Although Grove was tasked with gathering intelligence from Russia, he was still a technician at the Munich car factory, and since he came, some things still needed to be done....... For example, now, he had to solve the problem www.biquge.info of artillery towing together with Kutuzov, the representative of the Russian technical group.

"! Isn't it true that everything so heavy uses railroads? "When Grove saw the 6-inch gun changed by the Russians for the first time, he was also shocked! Because of this, not to mention the Russians, now the Germans have not studied how to carry out large-scale road maneuvers on the battlefield, and in general, such artillery is first transported to the battlefield by heavy trains, and then by narrow-gauge trains to the positions. And if you transport a few doors at a time, you can concentrate a large number of horses and people to transport them, but if you transport a dozen doors at once. It's hard to imagine just using horse-drawn carriages and manpower!

The Russians then showed Grove the results of their work, the thick 6-inch L30 barrel was pulled out and placed on a special four-wheeled vehicle, while the gun carriage part was pulled by another 16 horses along with the front car, and in the experiment, these carriages ran fairly well on the road or on gravel roads, not to mention how fast, but it felt that there was no problem in walking.

"You guys have solved this problem well, what are you looking for us?" Looking at the gun carriage slowly moving forward under the tow of the 32 Ton hippos, Grove said with some confusion.

"And then our roads in the Far East were worse than all the bad conditions you've ever experienced, and even our 3-inch rapid-fire guns had to be disassembled and checked in horses in some areas! In most parts of the Far East, even if you double the number of horses, it may not be enough, and these heavy artillery pieces work like a plow, leaving deep mud puddles as you walk over. Kutuzov said.

This is the problem of dragging the cannon away, this is to take two steps and fall into the pit, and then pull it out again with all your might, and then fall into the pit, to put it bluntly, the passage is too bad. No way, now the Russians still use iron wheels, at most with a layer of rubber on the outside. (Before Kutuzov came here, the Russians had just given up their wooden wheels clad iron, and the biggest problem was that this thing was too sturdy, and the 3-inch cannon could be used for a while, and the 6-inch cannon was still ........) ）

"I see, it looks like we need to equip these guns with a suitable wheel first!" The problem of artillery and gun mounts is not needed for now, and if you want to reduce the weight, you need to redesign the gun mount, which is a matter for the Russians, unless they are willing to hand over the production of gun mounts to the Bavarians, Kruger will not care.

Iron wheels are too passable, too heavy, and easy to wear. Bavaria also had a large number of heavy guns to transport, and these guns were first modified by gun carriages before they were changed to vehicle towing. New rubber tires were used, and the synthetic rubber process was in place before World War II, and it was not a difficult technology to increase the wear resistance of tires through carburizing. But when it comes to tire manufacturing, it's definitely not an outer tire and then an inner tube inside, so that the tire is .......

Bavaria brought the Russians two types of tires, one pneumatic and the other filled with sponge rubber. The former can be used for heavy trucks, while the latter can be used for horse-drawn carriages and gun carriages in general. According to the calculations of the Munich tire factory, if the operation is good, the sales profit of the tire alone can reach about 4% of the profit of the shell......

And this time, the new tires that Bavaria brought to the Russians were imitations of the radial tires of later generations, also known as steel wire tires. Although the quality is completely incomparable with the products produced by Michelin in France in 1946, and the structure is also a simplified version, it is still several streets stronger than the current tires! Crushing level.

"This kind of tire greatly expands the area of contact with the ground, and there is a layer of reinforcement layer inside the tire, and there is also steel wire reinforcement inside, so the load capacity of the tire is greatly enhanced. It's not as good as the track, but it's the best wheel I've ever seen. Colonel Kutuzov then commented on the tires imported from Bavaria.

And the volume of such tires is reduced, so the weight of the entire gun carriage is also reduced. In addition, the use of two tires in parallel to increase the contact area greatly improves the passability of the gun truck. And if it can be equipped with a high-powered trailer, then maneuvering in the Far East will not be too much of a problem.

As for the tractor, the Germans brought the Russians a new version of the 5-ton class half-track tractor. The length of the body is 4.2 meters, and the height of the car is 1.8 meters. The width of the vehicle is 1.5 meters. The vehicle weighs around 4.5 tonnes with an 8-cylinder, 65-horsepower water-cooled engine. The maximum road journey is around 240 km. It can load more than 3 tons of materials. At the same time, trailers or gun wagons weighing up to 6 tons can be towed in the back. The car itself can cross a trench of about 1.5 meters, or cross a river with a depth of no more than half a meter.

The Russians then tested the half-track, known as the SD.KFZ-1 in Germany, and were very satisfied with its excellent off-road performance, high speed (50 km/h on the road) and durability after long distances on various terrains. (Actually, it's not very durable, and the average trouble-free march starts at 150 kilometers.) However, considering that Russia, and even the whole world, have such excellent vehicles, the Russians say that this is acceptable! The Russians thought it would be a good idea to add weapons to such a vehicle.

In the subsequent purchase of vehicles, the Russians fully demonstrated that they wanted good things and at the same time did not want to spend more money, and their first request was to make the existing pure tractor a combat vehicle by adding components and making temporary improvements on the battlefield.

And to this request, Bavaria's answer is very simple, naturally yes. You can also go into battle with a machine gun on it, but stability and bulletproof issues are not guaranteed. If it's just frontal bulletproof, it's nothing, but the Russians are proposing to defend against heavy machine gun bullets in all directions, while being immune to most shrapnel attacks, which is a bit of a problem. Because the test team found that the new bullets brought by the Russians were more ferocious.

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