Chapter 48

"My Lord!"

Loken looked up as if he had made up his mind.

"There's another thing I hope you can have a look."

"Huh?"

Soshyan looked at him suspiciously and finally nodded.

Then Loken took him to the door of warehouse 1. After taking a deep breath, the technical priest opened the door.

"This is..."

As the heavy metal gate slowly opened, a row of lighting balls arranged on the ceiling of the warehouse lit up in turn, making twelve roaring steel giants emerge from the darkness. Soshyan seemed to break into the nest of a group of fierce beasts and surprise them.

Each of these metal monsters has the shape of a super far Riemannian Ruth heavy tank.

Soshyan went into the warehouse and observed them carefully. These huge blue gray bodies 8 meters high and 5 meters wide were covered with rivets and fixing bolts. The track alone was as wide as a person. On the prismatic turret, there was a cannon as thick as the trunk of a star warrior. Under the light, they scattered dark oil light, like the tusks of beasts.

"... I have never seen such a tank."

"They are makado heavy tanks, an almost forgotten ancient model. At present, only makade2 is still in production. They are also the pride of my mentor."

Loken stepped forward and stroked the steel beast, as gentle as stroking his lover.

Makado heavy tank is an extremely old design model. Many people think it is even the predecessor of limanus, but since the great rebellion, it is no longer uncommon in the Imperial Army, and few people even know of such a tank.

In many parts of the Empire, makado heavy tanks have been fully retired since the end of the arrogant rebellion, which gives rise to the prejudice that it is a heretical and locally produced armored vehicle.

However, in the era of the great expedition, it was once one of the common equipment of the mortal auxiliary army.

Over time, a small number of makado heavy tanks still serving in the Empire were either evacuated to the strategic reserve area, or to the interior of the planet and other "preparatory fronts", and some were only equipped as a tradition by some imperial defense forces.

Even most of the foundry world no longer produces new makado bodies or improved models. As for the exact origin and origin of makado heavy tanks, it is difficult to find out even for mechanical education.

Most people think that this type of tank is named after the magic makado - but he himself, as a close adviser to the Emperor himself in the early Empire, is an extremely secretive figure.

For this reason, some theorists used it as a basis to accuse the tank design model, which is likely to come from the years immediately after the outbreak of Horus rebellion.

Because of the urgent need for all kinds of combat materials at that time - after all, too many things were lost in the war, including knowledge and production capacity, and even the ancient Rand Raiders became the exclusive use of the astats.

Therefore, even things like makado are likely to be turned out for mass production for emergency use.

However, like most things from turbulent times, they have become mysteries.

Although it was intended to play the role of main battle tank, the original makado model was larger and heavier than the well-known limanus.

The tank itself is extremely durable due to its huge shape and heavy armor. It is equipped with a powerful main battle gun on the turret with limited shooting angle. The two sub weapon points can be equipped with heavy logging machine guns, heavy explosives, laser cannon or small automatic cannon.

However, due to its early age, the design of the tank has certain limitations, especially when compared with the smaller limanus.

The first point is the firing angle of weapons. Because the huge body of the tank, heavy armor and installed weapons limit the firing angle of all weapons, the main and auxiliary turrets that cannot rotate at the same time are extremely weak under the chaotic confrontation of the enemy when the front is penetrated, and the enemy infantry can also take advantage of these disadvantages.

Nevertheless, experienced commanders will also combine infantry with it.

However, the second defect of the tank, the weakness of the engine, is not so easy to overcome.

The main engine of makado heavy tank is an ancient combustion power engine and a modification used in many industrial and agricultural heavy machinery. Unfortunately, the size and weight of makado heavy tank overload it.

This makes it perform quite badly in logistics and poor fuel efficiency.

To further improve the engine power, it is inevitable to increase the tonnage of the tank again - because the only way to improve the power is to increase the number of engines.

In short, the design of makado heavy tank is in the dilemma of adding more water and more water.

This may be the real reason why it was abandoned.

"... the mentor has been improving the makado heavy tank. He cancelled the sub turret, gave enough range to the main turret, and replaced his improved composite power engine, which is enough to make the makado heavy tank run as fast as limanus."

While Loken introduced it, soshyan himself was also observing this type of tank.

As the other party said, the makado heavy tank in front of us really has only one main turret, which is different from most of the imperial armor. Moreover, the front of the body has been cut into a 50 ° angle slope, which makes the originally thick armor defense to a higher level.

As for the secondary weapon, there is a heavy explosive gun in the front of the car body and an external automatic gun on both sides of the car body. This design reduces the number of team members by 2, and only 4-5 people are needed to fight.

Soshyan admitted that the improved makado heavy tank is a reliable weapon and will perform better than limanus even in breakthrough front and seesaw battle.

After all, it has more advantages than riemannius in tonnage and defense, and the improvement potential is also quite huge.

But the key question is, what does Loken want to do?

"Reverend Loken."

Soshyan withdrew his eyes from the makado heavy tank and turned to the chattering mechanical priest.

"What do you mean by showing me these?"

Loken's shoulders froze with the naked eye, and then turned slowly.

A stiff smile came out of his face and said:

"My Lord, after listening to the great deeds of your regiment, i... I also want to make some contributions to the Empire."

"This is neither our property nor yours."

Soshyan stared at Loken and his voice gradually sank.

Under the starfighter's gaze, Loken's psychological defense finally collapsed. He bowed his head like a child who did something wrong and mumbled:

"I... well... Your ship... Still... Is there a technical priest missing..."

Loken lowered his head. What he didn't see was a smile on soshyang's face.

As he guessed.

"Are you afraid of accountability?"

"No, no, no! It's not accountability. They only retaliate! They hate my mentor and me! They won't miss this opportunity!"

Loken looked up, his tongue knotted with tension.