Thousands of sparks

Chapter 92 Party A Knows a Hammer
Different combat doctrines have very different requirements for the shape, performance and use of armored vehicles.Both the Imperial Army and the Navy Commando issued to Dusand the requirement to develop a "heavy firepower and high protection motor vehicle", but they both had huge differences in what such combat equipment should look like and what needs it should meet.

The Army emphasized firepower, requiring vehicles to have the ability to fire continuously for at least a quarter of an hour, and to survive the armor-piercing hammer and hand cannon attacks of the Confederate Steam Knights.

The naval commandos pay more attention to large-distance interspersed operations.They require the vehicle to have a defense capability that can at least block heavy machine gun attacks, to approach or exceed the speed of a commonly used steam carriage, and to be able to travel at least 100 miles after changing a gas cylinder.

According to Dusand's understanding, what the Imperial Navy commando needs is probably equipment such as large eight-wheeled or tracked armored personnel carriers.And the Imperial Army...if their needs are realized, it will really be what Polina designed at the beginning.

In other words, their needs are questionable.

The combat doctrine of the Imperial Army is still based on large-scale positional warfare and killing the enemy's vital forces.Use steam knights to forcefully break through barbed wire and trenches, use mobility to avoid being attacked by enemy heavy artillery, use armor to resist enemy light infantry firepower, and kill as many enemies as possible before the high-pressure steam reserves are exhausted.

Compared with the navy, the imperial army doesn't care about the gains and losses of a city or a place. What they pursue is killing people-any method that can improve the army's ability to kill the enemy is welcome.

On this basis, it is of course better if you can reduce your own damage.

Therefore, Polina designed a tank that she called a "position cruiser" based on the "needs" of the Imperial Army.Then it started to fall into an endless loop.

The amount of ammunition stored and the gun itself weighed - surprisingly heavy.A five-inch short-barrel cannon weighs [-] pounds with the gun body and firing mechanism alone, which is still the "dead weight" of a gunpowder fixed-load artillery with a copper bullet case.If a gun fired from a charge is used, the enlarged charge chamber will add at least [-] pounds of additional weight to the gun body.

Four five-inch guns, that's eight thousand pounds.Including the reserve of shells for each gun to fire continuously for 10 minutes, the 120 rounds of 5-inch shells will add at least another fifteen hundred pounds to the weight.

Polina also equipped this "cruiser" with four heavy machine guns at the front and rear, plus bullets...that's almost a thousand pounds again.

Four heavy machine guns, four artillery pieces, plus the driver and commander, this requires a tank crew of at least 16 people.In order to dig out a space that can accommodate at least sixteen people, Polina had to directly increase the length of the body from the expected 5 joles to 10 joles.

The doubled length directly increases the weight of the armor plate.This directly soared the total weight of the armor to a staggering 15 pounds.

Adding the weight of the artillery and the crew, the total weight of this "cruiser" that has not installed a power system has exceeded 80 tons.

Dusande didn't stop Polina directly because of this - even the gas internal combustion engine version of the V12 engine, it is impossible to drive this behemoth with a total weight of nearly [-] tons.

If you want to drive it, you have to replace the power system with a coal-fired boiler, boiler and chimney, plus water and coal reserves, and at least three additional firemen. In the end, the weight of this monster is 200 tons.

To be honest, if such a thing can really be designed and manufactured, Polina's name will be remembered and eulogized by the "Multiple Riveting" cult believers in the empire for at least 200 years in the future—if there are really Such a bizarre religious word.

But fighting is not a treat, nor is it a job that a good man can do.Polina herself knew that there must be something wrong with her design.But she lacks sufficient military background and experience, and she really doesn't know where her problem lies.

Fortunately, Du Sande is very clear.

"You have to know, Party A is a bunch of bastards." In the office, Du Sande waved his hands and instilled his ideas in Polina, "They don't know what they need, and they don't know what they want. .But they just know that your design is unacceptable to them. Every time you propose a design, they will tell you that this is not enough and that is not right, and then force you to continue to modify.”

Although he had never really been a Party B in his previous life, Du Sande had heard his senior complain about it - the senior was working as a publicity worker in a certain pharmaceutical company at the time.As a result, the advertising plan he proposed was repeatedly rejected by his superiors for 37 editions within a month. The relatives of the leader handed in a proposal that was almost exactly the same as the first edition of the senior's design proposal, and it was approved instantly.

The senior who drank beer and vomited himself at school taught Du Sande his life experience.

"Party A is a bastard, we can never spoil them!"

