In history, in order to deal with the possible outbreak of World War III in Europe, the U.S. military developed the M50 emergency equipment, no matter what the U.S. military did with it later, the original purpose of manufacturing this thing was indeed to use anti-tank.

At that time, NATO had just been established, and the whole of Europe was trembling in the shadow of the red monster, and even if it was as powerful as the US army, it did not dare to hope to shake the torrent of steel of the Soviet army head-on. The Soviet tank sea is too foul, coupled with a group of veterans of a hundred battles honed on the brutal Eastern Front, completely crushing the group of European armies that are strong and capable in terms of combat effectiveness.

At that time, NATO's armored forces, both in quantity and quality, could not compete with the Soviet Red Army, so in order to deal with the threat of Soviet tanks, the US military decided to develop a batch of targeted emergency equipment before the development of a new generation of heavy tanks to carry through this transition period. The M50 was developed and manufactured in this context.

Initially, the U.S. military wanted an anti-tank armored vehicle that could be mounted on a military glider and could be quickly deployed throughout Europe, which was a fairly advanced tactical idea at the time, and the 50 was classified as a tank destroyer at the time, and in order to be able to cram into the cabin of a heavy glider, it had to control the weight of the hull, the total weight could not exceed twenty tons, and there were strict standards for length, width and height.

At the same time, the vehicle had to be strong enough firepower to destroy the main tanks of the Soviet army at normal engagement distances, and it also had to have the ability to support infantry units on the battlefield. To be honest, the main tanks equipped by the US military at that time probably could not meet this kind of firepower requirements, which was verified by actual combat on the Korean battlefield. In order to penetrate the armor of the latest tanks of the Soviet army, the armor-piercing ability could not be less than 250 mm, and this indicator was not only achieved by a limited number of large-caliber cannons at close range until the fifties. It is obviously impossible for such a small car, which is strictly limited in weight, to carry this type of cannon.

However, the weapon designer Aris. Chalmers still figured it out, and he set his sights on the large-caliber recoilless gun. In the same caliber artillery group, the recoilless gun is the lightest, but the power of the ammunition does not decrease as a result.

The 106-mm M40 recoilless gun, developed by the US military in the mid-fifties, was created to deal with Soviet tanks. This large-caliber recoilless gun has a considerable armor-piercing capacity, and when it uses the M344A1 type HEAT (high-explosive armor-piercing projectile) produced in the United States, it has a penetrating depth of an astonishing 700 millimeters, and the effective firing range has also increased to 1,300 meters.

The only drawback of this artillery was that the rate of fire was relatively slow, and a well-trained firing group could only maintain a rate of fire of one shot per minute, which meant that in dangerous anti-tank operations, the designer of the 50's Aris. Chalmers cleverly made up for this defect with a seemingly stupid method, since he could only fire one shot in battle, so he simply loaded a few more, anyway, the total weight of this kind of artillery was only two hundred kilograms.

As a result, he added an enclosed armored fighting compartment to the full-track chassis developed by Cadillac for the M56 paratrooper self-propelled anti-tank gun, and then added six M40s to the roof and sides, completing a strange-looking but powerful tank sniper.

When the M50 was developed, it did not achieve the expected success, and the U.S. Army canceled the original weapons order. Because the army found that it was completely possible to carry the M40 recoilless gun in an ordinary jeep, which was more mobile and maintainable, and the price was relatively low.

Fortunately, at that time, the U.S. Marine Corps was looking everywhere for vehicles that could be used to attack tanks, and the Ma Run had reached the point of starvation, and the fourth-class people were not qualified to be picky eaters. The Marines classified this vehicle as a self-propelled gun and were so pleased with its performance that they ordered a total of 297 M50s over a period of three years.

The story is also known to everyone, this kind of car, which was originally used to play with the Red Army tanks, but in the tropical jungles and rice fields of Vietnam, the cannon fire from the six-barreled salvo became a nightmare that North Vietnamese soldiers will never forget.

And the German army's "Scorpion" tank destroyer, except for the different chassis and artillery, is almost a copy of the M50. Xu Jun borrowed the design concept of the M50, and it was just a concept, and the Führer did not have a drawing of this kind of vehicle in his hand, and this kind of car was beyond the age of the database.

Xu Jun was also unable to build the M40 recoilless gun, which was developed only in the mid-fifties, but he had a similar version of the German army, as well as a complete set of drawings for the M20 75mm recoilless gun system that the U.S. military was equipped with in the latter part of World War II. The German army's 105mm LG40 recoilless gun is the technological pioneer of the large-caliber recoilless gun group, and the US military has borrowed a lot of German technology in its own research and development of recoilless guns.

And the territory of this destroyer is not exactly copied from the "Stalker", because there is no need to install that gun, so it is completely possible to reduce the height of the vehicle some more. Today, the Scorpion is only two meters high, weighs only 13 tons, and has armor about the same thickness as the Stalker, enough to withstand most Soviet small arms attacks, including their favorite anti-tank rifles.

There were four crew members, a commander, a radioman, a driver and a gunner, and there were no loaders in the crew, because when the six guns were fired, all of them would be loaders.

A large hatch was opened above the rear armor of the hull for quick entry and exit for crew members. The way this artillery is laid out means that it is impossible to reload under enemy fire, so Xu Jun's tactics for this kind of fighter vehicle are exactly the same as those of the M50, that is, to pour fire on the enemy and leave after the fight when the situation is not right.

Guderian was well aware of the strategic shortcomings of the German army, and the top brass of the historical high command also knew it, but the success of the campaign on the Western Front was too smooth, so that most of them deliberately ignored these problems.

When the Germans went to war on the Eastern Front, they did not even think about whether it would be a war of attrition, and whether the blitzkrieg model would still work in the vast territory of the Soviet Union, no one even seriously considered this. Even Guderian sensed the problem, but only felt that this was another strategic adventure of Hitler, and did not think that the German army would encounter the possibility of defeat.

In fact, the High Command also knew that with the strength of Germany, it was impossible to annex the entire Soviet Union, and one of the plans put forward by the Operations Bureau of the High Command was to fight a high-intensity blitzkrieg that would last nine to seventeen weeks, and they drew a bottom line on the map, starting from Arkhangelsk in the White Sea (Arctic Sea) across Soviet territory to the seaside town of Astrakhan on the Caspian Sea. This was the famous AA line, and it was Erich who proposed this plan at the time, who was the chief staff officer of the War Bureau. Lieutenant General Max (the lame general in the movie "The Longest Day" who is preparing to land in Normandy during the Battle Flag Deduction of the High Command. ）。

Now that these conditions had changed, the Germans had abandoned the initiative to attack and moved to all-out defense, which was a wise choice for Guderian, and the new Führer was a strategic genius. However, Guderian was not satisfied with fixed-point defense, he was an expert in tank warfare, and in his opinion, only by adopting mobile defense could the German armored forces play their true value.

He has always advocated the development of armored forces, that is, to prepare for mobile defensive operations, tanks are not buried in the ground as pillboxes, armored troops should be like the cuirassiers of the year, using excellent mobility to disrupt the enemy's combat deployment, using powerful firepower to destroy the enemy's living forces, destroying the enemy's supply logistics, and destroying the enemy's command system.

Looking at this majestic car at this moment, Guderian couldn't help but look forward to its performance on the test ground.

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