These reserved hardpoints can be used to temporarily drape the tank with thicker armor when needed, and use it to carry out offensive tasks such as breaking through positions.

The optional armor plate thickness of more than 30 mm can greatly improve the side and rear protection of the Tiger tank.

With the blessing of these temporary armors, the Tiger tank can well carry out the task of breaking through the position and completing the task of attacking the position undertaken by the real Tiger tank in history.

Thanks to the 710 horsepower of the Maybach HLD diesel engine, the Tiger tank is still full of power after being mounted on several tons of steel plates, even better than the historical Tiger tank.

Of course, with heavy armor, the Tiger's fuel consumption was higher, and the basic range dropped from 190 km to a sad 110 km.

This value is basically impossible to complete the "large depth interspersed attack", so the German engineers are still trying their best to improve the basic stroke of the Tiger tank.

The three main design elements of a tank are firepower, protection, and mobility. In terms of protection capabilities, the Tiger tank is only slightly improved compared to the Leopard tank; The increase in maneuverability, while significant, is not so great that it is unbelievably great.

Therefore, the firepower of the Tiger tank has become a design focus - how to have strong firepower, and how to develop strong firepower, let the German designers rack their brains.

First of all, the Tiger tank uses a 105 mm caliber tank gun that has been tested on the Leopard tank - just by looking at the caliber, you can see that it is not a small improvement over the main caliber of 75 mm and 88 mm used by the German active tanks.

The technology of this type of tank gun, codenamed L7, came partly from the British, and partly from the Germans themselves.

I have to say that the United Kingdom, as an old power, has a strong technical background. The birth of the 105 mm caliber tank gun was definitely due to the British designers.

On this artillery, the German Krupp factory can be said to have put a lot of effort into it. Many new technologies were used in the whole artillery, and the performance of the artillery was also the best at the same time.

The L7 105 mm tank gun can penetrate 150 mm of uniform steel armor at an extreme combat distance of 1,500 meters when firing armor-piercing shells.

Such a terrible breakdown distance gave the Tiger the ability to fight various models of enemy tanks that would be put into production in the future.

It can also be seen from this gun that the design idea of the German tank gun has developed from simply increasing the chamber pressure to increasing the multiplier diameter to the three-pronged stage of the type of bullet, the caliber and the double diameter.

The increase in firepower is actually not the biggest improvement of the Tiger tank, the most obvious improvement of the Tiger tank is the supporting "fire control equipment".

On the basis of the optical sighting system of the Leopard tank, German scientists improved and upgraded the sighting system of the Tiger tank.

On the one hand, the loose interior of the turret of the Tiger tank, there is plenty of room for improvement; On the other hand, technological advances have also given German scientists free rein.

After a series of trade-offs, the German engineers installed a simple mechanical computer on the Tiger tank, which could easily input the wind speed and the approximate speed of the target to calculate the advance of the fire.

Don't underestimate this set of equipment, after installation, it can greatly increase the starting hit rate of the Tiger tank, which can be regarded as an innovation.

It is not surprising that there is simply a simple fire control, but what is really surprising is that Germany is ready to give this new tank the ability to fight at night.

Being able to fight at night like a vampire has always been a human dream. Scientific progress made this dream a reality around 1941.

Through unremitting efforts, German scientists have developed a more practical night vision system. Although the night vision device of the individual soldier is still a clunky joke, the night vision device in the car is already a bit of a look.

The large turret of the Tiger tank has a lot of internal space for the battery of the night vision device, so it can also be installed with night vision devices to fight at night.

The new night vision device is the most primitive and oldest infrared searchlight night vision system, but it is already the most advanced night vision system in this era.

With this night vision system, the Tiger tank can attack at night and destroy the enemy who cannot see anything.

After hearing the engineer's introduction to the latest Tiger tank, several German tank commanders who rushed back from the front felt that their throats were a little dry.

If there really is such a powerful decisive weapon, there is no suspense that Germany's tank force will become the world's first in the name.

"It's really good, this kind of ...... Tiger tank, when will it be mass-produced? Mounted on the front lines? One of the officers, who was visiting the factory, asked impatiently.

"The experiment hasn't been completed yet, and it won't be until the end of the year at the earliest, right?" When it comes to mass production, the engineers blush. They squirmed for a moment before replying regretfully.

The more new technologies are used, the less reliable the performance of the tank itself becomes. The Führer's rule was: unreliable weapons and equipment are not allowed to be mass-produced.

Come to think of it, the American M4 Sherman tank was developed earlier, and it has not yet been mass-produced.

Experimental weapons have a very rigorous process that cannot be easily changed by anyone. Li Le, who has traveled through the soul of the 21st century, has streamlined a lot of procedures and taken a lot of detours, but there are still many essential links, and none of them can be streamlined.

Just as Germany has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the pre-research and development of some weapons and equipment, the United States has also invested a lot of money and personnel in these projects.

Therefore, the development speed of the two sides is actually about the same: the American Sherman and the P-51 Mustang fighter have not had time to enter service, and the German Tiger tank also needs time to be tested and improved.

"In this way, if you can get the Tiger tank, you have to wait for next year." A German general sighed regretfully.

His emotions affected the officers around him, and everyone lamented that the new weapon could not be mass-produced immediately.

"Actually, there's nothing to regret, after all, it's a new weapon, and you don't want it to be paralyzed on the battlefield if you use it, right?" The engineer shrugged his shoulders and spoke persuasively.

The German army generals, who had long been accustomed to reliable and durable weapons and equipment, nodded and closed their mouths after hearing this sentence - it doesn't matter if the weapons are mass-produced a few days late and the equipment is on the front line, the reliability must be high, this is already the consensus of the German army.