On the fourth day after Wang Jue returned to Beijing, the No. 2 tank was officially established in the armored force research and development office of the Ming Empire, and obtained the official project approval. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe Ming Empire officially surrendered to the 1014 Factory, Chiyou Company and the Kaifeng Heavy Group, which was newly added to the tank development project.

These three are relatively large heavy vehicle manufacturers in the north, Chiyou Company is the largest, Kaifeng Heavy Group is more professional, and 1014 Factory is the first factory to secretly produce tanks, and the design team is the most mature. The three companies bid for the final selection of the No. 2 tank, which can effectively shorten the design time and improve the performance of the product.

After the test of the No. 1 tank in actual combat, this time the military of the Ming Empire showed an unprecedented enthusiasm for the new generation of tanks. Under the chairmanship of Xin Shang Shu Cheng Zhixin, the Ministry of War sent a team of more than a dozen officers to participate in the bidding for the next generation of tanks. They brought with them the most urgently needed thing in the development of new tanks - money!

After obtaining the promise of the right to distribute the production of the Sancheng No. 2 tank, the Ministry of War took out a full 25 million imperial gold coins as an advance investment to join the research and development of the new tank. Because the actual combat data in the hands of the military department is limited, they did not even put forward their own requirements, but only vaguely pointed out that the new tank must meet the actual combat needs.

Of course, under the auspices of Chen Zhaoming, the development of a new tank was not carried out without a clue. First of all, one of the basic requirements of the No. 2 tank was to design a larger, heavier tank chassis with better passability. The chassis of this tank needs to have a more reliable and combat-friendly shock absorption system, and the body will carry enough fuel for its 300 kilometers of travel.

Another requirement for protection was to be able to carry 45 to 55 mm of frontal armor protection on the chassis of the No. 2 tank, and to retain at least 20 mm of surplus modifications. These proposals were deliberately difficult by several manufacturers when they were put forward, because this series of requirements, no matter which one of them, was quite tricky.

William? Wenger was so busy because he had to develop a more powerful engine for the new tank, which would ensure that it could reach the off-road and on-road speeds of the No. 1 tank at a weight of around 25 tons.

It is obviously not easy to come up with a new engine, but because it is in wartime, the need for new equipment in the military is very urgent. William? Arsene Wenger, with a design team of more than 40 people, has been working overtime recently, and still can't come up with gasoline engine power equipment that meets the requirements.

And he heard that some of the engineers of the Ming Empire were working hard to develop 250 horsepower engine equipment. Arsene Wenger's design team is a competitor. So because the pressure is huge, William? Arsene Wenger demanded that his new engine have a power of 270 horsepower, which also increased the difficulty of development.

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It is not that there is only one corner of the world that is constantly evolving, on the contrary, every corner is changing over time. On the 17th day after the battle of Liaodong of the Ming Empire stopped in the mountains of the troops, far over France on the other side of the world, the world's first civilian closed cockpit transport aircraft successfully flew successfully, this kind of aircraft uses a wooden tail and a metal away house inlaid in the middle of the wooden fuselage, which can carry 10 passengers at a time.

Immediately after this aircraft, which the French called the moon, the Ming Empire launched a twin-engine large civilian transport aircraft only 3 days late. The aircraft, called the Anyun 1, is equipped with two THS-1 aero engines and can carry 14 people and transport some emergency supplies. Both aircraft received official support from their own countries, with France procuring 15 Moons and establishing the French air transport company; The Ming Empire purchased the Anyun 1 in much more quantities, a total of 40 aircraft.

Don't underestimate this small improvement, both aircraft use a twin-engine layout, and both flew at terrifying speeds that were difficult to achieve in the past. In the field of aviation, this technological progress immediately attracted widespread attention, including Germany, the United Kingdom, and the Ming Empire, all of which began to invest in their own next-generation military aircraft.

The Ming Empire has already accumulated technology in the lower monoplane and the medium monoplane, counting the experimental single-wing all-metal testing machine that Wang Jue saw, the Ming Empire is testing at least 4 kinds of various single-engine aircraft. However, due to the constraints of materials and engines, these aircraft have not yet reached the stage of qualitative leap.

However, with the advent of the Aeron 1 and the French Moon, most of the material problems have been solved, and it is only a matter of time before newer and faster aircraft are designed. Another major reason for countries to start researching faster aircraft is the military promise of twin-engine civilian transport aircraft.

These monoplanes are close to or even faster than the military biplanes in service, and if these civilian transport planes are converted into military aircraft, their slow biplanes will not be able to intercept these planes to complete their missions, including dropping bombs or reconnaissance.

As a result, in a place in the world that was not very famous in the first place, a war broke out that shocked the world. This war, known later as the Battle of Liaodong, became the fuse for a new round of world-scale arms race, and the world's major powers set off a magnificent frenzy of research and development of new weapons after the Battle of Liaodong calmed down near Diaobing Mountain.

It seems that in the battle of Liaodong, I saw the prospect of tanks, on the one hand, I couldn't wait to buy the No. 1 tank from the Ming Dynasty for export, on the other hand, countries also began their own tank research and development and production road.

Almost at the same time as the development of the No. 2 tank of the Ming Empire, the German Emperor named the No. 1 tank purchased from the Ming Dynasty as the P1 tank, and ordered the development of the P2 tank to begin; The British followed suit and secretly carried out work on the design and production of their own tanks; The Japanese emperor gritted his teeth and ordered Prime Minister Uesugi Anda to equip his country with about 100 tanks as soon as possible to "deal with the threat of Ming tanks"; Ceylon also launched its own tank production program one month later, named "The Rock"; The French and the Russians of Muscovy were not idle, but they opted for the copycat road - the high-end imitations of the two countries were named the FT-10 and T-30 respectively. (To be continued.) )