442: Tank No. 2
Li Qingping's evaluation of Russian tanks is very objective, and even in order to ensure some effects, he deliberately favors some Russian tanks. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In fact, at the speed of a wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicle, if the crew members are fully prepared, then when facing a Russian tank of the same size, the probability of being destroyed is almost 50%, and if it is a mature crew, then the probability of being destroyed will be even lower.
After all, the speed of the Russian tank is not good, although it is equipped with a 37mm infantry gun, but if the reconnaissance vehicle is allowed to run, at a speed of nearly 40 kilometers per hour, the Russian artillery will not have time to aim at all.
In order to avoid the impact of recoil on soldiers, the Russian tank adopts an integrated layout, that is, the gun position is fixed, and the elevation angle can only be adjusted up and down, but the angle cannot be adjusted left and right.
As for the reason, it's even simpler, such a layout, the wheels can offset part of the recoil, if the angle can be adjusted left and right, then the car will likely cause the danger of rolling over after the gun, so, this layout also greatly affects the hit rate of the Russian tank, after each shot, unless the target is stationary, otherwise, the body must move to be accurate.
Li Qingping gave such a high evaluation, in fact, he did not want the reconnaissance troops to take it lightly, so that they would be killed by this kind of Russian chicken-ribbed tank, and become a war exploit of others.
But no matter how Li Qingping raised the Russian tank, he couldn't change the disadvantage of the Russian tank, and it could even be said that the whole tank except for one artillery, there was nothing else that could make them cautious, even Cao Kun was a little unimpressed, in fact, at the first glance of the Russian tank, Cao Kun made a decision in his heart.
Li Qingping's words just made Cao Kun more aware of the performance of some Russian tanks, but it is clear that the Russian army has realized the importance of tanks, and in just a few months launched this temporary transformation of the tank, although it is full of loopholes, but everything is afraid of people with a heart, it is estimated that now the Russians are thinking of ways to research and manufacture more advanced, more in line with tank standards, but how long will this time take? Nobody knows about this.
Li Qingping didn't say much, but he had already made a decision in his heart, which was also his first decision after coming to the front, and it had nothing to do with the tank itself.
The current armored reconnaissance vehicles must be eliminated as soon as possible, otherwise more and more scouts will die on them. The new generation of reconnaissance vehicles, must be able to resist the attack of 37 artillery, and at the same time increase the speed as much as possible, if it can be equipped with a 37 mm short-barreled gun, it would be the best, so that even if it encounters the Russian tank, the armored reconnaissance vehicle still has the power to fight, instead of only using its own machine guns, to bypass the enemy's armor, attack the enemy in the rear.
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In the temporary conference room, twenty-eight tank commanders gathered together, Cao Kun, who had always been curious, naturally did not leave, and also walked into the conference room together, but there were only these people in the conference room, in order to keep secrets, even Cao Kun's personal staff, Cai Yi, was not qualified to enter here.
Outside the conference room, Li Qingping and the guards they brought from Luoyang were in charge of the realm, and it stands to reason that there should not be such strict security regulations now, but in order to ensure that the situation of the No. 2 tank is not allowed to be revealed even a little bit before the tank is handed over to the troops.
This time, Li Qingping brought a total of 30 No. 2 tanks, but only 28 were really handed over to the combat troops, and the remaining two were handed over to the logistics battalion.
And this is the first time Li Qingping has led a team to take charge of such an important task, if nothing else, after he completes the task and returns to Luoyang, he will officially leave the division, and then carry a banner alone to undertake more important tasks.
Fortunately, it is almost dark now, and after this meeting is over, you can almost go to the station to unload the train, but you don't have to keep it secret for too long.
"You are all the best commanders of the armored division, and I don't doubt your professional level, but what I said today is still the top secret of our army, so you know what to say and what not to say, so I won't talk too much about it. Okay, let's get down to business. ”
"Let me introduce myself first, my name is Li Qingping, I belong to the Luoyang Chariot Factory, and I currently belong to the apprenticeship, please ignore my identity, it doesn't matter to you." As he spoke, Li Qingping did not leave anyone any room to talk about, and directly took out six drawings from the file bag on the table, and stapled them to a wooden board prepared in advance according to the sequence.
And the appearance of these six drawings instantly attracted the attention of these excellent commanders, who instantly forgot Li Qingping's identity, and only had the tank in the drawings in their eyes.
