Chapter 92

Xierik touched his nose. After he came back, he seemed to have signed a document. At the beginning, he was in a hurry. His subordinates said that they had studied the scheme and thought it was feasible. As a result, he signed it. He didn't expect that it was a scheme to produce this No. 1 tank!

The No. 1 tank in history was originally an emergency plan! After production, it only solved the problem of whether there was one or not, and it was not accepted by the army at all. Even tanks No. 3 and No. 4 had problems, but they were only enough at most.

Now, of course, goodrian will not agree to make up with such tanks. His tank troops are all based on Panther tanks. The members are all 5 people. Now, two people operate tanks? You're kidding!

"Sorry, I'm also responsible for this." "I shouldn't have signed that document. Tank 1 is not in line with our armored equipment. Maybe we can think of other solutions to solve the existing difficulties," hirek said

With that, Shrek said to an engineer sitting aside, "Kenny Bergkamp, do you have any plan?"

Kenny Bergkamp is an engineer promoted by hilrick after he was in charge of equipment development. He can be said to be the idea king in the equipment department. He has put forward various advanced ideas and successfully solved a series of problems.

"Now the main problem is that the quality of our torsion bar is not enough. I have a way. Since the quality is not enough, we can simply collect the quantity!" The idea King's opinion finally came: "now, our Panther tank has only six pairs of load-bearing wheels. If it is changed to eight pairs of load-bearing wheels, won't it be able to share the weight?"

"However, eight pairs of load wheels will increase the length of the car body." Hearing what Kenny camp said, goodry settled down and said, "in that case, the whole structure of the vehicle will face the problem of pushing it back."

After the improvement, the length of the car body will be longer, various structures will change, and the weight of the tank will increase. In this case, maybe eight pairs are not enough, which is simply a vicious circle!

"What I'm talking about is adding load wheels without changing the length of the car body, so I plan to make the load wheels staggered."

Shirekton frowned when he was young. In history, this guy put forward the staggered load-bearing wheels! When I was in the desert, I had determined the single row layout of large-diameter load-bearing wheels, which must not be staggered!

"This layout can evenly disperse the vehicle weight, reduce the quality demand for the torsion bar, improve the off-road ability, be conducive to driving stability and riding comfort, and slow down the recoil of artillery firing to a certain extent." "Moreover, more importantly, this layout can reduce the use of rubber," said Kenny pocamp

Rubber! For Germany, like other rare metals, this is a strategic resource that Germany does not have! In history, Germany has been restricted by the lack of rubber!

The load wheel of the tank is made of steel, but the rim must use rubber! Moreover, inferior synthetic rubber is quite inappropriate. It's best to use natural rubber!

To make Germany rise, we must solve these resource problems! On these issues, Shrek has a plan for a long time. As for this staggered load-bearing wheel, Shrek can't promise.

"No," said Chirac, "we must not use staggered load wheels, otherwise, like the hand-held anti-aircraft guns, the soldiers on the front line will curse us to hell."

Of course not! On this matter, Shrek is quite determined!

"There's really no other way." "Unless it's reducing the weight of the tank," said Kenny pocamp

Reduce the weight of the tank!

Just like a ballpoint pen, if you write for a long time, the beads inside will fall off, which many people can't solve. As a result, a businessman changed his mind and simply made the refill short. Before it falls off, the pen oil will be gone!

Now, since the suspension can't bear it, let's change our thinking and simply make the tank lighter!

At the beginning, when mentioning the design index of the tank, xierik tried to reach the target in one step. At once, he focused on the 30 ton tank and came up with the prototype of the Panther. It is a very excellent medium-sized tank. Moreover, it can be further expanded to become a tiger king level heavy tank.

Advanced diesel engines, large caliber tank guns, tilt armor and various concepts are added to this tank to create the best combat vehicles in Germany.

In the desert base, after five years of hard work, various technologies have made breakthroughs. The prototype car has been built, the test run has been smooth, and various mechanical faults have been eliminated. At the real mass production stage, there are still many problems!

In history, German tanks began with No. 1 tank, developed step by step, and finally developed various advanced tanks. Now? In fact, a tank in place in one step already feels like a castle in the air.

Various technologies should be mature step by step, and the smelting technology of various metals should also be improved. When the sample car is used, the cost can be ignored, the best materials can be used, and various factors need to be considered for mass production.

Kenny pochamp's proposal was not affirmed by Chirac, so he could only say gloomily that since it couldn't work, he could only reduce his self-weight!

The output of high-quality torsion bar is low. The quality of ordinary torsion bar is unqualified and can't bear the weight of 30 tons. Is there always no problem with the weight of 20 tons?

Judging from the current armor piercing projectile technology, the protective capacity of 30 ton tanks has far exceeded the needs of this era! You can't use such thick armor at all. It's a waste!

and. More importantly, now, Germany's steel production has begun to be a little nervous.

Now, Germany is building warships for the Soviet Union. The contracts have been signed. The Soviet Union will transport a large number of minerals to Germany. At the same time, Germany will lobby the Soviet Union to change the railway in the west to the same standard as that in Europe. These are of strategic value.

At the same time, Germany's own warships will also start in large quantities. Battleships and aircraft carriers will continue to be built, launched and put into service. In this way, Germany's domestic demand for steel will greatly increase.

Although Shrek has presided over the research and development of panther tanks, the production of panther tanks will still be subject to certain restrictions!

If we reduce the weight of Panther tank and become a 20 ton tank, it will undoubtedly reduce the dependence on steel, which means that we can make more tanks!