PS: Just came back from the hospital and haven't had time to eat yet. Wait a while, you guys, around 10 o'clock to serve the next one, tomorrow morning to send the first and second pictures of the first machine, thank you!

Li Lin didn't bother to complain about the naming method of the two-dimensional work that was easily reminiscent of various social diseases and mental illnesses, looking at the armored monsters that his subordinates had made out with their youth and sweat, the colonel was thinking, is it the wrong way to click on it or the wrong natural skills? How can the heads of this group of guys grow to distort the orders he gave into harmony? And it's not that kind of overall style, and they actually came up with a super weird mash-and-match magic style?!

On the maintenance ditch to the left of the group was the first machine in the mouth of Lieutenant Colonel Polsher, which used the Christie suspension chassis with a large diameter single row of load wheels. Damping absorbers are installed on the inside of each load wheel and connected to the car body, in order to increase the ground contact area and reduce the pressure, the track is also relatively wide. Vehicle armor designed for increased protection with a 32° inclined armor...... The whole one is a magic change T-34.

This is understandable, and it is possible to make a relatively successful tank chassis. Whether it is a copycat or not, it deserves to be commended, but the upper part of the car body is ......

Turret...... There's no such thing at all. This group of simple-minded guys directly fixed the 56 times diameter 88mm anti-aircraft gun company shield and cross-shaped gun mount on the chassis, and in order to defend against infantry approaching attacks, they also set up mortar and general-purpose machine gun launchers at the rear of the hull and on the left and right.

If the tank destroyer-like first machine is not enough to make the audience feel weird enough, the second machine will definitely meet the needs of weird aesthetics.

On a vertically armoured, double-row staggered load-bearing wheel, a square more than a man tall towers. The short-barreled 155mm howitzer is staring at the front, as for the ...... Sorry, it's a half-open fighting compartment, it looks a bit like a turret, and from the front, the guy who thought it would spin was fooled.

"To make up for the lack of being able to spin. Holes were carved into both sides of the fighting compartment to house vehicle-mounted machine guns, and any enemy infantry unit that tried to get close was beaten into a sieve. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Polsher was immersed in a trance of satisfaction and pride, and talked endlessly about their achievements to the big leaders, until Li Lin raised his hand to signal, and then he stopped unsatisfied.

"What I want to know is -- these two ...... How exactly are you going to use it on the battlefield?"

Tanks, assault guns, self-propelled guns, tank destroyers, self-propelled anti-aircraft guns?

What kind of position does the General Armament Department have for what they have come up with? Or to make these ...... What role do armored weapons play on the battlefield?

"The first machine is scheduled to be used as a positional breakthrough combat vehicle. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Polsher reopened the conversation:

"Due to the installation of anti-aircraft guns with a caliber of 88mm. The muzzle velocity of the shells is quite high, and it is no problem to fire flat fire at stationary targets such as city walls 2,500 meters away. If the target is changed to the orc Behemoth, the 88 cannon is also sure to penetrate 2000 meters away. The only problem at the moment is that the progress of the power and transmission parts has not kept up with the progress of the tests of the hull and main gun, and the engine and electric transmission have not yet been installed on the first machine. Theoretically. This big guy can run at a top speed of 42 kilometers per hour. ”

Sounds ...... It seems to be fast, but it seems that something is missing.

"How's the armor protection?"

"Isn't 10mm artillery shield enough? At 42 kilometers, there is nothing to aim and attack, right? Even if there is, 88 guns are enough to crush them before they reach the distance where they can destroy the tank. ”

Really...... The idea is to make the most of the long tubes, high muzzle velocity, and lively bombardment of the opponent's defence. After tearing the gap, it will launch a rapid maneuver to intersperse and divide the target to annihilate it. In order to ensure heavy firepower and high mobility, armor protection was sacrificed.

This kind of idea of an AMX-30-like naked trolley carrying a cannon is not completely unreasonable, and in Wilt, which has no anti-tank firepower, as long as air supremacy can be ensured, it is indeed possible to launch a surprise attack of armored clusters in the plains.

But Lieutenant Colonel Polsher's next speech made people deeply realize how suffocating the thinking of the elves can be when they drill the horns of the bull.

"To fit this cannon. ”

The lieutenant colonel didn't feel anything wrong with saying that.

"We deliberately designed a large chassis with an open structure to reduce weight. This ensures rapid maneuverability, and at the same time, the gun can also perform anti-aircraft missions and strike at air targets. ”

"It's the same with the second plane, in order to provide rapid fire support to infantry and vehicles in the assault. The 155mm short-barreled howitzer was chosen, the chassis was enlarged, and in order to avoid overweight, the rotating turret was canceled. Switch to a semi-enclosed fighting compartment. At the same time, in order to reduce the pressure on the ground, the staggered layout of the load-bearing wheel structure and the ultra-wide track were selected. Is that so?"

He glanced at him and nodded. The technical officers with full face recognition and admiration, Li Lin almost grabbed a bunch of design drawings and these two monsters, and slapped them all on the faces of the group of dead brains.

He thought that the elves might fall into some mistakes when designing the tank, but he never expected that this group of rookies with eggshells still stuck to their butts would actually fall headlong into the technological pit that the Germans had fallen into in history.

The basic principle of vehicle design is to develop a chassis with excellent performance, and then add a variety of artillery pieces to it according to the performance of this chassis, which belongs to a bottom-up development model. This can greatly facilitate large-scale production and maintenance work. Both the American and Soviet routes of tank development were of this model.

The current elves and the historical Germans don't do this, they first look for a gun with terrifying enough performance from the warehouse or drawing board, and then plan a chassis according to the requirements of this artillery, as the caliber of the tank gun becomes larger and longer, in order to bear the recoil of the artillery when firing, the chassis design can only continue to develop towards heavier. This is the reason why all kinds of overweight monsters appeared at the end of German tanks in history.

The elves had similar ideas, but they only needed a heavier chassis and high mobility, and the trial machine in front of Li Lin fully demonstrated this deformed thinking -- the T-34 chassis was equipped with 88 guns, which looked like the first machine of the Weasel tank destroyer, and the imitation KV-2 fighting compartment was grafted on the Tiger chassis, and the purpose was similar to the second machine of the Wasp's self-propelled gun.

If they continue to toss like this, sooner or later there will be a mess, no, in fact, there will already be a mess.