Arc of Gunfire

Wang Zhong planned to praise the designer, but just as he was about to speak, Brigadier General Zinov clapped excitedly: "Good! Very good! The shot is really accurate and powerful!"

Anatoly also applauded, but after clapping a few times, he asked Wang Zhong doubtfully: "Your Majesty Lieutenant General Rokossov, what is this used to deal with? Proson doesn't have a tank that needs such firepower at all?" "

Wang Zhong thought that there were no Tigers and Leopards in the future, but he couldn't say it so clearly, so he had to say: "Proson has captured our KV series heavy tanks, and put their logo on them for use. We need the means to destroy KV from a distance."

Anatoly nodded: "Indeed, I also heard that during the counterattack, some troops encountered KV painted in Prossen gray paint. But they hadn't encountered it when the project was established, right?"

Wang Zhong: "We have abandoned so many KVs. The Prosen people can use the parts from the wreckage to build new cars. There is no way they will not use them."

In fact, a large number of KVs were abandoned on the roadside just because of failure of the running mechanism, because the Ant Army had no maintenance capabilities at all and did not have enough tractors to drag the broken tanks back for repairs.

Wang Zhong suddenly had an idea and asked the director of the testing site: "Is there any KV for testing at the testing site?"

Director: "Yes, it is used to test improvements to the walking mechanism. The test task has been completed and it is placed in the garage."

Wang Zhong: "Pull it out and put it 1,000 meters away, next to Prosen's Panzer IV tank."

"This..." The director of the test site looked embarrassed, "Isn't it wrong to use the test vehicle without permission?"

Wang Zhong already had rich experience at this time and knew how to deal with this situation, so he said: "Get a document stating that you need to use the KV that has completed the test to test the damage capability of the 100mm gun. I will sign it."

The director's face immediately changed: "Okay. Right away."

Sure enough, the tips I learned from Lieutenant General Chekhov are easy to use.

Ten minutes later, Wang Zhong signed, and the KV drove from the garage to the test range and parked next to the Prosen tank that had just put out the fire.

After all the researchers left, Wang Zhong used the walkie-talkie to shout to the 100mm carrier vehicle: "Roe deer, step back two hundred meters and aim at the KV tank."

The prototype vehicle codenamed Roe Deer immediately began to retreat. Wang Zhong looked at the distance from a bird's-eye view. When he reached two hundred, he shouted: "Okay! Stop, take aim and shoot directly."

After saying that, he handed the walkie-talkie to Vasily - this thing was actually quite heavy, and it was tiring to hold it all the time. I don’t know if Big Brother is as heavy as this. If so, it would be difficult for Teacher Yu Qian to keep stuffing it into his butt.

In less than five seconds, the Roe Deer Cart opened fire, and just like before, the muzzle blast blew up the snow in front of the car.

Wang Zhong even saw the projectile reflecting sunlight. It hit the front of the KV with lightning speed. The next moment, the KV's turret hatch was blown open by the shock wave, and then flames appeared on the engine cooling cover behind the turret.

The fire quickly spread and the tank burst into flames.

"Okay!" Brigadier General Zinov applauded desperately, "Okay! Now you don't have to be afraid even if you encounter a captured KV!"

At this time, one of the drivers who was evacuating the tanks with Brigadier General Zinov said: "With this firepower, we are not afraid of the enemy's Carolingian tanks. They killed a lot of us with fire-breathing tanks modified from Carolingian heavy tanks." Where are the infantry?"

Wang Zhong ignored the driver because he was observing the burning KV from a bird's-eye view. Pulling closer, he could see a bullet hole in the front armor of the KV, indicating that this round had neither a machine gun muzzle nor an observation window. It just penetrated the front armor of the car body.

1200 meters, the first hit destroyed KV!

At this time, it is no longer important whether the frontal armor of the vortex tank destroyer is reliable. This firepower alone has a place for it on the front line.

But it would be better if the frontal armor of the vortex is reliable.

