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Chapter 575 A Thunderclap! (First Update!)

As he spoke, Kang Xiaozhen quickly ran to the training base gate, took the walkie-talkie from the guard, and began to call out:
"This is the gate, this is the gate, I am Kang Xiaozhen!"

"Has the safety issue at the back of the mountain been resolved? (Repeated question: Has the safety issue at the back of the mountain been resolved?)"

He spoke into the walkie-talkie, and within two minutes, a voice came from the other end:

"This is the safety inspection team. We have inspected the back mountain. There are no people or livestock lingering there, so we can proceed with the testing."

"We are heading to the emergency exit, estimated time 5 minutes!"

Less than five minutes later, the same voice came through the walkie-talkie again:
"This is the security check team. We have reached the security exit and can begin testing!"

Having received the information that testing could begin, Kang Xiaozhen didn't rush to have Lin Yi and the others unload the cargo. Instead, he adjusted the walkie-talkie channel and began contacting the base's interior:
"This is Kang Xiaozhen. Please sound the blast alarm to remind base personnel that a blasting mission is underway. Please return to the safe area and be careful!"

After speaking into the walkie-talkie, he put it down, ran to Xu Youtang, and saluted, saying, "Director Xu, the Huanglishu training base is ready. Please give your instructions!"

As soon as he finished speaking, several urgent alarms sounded in the base. Unlike ordinary air raid sirens, these were explosion warning alarms sounded during demolition training or demolitions.

After the alarm stopped, Xu Youtang raised his hand and saluted Kang Xiaozhen:

"Comrade Kang Xiaozhen, now, please, as the person in charge of the Huanglishu Training Base, guide the 80515 Research Institute in conducting tank artillery testing!"

After saluting, Xu Youtang stepped aside, handing the scene over to Kang Xiaozhen and the group from Xiaomi Heavy Industry.

With the home field now in his hands, Kang Xiaozhen approached Lin Yi and raised his hand in salute:
"Chief Lin, please unload the tank and then load the ammunition!"

Lin Yi raised his hand in return, his eyes scanning the surroundings. He found that the area was all paved with cement, and tank tracks had been running over it, so he estimated that everything would have to be repaired.

Turning his gaze away, he said to Kang Xiaozhen, "Let's find an open meadow!"

"It's alright, it's going to be fixed anyway!" Kang Xiaozhen waved his hand and pointed to the spot next to him.

Since the person in charge had spoken, Lin Yi had no choice but to comply. He waved to the cart in the distance, and the cart drove over.

They reversed the vehicle, lowered the unloading ladder, and Shen Weihua and Liu Nanqiao climbed onto the tank together, started the tank, and then slowly backed off the flatbed truck.

Throughout the process, the tank moved very quietly. While others directed the reversing, Xu Youtang quietly approached Lin Yi and watched as the tank was unloaded and the engineers began loading ammunition. Only then did he whisper a sigh of admiration:
"No wonder the higher-ups called personally, telling us to keep a close eye on this tank test."

"Given the noise this tank makes, it could probably sneak up to someone's camp at night, stick the cannon barrel right in front of their tent, and hardly anyone would notice."

"Director Xu, you're exaggerating!" Lin Yi quickly waved his hand, responding humbly. After responding, he turned around and looked at the tank with a proud expression.

Xu Youtang, however, became interested at this moment and took another step forward, standing to Lin Yi's left: "What is the ammunition capacity?"

"60! The standard configuration is 30 rounds of armor-piercing discarding sabot rounds and 30 rounds of high-explosive rounds. Special missions can use only one type."

"So much?" Xu Youtang exclaimed in surprise. As the head of the 2nd Artillery Logistics Training Base, he naturally knew very well how much ammunition a tank was equipped with when it was deployed.

阿美莉卡的坦克是40发，德国豹2a6是42发，法兰西勒克莱尔是40发，俄罗斯t90是43发， T72是39发。

Domestically produced tanks typically carry 40 rounds.

This tank carries 20 more rounds than others, which is not just a simple matter of 20 more shells, but a matter of having twice the sustained firepower of others.

When tanks hunt each other, they need to consider the supplies they carry and the amount of ammunition they have.

If you carry limited ammunition, you have to be very careful in battle and manage your ammunition wisely.

With 20 more rounds, I can fire cautiously, or I can simply use overwhelming firepower.

If one shot doesn't take it down, I'll fire another, and another!
Xu Youtang was multitasking, thinking about things in one mind and calculating the amount of ammunition to be loaded in the other.

