Zhang Xuewu said nothing, and even had no hints. He only brought everyone to the design institute and assembly workshop. The director of the armored design institute was a German Jewish Jew, Nathan, and Nathan were the very political and visionary nerd. When he felt that the wind in Germany was not right, he resolutely gave up his superior life in Germany, and took his wife, four daughters and father-in-law's family across the ocean and hoped to find a river in Rehe.

Shivit Nathan is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Hamburg, but his main energy is focused on the research of new tanks. Shivit Nathan participated in the development of Jackal and Leopard tanks, and was driven out of the Tiger Project due to his Jewish identity. Shivit Nathan was able to leave Germany thanks to Goring's instructions. Zhang Xuewu could only sigh helplessly for such a tank design genius buried by history.

Zhang Xuewu once mentioned the so-called 34-76 tank design to Shiweit Nathan. Compared with the original design of the 34 series tank, such as reducing the body height, redesigning the three-person turret, a new fast motor drive rotation mechanism, and a new turret with a low shot rate on the front. As a result, the tank designed by Shiweit Nathan scared Zhang Xuewu! What is this a new tank! This is the prototype of the future Soviet 44 main battle tank!

The Soviet 44 medium tanks in history were the subsequent models of 34-85, which belonged to the Lower Tajik tank series. The Soviet army developed 44 mainly to resist the German army, because the 34-85 medium tanks equipped by the Soviet army at that time were obviously at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the leopard tanks, so the Soviet army urgently needed a tank that could confront the German leopard tanks.

Zhang Xuewu handed over this new tank design to the production department in order to demonstrate its overall design ability and coordination. For a tank with successful design, while ensuring the firepower output and destroying it, the most important thing to take into account the survival of the tank is the most important thing in the successful design of a tank.

The m4 Sherman Medium Tank Series and the 34 Medium Tank Series are both famous medium tanks in World War II. Many people only noticed the success of the m4 Sherman Medium Tank Series and the 34 Medium Tank Series, but they ignored the huge losses of these two tanks during World War II.

Especially the medium-sized tanks, which are the main battle models of 34-76 and 34-85, suffered huge losses on the Eastern Front. In the Battle of Kursk in history, although the Soviet army won the final victory in the Battle of Kursk, the German army had 30 elite divisions, including seven armored divisions, and the rest suffered heavy damage. More than 180,000 troops were lost, about 900 tanks were lost, 3,000 artillery and mortars were lost, and more than 3,700 aircraft were lost.

The Soviet army's results were undoubtedly very brilliant, but the Soviet casualties in the Battle of Kursk remained within the scope of confidentiality until later generations. It was not until the disintegration of the Soviet Union that it was officially made public. The Soviet army paid a heavy price in the Battle of Kursk, losing more than 800,000 troops, more than 6,000 tanks, more than 5,200 artillery pieces, and more than 1,700 combat aircraft.

Undoubtedly, the German army invested a large number of new weapons for this attack, including Tiger, Leopard tank, Tiger anti-tank destroyer and Ferdinand anti-tank destroyer, as well as self-propelled artillery such as Wasp. The Air Force invested in the Fokker Wolf 190 fighter and Hankel 129 attack aircraft.

During the battle between armored forces, the 88mm gun with a 56-times caliber caliber of the German Tiger tank had a clear advantage, while the 76mm gun of the Soviet-34 tank could not pose a threat to the German army at the same distance. Therefore, the Soviet tanks rushed towards the German tank group at the highest speed. After approaching the German tanks, they wanted to use the advantage of the -34 maneuvering to defeat the bulky Tiger tanks. However, during the group's charge, the Soviet tanks paid a huge price. The German tanks destroyed by the Soviet Air Force were far more than the number of German tanks destroyed by their tank troops.

It is obviously unlikely to mass-produce tanks in large quantities based on Zhang Xuewu's industrial foundation. Even if a large number of tanks were produced, the fuel was very tight. Therefore, Zhang Xuewu finally decided to study a medium-sized tank that is most suitable for the actual situation of Rehe and China in the 44 and Leopard tanks. Although the imported things are good, if all their technology is not digested and utilized for development, Rehe will always be subject to others. It is Zhang Xuewu's wish to develop his own main battle tank. With advanced technology, Zhang Xuewu believes that it will still work.

What makes Zhang Xuewu more at ease and satisfied is that the research and public relations team composed of Sivette Nathan and others can always turn the theoretical design proposed by Zhang Xuewu into reality in a timely manner. In the eyes of Sivette Nathan and others, Zhang Xuewu is a very magical genius. His wonderful ideas can actually become the result of being tested by theoretical data?

