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The MK1A2 orbital electromagnetic kinetic energy cannon can only stay in the laboratory stage, limited by the reserve of technical theories and the lack of industrial manufacturing capacity, even if Tesla is talented, it cannot do it. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ╔╗

Of course, the research on electromagnetic guns is not only the Chinese Empire, but other countries are also studying this technology. However, they are also only in the laboratory stage, and they are even more backward in terms of technical theory and industrial manufacturing capabilities, and it is even more distant to make the electromagnetic gun reach the weapon level and the actual combat deployment stage.

Back in 1845, Charles? Wheatstone built the world's first reluctance DC motor and used it to eject a metal rod up to 20 meters away. After that, the German mathematician Kirby put forward the idea of using electromagnetic propulsion to make an 'electric cannon'. The first to formally propose and experiment with the concept of electromagnetic launch/electromagnetic cannon was Berkland, a professor of physics at the University of Oslo in Norway, who patented the theory of 'electric artillery' in 1901.

By 1920, France's Fochon? Willeple published the article "Electric Artillery". At about the same time, the German company Junker Artillery Industries also established an electromagnetic research laboratory and developed an electromagnetic accelerator for artillery installation.

The rise of the Chinese Empire's research on the electromagnetic cannon was based on an interest in the interstellar weapons left over from the Tunguska explosion, and it was a practical experience of the power of this superweapon. However, the research on electromagnetic guns in the Western powers is still at the level of science fiction (attracted by the theories put forward by science fiction writers such as Moxie), and it is all powered by a group of reasonable science fiction, but it is not supported by government funding, so the progress and results of relevant research are far lower than the huge investment of the Chinese empire in this area.

However, since the Chinese Empire has become more and more powerful, the Chinese Empire's science and technology have often been internationally leading, especially the rapid development of military technology, and the advanced equipment has made the Western powers envious, jealous and hateful. Against this international backdrop, the Western powers have stepped up their espionage infiltration into the Chinese Empire, and have obtained confidential information about the Chinese Empire at any cost, including information about the electromagnetic cannon being tested by the Chinese Empire. However, the Chinese Empire's security controls in this area are very tight, and they did not have detailed test data, but they have some rare information, and after deducing that the Chinese Empire is developing electromagnetic weapons.

Once upon a time, the Chinese Empire was a backward country that was bullied and recognized by the Western powers. Knowing that the Chinese Empire has taken the lead in science and technology, it has achieved today's situation. For example, the advanced weapons and equipment of the Imperial Chinese Navy, such as the Divine Bow Ships, submarines, chariots, and aircraft, are all epoch-making and have a tremendous impact on the world's military pattern. The Western powers believe that the Chinese Empire has terminated the large-scale renewal program of the equipment of the navy, land and air forces after the war, and that behind this there must be the secret research and development of the next generation of revolutionary advanced weapons and equipment, and the Western powers do not want to be led by the nose by the Chinese Empire forever, and should at least keep pace with the development of the Chinese Empire in the field of science and technology.

Based on this mentality, when they caught the news that the Chinese Empire might be developing an electromagnetic cannon weapon system, the Western powers naturally did not sit idly by and stepped up their research efforts in this area in their respective countries.

Beginning in 1926, the major Western powers successively set up electromagnetic weapon research laboratories to carry out research on electromagnetic guns, striving not to be left behind by the Chinese Empire.

The electromagnetic cannon itself belongs to the military level, and a large number of experts in this field have emerged in the Western powers, stimulated by their respective military needs. In March 1923, the French electromagnetic expert Sried-Montsey accelerated a 5-gram projectile to an initial velocity of 1.1 km/s with an electromagnetic cannon. Charred of the National University of the United Kingdom? Dr. Marshall used the latest British electromagnetic technology to accelerate a 2.5-gram projectile to 3.9 km/s. This achievement experimentally proves that it is possible to propelle objects to ultra-high speeds with electromagnetic force. After the announcement of his achievements, it attracted special attention from all parties, and the German Defense Committee came to the conclusion that 'future high-performance weapons must be based on electrical energy', so the German Ministry of Defense established a "Joint Committee on Electromagnetic Guns" to coordinate the research work of electromagnetic guns carried out by the army, the Ministry of Energy, the Defense Atomic Energy Agency and the Strategic Defense Initiative Agency. In 1928, Professor Hansley, an electromagnetic expert at the Army University in Berlin, Germany, instantly accelerated the 8-gram plastic accelerator to 5.9 kilometers per second in the laboratory, and the instantaneous kinetic energy in the energy chamber reached 15,000 joules, and for the first time realized that the switch device was started within 12 millimeters.

