Episode 123 Angle is Armor

After an hour of driving at full speed in the proving ground.

Then there's the more important thing – weapons and protection testing.

The basic Hurricane-36 drove into the open field more than 200 meters away from the observation fort. Then a group of soldiers ran out of a house next to the platform and stood in formation. These "soldiers" were also armed and wore uniforms, but not military uniforms, but a dark uniform between military uniforms and overalls, with boat-shaped caps and cockades and armbands embroidered with the insignia of the Tai Ping Kee Company. This is Tai Ping Kee's own guard.

Because most of the arms companies in the Ming Dynasty are privately owned and belong to private property, the government cannot send military and police to station. However, because it is an arms company, it is a high-risk and critical department, and it cannot be without a security force. Therefore, all of these arms companies have their own company guards, and the quality training of personnel is not inferior to that of the army. The difference is that they are armed only with light weapons.

The number of guards in this group was like a squad, and they were armed with the common light weapons of the Qing army: imitation Mauser rifles, imitation Japanese 38 rifles, turntable light machine guns, and Czech light machine guns. The last three men launched a Makqin water-cooled heavy machine gun.

The group entered the concrete observation fort. There is a long observation window in the observation fort, which has a wide field of view and can accommodate many people to observe at the same time. A row of artillery sighting glasses was placed in front of the viewing window. Xiang Xiaoqiang and the entourage experts each put their eyes in front of a cannon mirror. The armored car in the distance outside was placed very large in the gun mirror, and it was quite clear, even every weld in the armor plate could be seen clearly.

The first test: protection against rifle bullets.

The first is to test the frontal armor. Half a squad of six guards, three with imitation Mauser, three with three three-eight style, stood in a row at a distance of about 50 meters from the front of the armored vehicle, and with the command of "raise the gun", the six raised their rifles in unison, aiming at the armored vehicle, as if a firing squad was executing people.

Then another passphrase sounded:

"Shoot!"

There was a rapid platoon of guns, and six white smoke floated up. Xiang Xiaoqiang and the others saw it clearly in the gun mirror, and a burst of sparks burst out of the front armor of the armored car, and a second later, the sound of gunshots and the "clanging" of steel plates crashed into the observation fort.

The passphrase sounded again:

"Push the bomb!"

Six guards pulled the bolt and pushed up another bullet.

"Raise your gun!"

"Shoot!"

Another volley of guns, and another spark on the front armor of the halftrack in the distance......

After firing five rounds of this volley, and having exhausted all the bullets in their rifles, the six guards withdrew.

The second test: protection against light machine gun bullets.

At another command, two light machine-gun teams stepped forward, lay down, set up their bipods, and prepared to shoot. One group used the Deg Galev rotary machine gun, and the other group used the Czech ZB light machine gun.

With the firing command, the two light machine guns began to breathe tongues of fire at the same time, roaring "knock knock ......" and "da da ......", and white smoke continued to drift. At this time, there is no need to look at it from the gun mirror at all, and you can clearly see it with the naked eye, and dense sparks are jumping on the steel plate on the front of the armored vehicle more than two hundred meters away.

The Czech light machine gun on the right finished its 20-round magazine first, and it was half quiet, only the turntable machine gun on the left was still firing "da-da-da". After a few seconds, the 47-round cartridge of the turntable machine gun was also fired, and it was completely quiet.

Two light machine gun teams stood up, disassembled the gun carriages, put away the machine guns, and retreated. Immediately afterwards, the Makqin water-cooled heavy machine gun that had been waiting for a long time next to it was pushed up.

The third test: protection against heavy machine gun bullets.

The foreshooter held the rear grip of the heavy machine gun, and the co-shooter held the chain and focused on the armored vehicle in the distance, which was already riddled with bullets. With a command, the Maxim machine gun spewed tongues of fire with a characteristic dull sound. After the 50 rounds were fired, the surroundings fell silent.

The heavy machine gun team pushed the heavy machine gun with a slight white smoke to the side.

Fourth test: Defend against 7.92 mm anti-tank guns.

A two-person team with a long anti-tank gun came to the front, lay down, set up a stand, loaded ammunition, and waited for the password.

In fact, Xiang Xiaoqiang knew that the dazzling bullet tests just now were good-looking, but there was no suspense. I watched the sparks fly and the bullets were riddled with bullets, but they definitely couldn't be pierced. An armored vehicle, complete protection against bullet fire is only the most basic requirement. If you can't even do that, then what are you going to do? The key is right below, against anti-tank guns.

For such a lightly armored combat vehicle, it is certainly impossible to resist artillery, even a small-caliber gun of twenty or thirty millimeters cannot be resisted. That's a tank thing. In this case, whether the armored personnel carrier can withstand anti-tank guns is very critical. Because anti-tank guns are not the same as artillery. No matter how small-caliber artillery is, it is also artillery, the shortest is half a person high, the height is conspicuous, the battlefield is inconvenient to move, and it takes at least three or four people to operate, which is relatively easy to detect and dodge.

But anti-tank guns are different. It can be said to be a tube, which is basically not exposed when lying down and shooting, and is not too hidden. And it is the same as the light machine gun, it can be operated by one or two people, and one person can operate it if necessary, and it is also very light, and one person can carry it and leave, and the transfer and deployment are very fast. Although it has a limited caliber and is relatively small in its threat to tanks, it is very threatening to such a thin-skinned stuffing thing as an armored personnel carrier.

