As the only superpower in the world, the Chinese Empire has maintained the world's first place in all aspects, and this is almost a matter that the people of the Chinese Empire take for granted, so any country that shows signs of surpassing the Chinese Empire, or has advanced technology to surpass the Chinese Empire in some aspects, will cause the Chinese people to be shocked and nervous. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Before the world war, the Chinese people were rivals with the entire Entente bloc. With the end of the World War, relations between the Chinese Empire and the German Empire quickly froze and turned hostile after the English Channel incident, so the Chinese people regarded the German Empire as their only rival, because only the German Empire could pose a threat to the Chinese Empire in the next ten or twenty years.

Due to the unprecedented economic and military strength of the Chinese Empire, coupled with the comprehensive encirclement and blockade of the German Empire in Europe, the government and people of the German Empire felt unprecedented pressure and great threat.

In order to deter the Chinese Empire and prevent the Chinese Empire from suddenly going to war against the German Empire, the German Imperial Government had to spend huge sums of money on scientific research, focusing on military equipment, in an attempt to use advanced military equipment to deter the Chinese Empire and its allies, so that they would not dare to act rashly against the German Empire.

Hittra played a huge role in this period of crisis in the German Empire, and under his supervision, the Ghost Project was launched, and the scientists of the German Empire soon developed a large number of advanced military equipment.

Among them, the Seawolf submarine of the German Imperial Navy, with its powerful silent ability, evaded the sonar detection of the Chinese Imperial Navy, attacked the merchant ships and warships of the Chinese Empire, and successfully counterattacked, giving the world's most powerful Imperial Chinese Navy a great deterrent and threat.

Then there was the sudden appearance of Fokker E3 fighters and Gotha bombers in the German Imperial Air Force, which also limited and challenged the operational capabilities of the Chinese Imperial Air Force in the skies over Europe.

However, although the Seawolf submarine is powerful, there is currently only one in the Imperial German Navy. Although the Fokker E3 fighter and the Gotha bomber were ferocious, the German Imperial Air Force had only begun to equip its troops, formally formed its combat effectiveness, and it would take several years to form a cluster scale, and with the fragile financial capabilities of the German Empire, it was impossible to really threaten the Chinese Imperial Navy and Air Force in the next five years. The Chinese Empire had already launched countermeasures, relying on the strong economic base and strong industrial strength of the Chinese Empire, and completely deployed in place before the German Empire.

In fact, the only thing that made the Chinese Imperial military nervous was not the navy and air force, but the army.

The cannon fire of the January Red Revolution in Russia shocked the whole world, and also shocked the Chinese Empire.

However, the Chinese Imperial Military did not look down on Russia's military strength at all, and the only concern was the Red Army in the hands of Liening, because the Red Army used bazooka weapons for the first time to directly kill the T25 tanks installed by the Russian army.

Since the tank debuted during the world war, it instantly became the iron fist and trump card of the armies of various countries, there are no fortresses and cities that cannot be attacked by tanks, with tanks, you can be invincible, this has almost become the only standard for measuring the combat effectiveness of the army in the world after the war, and even the artillery power has stood aside.

In the post-World War world, the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire ranked first in the world army with 240 T28 tanks, 2,400 T25 modified tanks, and 500 T25 tanks.

In second place was the German Empire, with 1,800 T23 tanks, 2,100 T23 modifications, and 1,200 Mark II tanks captured from the French Army.

If the number of rounds in a single round, it is naturally more tanks of the German Imperial Army, but the T23 tank, T23 modified tank, and Mark II tank used by the German Imperial Army, these are all tanks exported to the German Empire by the Chinese Empire during the World War, as well as tanks captured from France, and the overall performance is not as good as the original tank models of the Chinese Empire, and the T25 tanks and T28 tanks.

Therefore, the Imperial Chinese Army ranked first in the world, and the Imperial German Army could only be the second.

However, under the guidance of Hitla, the German Imperial Army soon carried out breakthrough research and development on the basis of the T23 tank of the Chinese Empire, and absorbed the design ideas and technology of the French Mark tank, which was finally confirmed in the Ghost Project.

The German Empire's Leopard tank, as well as the Leopard II tank, were completed under Hitla's guidance and were an important part of the Ghost Project.

