Six Hundred and Seventy-Nine Is Hard to Say

In this way, the weight of the tanks that the Soviet Red Army can use for combat is close to 14,000, which still maintains some advantages over German armored forces, but even Zhukov admitted that except for about 4,000 of these tanks, they can fight against the Germans. Tanks posed a threat, and the rest of the tanks were about as good as armored vehicles in front of the Germans.

Of course, the air power of the Soviet Red Army is not enough in front of the German aircraft. Compared with the United Kingdom, which has a very strong technical reserve and bottomless research and development capabilities, the development of the Soviet aviation field has not yet reached that level, so the Soviet Air Force is in another The overall level in a time and space has always been at the level of being abused by German pilots. Those familiar aircraft with slightly acceptable performance basically only reluctantly participated in the war in the late World War II.

Therefore, although the Soviet Air Force now has a terrifying number of 11,000 aircraft, most of them are backward fighters such as i-16. The fw-190d fighters used to deal with the German army are not opponents at all, let alone have better flight performance. The ta-152 fighter jets too.

Although the Soviet Union accepted the imitated castrated version of the Rolls-Royce aircraft engine production line, it also developed fighter jets such as the i-20 and MiG 1, using the new Rolls-Royce piston engine, but the overall level is still the mainstream of the German army There is a clear gap in the fighter fw-190d.

So much so that Soviet pilots have completely lost confidence in seizing the air supremacy of the battlefield. There are various rumors circulating among them, including the aircraft painting of some terrible opponents-some German ace pilots are described by these Soviet pilots as demon. The reason why these Soviet pilots cannot be called the Air Force is mainly because 90% of them are just people who can fly planes, not soldiers who can fly into the air.

As for the opponents of these "flying rookies" (adjectives of German ace pilots to Soviet pilots), the most famous is a ta-152 fighter jet painted with a black tulip pattern on the nose. This plane is described as a black death, The wings of the devil, what is more, this plane is piloted by the gatekeeper of hell.

When these messages came out, Hartman had piloted his own plane and shot down a full 130 enemy planes of different types. This number was almost three times the number of enemy planes he encountered in the air, because every time he encountered Enemy planes will produce new records, no matter how many they have.

But even so, the Soviet Red Army still has their advantages. For example, in large-caliber artillery, the Soviet troops have an overwhelming advantage. In history, the Soviet army can be said to be one of the armies that value artillery most in the world. Stalin even abnormally urged the Soviet Red Army to deploy more large-caliber artillery. Perhaps it was the power of artillery in the war he experienced that left him a very deep impression, or it may be that he knew that it was difficult to surpass the German army in other aspects.

In fact, the Soviet army has more than 5,000 122mm cannons. This kind of artillery played an important role in the Battle of Nomonkan, so the Soviet Union has been producing this weapon desperately since 1937.

Hoarding has already had an astonishing amount of capital.

In addition, the Soviet Union also has a large number of 210mm caliber artillery, 155mm caliber artillery, 100mm caliber artillery aided by the United States, and a large number of 85mm and 76mm cannons. In addition to the mortars, mortars, and train guns that the Soviet Union has always attached importance to... the artillery calibers deployed by the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front range from 380 mm caliber train guns to 75 mm caliber mountain guns. The total number has exceeded 31,000. It can be said that Completely overwhelmed the Germans in numbers.

However, due to the limited mobility of these artillery, they cannot be mobilized and quickly deployed on a large scale. Compared with the German artillery, half of them can be easily towed, and one-fifth of them can be compared by themselves. , and quickly concentrated in local areas to form a firepower advantage.

In fact, the more deadly threat of firepower comes from a new special branch of the German Army, the Army Aviation. This Army Aviation is not a land-based air force like the US Army Aviation, but a low-altitude support force equipped with armed helicopters and transport helicopters.

Compared with its predecessor, the Crusader helicopter, the new Odin helicopter has a qualitative improvement in load capacity. Therefore, this new helicopter can be equipped with thicker steel plates and stronger firepower. The battlefield survivability has allowed this. This type of aircraft participates in front-line operations.

The German army discovered that the Soviet Red Army lacked self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery units accompanying the troops, and the immediate battlefield air defense capabilities of its armored units were actually very limited. Because the Soviet Red Army is different from Germany, the second war in Poland caused the Soviet Red Army to lose a large amount of armored troops, and also realized the serious shortage of armored troops.

