Chapter 422 The Three Armored Musketeers of the Chinese Empire [Three Updates]

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After a large-scale tank war broke out in Europe, in order to draw on the experience of tank wars on the battlefield, a new main combat vehicle is undergoing high-intensity testing at the North Garden Synthesis Tactic Training Base of the Chinese Empire in Asia.

On the test field, amid the huge motor roar, a new tank was maneuvering at high speed, and the test runway was filled with dust. Suddenly, he advanced at high speed on the flat road, and then he advanced quickly on the undulating ground. He passed through two meters wide ditches and half a meter deep river channel, knocked on a one-meter thick brick wall, climbed up a 60-degree slope, and passed smoothly in anti-chariot obstacles such as horse resistance, hidden piles, and barbed wire.

This is the test vehicle of the new type m16 tank that the Imperial Army Equipment Technology Research and Development Department has developed in five years. Although this tank has already made a prototype test vehicle in Guanghua in 14 years, the Army Department has repeatedly delayed procurement and required the scientific research department to improve the defects based on the performance of the m07 and m10 tanks in Japan and Europe, and to learn from the experience and lessons of the European Somme tank war. Therefore, it was delayed until Guanghua had 16 years before obtaining the formal procurement contract. Considering that the first batch of new types of tanks were delivered in Guanghua in 16 years, it was formulated as a m16 by the Army Naming Committee.

Given that during the Somme Tank War, the tanks of various countries were so high that they were easily hit by direct artillery attacks, fragile tank armor could easily penetrate even a 37mm smoothbore gun.

The m16 type combat vehicle is lowered and flattened based on the m10 type combat vehicle, which can reduce the hit rate of direct fire from enemy tanks.

Practical combat on the European battlefield shows that there are various load-bearing wheels, induced wheels and pulleys, and a chariot with a spring-suspended shock-absorbing system is installed between the load-bearing wheels and the vehicle body. The combatants inside can adapt to the ever-changing battlefield more quickly and find favorable shooting positions to attack enemy tanks.

Therefore, the m16 type tank referenced and absorbed the advanced spring shock absorption structure of the Germans improved and upgraded a7v-4 type tank based on the m10 type tank, and optimized it and installed it on the m16 type tank.

The chariot is 8 meters long, has a width of 3 meters, and has a total height of 2.7 meters. The external phase is closer to the modern main battle tank.

Considering that the caliber of the main gun on the European battlefield has increased to more than 40 mm and the armor thickness is also increasing rapidly. In order to adapt to the leading position of the main combat vehicles in the next five years, the Chinese Empire's m16 tank uses 47 mm 30 times high-pressure smoothbore gun, with a maximum range of 2.1 kilometers, and effectively breaks through 30 mm high-strength Chinese special steel or 40 mm European Krupp steel armor within 600 meters. Improvements in the preparation of ammunition, considering that after the end of the largest and most intense tank war on the battlefield, each tank consumes an average of 40 rounds of shells, so 150 rounds or 200 rounds of shells is unnecessary. On the contrary, because too many shells are reserved affect the safety of the tank, the load bearing is increased, and the speed and maneuverability of the tank. Therefore, the reserve of the m16 tank is only 60 rounds.

After investigating the tank war on the European battlefield, researchers of the Imperial Chinese Army found that the most lethal force on the battlefield was not the main gun of the chariot, but the machine gun weapon system of the chariot, shooting and killing living people from the enemy. Therefore, the engineers installed a 12.7 mm m2 heavy machine gun above the turret of the marshal type m16 tank, which was equipped with 800 rounds of ammunition, which was amazingly powerful. It became the real weapon of lethal force of the m16 tank.

Practical combat on the European battlefield shows that the armor protection of the tank is the first life and the first law of survival on the battlefield. Therefore, the m16 tank uses high-strength Chinese special steel synthesized by nickel-cadmium, which has a comprehensive heavy armor protection. The front armor thickness is 60 mm and the side armor is 35 mm, focusing on protecting the bullet supply bay and fuel tank.

Large caliber artillery and heavy armor protection make the total combat weight of the m16 tank reach 30.2 tons.

In order to promote this behemoth, the propulsion system uses a Diesel 15 six-cylinder six-stroke high-power diesel engine with a power of 150 horsepower and a thrust-to-weight ratio of 5 horsepower per ton. The powerful engine makes the maximum speed of the m16 tank reach a flat speed of 20 kilometers per hour, an 8-degree slope of 8 kilometers per hour, a 30-degree slope of 4 kilometers per hour, and a maximum climbing height of 75 degrees. It can cross a 2.2-meter trench and a 1.2-meter high wall, and wade more than 0.5 meters, no longer easily sinking like the wading height of the m10 tank with less than 0.2 meters in the landing war against Japan.

