Canteen System Assistance Notes

This wasn't the worst news: the K-1, with its 100mm gun, had a strong firepower advantage, but its protection level was still very poor due to the heavy gun and turret. What was even worse was that this 100mm gun was the main gun of a new Soviet tank, the T-43!

The T-43 had not yet been captured, so Mr. Knippkamp could only find someone skilled in drawing in the Ordnance Bureau and, based on battlefield observations of frontline troops, combat reports, analysis of the small amount of wreckage, and statements from Soviet prisoners, reconstruct the tank's condition.

It is equipped with the same tank gun as the KV-1-100 tank, has an engine that is basically the same as the T-34 tank, has a low body, with a total height of no more than 2.7 meters, and has only 4 crew members.

At normal combat ranges, it could block armor-piercing rounds fired by the KwWK42 75mm tank gun and the Pak4Q anti-tank gun, and had a certain probability of defending against the Tiger tank's 88mm KwK36 tank gun. However, when the battle was intense, there were also reports of the Pzgr.39 armor-piercing rounds being used to penetrate the enemy. Based on research on some other captured tanks, this was probably due to the additional armor blocks equipped on the T-43 being damaged and falling off by the shells, resulting in a decrease in protection.

Even on the sides, its protection capability is still very good. In the battle reports sent back from the front line, there were cases where the Pak-40 fired at the side of the T-43 at about 1000 meters but failed to penetrate it.

Its weight... Some Soviet prisoners of war said that this tank was lighter than the T-34." However, considering that its protection level was far superior to that of the T-34, a series of researchers, including Knippkamp and German armored forces experts, believed that this new tank weighed about 35-38 tons and was a very formidable opponent - so formidable that it was like encountering the T-34, which made people feel helpless.

At present, there are not many reports from the front line about the T-43, but considering the Russians' consistent style of "quantity instead of quality", when the number of this tank increases after the middle of 43... In the cold weather, Heinrich Knippkamp felt his back burning and sweat pouring down.

When encountering a T43 tank, armored troops and anti-tank artillery are advised to first use high-explosive grenades to destroy its additional armor before attacking. If tungsten alloy armor-piercing ammunition is available, direct fire can be attempted. Otherwise, flank attacks should be sought.

"Troops using chemical armor-piercing rounds should, whenever possible, fire multiple rounds in a salvo, or use high-explosive rounds to destroy the attached armor plates before attacking the unprotected areas. Otherwise, chemical armor-piercing weapons are generally incapable of threatening the T-43.

The T-43 lacks a directional machine gun, making its close-range firepower weak. Once you get close enough to the tank, you can destroy it using HL anti-tank grenades, Turtle Fists, and Derstave anti-tank recoilless rifles, as well as R-type mines and strap-on explosives. However, you should still try to attack areas without additional armor protection...

A typist beside him clattered away on his keyboard, following his own outline. Consultant Heinrich Knippkamp fell into deep thought. These measures were merely stopgap measures. The last T-34 crisis had been resolved with the long-barreled 75mm gun and the Panzer IV, the 88mm gun, and the Tiger tank. What about this time?

In previous discussions, facing this potential "T-43 crisis", the officials and researchers of the Ordnance Bureau proposed various and diverse plans. Finally, after repeated discussions, the only plans that could be confirmed to be effective in the short term and for the next offensive campaign were "taking out the more than 8 Porsche Tiger tank chassis that had not been used in the inventory and installing 128mm anti-tank guns", "installing the KwK43 88mm gun or the 105mm 48-caliber cannon on the No. 4 chassis and expanding the production of Rhino destroyers with Hummel chassis" and "finding a mobile chassis to install the PAK-40 to attack the flanks of Russian tanks."

Heinrich Knippkamp had to submit a long-term plan for dealing with the crisis to the Director of Armored Forces, so he unscrewed his pen and began to record his thoughts.

