radicalducati Chapter 131
Chapter 131
In World War II, tanks became the real kings of the land battlefield.
The infantry wanted to fight with the tanks.
Then it is necessary to equip armored vehicles with certain protection capabilities and good off-road accompaniment.
So at this time, half-track armored vehicles appeared.
became the darling of all countries.
For example, Eagle Sauce's M2/M3 half-track armored vehicles, and Tokuko's 251 series half-track armored vehicles.
These two half-track armored vehicles are also the mainstream of the two camps.
At present, the Northeast Army is equipped with a large number of M3 tracked armored vehicles.
There are various models, and the versatility is ~ very wide.
The most obvious feature of the half-track armored car is the front wheel with a wheeled running machine-structure.
The rear wheels have a track-type travel mechanism.
In the imagination of countries.
This half-track armored vehicle will have wheeled maneuverability and the powerful cross-country ability of tracked vehicles.
At the same time, it will significantly reduce the cost of production of armored vehicles.
The results are obvious.
This thing is not an aggregator, but the disadvantages of integrating wheeled and tracked types.
Not only has the vehicle's mobility not improved much, but the cost is also high.
And not much lower than a full-tracked vehicle.
And due to its complex traveling mechanism, its failure rate is high.
In general, this is a high-not-low-level thing.
And the reason why everyone used it a lot in World War II.
Even after the outbreak of war, they did not have time to study and design new things.
And with the technical capabilities of this period.
The failure rate of full-tracked vehicles was high and did not meet the expectations of large quantities of equipment in the troops.
Not to mention waiting for something new to come out.
The number of equipment of these half-track armored vehicles is already very large.
And they all form a complete system.
But when the war ended.
This thing just disappeared.
Zhang Xueming knew that a full-tracked infantry fighting vehicle was the best companion for a tank.
Wheeled armored vehicles are also very good, but they are more suitable for lightweight armored forces.
So the development of full-tracked infantry fighting vehicles became a priority.
Tanks, on the contrary, are not so anxious.
In terms of tank technology in various countries now.
The T-34/85 medium tank is quite adequate in performance.
When they were about to catch up.
Their next-generation main battle tank is almost ready to come out.
At that time, the tank was really a main battle tank that integrated protection, mobility, power and a high degree of electronicity.
The Northern Institute of Metal Materials, Shenyang Armored Vehicle Research Institute, Northeast Automatic Control Research Institute (Electronics and Fire Control), and Army Artillery Engineering Research Institute have all begun to deepen their cultivation in their respective fields.
These institutes are also among the best in the world today.
Zhang Xueming has no doubt about their scientific research ability.
There is still no big problem in building a main battle tank with the technology of Dentons.
But these are things to consider later.
At the moment, it is still a full-tracked heavy infantry fighting vehicle that needs to be considered.
The concept of a real tracked infantry fighting vehicle was actually formed only after the end of World War II.
At that time, the old Maozi was obsessed with the theory of large-depth operations with armored forces as the core.
However, it suffered from the lack of mechanized infantry equipment capable of accompanying the tank in combat.
Although by that time they were already armed with BTR-50 armored personnel carriers.
But its armor was weak and its firepower was not strong, and it simply could not fight with cover tanks.
So the world's first real infantry fighting vehicle was born only in the 60s.
This is the BMP-1 tracked infantry fighting vehicle.
This could well be called an epoch-making armored vehicle at the time.
And Zhang Xueming wants this infantry fighting vehicle.
A fully enclosed armored fighting vehicle with good protection and strong firepower.
At the same time, it also needs to have a simple mechanical structure, easy to produce and not too high cost.
The Army Equipment Planning Office under the Northeast Military and Political Commission also put forward certain technical requirements for this infantry fighting vehicle.
The weight is controlled below 30 tons, and the crew shall not be less than 6 people.
The caliber of the gun is 30 mm or more.
The armor protection was at least capable of withstanding the fire of a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun.
The speed must not be less than 50 kilometers per hour and the distance must not be less than 400 kilometers.
This can be seen from these technical requirements.
This infantry fighting vehicle has been prescribed to die.
This is actually very high for the armored vehicle research institute.
So they found brother units and set up a joint development team.
The research of armored vehicles is mainly developed in general.
The Northern Institute of Metal Materials provides the required materials.
For example, armor steel, structural materials required for high-strength walking mechanisms, gun steel and so on.
The Northeast Automatic Control Research Institute provides on-board equipment, fire control systems, and two-way stabilizers.
The Army Artillery Engineering Research Institute provided the main gun design.
Jinzhou Internal Combustion Engine Power Research Institute provides power system design solutions.
With the division of labor, the progress of the development of this full-tracked infantry fighting vehicle can be described by leaps and bounds.
This is only a month, and the general design drawings of the first infantry fighting vehicle have already appeared.
This also aroused great interest in Zhang Xueming.
