When it comes to armored vehicles, everyone will think of the European military powers, the United States, Britain, France, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, and the Soviet Union, in fact, these countries are not the most advanced countries in armored vehicle technology。。。。。。。。。。。

This country is Germany, Guderian, the father of German armored vehicles, Sdkfz234 is also the pioneer of world loading, the founder of the blitzkrieg...

The armored car was put into service in 1943 and received the designation "Cougar". It was developed from the early German armored car and was particularly suitable for combat in the tropics. The vehicle was the most powerful of all German armoured vehicles, armed with a 5cm gun and a 7.92mm machine gun, and its excellent off-road performance, reaching a top speed of 85 km/h, made it a formidable vehicle.

German Sdkfz.234 Cougar armored car (Sdkfz means 'special vehicle')

In January 1944, when the hundredth II L-type Bobcat reconnaissance tank reconnaissance combat vehicle left the factory and was ready to be produced and replaced with a reinforced Bobcat with a 50 mm gun, a reconnaissance armored vehicle equipped with a 50 mm KwK39/1 gun appeared, which was the famous Sdkfz.234/2 Cougar wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicle.

The American Lion is the most powerful armored vehicle of its class, with the heaviest armor and large cannon, and the combination of these elements and its good off-road handling makes it superior to most light vehicles in many ways.

Specifications:

Main armament - 50 mm / L 60 / Q 55

Secondary armament - 7.92 mm/Q 1050

Weight - 11.7 t

Maximum speed - 80 km / h

Engine power - 220 hp

Personnel - 4

Armor thickness - 5/21 mm

Because of the appearance of the cougar, the military department ordered the production line of the Bobcat to be stopped. This was mainly due to the fact that the military felt that there were not many advantages over the Bobcat, so they decided to stop producing Bobcats. In addition to the armor, the Cougar armored reconnaissance vehicle surpassed the L-type Lynx of the second combat vehicle in terms of firepower and speed. Its 50mm KwK39/1 gun is much more powerful than the Bobcat's 20mm gun, and its top speed can reach 80 kilometers per hour, which is really beyond the reach of Bobcat.

The Cougar is the most powerful armored vehicle of its class, with the heaviest armor and a large gun, and the combination of these elements and its good off-road handling makes it superior to most light vehicles in many ways. Due to its excellent performance, it became the most important wheeled reconnaissance armored vehicle of the German army in 44-45 years.

Sun Tzu's Art of War has a cloud: "Where the law of war is used, thousands of cars are galloped, leather cars are thousands of times, 100,000 armor are brought in, and thousands of miles are fed." Then the internal and external expenses, the use of guests, the material of glue paint, the dedication of the car armor, the daily cost of thousands of gold, and then 100,000 teachers. "It means that the war is actually the logistics. And even in ancient times, a division of 100,000 needed a thousand light vehicles and a thousand heavy vehicles.

There are many more types of vehicles in modern warfare than in ancient times, and their uses are naturally diverse.

Sd.KFZ.13 armored reconnaissance vehicle

The car is produced by Adler Automobiles, so it is also known as Adler armored car, which is a four-wheeled lightly armored reconnaissance vehicle. Equipped with a 60 hp 4×2 petrol engine with rear-wheel drive, it has a top speed of 60 km/h on the road, and its off-road ability is extremely poor.

The car was protected by armor on the sides and top, the armor thickness was 8 mm, the protection was not strong, and it was armed with a 7.92 mm MG13 machine gun with a small protective shield, which was operated by the commander, and later changed to the MG34/42 general-purpose machine gun. The number of vehicles produced in small quantities was only 147 units, which were equipped in search mechanized battalions. In 1938, it was replaced by new armored reconnaissance vehicles such as the Sd.Kfz.221 type, and was downgraded to auxiliary vehicles during World War II.

Sd.Kfz.221/222/223 armored reconnaissance vehicle

The Type 221 four-wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicle was a German unit that began in 1934, and its main task was to replace the Type 13 armored reconnaissance vehicle with poor performance, as a reconnaissance, search and patrol vehicle. The vehicle has a combat total weight of 4 tons, a maximum speed of 90km / h, armor thickness 5-8mm, a crew of 2-3 people, and is armed with 1 7.92mm MG13 machine gun.

The difference between the Type 222 and the Type 221 is that there are two viewing windows, one large and one small, on the front, and it is armed with a 20 mm machine gun and an MG34 machine gun. The Type 223 installed radio equipment and antennas with minor modifications. The Type 222 20-mm cannon was eliminated, the MG34 machine gun was retained, an open small turret was installed, and a retractable folding antenna grille was installed on the surface of the department.

Both the Type 222 and Type 223 received a new chassis and brake hydraulic engine, and the thickness of the front armor was increased to 30 mm. The Type 222 was attached to the mechanized infantry division during wartime, and the Type 223 armored reconnaissance vehicle was deployed to the light armored division, where it was responsible for reconnaissance and telecommunications communications.

Sd.Kfz.231/232 wheeled heavy armored reconnaissance vehicle

The 231 is produced by Daimler-Benz and is a wheeled radio communication vehicle. There are two types in total, one is a 6-wheel type and the other is an 8-wheel type. The six-wheeled 231 appeared earlier, as early as 1932, Mercedes-Benz produced about 31 units, and between 1932 and 1937, a total of 123 were produced.

