Metal Ranger of the Endless Plane

Just as the situation was changing, Lu Yuan was not idle.

In fact, he spent just over a week in the hotel dealing with old-fashioned production lines. Although the old production line is complete, it is too old. No wonder it will be sealed.

That is the production line for making ammunition for the D20 howitzer, and the D20, which is the towed version of the 2S3 self-propelled howitzer, also has the name M1955. As the name suggests.

However, the 1955 cannon, the production line for making shells for it is also a new product produced in 1955?

At least Lu Yuan doesn't have this set.

Although some of the equipment is relatively new, a considerable part of it can even be traced back to before and after World War I.

Fortunately, we are guarding the harbor city, and we can replace some of the old equipment with new ones.

Yes, you can also use the equipment on the production line in his previous bunker to transform it into general use.

Worst of all, I can go to the cross-store to find out if there are any bargains that can be replaced.

In short, the equipment was roughly set up, and the raw materials were prepared from the port and the crossing store. Lu Yuan tried to make a batch of 30 shells by himself. After confirming that the production line was available, he stopped temporarily.

At the level he now masters, the more self-made shells, the more he loses.

The cost of his artillery shells is now more expensive than buying those cheating goods directly from the crossing store.

In addition to the reason that the raw materials are not easy to buy, the more important production line is purely dependent on the personal efficiency of the skilled workers. It is neither automated nor numerically controlled. Lu Yuan is really not enough after busying himself.

Fortunately, at least it proved that he currently has the ability to make such shells, which is considered a success.

At this time, the Donbass militia had just occupied most of the two provinces, and the Russin government forces had not yet begun to counterattack.

The stolen 28th Mechanized Infantry Brigade remained silent. So Lu Yuan planned to go further, find a professional artillery unit, and enter some 2S19-specific ammunition.

His goal has long been determined, and it is in Pivomysk, not far from the north.

Well, a distance of two hundred kilometers and a four-hour drive seems not to be far away. But for the Chinese of Lu Yuan, is it two hundred kilometers away? He went to school from his hometown, which is twenty or thirty kilometers longer than this. How can he say far?

But if it is placed in Luxin, Odessa is basically at the southern end of Luxin, almost exactly north and south of the capital Kiev. Kiev is only one or two hundred kilometers away from the northern border of Luxin.

Then, to Pivomysk, you basically walked a quarter or even a third of the road to Kiev. It feels like I've traveled a quarter of the latitude of Ruxin. It seems a little far away.

However, Russin is still the largest country in Europe in terms of land area with Great Ross removed. This comparison...

Lu Yuan's goal was simpler in comparison, and it was the 40th Artillery Brigade stationed there.

Although the eastern Ruxin government forces are intensively assembled, at least the 40 artillery brigade has no signs of opening for the time being.

During the period of Luxin, he also tried to find some internal information, and knew that a specialized artillery brigade would have relatively advanced heavy artillery with a high probability.

So after the successful ammunition manufacturing test, he drove north to the place of the 40th brigade.

It was just because the situation became more tense, and there were many outposts within a short span of more than two hundred kilometers. He could only use drones to guard the whole process and pay attention to avoidance, so the speed would inevitably drop.

By the time Pivomysko, a more troublesome thing lay before him. This city is much larger than the previous satellite towns, and the residential area is even harder to find.

As a result, another day was delayed.

Fortunately, the station he finally found in a certain wilderness in the northwest did not disappoint him, and indeed there was a new type of heavy artillery.

Unfortunately, it is not 2S19, but its traction or original version, 2A65.

The 40th Artillery Brigade consists of two 2A36 cannon battalions, two 2A65 howitzer battalions, one MT-12 anti-tank battalion, and several other units.

The 2A36 towed cannon is the original version of Luyuan’s other three self-propelled artillery 2S5.

However, in order to unify the ammunition, these artillery routes are far from going to be collected.

If there is demand in the future, it is better to get some 122mm 2S1 self-propelled grenades, or its towed prototype D-30 howitzer.

The 122mm howitzer that was in service in 1963 was named D30, and the 152mm caliber launched in 1947 was called D20. Well, it's a matter of course, it's a matter of course.

Lu Yuan's idea of ​​launching this relatively small-caliber howitzer was mainly out of logistical considerations.

He used artillery to plow the ground. After all, he didn't need a high range, but he paid more attention to the rate of fire and the range of damage.

In these two aspects, although the 122 howitzer is slightly inferior in killing due to the charge, the rate of fire, well, the original rate of fire is definitely not as good as the late 2S19 due to age issues. But if you change it slightly, it will be much better.

Although similar to the 152mm 2S19, the 122mm ammunition of the D30 is also a cartridge-packed ammunition, that is, when loading the ammunition, you need to load the projectile first, and then the cartridge with the propellant, but at least the latter is lighter in mass than the former. A lot.

In order to solve the 2S19's full automation, Luyuan’s working area has been so long that it was adding an automatic cartridge loading robot arm to the 2S19, which can only automatically fill the projectiles and need to manually and semi-manually fill the cartridges.

So even if it is to build an automatic loading system for the towed howitzer D30, Lu Yuan still has enough technical reserves.

At the beginning, he didn't take 2S1, mainly because he had to build an automatic loading system by himself anyway, and the launching platform was in a relatively safe working space, so the self-propelled artillery version was not particularly necessary. It also takes up space.

The advantage of upgrading the technology flow is here. After you have come into contact with more technologies, you can mix and use different gadgets. Mixed and mixed, there may be some scary little monsters.

So, after getting a large number of ammunition and six-door towed 2A65 here in the 40th Brigade, Lu Yuan entered the research mode again.

The purpose of this time is to equip six towed guns with an automatic loader that can be remotely controlled by Siafé.

However, even though he has sufficient technical reserves, he can't always refining all the raw materials from ore himself, right?

It doesn't work, if he is still in the main plane of Swallow, maybe he really did that.

But now that it is on the side of technology and can buy finished products from the market, why bother yourself.

So many cheap steel materials are not used, ready-made lubricants, springs, bearings, etc., so why bother to do it yourself.

Some military products are hard to find, so go to the 40th brigade to unload some and take them away. This is so simple and straightforward.

However, he played fancy shopping here, but he was unlucky on the 40th brigade. The ammunition depot was looted, not to mention that a company of heavy artillery was lost.

The artillery ammunition is lost, this kind of thing is considered a big deal to others, let Luxin here, well, not small. It's just that after a long illness becomes a cure, everyone in the system knows how to report it.

It's not enough to deal with the past.

However, all kinds of equipment are damaged twice in three days, and one inspection is the defect of key parts. Who can bear it?