Chapter 132: Problems with autoloaders

Regardless of the core material of the armor-piercing projectile, it is unfair. For example, a tungsten alloy armor-piercing projectile must have a higher armor-piercing ability than a steel-cored armor-piercing projectile, while a depleted uranium projectile core is better than a tungsten alloy. High ability.

Currently, T-72 only uses ordinary steel core armor-piercing bullets, but the Leopard-2 tank's DM-13 tail fin stabilizes the shelling armor-piercing bullet. The bullet core is a tungsten bullet core with a steel sleeve. Therefore, its armor-piercing ability is certain. Be a bit higher.

In Hans State’s test, this armor-piercing projectile once penetrated the NATO standard three-layer target plate at a distance of 2200 meters. It can be said that the emergence of this armor-piercing projectile established the stabilized tail piercing and armor-piercing projectile as the main anti-tank projectile. The foundation of this position has not changed until later generations.

At the same time, its accuracy is terribly high. This time, under the control of its own tank soldiers, it is only a dozen centimeters away from the cross bullseye! Adding the diameter of the warhead itself, it's not an exaggeration to say that it hit ten rings.

This accuracy is simply terrible! The accuracy of the tank gun itself is high, coupled with the advanced sighting equipment, it can be said that if you use the Leopard-2 tank gun as a prototype to develop your own tank gun, it is definitely much more advanced than the T-72 tank gun!

In addition to the performance of armor piercing, this precision makes everyone sigh.

"Although the Hans nationals lied about their protection, they are really top-notch in terms of mobility and firepower!" Zhu Lao exclaimed, "Compare the two, and you can immediately distinguish the advantages and disadvantages. "

If on the battlefield, the Leopard-2 tank is absolutely crushing.

The specific choice will take a long period of time. We must provide all kinds of comparative data. At the same time, the Army will also conduct analysis and research. It will take a few months to determine.

However, for now, Leopard-2 is definitely going to stand out.

I wish you great satisfaction.

"However, if we choose Leopard-2, we will still face a big problem." Zhu Lao now regards Qin Guan as his most intimate assistant, and he expressed his concerns to Qin Guan.

The size of the Han people is a bit smaller than that of the Hans people! The tankers are almost always small, with limited physical strength.

The Hans Chinese Leopard-2 tank does not have an automatic loader, so it must be manually loaded by a loader.

A 120mm fixed armor-piercing projectile weighs close to 30 kilograms. It is physically exhausting to carry it. However, in tank operations, it will not stop and wait for loading. It is loaded on the move. In addition to the effort, It is also full of risks.

For armor-piercing projectiles, if the projectile just falls off, it may hit the foot. When the projectile is moved, the body rotates and the waist may flash.

However, if it is a grenade, it is even more terrifying.

You must know that the fuse-equipped grenades must not touch any place, otherwise it is easy to crash and kill the car. As soon as the loader let go and the grenade landed, the whole tank exploded from the inside.

According to calculations, the loader can only accurately load a shell into the barrel when the tank is below 25 kilometers per hour, but this speed-moving tank is simply a living target for anti-tank missiles on the battlefield. If you fight for a long time, the loader will have to undergo both physical and psychological tests, which will have a greater negative impact on the combat effectiveness of the unit.

This is also the reason why the Soviets adopted autoloaders. Compared with Western tanks, the Soviets’ tanks were smaller and the internal space was rather awkward. All tankers were small, so they were asked to carry 125mm shells. Terrible.

At the same time, because the internal space is still small, if the shells are automatically loaded, the volume of the automatic loader is too large, so the Soviets simply divided the shells into two parts and loaded them separately to reach the current level.

Then, if one chooses the Leopard-2 tank, they must re-enroll tank soldiers, all tall and strong, and at least replace all the loader.

Will the military agree?

Another option is to develop a new automatic loading machine to automatically load these 120mm shells?

This difficulty is not ordinary. After all, the current foundation of Han is too bad. It can be said that up to now, it has not developed a tank by itself, and it is impossible to develop an automatic loader for 120mm shells.

This is a contradiction. If this contradiction is not resolved, maybe the military will eventually choose the T-72.

Qin Guan frowned upon hearing Zhu Lao's words.

Yes, this is a contradiction, and it seems difficult to resolve.

Because most of the 120mm tank guns in the West are loaded by hand. People are tall and strong. It doesn't matter. If you talk about an automatic loading machine, there is also a Leclerc tank.

Ji Guoren has always been arrogant and weird, the kind who think he is excellent.

Western tanks are all large turrets and have a large tail compartment. So when they were developing the Leclerc tank loader, the idea was to arrange the shells on a chain in the tail compartment. The chains are connected end to end, facing each other. Inside the gun.

But in this way, the turret is not moving, the gun is moving, and the reloading becomes a problem. Therefore, it cannot be loaded at any position, and the barrel needs to be flattened each time to reload.

After it was developed, Leclerc’s tail loader was a two-row arrangement, and the shells were pushed into the barrel after being rotated through the conveyor chain to the outlet port in the loader. At the same time, the warhead is backward to prevent accidents.

However, its reliability is quite low. The legendary failure rate is as high as 4%, which means that if 25 rounds are loaded in the car, one round will be stuck.

In addition to reliability, there is also a security problem. Once the tail compartment is detonated or the fire suppression explosion suppression system fails, the armor-piercing projectile may not pose any safety risks under the cooperation of the pressure relief plate and the passivated charge, but the armor-piercing projectile will definitely make the entire tank interior bloody.

Even if I can get the Leclerc tanks of later generations to be studied by Zhu Lao, it is not reliable.

Back then, the chicken country promoted this kind of automatic loading machine to the Eagle country. The Eagle country tested it and let the chicken people get out of the way. Anyway, the Eagle country is the uncle Hei. The equipment is good and the human flesh loader is the most reliable.

But now, this problem lies in front of Qin Guan, but what is rare to keep Qin Guan from? Soon, Qin Guan thought of something.

The solution is here, or to be precise, at the 4447 factory!

When thinking about this, Qin Guan's mood was even a little heavy, because historically, the domestically made 120mm gun that was deliberately arranging flowers without firing was installed in the 4447 factory. It was only on the Type 89 anti-tank gun. Realize your own value.