For Qin Baoshan, this should be the most common technical discussion meeting, and a new technical solution can be provided with just a few words. In the eyes of other people, this seems to be tall, but to Qin Baoshan, this is ordinary. After all, Qin Baoshan didn't think of these things himself, but his accumulated experience in another time and space. Those are the most common things. This should be the advantage brought by the traversers, right? He has decades of accumulated shortcuts ahead of anyone in this era.
Li Yunlong looked at Qin Baoshan with more and more emotion. This guy is just too good. There is simply nothing he can't do, and any problem is almost not a problem for him. Now here is the Eighth Route Army's first tank being built in full swing. Li Yunlong looked so happy that he couldn't bear to leave.
The turret in the steel factory over there has also been cast. In terms of technical difficulty, the casting of the turret should not be difficult. As long as you can make a sand mold, you can simply pour molten steel into it to complete the turret. The only thing to pay attention to is that one furnace of molten steel must be able to cast it. If the furnace of molten steel is not enough, this thing cannot be made. The output of the Xiagou Iron Works of the Eighth Route Army is not high, and it took a lot of effort to make the molten iron for this furnace. Hot molten steel flowed into the sand mold. After cooling down, smash the sand mold and you can take out the turret inside.
When seeing this turret, Li Yunlong was amazed there: "Damn, such a big pot. If it is used to stew meat, how much can it stew?"
What Li Yunlong said is really good. Judging from the appearance, this thing really looks like a pot. It¡¯s just that ordinary pots are the same thickness everywhere, but this turret is different. According to Qin Baoshan¡¯s design, the front is the thickest and the top is the thinnest. If they are all the same thickness, then this turret will be the same. There must be more than ten tons.
After this thing was finished, Lu Da spoke again from the side: "Director Qin, I hope your design will not change any more. Although we temporarily modified the design, the turret is so big that it is impossible to increase the internal space. , so this turret can only be operated by one person, and this person has a lot of tasks."
This light tank was originally a single-man turret. According to Qin Baoshan's plan, the initial weapon used was a 20mm cannon, so there was no need to worry about loading shells. Because the shells of this machine gun are automatically loaded. Even if the magazine is used, it can continue to shoot, and then replace it after it is exhausted.
But later, Qin Baoshan modified his design. He wanted to make this tank have anti-tank capabilities, so he had to increase the caliber of the gun. increased to 50mm. The caliber and power of tank guns increased, but it also brought another problem: there was no space for the loader.
At the beginning, Lu Da didn't think so much. After all, since Qin Baoshan wanted to increase the caliber of the artillery, he followed this requirement. Moreover, most of the guns produced are towed guns, which are pushed forward on the battlefield by them. So most of the guns will not have this problem, but now, the large caliber guns mounted on their tanks will be defective.
Generally speaking, the best solution in a turret is a trio: commander, gunner and loader. That way they can do their jobs.
The commander is responsible for commanding the entire vehicle, the gunner is responsible for firing, and the loader is only responsible for physical work, that is, loading shells. This way, the cooperation of the three will be very safe.
But for light tanks, there is no such need. Light tanks generally use bursting machine guns and do not require a loader. Moreover, the space inside this tank is very tight, and it does not need so many people.
Now Qin Baoshan wants to install large-caliber artillery on their light tanks, so this problem arises. For this problem, Qin Baoshan has no good solution.
"Most of our tanks still use 20mm caliber cannons. This 50mm cannon is just an experiment, and the output will not be high, so we should just let our tank commander feel wronged. Anyway. Our Eighth Route Army also has plenty of hands, we can definitely choose some people who can shoot guns and are relatively strong, as long as they are auditioned among the Eighth Route Army, we will definitely find suitable people."
Anyway, there must be some people who like this kind of tank. I don¡¯t know how many people want to drive it. Since they want to drive a tank, they have to see if they have the ability. Not only must you be able to shoot and destroy enemy tanks, but you must also have a lot of strength, and you have to load the shells yourself.
?This plan proposed by Qin Baoshan made Li Yunlong a little speechless, you are too mediocre!
However, Li Yunlong also knew in his heart that Qin Baoshan must have no other way, so he had to make this suggestion. If there were other ways, he would definitely not choose this way.
Qin Baoshan solved the problem very irresponsibly, and then continued to discuss the next problem.
The turret has been cast, but only the shell of this turret is still not enough. It also has many accessories. For example, there is a rotating shaft between the gun barrel and the turret. With this rotating shaft, the gun barrel can rotate up and down in front of the turret. It is far from enough, and it must be finished, and the gun barrel can be tilted on it, and the front end of the turret needs to have a vertical opening. The size of this opening directly determines the level of the tank's protective performance. If it is not handled properly, in professional terms, this place will be called a bomb nest area.
"Generally speaking, Western tanks will make a special gun mantlet here. The gun mantlet blocks this opening, so that it can protect the front opening." Ma Sanbao said to Qin Baoshan.
Of course, tank designers from various countries have to solve this problem. Western designers use the cannon shield solution. If there is such a gun shield, which rotates with the barrel and blocks the opening at all times, the problem can be solved. You can see In this era, the front end of the turret of some tanks is designed in a circular arc shape, in fact, it is easy for the gun shield to rotate.
But Qin Baoshan didn't want to adopt this scheme, because this scheme has a flaw: that is, the gun mantlet is relatively heavy. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com