In short, the improvement of Tiger and Panther tanks must be accelerated. Faced with more powerful Soviet tanks, their original level of protection and firepower are definitely not enough to meet the needs. 71 times the caliber of the 88mm gun, 48 times or even 52 times the caliber of the 105mm gun, and even the "ultimate" 128mm anti-tank gun can also be improved and become available options.

Of course, as a price, it is estimated that some of these tanks will need to abandon the turret and adopt a fixed fighting compartment - in order to have larger and heavier artillery, there is no other way.

Furthermore, we must find a way to improve the armor-piercing capability of the armor-piercing warhead. Research has shown that while armor-piercing shells fired from rifled artillery have a higher initial velocity and a straighter trajectory, their penetration is weakened by the shell's spin. Perhaps a bearing structure could be employed to create a new armor-piercing shell that doesn't spin internally and maintains good penetration?

Knippkamp scratched his head and thought for a moment:

Oh! Yes, the Russians' add-on armor, which is very convenient for defending against armor-piercing rounds, is also something worth learning. I need to find someone to contact companies and groups in related industries and ask them to find a way to copy it so that German tanks can also be equipped with this strange but very useful "box".

Chapter 763: Look at your tank (?) It's a bit "hell"

Although Comrade Alexander A. Morozov successfully triggered another round of T-43 tank crisis for the Germans through the concerted efforts of himself, his comrades in the design bureau, and the workers of the Nizhny Tagil-Ural Tank Plant, he was actually quite regretful.

The reason is simple: the T-43 tank was still not a complete product at that time and faced some production problems.

Due to the limited production capacity of the electric slag furnace at the Uralt Steel Plant in Engels and the widespread demand for high-quality alloy materials, much of the T-43's suspension system was supplied by Chinese suppliers. However, to accommodate the automated welding equipment, transfer equipment, and some tooling from the original T-3476 production line and accelerate the transition to wartime production, the current T-43 tanks were unable to fully utilize the superior performance of the Chinese suspension.

The complete version of the T-48, or the future T-43M, is actually a "medium tank" with 90 mm hull armor, a 120 mm thick hexagonal turret, 30 mm anti-penetration armor on three sides and 250 mm anti-breakthrough inert additional armor - Morozov felt that if this tank could be produced, it would be able to touch the edge of the "universal tank".

Perhaps by the end of 1943, after the Stalin Tractor Plant in Chelyabinsk, the Gorky 112 Red Sormovo Plant and the Omsk 174 Plant completed the conversion to the production of T-43 tanks, the Nizhny Tagil Ural Plant would be able to free up its hands to update equipment and tooling and try to produce T-43M tanks.

However, even for the current "shrunken version" of the T-43 tank, successfully completing mass production and increasing production capacity is not an easy task. In addition to the problem of not being able to fully utilize the potential of the chassis and suspension, the Nizhny Tagil Ural Plant also encountered another unexpected problem.

The T-43 tank lacks a "brain".

The T-43 tank has a huge 1800mm turret ring, which is rare in Soviet tanks. This provides a good foundation for it to carry heavy artillery and heavy turrets.

Because of it, the basic model of T-43 can carry the gun that is a medium tank.

Huge 100mm gun.

However, this also increases the difficulty of its production in a sense.

The hexagonal turret was produced by casting, but the equipment required to cast such a large turret was not easy to produce, and the rate of production capacity increase was relatively slow. At the same time, a semi-automatic welding line controlled by punched paper tape could quickly weld the tank hull composed of 75mm armor plates. In fact, due to the low hull of the T-43, the man-hours consumed in welding the hull were even less.

Furthermore, at the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, the Volga Shipyard acquired the production and assembly capabilities for T-43 tank chassis after absorbing and integrating the equipment and personnel of the former Stalingrad-Dzerzhinsky Tractor Plant. The collaborative efforts of the workers and engineers at both plants resulted in a monthly production capacity of approximately 100 T-43 tank chassis, while also enabling the manufacture of STZ tractors.