The Imperial Chinese Talent Management Committee quickly sent invitations to hundreds of scientists and senior engineers from these countries, inviting them to work in top international scientific research institutions such as the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Chinese Imperial Academy of Sciences and Beiyang Science and Technology, and giving them generous treatment.

The Chinese Empire is digging into the corners of Western countries again, but this time the Western powers have already made preparations, and they did not pay attention to the reserve of talents before, and as a result, before the world war, more than 100,000 outstanding scientists, technical engineers, industry experts and scholars in the Western world were poached by the Chinese Empire, laying the foundation for the Chinese Empire to lead the world in science and technology. During the six-year world war, the Western powers were well aware of the importance of talent, and after the war, they strictly restricted the brain drain.

Although the major Western powers have erected barriers to prevent the brain drain and many top scientists have been restricted from leaving the country, the Chinese Empire still forced governments to allow a group of scientific and technological experts to "go on business trips" to the Chinese Empire through various political, military, economic and other coercive and semi-coercive methods.

The Chinese Empire's monopoly and robbery of talents made the Western world very dissatisfied, but there was no way, in the face of the powerful economic and military strength of the Chinese Empire, all countries did not dare to plunder its edge, so they could only swallow their anger.

In the winter of the 28th year of Guanghua, the Chinese Imperial Electromagnetic Weapons Research Laboratory obtained a large number of materials and technical experts in this area from the Western world, and originally there were only more than 100 people under Tesla engaged in electromagnetic cannon research, but it soon expanded to more than 500 people, including many top talents. For example, the French electromagnetic expert Sried Mont became a member of the laboratory and served as Tesla's third assistant.

In March of the following year, the Imperial Chinese Electromagnetic Weapons Laboratory was reorganized to conduct the first electromagnetic cannon test. The MK1A2 orbital kinetic energy cannon device has been greatly upgraded, and its battery pack has reached 250,000 joules instantaneously, realizing the single-pole single-item power input for the first time, and the 30-meter-long single-pole power supply device has been connected in parallel with 150,000 single-item discharge units, and the cyclotron device accelerates the 15-gram plastic module, and after six tests, the average muzzle velocity has reached 9.5 kilometers per second, and the test has made breakthroughs.

The research and development of the electromagnetic cannon has been supported by the Imperial Navy, especially the senior officials of the BB Party within the Navy are highly concerned about the test of the electromagnetic cannon, because they know very well that the reason why the CV Party is arrogant and clamoring to destroy the battleship from a long distance with aircraft carrier-based aircraft, while the range of the battleship's main gun is limited, and the 18-inch cannon of the Ming-class battleship has been modernized and modified in the 27th year of Guanghua, and the double diameter has been increased to 50 times, but the maximum range is only 50 kilometers, for reaction weapons, The range of gunpowder-propelled shells has basically reached the limit, and it has become difficult to increase the range, although Rosenberg's super cannon has a range of more than 200 kilometers, but it is too expensive and bulky to be installed on a battleship. Therefore, when the range of traditional reaction weapons has reached the limit, the Navy BB Party has focused on the electromagnetic orbital kinetic energy cannon in order to obtain a super naval gun weapon system against aircraft carriers.

Electromagnetic bubbles have a great advantage over conventional artillery. For example, the electromagnetic cannon uses the work done by the electromagnetic force as the emission energy, and does not produce powerful shock waves and diffuse smoke, so it has good concealment. The electromagnetic gun can adjust and select the appropriate energy to adjust the range of the projectile according to the nature and distance of the target. ╔╗The electromagnetic gun does not have a round barrel, the projectile is small in size and light in weight, so that the air resistance when flying is very small, so the launch stability of the electromagnetic gun is good, the initial velocity is high, and the firing range is long. It's so fast that even long-range targets can be hit before they have time to react. Compared with the attack of the 18-inch cannon of the Ming-class battleship, the 1.8-ton shell flew for more than ten seconds to reach the position of the enemy ship, during which time the enemy ship may perform evasive actions to avoid the impact of the shell. And if it is replaced with an electromagnetic cannon attack, it will only take a few seconds, and the enemy ship will not have time to evade it at all.

