Chapter 342: Super Heavy Tanks and Stratofortresses

The chassis of the Emperor Poison Blade Super Heavy Tank?

Fu Qinghai was stunned when he heard the news.

Oh, and this kind of surprise?

Gladys next to him was also stunned.

Looking at the excited appearance of the oil guys, Gladys felt a trace of shame in his heart inexplicably - as the governor of the planet, he didn't even know that there was an STC buried in the nest city, which was really dereliction of duty. But then again, Gladys was not the world's first planetary governor in the world of Schwerin's nest, and none of the previous planetary governors had discovered this rare treasure.

It seems normal to think about it, in the old night era, after cutting off the connection with the earth, the technology of each human colony has declined very much, and the humans on the planet may have long been unable to figure out how these giant machines operate and how to maintain them.

Fu Qinghai didn't think about it that much.

He had already begun to calculate in his head:

"Schwerin itself has an STC...... Dismantling and transporting to the foundry world or starting production in-situ? ”

The Imperial Army's armored vehicle system is so large that it is possible that the GW authors themselves do not know how many different models of armored vehicles the Empire has. But just like all tanks in the real world, armored vehicles are nothing more than a chassis and turret thing.

There are a lot of armored vehicles in the Human Empire, but there are only so many general chassis to count, among which the general chassis belonging to the Star Marine armor system are:

Rand Raiders.

Rhino personnel carrier.

Sikaran battle tank.

Spartan assault tank.

The above four are the most commonly used chassis for Space Marine, as for the Predator tank Maintainer tank, there are various infantry fighting vehicles, siege tanks, assault tanks, anti-aircraft tanks, missile vehicles, command vehicles...... On the basis of the chassis of these four, they are manufactured by replacing the different functional turrets of the main gun and the secondary gun, which belongs to the platform family design.

The first three all fall into the category of "main battle tanks". Bigger than them are also "heavy tanks" such as the Kratos assault tank and the Spartan assault tank. As for the "Super Heavy Tank" with the largest armor and the most ferocious firepower in the Human Imperial Armor Vehicle, the Space Marines and the Imperial Guard share a chassis - the Emperor Poison Blade Super Heavy Tank.

Replace the Emperor's Poison Blade Super Heavy Tank's Poison Blade main gun with a twin Turbo Cannon, which is the Brutal Blade Super Heavy Tank, replace it with a Deflagration Mortar, which is the Flying Blade Super Heavy Tank, and replace it with a Twin Volcano Cannon, which is the Scimitar Super Heavy Tank Destroyer. In short, changing the main gun can be changed into a different vehicle.

In addition to the deflagration weapon that has been lost and turned into a relic technology, the twin-pack acceleration cannon can be made by Master Buck, and the Volcano Cannon is a weapon of the Titan, and Master Xiao Fei can also make it.

Space Marines have no way to fly the Emperor Poison Blade, as the Emperor Poison Blade is an armored vehicle of the Imperial Guard, and the crew space is relatively small. However, the Brutal Blade, Flying Blade, and Scimitar derived from the Emperor's Poison Blade can all be driven, and gaining chassis manufacturing technology is almost equivalent to acquiring a tank family.

The Iron Float has a super heavy tank!

Fu Qinghai was already contacting Master Kunto.

Ask him to send more technical priests.

"Let Josda send the first company over as well."

Fu Qinghai thought about it and ordered Qing Ming again.

"Yes, master."

Qing Ying began to contact the home planet of the warband.

Fu Qinghai walked around on the suspension bridge, lowered his head and thought for a while, then suddenly turned around and hugged Gladys, lifted her whole body with his hands under his armpits, kissed her heavily in the middle of the woman's head, and then put her back on the ground.

Gladys was stunned by the kiss.

"You're really my lucky star."

Fu Qinghai touched Gladys' head and praised.

Kneaded her delicate gray hair in a mess.

"Is that my credit too?"

Gladys asked, pointing to himself.

Suddenly, a crimson flushed across his face.

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The discovery of the STC caused an "earthquake" in Phaeton, and the Foundry World sent a large number of technical priests deep into the lower nest area, along with termite-class assault drills and giant mine excavators, which served as shield machines to assist in dismantling the nest city.

