Imperial Overlord

Just as the Kaluga tank battle was in full swing, in the temporary military station outside the city of Minsk, Karjus looked helplessly at his crew members.

Poor Erich stood idle beside Karius, with his hands in his pockets and a straw in his mouth.

The loader, William, was tall and stout, standing behind the thinner Carius, as if he was a bodyguard valet.

Joseph and Till, the artillery commander, were standing not far away. The two were sharing the cigarettes they had just received with some comrades from the 505th Armored Battalion.

Next to the rails, there are temporary cranes and some concrete slopes specially used for unloading heavy weapons and equipment.

This is a temporary structure, surrounded by wilderness. In order not to affect the normal life of residents in Minsk, all German military operations were located outside the city.

"Assign our tanks to the 2nd Armored Division, and let us come here to receive new equipment. It's really annoying and exciting..." Gunner Till didn't know when he finished smoking and walked to Karyu behind s.

"Who knows what tank... maybe it's just a new Panther tank." Karius shrugged and said indifferently.

In his opinion, the Leopard tank he commanded is already a very good weapon and equipment, and he didn't even dare to hope that there would be new weapons and equipment to replace the Leopard tank.

The train in the distance was entering the station, and the railway soldiers began to maintain order at the station. The surrounding sentries were asked to stay away from the railroad tracks, and a row of canvas-covered flatbed carriages could be seen behind the train.

"The equipment of the 505th battalion! The equipment of the 505th battalion has arrived! All the soldiers of the 505th Independent Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion, please be ready to receive your equipment!" Suppose the stationmaster's prompt sound was repeated over and over again in a loudspeaker beside a wooden house. .

The train stopped in the small station, and the railway soldiers next to it were busy preparing things for the train to return. This is a single-track fork. When a train comes in, it can only go back the same way.

Therefore, there is a staggered rail outside the small station, which is used to adjust the direction of the train's head and use it when the train returns to the original road.

The flatbed carriage just stopped at the edge of the platform, and the soldiers who were escorting the goods jumped out of the car to have a smoke and rest. For a while, the small station was full of smog.

Karjus watched the canvas on the train being ripped off, and saw the new tanks coming to the front - or rather, semi-new tanks...

The chassis design of the Panther tank is so classic that it can be used for 30 years.

Therefore, the chassis of the Panther tank does not need to be improved, it only needs simple tinkering.

The improvement of the turret is the top priority this time, adding thicker side armor, and the most important thing is to increase the volume of the turret.

The improved Panther tank has a wider turret, and the turret is only a little narrower than the hull from the front.

The added volume can be used to carry more shells, as well as more fuel.

The latest improvement of this kind of tank is actually internal - the German tank used a high-power diesel engine for the first time, and finally returned to the correct direction of technology.

Diesel engines have more torque and are more suitable for heavy equipment vehicles like tanks. This is also the reason why heavy-duty trucks use diesel engines more often.

Even later generations used diesel engines instead of gasoline engines in pickup trucks and small vehicles in pursuit of power.

And the advantage of using a diesel engine is that diesel is somewhat less likely to ignite than gasoline - this can somewhat suppress the phenomenon of some bullets catching fire.

But the fire is definitely not as magical as the legend, and the diesel fuel tank will also be ignited and exploded by the ammunition, but the probability is lower.

The rumor that the diesel engine will not catch fire has been slapped countless times by the t-34, the t-54 and even the later t-72, and it is still popular.

With the addition of a diesel engine, the new Panther tank already has better maneuverability, stronger off-road and load-bearing capacity, and can be regarded as one of the tanks with the best maneuverability in this era.

As the weight of the tank increases, the Panther tank can theoretically install artillery with a larger caliber - but because the power of the tank gun is overflowing at this stage, the German high-level executives have not rushed to install the new artillery on the new tank.

After all, the current 88mm caliber cannon is more for dealing with t-26 and kv-1 tanks, and its power is completely sufficient.

As for the Stalin 2 tanks or a large number of t-34 tanks, it is not difficult to change to more powerful artillery.

Now, in order to unify logistical supplies, the use of 88mm caliber cannons with the same caliber and ammunition is entirely for convenience and management needs.

Of course, another major improvement is the cancellation of the directional machine gun design on the front of the tank.

This improvement is entirely due to the fact that in actual combat, this seemingly very useful directional machine gun severely weakens the strength of the tank's frontal armor.

In World War II tanks, the reason for installing the directional machine gun is to help the driver to grasp his own direction on the one hand, and to find a job for the electromechanical operator in a combat state on the other hand.

Controlling machine guns to slaughter and replenish troops was also a required course for many tank mechanics in World War II. It's just that as the armor of the tank gets thicker, the directional machine gun becomes more and more tasteless.

In order to ensure that the heading machine gun has a certain range of fire, the armor around the heading machine gun must be reduced accordingly to ensure space, so that the machine gun can swing left and right back and forth.

However, creating a cavity on a whole piece of armor has a serious impact on the strength of the entire armor, and it also increases the difficulty of the production process.

So ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ In the more than ten years after the end of World War II, countries have successively eliminated the design of the heading machine gun.

Li Le advanced this process by 20 years, which not only reduced production links and production costs, but also increased the frontal protection strength of the tank.

The only problem is that the electromechanical operator has become a "non-combatant" in the tank, without the task of strafing infantry...

Seeing the new tank, the electromechanical operator Joseph's face turned green - he didn't have a combat mission, not to mention, in a combat state, only the periscope can observe the surrounding situation!

To put it bluntly, he now has only one way to remind his comrades to avoid the threats to him around him.

But if you think about it carefully, this effect is actually not big: what the directional machine gun can take into account is nothing more than a small fan on the front of the Panther tank.

And this fan is actually the strongest direction of the Panther tank! The thickness of the armor on the front is all over 100 mm, and there is no fatal threat at all! To find this site, please search for "6 Mao" or enter the URL:.