In the noisy factories, the workers were working hard, just as the British seafarers filled the streets, and the Germans had many workers. Every worker here is an old technician who has worked for about ten years, and their every movement has been tempered by time and looks so meticulous.

On the one hand, German workers are strong, and on the other hand, German gigafactories are trying their best to replace people with machines. Germany began advocating mechanical automation several years ago, but progress has been limited due to hardware shortcomings and lags.

However, with the progress of the times and more and more investment in automated production, the Germans, who advocate precision manufacturing, have finally made a complete set of semi-automated production lines for the production of various parts. One of them, the British computing master Turing, who was included in Germany's bag a year ago, provided many suggestions that brought Germany to the forefront of the world in this important field.

What is even more terrifying is that Germany's industrial heritage has been released by the German high-level, including Speer, and in a Europe that has not been damaged by the war, industrial manufacturing capacity has even tended to catch up with and surpass the United States. Although there may still be a gap in other aspects, in terms of military production, the Germans have improved a lot, much more than in another time and space.

"Put the parts over there on the conveyor belt! faster!" a workshop leader ordered his group of apprentices, pointing to the delicate parts that had just been sent in and had been machined from the French factory.

So these students, who had just graduated from technical school, smiled and flocked to the belt, and began to neatly arrange the parts engraved with the manufacturer, the production date and the quality inspector number on the conveyor belt.

The parts are then driven by a conveyor belt towards the distant installation machine. Then the skilled workers over there skillfully welded the parts that were transferred from here to a protruding position on the steel plate. Their action is very simple, just point with the welding torch, and the parts that are already spaced apart will be in place.

Soon the part was welded and then pushed by a trolley to another conveyor belt and taken to the next processing position. Each of these manual welding links is rotated by eight groups of personnel, each group only works for three hours a day, to ensure that the manual links are foolproof.

The steel plate produced in the workshop here will be welded into the floor in the next workshop and laid to the inside of the tank as a floor, which is a relatively backward process for chassis processing, and generally after installing these floor parts, the chassis of the tank is almost completely completed.

Not far from here, at the other end of the high wall, is the German tank gun production workshop, where a new type of tank gun with slender barrels is slowly being hoisted onto a strange welded turret. This turret is very different from the one-piece shield turret that has been used in Germany, and it is installed in the form of a split shield.

Similar to modern tanks, the frontal armor of this turret is welded to the sides of the turret and does not move up and down with the tank gun, which undermines the integrity of the frontal armor. However, this structure is easier to weld and produce, and other benefits are more obvious.

For example, this structure allows the artillery itself to have better mobility. After all, carrying one armor plate, and carrying a third of the armor plate, is completely incomparable in weight. With a reduction in weight, the pitching movement of the artillery system will become more convenient.

This new turret is the latest in the turret of the King Tiger tank developed by German technicians, and uses the long-awaited 105 mm caliber anti-tank gun of Accardo and all the armored units of the front. Although it was slightly smaller than the 122 mm gun on the Stalin tank used by the Soviets, it was a whole lot more powerful than that.

In order to install this gun, the King Tiger tank was fitted with thicker side armor plate skirts, and the body armor thickness was also increased by 5 mm. The frontal armor had to be increased by a full 30 mm, giving the German future main tank even more formidable to resist attacks.

The increased weight was intended to allow the tank to have a stable firing capability at any angle. Although these weight increases reduced the King Tiger's maneuverability by 5 kilometers per hour, everyone felt that the price of speed was well worth it.

The 105 mm version of the King Tiger surpassed the Soviet Union's proud Stalin tank in every aspect, and was far superior to its opponents in terms of travel speed, armor thickness, and firepower intensity. In terms of aiming system and reliability, it is the benchmark of industrial products in this era, and the German industrial system after the integration of the system finally reflects its own technological superiority, and once again steadily catches up with its opponents on the weapon platform.

The hoisting was quickly completed, and then the entire turret was slowly lifted up by the same crane. In the center of this workshop, there is a huge cement pedestal, which is specially used to test the turret of the King Tiger tank. The installation was quickly completed, and all that remained was the test of the power of the 105 mm caliber gun.

Many instruments and equipment are connected to this turret, because the experiment is not only to test the accuracy and power of the gun, but also to test the recoil and many other aspects of the value, any weapon is not as simple as it seems on the surface, even if it is a rifle, complete design and structure drawings, it can almost fill a large box.

"Aim at the plates!" a German technician in a white lab coat with a recording board in his hand shouted to several workers who were operating the turret: "Be careful, make sure the turret is safe!"

Those workers are indeed carefully operating this new experimental turret, after all, this turret will be used as a prototype in the future, and tens of thousands of them will be produced. And the German King Tiger tank will really play the advantages of the sighting system after being equipped with this new turret.

"Aim!" said a worker who had been testing the turret for several years, so he was able to do the simple maneuver of aiming the turret mounted on the cement base at the bullseye of the steel plate in the distance.

"Fire!" With an order, the powerful 105 mm caliber tank gun also let out a roar, and a loud bang echoed back and forth in the workshop, and the surrounding workers who were not on the production line put down their work and looked up in the direction where the roar came.

"Observation post, report on the target's hit!" said a staff member with a telephone microphone on his face, asking the observation post near the target for a report on the target breakdown.

"At a distance of 1100 meters, it was possible to easily penetrate the front armor plate of Stalin's tank. It's very easy to penetrate...... Perhaps we should directly test the firing effect at a distance of 1500 meters. On the other side of the phone, the staff at the observation post responded very encouragingly.

"The artillery recoil exceeded the expected values...... I think we should add a muzzle brake to counteract some of the recoil. A technician turned around and sketched on a piece of paper with a few of his colleagues and assistants, and the powerful shot just now obviously exceeded the load-bearing capacity of the King Tiger tank, and they wanted to use the original plan to install a muzzle brake to alleviate the recoil impact on the entire hull.

"In terms of aiming accuracy, the shells were slightly offset to the right due to the wind, but they were well within acceptable ranges. Another technician said as he looked at the stopwatch in his hand, and then nodded his head as approving: "The aiming speed is good, and the time is reduced by almost 0.6 seconds compared to the original turret." ”

"Are there any other problems?" the head of the technical group looked at the other test teams, which came from various departments, some were materials, some were smelters, some were even experts in the field of chemistry, and some representatives of the German military.

"No more. The others shook their heads, after all, this test had been going on for several weeks, and for the production of wartime weapons, such a rigorous technical test was already in place. There were some problems at first, but after so many resolutions, most teams couldn't come up with any new questions.

As for the opinions on the muzzle brake, it was a new problem that was discovered after yesterday when the chassis experts of the King Tiger tank were called to discuss and discuss together. After all, the King Tiger tank in this time and space is not a big monster weighing more than 70 tons, and it needs to be cautious to deal with the recoil caused by artillery.

"So, hurry up the muzzle brake as quickly as possible, and then test the latest data...... The added weight on the artillery, especially near the muzzle, is a very serious issue, we need to recalculate the aiming time, and there are other effects. The person in charge looked at the various groups, and then concluded: "Now go and solve their respective problems immediately, and if you can, put the latest turret into mass production as soon as possible." ”

Everyone began to disperse, and several officers stood in the corner discussing the power aspects of the turret of the new tank, and it seemed that they were very interested in this weapon, after all, they had heard that the King Tiger tank at the front line was performing very well.

Four days later, after the signatures of Accardo and Speer, the latest King Tiger 2 tank began mass production, and the German armored forces once again walked in the forefront of the world, and once again completely overwhelmed their opponents in terms of equipment.

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