Similarly, in terms of the cost of firing energy, the propellant of a conventional gun costs 10 dragon coins per megajoule of energy, while the electromagnetic cannon only costs 0.1 dragon coins. Moreover, the electromagnetic gun can also dispense with the canister and the firing device of the artillery, so it is more safe, reliable and convenient in terms of light weight, small size, simple structure, transportation and logistics support. This is not a small problem for the main gun system of the Ming-class battleship weighing 1,000 tons and the storage of thousands of tons of propellant. Once the research and development is successful, it can save more than 80 million dragon coins.

For the BB party, the purpose of what they really want to put the electromagnetic cannon on the ship is to fancy the ultra-long-range range and rate of fire of the electromagnetic gun, so that the aircraft carrier on the sea hundreds of kilometers away is worthless and will be sunk by a single shot.

Of course, this is just their fantasy, at the moment the electromagnetic gun is still in the laboratory stage, there is still a long way to go from outdoor tests, and it is even more distant from the actual combat deployment on the ship.

However, the Navy BB Party is confident in this, and they are trying to prolong the time when the giant ship cannon doctrine will dominate the Navy, and strive to get the news that the powerful electromagnetic cannon will be put into service before the CV Party's aircraft carrier victory theory "turns over and rebels".

The Imperial Chinese Navy has the Fanjingshan-class aircraft carrier construction and the upgrade plan of the Chinese Aegis air defense cruiser, the Air Force has the Jian-10 fighter and the H-6 and H-5 service plans, and the Second Artillery Unit of the Heavenly Army has the Thor 15 rocket and V series missile plans.

In the 28th year of Guanghua, after the Imperial Navy, Air Force, and Space Force successively introduced equipment research and development and upgrade plans, the Imperial Army also came up with equipment research and development and upgrading projects in order to obtain military spending from the National Assembly to the military.

During the Sino-American War, in the large-scale tank battles that broke out on the American continent, the M16 tanks of the Imperial Chinese Army exerted great combat effectiveness, and were once touted by the armies of various countries in the world after the war. Until the outbreak of the Gulf War, the armored units of the Imperial Chinese Army relied on the M16 tank to defeat the Armenian armored forces, which became the heyday of the M16 tank.

But it didn't take long for the Chinese Empire to intervene in the Suez Canal and intervene in the Egyptian war, and as a result, in the desert campaign, the M16 tank exposed huge flaws for the first time, and the M16 tank that advanced rapidly in the desert soon suffered serious failures, indicating that the M16 tank was not suitable for long-term operation in the desert, and almost let the enemy find out, thus changing the outcome of the Egyptian war.

After this war, the Imperial Chinese Army Committee believed that the M16 tank had been in service for many years and it was time to replace it with a new tank, so it decided to take advantage of the fact that the M16 tank was still on the altar of the king of land warfare, and when European and American countries wanted to purchase this tank, it relaxed export restrictions and allowed the M16 tank to be exported for the first time, and the funds earned were used by the Imperial Army to continue to develop more advanced vehicles.

In the autumn of the 28th year of Guanghua, on a certain day in the ninth month of the golden autumn, in the Beiyuan Synthetic Tactical Training Base of the Chinese Empire, a new type of main battle combat vehicle was undergoing high-intensity testing.

On the test site, in the roar of the huge motor, I saw a new type of combat vehicle maneuvering at high speed, and the test track was picked up by the combat vehicle tracks A cloud of dust, and most of the entire combat vehicle was shrouded in dust, only a small part of the front of the combat vehicle and the long barrel were exposed.

The new chariot suddenly advanced at high speed on the flat road, and suddenly advanced rapidly on the undulating ground, crossing a trench trench more than two meters wide, and splitting a ten-meter-high wave as it entered the half-meter-deep river. ╔╗ Then climbed a 60-degree slope and successfully passed through anti-tank vehicle obstacles such as horse rejection, hidden piles, barbed wire, and anti-tank thistles, and finally completed the purpose of the test.