……

This is a German-style Mauser anti-tank gun with a caliber of 7.92 mm. The caliber is as large as a regular rifle, but as an anti-tank gun, it has a longer barrel, a larger charge, and more importantly, its warhead is the famous "K-shaped bullet" with a tungsten carbide core.

Xiang Xiaoqiang turned his head to look at Zhang Shaoheng.

Old Man Zhang also stared intently at the cannon mirror, and his throat rolled. It seems that they haven't had time to do this kind of test yet, and he is also very nervous. When he was doing the rifle and machine gun test just now, Mr. Zhang was still calm.

But no wonder, this is an armored car, not a tank. Even if it is a tank, with the level of tank armor in this era, it is still quite dangerous to encounter anti-tank guns, let alone armored vehicles.

At the sound of a command, a shot from the anti-tank gun outside "dang", and a few sparks popped out of the front armor plate of the half-track in the distance.

Xiang Xiaoqiang's heart thumped nervously, turning the focus of the gunner, turning over and over the front of the armored car to find the gun's hole. But looking around, I only found that there was a deep scratch on the armor plate of the engine cover at the front of the car, which was more powerful than the scratches caused by other bullets around.

He was relieved. Inclined armor plates played a role. 7.92 mm tungsten carbide armor-piercing projectile - ricochet.

Outside, another high-pitched "shoot" command was heard. Immediately, the gunfire rang out again, and the front plate of the armored car in the gun mirror once again burst out of a spark. Xiang Xiaoqiang immediately looked at the cannon mirror-

Haha, ricochet birds again.

Shoot again. This third shot hit the machine-gun shield on the roof of the armored car. There weren't many sparks this time, and Xiang Xiaoqiang immediately found that there was an extra gun hole on the shield.

This time it was pierced. If the battle had been in the middle of the battle, the Heavy behind would have died.

"Well, it's penetrated," Zhang Shaoheng next to him spoke, his eyes still on the cannon mirror, and said in a calm voice as calmly as possible, "The machine gun shield is penetrated." ”

An expert from Tai Ping Ji immediately took it and said with a calm expression:

"Oh, that's normal. The shield is only 8 mm thick and has a small bevel. Well, it's normal. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang didn't pick up the stubble, and still observed with the gun mirror. This is certainly common sense for these people. At a distance of 200 meters and a near-vertical angle, the 7.92 mm tungsten core anti-tank gun will not be able to penetrate the 8 mm steel plate, so ...... Then Xiang Xiaoqiang had to customize a large number of this steel plate with Taiping Ji and install it on all the tanks of the Ming army and the steel fort on the Yangtze River defense line.

Wang Hexiang opened his mouth and said lightly:

"The shield can be angled to the sides. Don't be such a flat now. Such a close range may not be able to stop the anti-tank gun, but the long range will be better. ”

Zhang Shaoheng turned his face and said with a smile:

"Lord Wang is on point."

……

Seven more tungsten carbide bullets were fired. Five of them hit the hull armor, all of them ricocheted, and none of them went in. But the other two hit the machine gun shield, and both pierced.

Then two soldiers came up with an even thicker anti-tank gun. This is a 12.7 mm anti-tank gun produced by Daming. Xiang Xiaoqiang knows that large-caliber anti-tank guns, which are also the mainstream of anti-tank guns in the next few years.

10 more shots, 7 ricochets, 3 pierced the armor.

This result is still satisfactory. In the Battle of Nanjing, there was the problem that the front armor of the Ming Dynasty's Hurricane-33 armored personnel carrier could not resist the 12.7mm anti-tank guns of the Qing army. It can be seen that this time, the Hurricane-36 has made improvements to this problem. The armor was thickened by 3 mm and the angle of inclination of the armor plates was increased. As a result, the bulletproof effect is greatly enhanced.

And Xiang Xiaoqiang can see that the effect of increasing the tilt angle is much greater than the effect of the 3 mm thickening. The current Hurricane-36 front armor is 18 mm thick. 18 mm armor, which is not thin for an armored vehicle, but for a large-caliber anti-tank gun, it is still easy to penetrate this thickness. However, now that the bevel angle has been increased, the tungsten core bullet that could have been easily scored has been repeatedly bounced off.

Xiang Xiaoqiang came up with a satisfactory sentence, smiled and said to himself:

"Angle is armor."

"The angle is the armor," Zhang Shaoheng immediately took it, and nodded with a smile, "Incisive." Very incisive. Xiang, where is the source of this famous saying? I love it. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang felt comfortable in his heart, and said with a faint smile:

"Hehe, I smiled. What is this famous saying, it is purely a whim, casually summed up. ”

"Oh!" Zhang Shaoheng showed a little admiration in his eyes, stroked his palms and smiled, "Okay, Lord Xiang is worthy of being a famous general, and he can summarize such incisive words casually." Yes, that's exactly what happened. The angle is the armor, which we have just confirmed. ”

As he spoke, he turned to a Tai Ping Ji expert beside him and said:

"Aren't you writing a book on armor design? I suggest you put in the phrase 'angle is armor'. Believe it or not, this phrase will become a famous phrase in the history of military technology. ”

The expert also nodded yes.

Xiang Xiaoqiang felt very comfortable, but on the surface, he was still very careless, and said a few words lightly. He knew that Old Man Zhang was quietly patting himself on the back. But after all, they are big bosses and have a level, and this sycophant is not so explicit, and at least half of the people here can't hear it as sycophancy. And it worked.

For example, Qiu Qiu, she didn't hear that this was a sycophant, and now she was looking at herself with admiration, her face full of happiness and pride.