Qilin Tank/profile

## Overview

**“麒麟”[Qí Lín]破阵战车**

**(Allies: Qilin / MBT Qilin / KPz Qilin)**

Designation:Anti-armour

Designer：Northwest Ji Military Vehicle Research Institute/Husu Union Industry

Manufacturer："Xiatai" vehicle manufacturer in Luoyang/ The first heavy machinery workshop of Yanjing/ The 2nd base of Gezi Industry/ Husu Union Industry Mechanical Electronics Co., Ltd

Mass-Produced at: Vehicle Workshop

Key Features:

>>Advanced weaponary system

2B-89 112mm electrothermal chemical cannon

2B-97 electromagnetic railgun (The diameter of shell with sabot is 96mm)

>>6E-93 "Qilin horns" electromagnetic active defense system

>>Medium-sized high density superconducting battery stack×6

>>Combined all electric power system

>>Microwave power supply receiving system

>>1080P 120Hz panoramic screen

## Background

**WIP！！！**

In the European war that spanned the 1880s, the cruel trench war swallowed up countless lives. Mobilization and the application of new equipment are the main reasons. As for the latter, the promotion of mines, barbed wire, breechloader and machine guns has greatly strengthened the defensive side's ability at the tactical level, and completely evolved the intuitive feeling of the war scene from "line up and shoot" to skirmish tactics; The new artillery equipped with counter-recoil and other improved equipment plunged the western line of the European war into the quagmire of positional consumption war.

In order to break through the solid preset position composed of machine guns, trenches, barbed wire and mobile artillery hiding behind, simple experimental armored vehicles were put into the battlefield, and these primitive giants equipped with machine guns and artillery did play a miraculous role. Can this new weapon re-establish the advantage of the attacker Independently? Or can it only balance the contrast between the offensive and defensive sides?

"... the British 'tank' is a new type of combat vehicle; It looks like Liaoyang agricultural machinery, covered with armour steel, less than half a cun (16mm) thick; They can be divided into male and female, male, equipped with two 57mm naval guns and four machine guns; females are only equipped with machine guns, and there is no difference in other parts (see Annex)...A few days ago, the British army attacked the German army at the north of Somme, and the infantry advanced together with the 'tanks'. The Germans fired machine guns, but after the bullets hit, they could not break through the armor, leaving only flying sparks. After approaching the enemy line, the 'tanks' fired all firearms ​at the same time, and the German soldiers were so frightened that they abandoned the line. The British army can push ten miles in five hours, which can be described as the ability to break the trench..."

On the third day after the "tank" was put into battle by the United Kingdom, the high-power radio of the Celestial Embassy in Paris sent this intercontinental telegram. A few days later, after several twists and turns, a postal plane finally crossed the whole continent and landed at the airport by the Qinhuai River.

While studying the report of the military observer mission and analyzing the photos collected by various parties, the eastern strategists soon noticed these new toys of the Occident - they were acutely aware that the heavy cavalry outdated in the wave of industrialization seemed to be returning in a new form in this new era; The translators in charge of naming put their thoughts into a more long-term perspective. Therefore, the "战车"(chariot) that once galloped on the land of China more than 2000 years ago has become the image title of this steel beast by the Celestial people. While translators and writers were arguing about whether the transliteration of "坦克"(Transliteration of tank) could be regarded as an option, the Celestial strategists who stand by watching others battle considered the design ideas contained in it and the technical level of the Celestial at that time, and soon realized the value of these things called "tank" in Europe - it will become a subversive weapon.

Combined with the comprehensive analysis of the examples of the European war, the strategists have made a full theoretical demonstration on the future development and operation mode of these chariots that was reborn in a new way in the industrial era; Through a series of deduction led by the general staff office, the military came to the final conclusion: the new combat vehicles can be used intensively to break through the defensive positions, but they can not complete the task of smashing the preset positions alone, and infantry must accompany them.

Of course, there is another view, that is, more flexible use - by strengthening the engine output, faster combat vehicles can perform more "active" tasks, such as detouring to the depth of the enemy, and then carrying out bold division, encirclement and annihilation operations.