This was a miracle of subjective initiative, but objectively it exacerbated the mismatch between the T-43's hull and turret: the sluggish turret production capacity could not keep pace with the increasing number of chassis. More and more T-43s were parked in warehouses due to lack of turrets, which really worried the GAU personnel.

According to the tank production department and manufacturers, this situation would not improve until the second half of 1943, when new turret casting and heat treatment equipment were produced and put into production smoothly. In short, in the first half of 1943, there were a lot of T-43 tank chassis that needed "brand new heads."

Because the conversion into a "self-propelled artillery" required adjustments to the vehicle body and transmission structure during the production stage (after all, the Soviets would not develop something like an archer), Comrade Morozov could only work overtime to design an improvement plan and process flow for the T-43 "self-propelled artillery" chassis so that it could be equipped with 100mm or 122mm anti-tank guns, while mobilizing everyone's wisdom to try to improve the production process of the turret.

As for the car body that has already been manufactured, the work of "finding the brain" begins.

The first thing to be discovered was the KV-1 tank's head: this head was cheap, plentiful, and provided adequate protection. After installing an adapter and adding protective armor to the hull, the T-43 tank with the KV head was successfully assembled. However, because its gun was still only 76mm, it was unable to inflict damage on the new German tanks, and the production of this T-43-KV was relatively small.

Later, to improve the tank's firepower, someone had a brilliant idea and found a rather obscure device from an armored train: a T-28 turret fitted with an F-30 85mm tank gun. After thickening the turret's armor to 80mm with additional armor plating, this T-43/85 successfully entered service. While its less protected turret than the stock model remained, the 85mm F-0 gun was more powerful than the 76mm T-94, effectively making it usable.

于是，在1943年1月至8月这段时间里，T-43便拥有了五花八门的脑袋∶除开原版六角炮塔、KV-1脑袋和T-28/85脑袋之外，充分发挥了主观能动性的苏联坦克厂还为其安装了KV-1-100亦或者是KV-220的脑袋、预定用来改装T-34/76坦克的"在研新型重坦"配套炮塔、某个长得像厕所马桶的"方形152炮脑袋”、实验性的焊接炮塔...甚至于，在进过简单适配后，美援坦克"谢尔曼"的脑袋也一度登上了T-43的车体，成为了奇怪的T-43/谢尔曼。

Well... at least it's better than leaving the tank chassis in storage to rust, right?

While the Soviets were actively working on the turret-less T-43, the Germans were also worried about the accessories for their new tank: the "Standard - Anti-Jet Inert Additional Armor."

On the Soviet-German battlefield, the German army recovered a large number of this Chinese-made "leek box" additional armor from the wreckage of Soviet tanks and learned its specific use from Soviet prisoners. Subsequently, the German army found a Panzer IV tank, bolted a layer of inert additional armor to the front and side of the vehicle, and then fired armor-piercing rounds at it.

Turtle Fists, D'Staff recoilless rifles, PAW high- and low-pressure guns, even 75mm and 88mm armor-piercing rounds, all became useless toys before this magical Eastern brick. While the "self-snake box" would usually break apart and fall off after being hit by an armor-piercing round, having an extra chance to remain unscathed was a considerable advantage on the battlefield. What tank would just stand there and let two rounds hit the same spot?

The Germans, not averse to copying foreign equipment, quickly found large equipment and cut open the intact additional armor, attempting to study its internal structure and the principle of jet protection, and then attempt to replicate it. As the cutting machine hummed, the contents of the metal box quickly became visible to the German experts:

There's glass in here!

The Germans discovered that within the interior of this small armored box, stamped from high-quality armored steel, the Russians had inserted a tilted steel plate. Within the two triangular prisms separated by the steel plate, glass reinforced with a metal grid was poured. While the exterior paint on the armored box was haphazard and rough, the silicate glass inside was properly poured, with a uniform texture and few bubbles.

