It's the fifth watch, it's not easy to write a book, and you can give a few more monthly passes!

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"Let's put it this way!" Qin Chuan said to Conrad: "In the battle against the Soviet army, the 48th Panzer Army and the 2nd SS Panzer Army, they are obviously stronger than the SS 2nd Panzer Army and have more tanks in terms of equipment, why can the 48th Panzer Army go smoothly while the SS 2nd Panzer Army is in a deep quagmire?" ”

"That's because the 48th Panzer Army is equipped with ME63!" Conrad replied.

"That's the problem, Colonel!" Qin Chuan replied: "Compared with the 'Tiger type', the T34 is a cheap, mass-equipped, and quickly deployed equipment, while the ME63 is a cheaper equipment for the T34, and at the same time, it can be mass-produced and deployed quickly in a short period of time, so we can win in the Kovo Plain and Prokhorovka!" ”

"Lieutenant Colonel!" Conrad replied with a smile, "You seem to have completely ignored your role, as far as I know...... If it weren't for the fact that you took advantage of the anti-tank trenches of the Soviets, the 48th Panzer Army would not have been able to achieve victory either! ”

Qin Chuan was speechless for a while, he didn't expect Conrad to use this as an argument, and what he said seemed to make sense.

"Colonel!" Qin Chuan said: "Didn't you see that more than half of the 'Tiger Style' broke down in the course of the battle and could not fight? ”

"But that's only because of the problem that the 'Tiger' just came out of production!" Conrad said, "It won't be long before we can solve these problems!" ”

"It's impossible to solve!" Qin Chuan said: "Because these failures are caused by the excessive weight of the 'Tiger Style' itself, unless you reduce its weight!" ”

After a pause, Qin Chuan continued: "Also, because of the weight of the 'Tiger Style', many bridges and highways cannot bear its weight, which makes it have a lot of trouble in marching and fighting!" ”

"We'll fix that!" Conrad said.

"No, you can't solve it!" Qin Chuan objected.

In fact, Qin Chuan knew very well that a series of problems such as the high failure rate and maintenance difficulties of the "Tiger" had not been solved until the end of the war.

In the end, Colonel Conrad seemed to have no choice, he spread his hands and said: "Lieutenant Colonel, I don't know why you are prejudiced against the 'Tiger', but it is indeed a popular tank among soldiers on the battlefield, and many people are proud to be able to drive it!" ”

Qin Chuan has to admit this, mainly because it has super defense and firepower, and many armored heroes have created one miracle after another on the battlefield in the "tiger style", such as the previous encounter with Könispel in the village of Marivo, and then for example, Wittman and Karjuus, all of whom created the amazing record of hundreds of enemy tanks in the tiger style.

"I'm not prejudiced against the 'Tiger', Colonel!" Qin Chuan said: "I mean, we can't waste any more time developing thicker, heavier armored tanks, that's a waste of time, and at the same time a waste of resources and productivity!" ”

"Why?" Conrad spread his hands.

"As you said before, one of our ME63s can easily penetrate the thick armor of the tank, even if it is two hundred millimeters or more!"

"But that's been solved, isn't it?" Conrad asked rhetorically.

Qin Chuan was choked, and in today's discussion, Conrad vividly interpreted the sentence "attack the shield of the other with the spear of the other".

"Lieutenant Colonel!" Conrad said, "Well, if you don't think we should waste time on the Tiger or heavier tanks, which tank do you think we should use?" ”

QIN CHUAN REPLIED WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT IT: "'LEOPARD', ITS FRONT ARMOR ALSO REACHES 100MM, WHICH IS EQUIVALENT TO THE 'TIGER', BUT THE SIDE ARMOR AND REAR ARMOR ARE MUCH THINNER THAN THE 'TIGER', WHICH MAKES IT WEIGH 12 TONS LIGHTER THAN THE 'TIGER', SO THE FAILURE RATE, MOBILITY, AND COST, ETC., ARE MUCH BETTER THAN THE 'TIGER' IN ALL ASPECTS!" ”

The "Leopard" is also known as the "No. 5" tank, one of the most successful medium tanks in World War II, and the German army produced more than 6,000 units throughout World War II, and was the main tank of the German army on the battlefield along with the "No. 4" tank.

"Lieutenant Colonel!" Conrad couldn't help laughing: "But the artillery used by the two is different, the 'Tiger' can destroy the 'Leopard' from a long distance but not the other way around, if two tanks meet...... Who do you think will emerge victorious? ”

It was obviously unfair for Conrad to ask that.

However, this problem gave Qin Chuan an inspiration......

"Colonel!" Qin Chuan said: "When we talked about ME63 just now, you said that the problem has been solved, so we don't have to worry about the problem of rockets, so we can rest assured that we can develop thicker armored tanks!" ”

"So to speak!" Conrad nodded.

"But ......," Qin Chuan said, "what if there is another kind of equipment that can also easily penetrate hundreds of millimeters of armor?" ”

Conrad looked at Qin Chuan with an incredible expression, and said hesitantly: "I don't think there will be such equipment, Lieutenant Colonel!" ”

"Of course there is such equipment, Colonel!" Qin Chuan said: "We can change the 'Leopard' tank to a new gun!" ”

"Another gun?"

"Yes, get a smoothbore cannon for it!"

Conrad was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "Lieutenant Colonel, I don't think you understand, the range of a smoothbore gun is far inferior to that of a rifled gun......"

"Of course I do, Colonel!" Qin Chuan said.

"You know you think we should switch back to the smoothbore gun?" Conrad was a little confused.

There is a process of changing tank guns...... Initially, because of the problems of technology and turret space, short-barreled mortars were generally installed.

Although smoothbore guns have the advantage of long life, they are far inferior to rifled guns because they are not rifled and cannot be fired unstable, and may roll in the air...... The rifling of rifled guns allows the shells to rotate at high speed when fired, so that they can fly steadily in the air and improve the range and hit rate.

So, as soon as the technical conditions permitted, all countries loaded rifled guns. But after World War II...... The vast majority of countries again replaced rifled guns with smoothbore guns.

The reason is that rifled guns have unsolvable shortcomings: such as short life, complex process, high cost and low muzzle velocity.

However, the shortcomings of the instability of smoothbore artillery shells can be well solved...... If you can't change the cannon, change the shell so that it is stable in the air, even when fired from a smoothbore gun.

So there is a "tail stabilized deshelling armor-piercing projectile...... It has to be said that human wisdom is infinite, and its appearance allows the tank gun to avoid all the shortcomings of rifled guns, and at the same time has the advantages of long range and high hit rate of rifled guns. It can be said that it is the best of two shots.

"The point is on the shells, Colonel!" Qin Chuan said: "We need a new type of shell!" ”