What is a tank?

He is the king of land. What is the most powerful king of land warfare in modern times?

No matter whether he is a Despoke Jingsu or not, it doesn’t matter. The eternal god in everyone’s heart must be a tank!

Tanks are steel giant beasts on land. The impact he brought to infantry on the battlefield is unimaginable to ordinary people. When he roars towards infantry, even the most tenacious people will be scared to pee. Just like a primitive man facing those prehistoric giant beasts.

However, this steel giant beast dressed in iron armor has greater lethality and stronger shock.

However, it is true that tanks are iron beasts.

This giant steel beast seems extremely fierce, he seems invincible and invincible, but it needs a numerical advantage to fully demonstrate its power. Otherwise, it... that's it.

There are only a few dozen or hundreds of tanks, even if they are put into the battlefield, the effect is just that. At most, it will be a momentary shock.

Why did tanks show their power on the Soviet-German battlefield? Because both companies have accumulated tank counts! Perhaps Germany and San had first-class tanks and first-class vehicles, but what about the Soviet Union? In the end, with its numerical advantage, it completely crushed the German-German San. When thousands of tanks appeared on the battlefield, all resistance would collapse.

Quantity itself is a quality.

If you want quantity, that kind of tank must be simple enough, cheap enough, and enough...

Only in this way can there be enough quantity.

That's right, it's exactly--it's definitely not the T34 tank.

It is a T60 light tank.

Compared to the T34, this light tank is simply not worth mentioning. It was born in August 1941, a month before the Sandezi invasion, and its basic design work took only 15 days to complete!

As a light tank that overcomes emergency difficulties, it does not even have many special parts, except for the vehicle body... Although welding a bunch of steel plates together is quite a test of technology, but what is the real test of technology the most?

Its designers used a bunch of ready-made parts - auto parts to save a tank.

What are the biggest features of the T60 light tank?

It is because he used a large number of auto parts, its engine is the Gith 5 engine, and its gearbox is also the Gith 5. In short, it is basically equivalent to the truck's shell and crawler version. As for the tank's load-bearing wheel, it is also a tractor. Even the T-60 is not equipped with radio, and internal communication mainly depends on simple lighting indications.

Such emergency responses and even extremely simple tanks became the most likely tanks for the Soviet army in the early stages of the war. In the early stages of the war, it was thousands of T60 tanks that looked very simple and very simple, supporting the front line for the Soviet army. For the Soviet army, the T-60 tanks were very important, so that steel personally participated in the test of the second model of the T-60.

It is such awesome existence in World War II, let alone now.

Besides, Daming also has his own truck!

The Jiefang Truck is a ready-made truck.

We can completely learn from the ideas of the T60 light tank and use the Ming Dynasty Liberation Truck to get a Ming Dynasty T60!

So under the personal guidance of Emperor Zhu, Qianlima Automobile Company began their tank journey.

I have to say that the Soviet engineers are very good at making things they took in 15 days, and the Ming Dynasty used them... two years.

Moreover, compared with the T60 light tank, the Ming Dynasty's tanks had thinner armor and smaller horsepower. In the Eastern Front battlefield of World War II, these were fatal injuries, which did not exist at all for the Ming Dynasty today. On the contrary, the maneuverability of this light tank is actually a bit huge.

It's fast enough, much faster than a horse!

Therefore, after two years of research by dozens of technicians from Qianlima Automobile Company.

Finally, in October 1873, the Ming Dynasty finally won the world's first tank - the "Tiger" tank!

The tank was finally born.

"Dragon" tank!

Just like when he used the "tiger" style to name the armored vehicle, Emperor Zhu directly named it with "dragon".

Now, when the "Dragon" tank, which was only one meter high, rushed into the training ground, Emperor Zhu couldn't help but stand up, leaving only the roar of the tank engine in his ears.

This is my tank!

"Ka...da...da..."

At this moment, a crisp sound of machine guns sounded on the training ground.

Is this the sound of the Gatling machine gun?

Why does it sound a little different?

No, it's Gatling.

However, it is not the kind of Gatlin with a firing rate of more than 3,000 rounds. According to combat experience in France, machine guns do not need that fast firing rate at all.

Even Wang Youling once said, "The sound of machine guns on the battlefield is never the sound of gunfire, but the sound of silver rushing to the water!"

Without it, the rate of fire of 3,000 rounds is really too expensive.

If you keep pulling the trigger, it will cost more than one hundred yuan per minute, and the speed of machine gun burning money is absolutely amazing. Besides, the bullets consume so quickly, the logistics cannot keep up!

So, as soon as he came back from France, the military took the initiative to make a request for "slowdown".

In the past decade, with the attention of Emperor Zhu, the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to the Gatling machine gun. Gatling has now had several improved models. Since combining the electric motor with the Gatling machine gun three years ago, no matter how fast the weapon iteration is, the electric Gatling has always been the glory of the king of the Ming Dynasty.

Even if it is sold to Gatlins in Britain and France, I am sorry, it is manual.

Who doesn’t keep a few things to keep in mind at home? Besides, the electric Gatlin cannon is also a powerful weapon for the Ming Navy to wash the deck! How can such a powerful weapon be shown to others?

However, although the electric Gatlin is good, the firing rate is too fast!

The "Dragon" tank uses a 3-barrel Gatling machine gun improved from 10-barrel Gatling. The barrel has been reduced by 7 and the firing rate has been directly reduced to less than 1,000 rounds.

In the past, Gatlin was also taboo by the Ming military because of its huge ammunition consumption. It was not that they felt sorry for money, but because... the logistics could not keep up!

Gatlin, who has now been reduced to less than 1,000 rounds, has naturally become the military's favorite. Although it has various shortcomings, the rate of fire of 800-900 is really delicious!

Especially when Africa used to quell the rebellion of those natives, Gatlin was simply the sword of God, and wherever it pointed, there were dead bodies on the ground!

Compared to the bullet consumption that cost you 3,000 per minute in the past, it is really delicious now!

After all, ammunition consumption has been reduced by 30%. Don’t underestimate this number. The ammunition saved in a battle is definitely a very considerable number.

Therefore, in addition to the "Dragon" light tank, there are also "Dragon" light self-propelled artillery in the process of development.

In fact, it was just a 100mm mortar installed on the basis of the dragon-type light tank. This light mortar with a range of four kilometers has always been the favorite of the Ming army.

However, it is unlikely to install other artillery guns. After all, the "Dragon" tank weighs only 2 tons. With such a weight, it is possible to install a small 20mm caliber cannon.

However, there is no need to install the 20mm Gatling machine gun onto the tank at the moment. As for other artillery, Daming has no need at the moment. After all, actual combat proves that machine guns can meet the needs. Moreover, when the gun is not mature, the technology on the cannon is really immature!

However, as an important military product in the second five-year plan, the Guanlong Rapid-fire gun is still under intensive development. When the artillery technology like "Miss France" matures, the cannons will mature.

By then, of course, there will be a tank with a larger tonnage.

Today, the only one who was inspected by His Majesty the Emperor was the "Dragon" ultra-light assault tank. It was more like a Voldego than a dragon. It was driving on the wasteland like that, constantly shooting away targets with machine guns...
Chapter completed!