Chapter 603

The number of German armored forces has been increasing, thanks to the fact that the German army can always find a lot of equipment from its opponents to arm itself: from the French B1 tank to the Soviet T-26 tank, they have become the weapons of the German army.

About 1000 captured Soviet T-26 tanks were assigned to the German troops in the second line for training and daily guard tasks. In the j group army, general Hawke had about 300 such disposable weapons. The German army did not intend to use these weapons for a long time. In fact, another 100 tanks were distributed to the army as spare parts. If these spare parts were used up, the tanks would be scrapped as scheduled. The Germans used the T-26 as an armored reconnaissance vehicle, including some guerrillas without heavy firepower.

At the same time, about 500 other tanks were sent to Poland for refitting. These light T-26 tanks eventually had to dismantle the turret and armor to form an open environment, so that they could be equipped with German 105 howitzers, which were urgently needed by the German army. The German army found a good home for the 500 self-propelled howitzers, that is, the j group army which is also suitable for the T-26.

The German self-propelled howitzers are divided into two types, one is the 105mm Self-Propelled Howitzer with the chassis of No. 3 tank, and the other is the 150 mm Self-Propelled Howitzer with the most advanced leopard tank chassis. These two kinds of guns are in short supply in the armored forces, and everyone is waiting in line for the equipment to be distributed.

In particular, the 150 mm caliber self-propelled howitzer can not meet the requirements of the army because the leopard tank has not stopped production. The output of panther chassis has increased three times, but the output of Panther tank is decreasing. The reason is that the German self-propelled artillery occupied a lot of production resources.

There are many weapon systems developed on the chassis of leopard tank, such as leopard bridge erecting vehicle, leopard repair vehicle, leopard command vehicle, leopard 4-joint-40 mm caliber self-defense gun, leopard 75 mm caliber assault gun, leopard 150 mm caliber howitzer, leopard 130 mm caliber rocket launcher - if you add the front and rear 3 Leopard tanks with different armor thickness, There are no less than 10 kinds of deformed cars on one chassis.

It can be said that the chassis of leopard tank has now become the carrier of Germany's second largest series of weapons. Some of the German armored forces do not have Tiger tanks, some do not have no 3 tanks, and the converted seized materials are rare, but only leopard tanks can be seen where there are German tanks.

The use of mature technology makes the improvement and use of leopard tank chassis a great success. The mature technology makes the failure rate of German armored forces always in a low state, and the maintenance speed is also faster because of the universal equipment. Now any mechanic in the German armored forces can solve more than half of the technical problems of leopard tanks.

However, the output of leopard tanks is indeed decreasing. At the peak, the German army produced 3000 leopard tanks a year, but now the German records show that the German army's output of leopard tanks will drop to about 1700 in the next year. The main reason is that the leopard a tank with thin front armor plate has stopped production and started to supply the chassis of leopard 150 mm howitzer. Part of the chassis of the thickened leopard B tank was also diverted to the leopard 75mm assault gun.

On the contrary, the output of German Tiger tanks is steadily increasing. According to the production capacity of the current production line, the German army will add 2700 new Tiger tanks in the next year, and these new Tiger tanks are improved models with thickened front armor. The German army is reducing the proportion of leopard tanks in military equipment, and its production capacity is gradually inclined to more advanced Tiger tanks.

After testing, the chassis of tiger king tank completely conquered the German tank experts and designers. This kind of low tank with a slightly asymmetric torsion bar hanging the rear engine transmission makes everyone crazy. Almost all the design concepts of modern tanks are embodied in tiger king tanks, such as six pairs of wide load wheels and better bulletproof appearance. Even after akado saw it, he thought that it was definitely the t-64 tank chassis. Moreover, the weight of the two tanks is close. The estimated weight of the German Tiger King tank is about 38 tons, and the total weight of the t-64 tank is about 40 tons.

However, the German tank designers finally convinced the head of state, akkado, that the "stubborn favorite medium tank" head of state was forced to compromise, allowing the German Tiger King tank to increase its combat weight to an unprecedented 45 tons. However, several designers, including Col. de Monde, are confident in Germany's current engine technology. Privately, they feel that they can make the tiger king tank increase its weight appropriately. 48 tons is definitely a weight that everyone agrees with.

