Chapter 91: Test Invitation (3)
After driving all the terrain in the test site, the stalker with mud spots splashed on the hull of the car turned around and stopped at the starting point again, "We will soon redesign the camouflage color of the stalker's outer layer, and when we fight the Japanese monkeys in the future, I promise that the stalker can do real stealth, as long as they don't fire and expose the target, they will stop under their noses, and the Japanese monkeys will not be able to detect the stalker" Norton stroked the stalker's car quite smugly, and his wrinkled face was full of smiles.
"Ms. Rowling, I don't know how many self-propelled armored rocket artillery vehicles like the Stalker there are? Have you considered the possibility of selling? The staff officer surnamed Wu of the Nationalist Army from Chongqing directly used the new term Norton said in his words - self-propelled armored rocket artillery vehicle. However, these big guys in front of them are indeed very in line with the name, not to mention the strong horsepower, they can also take routes under various conditions, there are armor that heavy machine guns can't penetrate, and rocket artillery with super firepower, with such big guys, the Japanese army will kill as many as they want.
"I'm really sorry, most of our stalkers are modified with European armored vehicles that Germany aided us, and the process of making rockets is very cumbersome, and the raw materials are not easy to find, so there are not many stalkers in Thunder's hands, so at present, Thunder is not going to sell it to the outside world" Rowling's understatement was obviously prepared, but Rowling's next sentence shocked the representatives of the three parties present, "Our Thunder Arsenal in Kunming has been produced after more than a year of hard work, The currently completed Stalkers and rockets will only guarantee the number of equips of a Jewish armored regiment"
There are 5 Jewish legions in the Thunder Force, each with more than 20,000 people, and each Stalker has a crew of 5 people, so even if you count the logistics, auxiliary infantry, and some miscellaneous manpower, then the Jewish armored corps that Rowling mentioned has at least more than 1,000 Stalker rocket artillery vehicles. Pulling such a unit up to give the Japanese army a look and insight, let alone fighting, is to scare and scare those little devils to death.
Although Rowling directly rejected Staff Officer Wu's request, everyone also heard the meaning from Rowling's words, Thunder's arsenal can only arm an armored corps with more than a year's production, and this is still because of the lack of raw materials, if the raw materials can be supplied, can it be said that this kind of stalker self-propelled rocket artillery vehicle will have as much as it wants?
Not only did Staff Officer Wu from Chongqing move, but even Ma Shicheng of the Jin Sui Army and Ye Jianying, who represented the Eighth Route Army, were also very hot-eyed. While everyone was thinking about it, Norton broke the silence, "Gentlemen, I will now introduce you to another weapon that has just been developed, I hope you are not too surprised" After speaking, Norton blinked as if mischievous, and the two gray beards on the side of his mouth kept moving like clowns.
As they spoke, the guards at the test site brought a long wooden box, and everyone was attracted by the prosaic wooden box, all wanting to see what weapons were in the box. Norton walked over to the box and turned back to the crowd and said, "You have a Chinese idiom called self-contradiction, and this weapon of mine has something to do with it. The Stalker is currently the most well-armored armored vehicle and the safest armored vehicle on the Chinese battlefield, but the Stalker will not fire rockets for a single firing point of the Japanese army or a Japanese military vehicle that has fallen behind, so for this reason, we began to design a single weapon with armor-piercing ability."
"Everyone," Norton opened the box with his own hands and took out something like a canister from the box, which confused everyone present, isn't this the bazooka that the Thunder called Bazooka? Norton smiled slightly, "This is our updated offensive bazooka based on the Bazooka, tentatively named Iron Fist anti-tank rocket launcher, caliber 44mm, equipped with armor-piercing projectile diameter 100mm, bullet mass 2.3kg, explosive mass 1.2kg, muzzle velocity 90m/s direct firing distance 120m, effective range 150m, maximum range 600m, armor-piercing thickness 150mm, using mechanical sights."
Norton touched the bazooka with an expression that looked like he was admiring a work of art, "The Iron Fist Bazooka consists of a launcher, a mechanical firing mechanism, a safety device, a firing system, a sight, and a harness. The launch canister is a smooth straight tube with two ends open, with an inner diameter of 44mm, made of seamless steel tubes, with a short flared expansion section and ammunition positioning notch in the front, and a reinforcing hoop at the tail of the barrel, and a gauge frame and a firing and firing frame welded on the barrel. The firing system is composed of a fire cap, a fuse and ignition powder, etc., and the aiming device adopts a mechanical sight, and the gauge is folded, which can be folded into the gauge frame at ordinary times, and is equipped with an over-caliber hollow charge armor-piercing projectile. The projectile uses an inertial instantaneous fuse at the bottom of the projectile. Most of the metal parts of the armor-piercing bullet are made of low-carbon steel plate stamping, and they are all fixed by crimping and spot welding methods except for the hood. The mask is made of an alloy of 92.2% zinc, 7.35% aluminum and 0.045% copper, with a wall thickness of 2.7mm. 1:1 mixed explosives of TNT and Hesorkin"
"Hiss......" Norton's barrage of terms made the three delegates present gasp, didn't Norton mean that this new type of bazooka was specially made to destroy enemy tanks and armored vehicles, they were all people who led troops to fight, and knew what it meant, if it was really like Norton said, then it was really a terrible weapon, and they had even begun to fantasize about the scene of a soldier taking on a tank alone. Norton was right, if the Stalker was called a sturdy shield, then his iron fist was not the sharpest spear, the sharpest spear that could pierce all Japanese tanks.