The Germans were unaware that this "molten silica core" system, wrapped in steel plates and restrained by metal mesh, was derived from the US military's post-World War II armor-piercing projectile defense system. They were unaware that this concept actually had limited potential, with the advantage of being easy to manufacture. They were even less aware that the Chinese, far to the East, had significantly downgraded their own technology when exporting add-on armor. They simply sighed, "This Russian-made thing actually works," when faced with a metal box that offered a single shot of protection against almost all of the German armor-piercing rounds in service, and then prepared to copy it.

Because the contents were glass, the manufacturer commissioned to imitate it was naturally the Schott Glass Factory in Jena. However, after three months of attempts, in June 1943, the Schott Glass Factory, whose parent company was the Schott Glass Factory in Jena, reported an unexpected result:

"My Lord! This thing is hard to fix!"

Guderian, the Inspector General of Armored Forces, immediately organized a hearing to hear why the experienced Schott Glass Factory was "unable to produce" this small "glass brick." "Dear Director, in fact, our factory did not encounter any technical difficulties in the process of manufacturing this glass product. The problems we encountered were actually in other aspects."

A representative from Schott Glass quickly elaborated: It turns out that this type of glass casting, which doesn't require many ingredients, doesn't actually present many technical challenges. However, to ensure a satisfactory bubble content in the finished product (excessive bubbles can cause uneven armor structure, leading to premature rupture when defending against jets, significantly weakening its effectiveness), a large amount of "arsenic trioxide" (also known as arsenic chloride) must be added to the glass formula to improve the fluidity of the molten glass, allowing bubbles to escape and the glass to "clarify."

Adding arsenic to molten glass was a dangerous operation. According to the German process at the time, glass operators braved high temperatures, manually adding the white arsenic additive to the molten glass and then stirring it with a machine. Due to the inherent properties of white arsenic, large amounts of arsenic would boil and evaporate upon contact with the molten glass—a practice that could cause acute arsenic poisoning in unprotected operators. Even those wearing full protective equipment could still develop chronic symptoms of poisoning, including elevated arsenic levels in their blood.

This includes, but is not limited to, skin allergies, rashes and itching—the kind of horrible, difficult-to-relieve itching.

"What's the solution? Since the Russians can mass-produce this stuff, they must have figured out a way to solve this problem," Guderian asked. "They could use mechanical feeding."

The Schott Glass representative, unaware of the process improvements being made in China and the Soviet Union, responded with a stereotypical response, "However, because of the large number of orders for this type of glass armor, many furnaces would need to be built. Equipping each glass furnace with a semi-automatic charging system would be a huge expense—I imagine the Russians must have used prisoners and captives from the Gulag to do this."

It turned out to be just a cost issue... Derian touched his chin. To be honest, as the director of the armored forces, he didn't really care about the cost issue.

As long as it works.

"So as long as we overcome this cost issue, there should be no problem in mass-producing this type of armor."

"Yes, dear Director."

The Schott Glass representative nodded and added, "If we can use some special, cost-effective method to process large quantities of arsenic, we can produce a glass product with an extremely high arsenic content. This can then be added as an additive to other glass furnaces, allowing for mass production of this glass armor without increasing costs."

"I understand, Mr. Director. Human resource costs are not a difficult problem to solve."

In the meeting room, another well-dressed man with a standard middle-parted hair answered - he was the then German Minister of Munitions and Armaments, Albert Speer.

He narrowed his eyes and thought for a moment, then reaffirmed, "Sir, if we could find some special, free labor to do this kind of work that requires a certain amount of sacrifice and labor, wouldn't the cost of this glass armor increase very little?"

Yes, Mr. Minister. Melting this high-arsenic glass produces very low pollution and can be done in a conventional furnace. We can use traditional equipment to produce it, reducing development costs. When producing this high-arsenic glass...

"Thank you, that's enough."

The meeting quickly concluded. After Speer promised to help find a way to produce high-arsenic glass using "special, cost-effective methods," preparations for mass production of glass armor began to proceed smoothly. After leaving the meeting, he turned and, seemingly casually, asked his attendant, "Which 'camp' is closest to Jena?"

"Mr. Minister, it's the Buchenwald 'labor camp.'"

