Chapter 1081 Deeply Tap the Potential of Tank Guns

As a traverser, Cyric certainly knows the importance of the aircraft carrier. If you look closely, you can find that the current German aircraft carrier is not just as simple as the angled deck, and even has reserved the position of the steam catapult on the deck. Even in Germany, there are already special scientific research institutions that have started experiments with catapults. Their goal is to accelerate aircraft weighing more than ten tons to a high enough speed.

Ordinary heavy fighter jets are only four or five tons now. This ten-ton target is of course prepared for future jets.

However, on the external front, Germany is quite low-key. The commissioning of aircraft carriers is almost silent, and a large number of escort aircraft carriers have been continuously added to active service and organized into a huge maritime fleet.

At the same time, about battleships, the German side is constantly hyping it up. The specific data of its own 70,000-ton battleships have almost been leaked. Send the opposing fleet into the sea.

Of course it's for cheating!

Fool the Americans and let the Americans participate in a new round of military competition. In the construction of such battleships, the United States will be completely dragged down!

The United States is no match for Germany. Now, Germany has integrated European resources and has a large number of colonies in North Africa and the Middle East. Germany is no longer the Germany in history!

If there is any disadvantage in Germany now, it is population. This population problem will take time to solve.

Now, Cyric is still most concerned about the war against the Soviet Union. The 40th year is about to end. In the spring of 1941, the German army will complete all the mobilization and go to Moscow in one go!

On this day, Cyric came to Krupp to inspect his own Tiger tanks.

Gustav has become the boss of the hands-off. After all, he is old and has limited energy. Now the helm of the Krupp company is Alfred Krupp.

The two have known each other for a long time. When they were in India, the two sides had a pleasant cooperation, and it was also when Cyric and Hannah met.

Now, as the helm of the Krupp family, Alfred is managing every day and contributing his youth to the empire.

"We are continuing to work hard to increase the production of the Tiger tank, dig deep into the potential of the 88mm tank gun, and at the same time, we are also developing the next generation of tank guns." Alfred said.

In fact, several companies, such as Henschel, are producing Tiger tanks, while Krupp is mainly responsible for producing Tiger turrets and cannons. At the same time, the pre-research of the next generation of tank guns is also underway. among.

Obviously, this is also a normal reaction after seeing the new Soviet tanks at this military parade.

In fact, whether it is a KV-2 or a Stalin tank, they all have a strong patchwork style. The short-barreled 152mm howitzer and 122mm tank gun are not suitable for tanks. However, the Soviets did it like this. , which put a lot of pressure on the German side.

The German Tiger tank must have an absolute advantage, which puts a lot of pressure on many people.

This pressure turned into motivation.

"The sub-caliber armor-piercing projectile we have developed for the 88mm tank gun has penetrated 200mm armor in the test firing and is still being optimized. However, we have decided to finalize the next-generation tank gun. 105mm caliber."

Last time, it was Cyric's suggestion that a bullet holder could easily solve the problem of air tightness. At the same time, due to the slenderness of the armor-piercing bullet, the armor-piercing ability was greatly improved.

Historically, Germany liked to brush the length, which caused the production of tank guns to go up, and now, at Cyric's suggestion, they finally began to choose a new caliber.

105mm, this is a caliber that is quite famous in later generations and has dominated NATO for decades!

"According to your request, we are overcoming various difficulties in electroslag remelting steel. Once this excellent steel is mature, we can greatly improve the performance of our tank guns." Alfred said to Cyric reported on the direction of work in the recent period.

Krupp also has research and development tasks. Advanced cannons require high-quality steel, and on tank guns, the most advanced is electroslag remelting steel.

As the name implies, this smelting method uses the metal that has been smelted by general smelting methods as electrodes, and through a strong current, the metal is heated for secondary remelting, the electrodes are melted into the slag pool, and the metal liquid crystallizes at the bottom of the slag pool. The ingot is formed, which is electroslag remelting steel.

Electroslag remelting is secondary purification and better crystallization. Simply put, it is to further reduce harmful elements such as sulfur, nitrogen, and oxygen and obtain basically consistent particle crystals.

This technology is historically the principle of this refining method first proposed by John Hopkins in the 1940s. And now, Americans have not thought of this method, Germany has begun to try.

The principle of this method is simple, but the control in the middle is quite complicated. In China in later generations, electroslag remelting steel is everywhere, but most of the smelted steel is low-quality steel, and the quality of the product is Still quite unstable.

There will be various computer controls in later generations, but now it can only be done by workers relying on their own experience, which needs to be accumulated even more. Once this kind of steel matures and is used to make tank guns, it will definitely bring about a reborn change.

To put it simply, the chamber pressure can be increased, the charge can be increased, and the tank gun will not explode, of course, the performance of the tank gun can be improved under the condition that the caliber remains unchanged.

In later generations, the British L7 tank gun is simply a NATO standard tank gun, which is absolutely inseparable from electroslag remelting steel, and the other is the self-tightening and chrome plating of the gun body.

Perhaps during the entire war, this 105mm tank gun will not be used, and the performance of the 88mm tank gun will be enough to dig deep. However, in case of a more perverted opponent, Germany has technical reserves and can take it out at any time.

There must be no situation where the tanker shouts and can't get through, this is simply the sin of the rear technicians!

Regarding the development of the tank gun, Cyric continued to put forward some opinions. After the report on the tank gun project was completed, Alfred then reported the second project to Cyric: "After our continuous efforts, we have now We have successfully developed an alumina ceramic armor, which has better ballistic resistance under the same weight than our current nickel alloy armor."