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- In mid-July 1918, the China Fudao Automobile Company, headquartered in Nanyuan, Beijing, China, the latest domestically produced model of the Zhonghua FD-18 light tank officially rolled off the production line. Previously, by early July 1918, the production capacity of the China Fudao Automobile Company had It has expanded its monthly production capacity to 1,500 Dodge military trucks, 1,200 FD-17II wheeled armored combat vehicles, and 1,500 Chinese Hummer off-road vehicles.
The tank branch, armored vehicle branch and automobile branch of China Fuda Automobile Company have sprung up around the Nanyuan Automobile Industrial Base. The engine branch has also expanded more than three times, making China Fuda Automobile Company the largest in Asia. of military/civilian automobile manufacturing group.
??The Chinese Hummer off-road vehicle, which was finalized at the end of April 1918 and officially put into production in May, produced 800 units throughout May, 1,200 units in June, and it is expected that the output in July will reach 1,500 units.
The basic performance parameters of this Chinese Hummer FJ-18 off-road vehicle are as follows:
1. Equipped with Ford 2.9 displacement inline 4-cylinder air-cooled engine.
2. 4x4 drive, three-speed transmission,
3. The body is low, the chassis is formed and pressed with steel in one step, and the front and rear wheel axles are fully suspended by spring steel plates.
4. The whole vehicle weighs only 860 kilograms, is 3 meters long, 1.87 meters high and 1.57 meters wide.
5. The maximum speed is 80 kilometers per hour and the load is 450 kilograms.
6. It can be used as a reconnaissance/command vehicle and can also carry a machine gun as a fire support platform. It can be equipped with a gun mount and an air-cooled 7.62mm caliber m1917a3 Browning heavy machine gun. It can also be installed with a new 12.7mm large-caliber m2 Browning heavy machine gun. .
The Chinese Humvee FJ-18 off-road vehicle has actually become the basic vehicle for the coalition reconnaissance forces and commanders above the company. It has been fully equipped with the main force of the Chinese coalition forces heading west. Of course, with the reorganization and integration of the coalition forces, the mixed forces The infantry groups of the Central Front Army will also gradually be equipped with this "BMW" mount that is most envied and loved by the frontline coalition soldiers.
When the coalition was first established in Novosibirsk, the Chinese Humvee FJ-18 reconnaissance and command vehicle equipped by the Chinese Third Army in the coalition had already attracted the attention of Japanese Army generals at all levels. You must know that the three divisions of the Japanese Third Army , but even the brigade commander is still riding a horse without a car, and the leader of the coalition army is actually a commander who has deployed this short and powerful Humvee command vehicle with a domineering appearance to the level of the battalion and company commander. This is called a horse-riding person of the Imperial Army. Why are the samurai commanders so embarrassed? !
The establishment of the Sino-Japanese Alliance enabled Japan to get rid of the pressure of lack of resources on national development for the first time. As early as early May, the fifth deep well "Sino-US No. 5" in the Sino-US Renqiu Oilfield was successfully drilled, with a depth of 3,328 meters. The daily crude oil production is 1,200 tons, which means Renqiu Oilfield already has five high-yield oil wells at the same time, with a combined daily crude oil production of 6,700 tons, or 46,900 barrels, and an annual crude oil output of more than 2.4 million tons. China's crude oil exports to Japan have also increased significantly. More than 200,000 barrels per month.
The entire Asia is lit up at night by the oil and fuel produced by China's Renqiu Oilfield. Japan's major cities and villages are also lit up at night thanks to the high-quality and low-price oil and fuel supplied by China's big brother in the Sino-Japanese alliance. As bright as the stars, Renqiu high-quality kerosene produced in China has become the first choice for civilian lamp oil and fuel throughout Asia.
And by late July 1918, coking coal from China's Ordos and iron ore from Baiyun Obo could each pass through 90 kilometers of railway branch lines and be gathered at the Baotou Iron and Steel Base for smelting. Like the Xuanhua Iron and Steel Base, the China Iron and Steel Company's Baotou Iron and Steel Base The thermal power plant, ironmaking, steelmaking, coking and other branch plants have been put into operation at the end of July. The first phase of the Bayan Obo Iron Mine, which was put into trial operation, has an annual output of 1.2 million tons of iron ore.
In addition to the first 450-ton blast furnace that has been installed and put into production at the Baotou Ironmaking Plant, the second and third 450-ton blast furnaces also completed installation, commissioning and went into production ahead of schedule in late July. The daily iron production capacity has reached the designed 1,500 tons, and the annual iron production is expected to exceed 450,000 tons.
