If the German Leopard tank is an outstanding representative of the first generation of tanks, then the T30 tank of the Chinese Imperial Army is the star of the second generation of tanks. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

There is a difference of a whole generation in terms of combat effectiveness.

As soon as the T30 main battle tank of the Chinese Empire's Shence Army was finalized, it was immediately put into production, and with the strong industrial strength of the Chinese Empire, mass production was very easy and fast.

Due to the overcapacity of the Chinese Empire's steel capacity, the domestic steel price was low, so the Chinese Imperial Military was given the opportunity to purchase a large amount of steel at a minimal cost for the manufacture of the T30 main battle tank, while other equipment of the Navy and Air Force also benefited.

Of course, the steel purchased by the military is high-grade special steel, although the ordinary steel is also better than the similar steel in foreign countries, and the military of various countries are crazy to grab high-end goods abroad, but it will not be favored by the high-minded Chinese Imperial military, so the major domestic steel companies quickly returned the steel to the furnace for smelting, and turned to the production of high-grade special steel that meets the strict requirements of the Chinese Imperial military.

Many steel companies with overcapacity, because of a large number of orders from the Chinese Imperial military, the company quickly turned losses into profits, and tide over the difficulties, and the workers did not have to be laid off and unemployed, which is a great thing for the country and the people.

The Chinese Empire was vast, with a land area of nearly 40 million square kilometers, and except for the two Asian countries of the Ottoman Turkish Empire and the Persian Empire, the rest of Asia belonged to the Chinese Empire.

You must know that Asia is the largest state in the world, with an area of 44 million square kilometers, and the Chinese Empire itself occupies three-quarters of the territory, more than 30 million square kilometers.

Of course, India and Japan are still only colonies of the Chinese Empire, not inherent territories. There are also Egypt and Kuwait, which are still under the full control of the Chinese Empire, but they only claim to be overseas dominions and are under the trusteeship of the Chinese Empire.

Because areas like Egypt and Kuwait were still nominally owned by the Ottoman Turkish Empire, in order not to irritate the Ottoman Empire, an ally, the Chinese Empire was still very cautious in areas like this. The main purpose was to prevent the Ottoman Empire from falling into the German Empire, as the Kingdom of Italy did.

If Li Weiguo was not very interested in territorial expansion in the past, but as the Chinese Empire's Shence Army was almost about to unify the whole of Asia, Li Weiguo's attitude also changed, and he had a trace of inexplicable expectations for the unification of the whole of Asia.

It's like a person who doesn't really want to drink, so in order to have a good time with his friends, he only plans to drink half a glass at first, but as he talks with his friends at the wine table, he somehow drinks a glass, or even more.

This is the case of Li Weiguo, who was not very interested in territorial expansion at the beginning, but now has expanded his territory to 40 million square kilometers, and as long as he defeats the Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire, then he can completely unify the whole of Asia. Plus it has already occupied Oceania, North America except Mexico, South Africa in the south of Africa, Egypt in the north, Britain in Europe, etc.

Thus, in Li Weiguo's eyes, it seemed that the unification of the whole of Asia was almost complete, as long as the Ottoman Turkish Empire and the Persian Empire were overthrown. Even it is not impossible to unify the entire earth, as long as the German Empire is defeated, other countries simply cannot resist the powerful Chinese Empire Shence Army.

The greater the ambition, the greater the resistance, and if Li Weiguo wants to unify the whole world, he will inevitably become the public enemy of the whole world.

Warships can dominate the seas, but they can't go ashore. Fighter planes can wreak havoc in the sky, and landing is just like a pile of scrap metal.

The war to unify the whole world will ultimately fall on the Chinese Imperial Army.

Becoming an enemy of the whole world means the possibility of paying enormous sacrifices, unprecedented disasters, and unpredictable outcomes of war.

These were all pressed on the Chinese Imperial Army in the end.

The fact that the Imperial Chinese Army has the T30 main battle tank that crushes everything does not mean that it can win the war, which is the result of the interaction of various factors. The powerful Soviet Union also died on the small battlefield in Afghanistan, and the United States, which was equipped with advanced equipment, also withdrew its troops from Vietnam in embarrassment, all of which are warning the Chinese Imperial Shence Army, forcing them not to seek the strongest, but to be stronger.