The transformation plan of the Chaodu World is in full swing, and there is no longer a need for Fu Qinghai to coordinate and dispatch, and the oil guys will try their best to dismantle the Chaocheng City intact, take out the STC, and then transport it back to the Casting World in batches, and finally rebuild the planet by the way.

Fu Qinghai took a brief inventory.

The Iron Float now has three classes of chassis: Main Battle Tank, Heavy Tank, and Super Heavy Tank. The technology of the RAND Marauder and Rhino personnel carrier is very extensive, and many casting worlds can produce it, and it is convenient to buy it directly or import the technology. The Spartan Assault Tank and the Kratos Assault Tank, two heavy tanks, as well as the Sikaran Battle Tank and one main battle tank, are unique to the Phaeton Forge world.

Super-heavy tanks are even more rare. Since the disintegration of the Legion into a warband, almost none of the Astarte Warbands are still equipped with this slow-moving but fierce land steel fortress, even in the vehicle sequence of the Nine Startup Warbands, which is almost the last afterglow of the Astarte Legion era, which is embarrassing.

There is actually a type of "light tank" in the Imperial Guard's armor sequence, which is smaller than the "main battle tank" and can penetrate its armor with heavy explosive shells. There is no "light tank" in the Space Marine armor sequence - the Space Marines themselves are "humanoid tanks" wearing power armor, and there is no need to ride in a light vehicle with thin skin and stuffing.

As long as the chassis technology is available, by changing the turrets, the Iron Float Wargroup will sooner or later be able to complete all the armored vehicle types of the Space Marines, and the "Astarte Legion Armored Torrent" that Aoyama Khan dreams of may be realized. Of course, everything will have to wait until the storm that envelops the sector completely dissipates and the Marquez King sector returns to its normal timeline.

(PS: The armored car in Warhammer 40K is sometimes called "so-and-so tank", so the "tank" in the name is not necessarily the kind of "tank" that everyone understands.) )

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Fu Qinghai returned to the world of Phaeton casting.

Come to the scorching and dry surface of Phaeton.

After so many years of development, the surface of the phaeton is almost completely covered by matte black photovoltaic panels, and if you look at it from space, the whole planet looks like a pitch-black metal sphere covered in scale armor, which has a strange beauty.

There was a huge flying machine lying on the surface.

With a length of 300 meters, a width of more than 50 meters, a flamboyant and hideous muzzle of various weapons, a straight and hard line unique to the Human Empire, a thick composite armor and a Skyhawk-type ramming angle, it is the new space helicarrier built by Master Buck.

Compared to the wide variety of armored vehicles in the Human Empire, the types of aviation vehicles in the Human Empire are pitifully small, and they can be counted in one slap. Among them, the only special fighters for the Space Marines are the Pinnacle-type Lightning-class fighters and the Jiantail-class interceptors. The Black Angel Warband still has two special fighters, but those are the unique technology of the First Legion. The rest are all sorts of gunboats.

Because the empire has too few types of aviation vehicles, and their performance is not outstanding, the armored vehicles of the Iron Floating Massacre can still be slowly supplemented by purchasing ready-made vehicles or introducing technology, but the aviation vehicles have to embark on the road of independent research and development.

Fortunately, Fu Qinghai is a reincarnation, he can get aviation technology from other reincarnation worlds, the so-called "independent research and development" is not fabricated out of thin air behind closed doors, there are actually many things that can be referred to and borrowed, and the S.H.I.E.L.D. aerospace carrier is one of them. Justin provided Fu Qinghai with a full set of design drawings and the core key material - anti-gravity metal and ium.

However, the Aerospace Helicarrier after the transformation of Master Buck's magic is not so much like the one of S.H.I.E.L.D., but more like the one of the Sky Hammer Bureau. S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Aerospace Helicarrier is a slight modification of the aircraft carrier that the Magnesium people are most proud of and moved to the sky, while the Aerospace Helicarrier of the Celestial Hammer Bureau was designed by Green Goblin Norman Osborne himself.

A group of Space Marines and Technopriests walk through the spacious passages of the Helicarrier to see the giant suborbital vehicle. In the past, the human empire had never had such a positioning weapon, which was larger than a gunboat, but smaller than a warship, more than the lower than the above, more like some kind of giant shuttle.

