"It's so amazing! I seem to understand this thing since I was born...how it works, how it acts, and how it fights." Closing his eyes, recruit Ryan felt everything in his mind and said to himself excitedly
Words.
When he opened his eyes, he found that everything he was familiar with still existed, just existing in front of his eyes. He reached out and touched the cold iron plate that he was so familiar with, and gave the order: "Okay! Gentlemen
!Start the engine and let’s try to move forward!”
"Bang, bang..." The sound of metal friction sounded very noisy outside, but the people inside all wore communication headsets, so they didn't feel anything wrong.
On the contrary, they felt very excited, because the weapon they drove could be said to have completely changed the face of the Army.
That's right, they are driving a tank, a tank that looks very powerful. Inside the small tank body, there are five tank soldiers who have been studying for a long time. They are driving the first tank in human history, and are performing various tasks.
Various testing experiments.
"Turn! Turn right! Test the sensitivity of the tank! Slow down! Slow down!" Lane asked his driver to turn while observing the surrounding situation through the narrow periscope.
For him, this is not an easy task, because the field of vision in the tank is very narrow. He must endure this restriction of field of vision and try to understand everything happening around him.
Soon, his tank completed the turn under the gaze of many people. The tank was moving slightly clumsily. The 75mm short-barreled cannon equipped on it was basically the army version of the flat-fire cannon used by the navy.
It can fire grenades from the Army's 75mm caliber infantry gun, and it can also fire special armor-piercing projectiles. This armor-piercing projectile is actually a solid-head artillery shell, used to attack large targets.
"Gunner! Turn the turret! I need to aim at the target in our direction! This is a test project!" While turning, Commander Lane looked at the record sheet of the test project and gave instructions to his gunner.
The gunner stepped on the pedal of the rotating gun, and then the tank's turret started to rotate. The motor made a nice sound, and the entire turret rotated very fast. When the turret was rotated, the tank was still moving, so in the end the gun
I found that I couldn't find the target I was looking for at all.
"Damn it! Stop! I want to aim at the target!" the gunner shouted depressedly in the electronic communicator inside the vehicle. His shouts soon had an effect, and the tank stopped. After a while, the gunner
Changcai finally found the direction his cannon was pointing in and aimed at the target in the distance.
"Loader! Load armor-piercing shells!" Captain Lane loudly issued the combat order, and the loader beside him pulled out a shell from the shell storage rack and stuffed it into the gun barrel in front of him: "Loading completed
!”
"Boom!" The tank's gun barrel spurted out a ball of flame. A shell hit a fixed target about 400 meters away and it was not easy to miss. After all, the target was about the same size as a dragon.
The huge penetrating power directly penetrated the piled sandbags, and the target was directly penetrated by the artillery shell, showing the good penetrating performance of this artillery. After all, it is also an artillery improved from the Navy's 75mm flat-fire cannon, so it is naturally not as powerful.
Talk.
Through the periscope in front of him, Ryan carefully observed the hit target, and then said loudly: "Keep going! We have to go to the next test area! There are two test tanks waiting for us over there.
Woolen cloth!"
Chris searched for a long time for army weapons that met the industrial standards of Ireland Hill, and finally decided to directly launch the M4 Sherman, the tank with the best overall performance. To be honest, this tank is not excellent, but it is better than itself.
Mediocre to the core of mediocrity.
The first to be eliminated were the famous German tanks of World War II: the Tiger and Panther tanks were completely eliminated due to manufacturing complexity, and the slightly mediocre No. 3 and No. 4 tanks were also eliminated because of similar
The replacement was rejected.
At least in Chris' view, German tanks are basically not suitable for the current needs of Ireland Hill. On the one hand, they consume too much steel and production capacity, and on the other hand, they cause headaches due to issues such as reliability and fuel consumption.
Coupled with its staggering cost but seriously overflowing firepower, and its defensive capabilities that stand out from the crowd but have almost no opponents, there is nothing that satisfies Chris.
Therefore, among the Eiland Hill Army, which uses German weapons for rifles and machine guns, the armored force was the first to exclude German tanks. When deciding to abandon German tanks, Chris also remembered that
A famous conclusion: The tanks that soldiers want most are indeed the tanks that generals hate most...