Due to the secret partnership between Hitra and Starling, the German Imperial military obtained Russian-made bazooka technology from Starling.

In response to the fact that the rocket launcher easily destroyed the armor of the T25 tank, the German Imperial military felt that their tanks were more vulnerable, so the next Leopard tank, as well as the Leopard II tank secretly developed by Hitla, were targeted to strengthen the defense.

The German Leopard tank focused on armor protection and firepower, and chose to sacrifice speed. On the one hand, because the Russians' bazooka armor-piercing ability was too strong, forcing the German Leopard tanks to strengthen their armor protection. On the other hand, it is also the shortcoming of the military industrial strength of the German Empire, that is, the power of the tank engine is not enough, barely supporting the 21-ton tank at a speed of 28 kilometers per hour.

28 km/h, this speed is a chicken rib for a tank. Therefore, the Imperial German Army simply sacrificed its speed and reduced it to 20 km/h in exchange for increasing the weight of armor protection to improve its defensive capabilities.

In the end, the total combat weight of the Leopard tank reached 30 tons, and the thickness of the armor reached 80 mm on the front, and 50 mm on the sides and back, the front could withstand the direct attack of armor-piercing shells fired by the strongest Russian-made 50-mm rocket launcher, and the sides could defend against the 37-mm anti-tank armor-piercing shells equipped with the W18 medium tank of the Imperial Chinese Army.

In addition to the significant increase in defensive capabilities, the main armament of the Leopard tank has also been strengthened to a certain extent, such as the installation of a 47 mm main gun and two 7.92 mm MG13 machine guns.

In order to be able to drive the 30-ton Leopard tank, the German army could not choose many engine manufacturers, and finally decided to provide the M3054 cylinder air-cooled gasoline engine provided by Krupp, with a thrust-to-weight ratio of 11.1PS per ton, using an elliptical leaf spring suspension system, with a maximum range of 140 kilometers and a maximum speed of 20 kilometers per hour.

In response to the German army's Leopard tanks, when formulating a retaliation plan, the internal staff of the Chinese Empire had to consider that once the retaliation action got out of control, it would cause a full-scale hot war, and the army would bear the brunt of it.

In the face of the Leopard tank steel torrent of the German Imperial Army, the Chinese Imperial Shence Army needed to have the ability to fight against the Leopard tank, so after the T28 tank, the design drawings of the T30 tank were taken out by the secret archives of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and handed over to the Imperial Chinese Army Equipment Committee.

The T30 tank was used to PK the Leopard tank, and according to the competitive psychology of the Imperial Chinese Army, the German Imperial Army would never be allowed to steal the throne of the world's strongest army.

Everything is stronger than other countries, this is the concept of the Chinese Empire today.

The requirements of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army for the T30 main battle tank are at least one generation behind the German Empire's Leopard tank, that is, to ensure that the Chinese Empire is at least one generation ahead of the enemy's standard in terms of tanks.

The German Leopard tank is equipped with a 47 mm short-barreled gun, so the T30 tank of the Chinese Imperial Army must be equipped with a stronger gun, which must be able to penetrate the 80 mm frontal armor of the Leopard tank, because it is not very clear how much the armor thickness of the German Leopard tank is, so the final installation of the 88 mm caliber 50 times the diameter of the main gun, firing the Chinese standard armor-piercing ammunition, can directly penetrate the 90 mm thick Krupp armor at a distance of 1,500 meters.

It was only after it was believed that the firepower of the T30 completely suppressed the Leopard tank, and only then did the Imperial Chinese military begin to consider the issue of armor protection. It was also required that the T30 main battle tank could withstand the attack of the German Leopard tank's 47mm short-barreled gun, and it was also necessary to be careful of the German rocket launcher attack, and to ensure that it could resist the German upgraded Leopard tank.

In this way, the thickness of the armor is not 100 mm.

But the problem is that even if the Chinese Empire is technologically advanced and has a strong industrial level, it can produce a powerful tank engine that can throw away a few streets from other countries, but in order to propel the T30 main battle tank weighing 45 tons to a speed of more than 50 kilometers per hour, the requirements for the engine are too high, and in the end, even the experts of the Imperial Academy of Sciences can't shake their heads.

