When looking for a tank to resist which kind of weapon, the first thing I thought of was such an armored tank, although the cost has increased a lot, almost exceeding the psychological level of the US military, but he is a very good tank. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

According to the technicians, the newly developed tanks, their combat effectiveness is far above the original tank, although the speed has weakened a little, the speed has been reduced from 25 kilometers per hour to 18 kilometers, which is not small, but the tonnage has increased by 5 tons, reaching 30 tons, and in important parts, it has 80-100 mm armor.

Of course, the tank is not a battleship, it is impossible to build an armor belt on the outside of the tank, at most when building a tank, use this armor steel, relying on the strength of such armor steel, their original thickness, about 3 cm, but the use of a higher level of steel plates, and a series of treatments on the steel plates, can make most areas equivalent to 80-100 mm of homogeneous armor, will be in a specific part, the design of the bevel, so that the armor-piercing projectile is not easy to attack.

The original design of 4 machine guns has been changed to the design of a 37 gun and a machine gun, and the crew will be reduced from the original 6-7 people to about 4 people, which is more streamlined and has higher combat effectiveness.

Artillery is loaded with tanks, which makes the eyes of these generals shine, the tank from the moment it appears, his attack power is not strong, at most it can deal with ordinary unprotected machine gun positions and infantry, but the artillery is loaded on the tank, it is different, in the past, the bunker that made the tank difficult and some other tightly protected positions, the tank also has a threat method, this promotion is definitely higher.

The most important thing is that these experts have put forward another breakthrough, on this tank, will be equipped with the American engine, this is slightly worse than the Chinese engine, the reliability is very high, the most important thing is that the price is cheap, not only will not be controlled by the Chinese side, the cost will also be reduced to an acceptable level.

The United States also realized that it may be that China exported engines to them before, it is a pit, China is obvious, there are countermeasures for tanks, and do not care about these engines, although these engines are quite powerful in terms of power, but overload capacity, and long-term stability, it is debatable, the quality of China's products is trustworthy, but the United States requires, not only trust, but also reliability and safety,

Up to now, the United States has more or less known that China has not cheated them, but to provide them with things, not military standards, but civilian standards, it seems that they are just two sets of standards, but the requirements on the battlefield are completely different, compared with ordinary trucks on the road, military tanks have higher requirements for engines, not only in terms of quality, but also in many aspects.

This point was not unknown to the US military when designing tanks before, the reason is very simple, the difference of more than half the horsepower, when the 180 horsepower can push 25 tons, or even higher tanks, 100 horsepower, or even only 90 horsepower engines,

In this case, no matter how good the design is, how convenient the military engine is, it cannot replace the huge gap in performance, and the United States does not want to waste precious gold on this civilian engine, for the engine research, but the design of China's engine, there is a unique place, it does help the United States, but it is to make the power of the United States, from about 80 horsepower, to about 110 horsepower, more than 30% of the increase, such an increase is considerable, However, compared with China's 180 horsepower, there are still quite a lot of differences.

The United States wanted to copy this engine, but who knows, but it took a detour, and it took a year to finally figure out that the key to this engine is the material, and if this material cannot be manufactured, there is almost no possibility of copying the engine.

Although it took a year's detour, it only delayed the development of the engine field in the United States, to a certain extent, they have gained harvest in the engine, and then redesigned, the development was very fast, in 1915, it was only 110 horsepower, by the end of 1916, it had been increased to 125 horsepower, and by the middle of 1917, in a year's time, it was finally increased to 165 horsepower, although in the limit of horsepower, there is still a certain difference with China's 180 horsepower, But it is not a civilian engine, but a real military one, not only good handling, low failure rate, but also relatively easy to maintain.

In itself, because of competition, it is difficult for this engine to enter the military's field of vision, and the requirements for the next stage of the tank are to require horsepower to reach 230 horsepower, or even 280 horsepower.

However, because of this incident on the front line, the US military began to realize that if they still follow the path guided by China, maybe there will really be a huge problem, and they can only find another way and develop the power system on their own basis to promote their engines to really fit in with the tank.

Although the speed is a little lower, the weight and reliability of the tank have been greatly improved, and it can eventually withstand a weight increase of 5 tons.

Experts used a series of data to prove the strength of such an artillery, resisting such a new weapon, this is not much of a problem, even against tanks, it is quite strong, not to mention the previous tank, even if the protection of the tank is stronger, his 37 artillery and armor-piercing shells combined, can also easily penetrate, the tank is not there is no way to resist, if Japan also gets out of the tank, they also have the ability to resist, and even easily kill those Japanese tanks.

Special case, such a tank, very quickly, passed from the US Army Conference, but there is a huge problem, where the armor comes from, you know, this is a huge conflict with the US shipbuilding plan,

This full 250,000 tons of armor cooperated, equivalent to the main armor belt of 20 battleships, but after discussion, consultation, and the expansion of the Panzer Group's production capacity, the army finally received 170,000 tons of armor steel and a final allocation of 300 million US dollars, but the result was a request to take the whole of Alaska between August 1918.

