Chapter 35:

Chapter 35:

Meeting room No. 1 is a small meeting room with only a dozen seats.

Wilhelm picked up a stack of paper and shook it after they had finished greeting. "This is the tank design you gave me?" Before visiting the Soviet Union, he asked his secretary to find the person in charge of these companies and asked them to design three tanks each. Now he is holding the design of these tanks.

Porsche asked with some confusion. "Uh, your Highness, is there any problem?" Wilhelm is now his boss. He didn't dare to be sloppy with the drawing.

Wilhelm patted the paper in his hand, feeling out of breath. "What's this? 4.5 tons, 5 tons, 6 tons, 6.5 tons... Are you planning to use it to play house? Huh?..." The data of one of the six-ton heavy tanks caught his attention.

The car body is more than four meters long. On each side, there are 4 balanced and suspended large-diameter road wheels, 4 supporting pulleys, and inducers rearward. The turret is equipped with 2 machine guns and adopts an air-cooled diesel engine produced by Krupp.

Hey, isn't this the No. 1 tank?

You don't even need to look at the physical car. Just relying on the data on the drawings, Wilhelm knew that this was the next generation tank No. 1!

The head of Mercedes-Benz explained. "His Royal Highness, this is the tonnage of mainstream light tanks today, like the French 'Renault' FT-17 light tank, as well as the British..." As he said, the voice became smaller and smaller, and after a few vague words, he stopped talking .

Hearing that several persons in charge couldn't help but look at each other blankly, suddenly the person in charge of Rheinmetal Company spoke embarrassedly.

"Uh, Your Majesty, although your idea is good, but we don't have the accumulation of technology, we can not make tanks that are more than twenty tons right now."

His remarks are not an excuse. Now Germany does not have a good pre-research on tank projects. They are all starting from scratch. In this case, the best way is to build a primary model first, and then continue development.

The 15-30 ton plan proposed by His Highness was a bit too advanced.

Wilhelm waved his hand to interrupt him. "Rest assured, I don't want you to make finished products right away. The development time for light tanks is five years, and the time for debugging and perfecting is two years. The development time for medium tanks is seven years, and the time for debugging and perfecting is two years. Heavy tanks basically require ten years of research."

These few responsible talents breathed a sigh of relief, they thought that the prince was asking them to make a finished product right away.

"I want the operating procedures of these three types of tanks to be as similar or similar as possible, which means that tankers of light tanks can skillfully drive medium or heavy tanks without special training." The control panel of Soviet Russian fighter jets has not changed much for several generations. Pilots with flight experience can easily familiarize themselves with another aircraft. Unlike the Americans, sometimes the operation method of a different model of an aircraft is completely changed, and the pilot has to learn again.

"And all parts should be as common as possible. After you go back, discuss the standardization and generalization of parts. For example,the armored vehicles from BMW and Mercedes will have a breakdown on the battlefield in the future. I hope I can remove BMW parts to repair Mercedes-Benz, or use Mercedes-Benz parts to repair BMW. I also want to let the repairman learn two maintenance methods. I don't care about your respective civilian cars, but military cars must meet this standard."