81_81266 Many times, people have a misunderstanding about production hours. It is believed that a product that takes up more man-hours of production must be complex and unreliable. In fact, this is a misunderstanding, because sometimes the production hours do not intuitively reflect the real scientific and technological content of a product.

For example, it takes 5 workers a week for the Chinese Nationalist Government to produce a 75 mm cannon, while it only takes 3 days for the same 5 German workers to produce a 75 mm cannon.

If German engineers and skilled workers were allowed to produce T-34 tanks, would it improve production efficiency? The answer is actually not the same as everyone thinks: a skilled worker can process a precision part at a speed of one hour, and his speed of processing a rough part is definitely not three per hour, but only one. 5 or even less - no more than 2 at most. So even if Germany replaced the Tiger tank with the Soviet T-34 to produce, the number of German tanks could not catch up with the Soviet Union.

So is Germany willing to exchange 2,000 Tiger tanks for 4,000 or even 5,000 Soviet T-34s? I believe that as long as everyone is not crazy, they are not willing to change -- after all, the battle record is there, and the German armored forces have relied on their quality superiority to prove that 2,000 Tiger tanks are indeed more in line with Germany's national conditions than 4,000 shoddy T-34s.

To put it simply, letting Germany abandon its technological superiority in the aiming system and reduce the performance of weapons to meet the faster production speed is itself a self-defeating behavior, and letting Germany, which has a large number of elite troops, use inferior weapons to fight with the Soviets will only die faster.

Therefore, it is very wrong to simply copy the production of Soviet weapons. Accardo knew that choosing a balanced path between Germany, the most sophisticated, and the cowardly and heroic Soviet Union was the right direction for German weapons production. What he wants to do is to do everything possible to expand production while slightly compromising the performance of the weapon.

So in this case, Accardo did not like the German doomsday weapons, nor the Soviet equipment that had no technological superiority, he preferred to develop weapons and equipment in a balanced manner, so that the German military could use the most suitable weapon system for themselves.

This is also the main reason why he did not rush to equip the Luftwaffe with jets, because Accardo knew that rushing jets into the war now would only harm the German elite pilots with unsursurable product quality, and would only use new weapons to stimulate the United States to develop new weapons of war.

Therefore, Accardo has a lot of immature weapon development projects in his hands, and the weapons research and development of the Third Reich has not stopped because of the existence of Accardo, the head of state, and even moved faster than the original speed. The V2 rocket is actually quite perfect, but Accardo still hasn't put it into actual combat, because the price of this weapon is too expensive and too wasteful of resources.

Along with the V2 rocket, there was also a jet fighter project codenamed ME-X, which was later known as the ME-262 fighter. Accardo stubbornly demanded that all jet aircraft development projects must ensure the reliability of the engine, so that many superweapons that were already on the drawings did not appear in the German armament sequence. On the contrary, some "modest" weapons with less outstanding performance, but better reliability, were favored by the Führer.

For example, the German army was equipped with the Stuka 2 attack aircraft, which was used to replace the Stuka, but the only advantage was that it was cheaper and easier to produce than the Stuka. So the Führer ordered to expand the production line of the Stuka 2 attack aircraft, and at the same time develop a naval version of this aircraft.

Another example comes from the transport aircraft, the Ju-52 transport aircraft was designed a long time ago, and the performance of this aircraft itself is not particularly outstanding, but this aircraft has been improved to maintain the characteristics of robustness, simple structure, easy piloting, etc., and very fuel-efficient. So the Germans have been producing this type of aircraft, and the more advanced ME-109A fighters have long been out of production.

The worst of all is the Krupp company, a world-famous German artillery company with a reputation for developing large-caliber artillery, and now the Führer's application for development projects has been rejected countless times. The drawings of the 800 mm Gustav train gun were sold to the Soviet Union by the Führer through spies, and the production of the 370 mm train gun was halted due to waste of materials.

However, on the contrary, there is another miracle of weapons production: since the beginning of the war in 1937, the total number of cannons of various calibers produced by all production companies under the Krupp family has reached a staggering 127,940, and almost 350 "Krupp" cannons are delivered to the German army every day, most of these guns are from 20 mm to 150 mm caliber howitzers, but also many kinds of special-purpose artillery.

