Imperial Overlord

In the bright office, huge drawings are laid on the long table. This is the design-specific office of the Krupp factory. network

Every drawing here is an important document that is absolutely confidential for Germany, because it is the key drawing of Germany's future No. 5 chariot.

These drawings include various parts of the tank chassis that have been designed and built, as well as a new tank gun that has just been refitted.

Worried that the 75mm caliber 48-caliber tank gun would not be able to perform the important task of destroying enemy tanks in the future, the Krupp factory, at Li Le's instruction, quickly refitted the existing anti-aircraft guns.

This modification is directly still famous for the 88mm caliber cannon, and even part of the ammunition is universal! In this way, the design cycle of this "new tank gun" is directly shortened to zero.

After taking out the tank gun, German designers began to figure out how to put the cannon into the tank's turret, which was obviously a very difficult job.

At the beginning, the designers simply enlarged the turret of the No. 4 tank, hoping that this mature turret design can be directly used.

However, Yuan later rejected this **** design and put forward a more mature request - a new tank turret that does not require side-opening hatches!

While strengthening the side protection of the tank turret, the new tank will open two hatches directly above the tank turret for entry and exit of personnel!

With this design, the number of hatches on the turret is reduced by one, and the loader does not have his own independent hatch. However, the armor on the side can be manufactured as a whole, and the protection has been improved a lot.

After the choice, the German designers decided to satisfy Yuan's "design hobby". They adopted a design structure similar to that of the Tiger Tank, but with a square head and a square brain.

At the same time, the vertical armor shield on the front of the original Tiger tank turret was increased with an inclined angle and turned into an inclined plane.

In order for the new turret to meet the programmatic requirements of the Panzer 5 as a whole "fit for production", the new turret is of welded construction.

Finally, after such changes, the latest Panzer 5 turret is easier to produce and surpasses the historical Tiger tank in frontal defense capability.

As a result, the new No. 5 tank has surpassed the famous Tiger tank in history in the frontal protection level of the tank, and slightly weakened on the side and rear.

On the whole, because the weight waste of the staggered road wheels is reduced, most of the armor thickness is weakened, and the inclination angle is used to compensate, the entire tank is more than 16 tons lighter than the Tiger.

The 40-ton No. 5 tank has already reached the basic requirements of the Tiger tank in all performances, and it has also maintained the same firepower.

After weighing, although the protective power has dropped slightly, the 41-ton No. 5 tank has completely surpassed the leopard style and became the main battle weapon of the German army in 1941, which is completely competent.

Because the production process is simplified, the production of this tank is faster than the cumbersome Tiger and Panther tanks.

The production cost has been reduced, and the basic combat performance has not declined, which means that the exhibition of German tanks in the future has been corrected, at least compared with history, it is much improved.

The reason why the weight is reduced but the protection remains unchanged is that on the one hand, the volume of the tank is reduced, and the new tank is much lower and smaller than the Tiger tank.

On the other hand, it is because the weight occupied by the pitted staggered road wheels of the Tiger tank is placed on the armor protection.

Of course, the latest sloping armor technology and the design of adding glove boxes around the tank to indirectly improve the tank's protection level have also been fully affirmed by German tank design experts.

Everything has two sides. After using a single row of road wheels and sticking to the torsion bar suspension design, the new tank is not as good as the Tiger and Panther tanks in terms of long-term marching and off-road comfort.

Because of the reduction of the weight of the tank itself and the "shrinkage" of the suspension system, the new tank is a little bumpy when it is on the road, which is the price of weight reduction

Following the example of the Soviet Union in advance, the use of wide tracks and the bonus brought by the weight reduction of the tank have improved the passability of the new tank and enhanced off-road performance.

It's just that during the experiment, the crew members feel that the comfort level needs to be strengthened. Some comments are that the chassis is too low, some comments are that the handling of the tank is mediocre.

The good news for the Germans is that they have a new type of tank with the same main performance as the Tiger tank, which can be equipped with troops in the near future.

