Porsche believes that the weight of 45 tons is too heavy for the mechanical drivetrain! It is easy to cause mechanical failure, so he developed a fly-by-wire drive across the ages!

Behind the chassis of this tank, there are two air-cooled Porsche Type 101/1 engines, each producing 310 horsepower. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info this engine, not directly drive the track.

The engine drives the generator, which in turn powers the two electric motors, which in turn drive the tank forward, which is the standard electric drive.

He did not use a diesel engine, the characteristic of the diesel engine is low torque, and now to drive the generator, it is useless to have low torque, the important thing is power! The power of the diesel engine under the same weight is not comparable to that of the gasoline engine.

This concept is very advanced. In later generations, all-electric propulsion was popular, and even warships did so.

However, in today's world, this kind of advanced design means terrible mechanical failures! After all, the industrial base of this era is not yet able to support such an advanced design!

In this regard, Ciric also suffered, when the Panther tank was forced to reduce to 20 tons, which was the reason why the mechanical manufacturing was not up to standard, and it took several years to achieve a breakthrough and truly mature.

Hitler trusted Porsche very much, and in the face of this tank, Hitler looked up and down and kept asking questions, while Dr. Porsche smiled and answered them one by one.

The crowd around him, especially the Henschel company, knew that Hitler's preferences mattered.

"Ciric, what do you think of this tank's chassis?" Hitler asked Chirek with great interest.

It was just an ordinary question, but when it was done, everyone fell silent, and if Ciric agreed, then it could be said that there was nothing to do with Henschel.

"I just want to know, how long did it take for this tank chassis to drive from a nearby railway station?" Ciric asked.

This is simply an irrelevant question, and this question makes Porsche's old face red.

For how long? The train station is only fifteen kilometers here, but it took two whole days to walk!

Why? Because there are so many failures of the chassis!

"It's all Siemens' problem, the engines they produce are not reliable, but I believe that these engines will gradually become reliable, and our chassis is the most advanced." Dr. Porsche did not answer Ciric's question directly, but explained it directly.

When I came over, the motor on one side suddenly stopped spinning, checked for a few hours, troubleshooting, and continued to set off for less than five minutes, and the gasoline engine did not turn again!

It was simply a series of failures, and Dr. Porsche was very depressed.

Now, let Ciric get to the point in one sentence, and he has more awe of Ciric, at the beginning, Dr. Porsche was introduced by Ciric to develop the Beetle. And now, no matter how high Dr. Porsche climbs, he has to respect Ciric's opinion.

Ciric shook his head: "Dr. Porsche, your concept is very advanced, but our troops, what we need are simple and reliable tanks, and our tank crews cannot be equipped with a tank that constantly breaks down." ”

"General Ciric, we can eliminate all these faults in half a year!" Porsche, blushing, said to Ciric.

"Then until the end of the year. Two more months for you. "If the fault can't be eliminated, then I'm sorry." ”

Dr. Porsche is the chief consultant for the development of tanks, but Ciric has the power to decide life and death, and Dr. Porsche knows that if his tank has been faulty, it will definitely not be finalized.

Ciric knew that needless to say, after half a year, these faults were eliminated, and it was impossible to solve it in two or three years, and in later generations, Porsche's various projects were aborted, until the 188-ton mouse tank, which was considered to have developed this system to maturity and reached the point where it could be used.

Hitler, of course, was also a sensible person, and after hearing the conversation between Ciric and Porsche, he knew that Ciric could see the problem with this tank at a glance, and he couldn't help but lose his interest.

"Let's take a look at this one again." Hitler came to the side of another chassis.

Henschel's technicians, excited.

Porsche has only been established for ten years, while Henschel is an old enterprise.

Founded in the early 1800s as a manufacturer of heavy machinery such as railway locomotives, the Henschel plant in Kassel, eastern Germany, has expanded its project to include almost every aspect of locomotives, tank diesel engines, trucks, airplanes and artillery.

And now, the technician who followed Hitler was the head of the Tiger tank project and the chief designer of the Irving Adel.

Owen cautiously introduced to Hitler: "The chassis of our tank adopts a conventional layout, and we commissioned the Maybach company to expand the diesel engine they produce, and the power reached 730 horsepower, which can be further increased to 780 horsepower in the later stage, or even more than 800 horsepower." ”

What to do when the engine is not running out of horsepower? The simplest is to expand the chamber, that is, to increase the displacement!

Of course, this results in parts that are not universal and almost all of them have to be remanufactured, but it is also the fastest way to improve performance.

Historically, the Tiger used a 21-litre 12-cylinder Maybach HL210 P30 petrol engine that produced 650 hp, but unfortunately it still couldn't power the 56-ton Tiger tank.

Maybach quickly upgraded it to the HL230 P45 23-litre 700 hp, which allowed the Tiger to reach a maximum speed of 38 km/h, which was done by expanding the chamber.

The technology is very mature, so you don't have to worry about additional failures.

Now it seems that 60 tons is a very large number, but in later generations, which of the urban muck trucks is not 60 tons? Many of the trailers on the highway are hundred-ton kings, and it is not impossible for this normal mechanical device to drive dozens of tons of weight.

Moreover, the technicians of the Henschel company were much more thoughtful in the design of this tank, and its transmission system was much more advanced!

How advanced is it? For example, even the 96 tank of later generations did not reach its level. (I don't know if it's right to say this, you can discuss it in the book review area, if it's really wrong, East China Zhixiong will delete this sentence again.) Our tanks, inherited from the Russian durable and simple advantages, are really not the pursuit of advanced performance. ）