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As a result, the Soviet Red Army could use nearly 14,000 tanks to fight, which still maintained some advantages over German armored forces, but even Zhukov admitted that except for about 4,000 tanks that could pose a threat to German tanks, the rest of the tanks were about the same as armored vehicles in front of the Germans.

Of course, the air power of the Soviet Red Army is not very good in front of the German aircraft, compared with the United Kingdom, which has very strong technical reserves and bottomless research and development capabilities, the development of the Soviet aviation field has not yet reached that level, so the overall level of the Soviet Air Force in another time and space has been at the level of being abused by German pilots. Those familiar planes with slightly okay performance were basically barely fought in the latter part of World War II.

So now the Soviet Air Force has a terrible number of 11,000 aircraft, but most of the aircraft are backward fighters such as the I-16, and the FW-190D fighters used against the German army are not opponents at all, let alone the Ta-152 fighters with better flight performance.

Although the Soviet Union accepted the imitation castrated version of the Rolls-Royce aircraft engine production line, and also developed the I-20 and MiG-1 fighters, using the new Rolls-Royce piston engine, but the overall level is still significantly different from the mainstream German fighter FW-190D.

So much so that the Soviet pilots had completely lost faith in seizing air supremacy on the battlefield, and all sorts of gossip circulated among them, including the livery of some of the planes of some terrible opponents - some of the ace pilots of Germany were described as demons by these Soviet pilots. The main reason why these Soviet pilots cannot be called the Air Force is that ninety percent of them are only people who can fly airplanes, not soldiers who can take to the skies to fight.

As for the opponents of these "rookie flights" (the adjective of the German ace pilots to the Soviet pilots), the most famous is a Ta-152 fighter with a black tulip pattern painted on the nose, which is described as a black Grim Reaper, the wings of the devil, and even more so a gatekeeper of hell.

By the time these messages came out, Hartman had already shot down 130 enemy planes of different types in his own plane, a number of almost three times the number of enemy planes he had encountered in the air, because every time he encountered an enemy plane, he would produce a new record, no matter how many or not.

But even so, the Soviet Red Army still had their superior projects, for example, in large-caliber artillery, the Soviet troops had their overwhelming superiority. Historically, the Soviet Union was arguably one of the armies in the world that attached the most importance to artillery, and Stalin perverted the urge of the Soviet Red Army to deploy more large-caliber artillery. Perhaps he was very impressed by the power of artillery in the wars he experienced, or perhaps he knew that it was difficult to outdo the Germans in other areas.

In fact, the Soviet army has more than 5,000 cannons of 122 mm caliber, which played an important role in the battle of Nomenkan, so the Soviet Union has been producing this weapon since 1937, and has accumulated an astonishing amount of capital now.

In addition, the Soviet Union also had a large number of 210 mm guns, 155 mm guns and 100 mm guns aided by the United States, as well as a large number of 85 mm guns and 76 mm guns. Plus mortars, mortars, and train guns, which the Soviet Union has always attached great importance to...... The total number of artillery deployed by the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front ranged from 380 mm train guns to 75 mm mountain guns, which can be said to have completely overwhelmed the German army in terms of numbers.

However, because of the limited mobility of these artillery, they cannot be mobilized and deployed quickly on a large scale, and half of the German artillery can be easily towed, and one-fifth can be compared with themselves.

In fact, the more lethal fire threat came from a new special branch of the German Army, Army Aviation. This Army Aviation Unit is not a road-based air force like the US Army Air Corps, but a low-altitude support unit equipped with helicopter gunships and transport helicopters.

The new Odin helicopter has a qualitative improvement in load performance compared to its predecessor, the Crusader helicopter, so the new helicopter can be fitted with thicker steel plates and more firepower, and the battlefield survivability has allowed this aircraft to participate in front-line operations.

The German troops found that the Soviet Red Army lacked self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery units to accompany the troops, and the real-time air defense capabilities of its armored units on the battlefield were actually very limited. Because the Soviet Red Army was different from Germany, the Second War in Poland caused the Soviet Red Army to lose a large number of armored forces, and also realized the serious shortage of armored forces.