This is the test vehicle of the new combat vehicle, numbered M28A1, which was successfully developed by the Equipment Science and Technology Research and Development Department of the Imperial Chinese Army in ten years after the war.

Although this combat vehicle has been manufactured in Guanghua 26 years of prototype test vehicles, the Imperial War Department has repeatedly postponed the purchase, requiring the Ministry of Scientific Research to improve the defects according to the performance of the M16 combat vehicle in the Americas, the Middle East and North Africa, and at the same time learn from the lessons of the failure of the Egyptian battlefield in the desert to improve, the Imperial armored combat vehicle must be suitable for fighting all over the world, and should adapt to various harsh battlefield environments such as plains, mountains, hills, rainforests, deserts, swamps, etc., Therefore, in the end, it was delayed until Guanghua 28 years before the formal procurement contract was obtained. Considering that the first batch of new combat vehicles was delivered in Guanghua 28, it was finalized as the M28 type by the Army Nomenclature Committee, but in fact, there are more than a dozen prototypes of the M28 combat vehicle, which were developed according to different environments. In the end, the Army Committee used the M28A1 as the main combat vehicle suitable for the most environments, and the M28A2, M28A3 and other models were also ordered, but these combat vehicles were used in a limited environment and purchased in small quantities, so they were not used as customized models for the main armored divisions of the Imperial Army.

After the war, European and American countries have made great progress in the research and development of tanks, especially when the M16 tank of the Chinese Empire was exported to the outside world, the M16 tank is no longer mysterious, and various countries have successively carried out copycat imitation and reverse engineering research and development of this tank, and developed an advanced tank with almost or even more than the M16 tank in terms of width performance.

For example, the German Army's No. 1 tank performed prominently in the South African War, and was the first main battle tank in the Western world that could compete with the M16 tank of the Chinese Empire, although the No. 1 tank performed poorly on the battlefield in South Africa, but it was not that the performance of the No. 1 tank was not good enough, but the South African Republican Army that drove these tanks did not have any tank combat experience, and their opponent was the United Nations Army Armored Division with rich experience in tank combat, so the reputation of the No. 1 tank was buried by the defeat of the South African Republican Army. However, senior experts from various armies have praised Germany's No. 1 tank, evaluating it as the first Western tank that can be comparable to the strength of the M16 tank of the Chinese Empire.

Aside from the German Army's No. 1 tank, the British cruiser MKI type derived more than a dozen versions, of which the performance of the A1 to A13 is good, and the A13 has more than 20 improved models, and finally the British Army can get the Mark (MKIV) type A13E2 cruiser tank.

The tank weighed 14.76 tons, measured 6x2.5x2.6 (m), had a crew of four (commander, gunner, loader, driver), 6-30 mm armor, a 2-pounder gun (40 mm), 87 rounds of ammunition, and a 0.303-inch Vickers machine gun with 3,750 rounds of ammunition. Its power is provided by the Nuffield V12 engine, with an output of 340 horsepower, and the Christie suspension system of the M16 combat vehicle of the Chinese Empire is used to adopt the Wilson composite gearbox that matured during the Great War, with a maximum range of 150 kilometers, a flat combat cruising speed of 50 kilometers per hour, and a mountain combat speed of about 40 kilometers.

On the whole, the British Mark A13 tank has reached the international advanced level, and its combat capability has surpassed that of the M16 tank of the Chinese Empire. But the British Army had to face a serious problem, the Mark A13 tank tracks had to be imported from the Chinese Empire, because Britain could not make tracks with a life of more than 150 kilometers, the Chinese Empire monopolized the global natural rubber production area, artificial rubber technology and export control of polymer material technology, which directly affected the wear resistance of the joint parts of the track, and the wear-resistant materials made in Britain could not meet the requirements at all.

In this way, no matter how advanced the British tanks are, once they are on the battlefield, the life of the tracks will become the biggest obstacle restricting the combat of their armored forces, and once Britain dares to be the enemy of the Chinese Empire, then as long as the Chinese Empire stops exporting tracked armor materials to the British, then it is equivalent to strangling the neck of the British armored forces and making them unable to act.

