Chapter 277 New Tanks Under

Zhang Xuewu didn't say anything, or even hint. He only took everyone to visit the design institute and the assembly workshop. The dean of the armored design institute was Hevit, a German Jew. Nathan, Seavit. Nathan is a very politically visionary nerd. When he felt that the wind in Germany was wrong, he resolutely gave up his superior life in Germany and took his wife, four daughters and his father-in-law's family across the sea, hoping to find an opportunity in Rehe.

Hewitt. Nathan is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Hamburg, but his main focus is on the research of new tanks, Hewitt. Nathan participated in the development of jackal and leopard tanks. Because of his Jewish identity, he was driven out of the Tiger Plan, Sivert. Nathan was able to leave Germany thanks to Göring's instructions. Zhang Xuewu could only sigh helplessly for such a tank design genius buried in history.

Zhang Xuewu used to be against Hevit. Nathan mentioned the design of the so-called T34-76 tank, compared with the original design of the T34 series tank, such as reducing the height of the car body, redesigning the three-person turret, the new fast motor drive rotation mechanism, and the new turret with a low front shot rate. As a result, Hewitt. The tank designed by Nathan scared Zhang Xuewu a lot! What kind of new tank is this? This is the prototype of the Soviet-made T44 main battle tank in the future!

The historical Soviet-made T44 medium tank is a follow-up model of T34-85, which belongs to the lower Tajik tank series. The Soviet army's development of T44 was mainly used to resist the German army, because the Soviet T34-85 medium tank equipped at that time was obviously at a downwind in the confrontation with the Leopard tank, so the Soviet army was in a hurry. A tank that can compete with the German Panther tank is needed.

Zhang Xuewu handed over the design of this new tank to the production department in order to demonstrate its overall design surname and coordination surname. For a successfully designed tank, while ensuring the destruction of the surname by firepower output, the survival surname of the tank is the top priority for the successful design of a tank.

The M4 Sherman medium tank series and the T34 medium tank series are both famous medium tanks in World War II. Many people only noticed the success of the M4 Sherman medium tank series and the T34 medium tank series, but ignored the huge losses of these two tanks during World War II.

In particular, the two main battle models of medium-sized combat vehicles, T34-76 and T34-85, suffered huge losses on the Eastern Front. In the historical Battle of Kursk, although the Soviet army won the final victory, 30 elite German elite divisions, including seven armored and tank divisions, were defeated, and the rest suffered heavy losses. . More than 180,000 troops were lost, more than 900 tanks were lost, 3,000 artillery and mortars were lost, and more than 3,700 aircraft were lost.

The results of the Soviet army were undoubtedly very brilliant, but the casualties of the Soviet army in the Battle of Kursk remained in the category of secrecy until later generations. It was not until the dissolution of the Soviet Union that it was officially made public. The Soviet army paid a tragic price in the Battle of Kursk, losing more than 800,000 troops and more than 100,000 tanks. 6,000 vehicles, more than 5,200 artillery units were lost, and more than 1,700 combat aircraft were lost.

Undoubtedly, the German army has invested a large number of new weapons in this attack, including Tiger and Leopard tanks, as well as Tiger anti-tank destroyers and Ferdinand anti-tank destroyers, as well as self-propelled artillery such as the Wasp. The Air Force has invested in the Fokker Wolf 190A fighter and the Hankel 129 attack aircraft.

In the battle of armored forces, the eighty-eight-millimeter gun of the fifty-six-fold barrel diameter of the German Tiger tank has a clear advantage, while the seventy-six-six-millimeter gun of the Soviet T-34 tank cannot pose a threat to the German army at the same distance, so the Soviet tank has the highest horsepower. The driving speed rushed to the German tank group. After approaching the German tank, use the advantage of the T-34 mobile to defeat the bulky Tiger tank. But in the process of the group's charge, Soviet tanks paid a huge price. The number of German tanks destroyed by the Soviet air force was far more than destroyed by its tank troops.

With Zhang Xuewu's weak industrial foundation, it is obviously impossible to produce a large number of tanks. Even if a large number of tanks are produced, the fuel is very poor, so Zhang Xuewu finally decided to develop one that is most suitable for Rehe and the actual situation in China. Medium-sized tanks, although the imported things are good, but if all its technology is not digested and used for development, then Rehe will always be controlled by others. It is Zhang Xuewu's wish to develop his own main battle tank. Zhang Xuewu believes that it will work with advanced technology to integrate cross-era design ideas.

What makes Zhang Xuewu more reassuring and satisfied is that now Shevet. The research public relations team composed of Nathan and others can always turn the theoretical design proposed by Zhang Xuewu into reality in time. In the opinion of Nathan and others, Zhang Xuewu is a very magical genius. Can his whimsical ideas become the result of being tested by theoretical data?

