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Zhu Kuan hit the inclined armor of the tank heavily, and the feeling of starting was no different from that of the wild boar tank, it was all that kind of stiff pain, after all, it was steel armor, not a quilt made of cotton, and it was impossible to judge the thickness of the armor from the strength alone. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But as a veteran armorer, everyone has their own set of judgment ideas, and judges the approximate performance of the armor by tapping the echo of the armor.

The more fragile the armor, the clearer and louder the echo, and vice versa, the quieter the sound, the more muffled the echo.

According to Wang Sirui's meaning, the No. 2 tank actually has to be studied as a light tank, but its performance is close to that of a medium tank, so when the target was set, it was ordered to control the total weight within 20 tons.

However, a series of rigid requirements, with modern technology can not meet those requirements at all, even if the special steel mill has innovated technology, adopted the latest steelmaking method, and adopted the latest synthetic armor, the final result is still not completely in accordance with Wang Sirui's ideas to develop.

A series of hard indicators made this No. 2 tank, which was originally defined as a light tank, forced to turn into a medium tank. However, in the medium tank family, the performance of the No. 2 tank is not actually the most advanced, of course, that is compared to later generations, and in the present, it is a generation of Boar tanks, and its performance is enough to dominate the entire earth.

As everyone knows, only three armored divisions, the number of more than 900 tanks, led hundreds of thousands of Royal Army officers and soldiers on the Russian battlefield bloody storm, killing all sides, the Russian army's artillery below 75 mm caliber is not their opponent at all, coupled with strong mobility, it makes the Russian army miserable, and once the Russian army forms a cluster artillery position to deal with the armored division, the independent artillery division of the artillery unit here will immediately come up to support.

With the advantages of radio, artillery performance, reconnaissance technology, etc., the Royal Army has always been able to break this crisis again and again, so that all possible threats to the armored forces are reduced to zero.

In a secret training ground, 28 tanks are constantly undergoing all kinds of adaptability training, this is the 28 excellent vehicle groups selected from the more than 300 vehicle groups of the 103rd Armored Division, in terms of tank tactics, they no longer have any problems, plus the tanks do not have any opponents on the battlefield, so this time Li Qingping gave them only one week.

They can only go here for a week of acclimatization training, and then the Western Front Command will separately transfer a regiment of infantry, plus a temporary mobile unit composed of these 28 tanks, plus a dozen factory technicians composed of Li Qingping, and a guard battalion from Luoyang, to form a new formation of the Western Front Special Operations Team.

Of course, this formation is only temporary, but the power of this temporary force is particularly large, they can freely choose the target of attack on the entire battlefield, and even order the nearby Western Front troops to give way or cooperate with them in battle.

And all this was done just so that the technicians at the factory could find the problem of the second tank as quickly as possible, of course, no one wanted any problems with the second tank, they wanted it to be a perfect tank.

As for why this task fell on the factory, the reason is very simple, the scientific research institute did not have more time to engage in these later actual combat investigations, and the scientific research institute, which was already understaffed, even after completing the initial test, directly handed over the follow-up test task to the factory, and they had to transfer more manpower to develop the next generation of tanks.

Of course, in fact, it is not just tanks, armored forces are not just troops composed of tanks, a complete armored force, composed of tanks, armored infantry, artillery and other arms, after the completion of the research of the No. 2 tank, the scientific research institute only sent a team to carry out the preliminary development of the next generation of tanks, and the rest of the people were divided into two, half to study armored infantry vehicles, and half to study self-propelled guns.

But these are all later words, in short, the current scientific research institute is not there enough energy to pay attention to the follow-up tests, if the factory, or the front-line troops find the problem of the tank, then they are making corresponding remedies for these problems, if not, then continue to produce.

Anyway, the task of the scientific research institute is to constantly research more advanced and powerful military equipment, as for when to equip it, when to manufacture it, and how much equipment? This has nothing to do with them, that's the question that should be considered above.

Inside a No. 2 tank marked three, the main gunner Sun Bing subconsciously reached out to take out a new shell, but after touching it for a long time, he didn't touch the new shell, and the commander Zhu Kuan kept observing the surrounding situation in the 360-degree commander tower, and didn't notice the situation on Sun Bing's side at all.

The gun carriage is designed to resemble a rifle magazine, with a dedicated card slot in the back, and if you want to manually remove it, you must first push the rear cap hard, and then lift the bullet head.