There was a T30 main battle tank that crushed the German Leopard tank, and an 88 mm rocket launcher that completely exploded the German 60 rocket launcher, but the Chinese Imperial Army still felt that it was not enough, so it got another national weapon from the Imperial Academy of Sciences.

Chariot!

It is not a tracked tank, but a wheeled combat vehicle specially designed to restrain tanks and kill and injure the living forces of the enemy.

Previously, the Imperial Chinese Army has been equipped with W1 light tanks to W18 medium tanks, these light tanks and medium tanks are equipped with single assault guns or twin anti-tank guns, and even quadruple armor-piercing heavy machine guns, known as the nemesis of tanks, and the death harvester of personnel.

In hundreds of battles before and after the World War, the Imperial Chinese Army tried and tested repeatedly in the use of combat vehicles, and the enemy army was very embarrassed, especially the surprise attack behind the enemy and the battlefield breakthrough, all of which were fruitful.

As a result, the chariot became another favorite of the Chinese Empire's Shence Army.

This time, the Imperial Army Armament Committee received an additional new combat vehicle from the Imperial Academy of Sciences.

The W88 tank, codenamed X38 in the laboratory of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, is the thirty-eighth experimental prototype of the combat vehicle, indicating that thirty-seven models of combat equipment have been developed one after another.

Due to the revision of the equipment numbering principle by the Military Equipment Committee of the Chinese Empire, it was originally supposed to be named the W19 tank, but finally the W88 tank, in order to confuse the judgment of hostile intelligence officers.

In fact, the chariot has a special definition within the Chinese Imperial Army, which has a slightly different meaning from abroad. The so-called chariot of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army generally refers to the anti-tank and anti-personnel destroyer vehicle, and the popular general, the chariot of the Chinese Empire is a weapon used to restrain tanks and surprise enemy infantry.

The W88 is not the first tank destroyer equipped by the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire, there have been more than a dozen models before. Before the W88 tank, the Chinese Imperial Shence Army was equipped with the most outstanding W6 light tank, and during the world war, it became a destroyer that killed British and American tanks in seconds. At that time, the W6 combat vehicle was small, widely built with thin special steel, an open fighting compartment design, the frontal armor was only 6 mm thick, the side rear armor was 4 mm thick, and it was equipped with a Guanghua 23-year 37 mm assault rapid-fire gun, and the power plant was an M-20E 4-cylinder water-cooled gasoline engine.

At that time, the W6 light combat vehicle appeared for the first time on the battlefield of World War, with anti-tank capabilities, which caused a catastrophe to the US army at that time.

However, as the world war progressed, tanks with thicker armor and more powerful firepower appeared in various countries, so the light tank W6 was quickly eliminated and replaced by the subsequent W12 and W18 medium tanks.

But now, with the birth of the German Empire's Leopard tank, whether it is the W12 or the W18, the armor of these two tanks is too thin, not only can not block the armor-piercing shells of the Leopard tank, but even the German rockets can easily kill the W18 tank in seconds.

At the same time, the open fighting compartment designed by the W18 is also vulnerable to attack and does not have the ability to defend itself, so the Chinese Imperial Shence Army resolutely eliminated it.

The W88 combat vehicle (known as the tank destroyer in foreign countries) was developed by the Combat Vehicle Design Bureau of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and the project engineering code name is "X38 Project", which has been secretly tested and finalized in Guanghua 33 years, and was officially numbered W88 a year ago, and is planned to be put into mass production in April 35 of Guanghua.

The car is modified from the chassis of the Chinese Imperial T30 main battle tank, many parts are common to the latter, and the performance parameters are relatively close. Compared to the W12 equipped in the past, the W18 has a number of significant improvements.

First of all, the W88 tank has a fully enclosed fighting compartment, which allows the crew to be fully protected.

Secondly, the armor thickness of the W88 combat vehicle is larger, the thickness of the front armor plate has been increased to 45 mm, and the thickness of the side armor has also reached 23 mm, which are the highest grade of Chinese special steel, and the armor at the rear, roof and bottom of the car is 10 mm thick, which has basically reached the armor protection level of medium tanks in the twentieth century, and the safety of the crew has been improved, and the front and side armor of the hull are designed with a large inclination angle, and the protection capability has been greatly improved, and it has the ability to engage with the enemy's armored forces.

