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Chapter 478

"This is, we don't understand technology. We have to hand it over to professional technicians for processing in detail. Do you think so? Your country can arrange a technical team to come to our country and carry items that need to be tow. Let's design a tractor system that is completely suitable for your country's needs based on your country's artillery or vehicles. After the prototype is realized, we can also test it in your country. Finally, how should we set the price according to the vehicle?" The prince thought for a while and said.

"I think this is OK," Earl Witt thought for a while and said. In his opinion, this is completely a serious and responsible expression of Bavaria. He designed a set of tractors specifically for Russia. He is so dedicated and considers more for customers! But is this actually the case? Obviously not!

The prince will be on the Eastern Front in the future, and he will definitely deal with the tragic road conditions of Russia! If you find that your vehicle is not suitable for Russia's road conditions at that time, it would be a tragedy? There is such a good opportunity to openly conduct tests in Russia, and you can do surveying and mapping without any trouble, and make friends with some Russian powerful people. How can the prince let go of the opportunity to be a public spy? If you do the test, you have to run thousands of kilometers. Let's talk about the roads in Russia and Eastern Europe!

"But one thing to note is how many such cars do you want to order? If the quantity is small, then the price and payment method will probably make you very dissatisfied." Given such good conditions, you should always give a brief explanation, right? To be honest, the prince is not sure how much Russia can buy this time. Although theoretically, Russia has a large transportation gap in the Far East, at the same time in history, Russia did not have any cars in the Far East. Who knows how much Russians will buy in this unrecognizable history? If you buy less, you will have to pay the design test fee!

"We will not determine the specific quantity of this now, but the first batch of orders will not be less than 100 vehicles!" Earl Witt said after thinking about it.

"What does this tm mean?" The prince's brain turned very quickly. At this time, he was not planning how much money he could make in 100 cars. The prince did not value this amount of money very much. What he needs now is to know what these vehicles are for!

"Are 100 trucks? So I want to know what the carrying capacity of this kind of truck is? After all, our load vehicles range from 1.5 tons to 5 tons!" the prince asked tentatively.

"Most of them should be trucks of more than 3 tons. As for the specific situation, I think it's up to professionals to discuss. The road conditions in the Northeast are very bad, and the things we pull are a bit heavy." Witt thought for a while and said.

"3 tons. This price may be a bit high." The prince said to himself, considering the information revealed. Bavaria's current 3-ton trucks generally use an engine of about 50 horsepower. Although it is nominally three tons, you can still use it as much as 4.5 tons. In the Bavarian army, trucks of this specification are generally used to tow heavy artillery, such as 150mm heavy howitzer, while 5-ton trucks are used to tow heavy artillery in 210mm military families!

How would Russia use these trucks in the Far East? Needless to say, it must be a cannon! In this era without tanks, the heavyest marching weight in the army, and the most difficult equipment to transport is artillery! And these things are absolutely impossible for a little guy like a 3-inch rapid-fire gun. A speed-fire gun of about 1.5 tons plus a front car equipped with ammunition is enough on the general road surface. Even if the road conditions in the Far East are a little bit crap, the feeding conditions of horses are a little bit crap. It is absolutely no problem to use horses to drag the rapid-fire gun!

"100 trucks? They are all trucks with more than 3 tons? It seems that the number and weight of heavy artillery that you need to tow are quite considerable!" the prince said lightly. This news is not good news for Germany. If the Russians decide to equip a large number of large-caliber howitzers and give up rapid-fire guns, the threat of Russian artillery on the battlefield will be greatly increased.

"This is nothing to do. The Japanese equipped a large number of 120mm heavy artillery, and many of these artillery were modified with naval guns. The range was long and powerful. So in order to suppress the other party's guns, we needed more heavy artillery. In the end, we decided to use lightweight, short-barrel heavy artillery guns to deal with them." Witt said.

"The information in this passage is a bit large." First of all, Russia is not ready to replace howitzers in large quantities. Their use of naval guns as a temporary measure to suppress firepower is just a temporary measure, so the previous concerns are not valid. This is like in history, the British people used the naval guns on the army gun mounts to deal with the Boers. However, in the time of War 1, the British Army's large-caliber howitzers were equipped with a small number of large-caliber howitzers. Secondly, the weight of these naval guns was far greater than that of land guns, and both the length of the barrel and the overall weight of the artillery were not comparable to that of ordinary land guns.

If we have to compare, these naval guns should be compared with long-range artillery of the same caliber. The 6-inch-class naval gun of this era weighs about 5 tons. If the gun mount is included, it will be close to 10 tons! This weight is similar to the famous K16 cannon in Germany during the war. Such heavy weapons are not convenient to transport with horses. And the Russians came this time to order a batch of reliable tractors for these artillery!

But soon, the prince discovered that there were still some problems, that is, if naval guns were used, where did Russia get so many large-caliber naval guns? You should know that the first batch ordered more than 100 trailers, and the 6-inch-level secondary guns equipped by a battleship were only about 14. Therefore, it is impossible for the Russians to simply rely on naval guns to replace gun mounts to arm their heavy artillery troops. There must be other sources!

"If possible, when will these gun samples be delivered?" the prince decided to ask clearly.

"Actually, a large part of the artillery was imported from the United States. They had a large number of 6-inch l30 artillery replaced, so we bought it back." Witt decided to give it a break.

"Damn it! You are collecting waste products all over the world!" The prince was convinced, admiring the Russians' persistent expressions and also admiring the Americans' grasp of business opportunities. At most, Ruprecht dealt with various mountain cannons and machine guns squeezed in his country. The Americans have begun to deal with too many naval guns in the navy. This gap...

"Okay, let's leave everything to the technicians in our two countries to deal with." The prince said. Such a too professional thing is no longer something he can solve.
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