Chapter 282 Integration of Czech Industry
The Czech Republic has now been divided up, and Poland has eaten meat, and this revenge has long been born. In history, Poland has not been a settled master and invaded everywhere.
"The last Czech incident made the Soviet Union realize the face of Britain and France. Instead of following the unreliable, he would leave his comrades behind at any time, the Soviet Union might as well follow us and divide Poland together." Cirick continued.
Dividing up Poland! The Soviet Union and Poland are also a bloody feud. Why should the Soviet Union help Poland fight Germany? In the eyes of the Soviet Union, it would be better to join forces with Germany to defeat Poland!
"Yes, that's it, Cialek, I think your judgment is correct!" Hitler was excited. For him, the expansion of territory was the most important!
"However, the head of state, we must pay attention to the timing when we join forces with the Soviet Union. As long as we fight Poland, World War II will begin. Now, we are not prepared, so now, we can negotiate with the Soviet Union, but the progress must slow down. It will take one to two years to complete the complete integration of Czech industry." Cirick continued.
Now, history has been ahead of schedule, but it is best not to start World War II early, because Germany has not completed its war preparations yet!
The failure of World War I and the constraints of the Treaty of Versailles made Germany extremely weak. Although it has been developing over the years, it has always been incomparable to the old capitalist countries. Wars cannot be fought!
Everything takes time!
The Czech Republic is an industrialized country with an industrialization level of 100%. What does this mean? Apart from industry, there is nothing else in the Czech Republic. For example, agriculture, all the food needed by the Czech Republic is provided by Britain and France.
And in Czech industry, the most important thing is Skoda!
In later generations, Skoda has become a second-rate car brand under Volkswagen, and its fate is very sad.
And now, Skoda is the industrial pillar of the Czech Republic.
The Skoda company was founded in 1859 by the Czech Arnold in the western Czech city. In 1868, it was bought by an Earl of Austria named Skoda. Since 1869, the factory has been named Skoda Factory.
At that time, Skoda mainly produced shotguns, machine guns, cannon vehicles, etc., especially large-caliber artillery and armored vehicles. It was the main weapon provider of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I.
Many factories are set up in Bilson and Wilzm, an industrial city in western Czech Republic.
Take last year for example. The annual artillery production of Skoda Arsenal was almost the total output of the British local arsenal.
In addition to arms, Skoda Arsenal also operates machine tools, thermal power equipment, and produces various heavy industrial products such as cars, large cars, load-carrying cars, rail and trolley cars, electric locomotives, etc. It can be said to be the pillar of Czechoslovakia's industry.
Now, although the Czech Republic is divided, the Czech people are still living the same as before. The Czech Republic's Skoda Arsenal is the same. Every day, workers are still working on time.
However, there were only some new faces in the factory. Some engineers from Germany joined the Skoda Arsenal. They were evaluating the products of the Skoda Arsenal to determine whether to renovate them.
The first thing to be evaluated is the fist products of Skoda Arsenal, the lt-35 light tank and the lt-38 light tank.
Among them, the lt-35 light tank is a tank developed based on the British "Carden-Louyd" ultra-light tank and has been improved through a series of improvements.
This tank has a total combat weight of 10.5t, with 4 crew members, equipped with a 37mm gun, and uses a 120-horsepower water-cooled gasoline engine; the gearbox has 6 forward gears and 6 reverse gears.
The maximum armor thickness is 35 mm. The maximum speed of the tank is 35km/h.
If we look at this era, this kind of tank is also considered advanced, so it is exported to many countries with a total output of more than 200 vehicles.
However, compared with German tanks, it is far behind.
At the same time, since last year, Skoda has also been improving this tank. The biggest improvement is to replace the 8 small-diameter load bearing wheels on each side of the lt-35 tank with 4 large-diameter load bearing wheels on each side.
This makes its maneuverability even better.
In other aspects, there has been no change. It is still a 37mm tank gun. The engine's power has slightly increased to 125 horsepower, and its self-weight has been reduced to 9.4 tons, which has improved maneuverability.
This improvement, called the lt-38 tank, was mass-produced in history since 38 years, but now it is just a small amount of chassis assembled.
For Skoda, this kind of tank is their pride, and in the eyes of German engineers, this kind of tank is a product that cannot be regarded as a person.
How to compare, it is probably the same as the performance of the No. 3 tank in history. After obtaining these tanks, Germany in history was like a treasure and incorporated into its own army and renamed it pzkp35t and pzkp38t tanks. After all, the number of No. 3 tanks in Germany at that time was also seriously insufficient.
Now, Germany has begun to mass-produce the 40-ton Black Panther 3 tank. This 10-ton light tank is really bad, just like a child's toy!
"I suggest that the production of this lt-38 tank be stopped immediately." Knepokamp, an engineer from Germany, said to Cialik: "This tank cannot meet the needs of our army at all!"
Stop completely!
Now, all military factories in Germany are working hard to produce. With the high efficiency of flow-through production, Sperer has become the Minister of Equipment and vigorously improved the tank output of German military factories is developing rapidly.
It is expected that by this year, Germany's tank production should be more than 1,000 vehicles. However, for the German armored forces, this is still a drop in the bucket.
According to the idea of the father of German armor, Guderian, the ideal armored division should have an armored brigade under its jurisdiction, each brigade has two armored regiments, each regiment has two armored battalions, and each battalion has four tank companies, with 21 tanks in each company. In this way, the German armored division has a total of 336 tanks.
Then, the annual tank production is only enough to be equipped with three armored divisions.
Even if the tank organization is reduced, such as reducing each battalion from 4 tank companies to 3 tank companies, the annual output is enough for five tank divisions.
Originally, the German senior management planned to build ten armored divisions this year. If the tanks were not enough, the tank structure in the tank division could only be further reduced.
Now, increasing the number of tanks is the most urgent. Let Skoda produce its own Black Panther tank at full speed, which is the most important thing!
(In history, when the war with the Soviet Union just started in 1941, the annual output of German tanks was 3,083. In 1944, after Sperer took over the military production, Germany's tank production reached an astonishing 7,908. Now, World War II has not yet broken out, Germany has not transferred to wartime military industry, and it is also produced medium-sized tanks with relatively high working hours. However, in the current situation in the book, the Soviet Union imported enough ore and enough funds, so producing 1,000 Black Panther tanks a year should not be considered a hero in East China? The hero in East China is already scared. Any data that makes people dissatisfied will cause readers to abandon the book.)
Chapter completed!