Different combat doctrines have vastly different requirements for the shape, performance, and purpose of armored vehicles. Both the Imperial Army and the Navy's commandos gave Dussander the need to develop a "heavy firepower and high-protection motor vehicle", but they had huge differences in what such combat equipment should look like and what needs it should meet.

With an emphasis on firepower, the Army requires vehicles to have the ability to fire continuously for at least a quarter of an hour, and to survive the armor-piercing hammer and cannon attacks of the Allied Steam Knights.

The naval commandos, on the other hand, pay more attention to long-distance interspersed operations. They demanded that the vehicle be at least capable of blocking heavy machine gun attacks, that it could approach or exceed the speed of the usual steam wagon, and that it could travel at least 100 miles after a single cylinder change.

According to Dussand's understanding, the Imperial Navy commandos probably needed equipment such as large eight-wheeled or tracked armored personnel carriers. And the Imperial Army...... If their needs were realized, they would be exactly what Polina had designed them to be.

In other words, their needs are problematic.

The doctrine of operations of the Imperial Army was still based on large-scale positional warfare and the killing and wounding of the enemy's living forces. Break through barbed wire and trenches with the Steam Knights, use mobility to avoid enemy heavy artillery attacks, use armor to resist enemy light infantry fire, and kill as many enemies as possible before the reserves of high-pressure steam run out.

In contrast to the Navy, the Imperial Army does not care about the gains and losses of one city or another, and all they seek is to kill people - any method that can improve the army's killing of enemies is welcome.

On this basis, if you can also reduce your own damage, of course, it is better.

So, according to the "needs" of the Imperial Army, Polina designed a tank that she called a "positional cruiser". Then I started writing and got stuck in an endless loop.

Both the number of shells in reserve and the artillery itself weighed - and it was surprisingly heavy. A five-inch short-barreled gun weighs 2,000 pounds just by the barrel and firing mechanism, which is still the "dead weight" of a gunpowder fixed-loading artillery gun made of copper shells. If a gun is fired from a powder pack, the enlarged charge chamber adds at least six hundred pounds of extra weight to the gun.

Four five-inch guns, that's the weight of eight thousand pounds. Combined with the reserve of shells for ten minutes per gun, 120 rounds of 5-inch shells would have to add at least 1,500 pounds.

Polina also loaded the "cruiser" with four heavy machine guns in the front and rear, plus bullets...... That's about a thousand pounds again.

Four heavy machine guns, four guns, plus the driver and commander, which required a tank crew of at least 16 people. In order to dig up space that could accommodate at least sixteen people, Polina had to increase the length of the body from the initial projection of 5 yols to 10 yores.

The doubling of the length directly increased the weight of the armor plates. This caused the total weight of the armor to soar to a staggering 150,000 pounds.

Combined with the weight of the gun and crew, the total weight of this "cruiser" without the installation of a power system already exceeds 80 tons.

Dussand's failure to stop Polina directly is because of this - even a V12-engine version of the gas internal combustion engine could not have powered this behemoth with a total weight of nearly 100 tons.

If you want to drive it, you have to replace the power system with a coal-fired boiler, boiler and chimney, plus reserves of water and coal and at least three extra stokers, and in the end this monster will not be able to weigh 200 tons.

Truth be told, if such a thing could be designed and made, Polina's name would be remembered and praised by the Empire's "multi-riveting" cult for at least two hundred years - if such a strange religion existed in the Empire.

But fighting a war is not a dinner party, and it is not a job that a good gentleman can do. Polina herself knew that there must be something wrong with her design. But lacking sufficient military background and experience, she really didn't know what her problems were.

Fortunately, Dussaint is well aware.

"You know, Party A is a bunch of bastards." In his office, Dussander waved his hands and instilled in Polina the idea that "they don't know what they need, and they don't know what they want." But they just know that your design is unacceptable to them. Every time you come up with a design, they tell you that it's not enough and that's wrong, and then force you to keep revising it. ”

Although he had never really been a party B in his previous life, Dussaint had heard complaints from his senior, who was working as a publicity staff member at a pharmaceutical company. As a result, the advertising plan he proposed was rejected by his superiors for 37 consecutive versions within a month, and the leader's relatives handed in a plan that was almost exactly the same as the first version of the senior's design plan, and the result was passed instantly.

The senior, who drank beer and vomited himself at school, imparted his life experience to Dussand.

"Party A is a bastard, and you can never get used to them!"

