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While scientific researchers were working hard to develop anti-freeze gasoline, a profitable businessman completed the development of anti-freeze gasoline. When Zhao Gang saw this anti-freeze diesel, he had an interesting conversation with the developer of anti-freeze diesel.

"Do you want to know what I'm looking for you?"

"Sir, please spare my life. The young man shouldn't have adulterated into the oil. It ruined the military affairs. Please also ask the adults to see that there is a seventy-year-old mother on the villain...

"Enough, are there three-year-old children below? There are still a large group of brothers who have no food to eat."

"Sir, please spare me, I dare not do it anymore!"

"I dare not, that's not possible. I want to know how you adulterated."

"I don't dare anymore! Sir!"

"If you don't say anything, you will be killed. If you say so much, you will be rewarded!"

"The villain mixes diesel and water together, brings some bad wine, that's it!"

In this way, the first anti-freeze diesel was made. As the patent owner, the profiteer got a lot of money and later established the most famous company in China.

As a mobile and effective combat tool, tanks have played a decisive role in almost all ground battles since their debut. However, there is no doubt that who invented the tanks has been constantly arguing.

Although many people in history have had the idea of ​​making an armored vehicle similar to a modern tank, people eventually attributed the credit for the invention of the tank to the Chinese Zhan Tianyou.

As early as 1893, Zhan Tianyou saw the +> product of the sex - the armored vehicle. At that time, the car was emitting black smoke and ran the rails everywhere. Under the influence of this car, Zhan Tianyou began to study how to develop a powerful weapon to get rid of the existence of the rails. It is worth noting that as his boss, Zhao Gang gave him almost unlimited support, and his investment over eight years could almost buy a brand new battleship.

Although it seems a bit unimaginable, someone on Earth did it, and this person seemed to have a high expectation for tanks. Zhan Tianyou vaguely mentioned it on some occasions. On several key technologies, Zhao Gang used his "intuition" to formulate a direction for research. So some people think that Zhao Gang, the mysterious president, is the real father of tanks.

In 1898, Zhan Tianyou proposed to make a package. This suggestion was submitted to the Presidential Palace on October 20 to put together existing machinery parts and assembled into a new armored vehicle similar to a tractor. This kind of thing is everywhere in the northeast.

However, there is another way to say that the invention of the tank is: a tractor manufacturer from a small town in Minnesota, USA had proposed the idea of ​​manufacturing similar tank devices before Zhan Tianyou. It is said that he provided the Chinese with detailed ideas and even blueprints. The Chinese built the first tank based on their concept.

The American manufacturer was Edwin Wheelok, who was the general manager of the Pioneer Tractor Company in Winona City, Minnesota. He claimed that he had been working on the invention of this armored vehicle and had written the concept two months before Zhan Tianyou proposed. He also claimed that because he wanted to sell this armored vehicle to the Chinese, he provided his plan to the Chinese, but was secretly used by the Chinese.

According to Wheelok, in 1898, he was in the Canadian town of Calgary to fight for a commercial contract for his tractor company. Whether the contract could be signed depends on Sino-US relations. If Sino-US declare war, his business negotiations would end. On the way back to Winona City, he tried his best to seek products that could be sold to China by replacing tractors. At this time, he had the idea of ​​making armored combat vehicles.

When he returned to Winona two days later, his idea of ​​such armored vehicles was already in mind. When he failed to find customers in Canada's armored vehicles, Wheelok sent sales representative Francis Lowe to China to promote their tractors, hoping to arouse the Chinese government's interest in the design of its tracked armored vehicles.

Francis Lowe described his experience in that trip in detail: In April 1898, when he went to China to sell tracked armored vehicles, he brought him an armored vehicle that cost about 600,000 yuan, drawn by Mr. Wheelok. When Colonel Chen Tielin learned that according to these designs, he could produce armored vehicles weighing only a little over 25 tons, he was impatient, "Speak! Tell me! This is another American invention that can win war. It can destroy any bridge in Russia. In addition, you Americans don't know that we are driving on the left rather than on the right, so that it can block traffic well."

