show you the ability to shoot on the move." Derek said.

The most powerful thing about the M1 tank is not its gas turbine, but the powerful combat effectiveness brought by the sophisticated fire control system, and what about the small barrel? The high precision of its fire control system is enough to make it proud of the whole world.

The old 59 tank, which did not have the ability to shoot on the move at all, if you look at its maneuvers, rumbles for a while, then stops, after stopping, fires a shot, and then advances.

In this way, when stopping, it is also easy to be attacked by the opponent, and only by firing while on the march can you protect your own safety to the greatest extent.

Of course, this requires the precise coordination of the fire control system!

Inside the wide turret of the M1 tank, Gun Commander Beta is rapidly aiming at the target.