The speed and firepower of the tank have been greatly enhanced. The biggest problem that follows is the load-bearing capacity and durability of the tank tracks that can load 30 tons of vehicles to reach a speed of 20 kilometers per hour.

The greatest success of the m11 type combat vehicle is that its track durability has been greatly improved. The engineers introduced the most wear-resistant special alloy steel from Imperial Steel as a track connection bearing. An embedded groove was added between the bearings, which was filled with rubber and lubricating oil to increase the wear resistance of the track, increasing the track life to 120 kilometers. The m16 tank received strong support from Imperial Rubber Chemical Group to develop wear-resistant rubber lubricating oil code-named 93. The track life was tested and reached 300 kilometers, which doubled the battlefield assault capability of the m16 tank compared with the m10 tank.

Overall, the m16 tank has reached the level of fully suppressing the m10 tank and has become the most powerful main combat tank in the world. No tank is his opponent, the veritable king of land warfare.

However, the power also brought high costs. As early as many years ago, when the m10 tank was put into production, its cost reached more than 500,000 dragon coins. With the advancement of the Chinese Empire's tank manufacturing process, by the 16th year of Guanghua, the cost of the m10 type combat vehicle had been reduced to 200,000 dragon coins. Now the cost of the m16 tank has soared to 350,000 dragon coins again. Although the Imperial Congress was not very happy about this price, it thought that the cost of the m10 tank quickly dropped with the progress of the process, so it finally approved the defense budget for the first batch of 200 m16 types of tanks.

At the same time, the Chinese Empire was inspired by a new type of battlefield assault weapon from the Tsarist Russian army on the battlefield on the Eastern Front of Europe, which was the wheeled chariot.

On the Eastern Front battlefield, due to the economic difficulties of the Tsarist Russian Empire, the Russian soldiers in the trenches often used a rifle, and the average bullet was less than 8 rounds per person. Under such difficult circumstances, the Tsarist Russian Empire was attacked by powerful German chariot troops, with heavy casualties.

In order to reverse this situation, the Tsarist Russian Empire bargained with the Chinese Empire on the one hand, hoping to obtain the advanced chariots of the Chinese Empire. On the other hand, the Russians are also trying to develop and produce chariots themselves.

However, Russia's industrial capacity was weak and it was impossible to produce chariot parts that meet the requirements, such as engines and chariot tracks. Later, Russia thought of a solution to import civilian vehicle engines from the Chinese Empire, barely solving the engine problem of the chariot, but the track problem was still not solved. Originally, it was considered to remove the tractor tracks as a territory, but after modification, it was found that the cost of Russian self-made combined tanks was higher than that of the Chinese Empire's m10 type combat vehicles, and they were immediately rejected by the Russian Duma Parliament.

Subsequently, Colonel Pyrov, of the Tsarist Russian Army Equipment Committee, came up with a solution. He wrapped the outside of the car with iron sheets and added a heavy machine gun, and became a chariot with rapid penetration.

Using the chariot with a car chassis and wheels, you can quickly enter the battlefield. The tires of the car moving at high speed are not so easy to be blasted by the enemy's bullets, and the installed iron protection can block the flying bullets and shrapnel. When the chariot breaks into the dense German army, the vehicle-mounted machine gun can easily strafuse the enemy and cause major casualties to the enemy. The effect is often much greater than that of the chariot.

The photos and achievements of the simple wheeled chariot invented by Russia were sent back to the Chinese Empire, giving the chariot engineers of the Chinese Empire another inspiration, and a new main combat weapon was born.

At this time, the performance of the Chinese Empire's armored personnel carriers on the European battlefield was unknown and almost ignored by many countries because the tracked tanks were too slow and the targets were too large, so they were easily targeted by enemy artillery and tanks. The damage caused the casualties much higher than the loss of a tank.

Therefore, the opinions fed back on the European battlefield required the Chinese Empire's tank engineers to improve armored personnel carriers. The personnel carriers required speed, fast delivery capabilities, and rapid strike capabilities. Although the Chinese Empire's m10 armored personnel carriers had strong firepower, they did not meet the actual combat requirements.

In this case, the Army Equipment Committee of the Imperial Empire, inspired by Russian modified cars, and after joint improvements by professional tank designers and engineers, finally launched the W16 wheeled infantry fighting vehicle under the special guidance of Emperor Chenhao of the Imperial Empire.

The w16 wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, also known as the Guanghua 16-year infantry assault fighting vehicle, was jointly developed by the Imperial Chinese Army Equipment Committee, Ford Automobile Industry Group, and Beiyang Ordnance Heavy Industry. It adopts the overall layout plan of the front-mounted engine and transmission system and the rear-mounted crew compartment. This advantage is that it can provide a larger space for the combat room to arrange ammunition and crew working positions.