In this way, the German army's method of refitting self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and self-propelled howitzers with backward tank chassis cannot be imitated by the Soviet Union in the short term. Soviet engineers have been trying to use existing tank chassis to refit them into anti-tank guns. resources to deal with less prominent battlefield air defense needs.

In this way, the German Army Aviation Force has a relatively narrow battlefield survival space. Although this space is small, it is very deadly, because in the results of several battlefield assaults, the German army discovered that it dispatched helicopters and rockets to use the speed to attack the enemy. Implementing saturation strikes on the battlefield and then quickly retreating is an effective way to kill ground targets of the Soviet Red Army.

Helicopters assaulted the battlefield with rockets and covered it briefly, which to a certain extent allowed the German army to find a way to make up for the lack of artillery. After all, compared with the support of the Air Force, calling for its own air strikes has an unparalleled advantage in response speed.

But this seemingly very bright prospect has a very fatal flaw, that is, the production of Odin helicopters-this kind of helicopters has just been put into production not long ago, and the number of the entire Eastern Front does not exceed 100. It is said that this kind of aircraft will be divided up by the navy, air force, domestic police, etc., so it is impossible for the army to use it for large-scale front-line assault operations in a short period of time.

The problem that also plagued the German Eastern Front was that another new type of weapon was also undercapacitated, that is, the latest King Tiger tank that was put into production. The huge overwhelming advantage is enough for the German army to regain its lead in tank performance.

However, this kind of tank has just started mass production. I heard that the first batch of 30 tanks has not yet left the factory. When this kind of tank enters service on a large scale, the most optimistic estimate is that the German army has almost reached the city of Moscow. Therefore, the senior German generals know that they already have more advanced technical equipment, but unfortunately they have to wait for victory before they can use these black technological weapons.

Compared with the army and the air force, the Germans in the navy are much luckier. Their super submarines have already gone to sea and are ready to make contributions in the waters near Iceland. After this training is completed, the German fleet will take the initiative to attack, looking for the British fleet to seek another decisive battle.

After a year of recovery and mobilization, the British Navy has transferred back battleships around the world to form a new battleship fleet. Although this large fleet has not had the trouble of going out to find the German Navy because of the lack of aircraft carrier cover, Lu Tejens, Raeder, and even Akado knew that the British navy was far from being defeated, and even using the adjective of heavy losses seemed a bit reluctant. Compared with the total number of more than 20 British battleships, the loss of less than 10 battleships obviously cannot completely destroy this fleet that has dominated the world for 100 years.

The United States builds a large number of aircraft carriers and escort fleets on both coasts at the same time. If the war drags on to the second half of 1939, the number of aircraft carriers in the US Navy will exceed that of Germany. If it enters 1940, the US aircraft carrier fleet will even double that of Germany The advantage of the navy, after all, most of Germany's production capacity is consumed in the army's armored forces, and the ratio of naval construction cannot be exactly the same as that of the United States.

That is to say, comparatively speaking, the naval side has the smallest increase in the number of the three German armies, and in terms of absolute value compared with the enemy, the navy has a tendency to be overtaken or even widen the gap. After all, the functions of the German navy cannot be compared with that of the United Kingdom and the United States. Even if it made great contributions in defeating the United Kingdom, it still plays a supporting role in the overall strategy.

After all, the United States and the United Kingdom are countries that depend on their navy for their survival. As long as Germany ensures that the army enters the Middle East and controls the oil-producing areas, then Germany's energy transportation lines will be under the protection of the Mediterranean Sea. Enter the Mediterranean Sea lined with islands and compete with thousands of German land-based air forces.

Therefore, the only task of the German Navy now is to cooperate with the C Group Army to firmly defend the British Isles and ensure the absolute safety of the Atlantic Wall. And this goal is also very simple to accomplish, that is, just keep existing. This is a real navy. As long as it is there, it can only be said to be an unrealistic delusion for the United States to land in Europe and attack Germany.

So according to all aspects now, the German armed forces are already invincible, but is this really the case? Not really. At least all of this is based on the unity of the Axis powers. In fact, the Axis powers, including Italy and Turkey, have their own small calculations. Once there is a problem with Germany's military, Then it is hard to say whether these allies will fall to the allies.