Finally, Colonel Chen Tielin took the plan and left a message to inform him of any order. However, they never received any news until the Sino-Russian War. Whether these statements of Wheelok's are true is no verified, because the records of this matter in American history can only show that some newspapers at that time tended to support Wheelok's statement. However, Wheelok made a unique skeleton tank for the US Army, at least to win a certain degree of credibility in his statement.

In fact, before Lowe went to China, the Chinese had been working hard to make Zhan Tianyou's suggestions come true. However, they had never been able to solve the problem of armored combat vehicles crossing the trench. After Lowe's trip to China, the situation changed completely. Relevant people recalled that the design work of Chinese combat vehicles was still under the guidance of the "Landing Ship Commission", and not long after, they heard that the crawler armored vehicles used for experiments were obtained from the United States.

At the same time, regarding the design problems, they and Major Chen Tielin, an engineer from Foster Co., Ltd. (which made the first batch of tanks in China), also participated in the work as a special consultant. The design was finally completed and the first batch of tanks was released.

Whether Lowe's vivid description of the process of the matter is true. It is unknown

. and blueprints. And these plans and blueprints later helped the Chinese solve the problem of ground flexibility of armored vehicles, thus allowing China to build the first tank.

Since the tractors at that time were all huge iron devices and did not have off-road capabilities, it was indeed credible as a tractor designer to systematically explain the design that turned the tank concept into reality. Later, Major Chen Tielin and Triton won the honor largely because of these initial design instructions. Of course, before the Somme Battlefield news reports appeared in the United States, Wheelok did not know Zhan Tianyou's proposal and the secret of China's development of tanks. This move was strictly kept secret by the Chinese government.

The principle of Wheelok's tank manufacturing is to reduce weight as much as possible, but not reduce the tank's off-road performance and ability to cross trenches. The bone tank has a diamond-shaped appearance and is connected by ordinary steel pipes and standard ground lead pipes. Hanging between the track brackets is a box-shaped combat and engine room, with a steel plate thickness of half an inch.

The cabin is equipped with two "Beaver" 4 engines, each with 50 force. There is a rotating turret on the top of the combat chamber. The tank prototype car carries a 30mm caliber machine on the ground tank, but the machine gun is never installed. The prototype can carry two tankers. The volume is 8.3 meters long, 2.8 meters wide, and 3.2 meters high | but the performance is very good.

"Whirok uses steel pipes as a bracket. First, it is easy to disassemble and assemble during transportation; second, the bracket structure is not easily hit by enemy shells and bullets. At the same time, if one of the steel pipes is hit or interrupted, it will not have much impact on the tank's combat capability. If too many steel pipes are not hit or broken, it will be easy to replace afterwards."

This extraordinary tank design also has many other advantages: because of the use of standard lead pipe fixtures, as well as steel pipes and wood, the materials and techniques required to manufacture and repair tanks are also easily available. The large amount of ordinary and ready-made parts can save time and money not only in the factory, but also in the battlefield.

As a combat tool, its design also has its interesting side. When viewing from different angles, you can see its background through the upper half of the tank. There is no camouflage effect in the world that can match it. All you can see from a distance is just some tubes, steel plates and its shadow, and it is difficult to see its true face.

Since other than tracks and brackets, other devices are more than one meter away from the ground and the pressure on the tracks is very small, this tank also has the ability to wader, which was unparalleled at the time. In fact, Wheelok did test this tank on the Mississippi River.

However, the protection of this tank is very poor, and the flight attendants are actually not protected much. If they are just simply dealing with the soldiers in the trenches, then the protection of this tank is quite good. The Russians are treasured for this tank division, but unfortunately he encountered tanks produced by China.

