Chapter 1082 The First Generation Composite Armor

In terms of tanks, Germany must make tit-for-tat improvements. On tank guns, Germany's existing 88mm guns can penetrate the so-called heavy tanks of the Soviets. No matter how he designs a good bullet avoidance shape, its The weight is always there!

However, the use of 152mm guns and 122mm guns by the Soviets would pose a serious threat to German tanks. Therefore, compared to firepower, protection is more of a concern for Germany.

Historically, German armor steel is quite good nickel-chromium alloy steel armor. The Soviet T-34, even if it uses an 85mm tank gun, can have a penetration depth of 120mm, but even the German 100mm The armor cannot be penetrated either, because of the quality of the armor steel.

However, in history, in the later period, due to the lack of resources, the Germans could not obtain these rare elements, and could only use the surface carburizing process to increase the quality of the armor, resulting in the later tank protection is obviously not as good as before.

Now, Germany has controlled Western Europe and controlled the origin of various raw materials. For the time being, there is no need to worry about the problem of resources. However, only nickel-chromium alloy steel armor is not enough.

After all, it is still a kind of steel armor. If you want to continue to increase the protection, you must take the road of increasing the thickness, which will continue to increase the weight of the tank and become a repeated cycle of no return.

Moreover, in the development of tanks, the firepower is always the easiest to break through. The 105mm tank gun can almost penetrate 500mm deep. The Huaxia Magic Modified model is said to have reached 700mm.

What about the tank? Could it be more than seven hundred millimeters thick? This is of course a delusion, and this iron lump is definitely a power designer's nightmare.

Therefore, it can only be solved from the structure and materials, this is composite armor!

The ceramic composite armor is similar in structure to the cream sandwich biscuit. The panel layer is made of alloy steel with high hardness, the bottom layer is made of alloy steel with strong toughness, and the middle layer is composed of many ceramic balls. The gaps between the balls are filled with glass. Fiber reinforced resin.

In this way, when a menacing armor-piercing projectile passes through the layer of the "sandwich biscuit", the warhead has become dull and a lot of energy is consumed. Then, the tougher ceramic ball in the middle layer decomposed and dissipated the main impact of the warhead. Finally, when the armor-piercing projectile that lost a large part of its energy hit the high-toughness inner plate, it had no armor-piercing ability. This is the bulletproof principle of composite armor.

In contrast, ordinary alloy steel armor is purely head-to-head, without any technical point of view, it is harder than anyone! If the armor is hard, if you block it, then the armor will win. If the warhead is hard, if it passes through, it will destroy the tank. It's that simple.

From this point of view, under the same thickness, the bulletproof ability of composite armor exceeds that of ordinary armor steel, and among them, the most important thing is the ceramic ball.

The earliest application of ceramic armor can be traced back to 1918 after the end of World War I, when Major Neville-Monroe-Hopkins found through experiments that a layer of 1.6mm thick enamel on the surface of steel armor can greatly enhance the protective performance. .

However, ceramic armor has not been put into practical application until after World War II, with the rapid development of the penetration depth of tank guns, but the protection capability has lagged behind, only then did someone think of ceramic armor and conduct in-depth research. In the 1960s, it finally entered the the application phase.

The first to be applied is alumina ceramics, which have excellent performance and relatively low manufacturing costs. A very thin ceramic layer can defend against light weapons and ammunition.

Therefore, in Cyric's proposal, alumina ceramics is the first priority, it is easier to achieve breakthroughs, and it is very light in weight and low in cost.

In this way, it can not only become human armor, but also can be used to improve the protective ability of the tank.

In addition to these, what are tungsten carbide, boron carbide, silicon carbide, etc., each has various advantages and disadvantages, the technical staff of Krupp is still researching, and alumina ceramics, have come out Development results!

Composite armor is what the German armored forces need more at present! Hearing this news, Cyric was also very happy: "We can bolt a layer of additional armor to the front end and turret of our tank to achieve higher protection! Well, before March next year, we will Complete the transformation of all the Tiger tanks we have produced!"

Additional armor makes sense no matter how thick the tank's armor is. Historically, many German tanks have reserved positions for additional armor.

For example, after the invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany found that its existing tanks had insufficient protection, and immediately installed 30mm additional armor with bolts on the front of the hull and turret on the No. 3 H type, reaching a thickness of 60mm, in order to resist British 2pdr, Soviet 45mm and American 37mm anti-tank guns.

When the Tiger tank was in production, reservations were already made.

Just as he was talking, Cyric suddenly had another inspiration: "When adding this layer of composite armor, we can design it into a wedge shape, um, like a bra. In this way, it can not only protect against armor-piercing bullets, but also It has a very good protective effect against armor-piercing projectiles.”

Cyric recalled the Leopard 2 tank of later generations. The bra added was very ingenious. Now, armor-piercing bullets have also appeared. For metal jets, gap armor is very suitable.

Hearing Cyric mentioning the word bra, some of the designers present wanted to laugh. Then, Cyric took the pen and began to outline the plan on the spot. They concentrated and listened carefully.

Soon, they nodded frequently. Cyric's idea was quite good!

After talking about the plan, Cyric stood up: "Okay, now that we've said so much, let's go to the factory and take a look!"

Compared with empty reports in the conference room, Cyric prefers to go to the factory to inspect in person, and it is more meaningful to be with the front-line workers.

However, as soon as Cyric stood up, he saw Graff coming, he leaned on Cyric's ear and whispered: "Führer Cyric, the leader of the Mussolini party, he wants to see you."

Mussolini? Of course Cyric knew what Mussolini meant when he came to him, the battle in Greece was lost, and he wanted the German army to help him find his way back.

For the sake of the pig teammates, dragging down the pace of attacking the Soviet Union? Of course not, I am not Hitler, and I have great respect for Mussolini as a mentor.

"Let him wait," Cyric said. "I have more important work to do."