For example, 105 mm anti-aircraft guns, 88 mm tank guns and anti-aircraft guns, 75 mm tank guns, 150 mm and 88 mm naval guns, 20 mm cannons and anti-aircraft guns, 30 mm cannons and 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns -- if you do a simple calculation, assuming that Krupp himself only earns 100 yuan per cannon, then he has made more than 10 million yuan in this year.

German production lines for G43 rifles and MP-44 assault rifles have been moved to Belgium and the Netherlands, while Leopard tank wheels and tracks have begun to be produced in France and Norway. Germany was rapidly completing the distribution of industrial production areas with Speer's efforts, and Germany declared a state of war mobilization from the second day of the Soviet invasion, and the capitalists enthusiastically invested in the win-win tide of making money and resisting the Red Soviet invasion.

The assembly line of the FW-190D fighter has begun to transform into the production of the latest TA-152 fighter, although the production has declined, but the news of the German front-line fighter unit is very alarming, the German fighter performance once again surpasses its main opponent, maintaining the technological superiority of the world's first air force.

As soon as the fighter called the "Slender 190" appeared on the Eastern Front, it won a 17-0 victory. The fighter units of the Soviet Red Army, which had finally mustered up the courage to strike again, were completely destroyed by this new monster, and if the FW-190D fighters left a terrible shadow in their hearts, then this new elongated shape of the FW-190-like fighter brought the Soviets despair of collapse.

At an altitude of more than 700 km/h, faster than the FW-190D, a few Soviet pilots who were lucky enough to make it back alive described the never-before-seen German fighter as if it were a devil: "It accelerated so suddenly that I lost my target, and then my wingman screamed in panic, and I climbed into the clouds in fright, and found that the wingman had been broken into a pile of pieces." ”

"Yes, there are only two! If they had four of them, there would be no way back alive. Another Soviet pilot shook his head and said: "There are no planes that are their opponents, and no matter what I do, they can keep up and close the distance, and I can see that they are playing with us, like an eagle playing a sparrow." ”

"No, if you want me dead, you might as well shoot me right now, so you can save a plane. I still have hope of coming back alive after fighting the FW-190D, and fighting that kind of devil is only a dead end!" This was the unanimous attitude of several Soviet pilots who had seen the new German aircraft.

The German weapons research and development department, under the control of Accardo, came up with a weapon that was enough to be enshrined as a myth by the opponent. Such an efficient and rational military R&D team made everyone feel terrible, every weapon that equipped the troops was immediately loved by the soldiers, these cold fighters became the most reliable partners of the German army, and these weapons also won everyone's dependence because of their excellent performance and stable appearance.

Contrary to Germany's mature ideas for weapons development, the weapons and equipment of the Soviet Union at this time were heading towards a point of no return. The KV-2 tank was used by the commanders as a last straw, and this weapon, which was almost indistinguishable from a fixed battery, was massively equipped to front-line troops, who had a high loss rate.

More than half of the KV-2 tanks were abandoned on the battlefield due to their own failures, and although this tank theoretically had the ability to destroy all German tanks, the actual record was pitiful. According to the German front-line troops' own statistics, Guderian's Army Group G engaged in fierce exchanges of fire with Soviet armored units on April 12 and 13, and the tanks destroyed by KV-2 tanks were not as many as KV-1.

According to records, the Germans destroyed 7 tanks and 3 armored vehicles by KV-2 tanks in 4 days, but as many as 54 KV-2 tanks were dropped on the road by the Soviets themselves or destroyed by the Luftwaffe, and 30 KV-2 tanks were destroyed by German tanks at the same time. This ratio of losses is a bit awkward, and if you compare them, this loss is much lower than that of the KV-1 tank.

However, as for the Soviet government, which was Stalin's word, they had an unparalleled advantage, that is, the unimaginable speed of transformation. Stalin made the right decision in early May and ordered the production of the KV-2 tank, and the Soviet military-industrial complex immediately abandoned this seemingly powerful, but almost useless "scrap metal".

Of course, that's for another time...... It was still the middle of April, and the battle of Kiev between the Soviet and German sides around Ukraine had just begun, and the Germans and the Soviets were simultaneously focusing on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and its vicinity in order to fight for the important Ukrainian plain