Chapter 383 Compound Armor

Military operations on the front line are quietly underway. The new round of offensives in North China is just a false action. The volunteer army in Anyang has been evacuating. All this is due to its strong air transportation capabilities. The Japanese North China Expeditionary Force could not have imagined that the enemy troops on the opposite side could use such means to escape from the battlefield.

This is the change brought about by industrial technology to war. Many traditional concepts and tactical ideas have been subverted and can even determine the outcome of war to a large extent.

Liuzhou Heavy Industrial Zone has begun operations and the third phase of the project has been completed. The industrial capacity here alone is equivalent to one-third of Japan.

The Industrial and Economic Union was not satisfied with this. The larger-scale Beibei Industrial Zone is also under intense planning and design, and is expected to start construction in the spring of next year. The entire project will take five years, but if it is completed and the Liuzhou Heavy Industry Base continues to enrich its foundation, Hualian's industrial production capacity will surpass Japan in all aspects.

As the current chairman of the China Economic Union and the president of Xinghua News Agency, Liu Haoran, is standing in front of a two-meter-high dressing mirror, and his wife is helping him dress neatly with her gentle hands.

Today he is going to Liuzhou to attend the internal meeting of composite armor technology. Yin Xiangzhou, director of the Second Research Institute, personally presided over the meeting and introduced the latest research results of the military metal development team to the participants, several composite armors that can greatly improve the Chinese military armored vehicles.

This time it was not just Xinghua News Agency. More than a dozen companies and enterprises with related industrial fields within the Industrial and Economic Union participated, and senior officers from the Chinese Army were indispensable.

No one dares to despise this major invention that is likely to change the situation of war. Hualian has always attached great importance to the consolidation and development of industrial technology, which is well known.

In the cockpit of the private helicopter, Liu Haoran looked down at Liuzhou City below through the glass window. The whole city is now completely renewed, like a huge chess board, each chess piece is a factory, filled with it, covering this ancient city with a long history with a metal coat.

This is an emerging megacity industrial city. In addition to the more than one million residents who originally lived here, more than one and a half million immigrants have settled and worked here.

Most of these are technical workers related to industrial production and their family members. Due to the increase in population and increase in income, Liuzhou's economic index and consumption level are among the top five cities in the entire Hualian.

Flying to the northern suburbs of Liuzhou City, it is still a military-controlled area, a factory area with fifteen large military-industrial enterprises. The internal production activities are linked to the army and the confidentiality requirements are very strict.

There is a tarmac outside the factory area, painted with bright red square plaids, which is very eye-catching.

As soon as he got off the helicopter, Liu Haoran and his entourage followed the service staff who came to pick him up and walked towards the factory area. On the way, he met several groups of patrolling guards. The fierce and solemn aura reflected on his dark skin, making people frightened.

Because it was an extraordinary period, even the defense power here was greatly strengthened, and the elite troops in the army were dispatched to replace the original factory guards and security guards.

The familiar voice of "Haoran" came from afar, and it was Chen Ze who was smiling. He was wearing a light and cool summer outfit and was in a very disgusting mood.

"Aze" Seeing that it was old, Liu Haoran was also happy, and his two big hands were held together forcefully. He glanced at the large factory not far away, and Liu Haoran turned back his eyes and asked Chen Ze Aze, did you hear that you were in trouble recently?"

As soon as he talked about this, Chen Ze's face appeared with a faint distress. He shook his head slightly, right? I got involved in the Environmental Protection Bureau at the thermal power plant in Liubei. Those guys were unyielding and insisted on causing trouble for me."

The thermal power plant is seriously polluted. Due to its dereliction of management, this thermal power plant company under Tianyu Group emits waste gas exceeding the standard. A large amount of dust drifts around and is stabbed into the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau by local residents.

As a result, I finally went to the newspaper, and the more trouble I got bigger and bigger.

"Haha, you're in trouble, but it's better to deal with this matter quickly. You don't want to be entangled by the Environmental Protection Bureau. If there is a big problem, the loss of authority is quite large." Liu Haoran was not gloating, and there was no intention of ridicule in his tone, and Chen Ze did the same.

"It's not as comfortable to do business now as before. Especially in local investment, all factors must be considered properly. Today is the Environmental Protection Bureau, the Fire Bureau, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the Health Bureau and other monsters are so annoyed."

Chen Ze's words expressed the thoughts of many merchants. In so many places around the world, Hualian's investment environment is the worst. It's not that the economic environment is bad, but that there are too many rules and regulations that discourage many people. Many foreign capital have been gradually withdrawn.

Even many domestic businessmen would rather choose to do business and open factories in the area under the rule of the ** Party. If Japan's invasion of China had not brought back some hot money, this kind of economic loss would have been going on for a while.

"There is no way. Now local officials are elected, and the power of central officials at the provincial level and above has limited impact on local areas. Even if we want to bribe, few officials are willing to ask for it. After all, it is related to their political career issues." Liu Haoran was actually helpless in this matter. Not to mention others, even the major industrial groups in the China Economic Union have many industries arranged in other provinces and regions in China.

