"Your Majesty, the 'Black Panther' tank we are equipped with is very advanced. According to the information we have received, the tanks of other countries cannot be compared with our "Black Panther" tanks, and our "Black Panther" tanks are at least five years ahead of them! The commander of the 8th Army, Colonel-General Guderian, smiled.

As one of the commanders of the two Panzer armies of the Imperial Army, Admiral Guderian was now full of ambition. He was very much looking forward to the war that was about to break out. Expect to be able to lead the armies of the German Empire and defeat a formidable enemy. In that case, he would be able to obtain the coveted Marshal's Scepter.

Manstein, who was a staff officer, was already one step ahead of them, becoming the Imperial Field Marshal, and becoming the Minister of War and Chief of the General Staff. This made both General Guderian and the commander of the 9th Army, General Rommel, very envious. You must know that before the last world war, when Qin Tian was the commander of the 8th Army, he attached great importance to the three of them.

Qin Tian nodded, the performance of the 'Black Panther' tank is indeed very advanced. As a traverser, he knows the flaws of the 'Black Panther' tank in another time and space. Therefore, he also personally participated in the design of this type of tank, found all those flaws, and improved them. This has greatly improved the performance of the 'Panther' tank now equipped by the German army.

Qin Tian knew that if war broke out, the 'Black Panther' tank would be the main tank of the German armored forces. At least, in the early or even mid-war period, the huge number of 'Panther' tanks will become the most powerful armored weapon for the German armored forces to crush other countries. As for the more advanced tanks, due to production and cost reasons, they will not replace the main position of the 'Panther' tank in the armored forces in a short time.

The 'Panther' tank, weighing 38 tons, is 8.66 meters long (with barrel), 3.22 meters wide and 2.68 meters high. It adopts a 1,000-horsepower Maybach gasoline engine, with a maximum speed of 60 kilometers per hour, and a maximum travel distance of 250 kilometers without auxiliary fuel tanks and 500 kilometers with auxiliary fuel tanks. The tank gun was a 52x caliber 75 mm tank gun, equipped with cap-piercing shells, tungsten carbide core armor-piercing shells, hollow-charge high-explosive shells and tracer shells.

"How much is the production of our 'Panther' tanks now?" Qin Tian asked.

"Your Majesty, the current monthly production of 'Black Panther' tanks is three hundred. If war breaks out, this production can be quickly increased to six hundred! If necessary, it can even be raised to nine hundred! "said the Chief of the General Staff, Marshal Manstein.

Qin Tian nodded, this output is not low. The 'Black Panther' tank has only been in mass production since last year. At present, only the 8th and 9th armies are equipped. The other 10 group armies are still equipped with the 'Leopard 4' tanks or even the 'Leopard 3' or 'Leopard 2' tanks produced before. The previous tanks still have a lot of immaturity in terms of performance, and their reliability is also insufficient. So, the production is not large. In the German Army's plan, they will be replaced with 'Panther' tanks one after another.

In wartime, if the monthly output of 900 'Black Panther' tanks can be increased, it will be more than 10,000 in a year. This yield seems to be very high. But the various losses of tanks during the war were also very large. In addition to being destroyed by enemy tanks, more of them were lost due to various mechanical failures. Therefore, it is necessary to have a large number of tanks to replenish the front line at any time, so as to maintain the strong assault capability of the armored forces.

You know, in another time and space, Russia's T-34 tanks have produced more than 80,000 units. If Germany wants to conquer other powers in this time and space, it will inevitably need more tanks. Therefore, in Qin Tian's opinion, even if it is increased to a monthly output of 900 'Black Panther' tanks, it is still slightly insufficient.

"Let's find a way to increase production even further. After the outbreak of war, we will be able to increase the monthly production of our 'Black Panther' tanks to 1,200 or even 1,500 units. The production of more powerful tanks in the future, if they are to be mass-produced, also needs to be further increased. In this way, our armored forces will be able to have enough tanks in the event of a war. Qin Tian said.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Field Marshal Manstein nodded. He knew that because of Qin Tian's order, the arsenal responsible for producing tanks had to be expanded, more production lines were installed, and more workers had to be recruited.

Qin Tian spent three days in the 8th Army before leaving Warsaw and returning to Berlin.

The tank factory of the Deutsche Arsenal on the outskirts of Berlin is working overtime to produce the most advanced tanks for the German army. The 'Panther' tank is nothing more than a medium tank, although it is advanced enough to beat any tank in other countries. However, the German Army needed a more powerful tank that could handle the powerful tanks of other countries with thick armor. For example, once the Burussia and Russia are defeated on the battlefield, they will soon launch the KV series of heavy tanks. The KV tank with thick skin and flesh, the 75mm tank gun of the 'Panther' tank will be quite difficult to deal with.

It was precisely in order to guard against this that the German Army, at Qin Tian's request, developed a more powerful heavy tank. Now the production is the 'Tiger 3' tank. The previous 'Tiger 1' tank and 'Tiger 2' tank were both experimental in nature. Because of the immaturity of the technology, the performance of the tank in all aspects was not able to achieve the expected results. So, only a very small number was produced for testing. It wasn't until the latest 'Tiger 3' tank that its performance matured and mass production began.

The Tiger 3 tank, named the Tiger tank, will be used mainly to equip the heavy tank brigades of the Panzer Army, the heavy tank battalions of the Panzer Corps of other armies, and so on. The Tiger tank costs much more than the Panther tank. Therefore, at present, there will be no large-scale mass production, only small batches of production, which will be used to equip the main forces. On the battlefield, they will also take on the role of the sharp knives of the armored forces. Unless the performance of the enemy's tanks is greatly improved and the 'Panther' tanks are very difficult to deal with, the 'Tiger' tanks will be mass-produced on a large scale and equipped with troops.

Of course, if that time had come, the German Army would have developed a more powerful tank. For example, advanced tanks equipped with 105 mm tank guns, or even main battle tanks equipped with 120 mm smoothbore guns with tail stabilized shelling armor-piercing shells, and so on.