The bad news is that this new tank is a bit more cumbersome for the driver than the Tiger tank, and the side and rear protection levels are slightly lower by a few millimeters

There is another good news - anyway, the current German tank soldiers have not seen the Tiger tank two years later, and they have not been fed by those "luxury limited editions" full of German characteristics!

Although it seems that the Tiger tank controlled by the steering wheel now seems to have really created a precedent for the technology of steering wheel control tanks. But in today's view, this technology was used in 194o, which is too old.

How far has it come? The front is here, the Panther tanks produced in Germany at the same time do not seem to be controlled by the steering wheel

In this case, there is nothing wrong with using a joystick with better production and more mature technology, which actually can't delay anything.

Because the weight of the tank is reduced, the problem of inconvenient joystick control is not so prominent on the new Panzer 5.

After this simplification, the new No. 5 tank is a huge improvement in production. This tank is easier to produce than the historical Panther tank, and takes about the same amount of man-hours as the Panzer 4!

"This is really a masterpiece of modern industry and an unprecedented disaster in the history of industry" Standing in front of the window, watching the first assembled No. 5 tank parked in the test chamber, Henschel, Krupp and Porsche The designers of the three companies looked sourly at the tank outside the glass window.

In terms of production details, this new tank can be said to be unattractive, and even a little ugly - the welding seam is left on the side of the turret, and the armrest inside is even a substitute for rope weaving.

Some parts that had to be made of steel were also carefully calculated, and some non-load-bearing parts even used some unprocessed leftovers.

For example, on a pedal under the driver's foot, there are holes of different sizes and shapes. These holes were cut out and used as other parts.

Strictly speaking, this pedal may have been just a scrap of scrap in the past, but now, it is a pedal on the tank - saving to the extent that it is not wasted at all, it is also ingenious.

With such efforts, the new tanks have undergone strict calculations and designs, which have greatly improved the production rate. The trial model numbered A was produced several times in one day.

Don't look in some obscure corners, this new tank has a shabby "cheap" smell everywhere, but where the good stuff is supposed to be used, the new Panzer 5 doesn't cut corners at all!

This tank is equipped with possibly the most precise scope in the world, with negligible errors.

A skilled gunner can operate this tank, aim at the big zinc mark of a gasoline barrel 1ooo meters away, and have a high probability of hitting it!

There are very few countries in the world that can produce such sophisticated instruments. At least in the sighting system, the new No. 5 tank and the Tiger tank are exactly the same, or even slightly more!

The new tank turret, in a laboratory environment, can even hit a target at a distance of 2ooo meters, with shocking accuracy.

As for why German tank sighting systems are so good, take a look at the company that makes these lenses: Zeiss!

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While the aiming system is a bit expensive, the tank gun used by the No. 5 tank is also the same as the Tiger tank - the famous 88mm L56 tank gun!

This model of artillery uses tungsten alloy armor-piercing projectiles, which can penetrate 122mm thick armor at a distance of 15oo meters.

When using the more common hooded armor-piercing projectiles, it can penetrate 9o mm of armor at a distance of 15oo meters - this is almost the thickness of the frontal armor of all future Allied tanks.

Therefore, when Li Leyang attacked the famous 88mm caliber tank gun in history, it was destined that the firepower of the No. 5 tank would not be out of date throughout World War II!

The new No. 5 tank, a sharp blade jointly created by Li Le and German engineers, will become the main battle tank to replace the No. 4 tank, Tiger tank and Panther tank!

As for the future heavy tanks, the No. 6 equipment for the elite crew is another design idea.

On the premise of ensuring the production number of the new No. 5 tank, Li Le also likes to mass-produce a newer type of heavy tank as the fist of the German armored forces.

"Yuan is trying to make us do it as much as possible, producing tanks like machine guns." The designer of Porsche, who hated the new No. 5 tank the most, reluctantly dragged.

"It's really difficult to constrain the new tank to be as crude and shabby as a Volkswagen." Henschel's tank designer was also full of grief.

"But the performance of the new tank is really strong," the designer of Krupp finally concluded sourly.

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