The French Army has always claimed to be the first in Europe, and although they do not recognize the German Army as above them, the French Army will always be the most sensitive to the emergence of new equipment for the German Army. ╔╗

After learning that the German Army's No. 1 series of tanks were in service and won the applause of the international community on the battlefield in South Africa, the French Army imported M16 tanks from the Chinese Empire as the No. 1 tank to fight against the German Army through a deal with the Imperial Chinese Army, and on the other hand, the French Army also obtained the No. 1 tank from the South African battlefield, and analyzed it to grasp the development direction of the German Army's armored forces, and at the same time combined with the technology and experience obtained from the M16 tank. A new main battle tank for the French Army was also launched.

Despite the lack of funding for the French Army, the R&D investment in tanks was significant. Moreover, the romanticism of the French and the desire for peace after the war made the tank design of the French Army unique and commendable.

Before 1928, the French Army basically used tanks left over from World War I and M16 tanks imported from the Chinese Empire, which were sufficient to meet the defense needs of the French Army.

However, with the approval of the production plan of the medium tank Charb1 by the French Army Council in 1928, this new French self-developed tank gradually replaced the position of the M16 main battle tank in France and became the main tank of the French Army's armored forces before the outbreak of World War II.

The Charb1 medium tank dates back to 1921. In that year, General J.E. Estienne of the Technical Department of the French Army (known as the father of the French tank) proposed to build an infantry support tank weighing 15 tons, with a maximum armor thickness of 25 mm, a 75 mm gun mounted on the hull, and two machine guns in a rotating turret, which could fight enemy tank forces when necessary, and the overall performance requirements were to meet the M16 main battle tank of the Chinese Empire. The new tank must be equipped with radios for tactical coordination, which is dictated by the tank's semi-independent combat status. Four companies participated in the bidding, including FAMH Naval Metallurgy, FCM Mediterranean Shipyards, Die Lounay-Belliville and Schneider-Renault. At that time, the military promised to combine and match the winning parts of the prototypes submitted by each company in order to make the best tank. A total of five prototypes were submitted in May 1924, of which Schneider-Renault submitted two prototypes, SRA and SRB.

The French side chose Schneider-Renault's prototype SRB as the base car for the new tank, with the engine, gearbox and steering retained, the suspension and drive wheels taken from the FAMH-designed prototype, and the tracks from the FCM prototype. In March 1925, Renault was selected as the main contractor, with Schneider, FAMH, FCM and Dielaunay-Baileyville as subcontractors providing labor and spare parts. The final assembly of the vehicle is scheduled to be completed at the Renault plant in Paris. On January 17, 1926, Renault was awarded a contract to build three prototypes, and the construction was completed in January 1927. The prototype had a crew of 4 people, armor with a maximum thickness of 25 mm, an engine power of 180 horsepower, a travel speed of 20 kilometers per hour, and a maximum range of 257 kilometers. A 75 mm 18 x howitzer is mounted in front of the hull, and two 7.5 mm machine guns are mounted in the single turret. The two subsequent tests showed that the overall design was relatively successful, and in order to counter the main gun of the German tank No. 1 and the main gun of the M16 tank, the maximum armor thickness was increased to 40 mm, and the weight also rose to 28 tons, which was the prototype of the later Charb1 tank.

After the South African War, the German Army actively developed the No. 1 tank and began to equip the army on a large scale, which prompted the French authorities to import the M16 tanks of the Chinese Empire to cope with the crisis, and on the other hand, immediately began to produce the improved Charb1. The tank was equipped with a 47 mm 34 x diameter gun and a cast turret, and the engine power was increased to 250 horsepower, allowing the more than 30-ton vehicle to reach a speed of 27 kilometers per hour, although the maximum range was also reduced to 200 kilometers, and it had to be operated on tracks provided by the Chinese Empire.

