Doomsday Bunker Upgrade Chapter 470: Land Cruiser

Many people are familiar with cannons. This heavy attack weapon, known as the **** of war, has a long history and is destined to dominate the main theme of war from the moment it was born.

The earliest cannons can even be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period of the Yan Kingdom more than 2,500 years ago. At that time, a military weapon called "Teng" appeared, which is the ancestor of today's wide variety of artillery.

It's just an early so-called cannon, more of a projectile of stone or incendiary made of pine wood and the like, not so much a cannon as a giant slinger.

However, with the development of history and the invention of gunpowder, the artillery in the true sense had already taken shape in the Song Dynasty. At the latest in the Yuan Dynasty, the artillery in the true sense, the smoothbore gun, was invented, and it was born. All cannons that have been used in human history since then.

The appearance of the cannon, a powerful attack weapon, naturally aroused the love of many military strategists in history.

Whoever wants to win cannot refuse this ultimate solution to victory.

With the help of the Urban cannon, the Turks ended the thousand-year glory of the Roman Empire, and since then there has been no fortress that will not fall.

With the concentrated use of artillery, Napoleon conquered Europe, and since then, artillery has never been absent from every famous battle in human history.

Even conversely, in every famous battle that has occurred since the large-scale use of artillery, which one has no artillery figure?

It's just that while the barrel of the artillery is made thicker and more powerful, its weight is also becoming 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 caliber artillery ever made by humans for quite some time.

Until modern times, with the development of industry and technology, there have been super cannons with calibers that break through the sky, and the way to transport them is no longer the traditional way of transporting them by human or animal power. The guy got on the train.

This also gave birth to the most powerful artillery ever used in war in human history - the train cannon.

This super cannon that relies on rails to move is undoubtedly the largest caliber super weapon ever used by human beings in war. In World War I, the Paris artillery that Germany used to bombard France, the Gustav giant artillery in World War II, Cannons and Dora cannons, mass-produced K5 (E) train cannons, etc...

Although this kind of super cannon is very troublesome to move or erect, it has to be said that once the super cannon is fired in war, its power is unparalleled.

The Gustav artillery once shot through a 10-meter-thick reinforced concrete fortification, leaving a crater the size of four football fields. In war, it can be said that nothing can resist it. shelling.

But the cannon is still too slow and cumbersome to move, and the caliber of the mass-produced train gun isn't big enough.

So is there a cannon that can meet the requirements of mobility on the battlefield while maintaining the caliber of the artillery?

The answer is yes, and someone built it, and the result is what is mentioned in the document Chen Xin received, the ultimate weapon of land warfare built in the Suvian era - the Land Cruiser.

To be honest, when I first saw this thing, Chen Xin seriously thought it was something made up by a science fiction writer, because it was too exaggerated.

After the end of World War II, the Suvians seized a large amount of German technical data, which naturally included the technical data of the train guns that once shined in World War II and the Gustav heavy artillery that had not been completely destroyed.

Suvia didn't take this seriously at the time, but sent some weapons experts to do research and try to imitate their own train guns.

But with the confrontation between Suvia and the Federation after the war and the escalation of the Cold War, the Suvians felt that they needed a land-based weapon that could withstand the Federation's invasion from the east coast in Siberia. At that time, one of the key objects considered by the senior management of Suvia.

After all, there is only a Bering Strait between the easternmost end of the Suvian territory and the westernmost end of the federal territory, and the Bering Strait is only 35 kilometers wide at its narrowest point.

Suvians can place super cannons here and directly bombard the homeland of the Federation.

While this would 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's a very troublesome thing to build a railway to deploy train guns.

So when Soviet weapons experts designed a 600mm cannon on two rails, the plan was rejected.

The first is that the mobility is still not enough, because the missiles and rockets have been put into use at that time, and the train gun has become less popular and practical.

Second, Suvia's executives felt that the caliber and power of this thing were not enough, especially since Suvia had already lit up its nuclear technology at that time, and the train gun was no longer fragrant.

So the weapons experts in Suvia let themselves go completely 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 sixteen tracks, a super cannon with a caliber of 800mm and a range of more than 70KM, and equipped it with specially designed nuclear shells.

The high-level officials of Suvia were satisfied, and ordered a prototype to be produced and tested at the weapons testing grounds in Siberia.

But this thing didn't really come in handy~IndoMTL.com~ It's still too heavy after all.

Even with sixteen tracks, it can barely walk on land, but in Siberia it can only drive normally when the soil freezes in winter, and snow can seriously interfere with its progress.

And when the temperature is higher, after the ice and snow melt, the muddy permafrost is enough to sink it into the mud.

It is especially critical that this thing is powered by a steam turbine, which requires a lot of fuel to move.

So after the test firing, the high-level officials of Suvia put forward new requirements to the weapons experts, hoping that this thing can be more practical, they can make it smaller, not so powerful, but practical, And it can be mass produced.

The request this time is very reasonable. The weapons experts in Suvia have restrained their brains a little bit, so a land cruiser that can be put into practical use in a real sense has been built, and two prototypes have been completed. car and a follow-up improvement.

And this is what Chen Xin got on the document. One is 74 meters long and weighs 307 tons. It is equipped with a twin-mounted 305mm caliber main gun and uses a small nuclear reactor as its power source. "Super Tank".