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If the Germans, who are meticulous and strive for perfection to the point of late-stage obsessive-compulsive disorder, were asked to design, they would probably not be able to design a "magic vehicle" like the Hunter destroyer in eight lifetimes.

The Stalker is 83 meters long (the chassis is 77 meters long), the height of the machine gun at the bottom is only 17 meters, and the body width is 123 meters, resulting in a rather narrow space inside the vehicle. In order to install a cannon with large recoil in such a narrow space, designers could only place the cannon to the right of the central axis of the entire tank. As a result, the center of gravity of the entire Stalker tank was also shifted.

Yannick felt that the 50mm KwK 39L/60 tank gun was enough for a while, so he did not install the 75mm StuK 40L/43 anti-tank gun of the original time and space. With some other improvements, the right side of the current Stalker has to bear more pressure. Just over 500 kilograms, which is better than the Stalker of the original time and space (850 kilograms).

Such an asymmetrical design has made German designers feel uncomfortable looking at it.

As we all know, Tiger tanks and Panther tanks use a staggered road wheel structure. This structure was forced to adopt it because of the insufficient weighing capacity of the rubber on the edge of the road wheels. In other words, Germany must try its best to use a limited number of vehicles. Under the limitation of body length, more road wheels should be installed to support the weight of the entire tank.

So for the torsion bar structure, engineers need to install more torsion bars - Tiger and Panther have as many as 16 torsion bars. In this way, the simple structural advantage of the torsion bar is immediately gone. Another reason that made the Tiger and Panther running gear more complicated was that the German designers found it themselves - they couldn't stand the asymmetry of their tank road wheels, so they adopted complex staggered road wheels. Symmetrical.

Because of the position of the artillery, the personnel arrangement is also completely different from other tanks. The driver is at the front, behind him is the gunner, and behind the gunner is the loader-the three people are arranged in a row, one next to the other. Behind the gun is the commander of the vehicle, who also has the responsibility of radio operator.

In this way, four people sat in an L shape in a small space, and there were only two exits on the roof - one for the commander, and the other people who wanted to leave had to take the other exit behind the loader. The shortcomings of this arrangement are obvious. Once it is destroyed in a war, at most two of the four crew members can escape, the commander and the loader. Whether the driver and gunner can survive depends entirely on God's will.

Although all this is enough to collapse the German designers who pursue perfection, the Army is quite satisfied.

The front of this destroyer uses 60 mm thick armor with an inclination angle of 60 degrees. The lower part of the body is also 60 mm thick armor with an inclination angle of 40 degrees. There is also 20 mm of sloped armor on the sides and rear. Although the 20mm armor cannot prevent attacks from enemy tank guns or anti-tank guns, it is more than capable of protecting against bullets and fragments.

Although the power of 160 horsepower is not very powerful, the destroyer weighs only a dozen tons, can reach a road speed of 42 kilometers per hour, and has excellent maneuverability. This is much better than the towed artillery that needs to be towed by a car. When there is no car, it needs to be pulled by mules. When entering the position, it can only be pushed by soldiers. It can even be used as a guest tank when necessary. !Where can I find such a good weapon? !

Moreover, its simple structure, strength and durability are also one of the highlights of the Stalker destroyer. You must know that the weapons equipped for infantry do not need to be very sophisticated, because the more sophisticated something is, the harder it is to control and the greater the chance of malfunction.

Just like the famous Gatling gun, when it first came out, it was really powerful and capable of killing all the enemies. In 1882, it had reached a terrifying rate of fire of 1,200 rounds per minute.

However, such a seemingly awesome weapon disappeared for a while, and did not even appear in World War I or World War II.

Because its biggest weakness is that when the enemy charges on the battlefield, the distance between the shooter and himself is constantly getting closer, causing him to get excited and become red-eyed and unable to control himself. He will turn the handle faster and faster like crazy, causing The machine gun overheated and jammed or exploded.

Therefore, what the infantry need is a large number of cheap, simple equipment that can be used casually and requires little maintenance.

This round of shooting destroyed five French B1 heavy tanks, and the French tanks' counterattack did not even touch the edges of these hunters.

Four hundred meters, this distance on the battlefield is neither long nor short. A charging unit can cover this distance and break into the enemy's position in just a few minutes.

Of course, this also means that they have entered the effective range of almost all weapons of the defender except pistols and grenades. In history, there have been situations where the attacker could not break through this short few hundred meters even if they shed all their blood. occur.

Although the attacking French were accompanied by tanks, the heavy rain that had just fallen made the ground muddy, greatly reducing the mobility of these big guys. The B1 heavy tanks exceeding 30 tons were even more severely affected. Two tanks even got stuck in the mud and could not move. They could only adjust the turret to fire at the German positions on the high ground, which was quite embarrassing.

The remaining Soma 35 medium tanks and Renault 35 light tanks also advanced slowly, stopping from time to time to fire.

Perhaps losing confidence in the performance of their own tanks, the French infantry even surpassed the tanks on the left and right and launched a desperate charge to the high ground. The accompanying officers did not stop the soldiers from getting out of touch with the tanks. They just yelled at the soldiers to maintain their charging formation.

"Tsk, what kind of infantry-tank coordination is this?" David couldn't help but shake his head as he watched the opponent's formation change into a strange formation with infantry in front and tanks behind, and they rushed towards the high ground.

The French soldiers stepped on the mud and rushed to a place more than 200 meters away from the German position. At this time, they had thrown their tanks more than 100 meters away.

"Fire!"

A sudden burst of gunfire erupted from the German position. There was a battalion stationed on the high ground. The German army was organized in a standard three-three system (not necessarily at division level or above). Their battalion had 27 squads, that is, there were 27 MG3s. Squad machine gun.

Of course, it is impossible for these 27 machine guns to fire at the same time. After all, the machine gun position is the enemy's key target, and it is impossible to output unlimited firepower in one place.

Machine guns need to move positions frequently, so these machine guns need to fire in turns to maintain a stable firepower output and not give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it.

P44 assault rifles and MG3 machine guns opened fire one after another, and the intensive firepower drove back the French soldiers who rushed 200 meters away. The first row of French soldiers were instantly torn into pieces by the terrible firepower. The soldiers following behind were knocked to the ground row by row like wheat, unable to break through to the two hundred meters range.

The menacing offensive of the French infantry was stopped in an instant. The new recruits were running around in the crazy German barrage, and the veterans fell to the ground holding their heads.

At this time, German mortar shells continued to fall into the crowd, turning into countless fragments, tearing apart fragile human bodies and knocking down French soldiers one by one.