At a distance of 300 meters, these improved tanks can be penetrated by almost none of the Japanese tank guns currently in service. But because of these additional armors, they are top secret even in the Anti-Japanese War. Whether it is research and development or production
, all caught by Yang Zhen himself.
Additional armor is not uncommon in later generations. As long as there are steel plates and blunt explosives, and some things like rubber, it can be produced. These additional armors can not only reduce the weight of the tank during development, but also greatly improve the ability to withstand complex terrain.
The traffic capacity is improved and the reliance on high-power engines is reduced, but the tank's protective power can be greatly improved.
The most important thing is that compared with those high-tech composite armors, its price is extremely low. It is the first choice equipment for some later countries that cannot afford to replace the expensive new tanks and upgrade their own main battle tanks. Although there are still certain limitations in use.
sex, but the price and versatility offset the shortcomings to a certain extent.
Moreover, these additional armors are not high-tech things. To put it bluntly, they are almost worthless. Generally industrialized countries can mass-produce them as long as necessary. However, because this thing is self-destructive, it is too weak to armor.
For a modern light tank, it will undoubtedly cause some damage.
Therefore, when Yang Zhen chose additional armor for his tank unit, he chose explosive reactive armor for the new T-26S light tank, which has thicker armor. And for the older T-26B tanks and BT tanks accepted in Hailar
The tank adopts egg-shaped additional armor.
Of course, there is no future composite rubber, let alone special alloy steel. The raw materials used to make these additional armors are also ordinary boiler steel imported from the Soviet Union. Nickel-chromium alloy steel is too expensive a luxury product for the Anti-Japanese Alliance. As for imports
The composite rubber is even more precious.
In addition, the Japanese army only has ordinary high-carbon steel armor-piercing bullets. As for high-tech gadgets such as tungsten-chromium armor-piercing bullets that have been commonly used on European battlefields, Japan cannot produce them with its metallurgical capabilities. There are no capped armor-piercing bullets, and they are more advanced.
A hollow shaped anti-tank weapon.
Although the high-carbon steel armor-piercing projectiles used by the Japanese army have armor-piercing capabilities, their armor-piercing performance is very poor. It is too wasteful to use nickel-chromium alloy steel or other alloy steels to make various reactive armors. Therefore, Yang
When Zhen chose the type of reactive armor, he only chose ordinary boiler steel.
The filling materials in between were ordinary Somdine explosives imported from the United States and ordinary rubber. However, the angle of the armor manufacturing and the installation location were carefully calculated. Not to mention that the Japanese army's armor-piercing performance was very poor.
The 57mm short-barreled howitzer, the so-called latest 47mm tank gun, cannot penetrate within 200 meters.
Although the improvement of protection is far less than that of various alloy steels or composite steels such as ceramics in later generations, it is enough to deal with Japanese tanks and anti-tank firepower. The improved T-26 tank has an overall protective performance
The frontal protection of its turret and car body has basically reached the level of 75mm armor.
In order to test its performance during mass production tests, the Anti-Japanese Alliance used all 75mm field guns currently equipped by the Japanese army for horizontal fire. They also used the 57mm howitzer on the Japanese Type 97 tank, and the Type 95 light howitzer.
The tank's 37mm artillery, various tanks, and all the Japanese anti-tank weapons were put to the shooting test.
At the same time, they also use the 57-mm recoilless rifles and Type-2 rocket launchers currently equipped by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the 82-mm recoilless rifles and Type-7 rocket launchers currently in reserve, and the 37-mm combat anti-aircraft guns captured in the battle of Hailar.
Various direct-aiming fires of the Soviet-made 45mm anti-tank gun.
Even the Soviet-made 85 anti-aircraft guns were pulled out to conduct experimental firing on this armor. Although the performance cannot be compared with that of later generations, the ballistic and ballistic repelling performance of mass-produced models with carefully calculated stamping angles even exceeds
The performance that Yang Zhen expected. This is something that even Yang Zhen, the designer, did not expect.
The T-26 tank equipped with these additional armors can even withstand the level fire of the Type 90 field gun, which has the best anti-tank performance and the most powerful level fire of the Japanese army at present, from a distance of 400 meters. You must know that although the Japanese do not yet have
I discovered the anti-tank performance of this field gun, but also felt that the price of this field gun was too expensive, the quality was too heavy, and the quantity of equipment was not large.
But this kind of field artillery was the most powerful anti-tank weapon that the Japanese army could use later. On the Pacific battlefield a year later, the losses caused to the US tank troops were far greater than those of the Japanese tank troops.
Being able to withstand the 400-meter level fire of this field gun shows its excellent performance.
It can be said that the T-26 was called a canned tank on the Soviet-German battlefield because its armor was too weak. After being equipped with additional armor and explosive reactive armor, its basic protection capability has exceeded that of the tank on the Soviet-German battlefield.
The protective capabilities of the Soviet T-34 tanks Type 76 and the German Panzer IV tanks. In other words, at a small cost, the Anti-Japanese Alliance has greatly improved the performance of its thin-skinned tanks.
But once this kind of armor is equipped on a large scale, it means that it may be captured by the Japanese army at any time on the battlefield. This kind of simple structure, but very effective thing, once copied by the Japanese army, will pose a considerable threat to the Anti-Alliance. So not only in
Strict confidentiality is maintained during manufacturing and production, and strict usage plans are formulated.