Such pressure is huge, but the army has no choice, just like that, an armored tank, under the urging of all parties, just appeared, even China and Japan probably did not expect,

In the history of World War I, except for China, such a perverted and strongest tank, which basically reached the standard Dalman tank in the 30s of the 20th century, it appeared in the sequence of the US military, and the successive strikes not only did not make the US military give up the tank strategy, but went further and further on the right path, and even Japan, which relied on China and got China's excellent 320 horsepower, was also somewhat incomparable.

Such an excellent tank, so that the US military is full of confidence, although to say, in order to attack from North America, the United States is more inclined to the fleet, starting from the Great White Fleet, the United States is promoting the improvement of warships, especially in World War I, with a huge price, to obtain all the British technology on the battleship, these technology The United States after eating thoroughly, created a battleship such a powerful weapon.

This is also in the past two years, the United States steel, armor, and even naval guns, greatly tilted towards the battleships, and in a short period of time, formed a world-renowned capital ship fleet, 50 battleships, more than Britain and Germany combined, but also more than all China's capital ships, including aircraft carriers, in this world, that is, China and the United States, these two industries are extremely large, and the industrial revolution has been carried out to a very deep extent. to be able to build such a huge capital ship.

However, after Japan landed in Alaska, all this began to change, itself, the United States does not take Japan seriously, Japan is nothing, without the United States to open his door, without Britain wanting to rely on Japan to balance the situation in East Asia, Japan is simply impossible to develop, even now, at the time of World War I, Japan is still far from the United States.

The arrogance in my heart made the United States not pay attention to Japan, and did not drive Japan into the sea at the first time, but China and Japan seized the opportunity, and in just a few months, not only built a large-scale defense line in Alaska, but also transferred a huge number of people to Alaska, if it was just Japan sent troops, even if it was hundreds of thousands, millions, or even one or two million, there would always be a time when it would be defeated, but when this became a national land, 40 million, or even 50 million Japanese immigrants, This is another terrible result, a quasi-modern country with a developed industry and an adequate army appeared in the Americas.

If you want to ensure the strength of the United States in the Americas, and compete with Japan in the Americas, it is necessary to maintain a strong army, the tank has proved his strength in the past time, although the loss is huge, but as long as the right way is found, most of the problems can be solved, armored tanks may be in the possession of armored steel, affecting the construction of ships, but after the United States has more than 50 capital ships, the pursuit of the absolute number of capital ships does not seem to be so important, in this sense, In 1917, only 16 capital ships of the United States would be built, far lower than the figure of more than 50 ships in the previous two years, and basically fell back to the normal share, so that enough armor steel could be removed from the middle for the construction of tanks.

Itself, because of the relationship between the war against Japan, has expanded countless times the American armored factory, once again expanded, relying on a huge steel base, under the premise of huge steel production, began to explode tanks, and a huge engine factory, also built near New York, the United States, has eaten through the Chinese technology, and on its own basis to develop the engine, has reached 150 horsepower, a little lower than China, but still in the range of bearing, the most important thing is that According to the research of kinetic experts, such a tank, with huge development potential, has not yet reached the maximum horsepower designed, as long as in the next year, solve 12 problems and 2 materials, this horsepower will increase significantly, more than 180 horsepower, and finally reach 186 or 192 horsepower, which should not be too much of a problem.

This is also one of the reasons why the engine factory and the tank plan have been determined, if the horsepower can really exceed 185 horsepower, even under the premise of increasing the weight of 5 tons, the speed of this tank can be maintained at about 20 kilometers, so that the speed of the tank on the battlefield has not decreased a lot, but the combat effectiveness has increased a lot.

Soon, the orders were distributed, and the armor was naturally handed over to the armor factory, which was the first step in building a tank, and had to get the right steel, and then start stamping or one-time construction, and another important weapon, the 37mm gun, also placed an order with the artillery factory.

Although the space of the tank is limited, if the front of the turret is stretched outward and the gun is constructed, the length of the gun itself will reach a certain extent, so that the gun on the tank should be higher than the ordinary defense gun, so that the power of the tank gun is also greater.

The United States began to devote the whole country to the production and research and development of such a tank, but it takes time to produce this, and under the premise that each subsystem has it, it cannot be produced manually, and if it is produced and assembled manually, the time consumed is huge, and the output is very low, and a series of modifications must be carried out on the production line and production, so that it will take at least two or three months to complete the production of such a tank.

Two or three months, not too much, but now it's August, two or three months, plus the tanks from the hinterland of the United States to Alaska, it will take at least more than one month, which means that this year's offensive is basically equal to zero, when Japan just landed on the American continent, no one would have thought that Japan would become such a kraft candy, so difficult, the first year is just down, the time chosen by Japan, so that they can not play, even if there are troops past, they can not attack, the second year, After careful preparations, not only did they send elite soldiers and strong generals, but they still had no way to take Alaska regardless of the cost, and Japan burst out with such a strong combat strength in seven months, and what would happen in another winter, the top level of the United States no longer thought that they would be able to drive Japan into the sea in a short period of time, and the war against Japan would be a long-term and long process.