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The Third Empire - Chapter 1080

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:37:36 AM


Chapter 1080: 1080

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In terms of tanks, Germany must make tit for tat improvements. On tank guns, Germany's existing 88mm guns can break through the so-called heavy tanks of the Soviet Union. No matter how they design a good bullet avoidance shape, its weight is always there!

However, the Soviet Union's use of 152 mm guns and 122 mm guns will pose a serious threat to German tanks. Therefore, compared with firepower, Germany needs to pay more attention to the protection ability.

In history, German armor steel is quite excellent nickel chromium alloy steel armor. The Soviet T-34, even if it uses the model of 85mm tank gun, can have a penetration depth of 120mm, but even German 100mm armor can not break through because of the quality of armor steel.

However, in the later stage of history, due to the lack of resources, the Germans could not obtain these rare elements. They could only use the surface carburizing process to increase the quality of armor, resulting in the tank protection in the later stage was obviously lower than before.

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

After all, it is still a kind of steel armor. If you want to continue to increase the protective force, 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 road.

Moreover, in the development of tanks, firepower is always the easiest to break through. The penetration depth of 105mm tank guns can almost reach 500mm. It is said that the model modified by Huaxia magic has reached 700mm.

What about tanks? Can it be more than 700 mm thick? Of course, this is a delusion. This kind of iron pimple is definitely a nightmare for power designers.

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

The structure of ceramic composite armor is similar to that of cream sandwich biscuit. The panel layer is alloy steel with high hardness, and the base plate layer is alloy steel with strong toughness. The middle layer is composed of many ceramic balls, and the gap between the balls is filled with glass fiber reinforced resin.

In this way, when a threatening armor piercing projectile passes through the layer of "sandwich biscuit", the warhead has become blunt and consumed a lot of energy. Then, the stronger ceramic ball in the middle layer decomposes and dissipates the main impact of the warhead. Finally, when the armor piercing projectile that has lost a great part of its energy hits the high toughness inner plate, it has no armor piercing ability. This is the bulletproof principle of composite armor.

In contrast, ordinary alloy steel armor is purely hard. Without any technical point, it is harder than anyone! If the armor is hard and blocked, the armor will win. If the warhead is hard and passes through, it will destroy the tank. That's it.

From the above, under the same thickness, the bulletproof ability of composite armor is higher than that of ordinary armor steel, and the most key is the ceramic ball.

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

However, ceramic armor did not enter the practical application. Until after World War II, with the rapid development of tank gun penetration depth, but the protection ability lagged behind, some people thought of ceramic armor for in-depth research. In the 1960s, they finally entered the application stage.

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

Therefore, in hilrick's proposal, alumina ceramics are put in the first place. It is relatively easy to achieve a breakthrough. Moreover, it has very light weight and low cost.

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

In addition to these, there are tungsten carbide, boron carbide, silicon carbide and so on. All kinds have various advantages and disadvantages. The technicians of Krupp are still studying, and alumina ceramics have come out with research results!

Composite armor is more needed by German armored forces at present! After receiving the news, sherrickton was also very happy: "we can bolt an additional layer of armor on the front end of our tank body and turret to achieve higher protection capability! Well, by next March, we will complete the transformation of all the Tiger tanks we have produced! "

No matter how thick the tank's armor is, additional armor makes sense. In history, many tanks in Germany have reserved positions for additional armor.

For example, after invading the Soviet Union, Germany found that its existing tank protection was insufficient. Immediately, it temporarily added 30mm additional armor with bolts in the front of the car body and turret of type 3 h to reach 60mm thickness, so as to help resist British 2pdr, Soviet 45mm and American 37mm anti tank guns.

The Tiger tank has been reserved when it is produced.

As he was saying this, Shrek suddenly had another inspiration: "when adding this layer of composite armor, we can design it into a wedge, well, it's like a bra. In this way, it can not only prevent armor piercing bullets, but also have a very good protective effect on armor piercing bullets. "

Xierik thought of the leopard 2 tank of later generations. The added bra is very clever. Now, armor piercing bullets have also appeared. For metal jet, gap armor is very suitable.

Hearing the word "bra" spoken by Chirac, some designers present wanted to laugh. Then, Chirac took the pen and began to outline the plan on site. They focused and listened carefully.

Soon, they nodded again and again. This idea of hilrick was quite good!

After talking about the plan, Shrek stood up and said, "OK, now that we have said so much, let's go to the factory and have a look!"

Compared with the empty report in the conference room, Shrek prefers to visit the factory in person. It is more meaningful to be with the front-line workers.

However, as soon as Chirac got up, he saw Graf coming. He leaned against Chirac's ear and whispered, "head of Chirac, the leader of Mussolini is here. He wants to see you."

Mussolini? Of course, Chirac knew what Mussolini meant when he came to him. The battle in Greece failed. He wanted the German army to help him find the field.

For the sake of pig teammates, drag down their own pace of attacking the Soviet Union? Of course not. I'm not Hitler. I have great respect for Mussolini.

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




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