"I'm in trouble!" Looking at the first-hand information obtained by the clone spies, Meng Xiang couldn't help frowning.

The defeat in Edmonton also woke up the Americans.

Originally, they still had all kinds of logistics and weapons and various excuses, and they always refused to admit the backwardness of the army, and they wanted to use the duel of armored forces to win confidence from Huaxia, but Edmonton's several slaps woke them up.

Even if many Americans are not willing to admit defeat, they still have an invincible frustration in their hearts in front of the hordes of second-class rhino and grizzly tanks and roaring mammoth tanks.

The Overlord tank and the Conqueror are the latest tanks that Britain and the United States have painstakingly developed, and have reached the limit of their current single-barrel tank technology, which can be compared to the main battle tanks of the 50s, and even some of the technologies that have reached the level of the 60s at any cost.

However, some technologies are difficult to solve even if they throw money, and it is impossible for Britain and the United States to really spend money on a tank without limit.

For example, the problem of armor materials can be used with some precious metals, such as newly developed titanium, or some kind of alloy with harsh production conditions. However, if it is a large-scale use of those precious metals, not to mention that the production capacity of Britain and the United States cannot be reached, and even if it is achieved, the high cost may weigh on the British and American finances to go bankrupt early, and it is better to replace them with other weapons with more cost-effective ones.

War is a contest of strength. Whoever has a high discretionary military expenditure and who can come up with the most reasonable weapons and combat plans at a certain cost will be able to take the initiative.

Cost-effectiveness is always an important factor on the battlefield.

The United States and Britain may have more outstanding tank plans, but because the cost and the effect they achieve are difficult to meet the mainstream requirements, they can only stay on the drawing board or in the experimental field. Even a small amount that occasionally enters the battlefield is not enough to change the entire tide of battle.

Compared with the mammoth tanks, which were expensive and relatively few in number, the Americans were more concerned about the mainstream tanks such as the Rhino and Grizzly Bear, which were like a torrent of steel.

After the demonstration of British and American scientists, the Overlord tank is already the best mainstream tank that can be used under the existing conditions of Britain and the United States. In the future, under the constraints of the existing conditions, it can only be improved on a small scale on the basis of it, but it is difficult to greatly improve the performance.

This means: For a long time. The performance of many mainstream tanks in Britain and the United States, including the Overlord, is difficult to surpass the performance of the newly emerged second-tier Grizzlies and Rhinos in China.

The Pentagon, which deduced this conclusion, was frustrated for a long time, but quickly developed five plans for the invincibility of the Chinese armored corps.

The first is the development of a new tank.

Even if we already know that it is difficult to surpass for a while, we still have to develop it, and if we don't catch up, we will always lag behind.

At present, there are two ways for the Americans to develop.

One is to increase costs. Originally, the Overlord tank has applied a lot of new technologies, and the cost has soared, but the Americans seem to be still within the limit of what they can afford. In raising part of the cost. Even if it can't be popularized on a large scale, at least an elite tank unit can be created first. As a result, the Supermaster tank plan was implemented in full swing.

The second is to change the way of thinking about development.

Although the development of single-barrel tank technology has reached a bottleneck, the emergence of the Huaxia Mammoth tank has made many Americans shine.

Many people propose to also develop the Americans' own twin-barrel super-heavy tank.

The American Conquerors were large enough, but they were inferior in firepower and flexibility. And the performance of the Mammoth tank on the battlefield of Edmonton left a deep impression on many people. As a result, the call for the development of a double-barreled super-heavy tank is getting louder and louder.

Although it is impossible for super-heavy tanks to become mainstream due to the factors of fees and costs, as long as they are present, they will become the core of land weapons, just like the needle of the sea.

As long as there are enough of them, tigers can still defy wolves.

Some scientists also pointed out those disadvantages of the super-heavy tank and demonstrated some of the difficulties of the twin-barreled tank, but it was quickly questioned by some:

"Since the Chinese people can make it. Why can't we do it? "They don't care where those tanks in China come from. As a great power that is climbing to the world's hegemony, its self-confidence has been suppressed, and their self-esteem has been unwillingly inflated. Earn the first place in everything.

"Although the super-heavy tank is not easy to move, we have the world's largest navy, which can travel around the world's oceans and rivers. Relying on the cooperation of the navy, these steel fortresses can be transported by water to appear on any coastline in the world, even by the riverside of the great rivers. You must know that the prosperous areas of human beings are concentrated by the sea and rivers, and as for the inland wilderness, even if we give up, there will not be much loss! Some even cited the advantages of super-heavy tanks.

