Chapter 435: The Night Sparrow and the Owl
Historically, the failure of the Battle of Nomenkan is related to many factors, among them, equipment is an important aspect, the Soviet Union at that time, already had a variety of advanced tanks, and Japan, or only ten tons of tanks, although they also call these tanks medium tanks, but in fact, they are only Western light tanks. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
This kind of tank, if you want to fight against Soviet tanks, of course, it is very disadvantageous.
At this time in history, Japan's main equipment was Type 89 and Type 97 tanks, and even the Type 97 tank was only 15 tons, which could not compete with Soviet tanks at all.
However, in this time and space, things have changed a lot.
A few years ago, the 23rd Division, led by Lieutenant General Michitaro Komatsubara, visited German tanks, and they were amazed by this advanced tank, so they began to order from Germany.
They had planned to order only one prototype, and with the design drawings, the German side offered 1 million marks, which is already quite an unbelievable figure.
However, the islanders obediently complied, and the islanders needed the Panther tanks.
However, when they got all the design drawings and prototypes of the Panther tank to the island country, they found that their own craftsmanship was not up to standard, resulting in low production.
As a result, they continued to ask Germany for help, and as a result, they continued to buy 100 Panther tanks at the price of 800,000 Reichsmarks, all of which were equipped with the Kwantung Army.
At the same time, just this year, their tank-building process finally passed the test, and they developed their own tank, based on the German Panther 2 tank, and, moreover, adopted a new naming convention, called a type tank.
This kind of tank, in fact, is very similar to the Type 4 tank of later generations, and on the whole, it has the shadow of the Panther tank everywhere, and it is simply a direct use of the design of the Panther tank.
Of course, there are also differences, for example, in terms of engines, they improved their existing engines and came up with a V-shaped 12-cylinder air-cooled diesel engine with a maximum power of 412 horsepower, which is quite enough.
In terms of tank guns, the existing 50-mm tank guns in Germany were also considered not powerful enough, so they directly purchased 75-mm anti-aircraft guns from Bofors and stuffed them into their own turrets.
This new tank, in terms of performance, definitely surpasses the Soviet tanks, and with these advanced weapons, they are full of confidence!
In short, Ciric knows that the weapons of the islanders are already more advanced than in history, so they will definitely fight longer than in history!
Drag the Soviets! When the Soviets discovered the threat in the Far East, did the Soviets dare to start another war in the West to seize German territory?
As long as Stalin was not insane, he should have known that Germany must no longer be provoked.
In this way, Germany can confidently and boldly move westward! As long as France was quickly defeated, the Soviet Union should have known that it was absolutely wrong to provoke Germany.
Only Germany took the initiative to attack, and the USSR did not dare to take the initiative to attack Germany! What a thunderstorm plan, eat all the.
Moreover, not only in the east, Ciric is also in the west, looking for something for the Soviet Union, Finland, and now the friction with the Soviet Union is also getting bigger and bigger, the east is fighting the island country, and the west is fighting Finland, and the Soviet Union can still free up its hands to find trouble for Germany?
As long as the war in the Far East is together, the empire will no longer have to worry about the future!
Ciric finally didn't have any worries, signed the official order, and waved the scythe operation, starting tonight!
The order quickly reached the front, and after receiving the order, the powerful SS Panzer Division was again dispatched.
The Ardennes are located on forested plateaus in southeastern Belgium, northern Luxembourg and northeastern France. It covers an area of about 10,000 square kilometers. As you can see from the map, this place has been a strategic place in Central Europe since ancient times, and it is also known as the Ardennes Forest because of its many forests.
In the forest, the advance of large forces is quite difficult, and the infantry is already difficult, not to mention the armored ones!
No one would have imagined that the use of armored forces to cross the Ardennes Forest would be an absolutely whimsical idea.
At the same time, it is also the closest to success!
The plan was proposed by Manstein, and at the same time, some radical staff officers led by Manstein worked out, but it was still Guderian who really undertook this task, the SS Panzer Division!
The hardest battles will be left to the SS!
Historically, it was Guderian who undertook the crossing of the Ardennes Forest area, but at that time he led the main force of the 19th Panzer Army, and now, he led the SS Panzer Division, and the combat effectiveness is even more incomparable.
The 1st Panzer Division was still at the forefront of the marching queue, and in front of them was the small country of Luxembourg. This country in the land of projectiles has almost no resistance at all.
Division commander Joseph Dietrich, sitting on a tank, at this time, his tank unit, has completed a new round of redressing.
The tank is actually the same as the original tank, the Panther 3 of the One Water, but with some improvements, for example, on the top of the tank turret, there is a large round searchlight-like thing.
This thing consumes quite a lot of power, and for this reason, the engine of the Panther 3 tank has also been improved, and it has been replaced with a more powerful generator to drive this large "searchlight" above.
Although it is called a searchlight, it does not emit light, or rather, the light it emits is invisible to the naked eye because it emits infrared rays!
Infrared rays can only be received with a special receiving device, which is the image converter installed in front of the commander, and with this device, everything in front of the car can be seen clearly at night.
These installations, all of which were the most secret, were so far equipped only to the armoured divisions of the Waffen-SS due to limited production.
Codenamed Night Sparrow, it is a set of cross-era systems developed by Germany in this era in order to win the war!
In this era, the aiming of tanks is all visual, and tank combat at night is impossible, and the appearance of night sparrows completely changes all this, which will give Germany a completely new advantage!
In the dark night, using this system, you can also see the distance of 600 meters in front, but if you fight at night, this distance is still too close, so along with the night sparrow system, there is also an owl system.
It's the equivalent of a bigger searchlight, and if you want to see far, you'll have to use a bigger flashlight! This owl system, a large searchlight mounted on the chassis of a wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, is ten times more powerful than a single vehicle, and can shine at a distance of 1,500 meters in front.
Therefore, in actual use, several tanks equipped with night sparrows, accompanied by an owl system, can make them easier in battle.
And now, with this system, they can also advance quickly at night, like now!
"Attention of the whole division, according to the original plan, move forward!" When Guderian's message was received, Dietrich's voice sounded on the radio, Forward!
Tanks rumble, diesel engines roar, and after a simple warm-up, the infrared headlights on the top are turned on.