Chapter 1490 – Challenger Tank

All arranged for others do not arrange for Monroe, this is very abrupt, but Alan Wilson really is no good project to share to Monroe, think about it can only play the idea of borrowing chicken to lay eggs.

From the special relationship between Britain and the United States to consider, to Microsoft a little share is very reasonable, and is not an outsider, Monroe is not an American, is not little Monroe is not the son of an American?

This kind of thing does not need other people mixed, Alan Wilson himself can handle, he also has a network in the United States, very easy, have to admit that an American student has conquered the British supreme authority of the story before the hut, at this time can already start.

Put this thing down in the diary, Salisbury Plain’s most famous attraction is Stonehenge, of course, Stonehenge in the eyes of him, the Cabinet Secretary, is nothing more than a set of conspiracy theories to earn scripts sharp, this is also the British mainland tank testing ground, the British mainland army if the army maneuvers, most will choose to start in Salisbury Plain.

From the completion of the Batum ceramic armor, Britain’s next-generation main battle tanks have entered the development track, in the Middle East war by the U.S. a small long arm jurisdiction, Britain now on the self-produced also had to be concerned about up.

To know the Rhine Army is facing the Soviet Union in Germany, even if it is just a comforting role, the United Kingdom has to prove that it has really done for the front line soldiers to do all that can be done.

Alan Wilson came here, is looking at the prototype vehicle, the Ministry of Defense permanent undersecretary Makins came to accompany, introduced the relevant progress, “We also have to admit one thing, the Germans still have something. The German one hundred and twenty millimeter smoothbore gun is statistically better than the wirebore gun we were going to use. Of course using the German main gun is not without its non-negotiables.”

“What non-negotiables? It’s settled.” Alan Wilson opened his mouth in disdain without being moved, “The so-called non-negotiation is that it is obvious that the level is average, but we should pretend that we don’t know and continue to use backward technology?”

German tanks were famous during World War II, but so many years of kung fu fell, most of the kung fu has fallen, but the rotten ship still has three inch nails, Germany’s smoothbore gun level is still there, as early as 1965 Germany has been for the development of the next generation of main battle tanks for the technical validation of the development of the firepower is naturally the top priority.

Of course, like the French kind of thin-skinned large filling is a little too extreme, in order to resist the Warsaw Pact’s steel flood, the new gun not only still have to develop, the progress can not be ambiguous.

The cause of the rifling noise in the main gun is a large amount of gas squeezed out of the small holes, and the high rifling pressure of modern tank guns tend to be “louder”, the velocity of the gas in the rifling is much higher than the speed of sound, but also produces a huge sonic boom.

In the Germans endured a decade of noise, Britain decided to implement the concept of joining the fight, but on the outsourcing of German smoothbore guns as the main gun of their own tanks, and for this reason also from the Chobham armor among the monkey version of the information, out of the Anglo-German perspective of close allies in the technical poverty alleviation.

Believe that the British tanks in this world, not to the world’s only main gun of the line gun is known to the world, in the military field, if others are using smoothbore guns on the British use line gun, which will indeed lead to the question of who in the end in the retrograde.

The general arrangement of the new Tank Tank was similar to the Chieftain, but the appearance of the two differed greatly due to the use of Chobham armor for both the hull and the turret.

Chobham armor is regarded as the most significant achievement in tank design and protection since World War II, and compared to equal-weight steel armor, it greatly improved resistance to armor-breaking and armor-shattering rounds, but the increase in size and weight was not much In addition to the use of Chobham composite armor, reactive armor blocks were added, and the original steel side skirts were replaced by reactive armor blocks.

The main British objection to the Rheinmetall tank gun was its limited ammunition range. The one hundred and twenty millimeter smoothbore gun was developed primarily as an anti-armor weapon, firing kinetic energy rounds with a very flat trajectory and good armor penetration.

At the time of its introduction, the armor-piercing rounds of the one hundred and twenty-millimeter smoothbore were comparable in performance to the one hundred and twenty-millimeter liners developed for British artillery, but the German weapon did not provide satisfactory high-explosive rounds. The performance of the early one hundred and twenty millimeter smoothbore high-explosive rounds was considered by the British to compare poorly with the existing one hundred and twenty millimeter high-explosive armor-piercing rounds developed for the main gun.

This was a shell long favored by the British. It was useful against a wide range of targets and combined good explosive characteristics with excellent anti-armor performance. The use of wire-bored guns was a parameter that refused to be abandoned, even in the name of NATO standardization.

This opposition would be bullshit and has been seen as noise by Alan Wilson, and in later times it has been shown that Britain’s last stubborn ass for face value didn’t work, and led to rather poor foreign sales of the Challenger. People went to buy German tanks with smoothbore guns.

A good smoothbore gun plus the British Chobham armor reputation, the British tank foreign trade will not be bad, have to add something special for themselves, right? We have good armor, so we use a different shotgun than other countries to increase the difficulty of foreign trade?

