Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 1790 1791 Different Ideas

"A list of suggestions for weapons modifications sent by the troops at the front line..." An officer of the Susas Empire collapsed in his chair tiredly and threw a pile of documents on his desk.

The coalition forces are also constantly improving their weapons and equipment. They also hope to develop more advanced weapons and equipment that can play a better role through repairs on the battlefield.

However, there are so many problematic aspects that many improvements are unrealistic wishes, which makes the engineers in the rear laugh and cry.

"I hope we can find something useful this time." Another officer sitting in the office grabbed a report, put on his glasses, took a look, and then threw it aside: "It's the same nonsense again."

"What's the content?" his colleague asked curiously.

"We asked to increase the thickness of the front armor of the tanks." The officer sneered and said with disdain: "If we could do it, wouldn't we have done it long ago?"

The coalition forces knew that their tanks were no match for the main guns of the Tang army's tanks. The thickness of their tank front armor was generally only 80 to 100 mm, equivalent to the protection level of homogeneous steel. With this level, the Tang army's Type 96 tank could penetrate it with one shot.

But the coalition forces really had no solution: they tried to temporarily add 10 to 20 mm thick armor to the tanks, but this was almost useless.

Whether it is the Tang army's anti-tank missiles, tank main guns, or individual rocket launchers, this little increase in thickness cannot solve the problem.

  But if the thickness is increased, the coalition tanks will only be able to move forward at a crawling speed. Unless they are equipped with more powerful engines, their tanks will move forward faster than the enemy's vehicles can move backward. How can they fight this war?

However, replacing the engine will increase the cost of the tank, including the time cost in the production process. This puts the coalition forces, which already have insufficient production capacity, into a vicious cycle. If they improve the quality of a single tank, they will not be able to maintain the number of tanks on the front line.

But who can guarantee that increasing the thickness of the armor and replacing it with a more advanced engine will definitely allow one's tank to regain the advantage in the confrontation? In fact, no one can guarantee it! This puts the improvement of the tank into a vicious circle.

This is also the reason why the coalition forces have not had any new and more powerful tanks until now: their technological level has forced them to go down the road of "super-heavy tanks", a road of no return that is useless in the confrontation with armored shells.

"I think this is very interesting." When the Susas officer saw the third report, his eyes lit up and he exclaimed excitedly.

"Hmm?" Several colleagues came over curiously and looked at the report together. Then they saw an interesting proposal, or a proposal with a very unique idea.

The report said: "Since there are so many useless things on the existing tanks, why not dismantle them all? In this way, can we provide more simplified tanks to the front line, so that we have enough tanks to use..."

There are many people who do addition, but few of these officers and soldiers on the front line can think of doing subtraction. This person's thinking is very interesting, and what he said seems to make sense.

For example, he mentioned in his report: Since the tanks are always at a disadvantage in the confrontation, and the tanks of the other side have almost no chance to fire back, then can the directional machine guns on the tanks be removed? They are completely useless, right? Removing the directional machine guns is like having one less hole in the front armor, which increases the strength and greatly simplifies the process. It is indeed a good suggestion.

Similarly, since the directional machine gun has been cancelled, can the number of shells in the tank, which can easily reach several hundred rounds, be reduced? Anyway, it is often not fully loaded now, so it is a waste to leave an empty rack of shells inside.

Therefore, some racks for storing shells can be removed, the internal space of the tank can be expanded, and some other equipment can be installed in this space.

For example, a simple device to prevent simultaneous explosions: a fire extinguisher or something else. This can increase the chances of survival of the crew members and avoid excessive casualties that affect the overall combat effectiveness of the troops.

If addition is not possible, then subtraction can be done. The report even mentioned that the tank hatch should be enlarged so that personnel can enter and exit faster, which will make it easier for crew members to escape.

In fact, this person even mentioned a more radical plan in the report: only retain armor protection on the top and front, and design the rear to be open. Anyway, the Tang army will not attack from the rear, and the lack of protection at the rear will not affect the front...

"What a talent... bring him to our department!" an officer exclaimed, "We need such talent!"

The coalition forces did produce some "tank destroyers" without roofs, but this kind of thing now has a serious problem, that is, the Tang army's "arrow cluster" attacks that explode in the air are too deadly.

The person who wrote the report obviously summarized the lessons learned in this regard. He retained the roof of the tank and armored vehicles and cancelled the rear defense... No matter how you look at it, this person has practical experience and is willing to use his brain. He is a talent worth cultivating.

"We need to pay more attention to this. This is the fifth time that the front-line troops have mentioned a similar problem." Another officer put the report in his hand on the table: "Anti-aircraft gun automation problem. All the personnel in an anti-aircraft gun position were killed because they turned too slowly and could not stop the enemy planes at all..."

"But didn't we discuss this before? Equipping the anti-aircraft guns with generators...then it would be better for the rear to directly produce self-propelled anti-aircraft guns." His colleague standing nearby shook his head and said.

"So this time they changed their words: it would be better not to provide them with self-propelled anti-aircraft guns." The reviewing officer pointed to the report helplessly and said, "They would rather not have useless weapons."

"Is this the opinion of the grassroots officers and soldiers in the front-line troops?" the colleague asked with some disdain.

The officer nodded. "Yes, that is indeed the opinion of the anti-aircraft artillery soldiers on the front line. If they are senior officers, they will definitely take whatever they can get and will not be picky."

The ideas of frontline soldiers and senior officers are completely different. The frontline soldiers hope to get the best weapons to face the enemy, while their superiors prefer to use what they have and would rather leave the organization empty than have weapons...