In order to have its own military system, Zhang Xuewu introduced the latest twelve-cylinder water-cooled diesel engine production line from the Soviet Union. The maximum power of the twelve-cylinder water-cooled diesel engine of Guo Liufu is 580 horsepower. The twelve-cylinder water-cooled diesel engine of Guo Liufu is the latest research result of the Soviet Union. However, since this type of diesel engine is still in the stage of technical review and demonstration inspection, the Soviet Union has no need for mass production at all, so it was successfully sold to Rehe at a high price. The Soviet Union also wanted to take this opportunity to test the actual combat capability of the twelve-cylinder water-cooled diesel engine of Guo Liufu, which can save a lot of expenses for the Soviet Union, and only actual combat is the only criterion for testing combat effectiveness.

In terms of overall design, Zhang Xuewu is quite fond of the low body, narrow arc turret design, and low body help improve the battlefield survival and concealment of the tank. Compared with the 44 design, the German leopard medium tank seems to be bigger.

The ZFV Black Panther Medium Tank is second only to the Tiger Heavy Tank among the German tanks in World War II. It is the best designed medium tank in World War II, along with the Soviet-34 medium tanks and the US M4 Sherman tank.

The leopard tank can be said to be a medium-sized tank that is extremely powerful based on the battle situation. Because when Germany invaded the Soviet Union, the German armored troops quickly encountered the Soviet V-series heavy tanks and the -34/76 tanks. These two tanks were better than all German tanks in terms of firepower and armor protection. Therefore, Germany decided to develop a medium-sized tank with greater power based on the battlefield report on the Eastern Front and could be put into production quickly.

The Black Panther medium tank has a multiple self-weight of more than 40 tons. It has a variety of deformation models. The Black Panther Type 2 front armor is strengthened into 100 mm inclined armor at the front, 60 mm on the side, and 40 mm on the rear. It uses the same single torsion rod system as the Tiger King Tank. The load-bearing wheel is the same as the Tiger King Tank. The track is a narrow transportation track used by the Tiger King Tank.

In the late war, the Germans showed that the lower rifle of the arc-shaped cannon shield may penetrate the top of the vehicle body, so a narrow turret was designed to reduce the front area of ​​the turret, and a rangefinder and communication device were installed inside. What Zhang Xuewu needed was the so-called front gun shield design of the narrow turret, and the overall turret Zhang Xuewu wanted to choose an overall arc-shaped turret, just like the classic tank 54 turret design in later generations.

Although the Black Panther tank is larger in size, the Black Panther tank adopts an interlaced and overlapping load-bearing wheel arrangement, and the dual torsion bar independent suspension device improves its ability to travel at high speeds in poor terrain. This design is quite suitable for domestic countries where road conditions are extremely poor and lacks railway transportation.

The new medium-sized tanks required by Zhang Xuewu use special chromium-manganese alloy steel on protective steel plates. The scientific name of this steel is nickel-chromium-manganese alloy surface carburization hardened steel. Its main energy is that the hardness is as high as 670-700b after the surface is processed by special processes, and the decrease in carburization depth is about 40 to 50%. The new alloy armor makes the front armor of the newly designed medium-sized tank reach 100 mm, the armor on both sides of the car body reach 80 mm, and the tail is 60 mm. After assembling the ceramic shock absorbing interlayer and the external additional armor, the combat weight of the vehicle body remains below 36 tons.

In terms of power system, Zhang Xuewu asked the engine to be arranged horizontally to make the power transmission cabin more reasonable and can effectively shorten the length of the entire vehicle body. He used 34 tank pump-valve-type fuel-saving methods to equip the modified Guo Liufu 12-cylinder water-cooled diesel engine so that its off-road speed is no less than 45 kilometers and the maximum marching speed can reach 55 kilometers per hour.

The entire crew member cannot exceed four. The commander's command communication system, rangefinder and artillery stabilization device are installed inside the turret. It is also planned to introduce its reserve technology of 100 mm Lot Galov's 48 times the caliber of the turret, and it is equipped with a test turret for testing.

The data required by Zhang Xuewu seemed very ordinary to Zhang Xuewu, but in the eyes of experts such as Shivit and Nathan, it was a so-called height that predecessors had never reached. For these senior technical engineers, the more difficult it was, the more they liked it, because the design of an excellent weapon was enough to keep its designer's name in history. The design standards for the so-called new medium-sized tank given by Zhang Xuewu are in the view of Shivit. Nathan, an absolute expert, that even the Germans were secretly studying Tiger tanks as technical reserves could not compete with them. Shivit. Nathan's only concern was not the tank design, but whether the power of the Soviet 100 mm Lot Galov 48 times the caliber of the caliber of the 48-times caliber of the tank can be guaranteed?

What Shivit Nathan didn't know was that in an institution code-named the No. 9 Institute a few kilometers away from him, many scientific researchers were working day and night to study the energy-concentrated charge armor-piercing warheads using the Monroe effect.

Zhang Xuewu refused to leave the wooden model of the new tank for a long time, and there was less than a week before the prototype car was tested. If the test was passed and mass production was put into mass production, then in the big counterattack in three months, these 30 Avengers medium-sized tank prototypes could gallop on the battlefield! ro!.
Chapter completed!