After the armored brigade led by Major General Fang Jiaming won its first victory on the battlefield in the southern continent, the Daheng Empire Army and the defense industry department held an emergency meeting.
Once again, the priority of tank research and development and production has been increased.
The priority of research and development and production of this weapon has been raised to the highest level.
They believed that tanks could break the stalemate on the southern battlefield and allow the empire to achieve final victory, and this could not be overemphasized.
Soon, the second batch of small-scale trial production of more than 100 Type 21 tanks produced in the past month or two was organized into two armored cavalry regiments and sent to the front line. At the same time, some tanks were retained
It was used to train tank crews.
The Army, on the other hand, ordered two thousand 20-year-old tanks and their improved models at once.
The improvement mainly requires further improvement of protective capabilities.
In actual combat, the Type 21 tank is prone to concentrated attacks from enemy heavy machine guns and small and medium calibers due to its slow movement speed.
Don't count on anti-fire cannons, but you have to defend against heavy machine guns.
In actual combat, the 11mm heavy machine guns equipped by the Orissa Empire can still threaten this kind of tank, especially the side armor, which cannot withstand the fire of the 11mm heavy machine guns.
Therefore, it is required to further strengthen the protection of the modified tank to ensure that it can withstand the 11mm heavy machine gun fire.
In addition, the Army has also begun bidding for new tanks.
The Army proposed that it needs a tank with faster speed, greater firepower, longer range and better protection.
Several domestic manufacturers have begun to design non-stop, trying to come up with a heavy tank that meets the needs of the military.
Later, when the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment and the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and a group of supplementary battle-damaged tanks were once again put into the southern battlefield.
On the originally lifeless second line of defense battlefield, a new wave was set off. The Daheng Empire Army began to launch frequent offensives. In order to resist, especially against the tanks of the Daheng Empire, the Orissa Empire tried every means.
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For example, 75mm, 57mm and other level artillery can be directly pulled out, and then used for horizontal fire to attack tanks.
For example, deploy and use 11mm class heavy machine guns.
However, the Daheng tank soldiers also quickly learned to be smart. They added armor plates to the sides of the tanks directly on the front line. Even if the speed is slower and the maneuverability is poor, they will not be penetrated by such heavy machine guns.
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The Orissa people have already begun to urgently develop large-caliber rifles for attacking tanks, small-caliber flat-fire direct-aiming artillery and other anti-tank weapons.
Of course, research and imitation of tanks are also indispensable.
Other countries around the world have also gradually noticed the new weapon of the tank and tried to imitate it.
But for now, the Daheng Empire Army still maintains a very high degree of confidentiality on this weapon, and the Orissa Empire Army failed to capture the remains of the tank on the battlefield, so it can only rely on photography and naked eye observation.
to obtain limited cases.
It was based on this extremely limited information that they started research on imitation of tanks.
But it's not easy!
The emergence of tanks is based on mature internal combustion engines. Only internal combustion engines with small size and high horsepower can drive tanks and at the same time install armor and artillery and ensure a certain speed.
If you ask an internal combustion engine with insufficient performance to do these tasks, it will not be able to do it.
Otherwise, the Daheng Empire would have produced tanks long ago, and would not have waited until now to start mass production and equipment, and what they produced was just a slow guy with a speed of more than ten kilometers per hour.
The development of military equipment is based on technological progress, such as tanks, airships, and even aircraft.
Airships have appeared decades ago, but the early ones were all soft airships and lacked effective propulsion devices, so they had little practical value.
A rigid airship with real practical value. In the thirteenth year of Qian Sheng's reign, the Army of the Daheng Empire had officially installed a rigid airship and formed its first airship unit.
However, the early technology was not yet mature, especially the development of gasoline engines for propulsion, so the development of airships was also relatively slow.
It was not until the seventeenth year of Qian Sheng that the Daheng Empire gradually solved a series of technical problems and began to equip a new generation of airships. This type of airship adopts a rigid structure and is propelled by a small diesel engine.
But because it uses hydrogen, this thing is extremely dangerous.
The Daheng Empire also wants to use more suitable helium as the filling gas, but this thing was actually discovered only a few years ago. The production cost is currently very high, and it cannot be widely used as an airship.
These have restricted the Daheng Empire and even other countries from equipping and using airships on a large scale.
However, in this world war, airships still appeared in large numbers and were active on the battlefield. The army and navy of the Daheng Empire frequently used airships for aerial reconnaissance, and occasionally dropped bombs.
However, overall, the role of weapons like airships on the battlefield is still relatively small and cannot affect the overall situation.
Even the Kokel Empire, which has the largest number of airships in its fleet, has hundreds of rigid airships and uses these airships for aerial bombing, but it still cannot change the situation of the war.
The most important role that the emergence of airships brought to the world's military circles was the introduction and application of the concept of aerial reconnaissance.
At the same time, countries began to pay attention to air defense, and many countries began to modify heavy machine guns and small- and medium-caliber artillery to enable them to raise their elevation angles to attack the air.
The latest series of battleships of the Daheng Empire are basically equipped with 75mm naval guns and 11mm heavy machine guns designed for anti-aircraft warfare. Other countries also have them to a greater or lesser extent.
However, air defense is not a mainstream thing for the time being. Most countries, including the Daheng Empire, have not actually developed specialized air defense weapons. They only make small modifications to existing weapons and increase the elevation angle to make them more powerful. It can just be designed in the air.
The importance placed on airships within the Daheng Empire is average, which is also related to the military equipment in another secret research of the Daheng Empire.
That's a plane!
The Daheng Empire's aircraft research and development was actually carried out almost at the same time as tanks, because the technical difficulties of both were similar, and they both lay in the engine, to be precise, it was a gasoline engine.
When the Daheng Empire's gasoline engine technology achieved a key breakthrough, allowing the gasoline engine to be used as tank power, the power problem that had troubled the Daheng Empire's aircraft research and development department for many years was initially solved.
Although the gasoline engines used in aircraft are different from those used in tanks, the technologies are actually the same in the early days.
This means that the aircraft is about to enter practical flight!