After the first batch of 35 CHARB1 was produced, the improved B1BIS began production, the B1BIS was equipped with an improved ARX4 turret, better protection and installed a new 47 mm 35 times diameter main gun, the body was split casting, bolt assembled steel armor plates, the armor thickness was increased to 60 mm, and a new 307 horsepower engine was replaced, but the maximum stroke was reduced to only 150 km, the car was suitable for combat operations with infantry, but because the stroke was too small, it was obviously insufficient as a strategic mobile force, So, an additional tank was later installed to solve this problem. ╔╗

B1bis rated crew of 4 people, the driver's seat is located on the left side of the front of the body, the right side is the 75 mm gun, the driver is responsible for operating the 75 mm gun in addition to driving the vehicle, using the handle to adjust the gun pitch, the appearance of the gun barrel wall is very thick, in fact, it is a specially designed gun smoke device, the use of compressed air to blow the residual gunpowder gas out of the barrel, which was an out-and-out new idea at the time. Behind the driver is the radio operator's seat, which has a range of 15 km, and to the right is the loader's seat, whose duty is to load the 75mm gun and transport the 47mm shells into the turret for the commander's use. The car in the electric turret~~Updated starter~~ The commander must also be responsible for aiming, loading, and firing the 47mm gun on the turret, and sometimes the 7.5mm side-by-side machine gun on the right side of the turret while directing the vehicle to control the formation.

The B1BIS engine is electrically started, equipped with a self-sealing fuel tank, integrated lubrication system, and because the 75mm gun in front of the hull can only be pitched and cannot be deflected left and right, the steering design of the car is unique, and the driver can use a well-designed "Naeder" (double differential) hydraulic differential (double differential) through the steering wheel to obtain any turning radius on any of the gear gears and can achieve fine adjustment, so that the driver can take advantage of the "Niddle" The system precisely adjusts the firing range of the artillery direction. The gearbox has 6 gears, 5 forward and 1 reverse.

Another outstanding feature of the car is the use of a guided gyroscope driven by compressed air, which can also start the engine with an air compressor if the electric start motor fails. The B1BIS uses a Holt suspension with a skirt that consists of a set of leaf springs and coil springs mounted on vertical joints, with the driving wheels rear mounted and adjustable in the car.

These new gadgets made it quite inconvenient to manufacture, and also caused the car to be cumbersome to maintain, poor reliability, and frequent breakdowns on the way to the front.

In 1928, according to the problems found by the French in practical use, the Charb1bis was improved for the last time, the improved tank was called B1-TER, aiming at the characteristics of weak resistance to armor-piercing shells on the side armor and tracks, the upper track cover of the B1-TER integral fenders, and the side armor with an inclination. In addition, in view of the shortcomings of the 75 mm gun's difficulty in aiming (although the Nidel system can achieve accurate aiming, this requires the members to be well trained), the gun installation method was redesigned, and the gun was given a directional firing range of 5 degrees to the left and right. A mechanic was added to the team to bring the total number to five, and in order to increase the space in the fighting compartment, a more compact BDR transmission gear was used.

At the end of 1928, the French hoped to produce about 400 B1bis for equipping two reserve divisions in four years, but the complex structure repeatedly delayed mass production.

Objectively speaking, the B1BIS is superior in firepower and protection, its 47 mm gun is more powerful than the German No. 1 tank, its 75 mm gun muzzle velocity is 490 m / s, the Type 1915 high-explosive grenade used is loaded with 740 grams of high explosive, the power is amazing, and the Type 1910 armor-piercing projectile can penetrate 400 mm thick armor at a 30-degree angle at a distance of 400 meters, with a rate of fire of 15 rounds per minute. Its 47mm L35 gun has a muzzle velocity of 590 m/s when firing a Type 1922 high-explosive grenade and a muzzle velocity of 700 m/s when firing a Type 1925 cap-piercing projectile. The firepower has far surpassed the M16 main battle tank of the Chinese Empire. Its armor protection is also very strong, 40 to 60 mm protection, can resist the direct fire of the German No. 1 tank, this alone makes the German side very nervous, because the German side is a country that traditionally attaches importance to protection, and the French tanks are more durable than their tanks, which naturally makes the German army uncomfortable.

In addition, the Charb1-BIS main battle tank can pass through a one-meter-high vertical wall, the advantage of a huge hull is that it can cross a 3-meter trench, and the tank's high hull gives it excellent wading ability, wading depths of up to 1.47 meters.

Generally speaking, the CHARB1-BIS main battle tank successfully developed by the French Army also poses a serious threat to the M16 main battle tank in service in the Imperial Chinese Army. When the agents of the Chinese Empire stole this information from the French side, they immediately collected it to the Imperial War Department, and the Imperial Army Committee put forward various requirements for the M28 main battle tank under development for the Charb1-BIS main battle tank of the French Army, resulting in continuous improvement and upgrading of this tank, and the service time was repeatedly delayed.

