Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1479 Tank Production Line

Mao Xiong's action was very fast, and the T44 tank production line was set up in less than a month.

Wang Xuexin believes that there are two reasons for this speed:
One is that Taiyuan is located on the railway line, and Mao Xiong still has a guiding and assistance relationship with the stubborn army at this time, so he can borrow the stubborn army's railway line to transport the equipment to Taiyuan.

The more troublesome thing is that the railway track in Shanxi is narrow gauge and other places are wide gauge, so there is a need to unload and load the equipment to transfer the equipment to the narrow gauge train in Yuncheng.

It is said that this situation also existed when Hans attacked Maoxiong... Maoxiong's rail width is different from Hans's. Maoxiong uses 1524MM wide gauge, while Hans uses 1435MM standard gauge.

This caused a lot of trouble for Hans when attacking the bear: once the equipment and supplies were transported into the bear area, he had to change vehicles.

Therefore, Wang Xuexin does not plan to replace the rails. On the one hand, it is because there is not so much money, and on the other hand, it is inconvenient and sometimes beneficial to keep it during the war... For example, it will be difficult for the devils to attack Shanxi, and the same will be true for the recalcitrant army in the future.

The transportation aspect is still second. Mao Xiong, who has always been procrastinating, will move so fast this time. The more important reason is that Mao Xiong hopes to get the artillery detection radar as soon as possible... The war in the direction of Stalingrad has entered the final stage, and the artillery detection radar is likely to It's the last bit of weight that can influence who the balance is tilting. Mao Xiong can't be in a hurry.

Fortunately for Wang Xuexin, Mao Xiong's process for producing tank gun barrels is indeed "barrel tight barrel".

This news also made everyone in the institute cheer loudly.

Because as long as there is this process, it is almost certain to be able to produce a 100MM smoothbore gun.

So the Institute no longer hesitated, and immediately put the design and production of smoothbore guns and tail-stabilized sabot-piercing projectiles on the agenda.

But of course, with the data provided by Wang Xuexin, its production and finalization time will not be long, and its performance will not be bad.

At this time, Wang Xuexin had to consider the use of the 100MM smoothbore gun.

这倒不是说100滑本身有什么问题，虽然华夏的69式坦克在使用100滑时的确出现过问题……100滑由于性能还不如59的100线，就连穿甲弹也是如此，甚至还发生过把100滑重新改为100线的情况。

But this is not the fault of 100 slips, but the reason why China's production situation was generally not good at that time.

The research and development and finalization of the Type 69 tank was in the period of turmoil in China, and the quality problems of various parts were very serious.

For example, the infrared headlights broke after only being turned on a few times and no parts have been replaced.

Another example is that the data on paper is that the night vision distance is 800 to 1000 meters, but in fact it can only see 500 meters.

Another example is that the bi-stable effect is not ideal and the offset is very large. Sometimes using bi-stable is not as good as manual operation.

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There are even more problems with the artillery, and the fin-stabilized sabot-piercing projectile has high requirements on materials, and the poor quality will directly lead to its insufficient strength.

Needless to say, what is the result of this? A considerable part of the armor-piercing ability of the tail stabilized shell-piercing shell depends on the strength of its long rod. If the strength is not enough, it will either break or bend, and it will be impossible to achieve the desired armor-piercing effect. .

On the contrary, it is in the 59th, because its 100MM rifled gun and shells are relatively mature and mass-produced before, and its armor-piercing ability is in turn stronger than the 100MM smoothbore gun.

This is almost impossible in theory, but it's a different story if there are quality problems.

It is impossible for the Eighth Route Army to have quality problems in production at this time... The quality of production in a state of war is not a joke. If anyone dares to neglect their duties in this regard and cause serious consequences, they must be investigated and dealt with severely.

What Wang Xuexin was worried about was the accuracy of the smoothbore gun.

One advantage of using a rifled gun is that its accuracy will not change. Whether it is a grenade or an armor-piercing projectile, the projectile will rotate in the air and fly to the target through the rifling.

This requires less for the gunner, because he only needs to master or get used to one kind of ballistic shooting.

Smoothbore guns are different.

Its grenade is a conical projectile that is subject to high air resistance and cannot maintain a stable flight in the air.

Armor-piercing projectiles are long-rod arrow-shaped projectiles that can maintain a stable state in the air and have a much longer range due to small air resistance.

These are two very different shells, and the gunner cannot transfer the experience, habits and feelings of the grenade to the armor-piercing shell.

It may even be used to playing grenades, and when you suddenly switch to armor-piercing bullets, the feeling of grenades will be substituted into armor-piercing bullets.

This is deadly in tank combat.

First hits in tank combat are very important, as it likely means that enemy tanks have a chance to even fire, and their chances of surviving are much greater.

Conversely, if the gunner loses the opportunity because the difference between the grenade and the armor-piercing projectile is too large, he may have to sit and wait.

How can this be solved?

The first thing Wang Xuexin thought of was the training of gunners... As long as the gunners are trained to be able to switch between grenades and armor-piercing shells freely, and the two feelings can be easily replaced, there will be no problems in actual combat.

But this doesn't seem like a good way.

Because smoothbore gunners may have twice or more training time and training costs than rifled guns... Rifled guns theoretically only need to master one type of shell and one type of ballistic shooting, while smoothbore guns need to master two.

Among them is the armor-piercing projectile, which is made of tungsten alloy. Although Wang Xuexin does not know its cost at this time, it is not cheap.

How much does it cost to train a gunner with live ammunition?

another way...

Wang Xuexin thought, can the hit rate be improved by improving the advanced level of equipment?

This may be more reliable.

Because the research and development of equipment is only a matter of time, and it is better to develop early than later.

On the other hand, by improving the advanced level of equipment, gunners and tank soldiers can be moved towards technical soldiers, which can reduce live ammunition training accordingly, thus achieving the goal of reducing training expenses and shortening training time.

For example, tank gunners at this time mostly rely on experience to judge the distance of the target when shooting... It cannot be said to rely entirely on experience. Some gunners have scales in the observation window or periscope to measure the width and height of the target tank.

If you just measure the width and height of the target tank, of course you can't know the distance of the target.

But before the war, the military will give the gunner a complete set of enemy tank data.

For example, how much is the length, width and height of T34, and how much is T26.

Therefore, the gunner can calculate the distance of the target by combining the data on the scale with the actual data, and then aim based on this data.

In actual combat, many gunners have not gone through such a complicated set of steps. They just rely on their feelings, especially the bear gunners with a very high battle damage rate.

in case……

Can the tanks of the Eighth Route Army measure the accurate distance of the target?
Could it improve the gunner's shooting speed and accuracy?

(End of this chapter)