How many tanks did Germany have during World War II? Let's barely count them, from number one, number two, all the way to number four, then the Tiger Leopard Style, and then the Tiger King. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

And that's not counting tank destroyers that extend from tanks, not counting alternative modifications of these tanks.

Throughout World War II, how complex were the German tank models? Just to give an example, you can see that the King Tiger tank even has a Porsche limited edition......

Such a complex tank model, on the entire battlefield, is a desperate logistical supply disaster!

A tank battalion, originally equipped with the No. 4 H tank, got a batch of Leopard G tanks - how can this be resupplied?

So the entire logistics army needs to prepare two completely different tank spare parts for such a tank battalion equipped with two tanks.

As a result, the logistics support unit of this battalion is twice as complex in size in terms of weapons and spare parts.

And then what? Is it just that the repair is a little more complicated, and the logistics of the armored forces is a little more complicated?

No, it's that your maintenance staff is required to be able to refine two different tank models, and none of them are the same, from the screws to the bearings......

So, these people who repair tanks are a little more depressed than those who come in to drive tanks - they don't die as the tanks are destroyed, they have to retreat to a safe place and wait for more tanks to be repaired.

However, these originally precious and very important tank maintenance soldiers found that they had added tanks that they had not repaired before--what an embarrassment......

When they finally learned to build a new tank, and one shell fell and two were killed, the commander was confronted with an even more awkward question: where do I find such a replenishment that can repair two tanks?

So the tragedy happened, there was a lack of repair parts, a lack of skilled soldiers who could repair tanks, a lack of fuel, and a large number of tanks could only be abandoned in the end.

Tiger tanks, Leopard tanks, King Tiger tanks, these ace tanks that are familiar to World War II fans, have become scrap metal that has been thrown on the side of the road and killed by their own grenades.

Then, everyone is left with the bad impression that they are unreliable and a waste of resources. Although there are reasons for these equipment in themselves, more often than not, it is due to another reason.

The reason for this is the collapse of the logistical guarantee system! Germany was one of the countries that paid the most attention to logistics within the Axis powers in World War II, but due to the influence of national strength, it also had to focus on the main combat forces.

Because of this, when the logistical collapse of 43 and 44 came, the combat effectiveness of the German army was greatly weakened.

When, on the frontal battlefield, the Allies had to replace one Tiger tank with five or more tanks, they forgot that the Germans lost two Leopard tanks on the road because they could not repair them.

The war was so brutal that after German industry had invested in developing new weapons, both sides threw their pressure on logistical support when the army misused all kinds of weapons to maintain a crumbling defensive line.

The inability to repair faulty tanks was only one reason for the massive non-combat attrition of German tanks, and the other was the problem of ammunition.

Although the German army developed tungsten core armor-piercing bullets, this new type of ammunition has not been popularized in large quantities, the reason is simple, tungsten alloy production capacity is insufficient.

Because of this, another catastrophic consequence was born - the over-complication of weapons and ammunition.

When a tank begins to be equipped with three or even four different types of ammunition, replenishing a tank battalion requires counting and transporting four different types of ammunition. Counting machine-gun bullets and grenades, this is simply another disaster.

In this way, the Germans made what should have been as simple as possible, or subtraction on the basis of sufficient, into an addition problem......

Are you naïve because that's the end of it? Wrong! Even with the same caliber of weapons and ammunition, the Germans played the complexity to a new level because of the different diameters.

The same tank gun, the same 88 mm caliber, ammunition between the Tiger tank and the King Tiger tank is not universal.

In addition, the 75 mm cannon of the same caliber, the shells used on the Leopard tank are not the same as those used in the fourth tank.

Who would have thought that the four main battle tanks used by the Germans in the war would have no similarities at all and have no common concept with each other.

By contrast, the Soviet focus has been on the T-34, which is said to have produced more than 50,000 units, while the American M4 Sherman has also produced tens of thousands.

But what about the number of tanks produced by the Germans? There are more than 5,700 No. 3 tanks, more than 8,500 No. 4 tanks, and less than 6,000 Leopard tanks......

There are more than 1,000 tanks in No. 1, more than 1,000 tanks in No. 2, more than 1,000 Tiger tanks, more than 1,000 38T tanks, and the total number of tanks of the six models is almost more than 25,000!

