Chapter 282 (2/2)
The tank has a total combat weight of 10.5t, four crew members, a 37mm gun and a 120 HP water-cooled gasoline engine; The transmission has six forward gears and six reverse gears.
The maximum armor thickness is 35 mm. The maximum speed of the tank is 35km / h.
In this era, this kind of tank is also advanced, so it is exported to many countries, with a total output of more than 200.
However, compared with German tanks, it is far from enough.
At the same time, Skoda has been improving this kind of tank since last year. The biggest improvement is to replace 8 small-diameter load wheels on each side of lt-35 tank with 4 large-diameter load wheels on each side.
This makes its mobility even better.
In other aspects, it has not changed. It is still a 37mm tank gun. The power of the engine has been slightly increased to 125 horsepower, while the self weight has been reduced to 9.4 tons, and the mobility has been improved.
This improved tank, called lt-38 tank, in history, began mass production in 38 years. Now, it is only a small number of chassis assembled.
For Skoda, this kind of tank is their pride, and in the eyes of German engineers, this kind of tank belongs to something they can't even see.
The performance of the No. 3 tank in history is about the same as that of the No. 3 tank in history. After obtaining these tanks, Germany in history was also a treasure and incorporated into its own army. It was renamed pzkpfw35t and pzkpfw38t tanks. After all, the number of No. 3 tanks in Germany was also seriously insufficient at that time.
Now, Germany is preparing to mass produce 40 ton Panther 3 tanks. This 10 ton light tank is really bad, just like children's toys!
”I suggest that the production of this lt-38 tank be stopped immediately.” Kenny pocamp, an engineer from Germany, said to hilrick, ”this tank can't meet the needs of our army!”
Full stop!
Now, various military factories in Germany are in full production. Under the high efficiency of streamlined production, Speer became the Minister of equipment. With great improvement, the tank output of German military factories is developing rapidly.
It is estimated that by the time of this year, Germany's tank production should exceed 1000. However, for the German armored forces, this is still a drop in the bucket.
According to Guderian, the father of German armor, the ideal Armor Division should have an armor brigade, each brigade has two armor regiments, each regiment has two armor battalions, each battalion has four tank companies, and each company has 21 tanks. In this way, the German Armor Division has a total of 336 tanks.
Then, the tank production in one year is only enough for the establishment of three armored divisions.
Even if the tank establishment is reduced, such as reducing each battalion from four tank companies to three tank companies, the annual output will be enough for five tank divisions.
The original plan of the German high-level was to build ten Armored Divisions this year. If there were not enough tanks, the tank establishment in the tank division could only be further reduced.
Now, increasing the number of tanks is the most urgent. Let Skoda produce its own Panther tanks at full speed, which is the most important!
(in history, the annual output of tanks in Germany was 3083 when the war with the Soviet Union began in 41 years. In 44 years, after Speer took over military production, the output of tanks in Germany reached an amazing 7908. At present, World War II has not broken out, Germany has not transferred to wartime military industry, and the production is still medium-sized tanks with high working hours. However, according to the current situation in the book, the Soviet Union imported enough ore and sufficient funds. Therefore, the production of 1000 Panther tanks a year should not be regarded as the hero of East China. Is that bullshit? Huadong Zhixiong is scared. If any data is unsatisfactory, readers will abandon the book.)