The same tank, the United States is really much worse than China!!

The Red Star 1900 combat tank is the history of China. The total combat weight of the Red Star 1900 tank is 23 tons, with a length of 6,350 meters, a width of 2,560 mm, a height of 2,750 mm, a track width of 3,115 meters, and a bottom of the car is 700 meters high.

The biggest feature of the Red Star 1900 tank is that it has many tanks. The arrangement of the 14 is that in addition to the commander, driver, gunner and loader, there are 6 and 2 mechanics alone. These 14 crew members were drawn from different troops, including sergeants or officers, drivers and mechanics come from the engineers, gunners and loaders come from the artillery units, and 6 gunners come from the infantry units. This also brings certain difficulties to the command and coordination of the entire vehicle.

Because the Red Star 1900 has a large space in the car, most of which are not large, some passengers do not even have seats, and the combat distance is short, so you can hold on to the car for a while. Second, it shows that the Chinese attached great importance to the battlefield communications of tanks during World War I. The Red Star 1900 tank specially arranged a messenger to confirm the letter.

The Red Star 1900 tank is a typical box-type structural ground +... an armored conveyor vehicle with square crust and numerous weapons. It looks like a "moving fortress". From the interior layout of the Red Star 1900 tank, it can be seen that the Red Star 1900 grams has many unique features in design and overall layout. It is independently developed and is quite different from the over-top tracked American tank. It does not have a strict combat room, and there are 4 artillery guns in the front of the vehicle body, so the firepower is undoubtedly strong.

The engine is located in the middle of the vehicle body, and the captain and driver's seat are arranged above the engine. There is a fixed command tower, which makes the entire vehicle height of the Red Star 1900. The shaft is transmitted to the gearbox at the rear of the vehicle body, driving the driving wheels to rotate and push the track forward. Red Star 1900 only uses one driver to drive, while American tanks have 4 occupants to drive. At this point, Red Star 1900 is more advanced than American tanks. Since Red Star 1900 uses a coil spring suspension device, the riding comfort is also stronger than American tanks. When it comes to focusing on the communication performance of the tank, Red Star 1900 is also ahead.

The shortcomings of the Red Star 1900 are that the vehicle has a large body with a center distance ratio, making it difficult to turn; the bottom of the vehicle is too small, so the tank is easy to "hold the bottom". Of course, there are too many passengers. The unified command and coordination of the entire vehicle is also a troublesome.

In any case, it is not easy to independently build such a horizontal tank within the "first time" of the birth of the tank.

Red Star 1900 tanks are 2 Daimler direct displacement > 17 liters, the maximum power of each unit

00 horsepower. It was originally planned to use the +-meter, so I had to choose a ready-made 2 civilian gasoline engine. These two engines transmit power to the transmission device at the rear of the vehicle body through the driving shaft. The gearbox is a fixed-axle mechanical gearbox, with 3 forward gears and 3 reverse gears. The maximum speed of the first gear is 3 meters hours. The second gear is kilometer hours and the third gear is 10 kilometers hours.

The mobile device of Red Star 1900 is very distinctive. It uses a balanced coil spring suspension device with 15 small-diameter load-bearing wheels on each side, each 5 is a group, divided into three groups, and is connected to the vehicle body through a balanced wheel axle frame, and then 8 coil springs. Because of the coil spring, it has a certain vibration damping ability, which is much stronger than American tanks. It should be noted here that on the three balanced wheel axle frames, there are 4 springs in the front group, 2 springs in the middle group, and 2 springs in the rear group.

The Red Star 1900 tank is 30 kilometers long, with a maximum of 52 meters, a width of trench 2.2 meters, a maximum wading depth of 0.8 meters, and a vertical wall 0.6 meters. It can be said that it is definitely a nightmare for the soldiers in the trench.