It would be even better if the reliability is also up to standard!

If production hours drop again——

Wang Zhong decisively gave up his fantasy, there was no way such a good thing could happen.

"Very good," he turned to Kejing's chief engineer and said, "I'm very satisfied."

Ke Jing showed a self-effacing smile: "This is the navy's 100mm gun of high quality, and it has nothing to do with my design."

Wang Zhong: "How do you solve the aiming problem? The preset usage scenario when designing our sights is to engage in combat within 800 meters. How did you achieve a first hit at 1,200 meters?"

Kejing: "First, the test pilots had superb gunnery skills. Second, we used the captured Proson sights and optical equipment. The copying of the sights has been handed over to the 251 Factory, which is based on St. Andrew's It was reorganized based on the employees of the St. Andrew Optical Factory who retreated from Fort.

Wang Zhong: "Is it the factory that produces optical glass? How many people evacuated?"

Kejing: "One-third of the technicians and engineers successfully evacuated. We originally had to evacuate the old workers who could grind lenses by hand, but all the workers were devout secular members. They planned to defend the name named after Andrew with their blood and lives. The city refuses to retreat.”

Wang Zhong: "Nonsense! This is the battlefield that needs them most! No one produces sights, or the sights are of low quality, which will cause huge casualties to our army! I wrote to them personally to persuade them to withdraw."

Kejing was overjoyed: "Okay! That would be the best. Factory 251 is currently short of skilled lens workers. It would be great if you could write a letter asking the workers in the electronic tube factory to evacuate as well."

Wang Zhong: "Okay! Vasily, please remember and remind me to write a letter tonight."

Vasily: "Huh? I thought I was the ghostwriter. Do you really want to write it yourself?"

Wang Zhong: "Of course. Only in this way can we be sincere. I want to persuade all these workers Davarich to come back and produce high-quality lenses for us. Of course, importing from the United States is also very important!"

The current United States is actually a bit like Siris later. It can produce anything, not necessarily the best, but it can solve any problems.

Shocked, the United States turned out to be Siris the trumpet.

Wang Zhong looked at the burning KV again. To be honest, after knowing that the 100mm carrier vehicle used the captured Proson sight, his mood was not as good as before.

He thought he could achieve a 1,200-meter first hit and first destroy with a completely self-produced product.

Although it is not as good as the 1,500-meter first hit and first destroy of the Sandoku Elite Tiger crew, it is still pretty good.

Forget it, although it is not particularly perfect, it at least proves that the Navy's 100-gun gun is not inferior to Prosen's 88-gun gun.

Suddenly, something exploded on the burning KV, and a stream of fireworks erupted from the turret door, forming a fleeting small mushroom cloud.

Wang Zhong: "What exploded?"

Researcher: "It may be the remaining shells from the test. I guess they were placed somewhere and we didn't find them when we unloaded the shells."

Wang Zhong frowned, could he miss a single shell? But the thought of him being Maozi was acceptable.

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Next, Wang Zhong watched the two prototype vehicles complete a series of experiments.

It can run at a highway speed of 60 kilometers per hour and has almost the same obstacle clearance level as the T34 - it is the same chassis after all. At the same time, because of its lower weight, it seems that the failure rate has been improved.

The two prototype vehicles ran for nearly 100 kilometers in the proving ground without any failure.

Of course, more detailed reliability testing requires more than a week of repeated experiments to finally determine whether this tank is durable.

Before the protective test was conducted, Wang Zhong was conquered by this car.

Then at five o'clock in the afternoon, in the early darkness, the protection test began.

Two prototype vehicles were sent because one of them was to be tested for protection.

Researchers at the testing center stuffed several dummies into the No. 2 car, nicknamed Sika Deer, and then the center director asked Wang Zhong for instructions: "Should we also pull it to a distance of 1,000 meters?"

Wang Zhong: "No, we need to be stricter in the protection test, starting from 800 meters."

