"Well, the new tank is still satisfied~"

"Well, it's better than I expected......" Suzu Hojo nodded.

"After all, this is the best chariot we have in Dawasai besides mine." The girl sighed, and then continued: "Whether it is a 75mm cannon of 70 times caliber or an 85mm frontal armor, it is a very powerful existence." ”

"The ......," Hojo Suzu slowly raised her right hand. Isn't the frontal armor of the Panther 80mm? ”

After being complained about by Hojo Suzu, the girl's face turned slightly red.

"No road race! I say it's 85mm, it's 85mm! ”

"But historically, it's 80mm ......"

Before Suzu Hojo could finish speaking, she was interrupted loudly by the girl.

"You dare to use history to refute me?"

"But......" Suzu Hojo said weakly.

However, the girl suddenly took out a file out of nowhere and walked straight to the chariot in front of her.

"Huh? What are you doing here? ”

"I'm restoring history!"

Seeing the girl file the front armor plate of the chariot with a file, Hojo Suzu suddenly screamed.

"Hurry, stop!"

……

Well, in fact, both 80mm and 85mm are correct, but the latter is measured by Maozi, and it is normal for the actual production of the tank and the drawings to have a little error.

Although the Panther D is an early model, there are certain problems, but the protection is not necessarily poor. At least the quality of the German three armor in this period is still guaranteed, and in a sense, the protection of the Panther D is not necessarily worse than that of the Panther G.

The Panther D type mainly uses E22 alloy, which has a Brinell hardness of 309-353 at a thickness of 16-30mm, a Brinell hardness of 278-324 at a thickness of 35-50mm, and a Brinell hardness between 265 and 309 at a thickness of 55-80mm.

Of course, the quality of the armor is completely unreflected in the battle lane......

Without complaining about the 44.8-ton dead weight, the Panther can be said to be a very good medium tank.

In terms of firepower, the power of 7.5cmKwK42L/70 can be said to be very powerful at the time, at the beginning of the appearance of the Panther, none of the allied vehicles could withstand the bombardment of the cannon from the front, even in the later stages of the war, the gun still has great deterrent, the 7.5cmKwK42L/70 of the Black Panther is even above the 8.8cmKwK36L/56 of the Tiger.

If you insist on finding shortcomings, the cost is too high, the production process is too complicated, and there is the problem of armor piercing.

But fortunately, in the lane, neither of these points is a problem.

Thanks to its 70 times the caliber, the muzzle velocity of its shells is even as high as 1000m/s, even in the most stringent standard Soviet tests, the gun also scored a good score of penetrating 150mm armor at a distance of 100m, you must know that in the same batch of tests, the D-25T penetration depth is 167mm/100m, and the 8.8cmKwK43L/71 is 168mm/100m.

In Aberdeen, the APCBC it launched even scored 185mm/100m, which is higher than the APCR of the 85mmS-53 tested in the same batch, and if the APCR is launched, its 100-meter penetration depth is as high as 265mm.

Such a powerful artillery will naturally not be intimidated in the face of Sandas's chariot, although this cannon is not very effective against inclined armor (in Soviet tests, the depth of armor penetration at a 60° normal angle is only 114mm/100m), and it is difficult for APCBC to penetrate Pershing's 101mm/46° body frontal armor, but don't forget that there is also APCR, it is still possible to teach Pershing to be a man at a distance from street fighting.

However, in the face of the better protection of the T29 heavy tank (frontal 101mm/54°), it is a little powerless, but fortunately, the Panther is also a medium tank, and the maneuverability is not bad.

The 700 hp Maybach HL230 water-cooled twelve-cylinder petrol engine provides ample power for the Panther, guaranteeing a thrust-to-weight ratio of up to 15.6 hp/tonne even with a weight of 44.8 tonnes, and its maximum speed reaches the level of 55 km/h.

It is worth mentioning that the Panther also has differential centrifugal steering, also known as in-place steering,—— which can be rotated to a specified direction by moving one side of the track forward and the other side backward. However, the advantage of the "Black Panther" dual-current braking system is not at all whether it can realize the function of pivot steering, which is used less frequently at that time and has a large load on the parts, but the steering power is used reasonably, and a more suitable steering radius can be achieved in each gear, and the specified steering radius increases with the increase of gear, which is theoretically conducive to safe and efficient driving. However, due to the hasty development time, the steering machine of the "Black Panther" still exposed considerable defects in actual use, and according to the reports of the French after the war, the Black Panther was very likely to paralyze the entire tank after turning on the spot.

The last is protection, the protection of the panther is still relatively conscientious, although the D type has a nest area under the turret, but the chance of ricocheting and killing after being hit in the nest area in the battle lane is simply the same as winning the lottery. The 80mm/55° armor on the front of the body can resist the attack of the 90mm T33 at medium and long distances (the T33 can only penetrate the 64mm armor arranged at 55° at a distance of 914m), of course, the front of the turret still has to kneel, and the front of the 100mm turret is not enough to face the vehicle of Sandas.

As for the side back...... I can only say that the panther's flank is a tragedy, its 40mm/40° side armor is too thin, which is why the panther obviously has better frontal protection than the tiger, but the survival rate is much worse than the tiger when it is besieged.

On March 26, 1944, Lieutenant Bogoff, the commander of the T-70 tank of the 3rd Guards Tank Army, on a reconnaissance mission, spotted two German "Panther" tanks traveling along the road. The lieutenant ordered the driver to drive the car into the bushes on the side of the road and lay in ambush, he loaded the shells and waited patiently. When the German lead car was only 200 meters away, the T-70 opened fire and destroyed it from the side, and then destroyed the second "Panther" before it could react. Later Pogov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

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Note: The information for the Panther D is from PanzerTracts No.5-1

Panzerkampfwagen“Panther”

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