However, the reason why the appearance of this new weapon shocked the general staff office was not because of what magical weapons were produced by the western countries, but because the design idea and actual structure of this new weapon were really simple, so that it was amazing that the Celestial thinking was solidificate at some levels.

Although the general staff office had been demonstrating the value and application methods of armored vehicles, more resources were invested in armored trains, and there was no attempt to go further in terms of combat vehicles. At that time, the chief of staff suffered great pressure from the governor's office of the three services, and the general office of military equipment also had to fall into chaos.

Learning from the bitter experience, the theoretical construction of the combat vehicle was soon on track, and more and more news and reports were sent back; Combined with these data, after establishing the simulation rules of the new battlefield, a series of sand table deduction of simulated actual combat will be carried out.

There is no doubt that at the tactical level, the decentralized allocation of combat vehicles to infantry forces can greatly enhance the ability of advancing of light infantry; At the campaign level, the centralized use of combat vehicles can quickly break through the enemy's front-line defense position and enter depth, and it is likely to cut off the contact between the front and rear of the enemy before the enemy makes an effective response.

According to these two application modes, the technical design of combat vehicles is also divided into two categories:

Heavy combat vehicles that cooperates with infantry forces to advance, characterized by slow speed and heavy armor;

And light combat vehicles that can be independently applied to perform breakthrough tasks, which are characterized by high speed and light armor.

Such cognition coincided with the mainstream view in the world at that time; Considering the many unstable factors along the long border at that time, after the theoretical demonstration and deduction, the Celestial planned to set up a number of combat vehicle forces with the main battle tank as the core to deal with the threat on the border.

After the beginning of the Pacific War, combined with experience, the Celestial adjusted the application ideas and types of vehicles; Although the standard names of light, medium and heavy have not been abolished, the more differentiated names have spread among the army and the people:

Light combat vehicles are called 游击战车(combat vehicle for guerrilla), which are mainly responsible for investigation and patrol. They are equipped with small caliber guns or machine guns, and light armor that can only resist bullets and rifle grenade;

The medium-sized combat vehicle is called the 破阵战车(combat vehicle for breaking through). It is the backbone of the armored battle group. It has the most balanced attributes and equipped with long barrel artillery for anti armor and general armor that can resist some flat fire artillery;

Heavy combat vehicles are called 攻坚战车(combat vehicles for siege). They are used to break through fortifications or medium-sized combat vehicle clusters in key areas. Medium and large caliber artillery equipped with short barrel for anti fortification, and heavy armor expected to resist most of the firepower.

Although there is a good understanding in theory, the development of Celestial armour force has been very tortuous due to the external environment for a long time; Due to the lack of urgent actual demand, the level of combat vehicle equipment is often only roughly the same as the armor strength of neighboring countries, and its scale and sophistication are far less than the advantages in naval equipment.

"The durability of machinery is limited. The northwest is either hilly or wilderness. Further north, it is even swamp. Even people can't stand that kind of rotten land. The vehicle runs hundreds of miles there. Thank God if it doesn't break down." A congressman who had visited the northwest frontier once made such remarks, and behind this seemingly radical remark was the problem exposed by the Celestial Empire in the process of modern industrial development - no matter how "unlike capitalism", and the central Congress and the whole government system under its jurisdiction have the ability to control private capital, When the information revolution began to rise on the vast Celestial land, the southeast coast of "getting rich first" has far thrown away from the undeveloped northern ice sheet; In the short term, it is beyond the capacity limit of this country to realize the "comprehensive infrastructure network construction covering transportation, power, communication and energy" for the vast area in the north of the mainland.

This unbalanced and insufficient development situation makes the medium and short-term strategic value of the northern region far lower than that of the southeast coast and the Central Plains. The whole great northern region has only a few large-scale key development areas such as the North Sea (or Baikal) resource area and Haishenwei (as know as Vladivostok in reality) port; Moreover, to a certain extent, this also reduces the attention of the northwest border defense line and the army services mainly responsible for the northwest border defense in the whole Celestial military system.

In the context of the arms race, it seems a foolish decision not to pay attention to the modernization of the army, but of course, the congress also has its own "grand blueprint".