"Well, please inform the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Policy and have them contact the SS - we need some 'that kind of labor'."

Chapter 764: The Eighth Route Army Doesn't Want to See Your Tanks

While the Soviet Union was developing new heavy tanks and looking for a replacement for the T-43, and the Germans were developing new tanks and preparing to use "special workers" to produce glass armor, the Eighth Route Army was proceeding with its tank-related work step by step.

Although the possibility of hundreds of tanks clashing with each other like on the Soviet-German battlefield in China is infinitely close to zero, considering that the Japanese army will produce some things such as the Type 97 modified and the Type 3 gun tank, and may even be able to shout "Namo San" and activate hyperspace ninjutsu to transport some "Japanese Tigers" from the Germans, the Eighth Route Army is still building its own anti-tank capabilities.

Moreover, using anti-tank firepower to attack bunkers and firing points is also a very good choice.

However, the direction chosen by the Eighth Route Army does not seem to be so "traditional".

As early as 1941, the Eighth Route Army's rocket production capacity had reached a stable level. By utilizing future formulas and imported and domestically developed solid rocket casting equipment, the Eighth Route Army could easily mass-produce any solid rocket charge under 5 inches in semi-automatic production, or utilize specialized molds to manually cast rocket charges around 8 inches in assembly line mode.

This "solid rocket freedom" enabled the Eighth Route Army to develop solid rocket production capabilities comparable to those of the 1980s. With the formula known and production lines established, the Eighth Route Army's rocket weaponry flourished. By early 1943, the Eighth Route Army's inventory included high-speed rockets like the Hangjian 8 and Hangjian 122 for aerial attack, a heavy-duty Hangjian 220 for offensive assault, 107mm rockets for mountain infantry, 122mm rockets for the Eighth Route Army's Katyusha, 220mm offensive rockets for the Eighth Route Army's Andryusha, and a mysterious "Long-Range 220" rocket.

Of course, the Eighth Route Army, which has "sufficient future experience", will not be satisfied with this.

They still really wanted the big toy that "could fly with the Japanese" as described in Comrade Liu Helian's information.

Therefore, when the Soviets came to the Eighth Route Army with the research results of the "wire-guided Katyusha" with the goal of destroying the imaginary German heavy tanks, the "Ahmadines" who had already invested a lot in wire-guided anti-tank missiles hit it off with the Russians and soon merged the two projects into the "Sino-Soviet Joint Research" project, which was already very common at that time, to jointly promote the research, development and application of this weapon during wartime.

After discarding a large amount of material that was inconvenient to show the Russians, the Eighth Route Army's scientific research institutes began to connect with Soviet research institutes. Because both sides had very similar ideas, both intended to develop a "remote-controlled rocket" using a human-in-the-loop system and wires to transmit commands, the project's progress suddenly accelerated.

The Soviet research team was led by the Second Central Special Design Bureau, which was responsible for rockets, and brought technical experts from the Central Institute of Fluid Engineering.

The Eighth Route Army has released aerodynamic data on more than ten types of rocket layouts and stated that they will give priority to

Dmitriy Alexandrovich Wenzel, a renowned ballistics professor from the Zhukov Academy, brought with him a large amount of ballistics data on Soviet rocket weapons and assisted the Eighth Route Army's research team in designing and adjusting ballistics. Engineers evacuated from the Krasnogorsk Optical Mechanical Plant and the Leningrad State Optical Instrument Plant established a Leningrad-Shaanxi Design Bureau in China to assist the Eighth Route Army in designing the optical portion of its aiming system.

The Eighth Route Army's black technology department and rocket weapons design institute also "went all out."

They shared a grain formula and cross-sectional design that was roughly up to the standards of the 1950s, enabling the Soviet version of the missile, which had previously had a poor range, to achieve its intended range. Leveraging the advantages of analog circuits, they used vacuum tubes and electromechanical equipment to build a fairly compact rear-end remote control system for the Soviet side (about the size of a 24-inch suitcase, weighing approximately 28 kilograms, including a battery), prompting the Soviets to exclaim, "Wow, this thing can be made so small and so light!"