Overall, the results of this test, Allen Wilson visualization is very satisfied, waiting for others to report data, and Makins went to the test vehicle group, and by the way, also had a cup of tea together, according to the British Army unwritten rules, for the entire group of people to make tea is the most senior members of the group to serve, usually the loader.

The first British tank to be equipped to make tea was the Centurion tank, now an unwritten tradition in the British Army, stemming from the inconvenience of having afternoon tea for the crew when fighting the Desert Fox.

Alan Wilson took the cup of tea and asked if he was happy with the new tanks. At this time the head of Whitehall and the Ministry of Defense and a few crew members face to face to raise a cup, very much like a small day good anime girl with a chariot in the scene, elegance never goes out of fashion well.

“Sir, very good.” The captain of the vehicle carrying black tea, expressed satisfaction, just do not know whether it is satisfied with the performance of the tank, or the vehicle’s latest tea-making equipment, of course, the huge role of morale, who can not say that this set of equipment is not important.

Alan Wilson believed that it was definitely a tradition of the British Army to put a thousand dollars a coffee cup kind of thing absolutely nothing to do with, “That’s good, the treatment of the army has never been a matter of extreme concern to Whitehall.”

The crews on almost both channels nodded their heads, feeling that the words of the Supreme Authority were so right, this new and improved tea making equipment was a great improvement, and they couldn’t help but raise their cups to the occasion.

“By now, the free world finally has a tank that can be compared face to face with the Soviet Union.” Leaving the range, Alan Wilson pulled a long tone with a tone of relief.

The t72 is the Soviet Union go volume of tanks, entirely because the t64 cost is too high compromise product, is the product of this compromise, the entire free world have no way, Britain have no way, the United States of America that batch of Patton is not as good as the Chief it, now is finally in a certain sense to pull the strategic balance.

In terms of protection, fire control, fire and power, the new tanks have made Allen Wilson satisfied, he named this one the Challenger tank, ready to let the prime minister who is about to resign, in the completion of the last feat, do not leave the trouble to the next prime minister.

With the Bretton Woods system has become history, the sovereign currency on the stage, the further back in time the armament update will only become more and more difficult, the European countries almost in the twenty-first century before the arrival of the can not keep up, the free world’s big brother of the United States is just a little bit better, hold out for more than twenty years.

The tank is not a big platform, fifty or sixty tons of volume, there is not much room for improvement. The only way to make huge upgrades in all areas would be to go the route of the World War II German Rat Tank. Become a real monster to impersonate a land cruiser. Obviously this path cannot be taken, purely a living target.

Now to carry out bulk construction can still serve some more, in not think of ways from the efficiency, with the increase of inflation, spend the same amount of money, can not be exchanged for the same amount of things.

“Secretary General, Garland has arrived.” In accordance with the closing time came over to Whitehall to pick up the boss from work Radovich, “Arrange a time tomorrow or?”

“Tomorrow? Now, it’s not that late.” Alan Wilson shook his head straight at the sound of that, and got straight into his car to meet the good Dahl from America, silently assembling the wording from the moment he got in the car.

Garland Gaudet Heilmann, belonging to the product of Anglo-German goodwill, was Anna’s second child, but was raised by Pauline Gaudet in the name of adoption, and followed her mother to live permanently in the United States.

Truth be told, Alan Wilson hadn’t seen a few of them, and he couldn’t always go to America, and all the way there he was preparing his wording, wondering if he’d show a little fatherly love.

But he was obviously overthinking it, and the good Dahl did not put on a family ethics drama, which proved that Pauline Gaudet’s upbringing was very dutiful, and was really raising the child as his own.

“Is the success rate of divorced parents so high?” Alan Wilson couldn’t help but mutter in his heart, after all, he hadn’t met much, or to find a little bit of topic to talk about, and then get to the point, hoping that this good elder child could help take care of Gates’ life winning journey?

“Don’t worry, leave it all to me.” Garland was dressed in a suit like a successful man, “It’s just two entrepreneurs who are still in school.”

“The entrepreneurs’ mother is a director of ibm, their father is a famous lawyer and their maternal grandfather is the president of the US National Bank.” Alan Wilson opened his mouth, “Approaching hastily, won’t people check you out? You cooperate with me, I will create conditions for you through its business in London. By the way, you now live in the United States often, what are you interested in, see if I can help? I don’t know much about finance. There’s something else I know about industry, like computers.”

“The computer company with the best momentum in the US right now is a Chinese company.” Garland also didn’t hide anything in front of his father, detailing his knowledge in this area.

“Heh, him staying in the US is a dead end, or going to Xiangjiang or Malaya, there is still a glimmer of life.” Alan Wilson pondered for a while and said, “Stay in London for a few days first, I’ll think about it.”