In this way, the German army's method of converting self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and self-propelled howitzers with backward tank chassis could not be imitated by the Soviet Union in the short term, and Soviet engineers have been trying to use existing tank chassis to convert them into anti-tank guns for emergency situations, and they simply have no resources to meet the needs of battlefield air defense that are not prominent.

In this way, the German army aviation units have a relatively small battlefield living space, although this space is narrow, but it is very deadly, because in the results of several battlefield assaults, the German army found that the dispatch of helicopters and rockets to use the speed to carry out saturation strikes on the battlefield, and then quickly retreat, is an effective way to kill and injure the ground targets of the Soviet Red Army.

The helicopter assault battlefield was covered with rockets, which to a certain extent allowed the Germans to find a way to make up for the lack of artillery, after all, compared with the support of the air force, they had an unparalleled advantage in reaction speed when calling their own air strikes.

However, this seemingly very good prospect has a very fatal flaw, that is, the production of Odin helicopters -- this kind of helicopter has just been put into production for a short time, and the number of this kind of helicopter on the entire Eastern Front does not exceed 100, and in the future, I heard that this kind of aircraft will be divided between the navy, air force, domestic police, etc., so it is impossible for the army to use it for large-scale front-line assault operations in a short period of time.

The same problem that plagued Germany's forces on the Eastern Front was the same lack of production of another new weapon, the newly put into production of the King Tiger tank, which was tested to defeat the Soviet Stalin's tank, and which had an even greater overwhelming advantage at night, enough to allow the Germans to regain their tank performance lead.

However, this tank has only just begun mass production, and I heard that the first batch of 30 tanks has not yet left the factory, and by the time this tank is put into large-scale service, the most optimistic estimate is that the German army has almost reached the city of Moscow. Therefore, the senior German generals all know that they already have more advanced technology and equipment, but unfortunately they will not be able to use these black technology weapons until after victory.

Compared with the army and the air force, the German soldiers in the navy are much luckier, their super submarines have gone to sea, ready to make a contribution in the waters near Iceland, and the aircraft carrier fleet in the hands of Lütjens is undergoing night combat training, once this training is completed, the German fleet will take the initiative to find the British fleet for another decisive battle.

After a year of recovery and transfer, the British Navy transferred back battleships around the world to form a new battleship fleet, although because of the lack of aircraft carrier cover, this huge fleet has not gone out to find trouble with the German Navy, but Lütjans and Raeder and others and even Accardo know that the British Navy is far from being defeated, and even the adjective heavy losses seem a little reluctant. Compared with the total number of more than 20 battleships in Britain, the loss of less than 10 battleships obviously could not completely crush this fleet that had dominated the world for 100 years.

If the war drags on to the second half of 1939, the number of aircraft carriers of the US Navy will surpass that of Germany, and if it enters 1940, even the US aircraft carrier fleet will have twice the advantage of the German Navy, after all, most of Germany's production capacity is consumed in the army's armored forces, and the proportion of naval construction cannot be completely consistent with that of the United States.

In other words, in comparison, the navy has increased the least in numbers among the three German armies, and in terms of absolute value compared with the enemy, the navy has a tendency to be overtaken or even widened. After all, the functions of the German Navy cannot be compared with those of Britain and the United States, and even if it has made great contributions to defeating Britain and neutrality, it is still in a supporting position in the overall strategy.

After all, the United States and Britain are countries that rely on their navies to survive, and as long as Germany ensures that its army enters the Middle East and controls the oil-producing areas, then Germany's energy transportation lines are under the protection of the Mediterranean.

Therefore, the only task of the German Navy now is to cooperate with Army Group C to firmly defend the British Isles and ensure the absolute security of the Atlantic barrier. And this goal is very simple to accomplish, that is, just keep existing. This is a real navy, and as long as it is placed there, it can only be said that it is an unrealistic delusion for the United States to land in Europe and attack Germany.

Therefore, according to the current situation, the three German armed forces are already invincible, but is this really the case? Not necessarily. At least all of this is based on the unity of the Axis powers, and in fact the Axis powers, including Italy and Turkey, have their own small calculations, and it is difficult to say whether these allies will fall to the allies if there is a military problem in Germany.