Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

"There is also a magnetic anti-tank grenade, but it is a bit dangerous to use. The soldier who uses it must be close to the enemy tank to install it. If the enemy armored unit is covered by infantry, there is basically no chance." Today, the German army is the most skilled in the world Even if an army with palm-mounted tank coordination tactics is equipped with this kind of magnetic anti-tank grenade, it may not have a chance to get close to the German tanks; therefore, after a few samples of this thing were produced, there was no further discussion.

"We also took reference from the Soviets' anti-tank methods. They domesticated a group of dogs as anti-tank dogs. But I heard that the effect was not very good. Those dogs carrying bombs were often frightened by artillery fire after being released from the trenches and then ran back. , but it killed one of our own people." He somewhat admired the Soviet Union's imagination. How did they come up with this? Their imagination was as big as that of their own "Pigeon-guided missiles."

"There is also the British's sticky anti-tank grenade. This thing is not very reliable, so let's not talk about it." A sticky grenade is to coat the grenade with a sticky substance so that it sticks firmly to the tank and then destroys it. tank. However, most of the tanks on the battlefield are covered with thick mud or dust, and sticky grenades cannot stick to them at all. For this reason, the British army also came up with a strange tactic: During combat, soldiers held a towel in one hand and a grenade in the other hand to hide in the crater that had been hidden in advance. When an enemy tank passed by, they quickly wiped a part of the tank's shell with the towel. Then stick the grenade here and quickly evacuate.

When Marshall saw this manual for the first time, the words that flashed through his mind were: Damn you retarded!

The guy who can come up with this method must have his head caught in the door!

"..." Vice President Truman frowned more and more. After all, they didn't even have a single weapon that could effectively deal with German tank armor. The most reliable one seems to be the tandem warhead rocket launcher that has not yet been successfully developed, but the question is whether that thing can be successfully developed before the Germans land? !

Marshall picked up the water glass on the table and took a sip to moisten his throat before continuing. "As for anti-tank guns, calibers below 70 mm are basically unable to deal with German tanks and can only be used to deal with other armored vehicles."

"The Soviets moved all these medium-caliber and above artillery pieces onto tank chassis and converted them into self-propelled artillery. Although the Soviets did not have much effect, this method is still worth learning from. Anti-tank guns above 70 mm are heavy, If it is towed, mobility will be affected.”

"The Germans' 105mm cannon tanks should not be mass-produced in a short time. However, we also have a tank equipped with a 105mm tank gun. To be precise, it is a tank destroyer, code-named T-28." Although production has already begun. M26 heavy tank, but the Army decided to find some insurance, and that was the T-28 heavy destroyer.

The T-28 has a low silhouette and no turret. A 105mm T5E1 main gun is mounted on a spherical mantlet, which looks like a beetle with a long nose. The active range of the main gun is 10° on the left and right, and 5° to -5° up and down. It can fire 4 shells per minute, with a muzzle velocity of 1130 meters/second. The range can reach 19 kilometers, and it can penetrate 250 meters at a distance of 1500 meters. Millimeter-thick armor and powerful firepower.

Although the T29 heavy tank is also equipped with the same 105 mm, its 178 mm frontal armor thickness is not satisfactory to the Army. They are more optimistic about the thicker T-

The armor protection of the T-28 is more exaggerated than that of the Maus. The front armor of the car body reaches a terrifying 305 mm, the side armor is 64 mm, and the skirt armor is 100 mm thick. It can be said that the body is indestructible.

And such heavy armor naturally brings an insurmountable drawback, that is, excessive weight, its weight reaches an astonishing 95 tons! Although it is much inferior to the Maus tank, it is still enough to crush other counterparts. The King Tiger tank (H) in the original time and space was only 70 tons.

Powering it is a Ford GAF ​​V-8 gasoline engine with a maximum output of 500 horsepower. It is obviously difficult to drive a 95-ton big guy with this little power, so the T-28 is naturally underpowered, with a top speed of only 13 kilometers per hour. Its slow movement also brings weaknesses in its climbing ability. Its ability to cross-country and cross obstacles is poor. Not satisfactory.

As a result, the Americans used their imagination to develop the staggered road wheels, which were commonly used in Germany during World War II and were called "logistics nightmares."

As for why the Germans used this kind of road wheel structure that could kill logistics, it was because the torsion bar system was a new technology at the time. Torsion bar suspension was only used on cars in the 1930s, and the first tank using torsion bar suspension appeared in 1934. .

For Germany, torsion bars were first tested on the Type 2 D and Type 2 E, and the torsion bar suspension was officially used on a large scale on the Type 3 tank. However, the failure rate was very high in actual combat, and it was forced to use the Type 4 tank. The tank has returned to the technical route of leaf spring suspension. The leaf spring suspension of the No. 4 was also a very successful design at the time. From the initial A-type to the later H-type, the weight increased by 40% but the suspension was not changed. In comparison, T-34-76 to T-34-85 The weight increased by 17%. The Sherman was upgraded from the original model to the M4A3E8. The weight increased by 30% but the suspension was changed (HVSS).

Therefore, when designing the No. 5 and No. 6 tanks, the designers had no confidence in the suspension of tanks with such a heavy weight and could only adopt a staggered road wheel system. Because of the staggered distribution of road wheels and double torsion bars, as many torsion bars as possible can be arranged on the same body length, so that the load distributed to each torsion bar will become smaller, and the mass of the torsion bar will be smaller. No need to be too demanding.

Moreover, adding more road wheels can reduce the load of a single set of road wheels while the total weight remains unchanged. However, the total vehicle length is limited after all. If there are too many road wheels, they will definitely not be able to be arranged. Therefore, if there are more road wheels, the single road wheel will be smaller. If the road wheel is small, it is difficult to increase the suspension stroke, and the ground pressure of the small road wheel is also high, which is not good for off-road performance. At the same driving speed, the small road wheel rotates more times and has a shorter life span, so larger road wheels are always better.

The staggered road wheels can not only achieve a large size of a single set of road wheels, but also can put down the most road wheels within a limited length of the vehicle. It is a perfect solution simply for suspension system design.

In addition, Germany lacked rubber resources during World War II. At that time, the tonnage of the Tiger and Panther required large-sized hollow road wheels to rubberize the road wheels. Multiple sets of staggered road wheels can reduce the ground pressure and extend the load. The service life of wheel and road wheel rubber.

At this time and space, Yannick never thought of using this kind of road wheel structure. Unexpectedly, the Americans used it on their own T-28. Yannick almost died laughing when he heard the news.

In any case, Truman felt a little relieved after hearing the protective performance data of this heavy tank destroyer. In his opinion, this destroyer was enough to crush German tanks. "Has the production of this destroyer started?"

Marshall nodded. "Yes, Mr. Vice President. This destroyer has entered production. It's just that the production speed is not satisfactory. The fastest is one unit in two days."

"..." Truman frowned slightly, the production speed was indeed a bit slow. One car every two days, and only fifteen cars can be produced in a month? "Can we reduce the production of other tanks and produce more of this T-28?"