Chapter 308： Cyric Organ (1/2)

The Germans have a long history of studying rocket launchers. As early as 1909, the German Krupp company purchased the patent for the fixed rocket launcher of Lieutenant Colonel Wenger from Sweden, and independently carried out improvements and trial production.

After the First World War, in order to bypass the Treaty of Versailles, a throwing weapon that could replace large-caliber artillery was developed to attack enemy troops defending trench fortresses, and to launch chemical ammunition and incendiary bombs. , Has been going on.

It's just that it didn't go well at the beginning. Like the Soviet development, the main problem was the propellant.

At first, black gunpowder was used, and it was manually operated, and the craftsmanship was very poor. In addition, the black gunpowder was easy to hit and catch fire, which made the development work very slow.

In this way, until 1935, a new, impact-resistant rocket propellant was successfully developed. Since then, the development of German rocket launchers has entered the fast lane.

Historically, the Germans developed rocket launchers of various calibers such as 150 mm, 210 mm, 300 mm, 280/320 mm, etc., in various forms such as fixed, towed and self-propelled.

It can be found that the Germans pay more attention to large-caliber rocket launchers. This is a different way of thinking.

The Soviet Union used rocket launchers on a large scale and relied on a large amount of ammunition to cover the target in a short time. Therefore, the Soviet Union's rocket launchers were mostly 80mm and 132mm, but the number of tubes was very large. , Or 24 tubes.

The Germans pay more attention to long-range precision strikes by heavy rockets.

You know, the rocket gun is not as precise as the barrel artillery. When shooting it can only be in the approximate direction, and the accuracy will not be too high. If Germany wants to improve the accuracy, it must use a heavy one.

The heavier the rocket, the less the influence of the wind in the air. At the same time, because the caliber is larger and heavier, the number of rocket launching tubes is also reduced. Each German rocket launcher has a maximum of 10 tubes.

Two, which one is better? Just look at the equipment of later generations to know!

Therefore, Cyric raised the issue of the caliber of the rocket launcher. Among them, the 107mm rocket launcher is relatively light. Just like the later China’s 63-type 12-barreled rocket launcher, mountain troops can be equipped, and two people can take it apart. Can be universally used in aviation rockets.

The 122mm rocket launcher, as a standard 40-barrel rocket launcher, is the same as the BM21 ”Hail” series.

There are heavy rocket launchers over 300 mm.

Therefore, the 122mm multi-barrel rocket launchers should be equipped for the troops. They have fierce firepower and sufficient power. They are most suitable to accompany tanks to charge and cover the opponent in advance!

With Cyric's Dinghai Shenzhen, the military industry experts don't have to worry about it, and just design it according to the 122 mm diameter!

Although the tracked chassis has better off-road performance, it is also more expensive and consumes more fuel. This rocket launcher is the main support weapon. Therefore, after some research, they finally chose a 10-ton off-road chassis.

Relying on an excellent off-road chassis and a high-horsepower diesel engine, the number of tubes of this rocket launcher has reached a limit.

There are four rows, ten in each row, for a total of forty tubes!

After equipping the troops, they conducted a test firing. The firepower was absolutely frantic!

”General Cyric, this is the rocket launcher of our newly equipped unit.” Seeing Cyric's interest, Guderian immediately came up to introduce him.