The scorching sun is like fire.

In a weapon test base in the western suburbs of Chang'an, a new tank is undergoing all-terrain marching testing on a site composed of mountains, hills, beaches, mud, woods and other terrain.

This new tank is very different from the traditional international tanks, but from the appearance, this tank is obviously much smaller than the American-made SRA tanks currently in service by the Tang army. The vehicle is only 3 meters wide and the vehicle is less than 2.5 meters high. The combat weight is only 34 tons, which belongs to the category of light-weight tanks.

The original international mainstream tanks such as SRA are still in the appearance design of the late World War I. Not to mention the size of the huge and heavy, they are easily attacked by enemy artillery fire. The tank in front of them is less than 2.5 in height and adopts a circular turret design, and its appearance is much more beautiful than SRA.

This is a main battle tank prototype designed by the Tang Dynasty Military Industry for the German Wehrmacht. Two-thirds of the designs came from the designers of the Tang Dynasty, and the rest were modified by the German designers according to the requirements of the German army.

The main weapon of the tank is a 75mm TM-3 A smoothbore main gun, which can directly destroy the armor of the SRA tank within 800 meters, and is powerful. The secondary weapon is two 7.92mm TP machine guns, of which the main gun was developed and produced by the Tang military industry. The machine gun originally used the Tang army's m2 heavy machine gun, but in the end, the German army asked to change it to the 7.92mm machine gun that the German army is used to, in order to reduce the supply pressure of the German logistics ammunition.

This tank was jointly developed by Tang and Germany experts, but in the end, the design of the Tang military experts became more advanced, which won unanimous praise from the German Wehrmacht. The most important thing is that this tank uses a new technology that no tank in the world does not have - Christy suspension technology.

Christie suspension device technology was invented by the Tang American Christie. This device can greatly reduce bumps when traveling in the mountains, and move like walking on flat ground, thereby greatly increasing the speed of mountain travel.

This technology was originally planned to be sold to the US Army. However, the US Army Committee did not recognize the goods and did not adopt it. Later, the Tang and the Soviet Union sent personnel to negotiate with Christie. However, the US government refused to establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Congress originally planned to recognize the status of the Soviet Union's joint legal regime and was rejected by the Hoover administration. In the end, Christie chose the Tang Empire, which was treated well for political reasons.

This matter is not as simple as it seems. Originally, the Soviet Union negotiated with Christie before the Tang Dynasty. It was not until the Tang Dynasty conducted military cooperation with Germany that the German Defense Forces proposed that the two countries jointly develop new tanks that Zhang Meng remembered Christie's suspension device technology.

This is because the Tang Dynasty attached great importance to the construction of naval and air force forces, so the status of the Tang Army was much lower. The speed of equipment research and development and update was naturally not as fast as that of the navy and air force. Tanks were the foundation of the army, so the German Wehrmacht attached the most importance to it because they suffered a great loss from the British and French tank corps during World War I, so they attached great importance to it.

When Zhang Meng began to pay attention to tank research and development, he found that the Soviets had negotiated with Christie. Moreover, the Soviets gave generous conditions, and Christie had actually agreed to transfer it to the Soviet military. This scared Zhang Meng because Zhang Meng knew the great war potential and patent value of this technology in the future, so he naturally could not let the Soviets get cheap.

Previously, when Zhang Meng took advantage of the US economic crisis to loot American industry and agriculture, the Soviets were not willing to fall behind and marched into the United States. The Tang and the Soviet Union fought openly and secretly many times, and they had long disliked each other. Therefore, when Zhang Meng also sent someone to contact Christie, the Soviets offered higher prices.

When Zhang Meng saw that the Soviets were about to buy Christie's patented technology, he knew that using traditional methods could no longer stop the Soviets, so he had to use political means.

It was originally supposed to be Roosevelt who would pass a bill to recognize the Soviet Union as a legal government and establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. However, after Zhang Meng intervened, Roosevelt became a cross-border rat that everyone in the United States called for. Hoover was re-elected and had a very good relationship with Zhang Meng. The signing of a non-aggression treaty between the United States and the Tang Dynasty made the relationship between the two countries closer.

Against this background, Zhang Meng immediately called Hoover and expressed great concern about the US Congress's upcoming recognition of the Soviet Union's status as a United France. Hoover had previously received guidance from Zhang Meng and had already achieved great results in the issue of domestic reforms. Therefore, he believed in Zhang Meng's words and rejected the bill at the last moment. In this way, the United States continued to refuse to recognize the Soviet Union and the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union was stranded.

In this way, the original bill to prohibit exports to the Soviet Union by the US Export Administration continued to take effect, and Christie's patent transfer approval was naturally intercepted by the US government, causing the Soviets to watch the fat meat that was on their mouths being taken away.

Seeing that he could not sell it to the Soviets, Christie had to sell it to the Tang Dynasty. However, Zhang Meng was still very generous to Christie. God knew that he would invent more advanced technologies after inventing this super awesome technology. Therefore, he hired him with a generous gift and took Christie to work in the Tang Dynasty and served for the Tang Dynasty.

The Christie suspension device was installed on a new tank and shines. The Tang army and German representatives who watched the test in the stands praised it. Especially after using the tВ-2 C-type water-cooled diesel engine developed by Datang Heavy Industry, the power of 373 kilowatts made the maximum speed of this tank reach 55 kilometers per hour, and the two cylinder spare mailboxes made its maximum range of 468 kilometers. After Zhang Meng's prompt, the Tang designer improved this tank to steadily pass through the obstacle height of 0.75 meters, crossing the trench width 2.49 meters, climbing 30 degrees, and wading 1.5 meters.

Of course, the most important point is that this tank was developed for the German Wehrmacht. The Germans have always attached great importance to defense. This 35-ton light tank is equipped with a 20-60 mm thick Datang special steel armor, which is 30% stronger than the German Krupp steel armor, which is deeply loved by the German representatives.

"When will this tank be officially put into production?"

German Army General Liszt was very excited and immediately asked Lieutenant General Huang Jianguo, the deputy minister of the Ministry of National Defense of the Tang Empire who accompanied him to observe.

Huang Jianguo smiled and said, "Just wait for your country's Ministry of Finance to sign and allocate funds. As long as you nod your head and agree, our Datang will complete the production line of this tank within three months and will be equipped with your country's national defense force within half a year."

"It's so fast? That's great!"

Liszt was a little surprised. He really underestimated the industrial capabilities of the Tang Empire, but seeing that most of the core technologies of this tank were provided by experts from the Tang Dynasty, Liszt believed it.

"I will report to the head of state immediately, and I will probably approve it within one or two days."

"That's great! I didn't expect our military cooperation to come out so quickly!"
Chapter completed!