Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Conference Room 1 is a small conference room with only a dozen seats.

After several people said hello, Yannick picked up a stack of paper and shook it. "This is the tank design you gave me?" Before visiting the Soviet Union in Ming Dynasty, he asked his secretary to go to the heads of these companies and ask them to design three tanks for each company. What he is holding now is the design of these tanks. sketch.

Porsche asked with some confusion. "Uh, Your Highness, do you have any questions?" Yannick is now his boss, and he didn't dare to look carelessly at this drawing. It took a lot of effort to sort it out.

Yannick patted the paper in his hand and said angrily. "What is this? 5 tons, 5 tons, 6 tons, 5 tons... Are you going to play house with it? Huh?..." The data of one of the six-ton ​​tanks caught his attention.

The car body is more than four meters long, with 4 balanced suspended large-diameter road wheels and 4 supporting pulleys on each side. The idler wheel is at the rear. The turret is equipped with 2 machine guns and uses an air-cooled diesel engine produced by Krupp.

Hey, isn't this the No. 1 tank?

Without even looking at the actual vehicle, just based on the data on the drawing, Yannick knew that this was the No. 1 tank of later generations!

The person in charge of Mercedes-Benz explained. "Your Highness, this is the tonnage of today's mainstream light tanks, such as the French 'Renault' FT-17 light tank, and the British..." As he spoke, his voice became smaller and smaller, and finally he stopped speaking after a few vague words. Voice.

"..." Yannick could only roll his eyes helplessly. After all, tanks first appeared on the battlefield more than ten years ago. All countries have a blank idea of ​​what future tanks will look like. Many countries, They are all taking detours. Even the British Empire opposite, as the birthplace of tanks, produced cruise tanks and destroyer tanks that were useless.

The United States on the other side of the Atlantic has also developed so-called support infantry tanks and tank destroyers.

The theory of their armored forces is that tanks are used to support infantry, while tank destroyers are used to destroy tanks.

So the standard combat process of the American armored forces is this: the M4 tank accompanies the infantry and marches forward bravely. If it encounters an enemy tank force, the commander of the M4 tank will call the nearby M10 tank destroyer responsible for support to come and eliminate the troublemakers. Enemy tanks. What the Americans encountered in actual combat was that the M4 tank was beaten all over by German tanks. When the M10 tank destroyer arrived, the Germans had already cleaned the battlefield and had a meal before withdrawing. .

Therefore, it is not surprising that Germany has taken many detours. The Tiger and King Tiger during World War II focused on protection. However, after World War II, it was discovered that heavy tanks were wrong, and they went to extremes again, such as the Leopard 1 tank. , has outstanding firepower and excellent mobility, but its protection is extremely weak!

It just so happens that the British Armstrong Vickers Company recently designed a light tank specifically for export, the Vickers. Although this tank was not widely adopted by the British Army, its innovative and excellent design was appreciated by the country.

This tank has a certain level of firepower and mobility, and is reliable in performance and easy to maintain. The body adopts the currently mature willow welding method. In order to maintain a certain degree of mobility, the armor is slightly weak. The power source is a vertical four-cylinder gasoline engine made by British Armstrong. The output provided by this engine allows the tank to run on paved roads. Go forward at a speed of 35 km/h.

The tank designs of the other tanks are obviously "borrowed" from this tank. This tank adopts a double-track structure, with four pairs on the left and right. Each pair of rails connects two road wheels, and the two pairs of road wheels on the left and right sides are equipped with spring structures. This suspension system is considered to be a very good system that can withstand long-distance driving. It is very excellent in this era. design. (The Soviet Union developed the T-26 tank based on this tank). The total production in the world exceeded 10,000 units, which has fully influenced the design of tanks around the world!

But of course Yannick doesn't like this kind of thing. "Mainstream? What is mainstream? It won't be long before German tanks will be mainstream. Our standards will be the standards of Europe and even the world. Those guys will have to copy our designs in the end. I am now redefining Germany's tank standards, 15-30 tons are light tanks, 30-50 tons are medium tanks, and tanks above 50 tons are heavy tanks. As for those less than 15 tons, they are all ultra-light tanks."

Hearing that, several managers couldn't help but look at each other, and the managers of Mann and Rheinmaita said with embarrassed expressions. "Well, Your Highness, although your idea is good, we don't have the technical accumulation to make a tank of more than 20 tons at once."

His words are not an excuse. It can be said that Germany currently does not have any pre-research on tank projects, and everything is started from scratch. In this case, the best way is to first develop a preliminary model, and then gradually land development.

The 15-30-ton plan proposed by His Highness is a bit too advanced.

Yannick waved his hand and interrupted him. "Don't worry, I'm not asking you to build a finished product right away. The development time for a light tank is five years, and the debugging and improvement time is two years. The development time for a medium tank is seven years, and the debugging and improvement time is two years. A heavy tank has ten years. It will take time for research and development, and the debugging and perfection time will be two years.”

At this time, the responsible persons breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that they would be asked to produce the finished product immediately. Five years should be said to be plenty of time.

"I want the operating procedures of these three types of tanks to be the same or similar as possible. In other words, tank drivers of light tanks can skillfully drive medium or heavy tanks without special training." This is an old man from later generations. Learned it there. The control panels of Soviet fighter jets have not changed much for several generations. Pilots with flying experience can easily become familiar with another aircraft. Unlike the United States, sometimes the operation methods of different types of aircraft completely change, and pilots have to learn it all over again.

"And various parts must be as common as possible. When you go back, discuss the issue of standardization and universalization of parts. For example, there will be BMW and Mercedes-Benz armored vehicles with different faults on the future battlefield. I hope that they can be disassembled from Use BMW parts to repair a Mercedes-Benz, or use Mercedes-Benz parts to repair a BMW. I don’t want to have to wait for specialized parts to arrive before repairing, and I have to let the maintenance workers learn two repair methods. I don’t care about your respective civilian cars, but military vehicles This standard must be met.”