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The Third Empire - Chapter 304

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:56:35 AM


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Porsche believes that the weight of 45 tons is too heavy for the mechanical transmission system! It is easy to cause mechanical failure, so he developed teletype drive across the times!

Behind the tank chassis, there are two air-cooled Porsche type 101 / 1 engines, each of which can produce 310 horsepower. This engine does not drive the track directly.

The engine drives the generator, which supplies power to two motors, and the motor drives the tank forward. This is the standard electric drive.

He didn't use a diesel engine. The characteristic of the diesel engine is low torque. Now it's useless to drive the generator. It's important to have power! The power of a diesel engine under the same weight is not comparable to that of a gasoline engine.

This concept is very advanced. In later generations, all electric propulsion was popular, even warships.

However, at present, this advanced design means bad mechanical failures! After all, the industrial foundation of this era can not support such advanced design!

In this regard, xierik also suffered. At the beginning, the Panther tank was forced to reduce to 20 tons, which is the reason why the machinery manufacturing did not meet the standard. It took several years to make a breakthrough and really mature.

Hitler trusted Porsche very much. Facing the tank, Hitler looked up and down and asked questions constantly, while Dr. Porsche answered them one by one with a smile.

All the people around could only wait, especially those from Henschel company. They knew that Hitler's preferences were very important.

"What do you think of the tank chassis, Shrek?" Hitler asked hilrick excitedly.

It was just an ordinary question, but when it was finished, everyone calmed down. If Shrek agreed, it could be said that there was nothing wrong with Henschel.

"I just want to know how long it took for the tank chassis to start from the nearby railway station?" Asked Shrek.

This is simply an irrelevant question, but this problem is Porsche's old face.

How long? It's only fifteen kilometers from the railway station, but it's been two days!

Why? Because there are too many chassis faults!

"It's all the problems of Siemens. The engines they produce are unreliable. However, I believe these engines will gradually become reliable. Our chassis is the most advanced." Dr. Porsche didn't answer the question directly, but explained it directly.

When I came over, the motor on one side suddenly stopped turning. I checked it for several hours and eliminated the fault. I continued to start for five minutes, and the gasoline engine stopped turning again!

It's just a series of faults. Dr. Porsche is very depressed.

Now, let Chirac ask the key point in one sentence, and he has more awe for Chirac. At the beginning, Dr. Porsche developed the beetle under the recommendation of Chirac. Now, no matter how high Dr. Porsche climbs, he has to respect hilrick's opinion.

Chirac shook his head: "Dr. Porsche, your concept is very advanced. However, our troops need simple and reliable tanks. Our tank soldiers can't equip a tank with constant faults."

"General Shrek, we can eliminate these faults in half a year!" The red faced Porsche said to Herrick.

"Then by the end of this year. Give you two more months. " "If you can't fix the problem, you can only say you're sorry," hilrick said

Dr. Porsche is the chief consultant of tank development. However, Chirac has the power to decide life and death. Moreover, Dr. Porsche knows that his tank will not be finalized if it has been faulty all the time.

Hilrick knew that, needless to say, after half a year, these faults had been eliminated and could not be solved in two or three years. In later generations, various projects of Porsche were aborted. It was not until the 188 ton mouse tank that the system was developed and mature to the point where it could be used.

Hitler, of course, was also an understanding person. After hearing the dialogue between Chirac and Porsche, he knew that Chirac saw the problem of this kind of tank at a glance, and his interest was greatly reduced.

"Let's see this one again." Hitler came to another chassis.

Henschel's technicians, a burst of excitement.

Porsche has only been established for ten years, and Henschel is an old enterprise.

The Henschel factory in Kassel, located in eastern Germany, was established in the early 1800s. At first, it mainly produced heavy machinery such as railway locomotives. Now, the company's project has been greatly expanded and involves almost all aspects, including locomotives, tanks, diesel engines, trucks, aircraft, artillery and other equipment.

Now, the technician next to Hitler is Owen Adel, the project director and chief designer of the Tiger tank.

Owen carefully introduced to Hitler: "our tank chassis adopts a conventional layout. We entrusted Maybach company to expand the diesel engine produced by them, with a power of 730 horsepower, which can be further increased to 780 horsepower or even more than 800 horsepower in the later stage."

What should I do when the horsepower of the engine is not enough? The simplest is to expand the bore, that is, to increase the displacement!

Of course, this will lead to non universal accessories and almost all of them have to be remanufactured, but this is also the fastest way to improve performance.

Historically, the Tiger tank used a 21 liter 12 cylinder Maybach hl210 P30 gasoline engine, which can output 650 horsepower. Unfortunately, it still can not drive a 56 ton Tiger tank.

Therefore, Maybach company soon upgraded it to hl230 P45 23 liters and 700 horsepower, making the maximum speed of the Tiger Tank reach 38km / h, which is completed by expanding the bore.

The technology is mature and there is no need to worry about additional failures.

Now it seems that 60 tons seems to be a huge data, but in future generations, which is not 60 tons for urban muck trucks? Many trailers on the road are 100 ton kings. It is not impossible for this normal mechanical device to drive dozens of tons.

Moreover, the technicians of Henschel company are more considerate in the design of this tank, and its transmission system is more advanced!

How advanced is it? For example, even the 96 tanks of later generations did not reach its level( I don't know whether that's right or not. You can discuss it in the book review area. If it's really wrong, East China Zhixiong will delete this sentence. Our tanks, which inherit the advantages of durability and simplicity of the Russian system, really don't pursue advanced performance.)




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