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The Third Empire - Chapter 91

Published at 19th of October 2021 12:01:38 PM


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Talk to yourself? Hilrick is very strange. It's not the time to talk about how to treat his daughter. Now, what else can we talk about?

Of course, it's not a private matter. It must be a business!

"Well, the work here has been finished. I'll go back with you." "Just in time to talk to my father," said Shrek

It's time to talk. Last time I went to the Soviet Union, I fooled to build several warships. Krupp was responsible for the main guns on them, especially the 406mm heavy guns to be developed later, which were also the responsibility of Krupp. They had to carry out pre research in advance.

Now, the navy has quite a lot of projects. The Navy's own battleships also need Krupp to be responsible for the above naval guns. The armor on battleships is made by Krupp and Rhine. These need to be implemented as soon as possible. It's time to communicate with Gustav.

On the way back, Shrek was thinking about this in his mind, but he was too tired. Soon, he leaned against one side, Hannah's arms, and fell asleep.

In his sleep, hilrick's mind seemed to be catching something, but he couldn't catch it.

"No, we absolutely can't accept such tanks! This simply does not meet the needs of our armored forces! "

"This kind of tank is rubbish! We'd rather continue to train with cardboard and cars than such things! "

After returning to Berlin, Chirac learned that Gustav was not in the manor and went directly to Krupp's factory. Now Gustav is a work maniac.

Who knows, just outside the factory office, Shrek heard the noise. This voice is familiar to Shrek.

When he opened the door, Shrek saw the ugly goodrian arguing with Gustav with a red face. Several personnel from the weapons Bureau were all subordinates of Shrek.

"What's going on?" Asked Shrek.

Goodry was delighted to see Shrek come back and settle down: "Shrek, you come and judge us. They want to reduce the production of our Panther tanks!"

Production reduction Panther? Shrek looked at Gustav with puzzled eyes.

"Minister Shrek, I've wanted to tell you about it for a long time, but you've been very busy until now." Gustav's face was apologetic. Although Gustav was hilrick's father-in-law in private, hilrick coordinated the development of all weapons on business.

"Well, after small batch trial production, we found that we do not have the conditions to mass produce Panther tanks on a large scale. Among them, the most key is the high-quality torsion bar, which is very difficult for us to manufacture." Gustav said: "at the beginning, we didn't care about the cost of trial production vehicles, but now, our mass production models, high-quality torsion bars, processing difficulties and low output."

Torsion bar! Hilrick finally caught something in his mind.

No matter what means of transportation, it needs to be suspended. For example, the wheels of the car are definitely not directly connected to the frame. In that case, the people inside will be extremely bumpy.

And tanks also need to hang! Christie's suspension with large spring is very popular in this era. At the same time, it is almost the world of torsion bar in later generations.

Torsion bar suspension is a suspension form that relies on the elasticity of torsion spring (also known as torsion bar) to support the vehicle body and absorb impact and vibration.

In short, it is a torsion rod, which is horizontally at the bottom of the tank, one end is fixed on the vehicle body, one end is connected with the fixed end of the swing arm, the fixed end of the swing arm is connected with the vehicle body, and the movable end is connected with the load wheel.

When the load wheel is forced upward, it will drive the swing arm to rotate around the fixed end and tighten the torsion bar. The elastic force generated when the torsion bar is tightened reacts on the swing arm and transmits it to the load wheel to produce support force.

This is the most space-saving and effective suspension form. In later generations, almost all tanks are in this way.

It is well balanced in terms of weight, volume, moving stroke, reliability and cost.

But that's future generations!

At present, just at the end of 33 years, there is still a big gap between the development of industrial technology and future generations!

The manufacture of high-quality torsion bars requires a large number of rare metals such as vanadium and chromium. Now even if they can be imported from the Soviet Union and other countries, the cost is very high!

In addition to the torsion bar, there are other difficulties, such as long tube tank guns, such as rubber loaded wheels.

"Then we'd rather wait than such a tank!" Goodrian is quite firm.

This tank? Hilrick was stunned for a moment and looked at Gustav with puzzled eyes. Gustav continued to say sorry: "sorry, in fact, we are still developing other tank models in recent years. Now, a prototype car has been manufactured. "

Other types of tanks!

In those years, Chirac took a large group of people and went to the desert for several years. In these years, no news came out, but constantly transported all kinds of materials to the desert.

To what extent have their tanks been developed? No one knows.

Can it be developed successfully? No one knows!

Therefore, in this case, domestic research and development has also begun. The German ordnance agency secretly asked Henschel, Mann, rheinmata, Krupp and Daimler Benz to design and manufacture three sample vehicles respectively.

As a result, Krupp secretly manufactured a 6-ton lka1 prototype, with a body of more than four meters, four balance suspension large-diameter load wheels, four supporting pulleys and inducers on each side, two machine guns on the turret and an air-cooled diesel engine produced by Krupp.

When he heard this, Shrek understood. Isn't this tank No. 1?

Don't look at the prototype cars staying in the plant. Xierik just glanced at the drawings and knew that this was the No. 1 tank of later generations!

History is really stubborn and wants to continue to develop along the original track!

After that, xierik came back. These Krupp companies had completed the trial production of tanks, which suddenly fell behind and became a toy!

These tanks could never appear again, but now, there is a low production of panther tanks!

How can we develop our own tank forces as soon as possible? At this time, Krupp put forward a proposal to produce a batch of light tanks designed by itself while producing Panther tanks in small quantities!

After the application, the Ordnance Department fully agreed and gave the standard number of sd.kfz.101 to approve mass production!

Therefore, production began in the plant. At this time, goodrian learned the news and immediately returned from the desert area. He was very excited to reject the plan!

It weighs less than 10 tons, can hold up to 37 mm guns, and there are only two internal members. Is such a tank prepared for the armored division? No, no!




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