Although the H version of the No. 4 tank is still in the drawing stage, the improvement of the No. 4 tank has already begun. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

One of the most obvious improvements was that the No. 4 tank, like the No. 3 assault gun, would be equipped with plate skirt armor and increased frontal armor thickness.

This improvement can be applied directly to all tanks, including the two tanks that the Army is already equipped with.

Similarly, the newly produced No. 4 tank also received some cost-cutting improvements, including some details that made the soldiers of the armored forces a little depressed.

The soft seats are now literally wooden, and the solid floor has been replaced by a metal mesh floor.

Steel-saving means flooded every corner of the new tank, as if there was a shortage of steel in Germany.

The original armrests have been reduced to 10% in length, and some of the handrails that are not used often have been replaced with leather handrails......

But if this tank blindly cuts corners, it is a bit too one-sided, because on the conning tower of many tanks, a rack for installing machine guns is installed, which was not available in the past models.

I heard that this design was added at the request of the Führer himself, and I heard that the matching machine gun even had an anti-shield steel plate.

The biggest improvements were focused on two areas, one was the immediate goal, which was to increase the firepower of the No. 4 tank.

Because the Führer's intelligence organization heard about the Soviet Union's more advanced tanks, the operational focus of tank No. 4 changed dramatically.

Originally, the German armored forces were responsible for annihilating the opponent's tank, and it was the No. 3 tank, which was more mobile, smaller and more agile.

However, the Führer believed that tank No. 3 could no longer handle the future anti-tank tasks of the German army - in fact, this had already been proven.

During the French Campaign, when the German No. 3 tank faced the French B1 tank and other heavy equipment, it clearly felt the defect of its own firepower.

The shortcomings in armor protection, coupled with the lack of firepower, made the Germans, who relied on the No. 3 tank for anti-tank warfare, obviously passive.

In practice, the Germans mostly relied on skillful coordination and other means to deal with enemy armored targets.

For example, the famous Stuka dive bomber, and the even more famous 88 mm anti-aircraft cannon......

It is somewhat regrettable that the French battle was won by the German army, and it was won very spectacularly. On the one hand, it created the glory of the Third Reich, but on the other hand, it also covered up the problems of the Third Reich.

As a result, the weapon, which was not very easy to use, was pushed onto the Soviet-German battlefield on the Eastern Front more than a year later. For example, tanks No. 3 and No. 4, for example, backward tatters like 37-mm anti-tank guns......

The No. 3 tank, which lacks firepower, undertakes the important task of anti-tank in the German army's equipment sequence, so what is the No. 4 tank with slightly thicker armor for?

The answer is: this guy is a "breakthrough vehicle" for supporting infantry! It's not funny, but in this era, the Germans looked at tanks with a lot of eye and were not much more advanced than the Japanese.

Many people ridiculed the Japanese for insisting on using their own bean tanks in World War II, and in 1940, the tanks used by the German army were actually not much larger than what the Japanese had in their hands.

The Germans heavily equipped tank No. 2 weighed less than 10 tons, tank No. 3 was designed to weigh 15 tons, and tank No. 4 weighed a little more than 20 tons......

The Japanese Type 89 weighs more than 12 tons, the Type 1 tank weighs 17 tons, and the Type 97 weighs 15 tons - you see, about the same?

What really distanced the two sides was the enemy gap: the Germans could only drive the Tiger and Leopard in the face of the Soviets, and the Japanese did not have any enemy heavy tanks.

In this comparison, the opponent is really the best teacher. The German armored forces belong to the typical example of a famous teacher who has a high apprentice.

Let's go back to the present, Li Le, as a fake Führer who knew the real situation in later generations, changed the status quo of the German army.

He repositioned the German tank forces and developed the No. 4 tank, which was originally used to support the infantry, for anti-tank combat.

Apparently this was a very wise decision, because in the near future, the Germans did the same when they were forced to do so.

To deal with the enemy's more powerful tanks, it is necessary to use tanks with thicker armor and more firepower.

Obviously, Tank No. 3 does not have the potential for improvement, and the only tank left is Tank No. 4 that is in production.

But there was another unpleasant gulf in the role of Tank 4 as the main force of anti-tank combat: its firepower design was problematic.

The No. 4 was originally intended to support infantry operations, so it was designed with a short-barreled, low-bore pressure 75 mm cannon.

