Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 701 701 New Tank
"Sir!" Shaking off the drizzle on the military uniform, Liu Guozhu stood at attention in the warehouse and saluted, greeting his superior.

"Do you know why you are here?" The other party handed Liu Guozhu a thick document, and then motioned him to keep up with his pace.

Under the illumination of a row of lights, Liu Guozhu followed behind his battalion commander and walked past the place where ammunition and spare parts were piled up.

"I don't know!" Liu Guozhu told the truth, he was still thinking why the armored unit he was in hadn't been transferred to the front line by General Redman to participate in the battle.

You know, it wasn't because the attack was blocked before, did you have a meeting?It is said that the enemy's defense line is very strong, and the frontline troops lack heavy fire support.

"I have been saying before that I will replace you with new types of weapons and equipment. Now it is finally down. First, I will give you the 1st Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Armored Division. Experiment to see if it works." The logistics in front of the battalion commander The officer of the troop turned around and said to all the car captains with a smile.

"Look! This is our 'Panther tank', an absolute super tank!" Walking in front of the new tank, the officer of the logistics force pointed to the tank parked there, and introduced it to all the commanders present.

This is a tank much larger than the No. 4 tank. It is equipped with a long-barreled 75mm caliber gun and has a longer body. It also uses the classic drive shaft design. The front is the gearbox and the rear is the engine.

The whole car body is very well-proportioned, adopting the inclined armor design with a large inclination angle, with inclination angles on all sides, and skirt armor is also installed on the side of the car body.

The front armor of the car body cancels the closable observation window, and adopts the front design of the car body of the later Leopard G tank, emphasizing the defense.

The most distinctive feature is that the tank also uses a special layout of double-row road wheels, and uses a wide track that is completely different from the No. 4 tank. There are only simple openings on the huge artillery shield.

That's right, Tang Mo directly took out the improved version of the classic Panther tank of World War II. This tank can provide almost all-round high-strength protection, and the power of the artillery is absolutely sufficient.

The improved action mechanism was not particularly fragile, and Tang Mo also used a diesel engine developed by himself, which reduced the unsafe spontaneous combustion risk of this tank gasoline engine.

Aside from a few hiccups in the production process, this is probably the best WWII era tank ever made - frontline soldiers loved it, it was well balanced and more reliable.

The main improvement is: this tank uses a classic 75mm caliber long-barreled tank gun, which can easily penetrate most of the known World War II tanks at a distance of more than 500 meters.

As long as it is equipped with this kind of artillery, Tang Mo's tank troops can change the caliber of their tank guns within a short period of time.

At the same time, a new type of armor-piercing projectile specially developed for this artillery was also produced. After the two are matched, the power will definitely be more exaggerated.

This series of improvements gave the Tang Kingdom's tank soldiers great tactical advantages. Their tanks were almost impossible to penetrate, but their tanks could destroy any opponent at a safe distance.

Of course, the improvement is not without, because a more powerful diesel engine is used, so the power of the Leopard tank is more powerful, and a better generator is also used.

With more electricity, you can install better lighting, better turret rotation motors, more powerful radios, and more powerful smoking equipment.

The shape of the main gun turret has also been re-improved. Although the main body shape has maintained the original design, the "storage compartments" used by the No. 4 tank have been added on both sides, which can be regarded as maintaining the usage habits of some soldiers.

On the one hand, these storage compartments increase the practicality, and on the other hand, they also increase the side defense performance of the tank turret.

The supplementary loading port for shells is still maintained at the rear, but some connecting structures are welded, and a sundry basket is hung outside to block the circular hatch.

After these improvements, the turret of the Tang Guo Leopard tank looks fatter, but its function is better than before.Because of the use of a more powerful motor, the rotation speed is also faster.

As for the widely criticized double-row road wheels, it is not really as angry as people say, at least it is very good in terms of performance indicators, giving tank crews a more stable combat platform, and correspondingly increased Defense near the wheel.

Anyway, the pressure is on the logistics troops and factory production units, and the tankers on the front line have no problem using it.

And Tang State itself is a powerful industrial country, so it is obviously no problem to put pressure on the tank production factories in the rear. Anyway, the production speed of Tang State's Leopard tanks is not slow.

In short, the appearance of the new tank is similar to that of the Leopard tank, but it is a more advanced and improved version in terms of performance. It is definitely the best main battle tank of World War II.

"Everyone can adapt to the brand new tank at the station these days, get familiar with its various performance indicators, and read more instruction manuals."

