Chapter 91 Tank No. 1 (Plus 5)

Talk to yourself? Cyric is very strange. It's not when he's not married, he talks about how to treat his daughter. Now, what else is there to talk about?

Of course it's not a private matter, it must be a public matter!

"Okay, things are over here, I'll go back with you." Cyric said, "Just in time to talk to my father."

It’s also time to talk about it. The last time I went to the Soviet Union, I fudged to build a few warships. The main guns on them were all in charge of Krupp, especially the 406mm heavy artillery to be developed later, which was also in charge of Krupp. They have to do pre-research in advance.

Now, the Navy has quite a lot of projects. The Navy's own battleships also need Krupp to be responsible for the guns and armor on the battleships, all of which are manufactured by Krupp and Rheinland. These need to be made as soon as possible. It's time to communicate with Gustav.

Cyric was thinking about these things on the way back, but he was too tired, and soon, he leaned to one side, in Hannah's arms, and fell asleep.

In his sleep, Cyric's mind seemed to be capturing something, but he couldn't.

"No, we absolutely cannot accept this tank! It simply does not meet the needs of our armored troops!"

"This tank is rubbish! We'd rather continue training with cardboard and cars than ever!"

Back in Berlin, Cyric learned that Gustav was not in the manor, and went directly to Krupp's factory. Now Gustav is already a workaholic.

Who knows, just outside the factory office, Cyric heard a noise. This voice, Cyric was very familiar.

Pushing the door open, Cyric saw Guderian with an ugly face, arguing with Gustav with a blushing face, and several people from the Weapons Bureau, all of whom were Cyric's subordinates.

"What happened?" Cyric asked.

Seeing Cyric coming back, Guderian was instantly overjoyed: "Cyric, come and give us a review, they are going to reduce the production of our Panther tanks!"

Cut Black Panther? Cyric looked at Gustav with puzzled eyes.

"Minister Cyric, I wanted to tell you about this for a long time, but you have been very busy, so it has been delayed until now." Gustav's face was apologetic, although in private, Gustav The husband is Cyric's old husband, but in business, Cyric is coordinating the development of all weapons.

"It's like this. After trial production in small batches, we found that we need to mass-produce Black Panther tanks. We don't have the conditions yet. Among them, the most important thing is high-quality torsion bars. It is very difficult for us to manufacture." Gustav said: "At the beginning of the trial production of the vehicle, you could not care about the cost, but now, our production model, high-quality torsion bar, is difficult to process and the output is very low."

Torsion bar! Cyric finally caught something in his mind.

No matter what means of transportation, it needs to be suspended. For example, the wheels of a car are definitely not directly connected to the frame. In that case, the people inside will be extremely bumpy.

And the tank also needs to be suspended! The Christie suspension, which relies on large springs, is very popular in this era. At the same time, in later generations, almost all torsion bars are in the world.

Torsion bar suspension is a form of suspension that relies on the elasticity of torsion springs (also known as torsion bars) to support the car body and absorb shock and vibration.

Simply put, it is a torsion rod that runs across the bottom of the tank, one end is fixed to the car body, one end is connected to the fixed end of the swing arm, the fixed end of the swing arm is connected to the car body, and the movable end is connected to the road wheel.

When the road wheel is forced upward, it will drive the swing arm to rotate around the fixed end, and tighten the torsion bar.

This is the most space-saving and at the same time the most efficient form of suspension. In later generations, almost all tanks are in this way.

It has a good balance in terms of weight, volume, active travel, reliability, and cost.

However, that is the afterlife!

Now, at the end of 33 years, there is still a big gap between the development of industrial technology and future generations!

The manufacture of high-quality torsion bars requires a large amount of rare metals such as vanadium and chromium. Now, even if it can be imported from the Soviet Union and other countries, the cost is very high!

In addition to the torsion bar, there are other aspects that are also difficult, such as long-barreled tank guns, such as road wheels with glue hanging.

"Then we'd rather wait, and definitely don't want this tank!" Guderian was quite firm.

Such a tank? Cyric was stunned and looked at Gustav with a puzzled look, only to see Gustav continue to say apologetically: "I'm sorry, in fact, we are still developing other tank models in recent years. Now, it has been Prototypes were built."

Other models of tanks!

Back then, Cyric took a large group of people and ran into the desert for several years. In the past few years, no news came out, only various materials were continuously sent to the desert.

How far have their tanks been developed? Nobody knows.

Can it be developed successfully? No one knows!

Therefore, in this case, domestic research and development has also begun. The German Ordnance Agency secretly asked Henschel, MAN, Rheinmetall, Krupp, and Daimler-Benz to design and manufacture three prototypes respectively.

As a result, Krupp secretly manufactured a LKA1 prototype that weighs only 6 tons. The body is more than four meters long, and each side has 4 large-diameter road wheels with balanced suspension and 4 supporting rollers. , The turret is equipped with 2 machine guns and uses an air-cooled diesel engine produced by Krupp.

When he heard this, Cyric understood. Isn't this the No. 1 tank?

Without having to look at the prototypes that were staying in the factory building, Cyric just glanced at the drawings and knew that this was the No. 1 tank of later generations!

History is really stubborn and wants to continue to develop along the original trajectory!

After that, Cyric came back. These tanks, which Krupp had completed the trial production, suddenly fell behind and became a toy-like existence!

These tanks could never have appeared again, but now, there has been a low production of Panther tanks!

How can we develop our own tank troops as soon as possible? At this time, Krupp made a proposal to produce a batch of light tanks designed by itself while producing Panther tanks in small batches!

After the application went up, the Ordnance Department completely agreed and gave the standard number of Sd.Kfz.101 to approve mass production!

So, production started in the factory building, and at this time, Guderian learned the news and immediately returned from the desert area, rejecting the plan very excitedly!

It weighs less than 10 tons, can hold a 37mm gun at most, and has only 2 internal members. Is such a tank prepared for the armored division? No, absolutely not!