If you want to protect the environment, you have to pay an economic price, which is inevitable.

Liu Haoran and Chen Ze both understand the influence of the ancient Chinese Society. Although Zhong Yang does not compete for power or wealth, he has persistence or stubbornness in many things.

Rarely surrender because of the need for power struggle, but all of this is due to the relationship between smart factories and without strong technical output as a backing and magnets, how can we firmly attract these industrial and commercial giant groups within the Industrial and Economic Union?

Just like this composite armor technical meeting, except for Yi Zhongming of Qingzhu Chemical, who did not come, the bosses of the other two major groups came forward in person.

No one is a fool. The profits represented by this armor production technology and the influence of military and political circles have made everyone salivate. Xinghua News Agency and Tianyu Group both want to get a piece of the pie, and other small and medium-sized enterprises are unwilling to live this opportunity.

The confrontation between armor and ranged weapons can be traced back to the arrows and armor in the age of cold weapons. After the beginning of the firearm era, with the rapid development of missiles, armor in the original sense gradually withdrew from the stage of history.

In the early days of gunpowder, the killing of firearms on personnel can only be described as horror. From the beginning of the firearm era to the emergence of tanks, it can be said that A is at an absolute disadvantage.

During this period, infantry only had steel helmets that could provide limited protection for the head. However, armored cars could not be used on a large scale due to insufficient power and poor off-road performance, resulting in almost no protection during infantry charge during field battles, and the casualties were shocking.

Things began to turn a major turn on September 15, 1916. On this day, 49 diamond-shaped steel monsters were put into the Somme front line, which was at a stalemate at the time, and the rolling tracks crushed the German defense line.

Epoch-making weapons in the history of human land warfare were born. In order to keep it secret, the British named this weapon "" originally meant a water tank, and later became the correct name of this weapon "tank".

That's it, an epoch-making weapon in the history of modern land warfare was born.

In the early days, the tank's defense was relied on riveted high-carbon steel plates. Until before World War II, more firm and reliable armor connection methods such as welding and casting began to be put into use on tanks. In addition, the application of alloy steel and the proposal of inclined armor theory made the tank's protection level continue to improve leapfrog.

However, during this period, the improvement of protective power was mainly achieved by increasing the thickness of the armor, but the idea of ​​relying solely on increasing the thickness has great limitations, because due to the limitations of the technical level and passability of the power system, the tank cannot be made too heavy.

The tilted armor severely limits the space inside the vehicle and does not save weight. Therefore, the threat of long-range weapons makes engineers have to find a different approach and find ways to improve protection by changing the composition of the armor material.

The breakthrough was first found on the maritime overlord battleship at this time.

At this time, in order to improve protection, the battleships generally used surface hardened steel, so engineers from the Second Institute of the Guwenhui Institute thought of using surface hardened steel on tanks to enhance the protection of the tank.

Of course, this is also related to the poor quality of Hualian's steel materials at that time. The k value of Hualian's steel plates of the same thickness is often lower than that produced in the Soviet Union. Even with Zhong Yang's technical support and basic knowledge accumulated by metal technology research and the cost of metal technology and national strength, it cannot be suddenly raised overnight.

Although this method requires a large amount of power, it has no effect. Therefore, surface-treated surface hardened steel is commonly used on Chinese tanks. It should be noted that its hardness is not very high, even lower than that of the Soviet steel plates during the same period.

However, its surface hardness is much greater than that of the interior.

This technology began secretly when the IEEE and German industrial personnel cooperated with the German industry. In fact, this was also the necessary path of armor technology development in Germany after the official start of World War II. Hualian only advanced this process several years.

In the original time and space, the treated armor effect was quite bad at the beginning. In combat against the Soviet Union, the Tiger 1 tank, which used 100mmfh steel as front armor, withstood many Soviet 76.2ap attacks.

Many armor-piercing shells were directly smashed by the surface of the armor, leaving only shallow marks on the armor, while the 45mm shell was bounced off directly.

However, behind the glory of the surface is a crisis, because the basic principle of surface hardening armor is to rely on high hardness to cause fatal damage to the incoming warhead to prevent penetration. After the warhead is hardened enough or some protective measures are taken, the "martial arts" of surface hardening armor are destroyed.

In the later stage, aapbc and apcbc, which were increasingly equipped, disintegrated the technical advantages of surface hardened armor, and the large-scale application of Apcr completely sentenced the death penalty for surface hardened armor.

Among them, because of the effect of the warhead being capped, the depth of fha even surpasses the depth of rha. The apcr relies on its high initial velocity of 1200 and high hardness and high density carbonized heavy metal bullet core, making the hardened layer formed by the surface hardening armor that consumes a lot of working hours become useless.

These things have completely lost the advantage of surface hardened armor on which it depends for survival, and its complex and wasteful processing technology has made its cost too high. The loss of efficiency and high cost have caused surface hardened armor to withdraw from the stage of history.

