The old factory director enthusiastically introduced: "Mr. Zhao Chunlei, although our factory has old equipment, it has an absolutely solid technical foundation. We have made a perfect copy of France's Charles 2C super-heavy tank."
“In response to some requirements from African customers, we asked the design institute in St. Petersburg to carry out upgraded designs.”
The old factory director didn't care whether these things were qualified for the battlefield conditions in the Horn of Africa. What he was interested in was Party A's father's requirements. They worked hard to implement the customer's requirements.
"You see, behind the turret and in the middle of the car body, we have arranged four steam power packs to achieve an output of 600 horsepower. In addition, we have also optimized the structure and reduced the weight from 74 tons to 50 tons.
In this way, the speed of the car is increased. The maximum speed reaches 32 kilometers per hour, and the off-road speed can be more than 25 kilometers. If it burns coal, it can travel 200 kilometers, if it burns wood, it can run 115 kilometers. If it burns gasoline or kerosene, it can run 300 kilometers.
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Andre, the old factory director, excitedly pointed to a device and said: "We have added a condenser here. The steam can be cooled and then re-entered into the boiler. In this way, it can be used for 500 kilometers with a full filling of water."
"Look at this design drawing. There is a main turret on the roof of the car at the front, and there are two reserved rotating bases at the back, which can install machine guns. There are also six shooting ports on each side of the car body. You can shoot on both sides.
shooting."
"This design is best for dealing with trenches." The old factory director introduced with a red face: "Park the tank sideways on the trench. Then you can use the shooting ports on both sides to shoot at the trenches on both sides with machine guns.
Enemy soldiers."
"By the way, there are bolts reserved on the side of the vehicle body so that additional armor can be added. However, this will increase the weight of the vehicle by ten tons and reduce the speed by half."
The second idiot looked at it for a while and asked: "Reducing the weight of the car will not reduce the protective performance, right?"
"You can rest assured that it will never happen. The design during the First World War was not scientific and a lot of dead weight was wasted. After we re-optimized the structure, reducing the weight by one-third will not affect the protection. Moreover,
, the armor steel plates used here are four times stronger than those of the past. This also reduces the weight."
Erluzi nodded, followed the old factory director, and climbed up the ladder with Nadya to the top of the tank body. In front of the top of the tank is a turret without a gun. Behind it are four chimneys arranged in a Narita shape. Erluzi knows that below is
Four steam power packs.
Further back, there are two rotating turret rings. This is a reserved position where two cannons can be installed.
Then they opened the top hatch and descended the iron ladder to the interior.
The body of the vehicle is very high, with an interior height of about 2.34 meters. Inside, except for the cab at the front and the power pack in the center, shooting ports can be used on all sides to shoot outwards.
During this period of time, Erlunzi was busy catching up on military knowledge. He read in a book that this kind of tank with multiple turrets and a huge body was called a land cruiser.
This thing is not reliable against tanks, but it is very reliable against infantry. There are shooting ports on all sides, which can install light machine guns. There is also a turret and two machine turrets on the body. They can all rotate in four directions and can face 360 degrees.
strafing.
Artillery can destroy hard targets, while cannon and machine guns can deal with soft targets and infantry.
Because the car body is more than ten meters long and three meters wide, the interior is thirty square meters. It is comparable to a small apartment studio in later generations. There is even a one-square-meter toilet designed inside. The steam engine power pack is okay
Use the waste heat to cook and provide boiling water.
The exhausted hot air is not discharged directly, but is connected to the heating radiator in the car.
This design especially makes Nadya, a top student who graduated from a top university like Frunze, unable to understand. Isn’t the funny Ali in the tropics? Why is he installing a waste heat heater on the tank?
The car body is also equipped with retractable bunk beds for officers and soldiers to sleep. These beds are steel plates similar in width and length to train sleepers. They are usually laid down and attached to the inner wall of the car, and can also be used as additional armor. Need to be used
At that time, it was hung on the ceiling beams with chains and steel grooves, which became the bed.
Although there are not many, when a car of people is dispatched, they alternate shifts. It is enough for rotation. One person goes out to work, and the other person who is off work gets in and sleeps. It is similar to the hot bunk in a submarine.
The reason why Yang Fan chose this vehicle was because of its high horsepower and heavy weight. The huge vehicle body could directly impact cavalry and infantry arrays. It could even knock down the broken city walls built by Jiannu.
Anyway, Jiannu's artillery can't penetrate this thing. Those lead balls are soft, so it's okay to hit a wooden shield armor. Hit this 45mm armor, and you can sleep in peace.
As long as you install a bulldozer shovel on the front of the car body and keep hitting it, sooner or later the city wall will collapse. The shovel will break the bricks and cause it to collapse. Then, continue to deal with the rammed earth, and it will be a matter of time before the city wall is dug out.
As for the moat, it is not difficult to push out an attack channel with a shovel like a bulldozer.
The Jiannu have no good way to deal with this kind of tank. Even if they plan to send dead soldiers holding gunpowder bags to explode, it will not work, because the machine guns and rifles with shooting holes on all sides will kill these dead soldiers. And the infantry who move with the heart will not work.
They will also shoot these dead soldiers.
Jiannu's light artillery couldn't hit these cars, and even the red cannons were useless.
There are no pointed alloy high-hardness armor-piercing bullets. Such thick armor cannot be penetrated.
The lead bullet is too soft and has no armor-piercing ability. The lead bullet of the matchlock gun needs to add a steel core to effectively deal with heavy armor, let alone tanks.
Besides, heavy heavy artillery is difficult to move. Isn’t it nonsense to deal with moving targets?
When the army is camping, these tanks can be used as fixed firepower points. Both the main gun and the machine gun can shoot at enemies besieging them from all sides. This is simply an artifact for marching and fighting.
The old factory director continued: "The St. Petersburg Design Institute is still designing a steam power pack with greater power and smaller volume. In the future, this car can be equipped with two 500-horsepower power packs. In this way, the speed can be increased by one
Big cut."
The second idiot asked: "Such a large vehicle can carry people inside. Can it carry infantry?"
"This is also possible. In addition to the occupants of the car itself, it is not a problem to bring ten people. There is an emergency escape exit at the bottom of the car body for use in the event of a rollover. After parking, they can get out from here, lie down under the car to get cover, and attack
Fire from all directions, wait for the right opportunity, then climb out and charge. When attacking, the infantry can also follow behind to prevent being hit by the enemy's firearms."
Erluzi listened to the introduction of the old factory director Andrei, checked and accepted each item according to the requirements, and signed the delivery order. Then, he organized people to transport these cars to Vladivostok.
These were the first batch of steam tanks put into active service in human history and thus appeared on the stage of the Ming Dynasty.
