GBP Chapter 123 Armored Vehicle Testing Completed
Chapter 123 Armored Vehicle Testing Completed
"Stop, stop!"
After completing the test, the armored vehicle had just entered Weng'erlang when it was stopped by the deputy chief of staff.
"chief of staff!"
Zhao Tianyang quickly asked Yu Xiaping to stop the armored vehicle and then jumped off the vehicle.
"Why are you here, Chief of Staff?"
“Is this your newly manufactured armored vehicle?”
The deputy chief of staff looked at the armored vehicle excitedly and asked.
"Yeah! I just made it. Looks so domineering!"
Zhao Tianyang said proudly.
"Okay! Great!"
The deputy chief of staff patted the armored vehicle and asked excitedly, "How does this thing perform? Can it deal with the enemy's tanks?"
"The test has just been completed. The total weight is 12.6 tons. The front armor thickness is 14 mm and the side armor is 10 mm. Welding technology is used. The armor type is steel plate."
"The 950 horsepower, twin-row 14-cylinder radial air-cooled engine is the power source. It can be said that the power is more than enough."
"The maximum range is 800 kilometers, the maximum speed is 65 kilometers per hour, and the cross-country speed is 46 kilometers per hour."
"Hehe... As for whether it can deal with the Japanese tanks?"
Zhao Tianyang pointed at the Taihang Type 38 general-purpose machine gun on the armored vehicle and said, "This is really powerful. Do you see that general-purpose machine gun?"
"I'll load it with armor-piercing bullets to attack the Japanese tanks. With one volley, more than a dozen tanks will be destroyed!"
“It’s really amazing!”
The deputy chief of staff suppressed his excitement and asked, "What about the Type 97? The Japanese Type 97 tank is a medium tank!"
"The side armor is 20mm, it won't be easy for your armor-piercing bullet to penetrate it!"
"Simple!"
Zhao Tianyang blurted out: "I have thought about it. In addition to machine guns, this armored vehicle can also carry cannons and mortars."
"With a few minor modifications, it can be turned into a self-propelled artillery vehicle."
"Don't even mention a reduced-equipment medium tank. Even if you bring this armored vehicle to the European battlefield, I can find a way to make it collide with those heavy tanks!"
"Domineering!"
The deputy chief of staff finally couldn't help it: "Zhao Tianyang, Zhao Tianyang, you are really the lucky star of my Eighth Route Army. I am drooling just by hearing this guy."
"Tell me, how many of these armored vehicles can you produce in a month? Can I be assigned to an armored regiment?"
"Armored Regiment!"
Zhao Tianyang smiled awkwardly: "That... this..."
"If you have anything to say, just say it, don't act like a woman!"
Seeing Zhao Tianyang like this, the deputy chief of staff had a bad feeling.
"Well, to tell you the truth, we can only produce four of these armored vehicles per month at most."
Zhao Tianyang explained helplessly: "The main reason is that the engine used in the armored vehicle is the Japanese aircraft engine, which is difficult to manufacture, so the speed is inevitably a bit slow."
"Four!"
The deputy chief of staff sighed and said, "That's fine. We've been through a lot, and four is enough."
At this time Zhao Tianyang smiled, rubbed his hands and said embarrassedly.
"Hey, Chief of Staff, don't be discouraged. I will organize a working group when I get back."
"Research new, simpler and more convenient engines to increase the manufacturing speed of armored vehicles, but..."
"Just what?"
The deputy chief of staff waved his hand and said, "You tell me, as long as it's for the war of resistance, I'll agree!"
"No problem! I'm sure it's all for the war!"
Zhao Tianyang smiled and said, "Actually, there are two problems. One is that I still have too few experts."
"The second reason is that Huangyadong is still a little small. Now the factory I built has almost occupied all the flat land."
"So why don't we ask the higher-ups if we can open a factory in Yan'an as well?"
"When I produce new weapons in the future, I can ask this factory to produce the necessary parts!"
"Ok!"
The deputy chief of staff nodded and said, "What's my problem? Don't worry, I'll go and file a report right away."
After saying this, the deputy chief of staff looked at the silver armored vehicle reluctantly and left Huangyadong. He was going back to the headquarters to report what Zhao Tianyang had said.
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"Stable!"
Zhao Tianyang climbed onto the armored vehicle in a cheerful mood and patted Yu Xiaping on the shoulder: "Let's go back to the engine factory, get some paint, and paint the armored vehicle!"
"okay!"
Paint is made of various resins as the main raw materials and various pigments added, such as alkyd resin, acrylic resin, epoxy resin, etc.
Here, Zhao Tianyang chose the simpler acrylic resin.
To obtain acrylic resin, you must first prepare polyacrylonitrile.
It is produced by heating a mixture of acetylene (natural gas and oxygen) and hydrocyanic acid (methanol, liquid ammonia, air and an oxide through a high-temperature reaction).
In cuprous chloride (mixed with sponge copper, dilute sulfuric acid and concentrated nitric acid), potassium chloride (neutralized with potassium carbonate and hydrochloric acid)
Sodium chloride (table salt) is used as a catalyst.
Once you have polyacrylonitrile, you can heat it to boiling point, then add methyl acrylate (made by mixing acrylic acid, methanol, and sulfuric acid and purifying at high temperature)
Toluene (discussed before), formyl peroxide (made by mixing hydrogen peroxide and sodium hydroxide with benzoyl chloride)
Finally, you will get basic colorless paint. At this time, you can add any pigment you want.
Zhao Tianyang thought about it and chose the most common color green.
So phthalocyanine green (phthalocyanine green, copper salt, catalysis will be obtained after chlorination, acid washing, alkali washing, and drying) was added to the colorless paint.
A week later, Zhao Tianyang handed a bucket of green paint to Yu Xiaping and asked him to paint the armored vehicle quickly.
In the evening, Zhao Tianyang called the people from the Military Industry Department to a meeting in the tent.
Explained that they needed to invent a new, cheaper and simpler engine.
"Since it's for armored vehicles, I think we should get a diesel engine this time. Diesel engines are powerful and relatively simple to manufacture."
Liu Ding spoke.
"Okay, but I have one requirement, which is that the horsepower cannot be less than 200 horsepower, otherwise the performance will be reduced when installed on an armored vehicle."
Zhao Tianyang demanded.
"Two hundred horsepower, that's it. I'm familiar with this. Leave this task to me!"
Yu Xiaping stood up and patted his chest.
"it is good!"
Zhao Tianyang said with relief: "Then Comrade Yu Xiaping will take the lead in setting up a diesel engine research and development team, assisted by Comrades Shen Hong, Cheng Mingsheng, and Wu Yunduo."
"no problem!"
The three of them nodded in agreement.
"There is one last mission, researching armor-piercing bullets."
After saying that, Zhao Tianyang turned his gaze to Liu Ding.
"Then leave it to me, Liu Guifu, and Wu Shimeng!"
Liu Ding smiled faintly and looked at the other two.
"We're fine!"
Liu Guifu and Wu Shimeng nodded.
"Everyone has work to do, so what are you doing, Section Chief?"
At this time, Liu Ransheng, who had always been treated as a housekeeper, whispered.
"Of course, it's to develop new models of armored vehicles!"
Zhao Tianyang explained with a smile: "I promised the Chief of Staff."
"This armored vehicle can not only deal with the Japanese tanks."
"We also need to destroy the Japanese Type 97 tanks. I need to think carefully about how to modify them."
After saying that, Zhao Tianyang waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's adjourn the meeting!"