Chapter 990 155mm heavy artillery
That's right, the Northwest has solved it. Of course, the solution is to rely on motor vehicles. This is a direction for future development. During World War II, with the large number of applications of motor vehicles, many armies have adopted the transformation of motor vehicles. The troops after the transformation are very strong, the logistics is satisfied, the speed is satisfied, and the more artillery equipment, the better. Later generations of motor vehicles not only have a large number of military armored trucks, but also purely offensive troops such as tanks and armored vehicles.↗,
The emergence of cars seems to represent a certain direction. Looking at the car with high horsepower, it is smoothly pulling artillery weighing several tons or even dozens of tons. Under the traction of the car, it moves forward smoothly. As long as the road surface is slightly flattering, it can be pulled forward quickly. If it is a little muddy, it will be easier to pass with the car's pulling power and with greater pulling force than the horse.
Even Zhu Erdian, who is most vigilant about the Northwest, has to praise that the quality of cars in the Northwest is excellent. The automobile industry is a system that is the world's best and the largest. There are countless people who want to study something from Northwest Automobile. However, except for the system and layout, they have learned very little. Even the cars copied in the Northwest style cannot reach the quality and power of Northwest Automobile, and they cannot even become a dog like a tiger.
There are many rumors about Northwest Automobile, but it is generally recognized in the industrial field that Northwest's processing capacity and the quality of materials are far stronger than other countries, which is also the bigger secret of Northwest Automobile.
Zhu Erdian and several other ambassadors have already done it. After the exercise, the idea of ordering a batch of military vehicles from the northwest. Although the two sides have a faint hostile relationship, it is feasible to purchase each other's industrial products and enhance themselves before declaring war. The equipment of a large number of cars will inevitably change the logistics environment on the battlefield.
It has been a while since the military of various countries is considering using cars for logistics, but for various reasons, it has not been realized. The only thing that is really used is Germany. The reason is very simple. Nowadays, cars have just appeared, and ordinary cars are easy to deal with. There is insufficient horsepower, and small gasoline engines with 10 or 20 horsepower can be driven, but load-carrying cars and cargoes require even greater horsepower.
The power of high-horsepower is still very immature. Many of them are from small horsepower to increase the speed of the cylinder. However, the original structure has not changed, and most of them use gasoline engines. They are not only not wanting to use diesel engines, but also another kind of internal combustion engine compared to gasoline engines. Not only does the design take time, but the materials also require specialized ones. Therefore, the failure rate of amplified gasoline engines is very high.
For high-power commercial vehicles, reliability is the most important aspect. If the reliability is insufficient, the time cannot be determined when transporting the goods, and accidents are even prone to occur. In this case, the quality requirements for military use are very high. Military orders are as long as you arrive, and it takes as long as you order it to arrive. You cannot use the car to break up to make excuses, which further restricts the widespread use of cars.
Only in the northwest, there is Yang Yuanzhao, a power engineer from later generations, and the excellent materials, the quality of the car is very good. Unlike other countries, the failure rate is extremely high and maintenance is not convenient. Military trucks in the northwest are basically developed for the purpose of military use, and the failure rate is very low. In terms of maintenance, the conditions of the battlefield are also taken into account. Any replacement of parts is on the outside. Even the engine can be disassembled in the shortest time and the easiest way.
This is very convenient. In half of the military logistics convoys and tow convoys, there are necessary simple parts and engines, which are all followed by the vehicle. Once problems arise, they can be replaced in the shortest time. This is also the fundamental reason why Northwest military vehicles are popular.
As diplomats, Jurden and others had previously received news that Germany had equipped military vehicles, but the specific information was not detailed. It was not until they saw these military vehicles with their own eyes that the general effects were calculated from the structure of these military vehicles. You should know that the entire military parade road was about 10 kilometers long. From the beginning to now, there were dozens of square arrays, and none of them broke down among the more than 500 cars. This means that the normal driving distance is at least 50 kilometers, which is too critical for military logistics. A charge and large-scale advance are only one or two hundred kilometers. With the guarantee of 50 kilometers of trouble-free cars, the effectiveness of the automobile has been greatly increased.
