Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

However, Yang Bing may not have noticed that Lin Yi looked at the drawings of the chariot they designed with a little surprise in his eyes.

In fact, Lin Yi did not interfere much in the empire's scientific research.

In Lin Yi's words, if he interferes too much, these researchers will become stubborn and do not know how to innovate.

Therefore, he usually redeems the information from the system, then sends it to the research institute, and then lets the scientific researchers study it on their own and understand the technology thoroughly.

This is why before this, Lin Yi knew that tilted armor was better for tanks, but he said nothing after Yang Bing and the others designed vertical armor.

And now, what did Lin Yi see?

He saw that the tank designed by Yang Bing and others had a lot of sloping armor, and all the previous vertical armor designs had been replaced.

The front armor on the front of the tank adopts a 60-degree sloped armor on the top and a 45-degree slope on the bottom. This results in a 105-degree sloped armor on the front and upper and lower armor of the tank.

Of course, due to the immature manufacturing process, rivets and welding are now used, resulting in an ugly connection between the upper and lower armor.

This can be said to be the weakest point on the front of the tank.

However, with only a few centimeters of width, Lin Yi felt that this weakness could be ignored once it reached the battlefield.

Don't think that fighting is just a game, it allows you to aim carefully.

In an environment full of bullets, being able to hit the target is great, but also allows you to aim carefully?

Therefore, Lin Yi didn't care about the weakness that ran through the entire front. He was more worried about the rivet structure.

In later generations, this rivet structure occurred when a tank was hit by artillery, causing the rivets to be driven into the interior of the tank, causing secondary damage.

So Lin Yi doesn't like this kind of rivet structure, but Lin Yi thinks there is no way to avoid this kind of rivet structure. After all, the current manufacturing process is not good enough, and he can only rely on rivets for reinforcement.

Actually, this is not the point. The point is that Lin Yi has seen that the research institute is using a large number of tilted armor designs on Type A-3 tanks.

In addition to the frontal armor, the tank's turret also adopts a curved design.

That kind of ninety-degree angle design has all been replaced by arc design. The large number of curved design turrets make the turret look more like a ball.

Lin Yi knew that this design could increase the turret's ricochet rate.

One more word here, the protection of tanks and combat vehicles is never to use armor to resist the opponent's artillery, because as long as you choose to resist, you will eventually be penetrated.

Moreover, the explosion of artillery shells on the armor will also affect the overall structure of the tank, so generally speaking, tank and combat vehicle designers want the other party to miss them, or to bounce the artillery shells away.

The probability of bouncing the cannonball away is the ricochet rate.

And now this arc-shaped structure can effectively allow artillery shells to be bounced away after hitting the tank.

Lin Yi looked at the drawings of this Type A III tank, and he was still very satisfied in his heart.

It has sloped armor, a curved turret, and a 37mm main gun. Lin Yi feels that it is enough at this stage.

After reading the Type A-3 design drawings, he still showed no expression and continued to look at the second design drawing.

Yang Bing watched Lin Yi turn to the second page expressionlessly, and suddenly he felt bad in his heart.

Sure enough, Lin Yi didn't look at your design.

But on Lin Yi's side, after he received the second design drawing, he was shocked again.

"Director Yang, please tell me about your second design drawing and your thoughts when designing it." After Lin Yi was surprised, he raised his head and looked at Yang Bing.

After hearing Lin Yi's words, Yang Bing also reacted. He knew that he should finish this meeting no matter what.

After the meeting, he went to Lin Yi to ask for his resignation.

"Your Majesty, this drawing is the armor-four chariot we designed."

"The main reason for adopting this design is that we found that if the front armor of the tank has a special angle, it will greatly increase the ricochet rate."

"In that case, why don't we just maximize the ricochet rate?"

"Just like this tank, the front armor is made of two pieces of diamond-shaped armor spliced ​​together, making the armor on the front of the tank look like an arrowhead."

"We have tested that the frontal defense of the armor spliced ​​together in this way can be increased by at least 30%."

Lin Yi nodded with satisfaction when he heard Yang Bing's words.

This was what he wanted to ask when he saw this tank again.

Although the thickness of the armor is the same, the more sloping and irregular the front is, the greater the chance of ricochet.

For example, this Type A IV tank has its front armor made of diagonal splicing technology. From a distance, it looks like an arrowhead.

Lin Yi remembered that this manufacturing process first appeared in later generations on the IS-3 heavy tank manufactured by Red Bear at the end of World War II.

Lin Yi remembered a piece of information saying that at that time, the appearance of the -3 heavy tank shocked the Western world.

Because they didn't expect that the tank could be designed like this.

Low body, oblate turret. The lower edge of the huge turret is directly consistent with the width of the body, which makes the IS-3 heavy tank look like it has no neck.

But that 122mm main gun can penetrate 2mm uniform armor at a distance of 100 kilometers, which makes all Western countries tremble.

Of course, the Type-A IV tank currently designed by Yang Bing and others is not as fierce as the IS-3. But the arrowhead-shaped design still reminded Lin Yi of that era-changing design.

"Is there a prototype of the Type A IV tank?" Lin Yi put down the document in his hand, then looked up at Yang Bing.

"Your Majesty, the Type A IV tank is still under construction. We have only built the body and it is under testing." Yang Bing answered truthfully.

Every combat vehicle needs to undergo very strict testing before it is put into production. Then make improvements based on the problems found during testing. Rather than saying, just draw it and create it, that’s it.

The researchers at the Daxia Army Weapons Research Institute now have rich experience, but even so, it still takes at least three years for them to go from drawing to manufacturing to putting it into production and equipping the army.

Hearing Yang Bing say that he had begun testing the car body, Lin Yi nodded.

If this kind of car body test is successful, then Yang Bing and the others will have a chance to realize that kind of era-changing car body design decades in advance.

He was looking forward to the day when the "IS-3" heavy tank belonging to the empire appeared on the battlefield, how terrified the enemy would be.

Thinking of this, Lin Yi said to Yang Bing: "Hurry up and test, the prototype test is over, tell me, I want to go to the site to see this tank."

"Yes!" Yang Bing nodded heavily when he heard Lin Yi's words.