However, even within the army at that time, many people were still very optimistic about such situations:

Like the Navy, the air force, as a gold swallower in the new era, has enough confidence and ability to control the air in any battlefield on half the earth within a few attack waves. Therefore, there are some extreme remarks that "the air force is enough to work, and the army can do chores";

Some army generals also believe that the northern neighbors are always facing the pressure of two-line operations, coupled with their limited production capacity, it can be inferred that their advanced combat vehicles have not formed a scale, and most of the old combat vehicles that can be taken out to participate in border operations have no advantage over the main battle tanksof the Celestial army.

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In short, the situation of the Celestial army's modernization at that time can be said to be insufficient economic power, unfavorable objective conditions, uncertain guiding ideology and internal disagreement.

In this environment, most of the researchers and engineers of the combat vehicle design institute are depressed: even though new equipment schemes with excellent performance are not uncommon, they are subject to the limited annual military expenditure and some opposition voices from the army, After submitting the budget, many unique design schemes of combat vehicles were packed and stuffed into the safe together with the design drawings and test data. Even if some schemes can survive to the prototype stage, they are likely to be cut off in the coming year because they exceed the budget.

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At that time, although main battle tanks were the backbone of armored forces, almost every generation of mass production models chose the cheapest scheme in the competition; Naturally, its improvement potential is about equal to zero, and even the treatment of foreign trade type is better than them. For a long time, this stingy and strange situation has not only dampened the enthusiasm of the Research Institute, but also put a lot of hidden dangers in the construction of the Celestial armor force, as the sudden war proved.

Near the end of the 1980s, a cannon shot on the northwest border knocked the Celestial into a state of partial mobilization. A local war broke out on the border, which is not a simple conflict. Various internal and external contradictions between the two countries are reflected in many traceable reasons.

But, let's just talk about the Celestial for the time being. As early as the late 1970s, with the "reaction output ratio" (Q value) of Celestial experimental fusion reactor reaching 10 and the verification of "integrated tritium cycle" technology, it predicted that controllable nuclear fusion technology would advance all the way, which had cast a shadow on the prospects of other traditional power industries, such as thermal power and solar photovoltaic generation. The share prices of many enterprises in these industries fluctuate with the news of overcoming the difficulties of fusion technology; Speculators are quick to hear the news, and the share prices are prone to falling that last for weeks.

Because investors can fully expect that the profit margin of the additional capital added to these old industries will decline significantly because of technology in the near future, so it is difficult to attract the inflow of new capital. The capital of these departments will only flow out and invest in new sunrise industries.

In the early 1980s, the first "crude" commercial nuclear fusion reactor (later known as generation 0) was put into use and then connected to the power grid. Although the cost of fusion power generation remained high at this time, the fusion power plant could barely carry out commercial power generation without loss only with the special allowance of the government. But even so, the news still lost the last glimmer of hope for investors in the traditional power industry, and the stock price finally collapsed, just as it happened in the Empire of the Rising Sun, a neighboring country.

However, the difference between the two countries is that many industrial and mining enterprises closely related to energy and "new energy" industries have also been affected. The trend of shrinking investment finally leads to the reduction of jobs or wages. While emerging industries are about to usher in comprehensive prosperity, the old energy industry can only barely maintain its current scale, and the dark cloud is also shrouded over many industrial and mining enterprises in the north of the desert and the northwest.

Time flies. In the Celestial in the mid-1980s, with the small-scale popularization of the first generation of commercial nuclear fusion power generation, cheap power has begun to impact some domestic markets. The accelerating development of new technologies has demonstrated its power of "creative destruction".

Although the government is ready to deal with the pain of the great transformation of the energy industry and its related upstream industries, it is a pity that the policy can not catch up with the rapid diffusion of changes across the country. A large number of "new energy" enterprises composed of high technology, which was cultivated in response to climate warming leading to extreme natural disasters, are becoming hot potato. Rash abandonment will only lead to unrest.

