The Rise of the Empire

Although Grove is responsible for the task of collecting information from Russia, he is still a technician at the Munich Automobile Factory. Now that he is here, some things still need to be done... For example, now, he must work with Kutuzov, the representative of the Russian technical team, to solve the artillery towing problem.

"Fuck! Don't all such heavy objects use railways?" Grove was shocked when he first saw the 6-inch heavy guns modified by the Russians! For this thing, let alone the Russians. Now the Germans have not studied how to carry out large-scale road maneuvers on the battlefield. Generally speaking, this artillery is first transported from the heavy-duty train to the battlefield, and then transported by the narrow gauge train. To the ground. And if you transport a few doors at a time, you can also transport a large number of horses and people together, but if you transport more than a dozen doors at once. It's hard to imagine using horse-drawn carts and manpower alone!

The Russians then showed the results of their work to Grove. The thick and long 6-inch l30 barrel was drawn out and placed on a special four-wheeled vehicle. The gun frame was used with the front car and used another 16 horses. In the experiment, these horse-drawn carriages can run on highways or on gravel roads. Not to mention how fast they are, but they still feel no problem.

"You have solved this problem well, why are you looking for us?" Grove said with some wonder as he looked at the artillery cart that was slowly advancing under the lead of 32 Don hippos.

"Then, our road conditions on the battlefield in the Far East are worse than all the bad conditions you have experienced, and even our 3-inch rapid-fire guns have to be disassembled in some areas and shipped with horses! In most parts of the Far East Even if you double the horses, it may not be enough. These heavy artillery part-time jobs are like a plow. After walking past, they leave deep mud pits." Kutuzov said.

This is the problem of undead dragging the cannon away. This is to take two steps and fall into the pit, then pull it out with all your strength, and then fall into the pit again. To put it bluntly, the passability is too bad. No way, the Russians still use iron wheels, at most a layer of rubber is added to the outside. (Before Kutuzov came here, the Russians just gave up their wooden wheels with iron. In addition to the passable coffee table, the biggest problem is that this thing is too weak. The 3 village guns can be just one shot, 6 Forget the inch gun........)

"It turns out that this is the case. It seems that we need to equip these artillery with suitable wheels first!" The problem of artillery and gun mounts is no longer needed. To reduce the weight, we need to redesign the gun mounts. This is a matter for the Russians, unless they are willing Hand over the production of gun carriages to the Bavarians, otherwise Kruger would not care.

Iron wheels have poor passability, too much weight, and are prone to wear. Bavaria also has a large number of heavy artillery to be transported, and the artillery was first modified before being changed to vehicle towing. The use of new rubber tires, synthetic rubber process 1 before the war, and it is not difficult to increase the wear resistance of tires through carburizing. But when it comes to the manufacture of tires, it is definitely not an outer tire and then an inner tube inside, so that the tires made are bicycle tires...

Bavaria brought two types of tires to the Russians, one was a pneumatic tire, and the other was filled with sponge rubber. The former can be used for heavy-duty trucks, while the latter can be used for general carriages and gun carriages. According to the calculation results of the Munich Tire Factory, if the operation is good, the sales profit of the tire alone can reach about 40% of the profit of the shells.......

And this time, the new tires that Bavaria brought to the Russians were imitated radial tires of later generations, also called steel tires. Although the quality is completely incomparable with the products produced by the French Michelin company in 1946, and the structure is to be simplified, it is still several blocks better than the current tires! Rolling level.

"This kind of tire greatly expands the ground contact area, and there is a reinforcement layer inside the tire, and there is steel wire reinforcement inside, so the load capacity of the tire is greatly enhanced. Although there is no crawler type Good passability, but this is the best wheel I have ever seen.” Colonel Kutuzov then commented on the tires imported from Bavaria.

The size of this tire is reduced, so the weight of the entire gun vehicle is also reduced. In addition, two tires are used in parallel to increase the contact area, which greatly improves the passability of the gun carriage. And if it can be equipped with a high-power trailer, then there will be no major problems in maneuvering in the Far East.

As for the tractor, the Germans brought a new 5-ton half-track tractor to Russia. The car body is 4.2 meters long and 1.8 meters high. The car is 1.5 meters wide. This vehicle with an 8-cylinder 65-horsepower water-cooled engine weighs about 4.5 tons. The maximum road trip is about 240 kilometers. It can load more than 3 tons of materials. At the same time, it can tow trailers or gun carts with a weight of 6 tons behind. Towing a half-track site, the car itself can cross a trench of about 1.5 meters, or cross a river with a depth of no more than half a meter.

Subsequently, the Russians conducted an all-round test on this semi-tracked vehicle called sd.kfz-1 in Germany~www.NovelMTL.com~ and tested it after long-distance driving in various terrains. This vehicle is very satisfied with its superior off-road performance, extremely high speed (maximum road speed of 50 kilometers per hour), and durable skin. (In fact, it is not very durable. The average trouble-free marching distance is 150 kilometers from the beginning. But considering that Russia and even the whole world have such excellent vehicles, the Russians say this is acceptable!) The Russians think that It is a good idea to add weapons to this vehicle.

With regard to the subsequent purchase of vehicles, the Russians fully demonstrated the idea of ​​not only wanting good things, but also not wanting to spend more money. Their first request was to be able to install components on the basis of existing pure tractors. Make temporary improvements on the battlefield to make it a chariot.

For this request, Bavaria's answer is very simple, and it is natural. You can put a machine gun on the battlefield, but stability and bulletproof issues are not guaranteed. It’s okay if it’s just frontal bulletproof, but what the Russians proposed is a full defense against heavy machine gun bullets and at the same time being immune to most shrapnel attacks. This is a bit problematic. Because the test team found that the new bullets brought by the Russians were more brutal.

Thanks to the book friends First Guards Tank Brigade, Fengyu 15, Hemato, Slowly Tour K, x9900, and the sea has an edge~~~! And the support of book friends model husband, cllyf, model husband, chen111, giant Shuoshu. Today’s two changes, everyone knows the reason--! The author is tired--! Three consecutive shifts for nearly a month, but the results are not satisfactory...