Chapter 139 Made by Krupp (Two Shifts and One Shift)

When Albert suddenly appeared in front of Krupp, he almost startled the other party. Although the old man is already the top decision-maker of Krupp, he still often goes to the noisy front-line factories to check the progress. Albert also didn't find him in the office, so he went to the factory to find him.

At this time, Alfred Krupp was watching the workers in a hot manner welding steel plates, Albert stepped over to the place where the steel scrap was placed, quietly walked to him, and was about to shout out to the Lord Krupp to scare him, but found that the voice was too loud and covered up his shouting.

Albert had no choice but to pat Krupp on the shoulder from behind, and Krupp, who was concentrating on instructing the workers, noticed that someone was patting him behind him, and when he turned around, he saw Albert standing in front of him with a smile on his face, which startled him.

"Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince, how come you have time to inspect the factory?" In Krupp's impression, Albert was a big donor who didn't care about the process, and several times Krupp wanted to call to report on the progress, but the reply was that the crown prince was not there. However, although the crown prince is not there, the funds are in place very well. So over time, Krupp almost forgot about this crown prince.

"What's going on? M109A6 Type 155 mm self-propelled gun. Albert has great expectations for the revolutionary self-propelled guns of the M109 family. The M109A6 model can be said to be a special product in the process of changing from a mechanized warfare form to an informationized warfare form, and the M109A6 155 mm self-propelled howitzer produced after thorough improvement has reached the highest level of comprehensive combat performance compared with any model in the M109 series, and many military experts believe that the potential of the M109 series self-propelled guns has been exhausted, and its capabilities have reached its limit, and it is worthless and impossible to improve it again.

In addition to the breakthrough major technical measures, the body tube is lengthened and the use of high-performance propellants, that is, the original M126 double-diameter body tube is replaced with an M185-type 39-diameter body tube, and the body tube is increased from 3.7 meters to 6.1 meters. At the same time, the M119 propellant was adopted, which greatly increased the range. The technical achievements used in the M109A6 self-propelled gun almost contain the most advanced high-tech achievements in contemporary times, including C4I technology, satellite positioning and navigation technology, information technology, modular launch charge technology, digital tactical shooting command system, etc., of course, Albert in this era has not been able to complete these things, so it can only lay a good foundation for information technology first, and then equip it when the scientific and technological development tree is mature enough.

"Well, the development of the artillery barrel is almost over, and further design of the body is being prepared." Krupp replied honestly, "The engine development work of Porsche AG and BMW AG is almost in the advanced stage, and if the current progress continues, it is expected that the first self-propelled gun that can be tested in practice will be available by the end of next year." Of course, most of the credit goes to His Royal Highness Albert's detailed blueprints, but I have a question I don't know whether to ask or not. ”

Albert waved his hand and said generously, "Tell me, I'm not the kind of person who is stingy. ”

"That design drawing is really drawn by His Royal Highness Albert himself, not to mention how much labor is required for all the design drawings of a self-propelled gun, just so many revolutionary designs in it, I'm afraid His Highness Albert can't complete it alone, right?"

Krupp had long suspected that there was a large team of geniuses behind this blueprint, and even if His Highness Albert had a talent in military affairs that ordinary people could hardly match, a self-propelled gun covered more than just military design. For example, the two-stroke eight-cylinder diesel engine, Jack Sabrino privately approached himself, saying that it was too advanced, and that the United States, the Soviet Union, and Germany could only make them with their huge heavy industry reserves.

Messerschmidt was also skeptical of the design drawings provided by Albert, knowing that designing a new type of aircraft requires not only strong aviation expertise, but also a forward-looking vision, Crown Prince Albert is obviously not a professional aircraft designer, but the design drawings of this F4 Phantom fighter in his hand are perfect and impeccable. It's exactly like the work of a senior designer who has been dealing with airplanes for more than ten years.

That's why they all agreed that Albert had an otherworldly military design team behind him, and that they were only responsible for turning those designs into reality.

"Team?" Albert was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "What team is behind me, isn't it all due to the hard work of everyone here?" These drawings are just hand-made scribbles in my spare time. ”

Krupp also smiled with Albert, graffiti? The blueprints of these aircraft artillery engines add up to the exaggerated size of a big truck? Can you draw a design for a truck?

Krupp obviously didn't want to continue to dwell on Albert's secrets, so he changed the subject, "By the way, Your Highness Albert, has the titanium alloy problem you said solved?" If that metallurgical technology is not solved, the M777 artillery will not be able to work. ”

Hearing Krupp talk about the M777 gun, Albert remembered that he had played a package ticket before, and it was time to find a trip to the Solvay Group to provide them with titanium alloy manufacturing technology, and titanium alloy technology is not only used in this self-propelled gun, aircraft, tanks can also use this advanced technology. Thinking of this, Albert nodded, "Don't worry, the titanium alloy technology will be perfected." ”

"That's for the best." Krupp nodded with satisfaction, obviously he didn't want to leave His Highness Albert in the factory for too long, after all, the environment here was bad, and he didn't want His Highness Albert to have anything happen here, so Krupp said, "Why don't His Highness Albert go down to the office and sit for a while?" ”

"Okay." Albert did not refuse, so he talked and laughed all the way to the office, and when he walked on the factory lane, Albert, who was chatting, did not notice that there was a worker carrying a sack in front of him, and the worker also walked hurriedly with his head down, without looking ahead, and the result was that the two people collided directly together.

"Hey, hey." Albert sat on the ground while the other man fell down the road, his steel sacks scattered all over the place. He quickly apologized to Albert in German, and then hurriedly picked up the steel, not daring to look up at Albert and his boss.

Albert had to stand up with the help of Krupp, who stared angrily at the perpetrator and scolded, "Edmund Heckler, don't you want this job anymore?" ”

As soon as Krupp said that he was about to fire the worker named Edmund Heckler, the other party hurriedly bent down to admit his mistake and hurriedly explained in German that he really did not mean it. He replied in an almost pleading tone, "Mr. Krupp, I'm sorry, but please have mercy on me, the house is almost out of the pot." I need this job, really. ”

When Albert stood up, he just heard what Krupp said, he stared at the middle-aged man in front of him who was wearing patched overalls and his face was still covered with dust, and quickly asked, "What, you said this person's name is Edmund Heckler?" You're Edmund Heckler, who used to work at Mauser? ”