In dealing with the transformation of many industries and enterprises in the central area, the executive level has been overwhelmed. In the northwest and northern desert, some industrial and mining cities and towns can only rely on their only resources to deal with the problem; In these places that are too far away from the industrial center, some companies and enterprises that continue to lose money can no longer endure such a situation. Despite the dissuasion of the local government, they began to try to withdraw unilaterally, and unexpectedly encountered a head-on blow from social forces in this process; Local contradictions have intensified rapidly.

Therefore, all kinds of old and new contradictions in the past and at that time broke out.

This has provided a hotbed for the seeds of contradictions and conflicts - on the other hand, the neighboring countries in the northwest, due to their own internal political struggle, have even started beggar-thy-neighbour at this juncture, trying to avoid the fierce struggle among the upper factions with huge but short-term military action.

Although the conflict ended in the Celestial's victory, even the most moderate media can only modify the cruel post-war report form as a "bitter victory".

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From a strategic point of view, the Celestial top leadership has to accept this cruel reality - even if there is nuclear deterrence, local conflicts between major powers may still break out, and can be controlled and ended before the outbreak of all-out war - this reality prompted Celestialop leadership to start thinking about a more peaceful, stable and sustainable national security scheme than nuclear deterrence.

And from the operational point of view, in the conflict that broke out in the northwest border, the low operational efficiency of the armour forces made the Celestial army pay a far higher price than expected. But fortunately, the air force fulfilled their promise and completely lived up to their expectations - the air force urgently opened the sealed Field Airport and invested more than six squadrons of aviation troops in a short time. The single aircraft daily attendance rate of several attack aircraft squadrons reached a new record, and the pilots and ground crew were almost faint beside the runway. The high-intensity air support at any cost provided a powerful assistance to the Celestial army, destroyed or suppressed half of the enemy's combat power with the strength of their own, and finally let the Celestial regain the dominant power.

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That is, from this lesson, the voices of the people and the army for the upgrading of main combat equipment have increased one after another; The congress also relaxed the R & D budget of combat vehicles and increased military spending year by year. With the continuous escalation of the international situation in the future, the so-called "restriction on the army" has also existed in name only.

The researchers and engineers of the military vehicle institute finally survived the longest winter of their lives - although countless predecessors exhausted their youth and failed to wait until this day.

But, the challenge has only just begun.

Among the documents piled up in the archive room and database, after intense discussion, the researchers selected a design scheme with high improvement potential and good stability, replaced and reintegrated each subsystem with more advanced equipment at the existing technical level, and finally came up with their long-awaited results:

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The firepower core of the project is a relatively mature 2B89D(Celestial Code:乙坤-捌玖-丁 Rhein Code:KWK 89D)112mm electrothermal chemical cannon, with a barrel length of 60 times the caliber (L60) and a muzzle kinetic energy of 18-20 MJ. When launching long rod APFSDS, it can penetrate 880mm semi infinite oblique target at a distance of 1920m. Theoretically, the actual armor piercing ability to armored targets exceeds 900mm.

[The Celestial Army adopts the "ninth-five" standard - complete breakdown rate of armor piercing projectile ≥ 95%]

The biggest difference between the project and the previous tanks is the power system: the vehicle is all electric equipment from transmission to engine.

There is no doubt that under the condition of equal technical maturity, the motor has absolute advantages over the diesel engine - small power pack volume, low noise, small infrared heat source, maximum torque at start-up, large high efficiency range and so on; The energy supply problem, which hinders the full electrification of armored vehicles, has also been defeated in Husu Union Industry's decades of research.

Thanks to the breakthrough of high-density superconducting battery technology, the ​Celestial ​has the feasibility of full electrification of land combat equipment; By summing up the experience accumulated in the development of various electric drive prototype vehicles, designers not only shorten the R & D process, but also successfully avoid many problems in practical application. The combined power system designed by Northwest Ji Military Vehicle Research Institute and Husu Union Industry consists of high-density superconducting battery pack, super capacitor pack, aluminum fuel cell pack and motor.

The battery pack composed of multiple battery boxes is used as the energy of the whole vehicle, and its reserve power can support the fully loaded vehicle to travel about 360 kilometers on the road. In field situations, it can be charged wirelessly, wired, or directly and quickly replaced.

