Professor Colin did not answer Lieutenant Colonel Wharton's question at the first time, but stroked the glasses on the bridge of his nose, climbed into the tank as soon as he turned around, and immediately entered the tank along the hatch on the turret, and continued to carefully inspect the details of the inside of the wreckage of the tank in front of him.

After a long time, he leaned out of the hatch and smiled apologetically at Lieutenant Colonel Wharton, who was waiting a little impatiently outside: "Please forgive me, my dear lieutenant colonel, I have to be cautious, because this new model based on the T-34\85 tank really gives me an unprecedented sense of amazement."

Although he did not like Professor Colin's arrogant attitude and pretentious rhetoric, Lieutenant Colonel Wharton had to be patient and pretend, and there was no way, who made this Professor Colin an authoritative expert on tank and armored vehicles in the United States.

In particular, the "Sherman" medium tank that he participated in the design of is the main tank model that made great achievements in World War II, even if the smoke of World War II has long been dissipated, but to this day, the figure of "Sherman" is still active in the armies of many countries, and has become a classic equipment that can be recorded in history forever, and is remembered by the world.

It is with the endorsement of this credit that Professor Colin successfully rose from the project manager of the tank factory to the director of the Ground Armament and Equipment Service of the US Department of Defense, specializing in the technical evaluation and related verification of the US Army's weapons and equipment, especially tank armored vehicle equipment.

It seems that the title of this position is not high, but those who know the daily operation of the US Department of Defense know that Colin's director of the equipment affairs department is one of the few real power positions within the Department of Defense, because the technical evaluation and verification of every piece of equipment he has done has, to a certain extent, the power of life and death over the army equipment developed by those military industrial enterprises.

Because of this, people with such positions can only be filled by people with deep backgrounds, and Professor Colin is no exception, but most people only know his merits in designing "Sherman".

But Lieutenant Colonel Wharton, who had served as a senior staff officer of the Armaments Bureau of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, knew that, in addition to that well-known feat, Professor Colin was also a classmate and friend of President Truman and a cousin of Secretary of Defense General Marshall.

After all, neither President Truman nor the Secretary of Defense, General Marshall, could afford to be provoked by his little lieutenant colonel, so even if he was impatient, he still had to follow Colin's words and ask, "What is that thing that amazes you?" Is there anything desirable? ”

"There are a lot of amazing places, but as for the desirable ones......"

Professor Colin was very satisfied with Lieutenant Colonel Wharton's humble and deferential attitude, and while wiping his somewhat oily hands with a towel, he said in a very critical tone: "Seriously, there are really not many! ”

Lieutenant Colonel Wharton, who was full of anticipation, almost didn't spurt out a mouthful of old blood, and said in his heart, "Spending a lot of money to find you here is talking about these nonsense pretending to be criminals?" Do you know that you are still needed in this way? He himself can change the Fa and say that it will not be the same for three days and three nights.

Although he really wanted to smoke a dozen big-eared scrapers from this pretending Professor Colin, reason made Lieutenant Colonel Wharton resist the urge to do it, and looked meaningfully at the photographer who was recording the video, and then reminded in a whisper in the voice of only two people: "Chrysler Corporation asked you to come to the real technical basis!" ”

As soon as Professor Colin, who was feeling good about himself, heard this, his wrinkled face twisted the chrysanthemum, and subconsciously touched the check that had just been covered in his arms, and couldn't help but settle down, he flew thousands of miles from the comfort of Washington to the front line of war, to see what this broken tank that was beaten into scrap metal was in his eyes?

Isn't it just for the $100,000 check in your arms?

Today, in the United States, the old Chrysler Corporation and General Motors, which has just set foot in tank development, are inseparable in the selection of a new generation of tanks, benefiting from the accumulated technical base of tanks such as the M4 "Sherman", M26 "Pershing" and M46 "Patton".

Chrysler, which owns the largest tank production plant in the United States, is the commander of the Detroit tank, and has been recognized by most conservative officers in the new generation of tank models, and has a slight advantage.

However, this advantage is not much overwhelming compared to General Motors, which is supported by congressmen and defense bureaucrats, after all, the verification tanks developed by General Motors incorporate more cutting-edge technologies and have more development potential than Chrysler, which has taken a mature and stable route.

Because of this, from the end of 1949 to the present, for nearly two years, the two companies were evenly matched in the new generation of tanks, so that the long-awaited new tanks of the US military could not be finalized, resulting in the overall combat effectiveness of the US armored forces declining, and they could not compete with the Soviet armored forces with T-54 tanks.

Before being transferred to North Korea, Lieutenant Colonel Wharton, who served as a senior staff officer of the Armaments Bureau of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, actively offered advice to the Chrysler Company, hoping that this arms company, which had a deep relationship with the US military since World War II and had great benefits to itself, would obtain the final right to produce a new generation of tanks.

However, General Motors, which has deep roots in political circles, is not a small company that can be manipulated by the US military at will, and before Wharton and others can make any moves, congressmen on Capitol Hill began to put pressure on the US military with the defense budget.

It seemed that this stalemate could only continue indefinitely, until a certain company became so unsustainable that even the hopeful Lieutenant Colonel Wharton had to give up his insistence and focus on the Korean battlefield, but God sent him a great gift: the destroyed No. 117 tank.

When Wharton saw the black scrap metal for the first time, he realized that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the new generation of American tanks and for the Chrysler Company, which had a difficult confrontation, so after a short break in the war, he immediately reported the matter to the senior management of the Chrysler Corporation in the United States......