Aside from the three major military powers of Britain, Germany and France, although Mussolini, the new prime minister of the Kingdom of Italy, did not attach importance to the development of the navy, he made his fortune in the army, and his direct subordinates were naturally equipped with a lot of advanced weapons and equipment. Most of the advanced weaponry exported and aided by the Chinese Empire to the Italian army basically fell into the hands of Mussolini's descendants, which of course was also deliberately done by the Chinese Empire. Except for Emperor Wang Chenhao, no one knew the real reason, not even Mussolini himself. But he understood that he could only do whatever he wanted in Italy with the help and recognition of the Chinese Empire, so Mussolini basically sent a congratulatory message to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire on every official holiday of the Chinese Empire, greeting Wang Chenhao, the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, and expressing the friendly relations between China and Italy. Therefore, since Mussolini came to power, the people of the Chinese Empire basically did not know the name of the King of Italy, and only Mussolini was known when it came to Italy.

By 1926, Mussolini's generals had taken full control of the army and air force, a large number of officers and politicians who opposed Mussolini's rule had been purged, and control of the navy had reached 70 percent.

In Italy, under Mussolini's control, the importance of the army was above all else, so the tank, which was the backbone of the army, became one of the equipment that he paid the most attention to. Although Mussolini was able to obtain advanced weapons and equipment from the Chinese Empire, Italy had limited funds and could not afford to buy the M16 tank of the Chinese Empire, so he decided to let Italy develop it himself.

France's Renault developed the Renault FT light tank at the end of World War I, which had a great impact on Italy, because the light tank meant low construction and was in line with Italy's national conditions.

Italy imported a very small number of FT tanks, and Fiat added an improved design to them to build them as domestic tanks. Although the FIAT3000 is similar in appearance to the FT light tank, it has been modified as an Italian only in that it has changed the position of the engine configuration accordingly (FT is longitudinal spaced, the rear center configuration has been changed to horizontal space, and the rear lower configuration). The initial production turret was equipped with a machine gun, but a 37mm gun loading model was built shortly after.

But Italy's own capabilities are limited, the FIAT3000 light tank was outdated when it first left the factory, its firepower is weak, the armor is thin, and it can't beat the German No. 1 tank at all, and it was originally proud of its speed, but the results of the South African war showed that the German No. 1 tank was also faster than the FIAT3000 tank.

Unwilling, Mussolini ordered Fiat to re-develop it, so Fiat soon proposed the FIAT3000B (1928 model), the tank as a whole has not changed much, but the core engine is imported from the Chinese Empire, with a horsepower of 250, so that its maximum speed reaches 61 kilometers per hour, and the advanced tracks of the Chinese Empire are used to make its maximum driving range reach 300 kilometers.

Although the cost of the FIAT3000B was still somewhat high after the import of engines and tracks, it was already within the reach of the Italian Army, and at the same time, this tank would become the most advanced light tank on the European continent, so Mussolini approved the large-scale purchase of this tank.

The reason why the Chinese Empire dared to export to Italy more advanced tank engines and tracks than to other countries was because Italy did not have an industrial base in this area, and its reverse imitation ability was not good, so it would not pose a threat to the Chinese Empire, but the Chinese Empire could control the combat effectiveness of Italy's armored forces by exporting key components.

However, what the Chinese Empire did not expect was that the country of Italy could not be trusted. In order to make money, Mussolini made overtures to the Chinese Empire by importing relatively preferential seer engines and tracks and other key tank components from the Chinese Empire, but instead of equipping them with Italian FIAT3000B tanks, he sold them to the Soviet Union and collected the profit difference.

In terms of military technology, the Soviet Union has always been blockaded by the Chinese Empire and Britain, France, and Germany in Europe, and it can be said that the Soviet Union is going crazy to get international advanced military technology. At this time, the Soviet Union developed rapidly, and the Soviet Union, as a representative of state capitalism, concentrated all its forces to do great things, and spent a lot of money to obtain advanced engines and tracks and other key tank equipment from the Chinese Empire from Italy, and then the Soviet Red Army continued to disassemble and study it, trying to obtain the key technologies.