These German tank designers did not understand the head of state akado's contradictory performance of tank design: in 1925, the German future tank, which was secretly developed, originally weighed only 5 tons, but the head of state directly denied this design, and he proposed that heavier and bigger tanks should be designed.

As a result, when the German tank designers took out the No. 2 tank with a weight of 8 tons, the head of state was still not very satisfied. Even in order to train the troops in advance, he ordered to start the production of the heavier No. 3 tank after ordering a number of No. 2 tanks symbolically. So the weight of the German tank began to leap - with the shortest time to increase the weight of the tank from 5 tons to more than 20 tons.

The subsequent leopard tank can be regarded as the classic work of tank design in the world. The German tank is completely superior to the others. With a weight of about 30 tons, it has completed the balance of armored protection mobility and super firepower, and has become the number one meritorious player of German armored forces sweeping Europe. At that time, the number one tank ace Ryan even made an amazing record of one tank destroying 22 tanks in the battle of stone. We all saw the farsightedness of the Fuehrer and the coming of heavy tanks. So when the Fuehrer ordered to start the production of Tiger tanks, no one felt strange. Krupp even felt that the order was issued a little late. His factory was already ready to help the German army maintain the title of the world's first tank quality. However, after the design of tiger king tank started, the Fuehrer changed his previous habit of demanding that the bigger the tank, the heavier the better, and instead demanded to restrict the weight of the tank. He ordered that the armor protection level of tiger king tank should be improved as compared with that of tiger type tank, instead of pursuing a qualitative leap. On the contrary, akado began to develop 105 caliber tank guns to deal with the new Soviet tanks with increasingly thick armor. He ordered to carry out research on improving artillery power in three directions at the same time; One is the improvement of gun caliber and barrel length; One is to simply and roughly improve the caliber of the gun to achieve the purpose of enhancing the power of the gun. Finally, based on the cost consideration, akado chose the first shell improvement and the third caliber improvement to improve the anti tank ability of German armored forces. Now the evaluation and improvement of tiger king tank has reached the final stage, and the whole chassis is perfect. Akado knows that this shape will not be out of date even in the 1970s. It can be said that the birth of this kind of chassis has made German tanks invincible in chassis. Next, there are only two research directions for his designers - more advanced composite armor and more advanced fire control system, which are combined with the powerful 105mm calibre smoothbore gun. At least until 1970, there was no need to consider the replacement of tanks. Long term accumulation seems to have no effect. German tanks and planes are all being pulled into the gap by their opponents. However, akkadobi knows from the bottom of his heart that it seems that the distance is constantly being pulled forward. In fact, German technology is slowly entering a leap stage, and the competitors' efforts to catch up with outdated technology will show fatigue in the next year. Some technologies can be replaced by outdated technologies, which may not show any clue in a short period of time, and even lead to the strange phenomenon of backward technology with better performance. However, with the passage of time, the gap will gradually emerge, and when the lagging party wants to catch up again, it will fall into the embarrassing situation of complete collapse because of the lack of technology accumulation process. A simple example is that in the 1970s, the Soviet Union used backward electronic components to develop new fighter planes. For quite a long time, the performance of the MIG 25 panicked the western world. However, when the new generation of us fighters came into service, the Soviet Union's technical lag was exposed, which directly led to the Soviet Union's backward in the electronic equipment of weapons and equipment in the following decades. Akkado now has a very strong reserve of science and technology. It only takes him one to two years to develop these immature technologies into mature technologies with higher reliability. At that time, some epoch-making monsters will appear on the battlefield, changing the appearance of the whole battlefield once again, and making the German army lead the world again, No one will be able to pull the distance in a short time, because the technological reserves of other countries have dried up. Once the German Tiger King tank appears on the battlefield, relying on the night vision system of infrared technology, the German army will gain absolute advantage in the night on the land battlefield. In the long night, the German army will be able to annihilate hundreds of enemy's living forces, and then safely withdraw from the battle before dawn. Akkado would like to know, in the face of such an invincible German armored force at night, what kind of tanks can the Soviet people rely on to turn over?