The characteristic of super capacitor is that it can discharge in a large amount in a short time, high peak output and long service life; As an auxiliary power, it is responsible for discharging first when the combat vehicle suddenly accelerates (and when the main gun is charged), and then powered by the main battery pack, so as to protect the battery pack.

Aluminum fuel cell stack is a standby power supply for emergency in case of loss of main power supply; The fuel consumed is special aluminum plate. The advantage of low density allows the chariot to carry a considerable amount of aluminum material without affecting the load of other parts.
What is worth writing is the motor. Unlike civilian vehicles, engine torque is as important as power for combat vehicles, so diesel engines with low speed and high torque are the heart of most combat vehicles - although they can't run fast, they are powerful. The motor also has this key advantage. It can directly produce the maximum torque at low speed, and the high efficiency range is large, which can not be done by diesel engine; For diesel engines, high power requires low torque, high torque requires low power, so the best working condition of combat vehicles is actually quite uncommon.

In addition to these, the motor is not afraid of the severe cold that can frighten the diesel engine, nor of the anoxic environment at high altitude; Compared with the diesel engine, the low noise and low heat source signal of the motor also makes it easier for the combat vehicle to integrate into the environment and more hidden when facing of infrared detection and terminal guidance.

Compared with the power system taking a big step, the defense capability of the project is relatively conservative, which is not solid and worry free. In this regard, the consensus of civilian military enthusiasts is to control the combat weight and carry out rapid deployment by adapting transport aircraft - of course, the criticism naturally says that this is abandoning the basics and important technical indicators in order to pursue the ultimate strategic mobility.

However, this is only a folk joke. Even if it is conservative in protection, it is only relative to its advanced electrification. The main armor composed of non explosive energetic reactive armor and chromium oxide-silicon carbide ceramic composite armor is also basically sufficient for tungsten core APDS fired by 115mm main guns from the northern neighboring countries, but what if it needs to face depleted uranium alloy cores or guns with larger caliber?

The Celestial army is obviously unwilling to do so. Therefore, in the production batches after the early 1990s, part of the potential of the project platform to adapt to advanced equipment is reflected in the "Qilin's horns" active defense system coded 2C93(Celestial Code: 乙震玖叁).

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In essence, the "horn" is not only an "electromagnetic armor" which is not installed on the armor plate, but also an "active defense system" without ammunition; The principle is to charge the target through rapid directional discharge after detecting the incoming projectile, then deflect the force through the generated strong electromagnetic field, and hit the main armor at a wrong angle, so as to enhance the defense ability of the vehicle in a disguised form.

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In actual combat, after the active defense mode is turned on, the vehicle will transfer part of the energy of the power system and the power from the microwave transmission receiving equipment to the active defense system, and the modulator of the system will emit a strong electromagnetic field sufficient to maintain an effective electromagnetic field within the range of four parking spaces through the antenna like two horns, The discharge and deflection of incoming fire will be semi automatically performed by the electromagnetic field under the continuous control of this modulator.

The advantage of this electromagnetic active defense system is that it avoids the trouble of installing and replacing reactive armor, can withstand more lasting attacks in actual combat, and makes up for the shortcomings of the project in defense to a certain extent.

Small projectiles such as anti armour rockets or common grenades may be directly blowed away or deflected to hit the main armor horizontally, and smaller bullets may even be melted directly during discharge; For the incoming armor piercing penetrator , the average deflection angle can also reach about 10 degrees. This way of deflecting the angle of the penetrator can strengthen the protection ability of the vehicle.

However, although it has good protection capability, this set of active defense system increases the difficulty of cooperative operation - strong electromagnetic field will have a serious impact on the human nervous system, such as inducing ventricular fibrillation, causing cardiac arrest, and seriously interfering with various exoskeletons and instruments worn by accompanying infantry; In addition, when discharging incoming ammunition, some ammunition using piezoelectric fuses may be detonated directly, causing serious secondary casualties to people outside the vehicle.

Moreover, due to the exaggerated energy consumption of strong electromagnetic field, without the support of wireless transmission, the battery provided by the combat vehicle can only support startup for a few times under the condition of ensuring a certain driving mileage and firing charging. The tank commander must grasp the opportunity and manually start the active defense system when he is about to be attacked by high threat.

