Chapter 190 Quality Over Quantity

Almost all of the tank engines have been reinstalled, except for this one that Cyric worked on together.

This tank is the one with the longest motorization time in the entire tank force. For this tank, the technicians decided to disassemble its engine and check the specific condition of the engine.

In World War II, the life of tank engines was very short, and the shortest of them was the shoddy Soviet tanks.

For example, the Soviet Union's ace T-34 tank, the time interval between medium repair and overhaul is about 150 hours and 300 hours.

This is also restricted by many factors. Some can run for 250 hours, and some only run two or three hundred kilometers, and the engine is scrapped.

For example, the production level of the factory. Historically, in 1942, the Soviet military industry retreated, and the average quality of workers also dropped sharply. As a result, many T-34s needed an overhaul after only 35 to 40 kilometers of operation.

However, for the Soviets, this has been maintained, because the life of ordinary tanks has not exceeded their overhaul time limit, and the life of front-line tanks is not long, on average, four to ten days, or one to three times. assault. The average mileage of Soviet tanks before decommissioning was 66.7 kilometers, less than half of the mileage of overhaul. Most tanks simply don't survive natural damage.

This also led the Soviet Union to come to a conclusion after World War II that weapons are built to be consumed, and they don’t need to have a long service life. Anyway, they won’t last long in wars.

This conclusion may be correct in wartime, but it is a waste in peacetime. The RD33 of the Soviet Union's MiG-29 has an engine overhaul interval of only 300 hours, while the western one has thousands of hours. In this way, the waste of the engine, Increase the cost of flying a lot.

If the performance of the tank is insufficient, it can only be a consumable. If the performance of the tank is strong, it is not. Therefore, under the requirements of Cyric, the service life of the tank is very long.

For example, the current Panther tank has an average lifespan of 1,500 kilometers.

One of the biggest advantages is the ability of precision machining. Compared with the shoddy Soviet tanks, the German tanks are very precise, especially the engines of the tanks.

The more precise the machining, the longer the life of the engine. For example, the engine of this era still needs to be run-in, but in later generations, the engine does not need to be run-in at all, because it has been precision machined at the time of manufacture. , the oil is changed every 100,000 kilometers. After buying a new car, the first oil change is after 100,000 kilometers.

At the same time, the life of the engine is also related to the tuning. The same engine has different tunings and different horsepower, so why not adjust it to high horsepower? The greater the horsepower, the shorter the lifespan. In later generations, there are great people who can adjust any car engine to 1000 horsepower, but they only have a lifespan of a few minutes.

The current Panther 2 tank is a reduced weight version, and accordingly, the horsepower of the engine has been reduced.

Is it relying on the tactics of a steady stream of tanks, or is it relying on quality to overcome quantity? For Germany, the latter is true.

The Soviet Union's victory in World War II was almost based on human lives. In every battle, the Soviet Union's victory was a tragic victory, because the victorious Soviet side had more deaths than the defeated German side.

There are lives in the Soviet Union, but not in Germany. German soldiers are all precious.

Now, this longest-used tank has reached 800 kilometers of off-road travel. The engine of this tank is disassembled to check the specific conditions of the engine. Can it run for another 800 kilometers?

There were also several Maybach technicians who came from Germany. For them, this was also a valuable opportunity. In the past, the tests conducted in China were conducted in a peaceful environment, but now , In the real battlefield, how exactly is this engine?

They are all waiting for this teardown.

After the engine was removed, it was placed on the shelf, and the cylinder head was disassembled as the screws were removed one by one.

Inside, there are black marks, which are carbon deposits of the engine. For diesel engines, this is unavoidable. However, the carbon deposits are very small and completely within a reasonable range.

The lower part was also disassembled, and the piston and connecting rod were placed on the tarpaulin spread on the ground.

Several technicians, using tools such as calipers, measure the piston.

"The wear is minimal, almost negligible."

"The oil seal is in good condition, and there is no oil spillage."

Soviet tanks have to add oil to run more than 100 kilometers, why? Because their pistons didn't seal well, the oil jumped up, and now, the Germans have excellent machining capabilities and good seals.

"According to this situation, there is no problem at all to run another 800 kilometers." In the end, the Maybach engineer came to a conclusion.

The engine of the Panther 2 tank, the overhaul interval, can be set at 1500 kilometers! Even, on the battlefield, if the timing is not right, it is no problem to run to 1800 kilometers or even 2000 kilometers!

Cyric nodded: "Well, our tank, in terms of performance, can fully meet our use, and the quality is not bad!"

In this era, the Soviet T-34 has not yet been finalized! Should the Soviet Union be purged soon? If only we could do something and let Stalin throw Koshkin in jail!

Now, the most advanced Soviets should be the T-26, right? I wonder if the current Italians have encountered such tanks from the Soviets?

"Boom, boom." The tank engine was roaring, the tracks of the CV33 tank rolled over the field, and in front of them was a park called Pastoral Home.

This was their main point of breakthrough, and on the opposite side, several brigades of the Italian National Army and part of the international column were holding on.

The machine gun of the CV33 tank is constantly firing, which is its only weapon. At this time, the crew in the tank are all uneasy.

They know that their small tank can't stop it at all, and this moving machine gun fortress is a good target on the opposite side!

So, when they were still thousands of meters away from each other, they started to shoot! In case the machine guns run out of bullets, they can justifiably go down and reload!

Unfortunately, this time, they didn't have that kind of luck.

When they rushed to a distance of one thousand meters, they saw a few steel monsters that they had never seen before coming out of the gap in the fortification.