Not to mention the plans in Zhu Erdian and others, even Yang Yuanzhao did not expect that a business might have formed in such a different way. In the next two months, Britain, France, Russia and the United States placed orders for more than 4,000 trucks in the northwest, with a total construction cost of up to 8 million. In the next year, this number will reach 18,000. On the battlefield in the future, the trucks used by both sides will appear, all produced in the northwest. After the battle, they will be seized, or after the demolition, they can be pieced together. It is also a strange thing.
Rows of artillery came neatly, and the people around watching the parade were cheering. Before they arrived at the parade area, the uniform and simple march had already made the people in the northwest cheer. This was the power of the northwest.
If the young soldiers who were full of vitality and sunshine gave them the feeling of excitement and strength, these artillery gave them a sense of security, especially since the 37th war defense cannon, the caliber of the caliber has become larger and larger along the way, especially to the 108mm or even 155mm caliber artillery. This is a real heavy artillery. Looking at the thick caliber and long cannon body, it gives them a completely different feeling.
The layman watches the excitement, the experts look at the tricks, and the Northwest shows all-round capabilities, especially the 155 artillery, which has 5 different styles, and is completely different in size and style. The earliest one was also the Krupp 155 artillery that was once equipped for the Northwest Army and was almost born from. Although it was from the 1909 model, it is only 4 years away. Among the armies of countries around the world, they are considered to be the main force and division level to support the firepower, but in the Northwest, they have begun to gradually withdraw from the market.
With the fact that its strength has not improved to a certain extent, it can only copy Krupp's artillery. With the help of the all-in-one aircraft, the original Krupp artillery did not reduce its quality like other Chinese imitations, and almost perfectly copied Krupp. After the later proficiency and materials were kept up, it was even faintly above Krupp.
You should know that among the top artillery, among the 155 artillery, Krupp is not the strongest artillery in the world, but is one of the first-class artillery and is more suitable for China. In the early stages, such artillery played a crucial role in the middle of Russian combat. When the 203 artillery could not be moved, Krupp 155 almost acted as the main force on the battlefield and played the role of fighting against the opponent's main artillery.
The development of science and technology is not static, but also weapons. The Northwest is an emerging force. Coupled with the anti-cannon effect of the all-in-one aircraft, it has a very powerful role in artillery addition. After the Krupp's 155mm artillery made its contribution, the Northwest did not lie on the credit book, but continued to study and make rapid progress. Next, with the development of materials science, the Northwest's materials science has embarked on a completely different path from countries around the world. Materials science has developed at a speed that cannot be guessed by common sense. The most difficult thing to change materials is mechanized processing, weapons and materials. In fact, all countries have developed.
Materials far higher than the times are not without them. One thing is the biggest constraint. These materials are getting harder and stronger, which brings huge difficulties to processing. Many high-hardness and high-toughness materials are all left to the shelves due to processing problems. Only when the processing technology reaches a certain level and the consumption is reduced to acceptable conditions, these materials will be truly used. Many components in aircraft in later generations were replaced by plastics and polymer materials. This is the case. Lightness is only one aspect, and easy processing is the main thing.
In this regard, the Northwest is different from other countries in the world. When other countries are still hovering between primary machine tools and high hard knives, the Northwest has entered the fourth stage. It has passed the high-speed knives and directly entered the head of powder smelting. Even if it is just a civilian material in the 21st century later, it is much higher than this era. It has sufficient hardness and speed, which is far higher than this era, and is in line with the development of materials.
Materials, which was not valued until after World War II, was taken on a road of rapid development on the original basis. Let me put it this way, before the technological progress of the previous materials had not yet entered the bottleneck of materials, even if there were new materials, it could not exert the characteristics of the materials. Instead, it was a bit unworthy of the gain. Because of Yang Yuanzhao, a fleet engineer in later generations, the Northwest reached the limit in terms of power, and by the way, it promoted the development of other systems and materials with the point to the surface.
This is the case in the Northwest. Unlike other countries, during the Second Industrial Revolution, they took materials as the leader, and with the help of the progress of materials, they developed a path that was completely different from others with the development of related development. This path seems to be a different approach, but it is in line with the development of science and technology, and promoted the Northwest to a small weak country that does not care about one, in a short time, it has become a world-renowned power. Moreover, in terms of technology, just this, the Northwest has become an invincible place. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!