Imperial Overlord

These reserved hanging points can temporarily put thicker armor on the tank when needed, and use it to perform tough tasks such as positional breakthrough.

The thickness of the optional armored steel plate exceeds 30 mm, which can greatly improve the side and rear protection capabilities of the Tiger tank.

With the blessing of these temporary armors, the Tiger Tank can perform the positional breakthrough mission well and complete the positional attacking task undertaken by the real Tiger Tank in history.

Thanks to the strong power of 710 horsepower of the Maybach HLD diesel engine, the Tiger tank is still full of power after mounting several tons of steel plates, even better than the historical Tiger tanks.

Of course, after the heavy armor is mounted, the fuel consumption of the Tiger tank is higher, and the basic range is also reduced from 190 kilometers to a sad 110 kilometers.

This value is basically impossible to complete the "large depth interspersed attack", so German engineers are still trying their best to improve the basic stroke of the Tiger tank.

The three major design elements of a tank are firepower, protection and mobility. In terms of protection ability, the Tiger tank is only slightly improved than the Leopard tank; although the improvement in maneuverability is significant, it is not so huge that it is unbelievable.

Therefore, the firepower of the Tiger tank has become a design focus - how to have powerful firepower, and how to develop powerful firepower, so that German designers racked their brains.

First of all, the Tiger tank uses a 105mm caliber tank gun that has been tested on the Leopard tank - just by looking at the caliber, it is 75mm and 88mm for the main caliber used by the German tanks in active service. The improvement is not small.

Part of the technology of this type of tank gun with the technical code L7 comes from the United Kingdom, and the other part of the technology comes from Germany itself.

It has to be said that the UK, as a veteran powerhouse, has a solid technological heritage. The birth of the 105mm caliber tank gun was definitely contributed by British designers.

In this artillery body, the German Krupp factory can be said to have worked hard. The whole artillery used many new technologies, and the performance of the artillery was the best at the same time.

When the L7 105mm caliber tank gun fires armor-piercing projectiles, it can penetrate the 150mm uniform steel armor plate at the extreme combat distance of 1500 meters.

Such a terrifying penetration distance makes the Tiger tank capable of fighting against various types of enemy tanks that will be put into production in the future.

It can also be seen from this artillery that the German tank gun design idea has developed from a simple increase in chamber pressure to increase the diameter to a three-pronged stage of ammunition, caliber and diameter.

The increase in firepower is actually not the biggest improvement of the Tiger tank. The most obvious improvement of the Tiger tank is the supporting "fire control equipment".

On the basis of the optical sighting system of the Panther tank, German scientists have improved and upgraded the sighting system of the Tiger tank.

On the one hand, there is enough room for improvement inside the loose Tiger tank turret; on the other hand, the advancement of technology has also given German scientists room to play freely.

After a series of trade-offs, German engineers installed a simple mechanical computer on the Tiger tank, which could simply input the wind speed and the approximate speed of the target, and measure the advance of firing.

Don't underestimate this set of equipment. After installation, it can greatly improve the first hit rate of the Tiger tank, which can be regarded as an innovation.

Just having simple fire control is not surprising. What is really surprising is that Germany is ready to give this new tank the ability to fight at night.

Fighting at night like a vampire has always been a human dream. The advancement of science made this dream a reality around 1941.

Through unremitting efforts, German scientists have developed a more practical night vision system. Although the individual soldier's night vision goggles are still a cumbersome joke, the night vision goggles on the vehicle are already a bit of a look.

The large turret of the Tiger tank has a lot of internal space for the batteries of the night vision goggles, so it can also install night vision goggles to fight at night.

The new night vision equipment is the most primitive and ancient infrared searchlight night vision system, but it is the most advanced night vision system in this era.

With this night vision system, the Tiger tank can launch an attack at night and destroy the enemy who can't see anything in the night.

After hearing the engineer's introduction to the latest Tiger tank, several German tank commanders who rushed back from the front felt their throats dry.

If there is such a powerful decisive weapon, there is no suspense that the German tank force will become a veritable world number one.

"It's really great, when will this...Tiger tank be mass-produced? It will be put into the frontline troops?" One of the officers who visited the factory asked impatiently.

"The experiment hasn't been completed yet, and it won't be until the end of the year at the earliest, right?" The engineers blushed a little when it came to mass production. They twitched for a while before answering regretfully.

The more new technology is used, the less reliable the performance of the tank itself. The head of state's rule is: unreliable weapons and equipment are not allowed to be mass-produced.

Think about it too, the M4 Sherman tank in the United States was developed earlier and has not been mass-produced.

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Just as Germany has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the pre-research of some weapons and equipment, the United States has also invested a lot of money and personnel in these projects.

Therefore, the development speed of the two sides is actually similar: the American Sherman and the P-51 Mustang fighter have not had time to serve, and the German Tiger tank also needs time to be tested and improved.

"So, if you can get the Tiger tank, you have to wait for next year." A German general sighed regretfully.

His mood affected the officers around him, and everyone regretted that this new weapon could not be mass-produced immediately.

"Actually, there's nothing to regret. After all, it's a new weapon. You don't want it to be paralyzed on the battlefield, right?" The engineer shrugged and persuaded.

The German army generals, who have long been accustomed to the reliability and durability of weapons and equipment, nodded and closed their mouths after hearing this sentence - it doesn't matter that the weapons will be mass-produced at the front line a few days later, the reliability must be high. , This is already the consensus of the German army from top to bottom.