The Allies were very happy this time, and they directly paid a deposit of one million US dollars, so now the Eighth Route Army is really rich, as more weapons and equipment are sold, including the sale of technical drawings, it really makes Lao Jiang want to come over and loot a little money, but this obviously doesn't work, the Eighth Route Army will not agree, and the United States and the Soviet Union do not agree.

So in this case, in April, Duan Yunpeng began to design a new main battle tank again, this time he wants to engage in a heavy main battle tank, after all, although the current clouded leopard medium tank has good performance, but with the little devil and Germany have also launched similar tanks, so its advantage is not too big, so now it is urgent to make a more advanced heavy tank, whether it is firepower or protection to reach a new high tank.

This time, Duan Yunpeng's design was very wonderful, and when Li Yunlong came to the arsenal that day, he was very excited when he saw the heavy main battle tank designed by Duan Yunpeng.

Duan Yunpeng said with a smile: "Regiment Commander, I have thought of the name of our heavy tank, it is called Yunlong Heavy Tank, what do you think?" ”

This is named after Li Yunlong, of course this Li Yunlong was happy, he said happily: "Great, such a heavy tank is worthy of my name!" ”

Li Yunlong humbly followed Duan Yunpeng to learn the design of this tank.

Yunlong heavy tank, the biggest highlight is that it uses a 62 times the caliber of a 1005 mm long barrel high-pressure rifled tank gun, the middle of the barrel is back, the design of the barrel smoke device, the accuracy of this gun is higher than the 88 mm gun, the use of ordinary armor-piercing shells, there is a depth of 150 mm at 2 kilometers, and a depth of 250 mm within 1,000 meters, so this power is more than easy to use against the German Tiger tank.

It is important to know that the armor in front of the hull of the Tiger tank is 1002 mm thick, and the gun shield armor in front of the turret is 150 mm thick, which can withstand most shells at normal engagement distances, especially those from the front, but it cannot block the shells of the Yunlong heavy tank.

In addition to firing armor-piercing shells, the Yunlong Heavy Tank can also fire powerful anti-explosive grenades, which is equivalent to those 1005mm howitzers, and of course, on the Yunlong Heavy Tank, it is also equipped with a 14.5mm Gatling machine gun for air defense, and a 7.7mm side-by-side machine gun.

The armor of the Yunlong heavy tank is also very advanced, it uses a welded turret, which is definitely an epoch-making design in the era of World War II, and it uses composite armor, which is much stronger than homogeneous steel armor.

Its turret armor could withstand the attack of eighty-eight-mm armor-piercing shells, and the side armor could withstand the blows of thirty-seven-mm shells.

Of course, in this way its full combat weight also came to forty tons.

So its engine is also more powerful, with a maximum output of 400 kilowatts, and it has a maximum highway speed of 50 kilometers per hour.

This is definitely the top in World War II, you must know that the Tiger tank, only 38 kilometers per hour, this is because its engine power is insufficient, after all, the 56-ton body, the use of Maybach 700 horsepower gasoline engine, this engine fuel consumption is very high, this is Germany has no choice.

The Yunlong heavy tank is different, it is a diesel engine, with high torque and fuel economy, so the maximum road travel reaches 500 kilometers.

Li Yunlong said excitedly: "Xiao Duan, your design is really amazing, if our Eighth Route Army has such an advanced heavy tank, no matter what kind of little devil's tank it is, it is a one, let's blow it up!" ”

Duan Yunpeng said with a smile: "Yes, but we can't equip too much, after all, this tank is very expensive, dozens of tons of steel, not to mention the manufacturing cost, the cost of iron alone is scary." So it's great that we can equip a hundred in the future!

Of course, a hundred Yunlong heavy tanks are not much, but they should be enough on the battlefield in China, after all, there are not many tanks of the little devils, and the quality is not as good as the two types of tanks of the Eighth Route Army.

Coupled with the fact that there are still 200 clouded leopard medium tanks and a considerable number of tank destroyers, the armored strength of the Eighth Route Army is actually very good.

It's just that this is far from being comparable with the Allies, after all, the Allies are in the European theater, and the armored combat is invested in thousands of tanks, and this is only one battle, if it is counted as a whole, it is a tank battle of tens of thousands of vehicles.

Li Yunlong said excitedly: "Great, when the time comes, our new regiment must be the first to be equipped for trial, and when the time comes, I will personally drive the Yunlong tank and blow up the little devil's tank." “

Duan Yunpeng said with a smile: "Okay, I think this is the best, it will definitely be able to make the Yunlong tank famous, and when the time comes, we will sell it to the allies, and we will definitely make a lot of money." Not to mention, let's buy five thousand for the Allies, and it would be considerable to earn a few thousand dollars each! ”

Li Yunlong said with a smile: "Yes, our Yunlong tank, not to mention the strongest in the world, but it must also be able to rank among the top few, right, world-class level, so I believe that the allies will definitely be interested." ”

Duan Yunpeng said with a smile: "That's right, our main competitor is the Soviet T34 tank, although they are larger, but our Yunlong main battle tank has a larger caliber tank gun, far surpassing the Soviet Union's eighty-five-millimeter tank gun, I think it will definitely be more popular with the allies!" ”

You must know that the T34 main battle tank produced 80,000 units during World War II, so it is trivial to say that the Eighth Route Army sold 5,000 Yunlong tanks.

Because the main gun of the Yunlong heavy tank is stronger than the main gun of the T54 main battle tank in the early fifties, after all, it is a 100-mm main gun, and now Duan Yunpeng has designed a 100-5 mm tank gun.

Even the King Tiger heavy tank developed by Germany later was equipped with an 88-millimeter 71-caliber tank gun, which could not be compared.

Although the German 88-mm tank gun is very powerful and can penetrate the frontal armor of almost all tanks in World War II, it can penetrate 132 mm of armor at 2,000 meters, but the 105-mm gun of the Yunlong tank is 150 mm, which is 80 mm more than the King Tiger at 1,000 meters.

Now the Clouded Leopard medium tank is selling very well, and the Allies have said that it is good, and now there is an additional order for 1,000 Clouded Leopard tanks, and this main battle tank is still being imitated, after all, its 88 mm gun is even better.

Li Yunlong and Duan Yunpeng have a very good plan, and all work is advancing, of course, Duan Yunpeng has more plans in the future, which is in terms of aviation weapons, and with the shipyard, it will become possible to build warships in the future.