"As a target for an epoch-making weapon, it's an honor for a chariot that is about to be sent into the furnace," Norton smiled and waved his arms as he snapped in everyone's reactions. Last time, after the 225th Infantry Wing was defeated by thunder, a Japanese armored personnel carrier that broke down in Qingshiyu was dragged by a stalker, and the rusty hull was even inlaid with some shell shrapnel, it seems that the flying shell fragments failed to penetrate the armor of this Japanese armored vehicle, but I don't know if the iron fist in Norton's hand is still as useless as the shell fragments?
"Don't worry, I'm going to be fine, I'm just going to prove to everyone that this weapon is easy to use, and even an old man like me can use it" Norton comforted Rowling with a smile as he bypassed Rowling, who wanted to stop him from operating the experiment himself. Carrying the bazooka to a position about a hundred meters away from the Japanese armored vehicle, Norton loaded the ammunition and opened the gauge to aim at the vehicle, and everyone watched his movements with wide eyes. Finally, Norton pulled the trigger, and a white smoke erupted from the tail of the bazooka, only to see Norton take a step back from the recoil, and the huge explosion was deafening, and when the smoke cleared, the armored car had turned into a pile of burning scrap metal.
"Whew, it's finally a success, but if you fail, you'll lose your adult" Looking at the Japanese armored vehicle that turned into a fireball, Rowling secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Just like Zhao Zhi insisted on modifying armored vehicles, when the Jewish weapons engineers at the Kunming Arsenal planned to upgrade Bazooka, Rowling, as the spokesperson of the Lockman family in China, only informed the family to provide some raw materials to the arsenal at the Kunming base.
The power of the explosion of the Iron Fist rocket shocked everyone, but everyone immediately came to their senses, and Staff Officer Wu from Chongqing was the first to lean over to Rowling's side and whispered quietly, he was trying to see if he could get some Iron Fist from Thunder's hands. Stalker Thunder will not give it, but if he can get some iron fist to go back, and when he returns to Chongqing, he is afraid that he will not be able to run away from this credit.
"Everyone. Dr. Norton's weapon test is not over yet, everything will wait for the weapon test to be completed, it's only noon, we still have an afternoon" Rowling would not agree to them so easily, and took the opportunity to divert everyone's attention to Norton. The test of Stalker and Iron Fist went smoothly, which rejuvenated Norton, an old man, and several weapons that were tested afterwards were also operated and tested by him, and Ye Jianying and others who watched had to praise Norton for being old and strong.
Norton's weapon test lasted until lunchtime, Ye Jianying and the others could be regarded as having seen the strength of the thunder, they only knew that the thunder could fight, but they had always consumed the living force of the Japanese army with small-scale sports warfare. But after seeing these new weapons taken out by Thunder today, Ye Jianying and the others sighed secretly and at the same time paid attention to Luo Lin's attitude, looking at today's situation, Thunder is afraid that they will start to change their combat style from today, after all, they now have the ability and equipment to conduct large-scale battles with the Japanese army.
On the way back from "Weapon Test and Acceptance", Ye Jianying was pondering the name written on the invitation, and after pondering it repeatedly, Ye Jianying couldn't help but laugh secretly. Where is this weapon acceptance, it is simply deterrence, using Thunder's powerful armament as a means to deter the anti-Japanese armed forces of all parties in Shanxi, but I don't know what Thunder's true intention is, whether it wants to assimilate the alliance or annex and co-opt, Ye Jianying's heart is full of doubts.
It is not stupid to be sent to be the representative of one side, Ma Shicheng of the Jin Sui Army and Wu Staff Officer of the National Army have been leaning around Luo Lin after a brief loss of consciousness at the moment of the end of the test. Staff Officer Wu is nothing more than emphasizing the relationship between Zhao Zhi and the chairman of the committee, and Ma Shicheng directly wants to exchange Shanxi's minerals and thunder for weapons, not to mention, Jin Suijun really has minerals in his hands that Thunder needs, but Zhao Zhi has not returned, Rowling will not make a decision easily, everything has to wait until Zhao Zhi is contacted before making a decision.