Imperial Overlord

Just as the battlefield in Sevastopol was brutally fighting, a group of visiting army officials in a tank factory owned by Krupp in the Ruhr Industrial Zone in Germany, looked at the monster in shock. He sighed and asked, "What is this?"

What appeared in front of them was a new tank turret that was more burly than the Panther tank. This tank turret has a very terrifying appearance, suspended by four thick iron chains, like the head of a severed dragon.

"You said this is a tank turret?" a German army officer asked incredulously, looking at the huge turret in front of him.

This turret is even bigger than the turret of the Panther tank. Judging from its angular shape, it gives people a heavy and indestructible rolling feeling.

Everyone present seemed to have an illusion, and they all believed that such monster-like turrets should not appear in this era.

"Yes, that's right! This is the newly designed Tiger tank turret. Everything is still under wraps, but the style has almost been finalized." The factory designer in charge of the introduction proudly pointed to the huge turret in front of him. everyone said.

The turret in front of you can be said to be the most powerful tank turret in this era. It is completely experimental and a platform to verify the design of future tanks.

It's just that this is an experimental mature technology. In addition, in a secret factory, Krupp is still experimenting with a "future ultimate weapon" built with immature technology under the technical guidance of the head of state.

That turret is the real lunatic plan, it even proposed to use a computer to control the artillery pointing, install night vision goggles and a ballistic computer - if the manufacturing cost and power consumption bottleneck are excluded, it is by far the strongest in the world. tank turret.

Leaving aside the experimental turret that could not be put into actual combat at all, the Tiger tank turret, which has almost been designed and finalized, is already a very avant-garde new design.

The armor thickness on the front of the turret is as high as 120 mm, and it adopts a sloped armor design similar to the M1A1 main battle tank. Just from the frontal protection level, it is already the world's leading level.

Completely different from the previous German tank turret design, this new turret design completely cancels the artillery shield design, but adopts the "future tank design" of the inner shield.

"Is the artillery shield cancelled?" Sure enough, after seeing this novel shield design, the representatives of the German armored forces with rich actual combat experience immediately asked.

They said they didn't understand why the overall shield design that was very easy to use and had a high level of protection was canceled.

You must know that the overall shield design started from the No. 1 and No. 2 tanks. After the No. 3 tank and the No. 4 tank, it has been used for the Leopard tank, and it has not changed.

Even, this has become an important indicator for frontline troops to distinguish between enemy and foe - as long as there are tanks with large shields, 80% of them are tanks of their own people.

Now suddenly seeing that the next generation of German tanks wants to cancel this design, the commanders of the German armored forces who feel that the Panther tank is already very good, express their incomprehension.

Hearing the questions of these officers, the designer still had a smile on his face: "Yes, canceled, the current artillery shield is too big and heavy, so we canceled the artillery shield in the new design."

"Why cancel? Tanks with artillery shields, isn't the ballistic performance better? Now there is an opening in the front of the turret, it seems that it is easy to be destroyed." A tank commander asked inexplicably.

The designer walked to the front of the Tiger tank turret, pointed to the opening on the front of the turret with a pointer, and introduced in detail: "On the one hand, it is not easy to be directly hit here, after all, the area is very small."

"We have done corresponding experiments. Within 500 meters, the probability of accurately hitting the vicinity of this opening is almost one in ten." After he finished speaking, he went around to the other side of the turret.

On the other side, the designer still pointed to the inner part of the cannon next to the frontal armor with a pointer, and slowly continued to introduce: "On the other hand, inside, we arranged an inner shield to counterbalance the weight. , also used to increase the defense around this breach."

It turned out that the artillery shield was just hidden inside. After hearing the news, several armored commanders breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked, "What's so good about spending a lot of time? Wouldn't it be over if you just use the artillery shield directly? ?"

"Hehe, you don't understand. This is the first proposal by the head of state. After discussion, our designers believe that this is the development direction of the tank in the future." Another designer standing next to the main designer proudly replied. .

"You said what the Fuehrer said? Is it true or false? This is the future development direction of tanks?" Hearing that it was the Fuehrer, most of the officers closed their mouths. Curious officers did not dare to question the Führer, but could only question whether the Führer had said anything similar.

"Yes, this design is a genius design! We think this is the best way, and it also represents the future of the tank." The chief designer took the conversation and said proudly.

Because this sentence was really said by the Fuhrer. He was also present at that time. The Fuhrer proposed many design directions for future tanks that day, which shocked him.

Although a professional tank designer like him~www.wuxiaspot.com~ will not be easily fooled by the Führer's one or two words, but vaguely, he feels a door open in front of him, the future development direction of weapons, With the casual chat of the head of state, he appeared in front of him.

Later, after the Fuhrer officially issued the order to pre-research the Tiger tank, he took over the existing technical achievements and found that many of the Fuhrer's predictions had already become a reality.

"The tank gun has a built-in anti-shield, which can be counterweighted, so that the weight of the entire tank gun is balanced on both sides of the gun lug, and it is more coordinated." The chief designer said while pressing the installation with his hand. Tank gun on the turret.

An unexpected thing happened. The artillery, which could only be controlled by hydraulic devices and auxiliary motors, moved slightly.

"My God! How is this possible?" all the German officers exclaimed when they saw the artillery swaying slightly by hand.

"Don't make a fuss, this turret is for experimental use, and the mass-produced model will definitely not meet this standard. I just show you how flexible this cannon is." The chief designer smiled and took back his own. hand said.