Chapter 304 Breaking Through the Defense

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 and state 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 body 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 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 Factory 251, 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."

Ke Jing was overjoyed: "Good! That would be the best. Factory 251 is in great need of skilled lens workers. It would be great if you could write a letter to ask the workers in the electron tube factory to withdraw as well."

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

Vassily: "Huh? I thought I was writing it for you. Do you really want to write it yourself?"

Wang Zhong: "Of course. That's how I show my sincerity. I want to persuade all these workers, Davarish, to come back and produce high-quality lenses for us. Of course, importing from the United States is also important!"

The current United States is actually a bit like the later Seris. It can produce everything. It may not be the best, but it can solve the problem.

Shocked, the United States is actually a small Seris.

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

He thought that the first hit and first destruction at 1200 meters was achieved with all self-produced things.

Although it is not as good as the 1500m first-shot hit and first-shot destruction of the elite Tiger tank crew of Sandezi, it is also very good.

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

Suddenly, something on the burning KV exploded, and a burst of fireworks spewed out from the turret hatch, forming a fleeting mushroom cloud.

Wang Zhong: "What exploded?"

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

Wang Zhong frowned. How could it miss a shell? But when he thought about it, he could accept it.

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Then Wang Zhong watched the two prototypes complete a series of experiments.

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

The two prototypes ran for nearly 100 kilometers in the test field without any failure.

Of course, more detailed reliability tests will take more than a week of repeated experiments to finally determine whether this tank is durable or not.

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

Then at 5 pm, in the early night, the protection test began.

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

The researchers at the test center stuffed several dummies into the No. 2 car nicknamed Sika Deer, and then the director of the center asked Wang Zhong: "Do you also pull it to 1,000 meters?"

Wang Zhong: "No, we have to be stricter in the protection test and start from 800 meters."

"Yes, General."

Wang Zhong: "Also, didn't we capture the enemy's tank? After testing the 45mm gun and anti-tank gun, take the enemy's tank and try to shoot it. Use the No. 3's 50 gun."

The Plossen Armored Division that invaded Ant rarely equipped the early No. 3 tanks with 37 guns, all of which were 50 gun versions.

In fact, Wang Zhong wanted to test the enemy's Panzer IV equipped with a 75mm long-barreled gun the most. No, considering that Proson will release a longer 75mm gun later, the current 43-caliber 75mm gun should be called the medium 75mm.

The 75mm gun of the Panzer IV is already the limit when it is extended to 48 calibers. Further extension 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: "There is also a new anti-tank gun in the captured equipment we sent back, which should be 75mm."

Wang Zhong was overjoyed. Isn't this the PAK40? If you can withstand this, you basically only have to be afraid of the 88 anti-tank gun.

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

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

Wang Zhong turned around and found that this thing was much larger than in the game.

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

At this time, several captured Type 3 and Type 4 tanks were also driven over.

Wang Zhong: "Let's start with the least powerful Big Buffalo anti-tank gun."

The results came out a few minutes later. The standard anti-tank gun PTRS-41 of the Ante Army basically could not penetrate the front armor of the "Vortex".

Because when Ke Jing designed the Vortex, he did not open a hole in the front armor. He placed the driver's observation window on the top of the tank, and the driver's seat was also designed to be liftable. When not in combat, he could turn the bolt to raise it and stick out half of his head to observe. When in combat, he would lower it and look forward with a periscope.

There were also machine guns like the body machine gun, which Ke Jing directly removed, and instead built an anti-aircraft machine gun above the fighting compartment.

So 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, Ke Jing also placed it on the top of the fighting compartment, using a periscope structure for image transmission.

In short, there is no weakness on the front of the Vortex that can be attacked by anti-tank guns - this thing can basically only hit various observation windows in actual combat.

There was no moment of sadness for the defeat of the PTRS-41. The next to appear was the standard 45mm anti-tank gun of the Ante Army.

When Wang Zhong saw the gunner operating this thing, he remembered the scene when he had just started the war and begged for a company of this thing.

In the end, it was the repairman of Loktov who collected three guns.

Hey, it seems to be the 76 guns collected? Anyway, this thing was precious at that time.

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

Ricochet!

The researcher ran over, checked the dummy in the vehicle, and reported that it was intact!

Then the gunner changed the aiming position, but the front was still bounced off. The new vehicle was exempted from the 45mm gun at a distance of 800 meters!

Then according to the caliber principle, the 50mm gun of the Proson III tank was installed, and the result was also completely fine.

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

As a result, the high-explosive shells 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 two people were slightly scratched, but they were still capable of fighting.

Finally, it was the turn of Ante's ZIS-3 76mm anti-tank gun, which should be the tank gun with the best armor-piercing ability in the test field at present. The ZIS4 57mm anti-tank gun that Wang Zhong's troops were equipped with in large quantities was not available in the test field, so it could not be tested today.

Whether the new car can penetrate and defend depends on whether it can withstand the 76mm cannon!