With the improvement of the armor-piercing ability of the tank gun, the tank's protection has been in a useless state for a long time.
Homogenized armored steel alone is far from meeting the needs. Take the 59 tank for example. Its front has 200 mm protection, which is already the thickest place. On the battlefield, the 90 mm tank
The cannon can penetrate it, and the weight increase brought by continued increase in protection is almost an unsolvable problem. Therefore, for a long time, the tanks have been almost in a naked state.
Not only the 59 tank, but almost all the tanks in the generation after World War II were facing the same situation. It is impossible to provide effective protection for tanks by relying solely on homogeneous steel armor. Therefore, tank designers will
His eyes were focused on composite armor, and he increased his protection under the same weight by using other non-metallic materials.
Among them, the Soviet Union was most concerned about the research and development of composite materials. The research institute under the Soviet Defense Science and Technology Commission established two "Project 432" turrets using "steel-aluminum alloy-steel" bimetal composite interlayer for target shooting tests, and gradually developed
The cast aluminum alloy sandwich is very simple to make. After financializing the aluminum alloy, it is poured into the cavity on the front of the precast armored steel turret. The aluminum alloy is of course used to reduce weight. At the same time, it is used to deal with armor-breaking.
The effect is good when bombing, but unfortunately, it is useless to deal with armor-piercing bombs.
At the same time, this was also the first attempt by the Soviets. When manufacturing casting turrets, they reserved interlayers inside and then cast other devices to form armor-compliant.
At the same time, the Soviets also conducted research on the car body armor. At that time, they were also simple and crude, and took out the titanium alloy directly. On the medium-sized tank of the 432 engineering experiment, "titanium alloy-glass fiber-titanium alloy" was installed.
After testing, the armor was effective and had not increased in weight, but it could withstand the attack of armor-piercing shells of the 115mm tank gun of the Soviets at that time. However, its disadvantage was also very obvious, that is, its price was high!
Alloys are expensive enough to be used on aircraft, not to mention tanks. At the same time, welding and other technologies are also difficult, so they have not been put into production.
At the same time, other scientific research institutions are also developing, such as the Yorfey Institute of Physics and the Moscow Institute of Physics in Leningrad, which are also studying. Their research ideas are also very simple, just looking for them when Edison invented the electric lights.
Various materials are like filaments. They look for various materials to experiment with, and plan to study the mixing of armored steel and non-metallic materials as armor, striving to achieve the protection of armored steel with an equivalent weight.
Likewise, it is cast in front of the tank's turret, while fiberglass is used as a multi-layer armored mezzanine on the vehicle body.
The T-64 tanks built using these technologies are said to have good protection. Throughout the 1960s, Western 105mm tank guns could not penetrate the Soviet T-64 tanks from the front.
Under the pressure at that time, the West continued to improve, and the Chobam armor that finally came out has been boasted by the West until now.
As for the T-72 tank, it is a low-end product in the Soviet army arsenal. However, it is said that the protection level is flush with the T-80. There are tightly arranged ceramic balls or ceramic columns in front of the turret, and the body is used.
It is multi-layer fiberglass armor.
As a result, I didn’t expect that the turret was filled with not ceramic balls at all, but the simplest quartz balls, that is, sand!
The Soviets can really fool people.
This kind of tank is usually impossible to find any problem. On the one hand, it is out of trust in the Soviet Union, and on the other hand, it is because no buyer is willing to use the purchased tanks for target shooting. The wealthy country of Iraq is also
No, so, I haven't noticed it yet.
This is like buying furniture. The salesperson swears that it is solid wood furniture. However, when you buy it home, who can see if it is solid wood? Therefore, it is still quite easy to fool people.
The T-72 tank is so arrogant that it usually boasts. When it comes to the battlefield, it suddenly falls off. It turns out that it is a fake and shoddy product!
Nie Qianqian naturally knew the key, so she didn't bother with film and filmed one by one, and took it clearly.
"No wonder the tanks used by the Soviets have added explosion reaction armor on them. The Soviets will not use them themselves, right?" Wang Erzhu murmured.
The Soviets shrank in export products to avoid secret leakage of their own equipment, which is well known. However, when it comes to the tanks used by the Soviets, they were actually wearing explosion reaction armor, it is obvious that the Soviets knew that the tanks they used were not protected enough.
Yes, are they also filled with quartz balls in their own use?
"It's not clear about this. After all, the performance of weapons is constantly developing, especially in the battle of Israel, the strength of armor-piercing bombs was amazing. Therefore, the Soviets felt that it was not safe, and it was possible to increase the protection power, but
, It is a foregone conclusion that the Soviets exported cheap goods. As a colleague, I must not remain indifferent after seeing this kind of thing." Qin Zhenhua said: "It must be known to the whole world."
The T-72 was beaten very badly because of many reasons, lack of air defense capabilities, and the monkey version of the tank. If the Soviet Union used the tank with better armor and was also covered with reactive armor, it might not be the one in front of us.
Planting fruit.
However, it is definitely a good opportunity for Qin Zhenhua. After all, if one machine factory wants to develop, it has to continuously export goods. Where is the market for one machine factory? On the one hand, it is strong from the West's mouth, and on the other hand, it is the market.
, it can also seize the traditional Soviet market.
It is of course unshirkable to be able to expose the true side of the Soviet arms...Ahem, it is of course unshirkable to be able to expose the true side of the Soviet arms.
Look at the Soviets, selling defective products when selling arms. Where is our single-machine factory? The ones sold are the most advanced, this is the gap!
"I was wrong." At this moment, Zhang Zhong suddenly spoke again: "In the war game deduction, I inferred the combat effectiveness of the Iraqi army based on the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army. In fact, the combat effectiveness of both sides is not at all.
On an order of magnitude, the equipment is also different, so there is no comparison at all."