When Chen Zhaoming was standing in the production workshop of the factory, he suddenly felt that his back was extremely cold, and suddenly his nose itched and he sneezed loudly. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 He rubbed his nose, then complained about who scolded him again, and continued to look at the new car body that in his eyes was even more beautiful than the S-curve of a beauty.

I have to admire the Ming Empire, or the wisdom of the Chinese. Within a month of the military's request, they came up with a good design for the hull of the No. 2 tank. Although a large number of mature technologies are used, this body is not as advanced as imagined, but it can be regarded as a shortcut, and the design requirements of the military have been completed in the shortest time.

In fact, there are only two biggest improvements in the chassis of tank No. 2, the first is to increase the capacity and volume of the tank chassis according to the actual needs of the military; The second point is to replace the most criticized No. 1 tank suspension system with a new type of suspension.

The first design is actually not too difficult, after all, a square body is a difficult subject for the designers of the Ming Empire. Because of the use of a new type of suspension, the tank chassis is an unconventional rectangular space, and if even this is not well designed, then they will not have the face to live in this world.

The new suspension has a completely new design, with the wheels tied together in pairs and external spring dampers - a design that greatly simplifies the design of the body, as all the shock absorbers are located on the outside of the body. And this suspension system has the added benefit of being several notches more reliable than the tractor suspension used in Tank 1.

The larger hull can carry more gasoline and ammunition, and the independent combat capability of the tank unit will be further strengthened. The larger hull can also be equipped with larger engines and communication equipment, and the coordination and command capabilities have been strengthened like never before.

This kind of car body has not been officially put into service, and it has become a perfect work in the eyes of many people, because the long and large car body provides too much convenience and reserves too much modification space, and even Chen Zhaoming himself feels that the car body in front of him is the standard design of the tank in the next twenty years of the Ming Empire.

Wilhelm Wenger, the chief engine designer from Germany, also lived up to expectations and came up with a strengthened version of the THS-1 engine, and the official production number was the THS-5 aero engine. This engine is the ultimate modification of the THS-1 engine, and the power has been greatly increased. To be more precise, this engine was not developed for the chassis of the No. 2 tank, but was born for another design project related to the aircraft.

However, due to the lag in the development of that aircraft project, this THS-5 aero engine, which was eventually adopted by the No. 2 tank, became the standard engine equipment of the land tank chassis. With this strong heart, the chassis of the No. 2 tank car maintained a high off-road speed despite increasing its weight to 1.5 times that of the original.

Of course, this new tank chassis, which took just a month to design, is far from being as perfect as it seems. The most troublesome point for Chen Zhaoming is that although the fuel carried by this tank chassis will be carried more by the No. 1 tank chassis, because of its own weight and the fuel consumption of the new engine, the actual travel is not much higher than that of the No. 1 tank.

"The center of gravity is better than you think...... The engine and gearbox are concentrated in the rear of the hull, and the cross-country ability of the tank has increased a little! A technician was checking the measured parameters, and in the noisy workshop, he shouted loudly to the team leader next to him: "The main reason is that the length of the car body has increased, so the ability to cross the trench has also improved a lot." ”

"Is the counterweight ready? Why hasn't the data from the turret been sent yet? Hurry up and send someone to urge! Fast! On the other side of the workshop, an engineer in charge of this comprehensive test urged his subordinates to prepare what should be prepared as soon as possible.

This time, it was the first time that the chassis of the No. 2 tank was tested for ride ride in full condition, and some off-road tests were also to be carried out in the afternoon. Of course, it is impossible to design the turret at this time, after all, the structure of the turret is more and more comprehensive and complex than the hull.

Therefore, according to the original plan, instead of installing the turret on the hull, a dummy turret of comparable volume and cement counterweights were used to complete the test. But after all, the weight should be as close to reality as possible, and the turret design team needs to come up with approximate weight data.

"It's delivered! It's delivered! An engineer hurriedly ran in from the entrance of the workshop, waving the document in his hand, panting and slapping the document into the hands of the handover staff. Not far away, next to a rectangular box that simulated a tank turret, workers put pieces of cement blocks with counterweights written on them and neatly stacked them in this fake "turret".

