One Thousand and Five Tank Guns
In the noisy factory, the workers are working desperately, just like the British sailors are all over the streets, and there are too many workers in Germany. Every worker here is an old technician who has worked for about ten years. Every movement of them has been tempered by time, and they are so meticulous.
On the one hand, German workers have a strong background, and on the other hand, German super factories are also trying their best to use machines to replace people to work. Germany began to advocate mechanical automation several years ago, but due to hardware defects and lags, progress has been limited.
However, with the advancement of the times and the increasing investment in automated production, the Germans, who advocate precision manufacturing, have finally developed a complete set of semi-automatic production lines for the production of various parts. Among them, Turing, the British computing master who was included in Germany a year ago, provided many suggestions, which made Germany come to the forefront of the world in this important field.
What is even more frightening is that Germany's industrial background has been released by high-level German leaders including Speer. In a Europe that has not been damaged by war, the industrial manufacturing capacity even has a tendency to surpass that of the United States. Although there may still be gaps in other aspects, in terms of military production, the Germans have improved a lot compared to another time and space.
"Put the parts over there on the conveyor belt! Speed up!" A workshop leader pointed to the delicate parts that had just been delivered and processed by the French factory, and shouted orders to a group of apprentices under him. road.
So these students who just graduated from the technical school swarmed up with a smile, and began to arrange the parts engraved with the manufacturer, production date and quality inspector's number neatly on the conveyor belt into a row.
Then these parts, driven by the conveyor belt, moved towards the distant installation machine tool. Then the skilled workers over there skillfully welded the parts sent over here to a protruding position on the steel plate. Their actions are very simple, just point a little with a welding torch, and the parts that have been spaced at a good distance over there will just arrive at the position.
Soon the part is welded, and then it is pushed to another conveyor belt with a cart and sent to the next processing position. Each of these manual welding links is performed in rotation by eight groups of people, and each group only works for three hours a day to ensure that the manual links are foolproof.
The steel plates produced in the workshop here will be welded into a floor in the next workshop and laid inside the tank as a floor. This is a relatively late process for chassis processing. Generally, after installing these floor parts, the chassis of this tank It's almost completely done.
At the other end of the high wall not far from here is the German tank gun production workshop. In the experimental warehouse there, a new type of tank gun with a slender barrel is being slowly hoisted on a strange welded turret. This turret is very different from the integrated anti-shield turret that has been used in Germany. It adopts the installation form of split anti-shield.
similar to modern tanks,
The frontal armor of this turret is welded on both sides of the turret and does not move up and down with the tank gun. This structure destroys the integrity of the frontal armor. However, this structure is easier to weld and produce, and other benefits are more obvious.
For example, this structure can make the artillery itself have better mobility. After all, carrying one armor plate and carrying a third armor plate are completely incomparable in terms of weight. With the reduced weight, the pitching movement of the artillery system will become more convenient.
This new type of turret is the latest turret of the King Tiger tank developed by German technicians. It uses the long-awaited 105mm anti-tank gun of Acador and all armored forces on the front line. Although the caliber is slightly smaller than the 122mm gun on the Stalin tank used by the Soviet Union, its armor-piercing power exceeds it by a whole lot.
In order to install this artillery, the King Tiger tank was equipped with thicker side armor plate skirts, and the thickness of the body armor was also increased by 5 mm. The thickness of the frontal armor should be increased by a full 30 mm, making this future German main tank more terrifying in its ability to resist attacks.
The added weight is to give the tank a steady fire from any angle. Although these weight increases have reduced the maneuverability of the King Tiger tank by 5 kilometers per hour, everyone feels that the price paid in terms of speed is very worthwhile.
The 105 mm caliber main gun version of the King Tiger tank surpasses the Stalin tank that the Soviet Union is proud of in every aspect. Whether it is driving speed, armor thickness, firepower, etc., the King Tiger tank is far stronger than its opponents. In terms of targeting system and reliability, it is the benchmark of industrial products in this era. After the system integration, the German industrial system finally demonstrated its own technological advantages, and once again steadily surpassed its opponents in the weapon platform.