In order to have his own military system, Zhang Xuewu introduced the latest 12-cylinder water-cooled diesel engine production line from the Soviet Union. The maximum power of Guo Liufu's 12-cylinder water-cooled diesel engine is 580 horsepower. Guo Liufu's 12-cylinder water-cooled diesel engine is the latest research result of the Soviet Union, but because this diesel engine is still In the stage of technical audit and demonstration inspection, the Soviet side did not need for mass production at all, so it was sold to Rehe at a high price. The Soviet side also wanted to take this opportunity to test the actual combat surname of Guo Liufu's twelve-cylinder water-cooled diesel engine, which could save a large part of the cost for the Soviet Union, and it was only real. War is the only criterion for testing combat effectiveness.

In terms of overall design, Zhang Xuewu still prefers the low body, the narrow arc turret design, and the low body helps to improve the battlefield survival surname and hidden surname of the tank. Compared with the design of T44, the German leopard medium tank is more superior.

PzKpfwV Panther medium tank is second only to Tiger heavy tank in World War II German tanks. It, the Soviet T-34 medium tank and the American M4 Sherman tank are the best designed medium tanks in World War II.

The Panther tank can be said to be a very strong medium tank produced according to the battle situation, because when Germany invaded the Soviet Union, the German armored forces soon encountered the Soviet KV series heavy tanks and T-34/76 tanks. Both tanks are superior to all models in terms of firepower and armor protection. German tanks, so Germany decided to develop a more powerful medium tank based on the battlefield report on the Eastern Front, which could be quickly put into production.

The weight of the Panther medium tank is more than 40 tons, and it has a variety of deformation models. Its Panther II front armor is strengthened to the front 100mm inclined armor, the side is 60mm, and the rear is 40mm. It uses the same single torsion rod system as the Tiger King tank. The load-bearing wheel is the same as the Tiger King tank, and the track The transportation narrow track used by the Tiger King tank.

According to the combat practice experience in the late stage of the war, the Germans showed that the lower jump bullet of the curved shield may penetrate the top of the car body, so they designed a narrow turret to reduce the front area of the turret, and install rangefinders and communication devices inside. What Zhang Xuewu needs is this so-called The front turret shield design of the narrow turret, and the overall turret Zhang Xuewu wants to choose the overall arc-shaped turret, just like the classic T54 turret design of later generations.

Although the Panther tank is larger in size, the Panther tank adopts a staggered overlapping load-bearing wheel arrangement, and the double torsion rod reading suspension device improves its ability to drive at high speed in bad terrain. This design is quite suitable for domestic countries with poor road conditions and lack of railway transportation.

The new medium-sized tank required by Zhang Xuewu uses special chromium-manganese alloy steel on the protective steel plate. The scientific name of this steel is nickel-chromium-manganese alloy surface carburizing and hardened steel. Its main name is that the surface hardness can reach 670-700HB after special processing, and the decarbonization depth is 4%. About 10 to 50, the new alloy armor is used to make the front armor of the newly designed medium tank reach 100 mm, the armor on both sides of the body reaches 80 mm, and the tail is 60 mm. After being equipped with a ceramic shock-absorbing sandwich and external additional armor, the combat weight of the car body is maintained below 36 tons.

In terms of the power system, Zhang Xuewu requires the horizontal arrangement of the engine to make the arrangement of the power transmission compartment more reasonable, which can effectively shorten the length of the whole body. It adopts the pump valve fuel-saving means of the T34 tank and equips the modified Guo Liufu 12-cylinder water-cooled diesel engine, so that its off-road speed is not less than 40. Five kilometers, the maximum marching speed can reach 55 kilometers per hour.

The overall crew cannot be composed of more than four people. The commander's command communication system, rangefinder and artillery stabilization device are installed inside the turret, and a tank gun with a 100mm Lotgarov 48-fold body tube diameter is proposed to introduce its reserve technology from the Soviet Union, and equipped with a test turret for testing.

The data required by Zhang Xuewu is very ordinary to Zhang Xuewu, but in Sivet. In the eyes of experts such as Nathan, it is a so-called height that has not been reached by predecessors. For these senior technical engineers, the more difficult it is, the more they will like it, because the design of an excellent weapon is enough to make its designer famous in history. Zhang Xuewu gave the design standard of this so-called new medium tank. In Seavit. In the opinion of Nathan, an absolute expert, even if the Germans are secretly studying the Tiger tank as a technical reserve, they can't compete with it, Shivet. The only concern for Nathan is not the design of the tank, but whether the power of the Soviet 100mm Lotgarov's 48th tank gun can be guaranteed?

Hewitt. What Nathan doesn't know is that in an institution code-named No. 9 Research Institute a few kilometers away from him, many researchers are doing night-to-night public relations research on armor-piercing warheads using the energy-gathering agent of the Monroe effect.

Zhang Xuewu refused to leave the wooden model of the new tank for a long time. It is less than a week before the sample test. If the test is qualified and put into mass production, then in the big counterattack three months later, these 30 Avenger medium tank prototypes will be able to gallop on the battlefield!

(to be continued)