'What we're missing now is attacking strength, not defending. The fire of the double barrel is more effective, didn't the Huaxia apply it like this? "Someone moved out of the Huaxia example again.

Since Huaxia already has samples of ready-made weapons, it means that there is a direction to catch up, and the risk of closely following the imitation is extremely low.

It's like the automatic rifle that the Americans imitated the Chinese, which has been recognized and welcomed by the front-line soldiers.

When the Americans realized that they were already lagging behind the Chinese in terms of weapons, imitation transcendence was the best way to catch up.

Whether it is the unconvincing competition of technical strength by some Americans, or the imitation copycat of some Americans, closely following the rhythm of Chinese weapons, the Americans' double-barreled super-heavy tank plan was born.

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"Finally hooked!" The first plan of the Americans was the one that made Meng Xiang the happiest.

At the beginning of revealing the base weapons, Meng Xiang thought about digging a pit. It's just that the first thing to do at that time was to survive, and the weapons thrown at that time were not the most advanced in the world, and they could not lead the mainstream of the world, and there was no way to dig a pit. But with the increasing influence of the weapons thrown by Huaxia and the shadow company, Meng Xiang has begun to prepare a lot of pits.

For example, the super battleship is definitely a big pit that makes many people vomit blood.

The Japanese fell in, leaving Huaxia with two super-Yamato shells, and the Germans also fell in, helping Huaxia to perfect the experience of building giant warships.

Even the Americans, who realized the power of aircraft carriers for a long time, have not climbed out now, and the dream class of Huaxia's 500-mm cannon has given the world too much shock, and the Americans have begun to build a larger and stronger Washington class after the Montana class. Even the devastated British super-battleships were half-dead.

Not to mention, Meng Xiang relied on the super warships built by the base to make huge arms profits from all over the world.

Pit people not only vomit blood, but they are also easy to be killed by pit if they are not careful.

Although there were many reasons for the collapse of the Red Empire of Soviet Russia in later generations, the burden of the arms race was definitely one of the important factors, and there were also some misguided things such as Star Wars. Coupled with the pits dug from the economic, financial, cultural, ideological and other aspects, the Soviet Russians were finally brought into the gutter and could no longer climb up.

Now that Huaxia's opponents have fallen one by one, more of the pits prepared by Meng Xiang are mainly reserved for the Americans, in addition to borrowing strength from the Germans.

Considering only in terms of weapons, Meng Xiang consciously chose weapons at the base and sent them to the Americans half-truthfully.

For example, the use of automatic rifles and jet fighters is the right choice.

However, as soon as the automatic rifle came out, although the bullet was still 7.62 caliber, only the change in length and other specifications scrapped many of the Americans' bullet production lines.

Jet fighters made the piston engine and propeller fighter production lines of the Americans massively expand their production capacity for World War II to the brink of obsolescence all of a sudden.

The premature and rapid technological replacement has made the arms predators in the United States almost lose all their money.

However, Meng Xiang relied on the cheap supply of the base, and rarely considered the manufacturing cost, not to mention the R&D cost of not needing to pay a dime.

After crossing the hurdle of the end date of World War II, Meng Xiang could use one-quarter or one-sixth of the original cost to drag a random weapon from the base, and completely beat the new weapon that the Americans had worked so hard to develop.

For example, the air-to-air missile that was also dug by Meng Xiang and made its appearance in advance, although the general direction is correct, has always made Americans obsessed with it. But in this era, the Americans struggled to pile up those inferior missiles with vacuum tubes and relays, and in the end they could only make a joke about their luck.

The research direction of the Americans' plan to develop the Supermaster tank is also roughly correct, at least it is similar to the development experience of the previous life, and at most it can be regarded as Meng Xiang's use of the base's advanced technology to engage in an arms race and pit the Americans' pockets. But whether it is a double-barreled tank or a super-heavy tank, it is a big hole.

After the appearance of attack aircraft and helicopters, if the air defense performance is not solved well, the slow-moving super-heavy tanks can easily become targets, and the emergence of various anti-tank weapons such as anti-tank missiles has gradually silenced the super-heavy tanks.

If it is with the changes of the times and technology that the tragedy of the super-heavy tank was caused, then the double barrel is the tragedy of the tragedy.

The Red Alert base gathered the technological essence of many time and space to produce perverted super weapons such as the Apocalypse Tank.

The Americans seem to be relying on current technology to emulate the mammoth tank, the originator of the double barrel, purely to fill the holes. At least the double-barreled tanks of Lao Maozi, who expanded armaments at any cost in later generations, only stayed in the laboratory, which shows that the depth of this pit is enough for the Americans to fill it for half a lifetime.

The gap in technology can really kill people. (To be continued.) )