After eliminating German tanks, what Chris wanted was the famous T-34 tank produced by the Soviet Union. This tank can even be produced by tractor factories, which can be said to be very suitable for Ireland's needs.
However, although this kind of tank performs very well in industrial production, its performance in other aspects seems a bit dumbfounding.
First of all, the most terrible thing is the poor ergonomics. The driving control of the T-34 tank is very average. It can be said to be the worst among similar tanks. In addition, this tank is too difficult for the driver and the tank crews inside.
It is too narrow and is not conducive to tank crews fighting for a long time.
After some trade-offs, Chris felt that the current tall vehicle body and slightly insufficient defense were not a fatal problem, and the production and maintenance of the M4 tank was also very simple, not much worse than the famous T-34.
As for firepower... Chris felt that being able to push the 75mm caliber artillery to the front line was already bullying the enemy. He originally wanted to directly use the 30mm caliber anti-aircraft self-propelled artillery as a tank.
However, considering the possibility of dealing with some difficult ground targets in the future, Chris decided to put this tank, which seemed to have advanced performance, into use as the army's main tank.
In fact, Chris really hesitated for a long time whether to choose T-34 or M4. He even held an unprecedented weapons selection meeting and solicited opinions from the Army and the production department before finally selecting the M4 as the target.
The key issue that allowed him to make the final decision was that because radio equipment is still at an unstable level at this stage, radio operators are still an essential tank crew configuration.
However, most of the Soviet T-34 tanks are not equipped with expensive radios, and there is no room for radio operators during the design. Therefore, the T-34 tanks have always had a four-man crew, one less electromechanical operator than the M4.
Although it is indeed tempting to save one man, considering the importance of tank coordination, Chris still firmly believes that tank units must be equipped with radios to facilitate dispatch and command.
Therefore, the T-34 tank, which was slightly inferior in communications, was ultimately rejected. The Army of Eiland Hill chose the M4 tank as their "Imperial Cavalry". Soon new tank factories were established in Volavo and Naru City.
was built, and the first batch of produced tanks entered the testing and army experimentation stage.
Because these are already famous and mature designs in history, the so-called Army test is just a formality. Watching the three tanks attacking in coordination in the test field, all the Army generals widened their eyes.
Since ancient times, how to solve the defense needs of soldiers has been a very important issue. Whether it is heavy infantry or heavy cavalry, they are all powerful arms born to allow soldiers to obtain defense as much as possible.
However, from ancient times to the present, mankind has never piled firepower, mobility, and defense on one weapon as it does today, and allowed these three attributes to be balanced and better utilized.
The emergence of tanks has satisfied all the fantasies of human beings, or the army, about war: making thick steel plates run faster than war horses, rushing into the enemy's array, and using powerful weapons to destroy all surrounding enemies!
"This is what I want!" Wagron pointed at the tanks on the battlefield and shouted loudly with a look of surprise. He didn't realize that his words made Chris dumbfounded, because in his memory, there had been
An acquaintance said the same thing as Waggron.
General Modell also had a strong interest in this new weapon. He felt that if such a weapon was arranged frontally to attack the opponent's defense line, then these steel cavalry could destroy any opponent with only one attack.
"From now on! Elland Hill's army is invincible!" Modell described what he saw and heard: "If you give me twenty tanks, I can lead my 4th Army to conquer Asia.
Lanticus, if you give me a hundred tanks like this, I can sweep across the entire Arant!"
General Kolya, who was sitting next to him, was even more optimistic than him. He looked at Modler, who was exclamating, and said with a smile: "Give me 50 vehicles, and I will dare to sweep across Alante!"
"Stop joking!" Wilkes, who was sitting there dumbfounded, waved a tank performance introduction in his hand in front of Modeler and Corea, and said: "Your army
The gasoline reserves of the Ministry are not enough to drive 50 of these things to Alanticus!"
Recently, the military in all directions are worried about one thing, that is, how to hoard more gasoline to cope with the increasing fuel consumption. Many troops have received corresponding car quotas. The powerful performance of the cars makes every commander
I was happy, but the fuel consumption that followed also made everyone collapse.
Nowadays, if you want to get a reorganized military-level unit into action, you need more than just food, fodder and ammunition...
