The Americans were shocked by the NY Navy's failure!
They didn't expect CF to send troops. Although it was only a few Styx class torpedo boats, the Americans were still wary of CF's interference.
NY also received the news of the sinking of the destroyer. Two days later, the NY Steam Mansion held a press conference with reporters from all over the world. At the conference, the spokesperson of the NY Steam Mansion angrily presented the so-called threat of the S Alliance to every reporter.
They explained the main reason for the navy's failure. There must have been SU submarines lying in ambush in the sea that night! Otherwise, how could the poor bastards of the Alliance defeat their destroyers?
As for the CF navy's appearance and sinking the destroyer at the height of the battle, NY stated that it was impossible. They listed the tonnage and weapons of the destroyer and torpedo boats, firmly denying CF's success. They repeatedly stated that unless the other party turned into aliens and fought them in space warships, they wouldn't be able to do it even if they were given a hundred years.
In other words, it was: Bastard rabbit! You're cheating.
After this incident, NY no longer dared to send warships to attack the port. As for the Americans, they were also a little worried.
For the past two to three days, the port had been under bombardment by the US Army. In addition to the daily bombardment by planes, the US Army also used the cannons on the battleships to attack. The Allied Forces defending the port suffered greatly. They had prepared 12 defensive positions, each with a large number of mines and explosive devices. If the Americans and the puppet army dared to come, they would run back crying! Despite the heavy casualties, they refused to take a step back.
The US Army used landing craft to send the NY troops to the port made slow progress. Whether it was fear of death or some other reason, two brigades of the 1st Light Infantry Division with more than 6,000 soldiers fought for six whole days before taking down three positions. This slow progress made the Americans jump in anxiety.
Even though the entire base had been blasted to smithereens by the artillery shells and aerial bombs, the NY Army charged forward and rained down bullets upon them. The attacking armored anti-aircraft vehicles aimed at the Allied Forces and strafed them. The American armored anti-aircraft vehicles were usually equipped with four 12.7mm heavy machine guns or four anti-aircraft cannons. Firing these weapons at the same time would cause great damage to the ground forces.
However, the prepared Allied Forces used the Japanese 37 Battle Defense Cannon and the French anti-aircraft machine guns to counterattack. Under the accurate fire of the Allied Forces' veterans, the NY troops retreated like they had been defeated. This situation lasted for a few days until the US Army sent tanks up to solve the problem.
The tank that was delivered to the port was the famous M48 from the Y-War. The M48 medium tank was included in the US Army's equipment in 1953, with a total production of 11730. Apart from the US, there were many other countries that used the tank, so I won't explain them one by one.
The tank participated in the Korean War, the Vietnamese War and the Middle East War, the hull and turret were cast. The fire control system included an electromechanical ballistic computer and a stereoscopic optical rangefinder. The engine was an air-cooled gasoline engine. The series of tanks used an integral cast turret and hull. The front of the hull was boat-shaped, with welded reinforcement ribs inside. There was a safety door on the bottom deck of the hull.
The hull was divided into the front cockpit, the middle combat cabin, and the rear engine compartment. The engine compartment and the combat compartment were separated by partitions.
The driver was located in the center of the front of the hull. There were three M27 periscopes in the front of the hatch, and a standard M24 night driving infrared periscope on the turntable of the driver's hatch. There were four infrared headlights on the vehicle with a visual range of 200 meters. Most models were also equipped with infrared/white searchlights above the main cannon, with a maximum visual range of 2000 meters. There were three people in the turret. The commander and the gunner were on the right side of the cannon, the gunner was in front and below the commander, and the loader was on the left side of the cannon. From the M48A1 onward, there was an M1 fully enclosed command tower that could be manually rotated 360 degrees. There were five observation scopes around it, as well as an M28C commander periscope for anti-aircraft machine guns.
The M48 tank had a special feature, which was that it could wade 1.2 meters deep in water, and could dive up to 4.5 meters with a diving device. Before diving, all openings had to be sealed, and there was a diving vent on the right side of the engine grille. When diving, the drainage pump had to be turned on.
In terms of protection system
The series of tanks used an integral cast hull. The front and bottom of the tank were in the shape of a ship's hull, and the turret was round. The thickness of different parts of the armor varied from 25 mm to 120 mm, so it had a very good armor protection. The M48A2, A3, and A5 tanks used the standard triple defense system.
The M48 medium tank was the third generation of the US Army's Patton series tank. It was the last tank in the US to be equipped with a 90 mm main cannon. The subsequent improved model (M48A5) was equipped with the same caliber (105 mm) main cannon as the M60. During the Y-War, the tank could be equipped with 62 rounds of 90 mm ammunition, 19 rounds on the driver's left side, 11 rounds on the right side, 8 rounds on the turret floor horizontally, 16 rounds around the turret seat, and 8 rounds on standby in the turret. The vehicle could choose a variety of ammunition, including M580 tracer anti-personnel rounds, M82 tracer cap piercing rounds, M77 tracer armor-piercing rounds, M318 tracer armor-piercing rounds, M336 and M337 shrapnel, M71 tracer grenade, M431 armor-piercing rounds, M332A1 tracer high-speed armor-piercing rounds, M353 tracer training rounds, and M313 yellow phosphorus smoke grenade.
The US M48 was not as durable as the Russian T55 and Type 59 tanks. If compared to tanks in the 60s and 70s, the Type 59 had strong firepower and was easy to maintain, but the M48 had better mobility and armor, so there was an advantage! In general, in that era, the East was indeed far behind the West, and they relied on quantity to make up for it. In addition to the fixed model, there were many variants of the M48. For example, the Spitfire tank: the three models had the same flamethrower device, using the M48, M48A1, and M48A2 chassis respectively. The main difference was that the main cannon was changed to the M76 flamethrower tube. The range of the flamethrower tube was only about 100 meters, and it could be continuously fired for about 1 minute. Most of these tanks were used in the Y-War and were currently sealed. There was also a rescue tank called
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