The whole vehicle consists of three parts: fire power system, fire control system and wheeled chassis. It adopts a 6x6 wheeled chassis, which is comparable to the technical performance of the Ford heavy-duty off-road military jeep created by the Imperial China Ford Motor Company. It has a double-sided wall suspension system, hydraulic shock absorption system, bulletproof rubber tires, and front and middle two-bridge steering mechanism. It adopts a 6x6 wheelbase drive method. These make the Type 10 personnel carrier, which is proven to be a huge useless in the landing war against Japan, and it often sinks and fires out and becomes the turtle car mentioned by the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Marine Corps. During the landing war, many soldiers died in the m10 type trooper vehicle.

To this end, the new W16 infantry fighting vehicle was designed for the first time due to the requirements of the Marine Corps. It has two rudders in one conduit propeller propulsion device at the rear of the vehicle body. It has a simple structure, light handling and high thrust on water. When the vehicle is running on land, it can be rotated by 180 degrees when it is launched.

The Type 10 infantry fighting vehicle has been improved by a large margin, and the detachable maintenance hatch designed in key areas also facilitates on-site maintenance by the troops in field environments.

In terms of protection, the body of the W16 type infantry fighting vehicle is a fully enclosed floating shell structure made of armored special steel, with an average thickness of 10 mm and a front thickness of 20 mm. The front and sides of the front of the vehicle body can prevent close-range shooting of 7.62 mm armor-piercing projectiles and shell fragments, and can prevent penetration by a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun from 500 meters away. The inner part of the vehicle body is three parts: the cockpit, the power compartment and the combat compartment. The cockpit is located in the front of the vehicle body and is equipped with a vehicle control mechanism. Observation

Instruments, driver's seats and fire extinguishers. The engine and transmission device of the w16-wheeled infighting vehicle are located in the middle of the left side of the vehicle body and are located behind the cab. It is equipped with an engine, transmission, clutch, transmission box, transmission shaft, water cooling system, ventilation system and fire extinguishing system. This structure is conducive to the passenger/carrier entering and exiting through the rear door and side door, and is also easy to operate the vehicle. However, this structure makes the noise and temperature in the vehicle high, but it is still within a tolerable range.

The commander and driver's room are located in the front of the vehicle (the driver is on the left and the commander is on the right), separated from the crew room by steel plates. The commander and driver each have 3 periscopes for easy battlefield assault.

The most important thing is the power plant of the tank. For this reason, Ford Automobile Industry Group specially developed a 320-horsepower Ford K-type 6-cylinder 4-stroke direct injection air-cooled diesel engine that can be used on bombers. The engine has undergone high-strength test by the Army Committee, with advanced performance and reliable structure, and is an excellent military engine. In addition, the engine is also equipped with a 200-watt generator and a 300-watt starter motor. The gearbox uses a racing-type mechanical gearbox produced by Ford, which has a total of 6 forward gears and 1 reverse gear. The gearbox has a large speed range and makes full use of the engine power to meet the requirements of high off-road maneuverability of the vehicle.

The combat compartment is located behind the power compartment, with crew seats on the left and right sides. There is a passage connecting the cab and crew room on the right side of the power compartment. There is a side door on the right side of the passage, which can be used for passengers and crew to get on and off the vehicle. There are periscopes and spherical shooting holes on both sides of the vehicle and on the rear doors, which can be used for crews to fight. In the combat compartment in the middle of the rear of the power compartment, a top-mounted single-person turret (the weapon top is conducive to the external bullet chain, shell casing and smoke exhaust) and has three-defense performance. The gunner is located in the combat compartment below the right side of the turret.

In terms of weapons, it is the Type 2 12.7 mm heavy machine gun, and a side-by-side Type 10 6.5 mm Browning light machine gun.

In addition, Wang Chenhao personally designed a lightning-shock launch system for this type of infantry fighting vehicle to cover the advance of the combat vehicle, carrying four 37mm lightning-shocking guns, which can adjust the direction angle between 0 to 180 degrees in front and back and 30 degrees in left and right. It is mainly used to launch lightning-shocking shells during chariot assaults to disrupt the enemy's army. At the same time, it can also attack important enemy targets at close range when stopping, and cover the infantry to pull out the enemy's firepower points.

The tire shell of the w16 infantry fighting vehicle gives high-strength sealed rubber tires, and even if it is hit, it can travel at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour for half an hour.

Under normal circumstances, www.jtxsk.com, the new main combat chariot of type 16 and the W16 wheeled infantry fighting chariot, but the Army Department is not satisfied with this. The information uploaded from the European battlefield shows that the attack power of the chariot on the battlefield still has dead ends. Although the 16 chariots cooperate to make up for the dead ends in this regard, it is not enough. The enemy's howitzer position can fire curved howitzers to destroy the chariots. On the other hand, if the howitzer fire point can be deployed quickly, it can counterattack and suppress the enemy's chariot troops.