The first phase of Baotou Steelmaking Plant has four 140-ton open-hearth furnaces with an annual output of 200,000 tons of steel. Four 5-ton electric furnaces are used for smelting alloy steel, gun barrel steel and tool steel, with an annual output of alloy steel, gun barrel steel and other special steels. 7,500 tons, the first phase of the project was completed before the end of July and reached the expected production capacity.
In the second half of the year, the second phase of the Baotou Iron and Steel Joint Base will continue to be started. By the end of the year, the iron ore production capacity will be expanded to 1.8 million tons per year, and the annual output of pig iron and crude steel will be doubled to 900,000 tons and 400,000 tons. , the annual output of electric furnace special steel will be increased to 15,000 tons.
The steel production capacity of Xuanhua Steel Base effectively guarantees the production of arms, weapons and ammunition by Xuanhua Arsenal, the production of engines, tanks, armored vehicles and automobiles by China Fudao Automobile Company, and the production of engines and aircraft by China Aircraft Manufacturing Company.
Of course, the biggest good news in July is still the official roll-out of the first Chinese FD-18 light tank. As a magic weapon used to equip and form tank brigades, the Chinese FD-18 light tank was born ahead of schedule and completed ahead of schedule with the Xuanhua Arsenal. m1918?The development of the ?-37mm new anti-aircraft/tank gun is closely related.
As early as March 1918, after the introduction of 50 ft-17 Renault light tank prototypes from the United States, at the end of March, Xuanhua Arsenal's 75mm mountain cannon, 75mm field gun, 150mm howitzer and 60mm and 81mm mortar The imitation of the artillery gun was successful. At that time, Wang Geng gave the arsenal a new topic: to develop a new 37mm caliber anti-aircraft/anti-tank dual-purpose gun based on the 37mm short-barreled gun used on the French Renault ft-17 light tank. Use cannon.
Due to the low muzzle velocity of the 37mm short-barreled howitzer used on the French Renault ft-17 light tank, it has almost no penetration ability and can only cause damage to personnel and light fortifications exposed outside the fortifications. However, Wang Geng¡¯s request at the time Yes, refer to the French 37mm short-barreled gun, plus the basis of the French Hotchkiss 37mm rapid-fire gun, and the basis of the 75mm mountain gun (cannon).
The artillery workshop of China's Xuanhua Arsenal must develop a new Chinese-made 37mm anti-aircraft/anti-tank dual-purpose gun on the basis of the above. Lengthening the barrel and improving ammunition are obviously the keys to increasing chamber pressure, muzzle velocity and range, Wang Geng requested. The 37mm anti-aircraft/anti-tank dual-purpose gun under development has a maximum firing height of no less than 5,000 meters and can penetrate 48mm thick armor within 1,500 meters on flat ground.
¡°More importantly, the weight of the gun will not exceed 450 kilograms, and the rate of fire will not be less than 20 rounds per minute. The main basis for Wang Geng's reference is the parameters of 37mm caliber anti-tank guns commonly equipped by various countries after World War I. At this moment in 1918, neither the Allied Powers nor the Central Powers had specialized tanks and anti-tank guns with armor-piercing as the main attack method. Tank guns appear.
At that time, if it were not to accommodate the six-ton ??weight of the Chinese FD-18 light tank under development, Wang Geng would have wanted to directly design a 75mm caliber anti-aircraft/anti-tank dual-purpose gun. But in that case, the gun would weigh at least It also has to be more than 2.5 tons. A 2.5-ton tank gun is mounted on a tank with a total weight of only 6 tons. It is completely a small horse-drawn cart. For the participating armies that always emphasize mobility, they can only put it aside first.
Don¡¯t underestimate the 37mm caliber anti-aircraft cannon. As a classic of small-caliber anti-aircraft cannon, in Wang Geng¡¯s previous life, a century later, the 37mm anti-aircraft cannon was still the main weapon of the reserve anti-aircraft artillery force. Similarly, in Wang Geng¡¯s previous life, the one who broke out in World War II In the early days, before the emergence of heavy tanks, the 37mm anti-tank gun was still the best anti-tank weapon.
American, British and French engineers and designers from the artillery workshop of the Xuanhua Arsenal, and Chinese ordnance industry experts mobilized from arsenals across the country for the Xuanhua Arsenal by the Ordnance Industry Administration of the Ministry of War, worked hard day and night and formed more than ten groups to carry out technical research on different parts. , based on a large number of experiments and tests, it took three months to finally design a new 37mm caliber series anti-aircraft/anti-tank/tank gun according to Wang Geng¡¯s requirements.
In the process of developing the new 37mm gun series, since the previous 12.7mm large-caliber M2 Browning heavy machine gun has been released in advance and officially installed in the coalition forces, the Xuanhua Arsenal first completed the shooting qualification and was in urgent need of equipment. 37mm tank gun.