Tang's intelligence department naturally knew that all countries were manufacturing their own new tanks, so it was impossible for Tang's research and development department to stand still.

Most of the previous No. 4 tank chassis have been taken out and refitted into other armored support vehicles. The number of No. 4 tanks has never reached its peak in the armored forces of the Tang Kingdom.

Each armored division has only more than 200 tanks, but according to the establishment, each armored division should be equipped with more than 300 tanks.

The gap in the middle is intentionally reserved, and the reserved part is the location for the equipment of subsequent new tanks.

The Leopard tank is the "main battle tank" launched by Tang Mo. He needs a tank with balanced defensive mobile firepower to support his armored forces until more advanced tanks can be produced.

"Great, we can finally use short-barreled guns!" Among the armored soldiers of the Tang Kingdom, everyone has criticized short-barreled guns for a long time.

After all, short-barreled guns with low chamber pressure have low power, small warheads, and curved ballistics, so they are not suitable for use as tank guns.

This is also the fundamental reason why there were many tanks with larger caliber artillery installed on the car body in World War II, which were eventually eliminated.

Low-bore pressure guns rely more on curved shots in the process of aiming. This kind of boring trajectory increases the difficulty of aiming for tank crew members.

What's more, due to cost reasons, some tanks are not equipped with corresponding aiming equipment for curved-fire guns at all, which makes the accuracy of tank members very touching when using curved-fire guns.

It is completely different to equip only one long-barreled artillery. It is obviously a more suitable firepower solution, not to mention that the difficulty of aiming is significantly reduced, and there is no need to adjust according to habits.

As a very good tank commander, Liu Guozhu actually likes the Panther tank in front of him very much.Although he doesn't quite understand the significance of the double-row road wheels, he really likes the 75mm long-barreled tank gun installed on the tank in front of him.

He lowered his head, turned the information to the place where the main gun was described, and saw the experimental parameters of the main gun's power - it was written impressively that it could penetrate the No. 1000 tank at a distance of about 4 meters.

This is a bit scary. Liu Guozhu commanded the No. 4 tank before. He knows the frontal defense of the No. 4 tank, which is already the strongest defense among the known tanks.

However, the main gun of the new tank can penetrate the front armor of the No. 1000 tank at a distance of 4 meters, which can be described as against the sky.

This marks that the new tank can fire as long as it sees the enemy, and it can guarantee to destroy any enemy tank within the distance of finding the enemy!

"It's amazing." Looking down at the data, Liu Guozhu felt that his blood was about to boil.As a tank commander, isn't his dream that one day his tank can crush all enemies?
"The tank uses the latest scope produced by Chang'an Optical Instrument Factory, which is more accurate than the scope used by the No. 4 tank! It also comes with a small mechanical computer, which can easily calculate shooting parameters." I also looked at the relevant optical instruments. Introduced, Liu Guozhu felt that his tank was really very powerful.

What made him even more excited was that the brand-new tank was equipped with the roof machine gun used by the commander for the first time, making him less helpless when sticking his head out to direct the battle.

"There is also a power port. I don't know what it is for. It is said to be used for external equipment... I don't know what external equipment it is..." The other captain standing beside Liu Guozhu looked down at the side of the captain carefully. There is an extra interface, whispering in his mouth.

Of course, they didn't know that it was the reserved power port for night vision equipment. Datang Group was designing an infrared night vision system for the Leopard tank, so that the Leopard tank could gain combat capabilities at night or in low-visibility environments.

"Although I don't know why there is a slope in front of it, it really looks better than the No. 4 tank." Liu Guozhu looked at the tank with slashes everywhere, and said with emotion from the bottom of his heart.

"Yeah, it looks a lot more handsome." The driver standing beside him kept nodding, agreeing with Liu Guozhu's words.

The theory of inclined armor design is still in the exploratory stage. Except for Datang Group, tank designers in other countries are not aware of this aspect at all.

What they are still thinking about is: how to stuff a more powerful engine into the car body, and then install thicker armor on the car body.

"However, it's not easy to climb up." Liu Guozhu smiled, walked to the side of the camouflaged tank, stretched out his hand, and touched the cold steel.
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In the past, I always had to bring over German tanks, modify them, and use them again, especially the "poor" double-row road wheels.This time willful, don't change it, just use it like this.Ha ha ha ha!It is purely the author's personal preference, not to say that this choice really has any basis or advantage, please don't be serious.

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