Chapter 116: Fuel consumption

"It's amazing! I seem to have understood this thing since I was born... how it works, how it acts, how it fights." Closed his eyes, the recruit Ryan felt everything in his mind and said to himself excitedly. Language.

When he opened his eyes, he found that everything he was familiar with still existed in front of his eyes. He stretched out his hand and touched the cold iron plate that he couldn't be more familiar with, and then issued an order: "Alright! Gentlemen! Start the engine, we try to move forward!"

"Dang bang, bang..." The sound of metal rubbing sounded very noisy outside, but the people inside were wearing communication headsets, so they didn't feel anything wrong.

On the contrary, they feel very excited, because the weapon they are driving can be said to have completely changed the Army.

Yes, they are driving a tank, a tank that looks very powerful. Inside the small tank body, there are five tank soldiers who have studied for a long time. They are driving the first tank in human history and conducting various test experiments.

"Steer! Turn right! Test the sensitivity of the tank! Slowly! Slowly!" Ryan allowed his driver to steer while observing the surrounding situation through the narrow periscope.

For him, this is not an easy task, because the field of vision in the tank is very narrow, and he must endure this limitation of field of vision and try to figure out what is happening around him as much as possible.

Soon, his tank completed its turn under the gaze of many people. The tank was moving slightly awkwardly. The 75mm short-barreled cannon equipped on it was basically the army version of the flat-fire gun used by the navy.

It can fire the grenade of the Army’s 75mm caliber infantry artillery, and it can also fire a special armor-piercing projectile. This armor-piercing projectile is actually a solid warhead projectile, used to strike large targets.

"Cannon commander! Turn the turret! I need to aim at the target in our direction! This is a test item!" While turning, the commander Ryan looked at the record sheet of the test item and said to his gun commander.

The gunner stepped on the pedal of the rotating artillery, and then the turret of the tank revolved, the motor made a nice sound, and the entire turret turned fast. The tank was still moving when the turret was turned, so in the end the gunner found that he couldn't find the target he was looking for.

"Damn it! Stop! I want to aim at the target!" The gunner yelled gloomily in the telecommunication device in the car. His shouting quickly took effect. The tank stopped, and then after a while, the gun Changcai finally found the direction where his artillery was pointing, and aimed at the distant target.

"Loader! Load the armor-piercing projectile!" Commander Lane gave a loud combat command, and the loader next to him drew a cannonball from the storage rack of the cannonball and stuffed it into the barrel in front of him: "Loading finished !"

"Boom!" The tank's barrel spewed out a ball of flames, and a shell hit a fixed target about 400 meters away. It was not easy to miss. After all, the target was about the same size as a dragon.

The huge penetrating power directly penetrated the stacked sandbags, and the target was directly penetrated by the shell, showing the good penetrating performance of this artillery. At any rate, it is also an improved artillery from the Navy’s 75mm flat-fire gun, and its power is naturally nothing to say.

Through the periscope in front of him, Ryan carefully observed the target that was hit, and then said loudly: "Go ahead! We are going to the next test area! There are two test tanks waiting for us over there. Yeah!"

Chris searched for a long time in Army weapons that meet the industrial level of Allan Hill, and finally decided to go directly to the M4 Sherman tank with the best overall performance. This kind of tank is not really good, but it wins from its mediocre mediocrity.

The first to be eliminated were the famous German tanks in World War II: Tiger tanks and Panther tanks were completely eliminated due to manufacturing complexity, and the slightly mediocre No. 3 and No. 4 tanks were also similar because of similarities. The alternative was rejected.

At least in Chris's opinion, German tanks are basically not suitable for Ailan Hill's current needs. On the one hand, they consume too much steel and have production capacity, and on the other hand, they are a headache because of reliability and fuel consumption.

Coupled with its amazingly expensive but severely overpowered firepower, as well as disregarding the crowd but almost no opponent's defensive ability, there is nothing that can satisfy Chris.

Therefore, in the Ailan Hill Army, where both rifles and machine guns are using German weapons, the armored units were the first to exclude German tanks. When deciding to abandon German tanks, Chris also remembered the famous conclusion: The tank soldiers wanted most was indeed the tank the generals hated the most...

