Chapter 470: Land Cruiser

When it comes to artillery, many people are familiar with it. This heavy assault weapon known as the of war has a long history. From the moment it was born, it was destined to dominate the main theme of war.
The earliest artillery can even be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period of the Yan Kingdom more than two thousand five hundred years ago. At that time, a military weapon called "Xuan" appeared, which is the ancestor of today's wide variety of artillery.
It's just that the early so-called cannons were to a greater extent fire bombs or incendiary bombs made of pine wood. It was not so much a cannon as a huge stone thrower.
However, with the development of history and the invention of gunpowder, the true artillery had its embryonic form in the Song Dynasty. At the latest in the Yuan Dynasty, the true artillery—the smoothbore gun was invented, and thus the history of humanity was born. All the cannons used on the board.
The emergence of a powerful offensive weapon like a cannon naturally aroused the love of many military strategists in history.
No matter who it is, as long as he wants to win, he cannot refuse this ultimate plan to win.
Relying on the Urban Cannon, the Turks ended the thousand-year glory of the Roman Empire. Since then, there has been no fortress that will not fall.
Relying on the concentrated use of artillery, Napoleon conquered Europe, and since then, every famous battle artillery in human history has never been absent.
Or even conversely, in every famous battle that humans have taken place since the large-scale use of artillery, is there a time when there is no artillery?
It's just that as the barrel of the artillery is made thicker and more powerful, its weight has become heavier and heavier. Naturally, the mobility and use of the artillery are also restricted.
It is precisely because of this that the Urban Cannon has been the largest artillery ever made by humans for a long time.
Until modern times, with the development of industry and technology, those super cannons with a caliber that broke through the sky appeared, and the method of carrying them was no longer the traditional transportation by human or animal power, but these big guys were carried. The train.
It also gave birth to the strongest artillery used in wars in human history-the train cannon.
This super cannon, which moves on rails, is undoubtedly the largest caliber super weapon ever used by mankind in wars. In the First World War, Germany used the Paris Cannon to bombard France, the Gustave Cannon and the Doll in World War II. Pull cannons, mass-produced K5 (E) train cannons, etc...
Although this kind of super cannon is very troublesome whether it is moving or erecting, it has to be said that once this kind of super cannon is fired in a war, its power is unparalleled.
The Gustav cannon once pierced a 10-meter-thick reinforced concrete fortification, leaving a crater as large as four football fields. In the war, it can be said that nothing can withstand its shelling.
But this kind of giant gun still moves too slowly and too much trouble, and the caliber of the mass-produced train gun is not big enough.
So is there a cannon that can not only meet the mobility requirements on the battlefield, but also guarantee the caliber of the artillery?
The answer is yes, and someone created it, and the result is what is mentioned in the document that Chen Xin received, the ultimate land warfare weapon built in the Suvia era-the land cruiser.
To be honest, when he first saw this thing, Chen Xin seriously felt that it was something made up by a science fiction writer, because it was too exaggerated.
After the end of World War II, the Suvia seized a large amount of German technical information, which naturally included the technical information of the train cannon that had shined in World War II, and the technical information of the Gustav heavy artillery that had not been completely destroyed.
At that time, Suvia didn't pay much attention to this, and just sent some weapons experts to conduct research, trying to imitate his own train artillery.
However, with the confrontation between Suvia and the Federation after the war and the escalation of the Cold War, the Suvia felt that they needed a land-based weapon that could resist the Federation’s invasion from the east coast in Siberia. The train gun naturally became the Soviet Union at that time. One of the key objects considered by the sub-level executives.
After all, there is only a Bering Strait between the easternmost end of Subia territory and the westernmost end of the federal territory, and the narrowest part of the Bering Strait is only 35 kilometers in width.
The Suvias can deploy super cannons here, and then directly shell the federal homeland.
Although it does not make much sense, it is necessary if the Federation intends to cross the Bering Strait and attack Suvia by land.
It's just that Siberia is uninhabited, and it is very troublesome to build railways to deploy train artillery.
So when Suvia’s weapons experts designed a 600mm caliber cannon carried by two rails, this plan was rejected.
The first is that the mobility is still not enough, because at that time missiles and rockets have been put into use, and train guns have become less popular and practical.
The second is that Suvia's senior management felt that the caliber and power of this thing were still not enough, especially when Suvia had already lit up nuclear technology at that time, and the train gun was no longer fragrant.
So Suvia's weapon experts completely freed themselves and created a second improved version.
They replaced the train wheels of the trailer at the bottom of the artillery with tracks, and made a super large chassis with 16 tracks, a super cannon with an 800mm caliber and a range of more than 70KM, and equipped it with specially designed nuclear artillery shells.
Now Suvia’s senior management was satisfied, and ordered a trial production of a door, and conducted a test firing at the weapon test field in Siberia.
But this thing has not really come in handy in the true sense, UU reading www.uukanshu. com is still too heavy after all.
Even with sixteen tracks, it can barely walk on land, but in Siberia it can only run normally after the soil is frozen in winter, and snow will seriously interfere with its progress.
When the temperature is higher, after the ice and snow melt, the muddy frozen ground is enough to sink it into the mud.
Especially critical is that this thing is powered by a steam turbine, which requires a lot of fuel to be able to move.
So after the test firing, Suvia’s senior officials put forward new requirements to the weapons experts, hoping that this thing can be more practical. They can make it smaller and less powerful, but it should be practical and can be measured. Produce.
This time, the requirements were reasonable. The weapon experts in Suvia condensed their brains a little, so a land cruiser that can be put into practical use in the true sense was built, and two prototypes and one were completed. Taiwan follow-up improvement.
And this is the thing on the document that Chen Xin got. A "Super" with a length of 74 meters and a weight of 307 tons, equipped with a dual-mounted 305mm caliber main gun, and a small nuclear reactor as the power source. tank".