The car has a total length of 5.57 meters, a total weight of 5.36 tons, a crew of 4, the main armament is a 20 mm KWK30 machine gun, the secondary armament is a 7.92 mm MG13 machine gun, the thickness of the armor is 5.5-8 mm, the road speed is 65 km / h, the use of a sealed turret, the radio mount is covered with a frame antenna, mounted on a rotatable turret.

The 8-wheeled version has a larger body, a total weight of 8.3 tons, a stronger drive, a top speed of 90 km/h, and thicker armor of 5.5-14.5 mm, and later to 30 mm. Between February 1944 and 1945, a total of 607 units were produced.

The Type 232 wheeled heavy armored vehicle, which can be seen as a radio upgrade of the Type 231, has the outstanding feature of having a lattice frame covering antenna on the roof of the outside.

Sd.Kfz.234 wheeled heavy armored reconnaissance vehicle

The Type 234 eight-wheeled heavy armored reconnaissance vehicle, also known as this PUMA in wartime. The car was produced from 1943 as a replacement for the Type 231/232, and throughout the war it had several variants.

The car has a total length of 6.8 meters, a total weight of 11.74 tons, an eight-wheeled type, the thickest part of the armor is 30 mm, and the other parts are 5.5 mm, equipped with a Tatra 103 air-cooled diesel engine, 210 horsepower. The main armament of the Type 234/2 was the 50 mm KwK39 gun, which was also the main gun of the successor model of the No. 3 tank, designed to deal with the T-34 or KV1 on the Eastern Front, but it was not very successful. The secondary armament is a 7.92 mm MG42 machine gun.

Type 234/3 turned into a self-propelled anti-tank gun and was mass-produced. The Derivation-234-4 was also converted into an 8-wheeled self-propelled anti-tank gun armored vehicle.

The RSO light armored vehicles, because they were stuck in the quagmire there during the war with the Soviets, were very difficult to move forward. Later, they had an extra heart and used this armored vehicle with tracks. Although it is lightweight, it is very slow because its tracks make it less convenient to move forward. But it can go to those snow and mud and do whatever it wants, and it can be used not only to carry things, but also to tow some medium and large artillery.

There is also a half-track armored vehicle, such as the SdKfz251 half-track armored vehicle, which is also their core armored vehicle. Since the speed of the all-tracked armored vehicle was too slow, a slightly faster version of this type was created. And this car itself has a certain defensive and offensive power, it can be used not only as a vehicle, but also as a weapon, which is why it is the core vehicle of the German army. Participated in almost all the major battles in Europe in World War II, and on this basis, the German army also made many other improvements.

Another version of the second type, the SdKfz 2 half-track armored car, is very small. Because they felt that some of the guns were heavier, but it was a bit wasteful to use the second model to pull. It was this small half-track armored car that was born, this model has very good flexibility, and the speed has been increased faster, which is sought after by the majority of soldiers. This small armored vehicle is also very suitable for airborne operations, like the size of the tricycle we see now, and the aircraft can also carry many of these armored vehicles, which is very convenient to use.

At that time, the armored vehicle technology, that is, the armored vehicles of European countries was advanced, and an armored combat vehicle protected by the German Puma fighting vehicle C-level actually weighed more than 41 tons, which was as heavy as a tank.

As far as the Western Challenger 2 hit the American M 1A1 at that time, it was scrapped, and it can be seen how strong the ability of Germany's RH120 tank gun is, otherwise the United States, a superpower, would not use German artillery, and now even the Korean cake also uses the German RH120, and the Japanese 90 tank in the 90s used this artillery, and our tank to put it bluntly, it can't withstand the direct fire of such a tank gun. Not to mention the anti-tank **, we may suffer from the Bradley of the United States, the CV90 of Sweden, and the German Jaguar armored vehicles, because the detection range of protection capabilities, attack capabilities, these three armored combat vehicles are top-level, and the special is the new German Jaguar modular armored C-class model, a set of spikes, with a range of 7-10 kilometers, and our tank is equipped with ** can not hit it, and the observation system of this car is specially equipped with electronic systems for spikes, guidance systems, It's too easy to kill a medium tank of more than 50 tons, and it's even more tragic if you pierce it from the top of the turret, and this spike can directly penetrate the frontal armor, and I've done experiments with many tanks, including various Russian models, as well as NATO tanks, and my own Leopard 1 type tank, if this Leopard tank is replaced with an RH 120 gun and modular armor, I think Asian tanks and Russian tanks still can't beat it.

According to the original concept, the basic model "Jaguar" infantry fighting vehicle could also be transported by air after the application of enhanced protection measures. These include: anti-** protection, front and flank armor protection, all-round protection, and protection against overhead shells.

The new "Puma" infantry fighting vehicle, equipped with basic A-class protection, has a combat weight of 31.45 tons and can be loaded on A400M aircraft. Class A protection provides the Puma infantry fighting vehicle with all-round protection against 14.5 mm machine guns and artillery shell fragments, while the front and flanks are protected against 30 mm shells. In addition, the "Puma" infantry fighting vehicle can be equipped with C-level protection, that is, equipped with additional armor modules. These modules are mounted on the body and turret and provide a high level of protection. The combat weight at this time reached 41.7 tons.

Three Puma infantry fighting vehicles with C-level protective armor were carried by four A400M transport aircraft———— three aircraft were used to carry the Puma infantry fighting vehicles and one aircraft was used to carry additional armor modules. In most cases, the Puma infantry fighting vehicles are transported by rail or sea.