Chapter 711 Collision of Steel
After World War II, the German League was not a match for the Chinese Empire in terms of the three money-burning arms of the Navy, Air Force and the Sky Army due to economic difficulties. However, in terms of army equipment, the German League did not lag behind the Chinese Empire, but far surpassed the Chinese Army in terms of equipment scale.
China and Germany had the opposite direction of the army development after the war. The Imperial Army continued to pursue an elite military route, and the imperial standing army maintained about 2 million and was extremely well-equipped. The entire Warsaw Pact Group had more than 9.3 million troops, which were well-equipped but slightly lower than the Imperial Army, becoming the main force to restrain NATO.
In other words, the Imperial Army was worried that it would be subject to the first round of fierce attacks in the military conflict with NATO. The Imperial Army learned from the experience and lessons of the blitzkrieg of World War II. The main force of the Imperial Army was not deployed near the NATO region, but was deployed in depth to avoid sudden NATO attacks. At the forefront, other Warsaw Pact armies acted as cannon fodder to face the NATO army directly.
The German League was different. The total army's strength did not decrease after the war, but more than doubled. Its main reason was that the German League had economic difficulties after the war, and a large number of soldiers had nothing to do to get rid of their troops and return to their fields. Instead, they became evil forces in society because they could not live in food and clothing. The German League adopted the strategy of restoring the corps production after World War I, and carried out combat preparations while producing.
When the Imperial Chinese Army restored its level of peace and combat readiness, the total strength of the German coalition army increased to 6.3 million, and the total strength of the entire NATO reached 13.8 million.
Such a huge army required an amazing army equipment. In the early post-war period, NATO countries had 18,000 tanks and chariots. Because the German Union had difficulty catching up with the Chinese Empire in the navy, air force and sky army equipment in a short period of time. Therefore, Hitler vigorously built the army and tried to become the world's number one army power.
Tanks, as an important symbol of the army, became the key development target of the German League.
During World War II, the German tanks suffered all the hardships of the coalition tanks. In addition to lagging behind the Chinese Empire, the production costs were more due to insufficient quantity. The Soviet tank production costs were low, and the tank group had a huge impact on the German army in the later stage.
After the war, the German army learned lessons. With the relaxation of the raw material market, the cost of the German tank production dropped rapidly. The demise of the Soviet Union and Tsarist Russia joined the German Union, which greatly integrated the tank technology of Germany and Russia. The cost-effective Soviet tanks were matched with the powerful engines of German tanks. The German tanks finally made the German tanks achieve breakthrough achievements.
In March 1949, the former Soviet Union's T44 main battle tank was combined with the German tank No. 6, becoming the first main battle tank after the war - the t50.
The total weight of the T50 main battle tank is 39.7 tons, the turret armor is 203 mm (this thickness is only available at the bottom of the turret), and the casing is 99 mm. The main weapon is the PD-9 100 mm rifled gun, 2 12.7 mm heavy machine guns. It uses the V8 diesel engine of the German No. 6 tank, with a maximum range of 600 kilometers (with a secondary fuel tank), and a maximum speed of 55 kilometers per hour.
Overall, the T-50 main battle tank has its significant advantages and particularly significant disadvantages. Different countries and different camps have different evaluations of it. In several wars in the Middle East, the tanks of the Arab army suffered a Waterloo-style defeat, and were destroyed and injured by the Persian Imperial Army and Kuwait Army. In fact, the war shortcomings are manifested in the fact that due to the tight economic relationship, the German League unilaterally pursues bulletproof appearance, reduces the size of the vehicle body, causing inconvenience in operation. The lack of protection in the ammunition depot and fuel silo, once the tank is hit, it has poor survivability and is prone to "secondary effect" (that is the legendary internal explosive vehicle. It is particularly dangerous).
But the most fundamental thing is that the German Union's tank artillery lacks advanced fire control systems, with average shooting accuracy, and the loading of ammunition consumes a lot of physical strength to the tank hands, and the engine's mass is much behind that of the Eastern Warsaw Pact national tanks.
However, due to the extremely low production cost of the T50 tank, Hitler produced as much as 40,000 vehicles in the 1950s and 1960s in order to form an absolute advantage over the Warsaw Pact army in a short period of time. During this period, the T50 tanks were continuously improved, and more than 100 models were derived to adapt to wars in different terrain. Due to the huge number of T50 tanks, although the German army lost in the Middle East battlefield in the future, it showed its power on the African battlefield and became a cost-effective tank favored by African countries.
While the German United Army launched the T-50 main battle tank, the Chinese Empire began a targeted tank plan against the absolute advantage of the number of German United tank troops.
First, the Chinese Empire concentrated its efforts to produce m36 Tiger King heavy tanks, m28a3 Cheetah medium tanks and m35 Hound light tanks, and on this basis improved and improved the development of m43 main battle tanks with outstanding comprehensive performance, as the main battle tanks of the Imperial Army in the 1950s.
The m43 tank uses 120mm guns. Compared with the 100mm guns used by the t-50 tank, the m43 is in an advantage only based on the gun caliber. Moreover, the Chinese Empire is in an absolute leading position in the research and development and manufacturing of electronic equipment, making the m43 tank's fire control system advanced, with high shooting accuracy, and automatic loading of shells saves gunners' physical strength. Judging from the fact that the m43 has only two crew members, it is much more intelligent than the t50 that requires 4 crew members.
However, although the m43 tanks are ahead of the t50 in performance, judging from the overall strategic situation in the 1950s, the key to the disparity in strength lies in the number of tanks. The Chinese Empire only produced 14,500 m43 tanks, which is more than three times the difference from the 40,000 t50 tanks. Both sides belong to the category of second-generation tanks, and the m43 performance is also expensive. In this regard, the German cheap t50 tanks ultimately lead by absolute quantity.
In 1951, the German League, whose vitality was gradually recovering, began to show its minions of invasion. However, in the 1950s, the German League was at a disadvantage during the Cold War between China and Germany, so Hitler did not dare to provoke a new round of world wars, but instead invaded Armenia by supporting and arming the Georgian army.
Hitler's goal was to kill Armenia, thus ending the Chinese Empire's control over the Caucasus region and clearing the way for the German Union to seize the Caucasus-Black Sea-Caspiano oil region.
The Chinese Empire Hao was prepared for Hitler's ambitions. The imperial emperor Chen Hao ordered his full support to Armenia, including exporting a number of advanced weapons and equipment currently in service to the Imperial Army, including the first to recommend the m43 main battle tank.
On November 2, 1951, Georgia declared a war without declaring it, and 70,000 Georgian troops launched an attack on Armenia. Armenia immediately declared war on Georgia.
In this way, under the background of the Cold War, two Transcaucasian countries supported by the two major military groups in China and Germany began a high-intensity local war.
Chapter completed!