Once upon a time, the Tang Army was a useless person.

At that time, the Tang Empire's land was small and its national defense policy was mainly to give priority to the development of the navy and air force, which made the Tang Army become the youngest from the beginning and was the least valued.

At that time, due to the small army's strength and the small defense land area, the Tang Dynasty Army was equipped with Tiger-type heavy tanks, and there was no need to consider mobility, as long as it satisfies firepower and armor protection.

But now the times are different. The Tang army has captured a large area of ​​land, with a region of millions of square kilometers in Australia and the Far East. Not to mention that it needs a huge army to guard it, the Tiger main battle tank is too slow to be maneuverable and not suitable for fast delivery.

Therefore, taking advantage of the strategic rest period in recent years, the Tang Army recruited troops and expanded its strength on a large scale, while also stepped up the production of a new generation of main battle tanks to fill the lack of maneuverability and quantity of Tiger tanks.

The Royal Army of the Tang Empire has built a modern army based on complete mechanization from the beginning. At this time, it has followed this guideline and built it mainly with the Armored Division and Mechanized Infantry Division.

In recent years, the Tang Army had only heavy armored divisions equipped with Tiger main battle tanks, but no medium and light tanks, and were supplemented by mechanized infantry divisions formed by wheeled infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled artillery.

Now the Tang Army is about to form more medium-sized and light armored divisions, mainly medium-sized and light tanks, with the goal of being able to maneuver quickly on the vast land of Australia and the Far East and realizing real control of the land.

Although the Tang Army had only one heavy Tiger tank in service in recent years, the Army Ordnance General Administration has been developing and developing various tanks and combat vehicles. These include many medium and light tanks, but the previous goal was to earn foreign exchange, but now it has been changed to domestic sales.

Everything is ready to go. It is ready-made, but the Tang Army Department requires it to be unique, that is, the tanks equipped by the local army must be advanced than exported. Once there is a war conflict, it is necessary to ensure that the local army is better than its opponents in equipment.

In accordance with this requirement, the General Administration of the Army and Ordnance quickly listed a batch of main battle tank models that were designed but not yet sold, and compared and improved them to meet the requirements of the Army Department.

In the end, the t2a7+ heavy main battle tanks and the t40m light main battle tanks favored by the Tang Army, these two main battle tanks were approved by the Army Committee. Mass production and equipment were started.

Among them, t1 is the code name of the "Tiger" main battle tank currently in service in the Tang army. t2a7+ is an upgraded model after many improvements. It is called the "Tiger" second-generation heavy main battle tank. Compared with the "Tiger" first-generation, the combat weight of the second-generation "Tiger" tank has been reduced from 65 tons to 60 tons. The appearance looks more modern, with clear edges, powerful and domineering.

The biggest change is that the main gun changed from a 70-diameter smoothbore gun with an 88-mm caliber to a 120-mm caliber 44-diameter smoothbore gun. It uses a stable tail wing shell-piercing shell as the main ammunition. The power of the armor has increased by more than ten times. The targeted target is the German giant tank. The armor uses the most advanced special steel material and has installed reactive armor in some areas. Although the materials and performance of these reactive armors are still relatively primitive, this is a breakthrough. Tanks in other countries do not have such things and have a positive effect on the survival of the Tiger 2 tanks.

The power system has been improved the most. Thanks to the large-scale tank production in World War II, tank engines have been developed and improved. As a leader in this field, the Tang Empire has a strong reserve of science and technology and talent, and is even more advanced in tank engines.

The main battle tank of the Tiger'2a7+ is equipped with a TF-1220 supercharged turbine engine, with a power output of 1,200 kilowatts, making the tank's highway maneuverable speed up to 60 kilometers per hour and the off-road speed is close to 45 kilometers per hour. Its speed indicator has exceeded the speed of medium-sized tanks on the European battlefield, and is even faster than many light tanks.

The biggest contributor to this is naturally the newly designed hydraulic suspension device, which is much more advanced than the early Christie suspension devices, as well as a hydraulic mechanical system that is easier to operate, and even more powerful and durable tracks.

In addition, the Tiger 2a7+ main battle tank no longer uses the m2 heavy machine gun, but instead changes it to a 7.92mm parallel machine gun. On the surface, this will greatly reduce the power of air defense weapons. In fact, in the war, the Tang army proved that even if the tanks installed an m2 heavy machine gun, they could not shoot down the aircraft. Therefore, the Tiger 2a7+ tank simply canceled the m2 heavy machine gun to reduce the weight and used 4 sets of smokescreen bomb launch devices as air defense weapons.

Overall, the "Tiger" 2a7+ main battle tank takes into account all the advantages of heavy tanks and medium tanks, so the Tang army no longer deliberately pursues medium tanks.

However, tanks cannot be used alone and require some cooperation, so the Tang army chose the t40m bobcat-style light tank as a supplement.

The t40m is an upgraded and improved model of the T40 (Soviet Internal No. t43) light tank exported to the Soviet Red Army. Since the Tang Empire took the lead in buying the patent for Christy suspension device, the Soviet Union had to turn to the Tang Empire for help. The t40 light tank, as the first light tank exported to the Soviet army, played a huge role in the Soviet battlefield. The Soviet army only paid a small part of the patent use rights, but it was a large-scale imitation. The Tang Empire turned a blind eye because of its ally with the Soviet Union and did not hold it accountable.

However, the things exported by the Tang Empire were all hand-made or simplified. The performance of the t40m light tanks equipped by the Tang Army itself far exceeded that of the Soviet Army's t43.

As the auxiliary tank of the main armored division of the Tang army, the purpose of combat is to detect and guard. In fact, this tank is an airborne tank equipped by the Tang army. It weighs only 20 tons. It uses a 76mm tank gun and a 500-kilowatt diesel supercharged turbine engine. It can reach 75 kilometers per hour. The body length is, it can cross a 2.5-meter trench, and it has a telescopic ventilation pipe. It can safely cross a 4-meter water depth. It is also an expert in climbing slopes. There is no problem with the 75-degree steep slope, which is enough to be competent for reconnaissance and guarding tasks in any environment.

However, there were also differences within the Tang army, because the Tang army's mechanized infantry division was equipped with wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, and its comprehensive performance was greater than that of Bobcat light tanks, which was more suitable for reconnaissance and alert tasks. They disputed whether there was a need for light tanks. However, since the protection performance of the Tang army's wheeled infantry fighting vehicles was not as good as that of light tanks, and European and American countries produced tens of thousands of light tanks to fight, and the Tang army only produced only 1,000 light tanks, which was not high, so the dispute was finally put aside.
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