"Preliminary tests of the space carrier have been completed."

The Lord of the Hill-like Forge moved over and said.

"I've positioned it as an 'Intra-Atmosphere Permanent Floating Weapon Platform,' and the interior space can hold an entire company of Starmarines, or four Thunderhawk gunboats, or eight main battle tanks, or ten swordtail-class interceptors. The main and auxiliary turrets are all Titan weapons, and the long-range Militarial Volcano Cannon and the Furious Sun Plasma Incineration Cannon ......"

Master Buck gushed about his introduction.

It can be seen that he is very proud of this work.

Josda frowned and looked around, the Astarte Legion did not have this kind of weapon in the past, and the first company commander was a little unsure of its positioning, how to deploy this equipment - as for Master Buck's words, he just listened to it, after all, the "Master of the Forge Furnace" is not the "Dominating Sage", this title has nothing to do with war, and Master Buck may not know how to fight.

"The largest aircraft that can enter the atmosphere is mainly used to seize air supremacy in the atmosphere, which you can understand as a titan in the sky or a giant thunder eagle."

Fu Qinghai reminded next to Qiao Shida.

At this point in time, the Human Empire has not experienced a war with the Titanium Empire, so now these Space Marine officers are not aware of Manta's terrifying power and the huge air defense pressure that Manta has created on the Imperial Guard.

Manta's full name is "Manta Missile Destroyer", which is a weapon used by the Titanium Empire to match the general-level Titans and the Orc Ancient Giant Garbage, known as the "Titan Killer", and the three Manta can basically kill a Warlord-level Titan without injury. The Human Empire has always focused on the army, while the Titanium Empire has paid more attention to the Air Force, and the Titanium Empire can't create a super giant combat suit that can compete with the Titans, so they have found another way to control the land with the air and use Manta to fight the Titans.

It's just that the Aethers don't know that the Warlord-level Titan is not the largest Titan in the Human Empire, and there are also Warlord-level Titans and Emperor-level Titans above. To deal with this group of border aliens, the Human Empire and the Cult of the Mechanicus have never used all their strength.

"I see."

Qiao Shida nodded thoughtfully:

"It has no enemies in suborbital and in the atmosphere."

The Moon Wolf veteran quickly understood its purpose.

In the cockpit of an aerospace carrier.

Master Buck personally controls the launch of the liftoff.

Without the roar of the engines, the rotation of the turbofans, and the gushing of flames, the entire Helicarrier began to float off the ground so quietly and inexplicably.

Jostar stood by the porthole, watching the towers and vehicles on the ground grow smaller and smaller, the violent dry hot wind blowing through the hull of the ship and shaking slightly, but there was no tremor of the engines running under his feet.

"Anti-gravity metal necium."

Fu Qinghai uncovered the mystery for Qiao Shida:

"If you reduce the surface to a three-dimensional space, the helicarrier doesn't need engines to provide longitudinal lift, but only engines to provide lateral thrust — like my jet motorcycle. When activated, the anti-gravity metal will automatically fight against the planet's gravity, and theoretically, the Helicarrier can float in the sky forever and never need to land. ”

"Stratofortress."

Josda muttered to herself.

Fu Qinghai was slightly stunned when he heard this.

The nickname "Stratofortress" is used to describe the Boeing B-52 bomber, an ultra-long-range strategic bomber that has been in service since the Korean War and into modern times. However, no matter how long the B-52 has a range, it still needs to land or refuel in the air, and the space carrier is the air fortress that will never land in the real sense.

However, unlike other weapons and equipment that can be mass-produced, the amount of anti-gravity metal provided by S.H.I.E.L.D. is limited - they also collect this rare element from others, so the Helicarrier can only be manufactured at most ten at most, and it is impossible to have one Helicarrier per company.

"And the biggest weakness of the helicarrier is the anti-gravity metal in the core of the hull, once the enemy infiltrates the interior and destroys the normal operation of the anti-gravity metal, the entire space carrier will lose lift and fall rapidly, and the only emergency response plan for the crew on board is to find a safe place to glide and make a forced landing."

Master Buck reminded grimly:

"Then pray to the Emperor to bless you."

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(End of chapter)