However, later on, China and the Soviet Union had certain differences and contradictions over the "remote-controlled rockets" that carried killing functions.

According to China's plan, this remote-controlled rocket should be able to be carried by light vehicles and, if necessary, carried by soldiers for short distances. Therefore, all components, including the missile, should be designed with infantry-carrying capacity in mind, and the overall design should not be too large.

Therefore, the Eighth Route Army's remote-controlled rocket is a small gadget with a diameter of about 120 mm, a length of about 8 cm, and a bare bomb weight of about 16 kg. Its warhead is about 3 kg. It can be mounted on vehicles or used by infantry, and is powerful enough to attack various soft and hard targets including tanks.

"No, no, no, no, China's Davarishi, you are using remote-controlled rockets as a kind of 'precision recoilless artillery'. This is unscientific.

After hearing the Chinese comrades explain their design ideas, the Soviet representative shook his head. "This powerful remote-controlled rocket is expensive and requires additional care and maintenance. It should play a role similar to the M75 heavy anti-tank gun, deployed on the front line protected by ordinary anti-tank guns and anti-aircraft positions to support the entire defense line."

"So, we have to make it bigger, more powerful, and with a longer range!"

Immediately afterwards, the Soviets came up with their "remote-controlled rocket" plan.

This is a massive rocket, its basic aerodynamic layout consisting of a cylindrical body with a 220mm diameter, nearly two meters long, a large cross-shaped tail with a 310mm wingspan, and small wings at the front. Due to the elongated body and increased caliber, its powered range will reach four kilometers, with a flight speed of up to 240 meters per second, completing the entire powered range in no more than 18 seconds.

The Soviet Union's 2nd Central Special Design Bureau designed a 20-kilogram heavy armor-piercing warhead for it. They believed that even if a general high-explosive warhead was used, the huge amount of explosives inside it could destroy the German heavy tanks or heavy bunkers.

Of course, the price is that the weight of the rocket will surge to about 95 kilograms.

"It's okay, it's only about 200 Russian pounds! Much lighter than a heavy anti-tank gun!" Facing the stunned Chinese experts, the Soviets waved their hands and said, "Just find four people to lift it together!"

On the Soviet front, the battlefield environment we faced was different from yours. The enemy might have a large armored force, and we would need to defend against the Nazis on a flat and long front, or in urban combat, we might need to strike a decisive blow against a well-fortified enemy fortress. Therefore, the possibility of manpower carrying it over long distances was basically not an option.

"This is quite different from the situation on the Chinese battlefield, where tanks and armored vehicles were in short supply and infantry comrades had to rely more on their legs and horses to advance."

Professor Dmitri Alexandrovich also agreed. "But believe me, when you attack the Japanese fascist bunkers and fortresses in Northeast China, you will also appreciate these heavy rockets."

Well, the battlefield environments and combat methods faced by China and the Soviet Union were indeed fundamentally different. Considering that the targeting equipment, rear-end remote control systems, and onboard systems of the large and small rockets were identical, with only some differences in size and power, after discussions between the Chinese and Soviet R&D teams, the two rockets were named "Small Medium Bomb" and "Su Large Bomb," respectively, and parallel development began happily.

After nearly a year of research and development, at the beginning of 1943, the two types of "guided rockets" finally completed most of the research and development and modification work, and began to enter the trial production and experimental equipment stage.

The development of the "Small and Medium Missile" fully demonstrates the Chinese team's talent and capabilities in electromechanical design and analog circuit design. Thanks to their efforts, this anti-tank missile, resembling a miniature version of the original "TOW" missile, achieves a range of approximately 300 meters, weighing no more than 16 kilograms (unarmed) and a 22-kilogram (storage and transport) launch tube (including a round of ammunition). The portable tripod weighs approximately 20 kilograms (plus a 28-kilogram (rear-end fire control system) and is even lighter for the domestic version).