However, surface hardened armor should have been made of armor with two materials of different physical properties. Although it was not very successful, its position in the history of tank development still needs to be affirmed.

Yin Xiangzhou is now in his fifties. His gray hair makes him look younger, but his capable and heroic temperament has not changed at all. He is wearing a white coat and walking in the spacious tank production workshop, introducing his proud works to the masters and nobles who are working.

"Everyone, this is an epoch-making product. After practical data on early surface hardened steel, we have established a complete composite armor development system. Now the finished product has been presented to everyone, please look here."

The big hands covered with rough calluses stroked the specially treated composite decks. No one could see anything special just by looking at the appearance.

In the years after World War I, the world did not emerge from the shadow of war. On the contrary, the shadow of World War II once again enveloped the entire earth, and the fierce arms race began again. As the king of land warfare, the tanks were naturally constantly improving with the rapid development of the two huge military machines of the Axis and Allies.

Europe is now like a huge powder keg, and the ambitious Hitler is stepping towards the opposite shore of peace, where there will be endless wars and flames.

In the early days of the war, the internal structure of the tank became reasonable, so that the tank could thicken the main armor as much as possible without much weight increase. The physical thickness of the front armor of the turrets of mainstream medium-sized tanks in various countries generally increased to about 200mm. If calculated inclination, the actual equivalent thickness is basically above 300mm.

At this time, cast armor became the mainstream, and heavy tanks reached an equivalent thickness of 400mm or even higher. The average penetration depth of armor-piercing bombs during the same period was roughly this level, and the armor and bombs were in a delicate balance to some extent.

The existence of balance was to be broken, but no one expected that the energy-catching armor-piercing bomb sold to the Germans in 1921 changed everything. The ammunition that appeared, which seemed inconspicuous at the time, broke the balance and even once shaken the tank's status as the king of land warfare.

This kind of ammunition is an energy-concentrating armor-piercing bomb or a jet armor-piercing bomb. In the early days, due to the limitations of processing accuracy and the research on the principle of armor-piercing was not in-depth enough at that time.

Without Zhong Yang's appearance, the energy-gathering armor-piercing bomb was not widely used in World War II, only at the end of World War II

A single-soldier bazooka was installed with heat warheads. Because the initial velocity of the single-soldier bazooka was low, the detonation working conditions were closer to the ideal working conditions than the heat loading launched by the tank gun, posing a certain threat to the tank.

But Zhong Yang developed this technology in advance and sold one of the complete technical processes to the Germans in exchange for a generous start-up capital. However, he did not know that this technology had spread and was widely circulated among major power countries.

Zhong Yang was helpless about this situation and could only sigh that the Germans' technical confidentiality ability is really worrying.

At this time, with the rapid improvement of various industrial processes, the problem of heat's medical cover processing accuracy was quickly solved. In addition, the maturity of theoretical research has led to the rapid improvement of heat's power.

In the early days of the Battle of Hangzhou, after Japan suffered a great loss, it took out the "Fire Fist" i-type anti-tank rocket launcher collected from the arsenal of the ** Party. This targeted infantry anti-tank weapon with the energy-gathering and armor-breaking effect caused a lot of losses to the Fifth Legion of the Chinese Army.

The power of this individual rocket system is generally close to or reaches 500mm or even more. At this time, the space for tanks to use physical thickness to strengthen defense has been basically saturated, and it is almost impossible to fight heat by simply increasing the thickness of armor.

In particular, the emergence of anti-tank armor-piercing bombs has made some people doubt whether the tank has reached its end, and even began to appear in the army with the uselessness of tanks. The status of tanks as "King of Land Warfare" is facing an unprecedented crisis.

Advanced technology that emerged in advance brought certain strategic advantages to the Chinese army, but this advantage will soon be surpassed. At present, the Japanese Army's military-industrial research institutions have definitely mastered the technical principles of energy-concentrated armor-piercing bombs. In addition to their close relationship with Germany and Japan's local industrial capabilities, corresponding anti-tank bombs will be developed by May next year.

In order to deal with this threat, the Chinese army has continued to improve tank armor. It is meaningless to increase the thickness of the armor alone. The emergence of composite armor technology has filled this gap. At the same time, unlike the technical theory of energy-concentrating armor-piercing bombs, this armor technology is more confidential.

Even if the part captured by the enemy on the battlefield is not possible in one or two years to imitate it. For war, this is enough.

Liu Haoran and Chen Ze were listening carefully to Yin Xiangzhou's introduction. Because it was a factory area, everyone visited while walking, and no one felt tired. No matter how pampered they were in normal times, they were all people who started out with technology. The importance of natural technology is not daring to make people feel good here.

After listening to Yin Xiangzhou's brief introduction, everyone could not wait to watch the live-fire shooting scene and personally test the defense effectiveness of this composite armor. If it is true as mentioned in the introduction, the profit margin will be very amazing.

This will be a technical force that changes the world pattern. Everyone is planning how many permissions they will take out to strive to exchange for this new type of armor production technology.

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