He breathed a sigh of relief after the engineers finished loading.

It really was 60 rounds!
This tank...

With just 20 more rounds of explosives, the competitiveness of other tanks seems so pale in comparison to this tank.

After the ammunition was loaded, Shen Weihua and Liu Nanqiao crawled out of the hatch again, their eyes turning to Lin Yi: "Chief, shall we fire now?"

Lin Yi immediately turned his gaze to Xu Youtang, while Xu Youtang turned his gaze to Kang Xiaozhen.

Kang Town called again and quickly received a response from the security inspection team.

The targets have been set up, and all personnel in the target area have been evacuated. There is no one there, and it is very safe.

After receiving a reply, he nodded to the two men, "Permission to fire!"

Upon receiving the order, the two men at the tank hatch immediately crawled inside. Lin Yi also took binoculars and earphones from several engineers, giving one to Kang Xiaozhen and one to Xu Youtang. Only then did he pick up the binoculars and look at the target on the distant hilltop.

5 kilometers is a bit far.

He stood in front of the training base gate, adjusting his binoculars for a while before he could clearly see the target on the hilltop.

Judging from the reference points at the scene, the target is approximately 2 meters by 2 meters in size, with a one-meter square red circle in the middle.

After Xu Youtang and Lin Yi finished looking at the target, Kang Xiaozhen raised his right hand and pressed the microphone hanging around his neck at the same time:
"All hands on! 14:00, distance 4970, one armor-piercing round!"

His command was transmitted into the tank via microphone, and before the sound had even faded, the tank roared to life.

With a loud bang, the tank's cannon spewed out a white flame more than a meter long. In the bright flame, a long, thin object crashed into the distance at a speed beyond the human eye's ability to perceive.

With its L55 caliber and high-performance explosive, this new alloy armor-piercing projectile achieved a terrifying muzzle velocity of 2100 meters per second after exiting the gun barrel.

In just over two breaths, the target standing on the distant hilltop suddenly shattered into pieces and fell backward.

Seeing this, Kang Xiaozhen swallowed hard, while Xu Youtang slowly turned around and stared at the tank next to him as if he had seen a ghost.

From the moment he saw the light coming from the cannon barrel to the moment he looked at the target in the distance, the whole process took just over two seconds.

It flew over 4900 meters in just over two seconds.

The muzzle velocity of this shell is at least 2000 meters per second. At that speed, hitting other tanks on the battlefield is like poking tofu with chopsticks—one hit and they're dead.

He couldn't imagine what it would be like if several such tanks moved out in groups, concealed themselves on the vast plains, and then launched a surprise attack on enemy tanks.

At a distance of 5 kilometers, the speed of sound is 340 meters per second. A shell fired from a gun will hit its target in just over two seconds, less than three seconds.

The sound takes more than 14 seconds to travel, and it would take at least 15 seconds for the people inside the tank to react to it.

In 15 seconds, the person was fucking dead!

Thinking of this, he felt that Old Lu was saved!
Suppressing his wildly beating heart, he looked at Kang Xiaozhen without speaking, but with just a glance, Kang Xiaozhen understood his thoughts. He muted the microphone with his right hand, picked up the walkie-talkie with his left, and began calling the security inspection team:
"This is Kang Town. Place the second round of targets, spaced 5 meters apart! Over!"

Once the order was given, the sound of vehicles could be heard from the distant hilltop. Soon after, five targets reappeared on the hilltop, spaced five meters apart, just as Kang Xiaozhen had instructed.

As soon as the security inspection team's voice came through the walkie-talkie, Kang Xiaozhen raised his right hand again, and issued new instructions:
"Five enemy tanks have appeared at the target position. Attack!"

Almost the instant his voice fell, the tank fired its first shot.

The first shot was fired, and only 5 seconds passed between the first and second shots.

Twenty seconds later, all five targets on the distant hilltop were taken down and smashed to pieces.

This time, Kang Xiaozhen no longer hid the surprise in his eyes. Instead, he quickly ran to the tank, touched it, and then turned to Xu Youtang beside him: "Director Xu, this is a good thing!"

"I know it's good stuff!" Xu Youtang nodded expressionlessly. If the first shot he fired was amazing, then the next five shots were interesting, but also utterly boring.

Even the most stunning weapons lose their appeal after you've seen them many times.

Hey!
Men are all big pig hooves!

