Onward, onward! Tanks are running along the highways of the West Coast of the United States. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

These tanks, with the usual low-hull structure of Soviet tanks, six pairs of load-bearing wheels, and a layer of reactive armor on the sides of the turret, are quite similar to the T-72 if you look at it in general, but the front end of its hull does not have the special V-shaped structure of the T-72!

This tank is the T-80 tank, which the Soviets themselves equipped and never exported!

This unit is also a meritorious unit, the 35th Guards Red Banner Vitebsk Tank Division of the Order of Lenin, the Order of Suvorov, which was stationed in the 21st Army of the Red Banner in the Amur Region! After the liberation of Alaska, they were stationed in Alaska, and from that time on, every soldier in the army was full of energy, and they looked forward to the day when they could step on the evil American imperialism and liberate the proletariat here.

They watched the Mexicans do it, they watched their German companions do it, and now, at last, it's time to do it themselves!

At the forefront is the 18th Tank Battalion, a few years ago, they were still equipped with T-62 tanks, after that, the shotguns were changed, and their equipment became the current T-80!

It's just that the characteristic howling of the gas turbine is gone, and this T-80 tank has abandoned the gas turbine and adopted the latest diesel engine!

Gas turbines do have many advantages, easy to start, strong anti-overload ability, unlike diesel engines that turn off at every turn, but at the same time, this thing also has a disadvantage, which cannot be overcome, that is, the fuel consumption rate is too high!

Historically, the USSR continued to improve the T-80 after it was developed, and in 1985, the T-80U officially appeared, which used a new generation of gas turbines GTD-1250. The engine has been greatly improved and advanced technologies such as radial airflow compressor fan blade covers and automatic dust removal systems for high-pressure turbine nozzle assemblies, variable power turbonozzle assemblies, and built-in gearboxes, which have increased power to 1,250 hp, but it still does not solve the problem of high fuel consumption.

At the same time, other design bureaus were improving the T-80, for example, in 1987, the Morozov Design Bureau independently completed the development of a version of the diesel engine of the T-80, called the T-80UD "Birch". The 1,000 hp 6TD-1 6-cylinder multi-fuel two-stroke turbo piston diesel engine consumes much less fuel.

And Andrei's crossing sentenced the gas turbine to death in advance, and the Soviet tank engineers began to continue to develop a version of the diesel engine.

At the beginning, during World War II, Soviet tanks pioneered the use of diesel engines, and the B2 series diesel engines at that time were of epoch-making significance, even the B-46 diesel engine of the T-72 in the back was also based on the B2 diesel engine.

Soviet tank designers were familiar with the development of diesel engines, and German engineers joined in the process.

In terms of industrial technology, the Germans are also very powerful, and the MTU873 diesel engine of the Leopard 2 tank can be said to be the limit of the power of the tank diesel engine now! (East China Zhixiong is an absolute Leopard 2 fan, and has always talked about the Leopard 2 tank.) ）

Therefore, when the initial outfit was changed, the Soviet Union also planned to directly package the power of the Leopard 2 tank, after all, the advanced degree of this power system is obvious to all, and the Soviet Union is ashamed of itself.

However, after some research, I finally gave up.

Why? Because I can't put it down!

The volume of the MTU873 diesel engine is 3.69 cubic meters, while the gas turbine used by the T-80 is only 2.8 cubic meters! In later generations, the improved T-80UD is only 3.15 cubic meters, so this kind of engine cannot be shoehorned in, unless the T-80 is lengthened and a pair of load-bearing wheels are added, which is tantamount to re-developing a tank!

So, looking back, in the end, they still chose their own product, this engine, not the B72 engine of the T-46, but the newly developed 6TD diesel engine! This diesel engine is a horizontally opposed, six-cylinder, two-stroke, multi-fuel supercharged engine. Originally, the Soviet Union itself was developing, and now, with German engineers joining in, the progress of the project is faster, using German technology to transform, this engine with a volume of 3.15 cubic meters, finally reached a power of 1200 horsepower!

And this is not perverted, the volume of the power transmission compartment of the M1 tank is up to 7.6 cubic meters! This is due to the fact that the power unit uses an axial compressor and a heat exchanger as well as a two-stage air filter, where the volume of the air filter is about 2 cubic meters!

Although there is still a gap between the 6TD diesel engine and the 873 MTU1500 diesel engine, this engine is quite compact and the most suitable engine for the power compartment of the T-80! Moreover, although the engine of the Leopard 2 tank is nominally 1500 horsepower, due to the dissipation of the heat dissipation system, as well as the consumption of various hydraulic transmission systems, there is 400 horsepower, which is wasted, and the real power transmitted to the track is not less than 1000 horsepower, and the weight of the Leopard 2 tank is as high as 60 tons, so in terms of mobility, the current T-80, it is extremely outstanding!

Moreover, after switching to the current diesel engine, the off-road travel has also doubled!

If you want to talk about shortcomings, there are also some shortcomings, once this system is damaged on the battlefield, it is very troublesome to repair, and the replacement of the entire power pack is also a bit complicated, which is not as convenient and fast as the overall replacement of the power compartment of the Leopard 2 tank.

At the same time, in addition to power, the armor was updated with the latest Soviet technology, honeycomb confinement type ceramic composite armor. This welded-sealed entire armor structure is made into replaceable armor modules that are easy to replace on the battlefield. As for the protection, the armor used by the Soviets itself is definitely much stronger than that of the exported T-72!

Actually, for now, there is nothing left to stop the offensive of the Soviet ground forces! You know, the Soviets were originally the most traditional land powers!

And at the same time, since the Soviets have decided to show their fangs, there is no need to say anything polite, and if they should be taken out, then they should be taken out!

Camp Commander Maxim, half of his body exposed, he looked at the sky, the fighter planes flying by.

This time, the Soviets were in earnest, and in order to protect their ground forces, the Soviets dispatched a large number of aviation units!