The performance parameters of the 37mm tank gun, which is designated as m1918-37-t, are as follows:
1. Barrel diameter: 37mm
2. Barrel length: 1739mm (l47, barrel length is 47 times the caliber)
3. Full gun weight: 372kg
4. Number of operators: 2 (one loader, one commander/gunner)
5. High and low shooting range: -5¡ãto+25¡ã
6. Rate of fire: 15 rounds/minute
5. Initial velocity of the projectile: 762m/s (2,500ft/s)
6. Effective range: 1,500m (1,600yd)
7. Maximum range: 5,500m (6,014yd)
The 37mm tank gun is equipped with 37mm caliber m1918-apc armor-piercing grenade and m1918-hc high-explosive grenade specially developed by the arsenal.
The parameters of the m1918-apc armor-piercing grenade are as follows:
1. The total length is 337mm, the total weight is 1.32kg, and there is a tracer tube at the end of the warhead;
2. The warhead is painted black, with a length of 98.98mm, a body diameter of 36.75mm, a belt diameter of 38.15mm, a bottom diameter of 13.05, and a distance from the bottom to the belt of 14.27mm.
3. The warhead weighs 681g, of which the charge is 13g, and the composition is RDX high-explosive **. There is a red mark on the projectile body indicating that it is an armor-piercing projectile;
4. The cartridge length is 247.65mm, the bottleneck diameter is 38.1mm, the sloping shoulder diameter is 41.27mm, and the bottom edge diameter is 51mm.
5. There are two types of propellants: one is diethylenediglycoldinitrate and nitrocellulose; the other is . Glycerol trinitrate (nitroglycerine, commonly known as nitroglycerine, oil) and nitrocellulose; both weigh 188g
The parameters of the m1918-hc high-explosive grenade are as follows:
1. The total length is 343mm, the total weight is 1.29kg, and there is a large tracer tube at the end of the warhead;
2. The warhead is painted silver gray with a yellow ring, 129mm long, 36.78mm in diameter, and 40.61mm in diameter.Width 8.38mm,
3. The warhead weighs 617g, of which the charge is 23.2g, the composition is RDX high-explosive **, and the fuze is az-18-1 (yellow tip) or az-18-2 (red tip);
4. The cartridge length is 247.65mm, the bottleneck diameter is 38.1mm, the sloping shoulder diameter is 41.27mm, and the bottom edge diameter is 51mm.
5. The propellant ingredients are diethylenediglycoldinitrate and nitrocellulose, weighing 175g
The performance parameters of the 37mm anti-tank gun, which was subsequently designated as m1918-37-at, are as follows:
1. Barrel diameter: 37mm
2. Barrel length: 1665mm (l45, barrel length is 45 times the caliber)
3. Full gun weight: 450kg
4. Number of operators: 2 (one loader, one gunner)
5. High and low shooting range: -5¡ãto+25¡ã
6. Rate of fire: 15 rounds/minute
5. Initial velocity of the projectile: 762m/s (2,500ft/s)
6. Effective range: 500m (1,600yd)
7. Maximum range: 5,500m (7108yd)
Speaking of which, the basic parameters of this 37mm tank gun/anti-tank gun are the same, except that the barrel of the anti-tank gun is slightly shorter, and it is equipped with a shield, a gun mount and two large inflatable tires for towing and traction, and it is similar to Compared with the German Flak 37mm anti-tank gun in Wang Geng's previous life, the ammunition was loaded from the semi-automatic gun bolt behind the shield, instead of loading from the front of the barrel under enemy fire, so the survivability was greatly improved.
Among the three new 37mm series guns at Xuanhua Arsenal, the one that was successfully developed was the m1918-37-aa single-barreled anti-aircraft gun, which was installed on a special chassis that can rotate 360 ??degrees.
1. Barrel diameter: 37mm
2. Barrel length: 2315mm (l62, barrel length is 62 times the caliber)
3. Total gun weight: 1350kg in marching state; 1240kg in combat state
4. Number of operators: 6 people
5. High and low shooting range: -15¡ãto+85¡ã
6. Rate of fire: 150 rounds/minute
5. Initial velocity of the projectile: 762m/s (2,500ft/s)
6. Effective shooting height: 4500m (4,921yd)
7. Maximum range: 6,500m (7108yd)
The artillery workshop of the Xuanhua Arsenal will be able to produce the above three types of 37mm guns at a monthly production rate of 600 guns each starting from July. According to the priority level, the dual-mounted 12.7mm high-level dual-purpose machine guns can already better meet the requirements. The army's air defense needs, so starting from the official launch in July, the priority for large-scale production is 37mm tank guns and anti-tank guns. The monthly output of tank guns has reached 1,000 units, while the production rate of anti-tank guns has reached 600 units. Anti-aircraft guns Only 200 doors are scheduled to be produced. - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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