Theoretically, this design would have minimized the time it took to pick up bullets, but after just a week of testing, they found a very painful problem, that is, the gun carriage was relatively easy to jam.

The 75 mm shell is not the kind of bullet of a few millimeters, its own weight has reached 6 kg, and the spring at the bottom of the gun carriage will have insufficient elasticity after a long period of use, which also leads to some times, the spring can not push the shell up, and the crew must use other ways to take out the shell, which increases the time to reload the ammunition.

Coupled with the lack of a loader, there is now a semi-automatic bomb carrier system with a very high failure rate, and although the tank's firepower has been enhanced, it is actually much less efficient, and even inferior to the Boar tank.

"******, what kind of bullshit design is this? If this had been on the battlefield, we would have died a hundred times. Sun Bing couldn't help but scold angrily, this is the third time this has happened, and the first two times, each time he had to stop, and then it took nearly half an hour to take out the shell, which was very time-consuming and laborious.

"Okay, people are also kind-hearted, if you don't appreciate it, forget it, you can put forward your opinions, there is no need to scold your mother here." Zhu Kuan said casually, and immediately ordered Ansan to return to the sea, as for the problem of shell jamming, it is indeed a rather painful problem.

Zhu Kuan even wanted to ask, didn't they find this problem when they were testing in the rear? Or did they not experiment at all in the rear? Why did the problem of jamming bombs alone happen about 50 times in 28 tanks in a week? What will be the consequences of such a high-probability failure if it really goes to the battlefield?

As for this problem, the factory technicians headed by Li Qingping are also about to get bigger, and more than a dozen technicians have not closed their eyes for three days and three nights, and they are constantly holding meetings to discuss how to solve this failure? They did find this problem in the rear, but it wasn't serious, and occasionally a tank appeared, and after replacing the springs, the problem was solved.

But they didn't expect that when they came to the front line, the problem of artillery carriage jamming would be so serious, which had seriously affected the normal use of the troops, and now in front of Li Qingping, there are only three choices, either ignore this problem and continue to go to the front line according to the original plan, but this choice is obviously unable to be adhered to, the second option is to abandon the semi-automatic ammunition transport system, but in this way, the problem of no loader will be infinitely magnified, and the third is to find a way to solve this problem.

"Li Gong, can we learn from the design concept of the factory conveyor belt to transform the gun carriage?" A young apprentice named Wang Sixi suggested.

"Tell me about it!" Li Qingping frowned tightly, he had been troubled by this problem for a few days, and he couldn't come up with any good way to brainstorm, and even every proposal had to be tested, and the results were not very ideal.

"We could use six gears and a track design with nine slots in the gun mount." Wang Sixi quickly drew a sketch on a piece of paper, the sketch was very sloppy, straight and curved, but it did not affect reading comprehension.

"The four gears are located at the bottom of the gun carriage, the middle one is linked to the two gears in the middle, and then a crank similar to a car starting device is set up to link these six gears, and then you only need to turn the crank handle, and the six gears will rotate in the same direction, we cancel the design of the spring, and use manpower to transport the shells upwards, and every time you reach a position, it will automatically get stuck, and we can set up a safety, and after all the shells are used up, you only need to open the safety, and it can fall automatically." Wang Sixi said his thoughts in one breath, which was the inspiration he suddenly thought of when he thought of some conveyor belt devices in the workshop.

"Immediately find a gun carriage for modification, and if necessary, reduce the capacity of one shell." After listening to this proposal, Li Qingping seemed to feel that it was feasible, and immediately ordered, anyway, there were a lot of accessories they brought over, and it didn't matter if they took a few out and modified them.

The gears and everything were ready-made, but the chain was a bit painful, and finally it was hard to find a belt that could be replaced, and after two hours of modification, an initial version of the improved semi-automatic bomb carrier appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

The initial tests were basically reliable, but there were some minor problems, such as being too heavy, and prolonged use would make the main gunner too physically exhausted, which was not conducive to long-term combat.

Subsequently, after several hours of discussion and improvement, after adding four gears at the top, the ideal requirements have basically been achieved, the weight of the crank is three-quarters lighter than before, and the ammunition capacity has also been reduced to eight, after calling 28 main gunners and experiencing them one by one, Li Qingping decided to immediately carry out temporary modification of 28 tanks.

As long as it can be proved that this device is feasible, then they will send the drawings of this device to the research institute, and with the ability of the research institute, it is estimated that they can develop a new device that is more reasonable and reliable.

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