Characterized by the "Horns" of this active defense system, the prototype of the battle vehicle, code named obj.93(Celestial Code: 甲乾玖叁), received the code of "Qilin" after passing the acceptance of the general military headquarters, and began the process of mass production; By the way, Qilin, which was produced in small quantities in the first two years, was actually put into active service without installing an active defense system, because at that time, Husu Union Industry were adjusting and deploying a new automatic production line and simplifying the mass-produced "Horn" defense system.

Compared with the above improvements, the gap and difference between the old tanks and the new one has greatly exceeded the expectations of the military and the congress. Fortunately, the Military Vehicle Research Institute and other subsystem R & D units have made efforts to ensure the reliability of the vehicle, so that this type of tank, which is almost a leapfrog technical iteration, has not become a "chicken rib" that breaks down after two steps.

Of course, even at this stage, the development of "Qilin" is still not completed.

In front-line use, the Celestial Army's heavy-duty synthetic Brigade (multi arms synthetic / mixed brigade battalion system) believes that although the 112mm electrothermal chemical cannon is enough to easily suppress the enemy's old tanks, it is still weak against the new medium-sized tanks - the front equivalent protection has exceeded 848mm when its turret is naked. If the additional protection brought by magnetic induction explosion reaction armor is included, Then its equivalent protection capacity can be considered to exceed 1000mm.

In field operations, the heavy armed forces of the modern Celestial army usually take the main battle tank force as the core, and form a temporary breakthrough battle group under the cover of the air force, together with armed helicopters, mechanized infantry, mobile air defense and self-propelled artillery, which is used to break through the left and right wings of the facing enemy; After the breakthrough, move quickly to the enemy in depth, close up at the designated place, attack the enemy's technical equipment, capture the supply line and transportation hub, and repel the enemy's reserve team that may counterattack; Thus, a pincer attack is formed at the campaign level to surround and defeat the main enemy force on the main attack axis in the campaign direction.

This combat mode is traditional but effective, but the requirements for the comprehensive performance of the main battle tank are relatively high. In the border conflict that led to the turning point in the development of Celestial combat vehicles, it was because the anti armor capability of the old tanks was not satisfactory, resulting in the situation that a small number of enemy armored forces delayed their own large forces for several hours; Because its advancing speed did not meet the requirements, the enemy obtained enough time to deploy the reserve team, and then interrupted the root of the "pincer" of the Celestial tank division; The failed pincer attack also put itself in a dangerous situation.

Therefore, in terms of "Qilin"'s weapons, anyone will spare no effort to support the development of new systems. Electromagnetic railguns are naturally the best choice. In view of the fact that the new generation of self-propelled air-defense system and anti-aromr vehicles of the Celestial army have clearly adopted electromagnetic railguns, "Qilin" has also carried out an upgrade plan for the main weapons.

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The actual performance of vehicle mounted railgun needs to consider many contents - energy consumption, accuracy, penetration depth and so on. It should be noted that at the time point of upgrading the main weapons of the "Qilin" project, the traditional chemical guns has gradually entered the bottleneck period; The performance of chemical gun and the ability of armor piercing projectile limit the armor piercing ability. The traditional tank gun in the world can only reach the armor penetration depth of 600 ~ 750mm, and the Celestial is no exception. After the potential of the 110 ~ 125mm traditional chemical guns was fully exploited, the Celestial Army started the plan of weapon upgrading. The result of this plan is the large-scale application of electrothermal chemical guns.

The electrothermal chemical guns can be refitted on the basis of the traditional guns without resetting the whole firepower system; In practical use, it can not only launch more powerful new ammunition, but also use old ammunition; When launching new ammunition, the muzzle kinetic energy can be increased by more than 20%.

But that's still not enough. The Celestial army believes that the electrothermal chemical guns are actually just a continuation of the traditional chemical guns. It is essentially a transitional product, and the electromagnetic railguns are more promising choice.