Because the most advanced tank engine owned by the Imperial Academy of Sciences is the 12-cylinder 40-liter M2 diesel engine, which has the highest power of 500 horsepower in the world, which represents the most advanced in the world and is also the last tank engine of the Imperial Academy of Sciences.

Such a powerful tank engine can only make the T30 tank reach a top speed of 40 kilometers per hour on the road.

The Army Operations Committee pointed out in the tank combat report that mobility is the advantage of tank battles, because the maximum defensive armor of the tank is always in the front, and the side armor is much weaker. For highly mobile tanks, you only need to quickly rush into the enemy army and attack the flank of the enemy tank during a tank battle to achieve the greatest results.

During the World War, a tank battle broke out on the battlefield between Germany and France, when the German army was equipped with the world's most advanced Chinese Empire-made T23 tank, while the French army was backward Mark II tanks.

Since the French army lost in this battle because of the small number of tanks, this example did not attract the attention of the world's military circles, but the Chinese imperial military would not let go of any combat experience, and this conclusion was reached after careful study.

This is a military secret that is not spread to the public, so after careful consideration, the Army Armament Committee had to lower the requirements, and the armor after 100 mm is no longer vertical armor, but changed to inclined armor at an angle of 30 degrees, so that only 65 mm thick Chinese special steel can be used to achieve the protection level of 100 mm vertical armor, and at the same time greatly reduce the weight of the armor.

In this way, the total combat weight of the T30 main battle tank was reduced to about 40 tons, and the powerful engine with 500 horsepower made it reach a top speed of 55 kilometers per hour on the road, making this tank tall all of a sudden.

Of course, to be able to run at a speed of 55 kilometers per hour, the engine alone is not enough.

The combination of a new suspension system researched by the Imperial Academy of Sciences and a track system of sufficient strength allowed the T30 to perform at its full potential.

Although the T30 main battle tank has advantages, it is not without its disadvantages.

The biggest disadvantage is the size problem, in the case of limited by the development of the times, the more powerful the engine is, the larger the volume, the T30 tank engine is no exception, the huge volume leads to the shape design of the tank has to really become "tall", even if the turret is designed as a flat tofu block, it cannot stop the dilemma of more than 2.6 meters high.

With such a tall body, the target is naturally large.

However, the T30 tank's strong armor defense capability is still able to defend against it, at least until the appearance of more ferocious tanks.

In fact, the tall body is not useless, and sometimes it is still a little useful.

For example, when wading in water, a tall body can pass through water at a depth of at least two meters after using the upper smoke exhaust technology, which may be better when there are no waves.

The tall body also has the advantage that the tank crew is more comfortable. Compared with the German Leopard tank, the T30 tank of the Chinese Imperial Army can be said to be very comfortable, because in this era, the tank cannot be equipped with air conditioning.

If the German tankers in the Leopard could get into the T30 tank and take a look, they would be jealous to death. In their eyes, sitting in the T30 tank is absolutely heaven, and sitting in the Leopard tank is like hell.

Aside from the tank, for the 60 mm rocket launcher equipped by the German army, the Chinese Imperial Army was naturally unwilling to lag behind, and quickly developed a high-power 88 mm H20 rocket launcher, which uses an aluminum alloy launch canister, with an effective range of 110 meters and a vertical armor penetration thickness of 280 mm, which can destroy any kind of tank in the world at present, and even the fortress fortifications are directly broken in seconds.

However, the Imperial Chinese Army also faced a problem, that is, the cost of the H20 rocket launcher was very high, not referring to the rocket itself, but to the cost of the rocket.

Since rockets rely on the thrust of rocket engines to complete launches, flights, and attack targets, the manufacture of disposable rocket engines has become the key.

The bazooka used by the Russian army was made by Starling using the most primitive method, and the German army's industry was more advanced than that of Russia, and the production of 60 mm caliber rockets was also very difficult and costly. In order to absolutely surpass the enemy, the Chinese Imperial Military developed 88 mm caliber rockets, and the cost remained even higher, and even the powerful Chinese Imperial Finance expressed pain in this project and tried its best to limit production.

Therefore, although the 88mm rocket launcher can be equipped with the Chinese Imperial Shence Army, the number will never be too much, but it can effectively deter the German Empire.