The weapon system of the Red Star 1900 tank can be used

The main weapon on the tank is a 75-meter low-speed artillery with a length of 8 caliber (same as the Navy) and 600 meters; the total weight of the artillery is 104 grams. The base of ammunition is 380 rounds (later reduced to 100!), which is another "world's best". The artillery's high and low firing boundaries are 2 degrees, and the direction firing boundaries are 40 degrees each. The initial velocity when firing a reduced charge ammunition is 395, which is 1,600 meters; the initial velocity when firing a full charge ammunition is 487 meters seconds, and the maximum range is

The auxiliary weapon is a 537mm rapid-fire gun, with 2 and 1 door on both sides of the vehicle body, and an ammunition base of 1,800 rounds. Five crew members operated the 5-speed gun. Here we have to admire the wisdom of the Chinese. The machine guns played the main weapon at that time. The Chinese upgraded the weapons in advance and achieved excellent results.

Due to the "six guns", its comprehensive firepower performance is better than that of American tanks.

The entire body of the Red Star 1900 tank is a riveted knot, not an armored steel plate, and its elastic resistance is average. The thickness of the front deck is 30 mm, the thickness of the side deck is 15 mm, and the bottom armor is 6 mm. In comparison, the armor thickness of the American tank is only millimeters, which is also an ordinary steel plate. It seems that the protection performance of the Red Star 1900 is better than that of the American tank. The Star 1900 tank has strong firepower and its protection performance is not | grams of the incident where a Red Star 1900 hit a Red Star 1900 grams with 3 shells, but that Red Star 1900 tank

The biggest disadvantage of the Red Star 1900 tank is its height,: c0 mm, traps and vehicle bottomings happen from time to time, and the reliability of the vehicle is also poor. However, its production quantity makes up for everything and did not play a huge role in World War I. As China's first tank, the Red Star 1900 tank is its.<

Shortly after the beginning of World War I, the Chinese had 400 tanks and a whole tank army, while the Russians had only 54 American tanks. In the cold weather, the Russians could not move all of them. The threat to Chinese tanks was only the armored vehicles produced by Russia themselves.

The Russians were one of the first countries to realize the importance of armored vehicles. The reason is also traced back to the Russian-East War in 1896. During the Russian-East War, the Cossack cavalry that made the Russians proud were often beaten to the point of being overwhelmed by the powerful firepower of the Northeast Army machine guns and artillery, which was terrible.

The harsh bloody fact made the Russian military feel pained that "it must develop an armored car that combines mobility and firepower." Among them, the most active advocate is General M. Nakasze, the high-speaker of the Russian Simen Liacossack cavalry. In 1897, Nakasze designed the first Russian armored vehicle, named the "Nakkassi" armored vehicle. However, the most famous armored vehicle of the Russian army is the "Austin Puchilov" armored vehicle.

The Austin armored vehicle was built in 1897. It has high reliability and easy maintenance. It has won praise from Russian officers and soldiers. After purchasing the Austin armored vehicle, the Russian military carried out localization transformation. This is the Austin Puchilov armored vehicle. The total number of equipment of the Russian army is between 400,700.

The total weight of the "Austin Puchlov" armored vehicle is 4.~: The situation varies. The total length is 4., 2.. Its biggest feature is that it is equipped with 2 machine gun towers and 1 "Vicks" 77mm machine gun. The device is a 50-horsepower gasoline engine with an armor thickness of 8 meters and a maximum speed of 50 meters.

China is the Red Star 1897 armored vehicle, but it was eventually eliminated due to the problem of dangerous houses. However, when developing armored vehicles, it was discovered that this kind of vehicle could be transformed into a very safe armored vehicle.

The vehicle weighs 3. It has a width of 1.3 people, a weapon of 1 7.62mm machine gun, a power unit of 46 kilometers per hour. The armor thickness is 12mm and has a riveted structure.

800 armored vehicles can transport the troops of one division at a time and conduct a raid on any target within a range of 50 kilometers.
Chapter completed!