The hoisting work was completed quickly, and then the entire turret was slowly hoisted up by the same crane. In the center of this workshop, there is a huge cement base, which is specially used to test the turret of the King Tiger tank. The installation work was quickly completed, and the rest is to test the power of this 105mm caliber gun.
Many instruments and equipment are connected to this turret, because the experiment is not only to test the accuracy and power of the artillery, but also to test the values of recoil and many other aspects. Any weapon is not as simple as it seems on the surface. A rifle, complete design and structural drawings, can almost fill a small box.
"Aim at the steel plate!" A German technician in a white coat was holding a slate in his hand and shouted to the workers who were manipulating the turret: "Be careful and ensure the safety of the turret! Be as gentle as possible, gentlemen! "
Those workers are indeed carefully operating this brand new experimental turret. After all, this turret will be used as a sample in the future and tens of thousands will be produced. After the German King Tiger tank is equipped with this new type of turret, it will really take advantage of the targeting system.
"Aiming finished!" A worker completed the aiming action very easily. He has been testing the turret here for many years, so he completed the simple operation very easily, aligning the turret installed on the cement base. The steel bullseye in the distance.
"Fire!" With an order, the powerful 105mm tank gun also let out a roar, and a loud boom echoed back and forth in the workshop. The workers who were not on the production line put down their work and carried He began to look in the direction of the roaring sound.
"Observation post, report the hit situation of the target!" A staff member with a telephone microphone attached to his face asked the observation station near the target for a report on the breakdown of the target.
"At a distance of 1100 meters, the front armor plate of the Stalin tank can be easily penetrated. It is very easy to penetrate... Maybe we should directly test the shooting effect at a distance of 1500 meters." On the other side of the phone, the staff of the observation post answered very encouraging.
"The recoil of the artillery exceeds the expected value...I think a muzzle brake should be added to offset part of the recoil." A technician turned around and sketched on a piece of paper with several of his colleagues and assistants Hua, the powerful and heavy shot just now obviously exceeded the load-bearing capacity of the King Tiger tank. They had to use the plan they had prepared to install a muzzle brake to relieve the recoil impact on the entire vehicle body.
"Aiming accuracy is good. Due to the effect of wind, the projectile has shifted a little to the right, but it is completely within the acceptable range." Another technician said while looking at the stopwatch in his hand, and then nodded. , It's a compliment: "The aiming speed is good, and the time is reduced by nearly 0.6 seconds compared with the original turret."
"Are there any other problems?" The headed technical person looked at other testing teams. *Representative of Party.
"No more." Others shook their heads. After all, this test has been going on for several weeks. For wartime weapon production, such strict technical testing is already in place. There were indeed some problems at the beginning, but after so many solutions, most of the teams could not raise any new problems.
Regarding the opinions on the muzzle brake, it was a new problem that was discovered after the chassis experts of the King Tiger tank were called to discuss and discuss together yesterday. After all, the King Tiger tank in this time and space is not a monster weighing more than 70 tons, and it is necessary to deal with the recoil caused by the artillery carefully.
"Then, rush out the muzzle brake as quickly as possible, and then test out the latest data... the added weight on the gun, especially near the muzzle, is a very serious issue, and we need to recalculate the aiming Time, and the impact on other aspects." The person in charge looked at each group, and then concluded: "Now go to solve their respective problems immediately, and if possible, put the latest turret into mass production as soon as possible."
Everyone started to disperse, and several officers stood in the corner discussing the power of the new tank turret and other issues. It seemed that they were very interested in this weapon. After all, they heard that the King Tiger tanks on the front line performed very well.
Four days later, after signing by Akado, Speer and others, the latest Tiger King 2 tanks began mass production, and the German armored forces once again walked in the forefront of the world, and once again completely overwhelmed their own tanks in terms of equipment. opponent.
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