The W88 combat vehicle has a combat weight of 20.5 tons, a total length of 8.5 meters, a hull length of 6.4 meters, a width of 3.0 meters, a height of 2.0 meters, and a bottom height of 420 mm from the ground.

According to the standard division of combat vehicles by the Chinese Imperial Army, the W88 tank belongs to the scope of heavy combat vehicles, and it is also the first heavy combat vehicle model of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army.

Of course, it was also the world's first heavy combat vehicle (called an anti-tank destroyer abroad).

The W88 heavy tank has a total of 4 crew members, the driver sits in the front right of the hull, the commander is on the right side of the gun in the fighting compartment, the gunner and loader are on the left side of the gun, and each crew member has its own independent hatch access. There is also an emergency escape hatch on the floor of the car for abandonment and escape in an emergency.

The W88 heavy tank is powered by a V-6 diesel engine with a power of 155 kW and a gearbox with 4 forward and 1 reverse gear.

As a heavy tank, its weight and volume were so large that the previous four-wheeled chassis was no longer sufficient, and after modification, it was loaded on six wheels and equipped with special hydraulic shock absorbers.

The maximum highway speed of the car is 85 kilometers per hour, the highway journey is 460 kilometers, the vertical wall is 1.1 meters high, and the trench is 2.8 meters wide. The car chassis does not have the ability to float on the water, can only wade through shallow water, wading depth of 1.1 meters, in order to facilitate wading, the front of the body is equipped with a wave plate.

The focus is also on firepower, as a heavy combat vehicle, the W88's armament is an M64D 88 mm anti-tank gun, recoil travel 520 mm, 30 degrees to the left and right of the gun's firing range, 4.5 degrees of depression, and a maximum elevation angle of 15 degrees. The artillery sighting device is a TDM-11 white light sight for medium and long-range aiming, and a TDD-9 panoramic sight for direct aiming at close range, equipped with two high-wattage searchlights for illuminating targets at night.

In terms of ammunition, the W88 tank can carry 40 rounds of 88 mm shells with a rate of fire of 6 to 7 rounds per minute, and the types of ammunition include high-speed tracer armor-piercing shells, tracer armor-piercing shells, fragmentation grenades and smoke grenades. Among them, the high-speed tracer armor-piercing projectile can penetrate a 150-millimeter-thick Krupp armor plate at a distance of 500 meters and at an angle of 60 degrees.

This is particularly surprising to the Imperial Chinese Army, because the 150 mm Krupp armor steel plate means that the W88 tank can kill the German Leopard tank on the battlefield in seconds, and easily destroy most of the German permanent fortifications, because most of the German permanent fortifications, the Krupp armor steel plate inside the concrete will basically not exceed 150 mm.

In addition, the vehicle was also equipped with R-12 or R-11 on-board radios, but because the large radio was too large and consumed too much fuel, it was not the planned R11 or R12 that was used in the eventual service, but the R15 short-range radio system, which could only improve the use of short-range communication.

Even if it is only short-distance radio communication, in the eyes of the armies of other countries, it is also a tall equipment, and only the Shence military of the Chinese Empire can afford it, and the armies of other countries cannot afford it at all.

With the T30 main battle tank, with the 88mm rocket launcher, and now with the W88 tank, these three major pieces have made the Chinese Imperial Shence Army more confident.

The officers and soldiers of the Shence Army even clamored for the unification of the earth to directly crush the German Empire and unify the whole world.

Fortunately, the government departments of the Chinese Empire blocked the news in time and asked the Shence Army to restrain their speech, otherwise once it spread, all countries in the world would panic, and they would be hostile to the Chinese Empire, and even abandon the hostile state with the German Empire, and instead embark on the thief ship of the German Empire.

In short, even if the Chinese Empire had the ambition to unify the whole world, it could only be done quietly.

Pursuing a policy of gradual encroachment was a very clever plan to quietly achieve the strategic objectives of the Chinese Empire without the countries uniting together.

To this end, the Chinese imperial government and military also reached a tacit understanding.

The Imperial Chinese military has become low-key, and the government has leaned in policy on the issue of appropriations, allowing the military to give more orders for weapons and equipment.

As a result, the navy, army, and air force of the Chinese Empire carried out a comprehensive rearmament in a low-key and secret manner, with the goal not only of preparing for military revenge against the German Empire, but also taking the opportunity to brew a greater black cloud of war, which quietly began to envelop the world.