Once a tank is destroyed or must be abandoned on the battlefield, these additional armors must be destroyed or detonated as soon as possible. This is to prevent these additional armors from being simple in structure, but extremely practical, and most importantly, extremely low-cost.
New equipment that is easy to mass-produce fell into the hands of the Japanese army.
Moreover, these additional armors were not issued to the troops after production. They could only be installed before going to the battlefield. Therefore, the Japanese intelligence agency did not have any awareness of this additional armor. In addition, the performance of the Japanese armor-piercing projectiles was very
It's so bad, it's no surprise that the results are zero.
Although the first few rounds of shelling did not achieve any results, Lieutenant Colonel Ikoma Hayashi is one of the best tank commanders in the Japanese army. After discovering that his tank guns could not penetrate the anti-Union tanks, he
Immediately issued an order that all vehicles were not allowed to do any short-stop shooting. They moved closer to the anti-union tanks with all their strength and tried to get as close as possible to a distance of 200 meters before firing.
At the same time, all Type 97 tanks equipped with 57mm cannons, as well as the four Type 97 modified tanks currently equipped with the most powerful 47mm tank gun among the Japanese army, were ordered to find the command tank of the Anti-Japanese Alliance
, concentrated artillery fire on the command tanks of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
From Lieutenant Colonel Ikoma Hayashi's point of view, I can't penetrate you at a distance of 500 meters. But at a distance of 200 meters, no matter how thick your armor is, my artillery will be useless, but there is no big problem. Moreover,
As long as the Anti-League command tanks are eliminated, no matter how strong the Anti-League tanks' defense capabilities are, they will be defeated one by one like a headless fly.
According to Lieutenant Colonel Ikoma Hayashi's experience during the Battle of Nomenhan, it is not difficult to find a command tank among these two tanks. Due to the backward electronic industry, compared with the German tanks where radios have become popular, the current Soviet
The military only has wireless communication equipment on command tanks. As for the Soviet tank commander's mount, the command tank has a huge box-shaped radio antenna installed on any turret, just like the Japanese tank.
As long as he finds a tank equipped with this kind of frame antenna among the tanks of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, it will be the tank on which their commander is riding. As long as he destroys them, he still has a certain chance of victory. To beat the snake, this is him
This was one of the tactics that Commander Ikoma Hayashi had already formulated when he envisioned this battle.
During the Battle of Nomonhan, the Japanese army adopted such tactics, which caused considerable casualties and confusion to the Soviet tank commanders. Only the tank brigade commander and chief of staff were killed one person each. As for the battalion and company
Level officers, the number killed was even greater.
This plan of Ikoma Hayashi is naturally a good plan if the opponent replaces the Soviet army with backward radio equipment. But these tanks have already been modified with new radio systems, and the huge frames of the tanks used by commanders at all levels
Type radio antennas have long since been canceled and replaced by whip antennas.
Not only are all tanks equipped with radio communication systems, but even the vehicles are equipped with in-vehicle intercom systems. Not only is it much more convenient to command, but as long as the replacement is someone who does not know the inside story, even if he is given a pair of eyes, he will be able to find it.
If you don’t tell me, that tank is the command tank.
On the contrary, all the tanks of the Japanese army, except the Type 97 tank, which was the first batch of the Japanese army to be generally equipped with the Type 94 Type 4C ultra-very shortwave radio station. The remaining Type 95 light tanks, except for the command vehicle
, ordinary vehicles are not equipped with any communication system at all.
The Type 94 Type 4C extremely ultra-shortwave radio on the Japanese tanks was not specially designed for tanks. The tubes used to make the radio simply could not withstand the violent bumps when the tank was moving, so it was always broken in theory.
Moreover, in the noisy environment inside the tank, the signals of these radio stations with a communication distance of only about one thousand meters are not strong, making it difficult for people to hear clearly what is being said there.
Therefore, although they are equipped with radio stations, the communication capabilities between Japanese tanks have not been completely improved. Except for the command tanks, which are equipped with ultra-shortwave radio stations, which are relatively strong, most of the other tanks still rely on semaphores for command and dispatch.
.Ikoma Lin's order was still received by the command tank equipped with an ultra-short wave radio.
Although under the leadership of the command tank, the Japanese tanks accelerated towards the Anti-Union tanks, trying to engage in a close battle with the Anti-Union tanks. However, their efforts to find the command vehicle in the Anti-Union tank group failed.
After many efforts, they could not find a vehicle with a frame antenna on the turret.
Not only did Ikoma Hayashi's tactical intention of attacking the command tank first not come true, even his tactical intention of approaching him for close combat was seen through by his opponent. His opponent was obviously not willing to engage in close combat with him. Because of this
In close-range tank battles, even if your armor has been improved, it is still difficult not to suffer losses.
At a distance of 180 meters, even if the Japanese tank gun has poor armor-piercing capabilities, it will have no problem penetrating your armor. And at such a short distance, even if it cannot penetrate your front armor, it can bypass you.
Fire at your weakest point from behind. In short, it is impossible not to suffer losses in this close combat situation.
Not to mention the current Soviet-made tanks, even the German King Tiger tanks, which were the most heavily armored in the entire World War II a few years later, would not work. However, Ikoma Hayashi's plan was good, but it was obvious that his opponent did not intend to pay such a price.
The price is too high, let alone give him this opportunity.