The commander of each T-57 tank is located on the left side of the turret. There is a spherical command tower that can use three periscopes for observation. While assisting the driver, assisting the gunner, and observing things from other angles, the gunner can
It is on the right side of the commander, using a periscope for observation.
The T-57 light tank is equipped with a 57mm gun with a firing line height of 1620mm. The muzzle brake adopts a semi-automatic loading mechanism.
At the rear of the turret of the T-57 light tank, there are two drum-shaped bomb bays to supply ammunition. Each bomb bay contains 16 shells. After the main gun is fired, the empty shells still need to be thrown out by the secondary gunner from the side window.
The main gun of the T-57 light tank is equipped with armor-piercing projectiles and grenades.
The vehicle's auxiliary weapon is a 7.5 mm heavy machine gun, which carries 3,500 rounds of machine gun ammunition. The T-57 light tank's power system is two 4-cylinder gasoline engines that can output a maximum power of 150 horsepower, and the power transmission part is in the front part of the vehicle body.
It is arranged in a T-shape, so the height of the car is only 2.6 meters. The reason for choosing a gasoline engine is mainly because gasoline is light in weight and can carry more fuel.
The transmission device of the T-57 light tank adopts a 3-speed mechanical gearbox. It has 5 pairs of rubber-mounted load-bearing main wheels. The front and rear driving wheels are in the front and rear, guiding, and special steel tracks. However, the T-57 light tank does not have the ability to wade.
, and cannot fight at night.
The main performance data of the T-57 light tank are: crew: 4 people, full combat weight: 7.5 tons, net weight: 5.5 tons, vehicle length (including gun length): 5.360m, vehicle length: approximately 4.8 meters, vehicle width:
2.3 meters, vehicle height (to the control tower) 2.6 meters, vehicle bottom height from the ground
Approximate height: 0.35 meters, special track width: 0.35 meters, maximum driving speed on high-quality highways: 35 kilometers per hour (gasoline engine), diesel engine about 40 kilometers per hour, fuel reserve: 465l, maximum highway range of gasoline engine: 450 kilometers, diesel engine 420 kilometers
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Wading depth: within 0.5 meters, floating ability: none, maximum climbing degree: 35 degrees, trench crossing ability: 1.5 meters, main armor structure type, thickness, horizontal inclination, material, front and upper part of the car body: all high
Material
, 15 mm, 30 degree horizontal angle, hull sides: 20 mm steel plate, hull top: 10 mm steel plate, hull rear: 15 mm, turret front, turret sides: 25 mm, turret top: 10 mm.
Li Ningyu is naturally very familiar with tanks, the main assault weapon for ground combat, and the basic equipment and weapons of the Army's armored forces. If he is a person who is trying to cross the river by feeling the stones when it comes to naval battleships, then Army weapons are his specialty.
Therefore, for this kind of sharp weapon that can suppress and destroy enemy armored vehicles, it can easily destroy local field fortifications and annihilate the enemy's effective forces. Like fighters in the air and battleships in the sea, tanks are naturally the land weapons that the Far East Army will fully develop and produce in the future.
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As a reborn person, Li Ningyu will naturally avoid the disadvantages of early tanks, including the problem of tank turrets, because he clearly remembers that tanks during World War I basically had no turret structure and were generally equipped with 37-75
It is a short barrel with millimeter caliber, low muzzle velocity artillery, and mainly prepares several machine guns. It is a weapon like an infantry armored vehicle and does not take advantage of firepower and armor at all.
At the same time, regarding the steering of tank vehicles, early tank vehicles only relied on clutch and brake systems, and some also relied on auxiliary gearboxes or electric motors that were linked to two crawler tracks. It can be said that the technical level is very limited, and simultaneous production
The equipment is also relatively rudimentary, and we just have to deal with it in a hurry.
production, which resulted in low performance of tanks. The artillery, a weapon mainly used to annihilate active forces, did not fully play its role. At the same time, the armor could only protect against bullets and general shell fragments, and there was no on-board radio.
Communication equipment and better optical observation and aiming instruments.
Tanks are very bumpy during their travels, travel very slowly, and often have mechanical failures. At the same time, the working conditions of each crew member are very poor. Early tanks can only be used to assist the infantry in completing certain tactical breakthroughs, not that
It can expand its results to local depths on its own.
Therefore, on the basis of the above, Li Ningyu avoided some links and gradually improved the technical research on tanks. Along with the engineers who designed the tank vehicles, they changed their thinking and the Far East Army began to stride into a new era of mechanization.
This will have a profound impact on the future pattern of the world, as well as the development of world weapons and army combat operations.
However, the heavy tanks in the Second World War were not the objects of imitation by Li Ningyu. As an officer in the 12th century, Li Ningyu clearly understood that the tactical and technical development ideas of tanks were a simultaneous undertaking, and the Far East
The Legion will directly skip the exploration and experiment period, and will not spend a lot of money to develop various equipment like other countries will do in the future. The Far East Legion will only develop three types of tanks and deploy certain types of tanks according to the needs of each sector.
Type of tank vehicle.
Instead of blindly pursuing light and heavy tanks, we still only use tracked tanks in structure, and will develop amphibious tanks in the future. Of course, the emergence of any weapon will inevitably have its counter-weapons. Now in the Far East
The legion has displayed its tanks in front of all countries in advance, so in the future anti-tank artillery will naturally be the main weapon equipped by countries that do not have tanks or have a small number of tanks.
However, Li Ningyu doesn't care at all, because he knows that any countermeasure artillery used to attack tanks and other armored targets must have a very long barrel. Although the muzzle velocity must be very high, the direct firing distance is also long, and the firing speed is fast.
To achieve armor-piercing effect, generally most
It belongs to the category of cannons or recoilless guns, but the ballistic arc of anti-tank artillery is very small. It usually aims and shoots directly at the target. In the end, because its direction of fire is too small and its fire mobility is poor, there is no assault operation at all.
Ability is just a flash in the pan.
Because in World War II, it has been clearly proven that as tanks and vehicles are heavily involved in land wars, there will be a lot of fire support from land. Tanks and vehicles have indeed withstood the battle test under various complex conditions, and in the end they still survived.
It takes the lead and becomes the main assault weapon in ground combat, so it can be called the "King of Land".
At this moment, in the headquarters of Kong Xiaoping's regiment in the Marco Polo Bridge area, three field divisions joined the battle as soon as they were received, and there were also fifteen T-57 tanks. This made Kong Xiaoping happy, because he could
I clearly remember that Li Ningyu has always refused to take out the T-57 tank.
After receiving the secret weapon, Kong Xiaoping suddenly gave an order in a loud voice: "Immediately give me a telegram to the first-line defense position. One hour later, I will start a full-scale counterattack. Damn it, it's finally my turn to show off my power, Xiaoping."
Japs, this time I’ll let you have a taste of my uncle Kong’s three-axe!”.
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