"Director Chen, the preparations have begun, and in an hour, the turret counterweight will be hoisted onto the tank hull, and then the formal test will start on time." The person in charge of the workshop said respectfully to Chen Zhaoming, no one will deliberately add the title of deputy position to the title of deputy mayor or vice governor, generally speaking, everyone likes to remove the title of deputy position when the main position is not present, and directly call the other party's position - this has a flattering meaning, reflecting the profundity of the Chinese Chinese and social profundity.

The deputy director of the Armored Forces Research Office in front of him could not help but be disrespectful. Although Chen Zhaoming's position in the military department is not too high, he is a very powerful position, and this deputy director has the power to supervise the development of armored weapons and to provide weapons procurement suggestions to the military. And behind him, there was also a soldier Shen Yan......

Even if Shen Yan and Shen Shilang are not weighty enough, Chen Zhaoming still has the new army that is now hot behind him, those capital consortia that are good friends with Chen Zhaoming, and His Majesty Zhu Mu, the emperor of the Ming Empire who is more important than him - even if you don't count Wang Jue, the commander of the new army who has been a little unlucky in the past few days, and not counting the Wang family behind Wang Jue, Chen Zhaoming himself is already a strong official in Beijing.

"Excellent! Everything just started as planned. Chen Zhaoming sniffed twice, feeling as if he was about to catch a cold, he told the secretary behind him to go to the car to retrieve his coat, and then set his eyes on the tank chassis that a group of engineers were testing.

The crane was ready, and the heavy turret moved to the top of the tank's chassis under the careful manipulation of the workers, and then, relying on gravity, the iron box, which simulated the weight of the turret, slowly landed on the chassis on the seat reserved for the turret. The two become one and form a cohesive whole.

As the ropes of the crane hanging from the turret counterweight slowly relaxed, the springs on the originally loose suspension structure were pressed tighter above the load wheels on both sides of the tank hull. Then in a relatively normal state, they stopped crunching, completing the support of the entire hull and the weight of the turret.

"Ammunition weight counterweight confirmed...... No problem! An engineer in charge of ammunition raised his arm and loudly reported his inspection records to Chen Zhaoming and several other project chief engineers.

"The radio equipment counterweight has been confirmed! No problem! To the left of the debriefing engineer, another engineer raised his arm and reported the results of his recording with a similar shout. This is a very important test, so there is no room for error in every step.

"The turret counterweight is installed!" It wasn't until the last counterweight sub-item was confirmed that all the engineers were quiet, waiting for the chief engineer's order. Then an old engineer next to Chen Zhaoming stood up and gave a new instruction: "Start a comprehensive inspection!" ”

After the inspection, Chen Zhaoming ordered the test to begin, and the "fully formed" No. 2 tank, under the control of the driver, slowly drove out of the factory workshop and drove to the test site. Then, under the careful control of the pilot, he began to use his slow speed to climb over the various obstacles that had been prepared in the test field.

This is a simulation of the geography of real combat conditions, with bunkers of various slopes and a variety of side slopes to test tanks, as well as barbed wire and oddly shaped barricades. The chassis of Tank 2 was slowly moving through these obstacles, and the engine roared rhythmically, and it was evident that the driver was very cautious because it was the first test prototype, and the speed was far from reaching the limits of this tank's chassis.

Again, tests have just begun, and in order to find out the flaws on the chassis of the new tank, such tests will be carried out many, many more times. There will also be prototype No. 2 and prototype No. 3, and it will even continue until the 10th to test these projects.

When the last side slope was crossed by the tank, Chen Zhaoming took the lead in applauding, and so many designers, engineers and workers behind him clapped their hands excitedly and cheered, this experiment was successful, marking that the Ming Empire has a new weapon in the future, stronger and better than the original weapon!

Finally looking away from the hull of this experimental tank, Chen Zhaoming looked to the north of the Beijing Division. Although he didn't say it, the gatekeeper of the armored forces of the Ming Empire prayed softly in his heart, praying that the man would be safe.

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I owe two more chapters, Long Ling remembers, now that people live in other places, they are too busy to be able to repay them...... Thank you for your understanding. Once there is time, the dragon spirit will pay off the debt...... I'm so embarrassed! I'm sorry! (To be continued.) )