"The tank you see now, which we call Tank No. 2 internally, has not yet been officially named. This tank has completed all the tests as early as two months ago, but the superiors asked to send a batch of tanks to the front line to be tested in actual combat, if there is no problem, in the final production, so this time my task is to send these tanks to the front line, and at any time to test their condition.
You are all the best commanders in the armored forces, I believe in your ability, and I believe that you can find out what is wrong with it in the first place, and I want to say that as long as you feel the problem, no matter how big or small, you must tell me immediately, because it may affect whether the tank will be modified or not, whether it will be officially finalized.
Let's talk about the data of the No. 2 tank, the length of the car is 5.75 meters, the width is 3.5 meters, and the height is 2.4 meters, the overall gap with the boar tank is not large, but in terms of height, it is lower than the boar tank, that is, from a theoretical analysis, this will reduce the probability of the No. 2 tank being hit, but this is only a theoretical result, and everyone should not take it too seriously.
The No. 2 tank adopts a new design concept, one of the most prominent design highlights, is the layout of its armor, the No. 2 tank is completely different from the Boar tank armor layout, inclined armor, through the test, we came to a set of data, we used a 37 tank gun and the No. 2 tank gun equipped with 75 mm tank guns, respectively, with 20 shells to do experiments on this tank, the final result is that there are ten shells after hitting the No. 2 tank, The shells were directly deflected by the armor, that is, only thirty shells actually exploded on tank No. 2.
I won't talk much about some technical issues, it's useless to talk too much, it's a matter of chance, you just need to remember that this layout of beveled armor, in some specific cases, can directly bounce off enemy shells.
In addition, the armament of the No. 2 tank, a 75 mm tank gun, can fire armor-piercing, high-explosive ammunition, armor-piercing shells can penetrate a maximum of 200 mm of steel plates, and can also easily penetrate the armor of our No. 2 tank. It can be said that in the current war environment, armor-piercing shells can penetrate all the targets you want to penetrate, unless the enemy lays out a line of defense with a thousand millimeters of steel plates.
A coaxial machine gun, it should be noted that this coaxial machine gun is different from the coaxial machine gun of the Boar tank, this is a brand new machine gun, this time it is also necessary to conduct actual combat experiments, this is a 7.92 general purpose air-cooled machine gun, if necessary, you can use the 7.92 bullet of the Mauser rifle, the effect is only better than the previous machine gun, and in the future, this machine gun is likely to replace the current Maxim heavy machine gun.
Let's talk about some of the power problems of the No. 2 tank, although the scientific research institute has improved the performance of the engine as much as possible, if this engine is installed on the boar tank, the speed of the boar tank can easily reach more than 50 kilometers, but the net weight of the No. 2 tank is 25 tons, and the total combat weight is 28 tons. So this engine has to be honest, so, my advice to you is that in terms of speed, just use it as a boar tank, its maximum speed is about thirty-eight kilometers per hour, and the cruising speed is twenty-nine kilometers.
Finally, there is the problem of crew, the research institute fully takes into account the current pressure of the commander, so the design of the No. 2 tank is four crew members, that is, the driver, the coaxial machine gun and radio, the gun commander, the commander, and the ideal configuration should be five people, but the internal space of the tank leads to its inability to meet the needs of the five-person combat team, so the research institute has made certain changes to the way of loading shells, that is, the semi-automatic shell delivery device, which still requires the gun commander to load, but the gun commander can not move, Just take out the shells through this card slot.
However, because of technical problems, there are certain problems with this design, for example, it can only guarantee the delivery of ten shells at a time, and after ten shells are used up, they need to be manually reloaded before they can be reused. Therefore, according to the recommendations of the research institute and the test center, the loading work can be handed over to the commander in his spare time, which can basically not affect the combat of the car crew. Li Qingping told the data performance and some characteristics of the No. 2 tank in one breath.
Regarding the design of semi-automatic delivery shells, in fact, it is a reference to the magazine design of the Type 03 automatic rifle, the storage position of the shells is between the gun commander and the commander, that is, the right hand side of the gun commander, the left hand side of the car commander, and the position of the car commander is located in the right rear of the gunner, behind the commander, is the ammunition compartment If the battle, the commander can carry two boxes of shells to his feet in advance, and then take advantage of the gap to stuff the shells into the shell rack.
This design was okay at the time of the test, but it is not clear how effective it will be in actual combat, of course, they did not want to install a few more shell mounts, but this will affect the entry and exit problems of the commander, and at most three shell mounts can be added, some of which are not quite in line with the actual effect. (To be continued.) )