As a result, soon the first Soviet tank, the T-24 tank, appeared, which shocked the whole world.

When the USSR was just formed, there was no complete system of heavy industry at all, of course, there was no tank building, and domestic industrial enterprises could at best occasionally complete some repair work. However, the Red regime, which was reeling from foreign interference, urgently equipped combat vehicles to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the Red Army. On May 6, 1924, the Central Administration of the Defense Industry was established in Moscow, which was an important event in the history of the development of the Soviet state tank-building industry. In this system, a department was created in charge of tank design and construction, which in 1926-1929 was called the Ordnance ArsenalTrust General Design Bureau (GKBOAT). The task of this design bureau was to develop tracked combat vehicles and assist the plant in setting up production lines, so that the drawings became real products. However, due to the lack of the necessary tools and equipment, the early work of the GKBOAT was almost unproductive.

Despite this, GKBOAT is still cooperating with several relatively powerful domestic machine-building factories (including the Kharkov Locomotive Plant), organizing technical forces and production equipment, establishing tank production enterprises, and preparing for the birth of domestic tanks.

The Kharkov Locomotive Plant designed and manufactured the first tracked tractor in 1923, the plant had production equipment and a certain experience in the production of tracked vehicles, which laid a good foundation for the creation of a tank production line. The official Soviet document on the official development and production of tanks first appeared in the resolution of the Mobilization Committee of December 1, 1927. In accordance with this resolution, in December 1927, the Kharkov Locomotive Plant selected several tractor designers to form a tank design team (tankdesignteam), which consisted of a young mechanical engineer Ivan? n？ Alekshchenko led. The initial task of this design group was to design a tank in close cooperation with GKBOAT, project code 1-12-32, while providing design drawings to the factory and participating in the preparation for the creation of a tank production line.

With the expansion of the scope of design work, at the beginning of 1928, the Kharkov Locomotive Plant was allowed to expand the size of the design group and recruit 8 more designers. The prototypes of the Molozov Mechanical Design Bureau were thus established.

In the summer of 1928, the Kharkov Locomotive Plant won the project to create a prototype of a rapid tank (project 1-12-32). This rapid tank prototype was the T-12 tank. The T-12 tank is a two-turret tank with a small machine gun turret above the main turret that rotates independently. The main turret was armed with one 45-mm gun and one 7.62-mm machine gun mounted on each of the spherical machine gun mounts on either side of the gun. The tank was fitted with a Soviet-developed M-6 engine, which was actually a knockoff of the Chinese Empire's Adel KMX engine, smuggled from Italy. At the same time, the Soviet Union also made a certain breakthrough in the study of the tracks of the Chinese Empire, and the life of the tracked armor reached 120 km. As a result, the tank's speed and travel were greatly increased.

At the end of that year, the prototype of the T-12 tank was completed and tests began. Due to the fact that the weight of the prototype of the T-12 tank exceeded the requirements of the schematic design (the actual weight of the vehicle was 20 tons, which exceeded the standard by 4 tons), there were also a number of structural and mechanical problems. The tank design team had to redesign it with reference to the test results under a tight timeframe. This overhaul essentially led to a completely new design - the weight and unit pressure of the tank were reduced, the engine output and tank speed were increased, a fourth machine gun was installed on the left side of the cockpit in the front of the tank, and a machine gunner's seat was set up (thus, the tank's firepower was divided into three layers, an innovation in the history of tank development). The new tank design was named the T-24 tank.

If the German No. 1 tank, the French Charb1 medium tank, and the British Mark (MKIV) A13E2 cruiser made the Imperial Chinese Army a little uneasy in terms of armored fighting vehicles, the appearance of the Soviet T24 tank was a nervous thing.

The reason is very simple, the Chinese Empire can control Britain, France, Germany and other countries to a certain extent, and they are far away from the Chinese Empire, and their tanks are not a big threat to the Chinese Empire. But the Soviet Union, unlike the Chinese Empire, had a hatred of a vast territorial cession with the Chinese Empire, and Soviet tanks could directly cross the border line and attack the Chinese Empire itself.

After learning that the Soviet T24 tank was successfully developed, the Imperial Chinese Army Committee once again gave a new task to the M28 tank under development, that is, to comprehensively suppress the Soviet T24 tank.