Chapter 510: Vickers MK.E Tank (2/2)

"This is the White Swan, call the Green Paint Zone Tower." After nearly a week of grinding, Li Moshui and her crew are finally about to embark on their trip to South Africa.

"This is the green paint tower, please speak." The real air traffic control personnel in the crowd are still in Dongwanlu, thousands of miles away, and the people in the tower don't know which rough embryos were caught to make up the numbers.

"The white swan asks to take off."

"You are allowed to take off on runway three."

The green-painted airfield has been built in good shape, with four runways for large aircraft to take off and land, a cordoned off area around the airport, patrols from the security forces, and specialists to drive birds.

Gone are the days of D-day when the embarrassment of having to expose the small half of the runway to the outside of the defense line due to lack of manpower, and there will be no more absurd scenes of Nogi Noshinori leading people to lurk and attack the airport during the Sino-Japanese War.

The Tu-160 lifted its nose and lifted off after taxiing for nearly a kilometer on the No. 3 runway, and in order to be able to take off and land smoothly on the broken runway in Dongwanlu, the "White Swan" could only reduce its weight as much as possible, and in addition to the full load of 22 tons of aviation fuel and several drop bays, it only carried the accessories that the "Mistral" class amphibious assault ship urgently needed to replace.

"Boss Zhao, take a look at this briefing, I'm afraid that Diana's carefully selected equipment is still missing something." Tian Buzi followed John and they flew to South Africa, and Lu Xiaobei was far away in the South China Sea, and Wang He could only take on the work of the military intelligence department.

"Wix? John Bull just skipped over the 'big tank'?! As an armored commander, Zhao Yi recognized the tank on the black-and-white photo in the briefing at a glance.

"Well, it should be a traitor among the Jews who cooperated with us, and the British have taken a lot of detours now." Wang He said.

"You're saying the British got the information on our tank cooperation project with the Jews?" Zhao Yi asked.

"Or else? In the history of the original time and space, the whiteskins entered the blowout period of military technology as the war situation became more and more fierce in World War I. Hao Dajian said.

The tanks and armoured vehicles that crossed the crowd had already made the Footpot Chicken and the Polar Bear suffer, even though both of them were notoriously weak in industry and could not have copied the war machines they had slaughtered for a long time; But after receiving the news, John Bull immediately became ready to move on the imitation tank.

However, the British did not have a good job of replicating it, and although they had a large number of eyewitnesses to provide information about tanks and armored vehicles, John Bull's engineers could not make their replica tin cans move faster.

British engineers have copied wheeled infantry fighting vehicles represented by the "Stryker" and tanks like the "Abrams" that move on tracks, but they are unable to speed up the bulky imitations with thick armor, whether on wheels or tracks.

Obviously, the kerosene-fueled engines provided by the Traversal in the previous aircraft projects with the British could not bring these iron guys who could go up to five or six tons at every turn.

After they got the internal combustion engine, the British began to fight the source of the knock-offs - the idea of the Great Song people, but unfortunately the Great Song people played checks and balances to be the same paranoid as them, and some technologies were only sold to specific forces.

Fortunately, in this day and age, as long as you can afford it, there is nothing that Jews dare not sell, and after a large amount of pounds spilled out, John Bull finally got a complete set of drawings for the cross-crossing and Jewish tank cooperation project.

"Take a look at this briefing and assess what the parameters of your 'Vickers' light tank can achieve." Zhao Yi handed the briefing from the Military Intelligence Department to Zhao Lang and Cheng Zhiyuan, the two bosses of the maintenance department.

"Yo, first of all, let me correct you, it is our copycat of the 'Vickers' of the later generations of British. Well, it seems that the British should have lost weight on their own 'Vickers', look at this photo, this steam crane will not be able to lift a small tank weighing seven tons like the one on our drawings! Zhao Lang said.

The crane that crosses their own harbor is the same model as the John Bull family in the photo, and that thing goes on strike from time to time, and the rough embryos of the maintenance department do not lack of "massages" for them.

"Therefore, the 'Vickers' armor produced by the British themselves will not exceed 13 mm at most, and considering the backward metal smelting technology of this era, our 12.7mm machine gun bullets should be able to penetrate its armor." Zhao Lang said.

"Ahem, unfortunately the guys who took off a few hours ago didn't carry any anti-materiel weapons." Hao Dajian interjected inappropriately.

"So, this cargo ship is bound for South Africa? Cut, can't you beat them, don't you know how to run? Not to mention that the four-cylinder, air-cooled gasoline engine we got for the Jews did not have the power of the original at all, and this trolley-style suspension system that copied the original 'Vickers' was enough for the Britons to drink a pot. Even if the power is enough, the tank can't run fast, and if the British dare to race the car to the speed of a person, the people in the car will vomit to death! Cheng Zhiyuan said.

In the history of the original space-time "Vickers" light tank, the British Army did not receive orders, and its unstable suspension system was a major reason.

"Considering that there is no qualified spring steel now, I am afraid that the tank that the British themselves made may step off at any time when it comes out of the paved road, anyway, we fooled Hans to toss us for so long and did not get qualified steel. I don't believe that the British used this design to have a defective suspension system, and in particular, it could not fly without qualified materials? Zhao Lang concluded.

"Uh-huh, use the radio to inform Shimoda Buz that if the Boers really break one or two, well, or catch a complete 'Vickers', don't forget to leave evidence. Turning around, the old lady sued them to death, and she dared to use our patents to build tanks! It's been a long time since I've been in an infringement case, so I'm really looking forward to it! As soon as Huang Xiaolei opened her mouth, she got up crookedly.

"Dear, you think too much, this Western car is handmade by small workshops, I estimate that this batch of 'Vickers' must have at least a dozen small workshops to tinker, even if you sue them all, you won't be able to make a few dollars." Hao Da built a basin of cold water.

The rough embryos are still optimistic about the fact that the British have already made up the "Vickers" tank, and it is only a matter of time before their own tanks are exposed to the world and be copied, and the rough embryos have long been psychologically prepared.

Second, as Hao Dajian said, the entire Western automobile industry is still stuck in the stage of small workshop production, and the steel torrent or something can no longer be pulled.

"Inform them that the British are sending this experimental tank to South Africa, and that it is imperative that they provoke the Boers to war as soon as possible before they arrive. We don't care if we kill or bury it, and in the end, if the Boers don't just get it, it's their own business. Zhao Yi said.

"There's also the fact that the Drawings Leak is going to be followed by the Military Intelligence Service and the Homeland Security Service, and for us, the leak of intelligence itself is a much greater threat than that three-legged cat tank." Zhao Yi said to Wang He.

Zhao Yi's words are not alarmist, the Jewish troops in Dong Wanlu have been increased to three battalions, and those fanatical Zionists are still asking the "Great Song Crown Prince" to expand their strength, even if these troops are like the Nanbang Army to Eagle Sauce, the Jews themselves have no command at all, they are still enthusiastic.

There is a thunder buried next to him who doesn't know if the controller is completely in his hand, and Zhao Yi is destined to lose a lot of hair.

The Jews had been exterminated for thousands of years, and their cohesion had been the same before the devastation of World War II. For most of them, there is simply no country of their own for them to express their loyalty, so it is not uncommon for someone to choose allegiance to money.

Even now, when the Zionists see the success of the Ranfang Republic, and are convinced that they will be able to do the same in the Promised Land in the near future, there is still no shortage of pessimists among the Jews. These people who feel that they have no motherland are what Zhao Yi is most afraid of.