After finishing his explanation, Lin Cuo gazed at the concept drawing he had prepared, thoroughly pleased with himself.
The meeting room fell silent for a moment.
Li Xingke enlarged the drawing and examined it several times. Cao Yuanming also put away his earlier excitement, that look of a man ready to spend his life fighting for two thousand years of Cao family honor, and began seriously studying the track deployment mechanism.
The first to raise a question was an engineer from the Luoyang High-Load KMF Joint Testing Institute.
"Your Highness, I have several questions. The main gun's caliber is provisionally set at one hundred and eighty millimeters, but you also require an initial velocity generated by a chemical propellant charge followed by secondary Sakuradite electromagnetic acceleration. Based on our current estimate of projectile mass, we must recalculate the momentum impulse, gun mount deflection, and fatigue life of the turret ring. In particular, once the spades are anchored in the ground, the gun's recoil axis will not align perfectly with the vehicle's load-bearing axis, producing an additional pitching moment."
Whether he understood any of that or not, Lin Cuo simply nodded.
"Yes, that's an excellent point."
Encouraged, the engineer continued, "Secondly, although lateral track deployment can increase the support area, the lateral hydraulic articulation mechanism itself will become a weak point for fatigue. When firing on soft ground, the spades may not provide the expected reaction force, and the entire vehicle will still undergo angular displacement. We therefore recommend combining gun elevation control, hull attitude compensation, and ground-bearing sensors to establish closed-loop servo control."
"Exactly! That makes a lot of sense."
"Furthermore, the peak discharge of the breech-mounted energy storage module does not match the thermal stability requirements of the Sakuradite superconducting circuit. During sustained fire, the rise in coil temperature