It is impossible to count on 75 mm caliber guns with low bore pressure for anti-tank tasks. And the high-power long-barreled artillery with high bore pressure and high recoil will have to be redesigned.

The good news is that Germany clearly has technical reserves in this area, and in 42 the German army began to equip the No. 4 tank with a 75 mm caliber long-barreled gun.

And Li Le just advanced this improvement by more than a year. For the German engineers as a group of tech nerds, this is not a difficult problem to solve.

As a result, the No. 4 tank will be equipped with a more powerful 75 mm caliber long-barreled gun for anti-tank missions within half a year.

The army with this improved tank will also have a real tank that will be sufficient for a short time by the time of 41.

After the invasion of the Soviet Union, the elite German armored forces no longer had to resort to reckless methods such as ramming to stop the opponent's advance when they encountered the T-34, a mortal enemy.

"Simple improvements have been applied, although some details have been cut, but the increase in production speed has allowed us to equip more tanks, which is good news." Brauchitsch was pleased with the current situation.

He had never been able to get tanks so quickly, and within a month, he had more tanks No. 4, and I heard that he could get more later.

Goering was depressed because it was a trick he couldn't learn to increase productivity.

You're willing to buy a reduced car because it's barely on the road; But would you like to buy a reduced plane and fly it to an altitude of 8,000 meters?

In the short term, the No. 4 tank remained the same as it was in the past, and it was not any different from history. It's just a little thicker armor and a little leaner on the inside.

However, the future Tank 4 has been magically modified to a highly anticipated level, with wider tracks to adapt to complex road conditions.

A more powerful engine was used, and there were even plans for a better diesel engine and rear transmission.

The front armor has also been improved, with a fashionable sloping front armor, and its own weight has been increased to about 30 tons.

It will be armed with a 75 mm caliber long-barreled gun, providing powerful firepower so that it has a certain fire superiority over enemy tanks.

With Li Le's efforts, this tank can be said to be the Third Reich version of the T-34 tank, but it is slightly different in terms of design ideas and performance focus.

Due to the limitations of the design era, the No. 4 tank, despite countless improvements, actually had some shortcomings. However, it now seems that these shortcomings will be tolerable in 40 years, and even in 43 years.

In the time that had been gained, Li Le had already asked Porsche, Krupp, the famous MAN company and Rheinmetall to develop and come up with their own production plans for the No. 5 General Purpose Vehicle.

This plan is not the famous Tiger tank in history, but a medium general-purpose tank production plan similar to the Leopard tank.

A practical and powerful 88 mm gun was used, but the weight of the tank was limited to 45 tons, and the defense of the tank had to be ensured on the basis of inclined armor.

This plan has just begun, and Porsche is still cutting corners, hoping to make up for it with its own Porsche Tiger tank, which has been criticized by future generations.

Krupp was not much better, and they tried to reduce the weight of their Tiger tanks.

However, the conditions put forward by the fake Führer Li Le made the two old tank design companies a little messy.

Because the Führer found inspiration in the MG-42 machine gun project and the simplification of the production of the No. 4 tank, the Chef began to pay attention to the production process.

The Führer demanded that the new tanks must be able to be procured and produced in large quantities, and the annual output should not be less than 4,000 units per year when the conditions are ripe.

This is a value that Krupp and Porsche did not dare to gamble with the Tiger tank, because they knew that they would not be able to produce so many Tiger tanks.

Not to mention the astronomical figure of 4,000 a year, Krupp felt that it was just a dream to be able to produce 1,000 Tiger tanks in a year.

Historically, only a little more than 1,300 German Tiger tanks were produced, which was still a total production for several years. So in this way, at least Krupp is still self-aware......

The expected No. 5 tank actually weighed about the same as the historical Leopard, but the performance requirements of the Li Le were about the same as the Tiger tank.

Such a request is not something that cannot be done, in fact, the paper data of the Stalin 2 tank meets this requirement. Although it is only on paper, at least in terms of main performance, it is on par with the Tiger tank.

Even though everyone criticized the Stalin 2 tank, it was based on the comparison and competition between it and the Tiger tank.

If the Stalin 2 tank is compared with the Leopard tank, then how to judge the merits is another conclusion.

Some say that the positioning between the two is different, one is a medium tank and the other is a heavy tank.

But the total amount of steel consumed by the two was of the same level: the Leopard weighed 45 tons, and the Stalin 2 tank weighed 46 tons. On the premise that the consumption is about the same, why not be better?

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