Just when the battle of the Kaluga tank was in full swing, in the temporary military station outside the city of Minsk, Karyus looked helplessly at the members of his crew.

Poor Erich stood idly beside Karjus with his hands in his pockets and a straw in his mouth.

William the Loader is a tall and large man, standing behind the thinner Karjus, as if he were a bodyguard.

Joseph and Gun Commander Tyre were standing not far away, and the two of them were sharing the cigarettes they had just received with several comrades of the 505th Armored Battalion.

Next to the railroad tracks, there are makeshift cranes, and some concrete ramps used to unload heavy weapons and equipment.

It's a makeshift place, surrounded by the wilderness. In order not to affect the normal life of the residents of Minsk, all the military operations of the German army were set up outside the city.

"It's really annoying and exciting to give our tanks to the 2nd Panzer Division, and let us come here to receive new equipment......" Commander Tyre didn't know when he finished his cigarette and walked behind Karjus.

"Who knows what tank...... Maybe it's just a new Leopard tank. Karjus shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently.

In his opinion, the Leopard tank under his command was already very good weaponry, and he didn't even dare to hope that there would be new weapons and equipment to replace the Leopard tank.

Trains in the distance are approaching the station, and the railroad soldiers are beginning to maintain order at the station. The surrounding sentinels were asked to stay away from the tracks, and in the distance they could see a row of canvas-covered flatbed cars behind the train.

"The equipment of the 505 battalion! The equipment of the 505 battalion has arrived! All soldiers of the 505th Independent Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion, please be prepared to receive your equipment! "Suppose there is a loudspeaker on the side of a wooden house, and the stationmaster's chime is repeated over and over again.

The train stopped in the small station, and the railroad soldiers next to it were busy preparing things for the train to return - this is a single-track fork, and a train comes in and has to go back the same way.

Therefore, there is also a staggered track outside the small station, which is used to adjust the direction of the head of the train and use it when the train returns the same way.

The flatbed car just stopped at the edge of the platform, and the soldiers escorting the goods jumped out of the car to smoke and rest, and for a while the small station was so busy with smoke and miasma.

As the canvas on the train was ripped off, Karjus saw the new tanks – or rather, half-new – that had been delivered to the front......

The chassis design of the Leopard tank is so classic that it can be used for 30 years.

So there was no need to improve the chassis of the Leopard tank, only simple tinkering was needed.

The improvement of the turret was a top priority this time, with thicker armor on both sides and the main thing being an increase in the volume of the turret.

The improved Leopard tank had a wider turret, and the turret was only a little narrower than the hull when viewed from the front.

The new volume can be used to carry more shells, as well as more fuel.

And the latest improvement of this tank is actually intrinsic - the German tank used a high-power diesel engine for the first time, and finally went back to the right direction of technology.

Diesel engines have more torque and are more suitable for heavy equipment vehicles such as tanks. This is also the reason why heavy trucks use diesel engines more.

Even in later generations, in order to pursue power, diesel engines were used in pickup trucks and small vehicles instead of gasoline engines.

And there is another advantage of using a diesel engine, that is, diesel is somewhat less ignitable than gasoline - this can somewhat suppress the phenomenon of some bullets and fires.

However, the fire is definitely not as magical as the legend, and the diesel fuel tank will also be ignited and exploded by ammunition, but the probability is lower.

The rumor that the diesel engine will not catch fire has been slapped in the face countless times by the T-34 and the T-54 and even the later T-72, and it is still in vogue.

With the addition of a diesel engine, the new Leopard tank already has better maneuverability, stronger off-road and load-bearing capacity, and can be called one of the best maneuverable tanks in this era.

As the weight of the tank increases, the Leopard tank can theoretically be equipped with a larger caliber gun - but because the tank gun is overflowing at this stage, the German top brass has not yet rushed to install the new gun on the new tank.

After all, the current 88 mm caliber cannon, which is more used against T-26 and KV-1 tanks, is completely sufficient.

As for the appearance of the Stalin 2 tank or a large number of T-34 tanks, it is not difficult to replace it with more powerful artillery.

Now, in order to unify logistics and supply, 88 mm caliber cannons of the same caliber and ammunition are used, which is purely for convenience and management needs.

Of course, another major improvement was the elimination of the heading machine gun design on the front of the tank.

This improvement point is entirely due to the fact that in real combat, this course-oriented machine gun, which looks very useful, seriously weakens the strength of the tank's frontal armor.

The reason for the installation of a heading machine gun in World War II tanks is, on the one hand, to help the driver to grasp his own direction, and on the other hand, to find a job for the electromechanical engineer in a combat state.

Manipulating machine guns to slaughter and replenish soldiers was also a compulsory course for many tank mechanics in World War II. It's just that as the armor of the tank becomes thicker and thicker, the course machine gun becomes more and more chicken.

In order to ensure that the heading machine gun has a certain firing range, the armor around the heading machine gun must be reduced accordingly to ensure space for the machine gun to swing left and right.

Creating a cavity in a single piece of armor has a serious impact on the strength of the entire armor, and also increases the difficulty of the production process.

Therefore, in the more than ten years after the end of World War II, countries have successively eliminated the design of the course machine gun.

Li Le advanced this process by twenty years, which not only reduced the production links, reduced the production cost, but also increased the frontal protection strength of the tank.

The only problem was that the mechanics became a "non-combatant" in the tank, without the task of strafing the infantry......

Seeing the new tank, the face of the electromechanical officer Joseph turned green - he did not have a combat mission, not to mention, in a combat state, only a periscope could observe the surrounding situation!

To put it bluntly, he now has only one way to remind his comrades to avoid the threats to him around him.

But if you think about it, this doesn't really have a big impact: the course machine gun can take care of nothing more than a small frontal sector of the Leopard tank.

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