Chapter 188 (1/2)

Almost all the tank engines were reinstalled, leaving only the one that Shrek worked with.

This tank has been motorized for the longest time in the whole tank force. For this tank, the technicians decided to disassemble its engine and test the specific condition of the engine.

In World War II, the service life of tank engines was very short, among which the shortest was the shoddy Soviet tanks.

For example, the interval between intermediate repair and overhaul of the Soviet Union's ace T-34 tank is about 150 hours and 300 hours.

This is also restricted by many factors. Some can run in 250 hours, and some only run two or three hundred kilometers, and the engine is scrapped.

For example, the production level of the factory. In 1942, the Soviet military industry retreated, and the average quality of workers was also declining sharply. As a result, many t-34s needed an overhaul only after 35 to 40 kilometers of operation.

However, for the Soviets, this can be maintained, because the life of ordinary tanks is not longer than their overhaul time limit, and the life of tanks on the front line is not long. On average, it takes four to ten days, or one to three raids. The average mileage of Soviet tanks before decommissioning was 66.7 kilometers, less than half of the overhaul mileage. Most tanks just don't survive natural damage.

This also led the Soviet Union to come to a conclusion after World War II. Weapons are made to be consumed without too long service life. Anyway, it won't take long to fight.

This conclusion may be correct in wartime, but it is pure waste in peacetime. For the RD33 of MiG-29 in the Soviet Union, the engine overhaul interval is only 300 hours, while there are thousands of hours in the West. In this way, the waste of engine increases the flight cost a lot.

If the performance of the tank is insufficient, it can only become consumables. If the performance of the tank is strong, it will not be. Therefore, at the request of hilrick, the service life of the tank is very long.

For example, the current Panther tank has an average life of 1500 kilometers.

The biggest advantage is the ability of precision machining. Compared with the crude Soviet tanks, the German tanks are very precise, especially the tank engines.

The more precise the processing, the longer the service life of the engine. For example, the engine in this era still needs to be run in, but in later generations, the engine does not need to be run in at all, because it has been precisely processed when it is manufactured. Many heavy truck engines in later generations have changed oil 100000 kilometers long. After buying a new car, they changed oil for the first time after 100000 kilometers.

At the same time, the service life of the engine is also related to adjustment. For the same engine, different adjustment has different horsepower, so why not adjust it to high horsepower? The greater the horsepower, the shorter the service life. Later generations can adjust any car engine to 1000 horsepower, but it only has a service life of a few minutes.

The current Panther 2 tank is a reduced weight version. Accordingly, the horsepower of the engine is reduced.

Does it rely on an endless stream of tank sea tactics, or does it rely on quality to defeat quantity? For Germany, the latter is correct.

The Soviet Union won World War II almost by piling up human lives. In every battle, the Soviet Union won miserably, because there were more dead people in the victorious Soviet Union than in the defeated Germany.

There are lives in the Soviet Union, not in Germany. German soldiers are precious.

Now, the cross-country journey of this tank, which has been used for the longest time, has reached 800 kilometers. The purpose of disassembling the engine of this tank is to test the specific situation of the engine. Can you run another 800 kilometers?

There are also several Maybach technicians who came from Germany. For them, this is also a valuable opportunity. In the past, their tests in China were conducted in a peaceful environment. Now, what about this engine on the real battlefield?