The Army Equipment Commission provides large-caliber howitzer cover for curved ballistics based on 16 tanks (direct cannons), w16 tanks (heavy machine guns, small-caliber lightning cannons).

This is not a new idea, so the rail guns developed by Germany and France have long been developed and the super cannons developed by the Chinese Empire can all be regarded as the originator of car-mounted howitzers.

The first practical vehicle-mounted artillery was invented by France during the Third Somme Battle in 1915. Shortly after the birth of the tank in World War I, the French were able to quickly think about transferring positions under various terrain conditions in order to make the bulky towed guns better maneuverable, and installed a field gun on the chassis of a tracked tank to have maneuverable off-road performance. However, the self-propelled artillery at this time had no armor protection and was only suitable for fire support to infantry. When blocking a German tank assault, the howitzer of this tracked tank successfully destroyed several German tanks.

In this way, with practical tests, the Army Equipment Committee of the Imperial Empire started a discussion and submitted it to the Imperial Congress for deliberation. When it was finally sent to Wang Chenhao, Wang Chenhao himself almost forgot the importance of this self-propelled artillery, so he made a series of instructions on the official documents.

First of all, Wang Chenhao believed that in terms of firepower, tanks are direct sighting weapons, requiring a larger direct sighting distance, but the maximum range is not high. Therefore, tank guns are cannons, and the pitch angle is generally about minus five to positive twenty degrees. Self-propelled artillery is mainly aimed at inter-sighting, and the maximum range is high. In addition to self-propelled anti-tank guns, the direct sighting distance is not high. Therefore, self-propelled artillery is mainly howitzers, cannons, howitzers, mortars, etc., and the pitch angle of the artillery is generally between 0 and 30 degrees, and some can reach 90 degrees (self-propelled anti-tank guns).

Secondly, in terms of fire control, tanks talk about discovering the enemy first, firing first, and hitting the first shot, so tanks pay more attention to how to spot the enemy first and fire quickly. Tanks focus on "knowing the enemy". Self-propelled artillery generally cannot see the target, and the target is generally reported by the observation center or superiors, but it also pays attention to the time of marching and combat conversion. Although it cannot see the enemy, if you know the geographical location and know where the target is, the fire control system can quickly calculate the shooting elements, and the focus is on "confidant".

In terms of protection, Wang Chenhao pointed out that tanks are impact weapons, and attacks mainly come from the front, so the front armor of the tank is very thick, which can reach tens of centimeters. Self-propelled artillery is a long-range support weapon, and the attacks mainly come from the enemy's long-range artillery fire, that is, the fragments of shells on all sides with equal probability. Therefore, the armor on the front, back, left and right sides of the self-propelled artillery are of equal thickness and very thin.

In terms of mobility, Wang Chenhao stated that for tactical requirements, tanks need fast and flexible maneuvering, requiring the engine to provide powerful acceleration and large tonnes of power. Self-propelled artillery does not have too high requirements for this. Generally, tanks similar to chassis can be used to choose tank engines or other types of engines. In fact, since tanks are heavier than self-propelled artillery and do not have an advantage in tonnes of power, the maneuverability of tanks is not better than self-propelled artillery.

In short, Wang Chenhao supports the development of self-propelled artillery combat vehicles, which can be improved based on the w16 wheeled infantry combat vehicles. It does not require much protection capability, but only mobility is required, so that self-propelled artillery can quickly enter designated areas and carry out artillery fire strikes on the enemy.

Wang Chenhao's special instructions immediately made it impossible for members of Congress to prevent the Army Committee from developing the vehicle-mounted self-propelled artillery project and allocating relevant funds.

With the strong support of Wang Chenhao, the Imperial Army Committee quickly came up with the design. It was named the z16 wheeled self-propelled artillery tank, or anti-tank combat vehicle. The z16 anti-tank combat vehicle is based on the chassis and power system of the W16 wheeled infantry combat vehicle. It is equipped with a 120mm howitzer with 6 members and a total combat weight of 20 tons. The maximum road speed is 45 kilometers per hour, the off-road is 15 kilometers, the maximum itinerary is 300 kilometers (highway), the vertical wall is 0.4 meters high, and the trench is 2 meters wide.

As the General Equipment Department of the Imperial Army successively developed the m16 main combat tank, w16 wheeled infantry fighting tank and z16 anti-tank fighting tank, the armored troops of the Imperial Empire have made a new leap, and the combat effectiveness of the armored army in Europe will be higher than that of the European armored army, representing the highest field of the world armored army, and continuing to lead the reform direction of the world armored army.

From then on, these three armored legions of the Chinese Empire were called the Three Musketeers of the Chinese Empire Armored Legion by the international community, and became a symbol of the Chinese Empire dominating the world in the field of armored legions. Its international code name is mzw16, and it became an international star equipment in the late stage of World War I and until World War II, and was deeply loved by various officials.

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