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As the chief designer of the foxhound, the Jewish technical expert Temuro smiled slightly, and patiently explained in his half-baked Chinese mixed with English: "The foxhound of our Light Armored Research Institute is actually an experimental type of special equipment, which is an armored model specially prepared for reconnaissance and special warfare. Even with the addition of additional gap armor, this thing still can't carry the 37mm anti-aircraft gun, and its suspension design is similar to the Type 97 tank or the German Type 2 tank, which can be said to have no reference significance for Yue himself. ”

Temuro paused slightly and continued: "The more distinctive thing is the aluminum alloy body armor, but I don't even have enough aluminum alloy to make an airplane, and I am reluctant to imitate it, if you use steel armor, this thing is almost the first type of combat vehicle of the Taiwan Army, and the assembled star-shaped diesel engine is just a test product, and its test life is less than 200 hours, and the heat dissipation of the new diesel engine is not good, if it is not used in cold weather, we are worried that it may catch fire due to high temperatures, I also think that Hu Xincheng actually does not need to completely destroy the engine, let him study it, it is better to take the wrong path and produce this engine in large quantities. ”

Zhang Xuewu slowly closed the minutes of the meeting, took a sip of tea, put down the teacup and said: "All in all, your operation was completed very successfully, the cooperation of all participating units is quite tacit, the commander's department is ready to send a telegram to praise, and those officers and soldiers who have made outstanding contributions to logistics and technology in this operation, let the troops report the statistics." Of course, the staff of your special operations cluster also made great contributions, and although the foxhound reconnaissance vehicle of the Research and Development Institute of the Light Armor Technology Department is not suitable for large-scale equipment, it must continue to be improved and improved, and I think that the reconnaissance team equipped with mechanized troops at the appropriate time is still very suitable. ”

After Zhang Xuewu left the Special Operations Cluster Command, he did not return directly, but went directly to the Armored Design Institute located in the core protection area of Baotou.

It turned out that the battle report of the Chaoyang Battle was sent to the design institute as soon as possible, and almost all the problems pointed to the fully enclosed heavy machine gun tower of the iron cavalry medium main battle tank. It is said that the well-protected 12.7 mm heavy machine gun turret can shoot at 360 degrees without dead angles in actual combat, and in the battle for the breakthrough in the east of Chaoyang City, a 12.7 mm machine gun armor-piercing bullet incendiary bomb was used to directly explode a light Type 95 combat vehicle, and the fully enclosed heavy machine gun tower is an extremely advantageous weapon for defending against the enemy infantry who are advancing.

But the test force also fed back a lot of serious problems, after Zhang Xuewu arrived at the design institute, dozens of the main designers of the Iron Cavalry Tank all gathered in the conference room, the Iron Cavalry medium main battle tank is the main combat force of the armored forces of the 10th Theater of Operations, for Zhang Xuewu no matter how small, anything about the Iron Cavalry medium main battle tank is not a trivial matter.

The specific design drawings of the Iron Horse Tank are provided by Zhang Xuewu, so even the chief designers like Adelan and Feng Wenjun do not dare to be too presumptuous in front of Zhang Xuewu, many times, Adelan and Temuro and Feng Wenjun and others are more willing to listen to Zhang Xuewu's opinions on the design of armored tanks, because in their eyes Zhang Xuewu is an expert who can lead the world armored tank design trend, and the actual combat performance of the Iron Cavalry medium main battle tank can be described as very good, for a tank that is directly mass-produced from the test vehicle, The Iron Rider medium main battle tank is a miracle in itself.

Zhang Xuewu looked at the feedback from the experimental troops, it seems that a lot of it is concentrated on the fully enclosed heavy machine gun turret, according to the front-line combat feedback that the winter soldiers can not wear complete cold-proof clothing to effectively make this machine gun, the main gun is more serious when used, and the machine gun shooter who is too tight to the gun body has to worry about being burned, and he has to worry about being knocked out, and the iron cavalry tank itself is installed with a relatively small turret, so the size of the machine gun tower is also strictly controlled.

