The correct way to open the elf

Chapter 351 Tracked Armored Vehicle

The weapons testing ground in Cattail City has been very busy these past two days, because it not only undertakes the task of weapons testing, but also has a special area for drivers to take driving tests for tracked vehicle licenses.

At first Feng Yu thought it was simple. With a diesel engine, the king of land warfare, the tank, would not be that difficult to make. But later he found out that he was wrong.

It’s not because the technology is too difficult, but because he suddenly realized that the tanks equipped in Xiangpu City are useless.

What is the role of a tank? The most important point is to fight against enemy tanks or attack enemy heavy armored units and bunkers.

But the problem is that among the potential enemies of Cattail City, there are no tanks, nor are there any heavy armored units that require tank guns to penetrate, and they will not invade Green with bunkers.

Therefore, the only purpose of deploying tanks for Cattail City is to scare people.

But the key is that the enemies that appear in the plane channel don’t know them at all, and enemies like Cyclops or Undead don’t know what fear is.

The tank gun was overpowered and required too much in the way of casting and specialized ammunition.

Compared with the flesh-and-blood enemies in various dimensions, even the light tanks on Earth are overweight armored units to them.

After figuring this out, Feng Yu naturally gave up the unrealistic dream of letting the Type 69 tanks roam the wilderness, and became more "pragmatic".

What is pragmatism? He needs to understand that the enemies in Cattail City do not have tank guns with straight trajectories, shoulder-fired rockets, or anti-tank mines.

That is, they have no effective means of armor penetration.

Therefore, the design of the armored vehicles of Cattail City cannot be based on the ideas on Earth, but must develop an armored vehicle design concept that conforms to the characteristics of Green.

Feng Yu believed that Pupu City only needed one type of mobile armored force, and having more would not have much practical significance.

As the defending side, Cattail City was originally equipped with a large number of high-explosive artillery, large-caliber mortars and rockets in its bunkers.

According to the records of previous plane wars, the enemies of plane wars are mostly creatures with strong bodies and strong resistance to attacks, such as undead creatures and cyclops.

Artillery is not very suitable for this kind of creature, because unless the artillery hits it directly or causes damage from bomb fragments, it is difficult to destroy the enemy on a large scale by relying on the shock wave of high-explosive bombs.

Especially when these creatures attack on a large scale, the smoke and dust raised by high-explosive bombs will obstruct their own vision, creating favorable conditions for the enemy to approach quickly.

In other words, this weapon, which seems very foul to humans, especially Moran mercenaries, may not be effective against enemies from other dimensions.

Scholars among the elves who study plane warfare believe that firepower such as demon hunting rifles and heavy machine guns, if used in large quantities, can actually be very effective in directly destroying enemies with strong bodies or enemies that are unable to feel pain like undead creatures.

With this idea in mind, Feng Yu combined the current diesel engine performance and industrial base of Pupu City with the chariot design concepts on Earth to design an armored vehicle suitable for plane wars.

He initially thought that wheeled infantry fighting vehicles on Earth that were equipped with heavy machine guns or small-caliber direct-fire cannons were particularly suitable and had good mobility.

But the chassis, transmission, steering, shock absorption and explosion-proof tire design of that kind of tank is too complicated.

So Feng Yu chose a similar one, which is a tracked infantry fighting vehicle.

However, the tracked infantry fighting vehicle envisioned by Feng Yu is different from the ones on Earth.

Tracked infantry fighting vehicles on Earth are relatively flat in design because they have to take into account many conditions such as defending against enemy attacks, reducing infrared radiation, and increasing stealth radar invisibility.

However, the chariots needed by Cattail City do not have such design requirements.

The infantry fighting vehicles that Pupu City needs only need to have both mobility and firepower continuity, that is, they need to run as fast as possible and be able to carry more weapons and fuel.

This is because there is no road network in the wilderness, so fuel cannot be refueled frequently.

Moreover, once the enemy appears, there will definitely be a large-scale, fearless and desperate charge, so the tank must have a large ammunition capacity.

Under such design requirements, the tracked vehicle developed by Pupu City became a hodgepodge. It did not have a flat body and a tilted front face that could deflect bullets. Instead, it looked like a chubby amphibious infantry fighting vehicle.

However, the chariots of Pupu City do not have the function of launching into the water. In the dry wilderness, smoke rises when one stomps one's feet, and there is no water to launch into. When they reach Lengshui River, that is the territory of the warships, and there is no need for chariots to compete for their business.

This tracked vehicle has a heavy machine gun firing position with a guard plate on the co-pilot's seat, which can attack enemies in front and on the left and right sides of the vehicle.

On the top of the tank are two side-by-side 'turrets', both of which are equipped with small-caliber dual-purpose anti-aircraft machine guns that can be raised and lowered for air defense, and can rotate 180 degrees sideways to attack enemies in front, behind, and to one side.

These two anti-aircraft machine guns, like the previous heavy machine guns, are belt-fed and can provide continuous firepower.

Moreover, whether it is an anti-aircraft gun or a machine gun position, they are both turret-style designs with personnel hidden inside, ensuring the safety of the soldiers to the greatest extent.

As for the rear roof, there is an openable baffle that can be opened when necessary to launch Soul Fire tracking missiles to attack the enemy's long-range air targets to make up for the insufficient attack range of the machine gun.

Generally speaking, Cattail City's tracked vehicles focus more on single-target attacks and do not have large-caliber firepower.

However, if necessary, large-caliber artillery can be towed into the battlefield behind this tracked vehicle. Anyway, except for the large-caliber artillery fixed on the fortress, the rest are all with wheels and can be towed.

As for why only one type of tracked armored vehicle is produced, there is actually nothing that can be done about it.

The size of Cattail City is too small, and there are not many talents to be used in the design, production, modification and upgrading of tanks. Therefore, in order to facilitate improvement and maintenance, only one type of tracked armored vehicle was designed and equipped.

However, this type of model is enough for the time being. After all, Green's enemies rely on magic and flesh, and the current firepower of Cattail City, except for the ordinary rifles in the hands of the soldiers, has far exceeded the attack range of magic units at the mage level.

As for the powerful masters at the level of grand mages, in the targeted combat training of the Pupu City Iron Army, once such enemies are discovered, they will be saturated with a variety of heavy weapons such as long-range artillery, rockets, soul fire tracking missiles, etc.

This is the attack level that Feng Yu designed for the current Pupu City. The research and development work of Pupu City is still in progress, but most of those that are still being designed are unconventional super firepower.

(End of this chapter)