"He doesn't know what he needs, so we tell them with the actual product, this is the product that can really be used!" Dusson waved his hand violently, looking like he was scolding Fang Xuan, "Everything Party A is a fool, and the need of a fool is to fart!" ”

The word "stupid" was directly used by Dusand in Chinese, and although Polina did not understand it, she could guess that it was not a good word. She asked with some concern, "What if the army doesn't accept your design?" ”

How else can there be an army in this world that refuses five pairs of load wheels? Dusson snorted disdainfully, "If they are really so blind, then sell them to the Navy Commando!" ”

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The car factory makes tanks, which is honestly a bit unreliable.

But Dussander had no good idea, and the peasants of the empire either ploughed their own land or used cattle and horses as a source of power for cultivating their land. Gentlemen who have the funds and enough land for mechanized planting don't want tractors at all. Their land was used by prisoners of war and poor people to grow cash crops.

The "professional counterpart" unit of the tractor plant, which manufactured tanks, did not exist throughout the empire. Dussaint could only let his depot go up first, at least after getting the army's order.

Prototype trucks, armored vehicles, and officer cars all need someone to drive them off the production line. And this job was handed over by Dussander to the armed security guards of the Rosen company.

The factory in Dussander currently employs more than 8,000 workers, most of whom come from small artisanal factories in the industrial area. One of the main sources of spare parts is the Dusant Factory, which produces screws, suspension plates, chassis components and most of the metal parts for the Belford Auto Factory.

The gearbox is an off-the-shelf product ordered directly from Bellsmith, a company known for its precision manufacturing that has rebuilt a production line specifically for orders from the Belford Automatic Automobile Manufacturing Plant and re-optimized the gearbox design. The optimised gearbox is highly resistant to vibrations and stability, while maintaining it takes much longer than previous gearboxes used on steam lathes.

As a factory employing 8,000 people, the Belford Automatic Automotive Plant is much more difficult to manage than even Finnshire. Although employees are satisfied with their pay levels, they are prone to conflicts and conflicts. Rosen had long anticipated that such a situation might happen, so he assembled an armed security team of more than 400 people for the Belford automatic car factory.

To make it easier for employees to work and live, the factory, which is 37 miles from the city of Upper Albin, has not only a dormitory and a canteen, but also a post office, restaurants, hairdressers, pharmacies and hospitals. With the passage of the Education Act by Parliament, a school has also been built here.

Armed security guards are usually just patrolling the factory area, which is really a bit of overkill. So Dussaint began to systematically train these security guards. The first driving school in the empire was born inside the Belford Auto. Along with it, the first part-time drivers in the empire were born.

Usually he is a security guard, and he is also a driver when he works. And Dussaint obviously doesn't intend to just "let go" of these good lads who have the ability to drive.

"The tanks that have been made, we will let the security guards drive them for a while." In the office, Dussaint conveyed his decision to Rosen, who had just arrived at the factory, "not only to experiment with the performance of the tank itself, but also to make a tactical model." ”

There is no absolute difference between a hammer and a screwdriver, and no one is stupid enough to say, "This hammer is not as good as a Phillips screwdriver." ”

But the tank is a completely new weapon, and it is definitely a "novelty" in the Empire. People don't know enough about it to know what this expensive iron shell can do.

Then the group of mud-legged men of the army will definitely compare tanks and steam knights with each other. In comparison, the Steam Knight is actually all-round.

The Toussaint-designed tank was expected to have a crew of five and travel at speeds of about 15 miles per hour. Compared to the Steam Knight, which can be operated by only one person, it travels slower and takes longer to get its fire from aiming to projection.

And it was not flexible enough to rush directly into the trench to slaughter enemy troops.

But Dussander deeply understands that comparing a steam rider with a tank is tantamount to comparing a Phillips screwdriver with a hammer. Tanks are not used that way.

Tanks were to be used in large numbers and intensively to break through enemy lines and open offensive paths for infantry in the rear. Then use your maneuver to go straight through enemy positions to attack and destroy enemy logistics bases and steam knight resting points.

After destroying the enemy's logistics, the tanks were able to drive back to their bases, running over the heads of the allies one more time.

In order for the Imperial Army to realize the great strategic and tactical value of tanks, it was first necessary to develop a decent set of tactics. Then let those buns see that there are not only screws in the world, but also something called nails.

To hammer nails into wood, of course a hammer is better.

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