"Huh...... This is it. ”

"That's right." The girl smiled and nodded. "This is the warehouse where your chariot is stored."

After leaving the student council room, the girl pulled the Hojo bell to the Oarai Armor Department, and now the place where the two of them are located is in front of a warehouse in the Oarai Armor Department.

The girl walked to the door of the warehouse, gently pulled down the electric switch on the side, and with the sound of metal rubbing, the door of the warehouse was slowly opened.

"It's ......"

In front of Suzu Hojo was a vehicle with sloping armor, which had its armor arranged in an oblique manner, both on the front and the sides.

However, the biggest impression of this vehicle is probably that it is sharp and angular, and it is difficult to find a curved place in the turret and body of the entire vehicle.

On the front of the vehicle, there is a white star logo representing the US Army, and the entire vehicle is painted in yellow-green commonly used by the US Army.

"It's a wolverine, not ......"

Hojo Suzu slowly walked to the other side of the chariot and counted the wheels of the chariot.

“1,2,3,4,5…… This is! ”

The vehicle used an arrangement of overlapping load wheels, with eight load wheels on each side.

Seeing the configuration of overlapping load wheels, Hojo Suzu had a result in his mind, after all, this design was only used in Germany and post-war France.

That's right, this is the black meow MIO camouflage...... Ahem, I mean the Black Panther M10 camouflage type, completely with a certain five more glass and a certain Mio Akiyama! It doesn't matter at all.

For the success of the Ardennes campaign, Hitler trained an assault force by Otto Skorzny to infiltrate American positions in order to seize key bridges and create as much confusion as possible in the rear of enemy forces.

Otto Skorzny made a name for himself in September 1943 for successfully rescuing the Italian fascist dictator Bennetto Mussolini. This time, he made a two-part plan.

The first part was to organize English-speaking German soldiers to infiltrate the enemy lines and create chaos.

At the same time, the second step, the 150 Armored Brigade, was carried out to seize important bridge hubs to ensure the smooth flow of offensive routes.

In order to ensure the successful completion of the mission, almost all German soldiers returning from the United States were collected into the 150 armored brigade. But to Skorzny's disappointment, there were no captured American tanks on hand, only a few armored vehicles. In order to fill up the numbers, Skorzny managed to get 5 Leopard tanks and the 3rd G assault gun.

The Leopard was disguised as the American M10 tank-destroyer, while the No. 3G assault gun attempted to disguise itself as the M7 Priest self-propelled gun. All vehicles were painted green for the U.S. military and painted with the U.S. military's white star identification mark. Although these disguises cannot be called outwardly beautiful, at least Skorzny already has the capital to the Meuse on hand.

Later, the commando team's operations caused considerable confusion in the US army, and the 100,000-strong troops were restless. However, the losses were also very heavy, because this kind of behavior is an act of espionage, which is not protected by the Geneva Conventions, and all commandos will be shot immediately if they are caught by the US military.

The camouflage leopard that the girl got naturally could not be one of the five that year, and it was a replica that would be produced in the future.

Seeing Suzu Hojo's surprised look, the girl nodded with satisfaction.

"This camouflage panther is based on a Panther D-type modification, and there is no difference in basic performance, except that a 5mm thick metal cover is added to the side and rear of the turret, making it look like the turret of the U.S. M10 Wolverine."

Since the prototype was a Panther D, there was no spherical machine gun muzzle on the vehicle's body, so a lot of modification work was saved at that time.

The Panther D, as the first Panther chariot to debut, still had a lot of problems, at the beginning of the Courster's debut, the number destroyed by the Soviet army was not much, but due to mechanical failure, many Panther had to withdraw from the battlefield. Of course, the problem is not only that, but more seriously, the Panther D even has a lot of spontaneous combustion records.

On the evening of July 10, the 39th Tank Regiment had only 10 combat vehicles. Of the number of losses, 25 vehicles were completely lost (23 vehicles were lost in battle, and 2 vehicles were deflagrated with engines while on the move, and the whole vehicle was burned). 65 are under repair, in addition to 100 in need of repair (56 of them were either hit by shells or crushed by mines, and the remaining 44 were engine or mechanical failures); On the evening of July 11, the number of vehicles was 38, 31 were completely lost, and 131 needed to be repaired.

On the evening of 19 July, the 51st Tank Battalion had 33 moving vehicles, another 32 needed to be repaired, and 31 had been lost in previous battles. The 52nd Tank Battalion had 28 vehicles, 40 of which needed to be repaired, and another 4 were sent back to Germany for overhaul and 24 were destroyed in battle.

Of course, the tank must have undergone some modifications before it was put into the battle lane, so there is no need to worry about mechanical failures and spontaneous combustion.

"How's that, how is this tank?"

"No problem." Hojo Suzu nodded, and then said with a smile: "I have a Black Panther from Germany during World War II at home, and I can say that I can't be more familiar with this tank." ”

"yes, that's good."

As for why there is an original black panther in Hojo Suzu's family, the girl is not surprised.

There were more than 6,000 Panthers, half of which were deployed in France, and when the Allies landed in Normandy, half of the vehicles deployed by the Germans in France were Panthers.

As a result, many Leopard chariots were naturally left in France after the war, and the French did not waste these precious leopards in vain.

In 1947, the French 503rd Combat Tank Regiment deployed in Mourmelonle Grand had an armored battalion equipped with fifty Leopard fighting vehicles and an armored battalion equipped with American-made Sherman fighting vehicles. The French 501st Panzer Regiment also used the Panthers, which remained in use until 1949.

As a family supported by the French, it is naturally not difficult for the Hojo family to get the panther native in Germany during World War II.

However, the girl will hand over the camouflage leopard to Suzu Hojo, in addition to technical reasons, there is actually a reason.

You know, in Yamaguchi Ding, all chariots with the word leopard in their names have their own nicknames, such as Lori Leopard, Shota Leopard, Otome Leopard, Imperial Sister Leopard and the like.

And the nickname of the Black Panther M10 camouflage type is - Pseudo-Niang Leopard.

Let the pseudo-mother command the pseudo-niang leopard, you must be able to give full play to the full ability of this chariot, thinking of this, the girl couldn't help laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" Suzu Hojo tilted her head.

"Well, this vehicle suits you in every sense of the word."

"Huh?"

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PS: My previous improvement is so obvious, how many people have guessed it? 2333333333

PS2: Five more glazed Akiyama Mio camouflage, isn't this name very sensitive_(:з)∠)_