The project of the light tank of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex was successful in a short time and began to be mass-produced. Of course, the German Ministry of Defense got the Leopard tanks, and Hitler ordered the first fifty tanks to go into battle in Spain.

At the same time, the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex has also developed a deformed Leopard tank, its name is called the Little Dragon Tank, of course, including a series of vehicles, self-propelled rocket artillery, self-propelled howitzers, self-propelled mortars and infantry fighting vehicles.

In November 1934, the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex held its third International Defense Exhibition in Stockholm. Due to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, there were more arms dealers and buyers participating in the defense exhibition, and the transaction volume was 20 percent higher than that of the second edition.

The Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex is also the biggest winner of the defense exhibition and the focus of the most attention.

Because the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex not only launched the Wind and Thunder series engines, it has obtained orders for thousands of units, but also won more than 500 orders for the M40 large transport aircraft. Of course, the original old products also continue to sell well.

Among the ground weapons, the most interesting ones are the Dragon Tank and its Transforming Car.

The Dragon tank has a crew of 3, including the commander, the gun commander and the driver. The driver is located on the left side of the front of the hull with a hatch that opens to the right, on which three periscopes for daytime observation are mounted. The commander is located behind the driver, and there is a long door that opens forward, which can be rotated, and the unopened part is equipped with 3 periscopes, and the middle one is a day-night integrated low-light observation glass.

The middle part of the Dragon tank is the turret, which is very low. Using a 30 mm cannon and a crew compartment at the rear of the hull, it can also carry 2 heavily armed infantrymen who sit back-to-back in the crew compartment. There are 2 canopies in the crew compartment, 2 on the left and 2 on the left and right. It is connected to the roof deck of the car body by hinges. The main entrances and exits for infantry disembarkation were the two rear doors, which also served as fuel tanks. In order to facilitate the infantry to fight by vehicle, there are two shooting holes on both sides of the vehicle hull and on the left rear door and there are observation and sighting devices for infantry shooting.

The first perforation at the front of the sides was for the squad machine gun, which could fire at 30 degrees in front of the car. The other 2 perforations are intended for assault rifle or submachine gun firing with spherical mounts inside the perforations. It can make the gun pitch up and down ± about 12 degrees, and turn left and right by 15 degrees. Waste shells are collected in the shell bag, and the gunpowder gas can be removed from the vehicle through the exhaust fan. In addition, the vehicle is equipped with 1 40-mm rocket launcher and 10 grenades.

Compared to the prototype Leopard tank, it has many improvements and a different appearance. The maximum weight is 13.5 tons, which is more than a ton lighter, and the maximum travel speed reaches 60 km/h because it uses a 280 hp diesel engine. Turbocharging technology is used. The maximum range is 300 km, and most importantly it can be equipped with an anti-tank rocket launcher, which is not available in any tank in the world.

So as soon as the Little Dragon tank appeared at the defense exhibition, it was frantically watched. In the end, its orders reached 2,500 units, which is a staggering number. The two sides in the Spanish Civil War were of course the biggest buyers, and Franco, although supported by Germany and had dozens of Leopard tanks, still felt that it was not enough. Another 500 Dragon tanks were bought. Of course, the time for the delivery of these small dragon tanks. It is delivered in batches over a year.

In addition, the Dragon self-propelled rocket launcher, which is also favored, still uses the chassis of the Dragon tank. But a box rocket launcher is installed on the roof of the car, and it can rotate three hundred and sixty degrees, while it is possible to choose different calibers. Of course. Only 130 mm rockets are now available, with a maximum range of 15 km, and each SPV can fire 19 rockets from the roof launch box in 10 seconds, with 60 rockets in stock. Such a powerful artillery firepower has attracted countless buyers.

The total combat weight of the Small Dragon tracked infantry fighting vehicle is 13.6 tons. It has a crew of 3 people and a crew of 8 people, and uses a single-person turret with a roof-mounted one-man turret. Installed 20mm Vulcan cannon, high and flat dual-purpose, can change the rate of fire and ammunition type, can be the first automatic loading, electric shock, two-way single-way bullet chain feeding, there are blasting grenades and shell-piercing shells, ammunition base 400 rounds. The side-by-side machine gun was a 5.8 mm light machine gun with an ammunition base of 1000 rounds. The gunner uses a visible high-level periscope sight, which can change the magnification, 6 times when firing at the ground, and the field of view over the air is greater than 40 °. It is equipped with a residual ammunition counter that displays the number of rounds remaining on both chains at the same time, and can signal and terminate the fire when it is necessary to refill the ammunition. The turret was flanked by 130-mm anti-tank rocket launchers, one on each side. This kind of vehicle also has the performance of floating on the water, which can be said to be the most powerful infantry fighting vehicle in the world, and it will not fall behind even in the face of the main battle tanks of various countries, because it not only has anti-tank rockets, but also Vulcan cannons.

The Xiaolong self-propelled howitzer, which is also very popular. It is simple to build, with a Bofors 105mm howitzer attached to the chassis of the Xiaolong light tank, an open design without a turret, and only a gun shield on the front of the gun body. In addition, there is no aiming and firing control system on board. The horizontal rotation range of the gun body is 22.5 degrees on the left and right, the pitch range of the gun body is +45 to +80 degrees, the general range is 8km, the maximum range is 12km, and the reserve ammunition is 50 rounds. The secondary armament is one 7.62 mm squad light machine gun. The Xiaolong self-propelled howitzer is composed of a commander, a driver and a crew of five guns, and the crew is located in the rear compartment of the vehicle when driving, and is exposed to the outside of the vehicle when operating. Of course, with the addition of howitzers, the weight of the vehicle reached 20 tons, and the travel speed was reduced to 45 kilometers per hour.

Although self-propelled guns are not new, in 1917, the first self-propelled guns were invented by France. Shortly after the creation of the tank in the First World War, the French, in order to make the bulky towed gun more maneuverable, able to quickly think about shifting positions in various terrain conditions, installed a field gun on the chassis of a tracked tank, which gave it maneuverable off-road performance. But the self-propelled guns of this time did not have armor protection and were only suitable for fire support of infantry.

But compared to the Xiaolong self-propelled howitzer, the French self-propelled gun is far behind. And other countries are still developing, so as soon as this 105-mm howitzer was unveiled, it attracted a lot of attention. Countries have ordered this powerful Dragon self-propelled howitzer. The number of orders exceeded 500 vehicles, and this is still in the case of many countries that want to pass the trial and then imitate it. (To be continued.) )