Don't underestimate them Tank Armored Vehicle Magazine. The editors in this magazine have been working in the military industry for several years. When it comes to professional words, they are extremely skilled, and at the same time, they have a certain degree of success.
judgment.
Take Qin Zhenhua for example. They had already analyzed it and thought that this thing was useless and just fooling people. They even gave it a vivid title called the turret bra.
If you look at it from the appearance, the layman will not even recognize that the Leopard 2A5 is a Leopard 2 tank, which is completely different from the previous shape.
Since World War II, German tanks have liked angular appearances. The Tiger tanks at that time were typical examples. Later, they learned from the T-34 and used tilted armor. However, during the Cold War, they continued to use tilted armor.
The Leopard-2 tank they created has regained its edges and angular shape again. The turret of the Leopard-2 tank is almost a replica of the Tiger tank, completely vertical armored without any inclination.
The tanks of the same era, the challenger of the British, and the M1 of the Americans, all know how to create a large-angle gun shield. Only the Germans refuse. That shape makes people wonder whether the Germans are broken or not.
Anyway, they also know that their tanks do not have high enough protection. If they are hit on the front, they will be penetrated anyway, so they are too lazy to use tilted armor.
This is a mystery, I don’t know what the German tank designers think. In short, the German Leopard 2 tank takes this route.
However, when we arrived at the Leopard 2A5 tank, a sudden change occurred. The front end of the turret of this tank actually turned into a wedge-shaped structure, and a triangle tip extends forward. Whether it is the upper or lower level, there are
The huge inclination angle was surprising when I first discovered it. The German tank designer finally thought about it and started to develop advanced tank turret protection design?
However, when I got the introduction, it was shocking. This beautiful shape was not original at all. The Germans just hung such a layer of wedge-shaped additional armor outside the original turret.
Afterwards, it seemed like a fool. In fact, it was a hollow structure with the gun barrel as the center. Such an additional armor module was hung on both sides of the front of the turret. It looked like it was easy to remind people of the bra.
, yes, it's the woman's bra. So, I don't know who proposed it first. Although it was not used on formal occasions, in the circle of military fans, that thing is called a bra.
In their eyes, this is just an additional iron sheet added to the previous Leopard 2A4. If you want to say the protection, it may be effective for the energy-concentrating warheads that rely on metal jets, such as armor-breaking bombs.
RPG, missile, and these weapons use metal jets. When they hit the bra, they are shot into the internal space, so they will greatly reduce their armor-piercing ability, but against kinetic energy bombs,
If you rely on head-on armor-piercing bullets, the expectation should not be too high, which is equivalent to an extra layer of iron sheet thickness.
This is also the reason why everyone sneered at this layer of bra.
Now, Qin Zhenhua actually wants to do this. If you do this, it seems to be of no use except to fool people.
"Liu Dajun was worried about what happened last time and always wanted to use advanced equipment to win the crushing victory. Unfortunately, this time it was a joint exercise, and everyone was a friendly army, so Liu Dajun did not have this opportunity.
He can only rely on his appearance to be fooled." Qin Zhenhua said: "In front of our tank, such a wedge-shaped additional armor can also be added. After that, it can effectively enhance the tall and mighty image of our tank.
So, I decided to add such a component to enhance Liu Dajun's image."
I heard it and opened my mouth wide. Director Qin is already forty years old. I didn’t expect that he was still so playful!
In fact, Qin Zhenhua is of course not just for fun.
Since the decision to abandon casting turrets, the first machine factory has developed many turret configurations. After that, it has gradually matured. So far, the tanks and turrets produced by the first machine factory are almost the same, from the original 85 tanks.
, Later 88 tanks, 96 tanks, and even the third generation tanks at the parade, all of the turrets looked similar in appearance, with a front turret with a large inclination angle, a small cannon shield, and even a barrel base in front.
The canvas cover specially designed to cover dust, the entire turret is small in size. Although it is a welded turret, it does not have a large turret like in the West and a large tailings, and it is almost the only one in the world.
This is also considered the tank design language of the Eastern powers.
This turret is almost mature and is consistent with the turntable automatic loader. However, Qin Zhenhua still hopes to improve the protection of the turret. How to change it next needs to be carefully considered.
The German Leopard 2A5 uses wedge-shaped additional armor. Although this additional module is called a bra by the outside world, it is full of jokes, but the Germans are not stupid, how could they create a decorative product that has no effect.
?Since you have installed that bra, it must be improved with protection.
Therefore, Qin Zhenhua cannot make major changes to the turrets of domestic tanks, but he can hang a wedge-shaped additional armor module outside to play with it! Perhaps, it can really effectively improve the protection of the turret?
In this way, it not only met Liu Dajun's requirements, but also made an attempt to improve. Qin Zhenhua won multiple goals in one fell swoop.
However, there is no need to make it clear to Nie Qianqian. After all, she is not a tank research and development personnel. She said this to her just to give her a reminder. Maybe she should praise her bra in the future, so don't always belittle her, because
We need to use it ourselves, how can we say what we use not well?
Qin Zhenhua lowered his head and continued to read the magazine, as if he had walked the military parade again. For some reason, Qin Zhenhua's heart was filled with passion again, and scenes of the military parade appeared in front of him again.
It's really spectacular.
With a thud, the color page sandwiched in the middle fell down. Qin Zhenhua bent down and picked up the color page. It was the scene where the most majestic three-generation tank formation passed. In one corner of this color page, there was a line written on it.