The Soviet Union, with its optical capabilities far superior to those of the Eighth Route Army, designed a periscope-style integrated search/aiming optical system for small and medium-sized projectiles. While controlling costs, it achieved a 60-degree field of view and 2, 4 times magnification and magnification change functions.

Once the shooter has set up and is ready to fire, he can use the left hand's rotation axis to adjust the optical magnification and the right thumb's joystick button to remotely control the rocket. After being analyzed and "translated" by back-end equipment, the control signal is transmitted via a wire composite of silk, copper, and imported nylon to the onboard equipment of the small and medium-sized projectile, guiding the rocket to execute the program signal and fly towards the target at a speed of 180 meters per second, delivering a 650mm static armor-piercing HEAT warhead or a 3kg high-explosive incendiary warhead into the mouth of the Japanese.

The research and development of the "Su-type bomb" has more of a "Mao-style heroic" style.

Because the overall system weight and volume were significantly reduced, the Soviet-style "remote-controlled rocket" boasted a more luxurious configuration. The missile, with a flight speed of 240 meters per second and a range of up to 4000 meters, was housed in a single-stage launch tube, enhancing overall system availability. The missiles were mounted in a two-round configuration on a 350-kilogram launcher equipped with electric elevation and steering mechanisms.

The launcher, with two missiles installed, would weigh 620 kilograms (including the weight of the storage and transport tubes). However, the Russians all said that this weight was not a problem, saying that "four people could lift the rocket up."

When operating a missile, the assistant gunner sits on a 160kg aiming platform, using a 2-6x wide-field-of-view sight to aim at the target directed by the commander. The aiming platform, which integrates the back-end equipment, is connected to the rocket launcher via a 50-meter cable to protect the gunner.

Under the guidance of the Eighth Route Army, which was full of "green skin" style, the Soviet fire control system was divided into two parts: when the missile was launched, the main shooter was responsible for turning the hand wheel.

The gunner aligns the crosshairs of the sight with the target, while the assistant gunner controls the other two

Then, the electromechanical computer built into the aiming station will automatically send instructions through the cable to remotely control the missile based on the difference in alignment parameters between the two aiming hands.

According to tests, this aiming system can effectively reduce the difficulty of shooter training and achieve a single-bullet static-to-moving hit rate of more than 75% when visibility conditions are good.

As for after hitting the target, the "after-effect enhanced hemispherical shaped charge warhead" installed in the 20 kg warhead of the "Su bomb" will fire a static armor-piercing capability of only 450 mm.

But the jet is as thick as an adult's forearm, and the aftereffect is extremely powerful.

The metal jets from all grilles and spaced armor transform the interior of the target tank into a veritable molten hell.

Although due to its high speed and large body, "the Soviet missile has a remote control locking distance of about 180 meters" and cannot be remotely controlled before leaving the launch pad for a certain distance, the Soviet army expressed great satisfaction with the combat effectiveness of this weapon and proposed to find experts in armored forces to install this system on the tank chassis.

Furthermore, thanks to the efforts of the Eighth Route Army's "Black Technology" department and the Industrialization and Standardization Bureau, both the "Small and Medium-sized Projectile" and the "Su-Large Projectile" adopted Chinese standards and Eighth Route Army-style rear-end and onboard systems. This allowed the "Su-Large Projectile" to be mounted on a simple launcher and launched from the "Small and Medium-sized Projectile"'s tripod sight, while also allowing the "Small and Medium-sized Projectile" to be semi-automatically guided from the "Su-Large Projectile"'s two-person aiming platform, achieving a degree of commonality.

Therefore, although the back-end system of the Eighth Route Army's real "self-use version" cannot be exposed for the time being, China and the Soviet Union still purchased some "small bombs" and "large bombs" of each other's specifications to deal with some less common combat scenarios - or, in other words, to allow the fascist Nazis who are still wreaking havoc on both sides' territories to taste the new Soviet and Chinese styles of violence while also getting a taste of the "exotic customs" from the other side of the Eurasian continent.