Talk to yourself? Ciric is very strange, and it is not the time when he is not married, to talk about how to his daughter, now, what else is there to talk about?

Of course, it's not a private matter, then it must be a public matter!

"Okay, I'm done here, I'll go back with you. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 "Just go talk to my father." ”

It's time to talk about it, the last time I went to the Soviet Union, I was fooling around building a few warships, and the main guns on them were all in charge of the Krupp company, especially the 406-mm heavy gun to be developed in the future, which was also the responsibility of the Krupp company, and they had to conduct pre-research in advance.

Now, there are quite a lot of projects in the Navy, and the Navy's own battleships also need Krupp to be responsible for the guns on them, and the armor on the battleships is manufactured by Krupp and Rheinland, and these need to be implemented as soon as possible, so it's time to communicate with Gustav.

On the way back, Ciric was thinking about all this, but he was so tired that he soon fell asleep on one side, in Hannah's arms.

In his sleep, Ciric's mind seemed to capture something, but he couldn't.

"No, we absolutely cannot accept such a tank! This simply does not meet the needs of our armored forces! ”

"This tank, it's rubbish! We'd rather continue to train with cardboard and cars than never have this kind of thing! ”

Back in Berlin, Ciric learned that Gustav was not in the manor, and went directly to Krupp's factory, and now Gustav is already a workaholic.

Outside the factory's office, Ciric heard a commotion. This voice is familiar to Ciric.

Pushing open the door, Ciric saw Guderian with an ugly face, arguing with Gustav with a flushed face, and several personnel from the Weapons Bureau, all of whom were Ciric's subordinates.

"What's going on?" Ciric asked.

Seeing Ciric coming back, Guderian was immediately overjoyed: "Ciric, you come to give us a review, they want to reduce the production of our Black Panther tanks!" ”

Reduced production of black panthers? Ciric looked at Gustav with a puzzled gaze.

"Minister Cirek, I've wanted to talk to you about this for a long time, but you've been busy, so it's been delayed until now." Gustav had an apologetic face, although in private, Gustav was Ciric's father-in-law, but in business, Ciric coordinated the development of all weapons.

"That's right, after a small batch of trial production, we found that we want to mass-produce the Panther tank on a large scale, and we don't have the conditions yet, among them, the most critical thing is the high-quality torsion bar, which we are very difficult to manufacture." "At the beginning, we didn't care about the cost of a prototype vehicle, but now, our production model, with its high-quality torsion bar, is difficult to process and the production volume is very low," says Gustav. ”

Torsion bar! Ciric was in his head, finally catching something.

No matter what kind of transportation, it needs to be suspended, such as the wheels of a car, which are definitely not directly connected to the frame, in that case, the people inside will be extremely bumpy.

And the tank, too, needs to be suspended! The Christie suspension, which relied on large springs, was very popular in this era, and at the same time, in later generations, it was almost all the world of torsion bars.

Torsion bar suspension is a form of suspension that relies on the elasticity of torsion springs (also known as torsion bars) to support the car body and absorb shock and vibration.

To put it simply, it is a rod that can be twisted, horizontally at the bottom of the tank, one end is fixed on the car body, one end is connected to the fixed end of the swing arm, the fixed end of the swing arm is connected to the car body, and the movable end is connected to the load-bearing wheel.

When the load wheel is stressed upward, it will drive the swing arm to rotate around the fixed end, and tighten the torsion bar, and the elastic force generated when the torsion bar is tightened reacts on the swing arm and is transmitted to the load wheel to produce a supporting force.

This is the most space-saving, and at the same time the most efficient form of suspension, and in later generations, almost all tanks, were in this way.

It has been well balanced in terms of weight, volume, activity stroke, reliability, and cost.

However, that is the Hereafter!

Now, at the end of just 33 years, there is still a big gap between the development of industrial technology and future generations!

And the manufacture of high-quality torsion bars requires a large amount of rare metals such as vanadium and chromium, and now even if they can be imported from the Soviet Union and other countries, the cost is very high!

In addition to the torsion bar, there are other aspects that are also difficult, such as long-barreled tank guns, such as load-bearing wheels with glue.

"Then we'd rather wait than have this kind of tank!" Guderian was quite determined.

Such a tank? Ciric paused for a moment, looked at Gustav with a puzzled look, and saw Gustav continue to say apologetically: "I'm sorry, in fact, in the past few years, we have been developing other tank models. Now, a prototype has been built. ”

Other models of tanks!

At that time, Ciric took a large group of people and ran into the desert, and he went for several years, and in the past few years, no news has flowed out, only various materials have been continuously sent to the desert.

To what extent have their tanks been developed? Nobody knows.

Can it be successfully developed? No one knows, either!

So, in this case, domestic research and development also began. The German Ordnance Agency secretly asked the five companies Henschel, MANN, Rheinmeita, Krupp, and Daimler-Benz to design and build three prototypes each.

As a result, Krupp secretly built a prototype LKA1 weighing only 6 tons, with a body more than four meters long, 4 balanced suspension large-diameter load wheels and 4 carrier pulleys on each side, the rear inducing wheels, and 2 machine guns mounted on the turret, using an air-cooled diesel engine produced by Krupp.

When he heard this, Ciric understood, isn't this the No. 1 tank?

Instead of looking at the prototypes that stayed in the factory, Ciric just glanced at the drawings and knew that this was the No. 1 tank of the later generations!

History is really stubborn, and I want to continue to develop along the original trajectory!

After that, Ciric returned, and these Krupp tanks, which had already completed trial production, suddenly fell behind and became a toy-like existence!

These tanks would never have appeared again, but now, there is a low production of Panther tanks!

How can we develop our tank forces as quickly as possible? At this time, Krupp put forward a proposal to simply produce a batch of light tanks of its own design while producing Panther tanks in small batches!

After the application was submitted, the Ordnance Department fully agreed, and gave the standard number of Sd.Kfz.101 to approve mass production!

So, production began in the factory, and at this time, Guderian learned the news and immediately returned from the desert area, very excited to reject the plan!

It weighs less than 10 tons, can hold a 37-mm gun at most, and has only 2 internal members, is such a tank for armored divisions? Don't, don't!