While one model was being produced, German industry was competing with more than four different models of tanks.

While the USSR and Americans were playing with assembly line standardized production, the Germans were producing art in tanks! Crafting their Porsche Limited Editions......

90 Ferdinand tank destroyers were produced, 85 Tiger tank destroyers, less than 500 King Tiger tanks, and 425 Geleopard tank destroyers!

When other countries were desperately striving for production, the Germans produced only a total of 100 tanks of various models!

If you think about it, these important German weapons production workers, those production workshops that were built with great difficulty, supplied weapons to the German armored forces at a rate of producing two wheels a day.

There are no spare parts to repair these weapons, there are no special vehicles for transportation, railway bridges cannot be used because of the different widths, and it is difficult to get to the front line, and it is necessary to keep enough ammunition in the rain of bullets......

If Germany can win World War II in this way, then it will be a real hell! Throughout World War II, Germany produced 22 types of vehicles, and only one of them exceeded 10,000 productions!

It's a pity that this one with a production of more than 10,000 is not everyone's favorite Leopard tank, nor is it the famous Tiger tank, but the No. 3 assault gun that is unknown and is nicknamed the three bald men by everyone!

And in the 44 years of the most difficult war, the only combat vehicle in Germany with a production of 2000 was the Hunter modified from the 38T tank chassis!

In addition, the only thing that Germany can handle in terms of production is the No. 4 tank and the Leopard tank......

Before Li Le crossed, he really wanted to know what the German logistics minister and those geniuses who organized production had in their heads.

It takes a lot of courage to produce and deploy 19 types of tanks and destroyers in the army in one go, not to mention that most of these 19 tanks are not yet closely related to each other.

Now, Li Le, who has crossed over, will never allow his army to be chaotic and equipped like this.

As the head of the German state, he has already put forward the requirements for the construction of the army's logistical support, stipulating that all the combat vehicles and weapons equipped by the troops must be reduced to 10 major categories.

Interestingly, according to the analysis of data from later generations, in fact, the German tank production capacity was not lower than that of the Americans and the Soviets.

This conclusion greatly surprised everyone, right? Common sense always believes that Germany's production capacity is not good, and it has been "completely exploded" by its opponents in terms of resources and production links.

But in horizontal comparison, when Germany began to mobilize production, the total production of medium tanks in 43 years was 11,000 units, and the Soviet Union was 17,000 units, and the gap had narrowed.

And in the 44th year of the twilight of the day, the German production of medium tanks was 15,000, and the Soviet Union was 16,000 - almost the same!

This proves that it is not raw materials or insufficient production capacity of workers that restricts the production of German tanks, but that they have wasted too many opportunities!

You know, Germany is also mass-producing submarine anti-aircraft guns and other weapons and equipment that the Soviet Union produced very low.

If, this time, Li Le enters the industrial mobilization ahead of schedule, and at the same time reduces the types of weapons and equipment produced, and concentrates the production capacity together, then he will be able to increase his own production capacity.

In the end, the result is not simply to combine production, but to concentrate effective production capacity on better equipment.

Together, they will enter the state of cluster assembly line production, and the quality of German workers will be combined with the advantages of traditional industry -- Germany will produce 30 percent more excellent tanks than before!

That's right! By shutting down the No. 3 production line and eliminating the boring Ferdinand and Tiger lines, the new No. 5 could more than double the production capacity of the Leopard.

If the performance is about the same, the extra Leopard tanks will give the Germans an extra 10 divisions!

Don't underestimate 10 Panzer Divisions, it may not sound like a lot, but in fact, Germany only had 46 Panzer Divisions in World War II. You must know that most of these armored divisions are not fully formed, and at least half of them are so-called "armored divisions" without tanks.

In such a situation, what a terrible enhancement is the construction of 10 more armored divisions for the army?

With 10 more armored divisions, Guderian may have taken Moscow! With 10 more panzer divisions, the Germans may have taken the Caucasus! 10 more armored divisions, Kursk is definitely another result!

Can Ferdinand and the Tiger Hunter tank destroyers stand up to the Soviet steel torrent on the entire Eastern Front with 100 of them? The answer is no.

But if the German commanders had 10 more panzer divisions, they might be able to confront the Soviet steel torrent and see whose waves were more ferocious!