What is it? In the distance, Andrei seemed to hear the roar of a jet engine. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the division headquarters of the 4th Tank Division, after coordinating the activities of learning cultural knowledge, Andrei and Marshal Ogarkov went to the training range to observe the training of the 4th Tank Division on the spot.

As soon as he got out of the car, Andrei heard the familiar voice, but this is a tank training ground, not an airfield! How can there be a roar of jet engines!

In the telescope, a tank is traveling at high speed on the shooting range, six pairs of load wheels, low turret, from the appearance, almost the same as the T-64, but, the sound...

Andrei suddenly remembered, isn't this a T-80 tank with a gas turbine? It seems that this tank was finalized in 76, right? Although the first line was to equip the East German troops, the Moscow Military District, as the Imperial Forest, also had the right to obtain the best tanks.

"Marshal, general, the shooting exercise is being carried out now by the T-80 tank tank that equipped our Fourth Tank Division last year, which is the same as the American M1 tank, which uses a gas turbine as a power and has excellent maneuverability." Colonel Mironov introduced.

At this time, the T-80 tank was flying high from a small dirt slope, the entire hull was in the air, and then it fell to the ground again, and the tail engine emitted a puff of black smoke, and the tank continued to accelerate.

Gas turbine! Until later generations, there were only two tanks in the world that used gas turbines as power, one was the American M1 and the other was the Soviet T-80. The torque is large, and it is not easy to stall under high loads. Unlike diesel engines, which need to be warmed up at low temperatures, they almost catch fire and go.

These are all advantages. However, another aspect of gas turbines is that they are quite flawed.

Fuel Efficient! Under high working conditions, the fuel consumed by the gas turbine is similar to that of the diesel engine, and various advantages are very obvious, but under low working conditions, the diesel engine consumes very little fuel, while the gas turbine. The amount of fuel consumed is almost constant! Compared to the diesel engine, this thing is a tiger that drinks oil!

This T-80 tank, after attaching an external fuel tank, will not travel more than 400 kilometers! The Americans' M1 tank, with two tons of fuel, is about the same as the Leopard 2's trip.

In later generations, when the Russians fought Chechnya, the tank units had not yet attacked, but were just standing by. As a result, all the precious fuel is depleted.

And the high price, the T-64 is already expensive enough, it is only 140 thousand rubles. T-80 is up to 480,000 rubles! Moreover, American tanks, equipped with automatic transmissions. This allowed the ability to be highly maneuverable, and the Soviet T-80. It is still a manual gearbox, the level of operation of personnel. It's not as fast as an automatic transmission, so maneuverability isn't ideal.

In later generations, the Chechen war verified the poor performance of this tank, and the T-80 was not popular with the Russian army and stopped being installed.

This is not the tank that the Soviets need! However, Andrey can only put this idea in his head for the time being, tanks with gas turbines have been studied since the fifties, and the then Minister of Defense Grechko has not been satisfied, as a result, when Ustinov came to power, it was put into production directly!

This is Ustinov's favorite tank, and now, Andrei is embarrassed to point out the flaws of this tank, after all, he still belongs to the air defense system, and now he runs to the army as a staff officer, and he is already playing soy sauce.

"Boom!" At this moment, the moving tank suddenly opened fire, which was deafening.

With the sound of artillery, a ball of fire erupted from the barrel of the tank, and in the distance, a small dirt slope a few kilometers away suddenly scattered in all directions.

Even if you don't need a telescope, you can see it with just the naked eye, which is spectacular!

"Well, our tankers are good and well-trained!" Marshal Ogarkov nodded again and again, on the move, to be able to accurately shoot at the target, which requires strict training of the tanker and close cooperation of the crew, even if the T-80 is a new fire control system, it also needs a high-quality tank crew.

"This crew is our training pacesetter this year." Hearing Marshal Ogarkov's praise, Colonel Mironov was also proud, and just when he was about to be modest, General Andrei next to him spoke: "Comrade division commander, what kind of armor-piercing shells are issued to our T-80 tanks?" The latest type of armor-piercing bullet, has it been distributed? ”

Andrei was still concerned about the construction of tank units, and he remembered that when he was in Hokkaido, Kartsev had visited the front line, after which Andrei proposed to improve the existing armor-piercing shells and increase the aspect ratio.

Later, with the help of new types of ammunition, Andrei succeeded in intimidating the Americans from provoking a war.

And Andrey, of course, also knows about the competition between the two design bureaus, however, competition is competition, this new type of ammunition should be universal, right? All are 125 mm tank guns, and Nizhny Tagil should not be in private possession.

Hearing Andrei's question, the smile on Colonel Mironov's face instantly froze, and then changed to the expression just now: "Yes, the new tungsten alloy armor-piercing projectile has been equipped with our tank troops, but..."

"Since it's equipped, give us an armor-piercing shot." Ogarkov interrupted Mironov: "Hit a steel target." ”

Hitting a steel target? And what tungsten alloy armor-piercing bullets? Colonel Mironov's heart sank, and he immediately remembered something: "Report, our shooting range, now there is a lack of steel targets, this armor-piercing bullet, forget it." ”

"Colonel Mironov, use your brains!" Andrei said on the side: "These T-80s are newly equipped, so there must be obsolete tanks, right?" Just use our eliminated tanks as targets to see if our new armor-piercing shells can penetrate our eliminated tanks. ”

Since the T-80 is equipped, it must be that the new armor-piercing projectile has been mass-produced, and to test the performance of his own armor-piercing projectile, Andrei can't wait.

It's just that this division commander seems to have some kind of trouble? Look at this guy, the smile on his face is more ugly than crying?

"That's right, drag the T-62 that was eliminated in the warehouse out and shoot it!" Ogarkov was also tickled by Andrei's proposal.

A fresh breeze blew the training range, and the entire range was silent at this time.

"Boom, boom." After waiting for a full hour, just as the sun was about to set in the west, the roar of the engine was finally heard in the distance, and a discarded T-62 in the warehouse started over. (To be continued.) )