Talk to yourself? Cialick is very strange. It’s not that he didn’t have time to get married. Tell me about how to treat his daughter. Now, what else is there to talk about?

Of course it is not a private matter, it must be a official matter!

"Okay, the matter here is over. I'll go back with you." Cialick said, "It's just right to talk to my father."

It's time to talk about it. Last time I went to the Soviet Union, I fooled several warships. The main guns on them were all under the responsibility of Krupp, especially the 406mm heavy artillery that will be developed in the future, which was also under the responsibility of Krupp. They had to conduct pre-research in advance.

Now, there are quite a lot of projects in the Navy. The Navy's own battleships also need Krupp to be responsible for the naval guns on it. The armor on the battleships are all manufactured by Krupp and Rhine. These need to be implemented as soon as possible. It is time to communicate with Gustav.

Cialek was thinking about these things on the way back, but he was too tired and soon leaned against one side, Hannah's arms and fell asleep.

In his sleep, Cialek seemed to be catching something in his mind, but he couldn't.

"No, we absolutely cannot accept this kind of tank! This does not meet the needs of our armored soldiers at all!"

"This kind of tank is simply trash! We would rather continue to train with cardboard and cars than never do this!"

When he returned to Berlin, Cialek learned that Gustav was not in the manor and went directly to Krupp's factory. Gustav is now a workaholic.

Unexpectedly, just outside the factory office, Cialick heard the noise. This sound was very familiar to Cialick.

When he opened the door, Cialik saw Guderian with an ugly face, and was arguing with Gustav with a flushed face. There were also several personnel from the Weapons Bureau, all of whom were Cialik's subordinates.

"What's going on?" asked Cialek.

Seeing Cialick come back, Guderian was delighted: "Cialick, come and judge us, they want to reduce production of our Black Panther tank!"

Black Panther Reduced Production? Cialick looked at Gustav with puzzled eyes.

"Minister Cialek, I have wanted to tell you about this, but you have been very busy and have been delayed until now." Gustav had apologized on his face. Although Gustav was Cialek's father-in-law in private, Cialek coordinated all the weapons development in business.

"It's like this. After small batch trial production, we found that we wanted to mass-produce Black Panther tanks on a large scale. We don't have the conditions yet. Among them, the most important one is high-quality torsion bars, which are very difficult for us to make." Gustav said: "In the first trial production of vehicles, we didn't care about the cost, but now, our mass-produced models, high-quality torsion bars, have difficulty in processing and very low output."

Twist the rod! Cialick finally caught something in his mind.

No matter what kind of transportation means, they need to be hung. For example, the wheels of a car are definitely not directly connected to the frame. In that case, the people inside will definitely be extremely bumpy.

Tanks also need to be hung! The Christie suspension with a large spring was very popular in this era, and in later generations, almost all the torsion rods were in the world.

Torsion rod suspension is a suspension form that relies on the elasticity of a torsion spring (also known as a torsion rod) to support the vehicle body and absorb impact and vibration.

Simply put, it is a twisted rod that is horizontally located at the bottom of the tank, one end is fixed to the body of the vehicle, and the other end is connected to the fixed end of the swing arm. The fixed end of the swing arm is connected to the body of the vehicle, and the movable end is connected to the load-bearing wheel.

When the load-bearing wheel is subjected to a force upward, it will drive the swing arm to rotate around the fixed end and tighten the torsion bar. The elastic force generated when the torsion bar is tightened reacts on the swing arm and is transmitted to the load-bearing wheel and produces support force.

This is the most space-saving and most effective suspension form. In later generations, almost all tanks were in this way.

The balance is good in terms of weight, volume, activity stroke, reliability, cost, etc.

But that is later generations!

Now, just at the end of 33 years, there is still a big gap between the development of industrial technology and future generations!

High-quality torsion rod manufacturing requires a large amount of rare metals such as vanadium and chromium. Now, even if it can be imported from the Soviet Union and other countries, the cost is very high!

In addition to torsion rods, there are other aspects that are also difficult, such as long-barrel tank guns, and rubber-mounted load-bearing wheels.

"Then we would rather wait than not have such a tank!" Guderian was quite firm.

This kind of tank? Cialik was stunned for a moment and looked at Gustav with confusion. He saw Gustav continue to say apologetically: "I'm sorry, in fact, in recent years, we have been developing other tank models. Now, the prototype has been built."

Other models of tanks!

Back then, Cialick and a large group of people ran to the desert. They went there for several years. In the past few years, no news came out, and they could only continuously convey various materials to the desert.

How far is their tank developed? No one knows.

Can it be successfully developed? No one knows!

Therefore, under this circumstance, research and development in China also began. The German Ordnance Agency secretly asked five companies, Henschel, Mann, Rhinemata, Krupp and Daimler-Benz, to design and manufacture three prototype cars respectively.

As a result, Krupp Company secretly built an LKA1 prototype car weighing only 6 tons. The body is more than four meters long. Each side has 4 balanced suspension large-diameter load-bearing wheels and 4 pulleys. The induction wheel is rear-mounted, and two machine guns are installed on the turret, which uses an air-cooled diesel engine produced by Krupp.

When he heard this, Cialek understood that this was the No. 1 tank?

Without looking at the prototype cars that were staying in the factory, Cialek just glanced at the drawings and knew that this was the No. 1 tank of later generations!

History is really stubborn and wants to continue to develop along the original trajectory!

Afterwards, Cialik came back. These tanks that Krupp had completed trial production were all behind and turned into toy-like existences!

These tanks were never possible, but now, there is a low production of Black Panther tanks!

How can we develop our own tank troops as soon as possible? At this time, Krupp Company made a suggestion to produce a batch of light tanks designed by our own side while producing small batches of Black Panther tanks!

After the application was put into use, the Ordnance Department fully agreed and gave Sd.Kfz.101 standard number approval for mass production!

So, production began in the factory, and at this moment, Guderian learned the news and immediately returned from the desert area, and was very excited to reject the plan!

The weight is less than 10 tons, and it can be equipped with a 37mm gun at most, and there are only 2 internal members. Are such tanks prepared for the armored division? No, don’t!
Chapter completed!