Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 96: Equipment (below)
Armored vehicles have generators and batteries, which can provide electricity for electrical appliances. Fast heating is just the simplest heating tool. The head of state also proposed the idea of the electric kettle, not the shiny streamlined small kitchen appliances of later generations, but the simple beam kettle shape, which is quite suitable for the aesthetic taste of the Germans at this time.
It’s just that it takes time to build a production line, and it’s not possible to come up with the finished product for the time being. I believe it will be popular not only in the military, but even in the civilian market.
At this time, piped gas in German cities is not fully popularized. Some old buildings still use coal-burning stoves. However, all buildings are connected to electricity. Compared with the unpleasant waste gas emitted by coal-burning stoves, the citizens We will love this clean and quick boiling tool.
If it were not for the premature leakage of the cavity magnetron technology, Xu Jun even plans to develop a microwave oven. This kind of heating artifact is too convenient, but it seems that we can only wait another year or two.
The United States did not obtain the British cavity magnetron technology like in history, and because the British did a good job of secrecy, the Americans did not even know that there was such a technology at this time. Japanese scientists had touched a little bit. , But they were shelved in their internal technological battles and never continued to develop.
The cavity magnetron (resonant cavity magnetron) is the core component of centimeter wave radar. Germany and the United Kingdom are currently cooperating with each other to develop a new generation of mobile radar stations and air defenses used on warships. With the fire control radar system, some technological breakthroughs have been completed and some outstanding results have been produced.
Of course these projects are top secrets. All participants are under strict surveillance. The British are well aware of the great value of this technology. They have begun to warn against relatives on the other side of the Atlantic and will not allow themselves The high-end technology lost to the other side.
The newly developed mobile radar vehicle will be able to maneuver with the troops. After deployment, it can detect mid-to-high altitude flying objects within 120 kilometers and ultra-low altitude flying at 20 meters within 50 kilometers. Target, this basically eliminated the possibility of a low-altitude surprise attack by enemy bombers.
Several of these mobile radar stations can cooperate with various mobile air defense artillery equipped by the German army to build a complete air defense system and prop up a strong protective umbrella for ground troops.
As for the corresponding anti-aircraft artillery, Xu Jun has determined several design schemes. Currently, he is only waiting for Rhein Steel to develop the universal carrier platform he needs. Rhein Steel is currently conducting comparative tests on several projects. The most outstanding performance is the improved tracked chassis based on "Fenris".
It is the chassis of the reduced version of the Carl 600 mortar mentioned in the previous article. Rheinmetall has installed a new engine, replaced it with a new suspension system, and increased the width of the track to make it better Cross-country capability, the unloaded chassis once ran the highest speed of 57 kilometers per hour on the test track, the finalized number is sd.kz170.
Xu Jun is interested in using sd.kz170 as a general-purpose tracked chassis, and then converting it into various mobile firepower platforms on this basis. This kind of chassis can easily carry a complete 88mm anti-aircraft gun. There is no German standard gun that it cannot carry, except for train guns.
Xu Jun needs to improve the versatility of German equipment as much as possible. This is of great significance to both manufacturing and logistics maintenance. Xu Jun’s goal is to make any German self-propelled artillery damaged nearby. Find suitable replacement parts for your repair.
In the future, the anti-aircraft firepower of the German armored forces will be divided into three-tier configuration of near, medium and far. The short-range air defense firepower will be mainly equipped with quadruple 20mm antiaircraft guns, and the medium-range defense will be undertaken by double-installed 40mm caliber antiaircraft guns. , The long-range will be handed over to the famous 88mm anti-aircraft artillery. You must know that air defense is the specialty of this artillery.
As for more powerful antiaircraft artillery systems, such as 105 and 128mm antiaircraft artillery, they are only responsible for air defense in the core and vital areas. They are good at attacking high-altitude targets, while field mobile air defense often encounters high-speed targets at medium and low altitudes. For example, fighter-bombers and ground attack aircraft, these large-caliber anti-aircraft guns are powerful, but they are not suitable for fighting these small flies.
