Chapter 478: Clues

"This, we don't understand technology, the specific choice of what kind of vehicle, but also to the professional technicians to deal with, so you see? Your country can arrange a technical team to come to our country, and you can also carry the items that need to be towed, and we will design a towing vehicle system that is completely suitable for your country's needs according to your country's artillery or vehicles. After the implementation of the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info prototype, we can also test it in your country. Finally, how about we re-price the vehicle according to it? The prince thought for a moment and said.

"Well, I think it's okay." Count Witte thought for a while and said, in his opinion, this is completely a serious and responsible performance of the Bavarian side, how dedicated and customer-oriented it is to design a set of tractors for Russia! But is that actually the case? Obviously not!

In the future, the prince will have to mix the eastern front, and the mixed eastern front will definitely have to deal with the sad road situation in Russia! Wouldn't it be tragic if you waited until then to find that your car was not suitable for Russian road conditions? There is such a good opportunity, you can openly test in Russia, you can still do a survey, and then make friends with some powerful people in Russia or something, such a good opportunity to be a public spy, can the prince let it go? Let's run thousands of kilometers for the test, and then run all the roads in Russia and Eastern Europe!

"But one thing to be clear is, how many of these cars are you going to order? If the quantity is small, then the price and payment method may be very dissatisfying. "Given you such good conditions, you should always pay a bottom, right? To be honest, the prince did not know how much Russia could buy this time, although theoretically there was a big gap in Russia's transportation in the Far East, but in the same period of history, Russia was not equipped with any cars in the Far East. Who knows how much the Russians will buy in this unrecognizable history now? If you buy less, you will have to pay for the design test!

"This, we will not be sure of the specific number now, but the first batch of orders will not be less than 100 vehicles!" Count Witte thought for a moment and said.

"What does this mean?" The prince's brain turned very quickly, at this time he was not calculating how much money 100 cars could make, this money was not very important to the prince, what he needed now was to know what these cars were for!

"100 trucks? So I wonder what is the standard for the carrying capacity of such a truck? After all, our trucks range from 1.5 to 5 tons! The prince asked tentatively.

"Most of them should be trucks over 3 tons. As for the specific situation, I think it's better to leave it to the professionals to discuss, the road conditions in the Northeast are very bad, and the things we pull are a bit heavy. Witt thought for a moment and said.

"Three tons. I'm afraid the price will be a bit high. The prince muttered to himself as he considered the information revealed in it, that Bavaria's current 3-ton trucks generally use engines of about 50 horsepower. Although the nominal is three tons, you can still make do with 4.5 tons. In the Bavarian Army, trucks of this specification are generally used to tow heavy artillery, such as 150mm heavy howitzers, and 5-ton trucks are used to tow 210mm military heavy artillery!

How will Russia use these trucks in the Far East? Needless to say, it must be a cracker! In this era when there were no tanks, the heaviest and most difficult equipment to transport was artillery! And these things are definitely not such small guys as 3-inch rapid-fire guns, a rapid-fire gun of about 1.5 tons plus a front car equipped with ammunition, 6 horses on the average road are enough. Even if the road conditions in the Far East are a little worse, the conditions for feeding the horses are a little worse. It is absolutely no problem to tow a rapid-fire cannon with a horse!

"100 trucks? Or are they all trucks over 3 tons? It seems that the amount and weight of heavy artillery you need to tow is considerable! The prince said lightly. This news was not good news for Germany, and if the Russians decided to abandon rapid-fire guns with a large number of large-caliber howitzers, the artillery threat of the Russians on the battlefield would be greatly increased.

"This is all a helpless thing, the Japanese are equipped with a large number of 120mm heavy guns, many of which are modified from naval guns. The range is long, and it's powerful. So in order to suppress these artillery pieces of the opposing side, we needed more heavy artillery, and in the end we decided to use lightweight, short-barreled heavy naval guns against them. Witt said.

"That's a lot of information." First of all, Russia is not preparing a large number of howitzers at the moment. Their use of naval guns as suppressive fire was only a stopgap measure, so the previous fears were not founded. This is just like the British in history in order to deal with the Boers, the naval artillery was also put on the army gun mount, and by the time of World War 1, the British Army's large-caliber howitzer equipment was still not much. Secondly, the weight of these naval guns is much greater than that of land artillery, and neither the length of the barrel nor the overall weight of the guns can be compared with ordinary land artillery.

If you have to compare, then these naval guns should be compared with long-range guns of the same caliber, and the weight of the 6-inch naval guns of this era is as high as about 5 tons. If you count the gun carriage, it's close to 10 tons! And this weight is about the same as the famous German K1 cannon of the 16 wartime. It was not convenient to transport such heavy weapons by horse. And the Russians came this time to order a reliable batch of tractors for these artillery!

But soon, the prince discovered that there were still some problems, that is, if it was a naval gun, where would Russia get so many large-caliber naval guns? You know, more than 100 trailers were ordered in this first batch, and a battleship was equipped with only about 14 6-inch secondary guns. Therefore, it is impossible for the Russians to arm their heavy artillery units simply by replacing naval guns with gun mounts, there must be other sources!

"If so, when will these artillery samples arrive?" The prince decided to ask anyway.

"In fact, a large part of the artillery was imported from the United States, and they had a large number of 6-inch L30 guns that were replaced, so we bought them back." Werther decided to give it a shot.

"I'm rubbing! You're collecting waste all over the world! The prince was convinced, expressing his admiration for the Russians' persistence and admiration for the Americans' grasp of business opportunities, and Ruprecht could at best deal with the various mountain guns and machine guns that he was squeezing at home, while the Americans had already begun to deal with the navy's excessive naval guns, and the gap was .......

"Okay, let's leave everything to our technicians." The prince said. This kind of overly professional thing is no longer something he can solve.

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