Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 317 317 Armored Vehicles

It is almost a matter of course to add steel plates to cars, because the form of war has changed, and the frontline army urgently needs a powerful weapon that can accompany them to charge and cover themselves.

With the acceleration of the war, cavalry began to return to the order of troops on a large scale, because they are the easiest to obtain and can move at high speed in a short period of time.

It's just that modern cavalry is more similar to dragoons. They use rifles to dismount and fight, and only use traditional cavalry tactics when high-speed maneuvers are required or when the enemy's rout is needed.

However, this kind of cavalry has no technical improvement after all. People are simply in urgent need of a fast unit, so they can only find this kind of ancient unit to make up the number.

But Tang Mo has the ability to transform a car into an armored vehicle - he has all the technologies needed for an armored vehicle.

He can produce cars, and they are the best performing cars.He didn't have to worry about the lack of power in the Model T because he already had a better engine in his hands.

Even, like Britain in the era of World War I, he can directly use Rolls-Royce cars as armored vehicles, luxurious...and luxurious...

So a good car is the basis for converting it into an armored vehicle, Tang Mo has this basis, there is no doubt about it.

Meanwhile, Tang Mo has weapons suitable for armored vehicles!He has a Maxim heavy machine gun. This weapon is still being imitated by other forces so far, and there is not a lot of equipment.

Therefore, only Tang Mo, or in other words, only the Datang Group, had of course produced an armored vehicle of practical combat quality, and only Tang Mo could be equipped with such expensive weapons.

The cost of this weapon does not lie in its own cost, because in theory, the cost of a car, a pile of steel plates, and a machine gun is not too exaggerated.

It is just a combination, an immature semi-finished product, an emergency product that temporarily solves the problem.

The cost of an armored vehicle is reflected in the immature logistics around it.

First of all, this thing is not a tank, so its off-road capability is actually extremely limited, so most of the time, it can only rely on roads to maneuver.

This limitation directly affects the popularity and use of this weapon, because there are not many areas with good roads or even railway support these days.

Temporary construction of railways and roads in order to use this weapon is an expensive infrastructure in itself. Although these constructions also have other benefits, it is obviously not cheap to build infrastructure solely for the use of armored vehicles.

Secondly, armored vehicles have brought new challenges to the military's logistical support, especially fuel support.This thing is a gas tiger, at least for today's logistics system, it is a behemoth that devours logistics resources.

From the current point of view, the army's logistical supplies most of the time still rely on horse-drawn carriages. It is naturally very difficult to support the armored forces with such a backward system.

The production capacity of petroleum peripheral products, including gasoline and diesel, is also insufficient. The scale of the refinery has not yet been expanded, and gasoline itself is also an important material that is relatively scarce.

On weekdays, this kind of material needs to support the huge consumption of civilian vehicles. Only oil-producing forces or countries and regions that have been deployed in advance like Tang Mo currently have the capital to use gasoline-burning armored vehicles.

At the same time, training a large number of drivers for the troops, increasing the number of maintenance workers who can repair armored vehicles in the field, and ensuring the supply of ammunition for armored vehicles... These are all a lot of extra expenses.

Finally, the technology of this weapon is not so mature. Its wheels are a very obvious weakness. It is too easy to be paralyzed on the battlefield. Compared with tanks, a shallow trench is enough to become an insurmountable weapon. obstacle.

The four-wheel or wheel system has natural defects when facing ravines and mud, which can only be made up by crawlers.

But if the track is used now, the engine that has already carried extra weight will appear to be underpowered.

Increasing the power of the engine will increase fuel consumption, and the increased fuel consumption will further worsen the logistics that is already on the verge of collapse.

This in itself was a stupid act of adding water when there was too much noodles, and adding noodles when there was too much water. The end result was nothing more than Tang Mo relying on his own technology to produce a practical light tank ahead of time, but he couldn't use it due to logistical problems.

Another equally important point is that there is no shadow of the car radio at present, and Tang Mo has no plans to develop it, so there is also a problem with the communication and command of the armored vehicle, which also restricts the use of this weapon.

Therefore, Tang Mo is not stupid, he just followed the laws of history, and in this era of oil shortage, he first came up with a conceptual weapon to meet the needs of customers.

What's more, he came up with this thing purely to satisfy His Majesty Emperor Lyons I's expectations for his victory parade.

When it comes to Lions I's victory parade, let's start with his "merit".His Majesty King Wright VII, took less than two years to advance his territory to a place almost bordering the Nanla Empire.

From the perspective of land area, although Lions is still slightly inferior, it can be clearly seen that the two sides are already a physical existence.

What the Lions Empire needs to do is to digest and absorb its own occupied areas and stabilize its rule over the newly occupied areas. This process often takes several years, or even decades.

After controlling so many regions, Wright VII was determined to become emperor.He prepared for a long time in Lyons, to be precise, he built an avenue there, and then built a viewing stand beside the avenue.

As for other places in Lions, they have already been handed over to Datang Group for construction, so the future capital of Lions is now more like a huge construction site.

However, this does not affect the scale of the victory parade this time. According to the plan agreed in advance, Datang Group will send an armored battalion to participate in the parade.

This battalion will be equipped with 10 latest armored vehicles equipped with the latest engines of Rolls-Royce Motors. They will drive across the management platform to show their demeanor to all the guests watching the ceremony.

Then passing in front of the new emperor will be 100 cars carrying soldiers. The cars and drivers will be provided by the Datang Group. The soldiers sitting in the cars are the First Infantry Regiment of Beiling.

Then passing through the viewing platform are 100 trucks towing various artillery. These trucks will show people what the future mechanized troops will look like.

Of course, for an arms dealer, this kind of thing is like advertising himself, so Tang Mo will definitely not refuse such an opportunity.

(End of this chapter)