Xu Jun once wanted to install "Favnir" on the land battle platform, but then found that the ammunition was consumed too fast, and a small amount of deployment would not have much effect. A large number of logistics units would need to be rebelled. This thing is one minute The shells shot out were enough to make an Oerlikon click and click for a long time.
However, Xu Jun will not let go of this excellent design. He has ordered Krupp to design a rapid-fire machine gun based on the "Favnir", using a machine gun with a caliber of 12.7 mm, Xu Jun This machine gun is going to be installed on a heavy wheeled armored vehicle. I believe it will become a nightmare for soldiers of the Soviet Red Army in the cold night.
At the same time, Germany purchased m2 Browning's production license from the United States. The U.S. arms industry has been sluggish and urgently needs overseas orders. Facing the Germans waving checks, the chaebols don’t care if you are a dictator of fascism. As long as the price is right and the technology does not involve too many secrets, they are willing to take out everything.
The Browning m2 machine gun left a deep impression on the German generals in the shooting performance at the weapon test field. Everyone unanimously requested that a large number of such large-caliber machine guns be equipped in the German army to supplement the medium and long-range Strike force.
Xu Jun also plans to replace part of the mg34 machine guns equipped by the armored forces with m2 machine guns. This machine gun can be used as a general air defense weapon for the armored forces, and can also be used to attack enemy infantry and light armored units.
At that time, whether it is 82 barrel trucks, off-road Beetles, semi-track personnel carriers and heavy trucks, they can carry a m2 as a self-defense weapon. The disadvantages of this machine gun are its large size and weight, and the ammunition carrying capacity is limited, but these shortcomings no longer exist after being installed on a motor vehicle.
Speaking of half-tracked vehicles, an improved model of the 251 is being developed. For this purpose, a few American m3 half-tracked personnel carriers have been specially purchased for reference, and Xu Jun is waiting to see what he can finally come up with.
The half-track transport vehicle has strong characteristics of the times and is a product of a special period. At that time, the roads in Europe and America were not as developed as later generations. Most of the rural roads were earth-based roads, and even in many cities and towns in Eastern Europe The roads are still dirt roads and become muddy in the rainy season. This is not an exaggeration. This situation abounds in Poland, Romania and the Soviet Union.
The half-track vehicle is suitable for driving on conventional roads, and is also suitable for primitive dirt roads in the countryside. It has good passability and can maintain a considerable speed. Therefore, half-track vehicles have become the first choice for transportation vehicles. It is not that people at the time were ignorant, but the conditions at the time made it impossible.
The full-track personnel carrier of later generations is the equipment spawned for infantry to follow the tank troops in a surprise attack in the environment of large-scale armored warfare or even nuclear war. The personnel carrier must have the same three defense capabilities as the tank. The open-body half-track vehicle lacks the survivability in this kind of war environment~IndoMTL.com~ so it was quickly eliminated by history.
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the mode of war has undergone tremendous changes, so most European countries abandoned the heavy, expensive, fuel-intensive and complex structure of the full-track personnel carrier and replaced it with faster, flexible and economical wheels. Style models.
The topic has gone far, returning to the German half-tracked vehicle family. In the German logistics transport convoy, several new members have been added. The head of state came up with a modification plan for the semi-track truck. In fact, it is not complicated to open it. It is to replace the original truck rear wheel with a crawler action mechanism, so that an ordinary military truck has the off-road capability of a semi-track vehicle.
It is not only German trucks that accept the modification. Some British and French trucks seized by the German army have also undergone similar modifications. In particular, several of the all-wheel drive models have been equipped with track modifications, and they have all demonstrated amazing off-road capabilities.
It is foreseeable that these seemingly simple modifications will greatly improve the German army's ability to transport and supply under harsh terrain conditions.
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