"He doesn't know what he needs, so let's tell them with the actual product, this is the product that can really be used!" Du Sande waved his hand violently, with a look of reprimanding Fang Qiu, "All Party A They're all idiots, and what idiots want is to fart!"

The word "stupid" was directly used in Chinese by Du Sande. Although Polina didn't understand it, she could guess that it was not a good word.She asked worriedly, "What if the Army doesn't accept your design?"

Can there be an army in this world that refuses five pairs of road wheels?Du Sande snorted coldly twice in disdain, "If they're really that blind, they'll sell it to the Navy Commandos!"

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Automobile factories make tanks, which is a bit unreliable to be honest.

But Dusande has no good solution. The farmers in the empire either dig the land themselves, or use cattle and horses as a source of power for plowing the land.Gentlemen who have money and enough land for mechanized planting don't want tractors at all.Their land is for prisoners of war and poor people to grow cash crops.

Such "professional counterparts" for the manufacture of tanks as tractor factories did not exist in the entire empire.Dusande can only let his car factory go up first, at least after getting the order from the army.

Trial trucks, armored vehicles and officer sedans all need someone to drive them off the production line.And this job was handed over to the armed security guards of Rosen Company by Du Sande.

Dusand's factory currently employs more than [-] workers, most of them from the small handicraft factories in the industrial area.The small manual factories are one of the main sources of supporting parts for the Dusand depot. They produce screws, steel plates for suspension, vehicle chassis components and most of the metal parts for the Belford Automobile Manufacturing Plant.

The gearbox is a ready-made product ordered directly from Bell Smith Company. This company, which is famous for its precision manufacturing, specially rebuilt a production line for the order of the Belford Automobile Factory, and re-optimized the structural design of the gearbox.The optimized gearbox has excellent vibration resistance and stability, and at the same time, the maintenance interval is much longer than the previous gearbox used on the steam lathe.

As a factory with 400 employees, the management difficulty of the Belford Automobile Factory is even much higher than that of Fern County.Although employees are satisfied with their salary levels, conflicts and conflicts are more likely to occur among them.Rosen had long anticipated that such a situation might happen, so he formed an armed security team of more than [-] people specifically for the Belford Automobile Factory.

In order to facilitate the work and life of the employees, the factory, which is 37 miles away from Upper Albin City, not only built dormitory areas and canteens, but also has post offices, restaurants, barbershops, pharmacies and hospitals.With the Education Act passed by Parliament legislation, a school was built here.

Armed security guards who usually only patrol the factory area are really overqualified.So Du Sande began to systematically train these security guards.The first driving school in the Empire is born inside Belford Automobiles.It was born together with the first batch of part-time drivers in the whole empire.

Usually a security guard and a driver at work.And Dusand obviously didn't intend to just "let go" of these good guys with driving ability.

"Let's let the security guards take a look at the manufactured tank." In the office, Du Sande conveyed his decision to Rosen who had just arrived at the factory, "Not only to test the performance of the tank itself, but also to We have to come up with a tactical model.”

There is no absolute distinction between good and bad tools. A hammer is essentially different from a screwdriver. Of course, no one is stupid enough to say, "This hammer is not as good as a Phillips screwdriver."

But the tank is a brand-new weapon, and it is definitely a "fresh thing" in the empire.People don't know enough about it, and they don't know what this expensive iron shell can do.

Then those mud legs in the army will definitely compare tanks and steam knights.In comparison, Steam Knight actually has an overall advantage.

The tank designed by Dusand was expected to have a crew of five and a speed of about 15 miles per hour.Compared with the steam knight, which can be operated by only one person, its driving speed is slower, and it takes longer for the firepower to go from aiming to projecting.

And it wasn't nimble enough to dive directly into the trenches to slaughter the enemy.

But Du Sande deeply understands that comparing a steam knight with a tank is tantamount to comparing a Phillips screwdriver with a hammer.That's not what tanks are for.

Tanks should be used intensively on a large scale to break through enemy lines and open the way for infantry in the rear.Then use your own maneuvering advantage to go directly through the enemy's position, attack and destroy the enemy's logistics base and steam knight's rest point.

After destroying the enemy's logistics, the tanks can drive back to their own base, and run over the heads of the allies by the way.

To make the Imperial Army realize the great strategic and tactical value of tanks, it must first come up with a decent set of tactics.Then let the group of bumpkins see and see—there are not only screws in the world, but also nails.

To drive nails into wood, of course a hammer is better.

hehe~
(End of this chapter)