The follow-up matters are self-evident. With the successful application of practical electromagnetic railgun technology, the main weapon upgrade of "Qilin" continues; Thanks to the forward-looking unmanned turret design, the "Qilin" turret successfully accommodates the vehicle mounted electromagnetic railgun with a rear seat travel far beyond the traditional gun: 2B97a electromagnetic railgun (Celestial Code:乙坤-玖柒-甲 /Rhein Code: KWK 97A ). The gun is designed to be automatically loaded by the tail compartment automatic ammunition feeder in the turret.

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Edenia strategic intelligence agency believes that the overall armor piercing idea of the gun is still traditional, which is roughly as follows: under the condition of ensuring the optimal contacting speed of 6-7 mach of tungsten alloy penetrator at 2000m-2500m, carry forward the advantages of electromagnetic weapons to prolong the penetrator length as much as possible, so as to ensure the final victory in the process of mutual consumption between penetrator and armor.

This makes many enthusiasts who think that this gun will choose the armor piercing idea of "ultra-high speed and low weight" unavoidably lost.

It is widely said on the Internet that this type of main weapon may have about 25 MJ of muzzle kinetic energy, and the life of rail is about 200 shots. The penetration depth of type A projectile (projectile diameter 25.6mm, length about 1024mm) on the semi infinite oblique target is about 1200mm; The penetration depth of type B projectile (projectile diameter 28.8mm, length about 1036.8mm) on semi infinite oblique target is about 1120mm.

But the Celestial army has been secretive about this type of main weapon and has never made a clear statement, which makes the outside world know little about it.

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Although the carrying of railgun also led to the increase of power consumption, the improved battery pack provided by Husu Union Industry has also been improved. Therefore, this improvement basically did not affect the energy power system and endurance ability of "Qilin".

When relying solely on its own energy reserves, "Qilin" can launch its own 24 armor piercing bullets at full power, launch other ammunition at half power, and shortly startup the active defense system five times (0.6 seconds each time) under the condition of ensuring the minimum required journey of 168 km.

And with the support of wireless transmission, the microwave power supply receiving equipment of "Qilin" can continuously absorb the power from the transmission tower, so as to allow it to use all on-board equipment at full power without worrying about the problem of energy.

Although "Qilin" will be the backbone of the armored forces of the Celestial army in the future, its high cost and high maintenance difficulty make even the Celestial army, such a highly professional army, still can not replace all its vehicles with electromagnetic weapons; Ideally, in a 14 vehicle"Qilin" company, there will be five "Qilin" equipped with railguns (three platoon leader vehicles, one company commander vehicle and one vice ccompany commander vehicle). They often shoulder the heavy task of long-range anti armor.

For the armored forces of the Soviet Union and the Allies, "Qilin" is a strong opponent with both attack and defense. Due to the low infrared thermal signal, they often encounter unexpected ambush and fall into the embarrassing situation of being unable to fight back in time; Even in the stage of exchange of fire, the armor shrouded in the electromagnetic protective barrier of "Qilin" often exists as a wailing wall for them.

In small-scale combat, the Soviet tank division usually delayed their action by laying mines with rockets, and then asked for the support of armed helicopters; The armored brigade combat team in Edenia will carry forward the energy weapon advantage of the prism tank, first burn down the "Qilin"'s active defense system, and then look for an opportunity to attack or call for air strike.

## Notes From the Field

Battlefield reconnaissance has revealed at least these facts about the Qilin Tank.

·**Break through and destroy** - Qilin MBT can easily break through positions lacking anti armor firepower, and use excellent firepower to destroy armored targets.

· **Armor-piercing thunderbolt** - Some Qilin Tanks will be equipped with the latest electromagnetic railguns to further improve their anti armor capability.

·**Glowing horns of Qilin** - Qilin can start the "Qilin horns" active defense system, receive microwave transmission from the rear and deflect most attacks; With sufficient energy support, the main gun can fire at higher power to improve the range, but the energy allocated to the power system will be greatly reduced.

·**Sitting on thunderbolt** - When the Qilin Tank is heavily damaged, its high-density superconducting battery stack is likely to explode violently. The crew needs to withdraw immediately after the explosion warning is issued and escape the vehicle before the explosion suppression system fails.

## Notes

This article is an unofficial translation.

## Remarks

1. ↑ This refers to the Wailing Wall in the Saint Seiya