Plus the drawings of tank No. 3 also came out.
So he came over and took a look.
When Zhang Xueming saw the design drawings.
I was immediately attracted by its shape design.
In the shape design, the design idea of the T-34 gram chassis is adopted.
However, a lot of inclined design has been done overall.
The nose also has a streamlined sloping deck design.
The biggest benefit of this is the increased protection capacity.
The turret is a new all-cast turret.
The unibody turret provides strong protection.
The shape is somewhat similar to the round turret of the IS-3 heavy tank.
Artillery did not use medium and large caliber guns.
Instead, a new 40mm cannon was used. (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) ）
This machine gun is actually a rapid-fire machine gun developed on the basis of the 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun.
And the elevation angle of this gun reached 70 degrees.
That is to say, it has a high and flat purpose.
It can be used both to suppress ground fire, and to air defense.
In fact, it turned out that there was also a version equipped with a 75 mm low-bore pressure gun.
However, after many discussions by the research group, this version was abandoned.
The reason is simple, excess firepower.
The duty of an infantry fighting vehicle is to accompany the mechanized vehicle of tank combat.
It is enough to have tanks in firepower.
Infantry fighting vehicles only need to have a certain suppression capability.
That's why this version of the 40 mm cannon was adopted.
In terms of power, the T-34 gram V2 diesel engine is used.
However, the Internal Combustion Engine Research Institute has optimized this engine to a certain extent.
The volume was reduced by a quarter at the expense of 100 horsepower.
This can actually be seen from these design schemes.
Why was the first draft of this infantry fighting vehicle able to take shape so quickly.
It is because of the use of a large number of current mature technologies.
Among them, the most technically difficult is the high and low bidirectional stabilizer.
For the design scheme of this tracked infantry fighting vehicle.
Despite being a layman, he is also quite satisfied.
But this is only the first draft.
Manufacturing work on prototype vehicles and a lot of experimentation and refinement were also required.
If the final production model is finalized, it will have to wait at least until the end of the year.
At this speed, Zhang Xueming was already very satisfied.
This also reflects that the northeast already has a strong tooth ability.
Whether it's army equipment, air force fighters or ships.
The check-in system already provides a systematic research institution.
This greatly reduces Zhang Xueming's dependence on the check-in system.
That's what he wants to see.
In case of any failure of the check-in system in the future.
It has many research institutions and a light and heavy industry system.
At least it can be guaranteed that the development of the Northeast Army will not stand still.
This is quite critical.
It comes at a time of quiet and low-key development in the northeast.
Located in the northern part of Hei Province, a major event occurred in Bei'an, which shook the entire northeast.
Hei Province has the most extensive arable land area in the entire northeast and is also the most fertile area.
It is also the focus of the Northeast's five-year agricultural development plan.
Therefore, the land reform methods here are also the most drastic and thorough.
At the same time, a large number of displaced people brought in from Kannai were resettled in Hei Province for land reclamation.
More than 200,000 displaced people have been resettled in the entire Black Province alone.
They all account for almost half of the number of displaced people.
Bei'an Dongsheng Township in Hei Province has resettled more than 3,000 displaced people.
They were given well-reclaimed land.
These people were also settled here, and gradually formed a large village.
It was named Donggang Village.
It borders another Dongjiang village of similar size.
As a local, Dongjiang Village is very unhappy with this village of displaced people.
Because in their opinion.
It was because of their arrival that they took away the land that could have been allocated to them.
So Dongjiang Village took the opportunity of spring plowing to often go to Donggang Village for trouble.
At the beginning, Donggang Village chose to swallow his anger.
After all, they have just arrived here, and they are not familiar with life.
In addition, I have just been allocated free land, and I am happy.
However, their concessions allowed Dongjiang Village to gain an inch.
And Donggang Village, which has been repeatedly bullied, began to resist.
This also led to the beginning of various conflicts between the two sides over all sorts of trivial matters.
An anomaly was found on the township government's side.
Let the grassroots staff calm both sides.
But it didn't do much.
Finally, yesterday, a large-scale brawl broke out between the two sides over the canal incident, involving more than twenty people.
Both sides laid dead hands.
There have also been casualties.
This fight directly hit the anger of both sides.
So they took out their weapons.
Among them, the number of fire bolts and hunting rifles is the largest.
However, it is also equipped with a large number of Hanyang-made and Liao-made rifles.
There were even machine guns and earth cannons.
The massive brawl turned into a village clash.
The number of people involved on both sides even exceeded a thousand.
It's not as simple as brawl anymore.
This is simply local armed unrest, and the nature is very serious.
It is still in the period of suppressing bandits.
The troops stationed on the ground moved quickly and quickly extinguished the unrest.
It also resulted in more than 100 casualties.
This matter immediately attracted Zhang Xueming's great attention.
A very serious problem is also in front of us - ban on guns.