After eliminating the German tanks, what Chris wanted was the famous T-34 tank produced by the Soviet Union. This tank can even be produced in a tractor factory, which can be said to be very in line with the needs of Ailan Hill.

However, although this tank performs very well in industrial production, its performance in other aspects seems a bit dumbfounding.

First of all, the most terrible thing is the poor performance of ergonomics. The driving control of the t-34 tank is very general, which can be said to be the worst among similar tanks. In addition, this tank is too much for the driver and the tanks inside. It is too narrow, which is not conducive to the long battle of the tank crew.

After making some choices, Chris felt that the lack of high-height defenses nowadays is not a fatal problem, and the production and maintenance of the m4 tank is also very simple, not much worse than the famous t-34.

As for firepower... Chris felt that it was already bullying the enemy to be able to push the 75mm caliber artillery to the front line. He originally wanted to directly use the 30mm caliber air defense self-propelled artillery as a tank.

However, considering that it may be possible to deal with some difficult ground targets in the future, Chris decided to put this kind of tank that looks more advanced in performance as the army's main tank.

In fact, Chris really hesitated for a long time to choose t-34 or m4. He even held a weapon selection meeting for the first time, soliciting the opinions of the Army and the production department, and finally selected the target as m4.

The key issue that gave him a final word is that because the radio equipment is still at an unstable level at this stage, the radio operator is still an indispensable tank configuration at present.

However, most of the Soviet t-34 tanks did not have expensive radios, and they did not leave a place for the radio operator when they were designed. Therefore, the t-34 tanks have always been a 4-person vehicle group, one less electromechanical than the m4.

Although it is indeed tempting to save one person, considering the importance of tanks in coordinated operations, Chris still firmly believes that tank troops must be equipped with radios to facilitate dispatch and command.

Therefore, the t-34 tank, which was slightly inferior in communication, was finally unsuccessful, and Ailan Hill's army chose the m4 tank as their "imperial cavalry." Soon new tank factories were established in Wallavo and Naaru, and the first batch of tanks produced entered the testing and army experiment phase.

Because this is already a well-known and mature design in history, the so-called army test is just a cutscene. Seeing the three tanks attacking in concert in the test field, all the army generals opened their eyes wide.

Since ancient times, how to solve the defense needs of soldiers has been a very important issue. Whether heavy infantry or heavy cavalry, they are all powerful arms that are born to allow soldiers to obtain defense as much as possible.

However, since ancient times, humans have never been like today, stacking firepower, maneuverability and defense on one weapon, and allowing these three attributes to be balanced and better displayed.

The appearance of tanks satisfies all mankind's or army's illusions about war: let the heavy steel plate run faster than war horses, rush into the enemy's array, and use powerful weapons to destroy all the surrounding enemies!

"This is what I want!" Wagron pointed to the tank on the battlefield, shouting with surprise on his face. He didn't realize that his words made Chris laugh or cry, because in his memory, an acquaintance once said the same thing as Wagron.

General Modler also had a keen interest in this new weapon. He felt that if such a weapon was arranged frontally to attack the opponent's line of defense, then these steel cavalry would only need one attack to destroy any opponent.

"From then on! Allan Hill's army is invincible in the world!" Modler said, describing what he had seen and heard: "If you give me 20 tanks, I can take my 4th Army to defeat Asia. Landiks, if you give me a hundred of these tanks, I can sweep the entire Arante!"

General Coria, who was sitting next to him, was even more optimistic than him. He looked at Modler who was amazed, and smiled and said, "Give me 50 cars, and I will dare to sweep Arrant!"

"Don't be kidding!" Wilkes, who was dumbfounded, dangled in front of Modler and Coria with a tank performance introduction in his hand, and said: "Your army The gasoline reserves in the Ministry are not enough for 50 vehicles to drive to Alanticus!"

Recently, the military in all directions is worrying about one thing, that is, how to store more gasoline to cope with the increasing fuel consumption. Many troops have received corresponding car quotas. The powerful performance of the car makes every commander. Rejoicing, but the fuel consumption that followed caused everyone to collapse.

Nowadays, if you want a reorganized military-level unit to take action, you need not only food, forage, but also ammunition...