Zhang Xuewu glanced at Adland and said, "Do you have any improvement measures in the design institute?" As a result of the post-war tests, the Jackal light tank and several self-propelled guns mounted on the chassis of the Jackal light tank needed to be improved, so let me hear about your plans for the fully enclosed machine gun turret! ”

After Edlan waited for the translator, he stood in front of Zhang Xuewu and bent down and saluted: "Dear General Zhang, at present we have two improvement plans to be selected, the first is to increase the size of the iron cavalry heavy machine gun turret, but in this way, it is inevitable to change the structure of the main turret, in the position of the machine gun tower on the right side of the tank turret, from the mounted type to the built-in type, so that the heavy machine gun tower with a larger seat can be placed, in order not to weaken the defense, there is a special-shaped tortoiseshell additional armor piece that can be attached to the excessive connection between the built-in machine gun tower and the turretOriginally, the experimental version of the Iron Cavalry had this similar additional armor piece, which can be solved by changing the structure, as for the balance problem, it is not a problem at all for the tank to be a few hundred kilograms from left to right, but even so, the machine gun tower will still destroy the overall defense of the turret. ”

Zhang Xuewu frowned, obviously this built-in design can not satisfy him, because the turret should be the place where the frontal armor on the tank must be stronger, if it is at the cost of destroying the overall defense of the turret, Zhang Xuewu would rather directly dismantle it than add any fully enclosed machine gun tower, because it is not the mission of the 10th Theater Armored Forces to compete with his own tank troops at all, and the future enemies of the 10th Theater Armored Forces are the Soviets and Germans, so in order to fight the Japanese army, the design of the tank was changed, This is not worth the loss at all, so Zhang Xuewu nodded to Edlan and motioned for him to continue.

Edlan took a deep breath and continued: " The second plan is to replace the 12.7 mm heavy machine gun with a 7.62 mm machine gun, which can be replaced without changing the structure of the machine gun turret, and can also appropriately improve the comfort and defense power, but now the test companies and the tank units participating in the war have great opinions on replacing the 12.7 with a 7.62 mm machine gun, and the shooters who have used the 12.7 mm heavy machine gun completely refuse to use the 7.62 mm machine gun with low power, and the tank experts of the design institute have great opinions on increasing the machine gun tower, saying that this improved development weakens the bulletproof shape of the turret, and the test shows that if a shell hits the junction of the machine gun tower and the turretEven if the inner hatch is completely closed, its huge blasting stamping is fully capable of killing the crew members. ”

Edlan looked through the information and continued: "Another point is that the members of the vehicle crew of the participating troops are generally highly suspicious of the vehicle body, and the test company and the veterans who participated in the battlefield information collection agree that the tank body is too short and needs to be raised by fifteen centimeters, so that the combat mission can be completed relatively smoothly, and the current situation is that soldiers with a height of more than one hundred and seventy centimeters cannot effectively participate in the battle in the iron cavalry." The opinion of the design institute is that the current height is the most perfect height in the design scheme, and then the height of the car body will seriously affect the size of the body contour, increasing the probability of being discovered, and some extreme designers even think that the machine gun tower is a poor design. ”

Zhang Xuewu nodded, the iron cavalry medium main battle tank is the sharp blade in the attack of the tenth theater of operations, the strong shield in the defense, the investigation report directly investigated several surviving members of the vehicle crew and the survivors of the test company, let several experts from the research institute enter the iron cavalry for a high-intensity simulation competition, after the research institute finally decided to adjust the design, the hull was raised by twelve centimeters, in order not to change the bulletproof angle, the height of the tank is to dig down the space.

Therefore, the angle size of the front integrated inclined armor remains unchanged, and a 45-degree angle inward inclined armor plate is welded under the oncoming hull in front of the hull, and the hull height is increased by ten centimeters from the bottom of the least likely to be shot, and the suspension is adjusted downwards to reduce the eight-centimeter level, in order to strengthen the defense of the head of the hull, an additional detachable armor skirt of the apron type is added in front of the hull, which is very effective for high-explosive armor-piercing bullets after testing, and it is also a good weakening effect for ordinary armor-piercing bullets. The final assembly workshop also thickened the chassis armor during the final assembly to prevent damage to the vehicle caused by the army's aggravated anti-tank mines.

After reading all the information, Zhang Xuewu proposed that an additional layer of soft steel plate with a thickness of two millimeters should be added to the important parts of the inner body of the hull, the inner wall of the armor at the front of the hull and the inner wall in front of the turret, and an additional layer of metal braid with a thickness of three millimeters was added to prevent spalling, and the tail structure of the tank turret was modified, and the original design of the T54 prototype turret was changed, and the rear of the turret was lengthened, which could perfectly solve the problem that the backseat distance of the 1005 mm new tank gun was too long. In order to enhance the protection of the rear of the turret, an armored spider plant is welded at the rear of the turret, which can be filled with debris or additional armor plates.

So that Zhang Xuewu did not have much opinion on the power, but the design institute suggested that the B2-V12 diesel engine should be used to remove the two cylinders, and the V10 structure engine was added with the supercharger technology provided by Germany, which obtained the effect of 180 horsepower higher than the original V12 engine, and the volume of the diesel engine was greatly reduced and reduced, and the longitudinal arrangement of the traditional iron horse was replaced by transverse.

(To be continued)