He gritted his teeth, slowly walked towards Lin Yi, pointed at the tank, and asked in a low voice, "Can we go in?"

"I want to see what's inside!"

"Okay!" Lin Yi nodded, pressed the microphone button, said a few words into it, and the tank that was adjusting the turret stopped. Then the hatch opened, and Liu Nanqiao and Shen Weihua crawled out.

They made way, and Lin Yi, Xu Youtang, and Kang Xiaozhen climbed into the tank one after another.

Upon entering and seeing the interior clearly, Xu Youtang couldn't help but gasp.

Because its internal structure is so simple!

Very concise!
The interior is arranged in a triangular pattern, with the driver in the middle, the gunner on the left, and the commander on the right.

In front of the driver's seat are the steering wheel, foot brake, handbrake, and 360-degree camera display.

In front of the gunner is a control panel that controls the rate of fire of the cannon. The buttons on it make the control panel look more like a game controller.

In addition to these buttons, the control panel also has a screen that displays the targets locked by the fire control system. At this moment, the screen is displaying 5 targets.

Those five targets were the same five targets that had been shot down earlier.

On this screen, you can see distant targets much more clearly than you would with a telescope.

The red frame marks the locations where the targets fell, and in the middle of the red frame is a cross.

That's the sight.

At this very moment, five red boxes are flashing, frantically indicating that an attack is possible.

Directly in front of the commander's position is a 3D map, which displays the tank's current location.

At this moment, a notification is flashing directly above this 3D map.

[No friendly signals detected. Please be cautious!]

"There's a hint too?" Xu Youtang looked at the screen in surprise, not quite understanding why there was such a hint.

Lin Yi tilted his head and glanced at it, then whispered, "There's only one tank here. If there were multiple tanks, their communication systems would automatically network and report their positions to each other's commanders."

"Once the signal system detects a signal that does not belong to its own side, it will use multi-angle positioning calculations to calculate the target's location."

"Once you find the enemy's location, you can call on your teammates to launch an attack."

Xu Youtang was stunned when he heard that this function existed.

He sat down in the commander's seat, stared at the map for a while, then turned to Lin Yi: "I remember Director Guo saying that your tank is a non-intelligent version?"

"Correct!"

"What would the intelligent version look like?"

Lin Yi pointed to the sky: "If there are airplanes or missiles, the laser system will automatically guide the missiles and airplanes to attack the target."

"It would also transmit the image data captured by the camera to the rear base, but these functions are not currently available."

Looking at Lin Yi's regretful expression, Xu Youtang inexplicably recalled a saying: "A well-fed man doesn't know the hunger of a starving man."

"Damn it!" he cursed under his breath, then turned to Kang Xiaozhen: "Can you drive?"

"Yes!" Kang Xiaozhen nodded, then plopped down in the driver's seat, fastened his seatbelt, and secured himself firmly to the seat.

He found his place, and Xu Youtang waved to Lin Yi, signaling him to sit in the commander's seat. He himself squeezed past Kang Xiaozhen from behind and sat down in the gunner's seat.

After staring at the buttons for a while, he turned to Lin Yi and said:

"Commander, give the order!"

Lin Yi rolled his eyes, fastened himself with the seatbelt, and then gave a loud order:

"Tankman, move the tank 20 centimeters to the left!"

Kang Xiaozhen rolled his eyes, honked the horn once to signal everyone around to move away, and then unlocked the power and controlled the tank to move 20 centimeters to the left.

Finally, apply the brakes to lock the power.

Immediately afterwards, he took the walkie-talkie hanging on his left chest and shouted, "Enemy tanks have reappeared on the target hill. Attack!"

Upon receiving his instruction, Xu Youtang immediately looked at the large screen in front of him, then controlled the button to lock onto the target.

After locking on, with the assistance of the fire control system, he aimed the gun barrel at the first target on the left, pressed the fire button, and with a loud bang, the fire control system automatically selected the second target. Xu Youtang did not hesitate for half a second and fired directly.

The second shell was fired, and the fire control system automatically selected the third target, firing again.

In this way, Xu Youtang, alone, controlled the main gun of the tank and fired five shots in a row in just over 20 seconds, shattering the five targets on the hilltop once again.

Through the camera, Xu Youtang saw the scene on the distant mountaintop. He locked the tank's cannon, closed his eyes, and leaned back in his chair with satisfaction.
"Comfortable!"

(End of this chapter)