"Yes, General."

Wang Zhong: "Also, didn't we capture the enemy's tank? After testing the 45mm cannon and anti-tank gun, let's try firing an enemy tank. Use No. 3's 50mm gun."

The Plossen Armored Division that invaded Ante rarely equipped the early 37-gun Panzer III tanks, but all had 50-gun versions.

In fact, Wang Zhong most wanted to use the enemy's No. 4 tank equipped with a 75mm long-barreled gun for testing. No, considering that Proson will release a longer 75mm gun later, the current 43 times the caliber (the barrel length refers to the caliber) How many times) 75 guns should be called Zhongqiwu.

Lengthening the 75mm gun of the Panzer IV to 48 times the caliber is already the limit. Any further lengthening will cause the weight of the vehicle to lose balance, and the failure rate of the first road wheel will soar.

At this time Anatoly said: "Among the captured equipment we sent back, there is also a new anti-tank gun, which should be 75 mm."

Wang Zhong was overjoyed, isn’t this PAK40? The only thing that can withstand this is fear of the 88 anti-everything cannon.

So he said, "Drag it over and test it together."

Soon, the captured PAK40 anti-tank gun was towed to the test site.

Wang Zhong walked around and found that this thing was much bigger than in the game.

Ant's 45mm anti-tank gun sat next to it like a pocket toy.

At this time, several captured Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks were also driven over.

Wang Zhong: "Start the test with the least powerful Buffalo anti-tank gun."

The results came out a few minutes later. The Ant Army's standard anti-tank gun PTRS-41 was basically unable to penetrate the front armor of the "Vortex".

Because Kejing did not make holes in the front armor when designing the vortex, he placed the driver's observation window on the roof of the tank, and the driver's seat was also designed to be liftable. When not in combat, the bolt can be turned to raise it. , stick out half of your head to observe, then lower it during battle and use the periscope to look ahead.

There is also a machine gun on the vehicle body. Kejing directly removed it and instead built an anti-aircraft machine gun above the fighting room.

Therefore, the vortex is destined to have a poor anti-personnel effect. After all, it is just an anti-aircraft machine gun.

As for the gunner's sight, Kejing also placed it on the top of the fighting room, using a periscope structure to transmit the image.

In short, there is no weak point on the front of the vortex that an anti-tank gun can attack - in actual combat, this thing can basically only open various observation windows.

There was no moment of sadness for the defeat of PTRS-41. Next on the scene was the Ant Army's standard 45mm anti-tank gun.

When Wang Zhong watched the gunner operating this thing, he recalled the scene when he was begging his grandfather and grandma to get a company of this thing at the beginning of the war.

In the end, it was the Loktov car repairman who saved three doors.

Hey, it seems like I saved 76 guns? Anyway, this thing was pretty precious back then.

The gunner opened fire, and Wang Zhong saw with his naked eye that the shell hit the front armor of the No. 2 car and then bounced away.

Ricochet!

The researcher ran over, checked the dummy in the car, and reported that it was unharmed!

Then the gunner changed different aiming positions, but the front part was still ejected, and the new car was spared the 45-gun service at a distance of 800 meters!

Then according to the caliber principle, the 50mm gun of the Prosen III tank was mounted, and the result was no problem at all.

After the 50mm test, it was the turn of the 75mm short-barreled gun of the Prosen IV tank.

As a result, the high-explosive shell of the 75mm gun caused the inner side of part of the armor of the No. 2 vehicle to collapse. The researcher determined that one member was slightly injured and the two were slightly bruised, but they were still capable of fighting.

Finally, it’s the turn of Ant’s ZIS-3 76mm anti-tank gun. This should be the tank gun with the best armor-piercing capability at the current test site - the ZIS4 57mm anti-tank gun test site that Wang Zhong’s troops are equipped with in large quantities. No, I can't test it today.

Whether the new car can penetrate the defense depends on whether it can withstand the 76-gun attack!