Chapter 284 Integration of Czech Industry

The Czech Republic has now been divided up, and Poland has eaten meat. This feud has long been forged, and in history, Poland has never been a peaceful master, and has invaded everywhere.

"The last Czech incident made the Soviet Union recognize the face of Britain and France. Instead of following Britain and France, who were unreliable and would leave their comrades at any time, the Soviet Union might as well follow us and divide Poland together." Cyric continued. .

Carve up Poland! The Soviet Union and Poland, that is also a bloody feud, why did the Soviet Union help Poland to fight Germany? From the point of view of the Soviet Union, it is better to join forces with Germany and kill Poland!

"Yes, that's it, Cyric, I think your judgment is correct!" Hitler became excited. For him, the expansion of the territory was the most important thing!

"However, the head of state, we must pay attention to the timing of our alliance with the Soviet Union. As long as we fight Poland, World War II will begin, and now, we are not ready, so now, we can negotiate with the Soviet Union, but the progress must be Slow down. We need one to two years to complete the complete integration of the Czech industry," Cyric continued.

Now, history has advanced, but it is best not to start World War II early, because Germany has not completed the preparations for war!

The failure of World War I and the constraints of the Treaty of Versailles have made Germany extremely weak. Although it has been developing over the years, it has always been incomparable with the old capitalist countries. The war cannot be fought!

Everything takes time!

The Czech Republic is an industrialized country with a 100% degree of industrialization. What does this mean? In addition to industry, the Czech Republic has nothing else, such as agriculture, and all the food the Czech Republic needs is provided by Britain and France.

And in Czech industry, the most important thing is Skoda!

In later generations, Skoda is already a second-class car brand under Volkswagen, and its fate is sad.

And now, Skoda is the backbone of Czech industry.

Skoda was founded in 1859 by the Czech Arno in the western Czech city. In 1868, it was bought by an Austrian count named Skoda. From 1869 the factory was named Skoda Factory.

At that time, Skoda mainly produced hunting guns, machine guns and artillery vehicles, especially large-caliber artillery and armored vehicles. It was the main weapon supplier of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I.

There are many factories in the industrial towns of Pilsen and Wilzim in the western part of the Czech Republic.

Take last year as an example, the one-year artillery output of the Skoda Arsenal is almost the total output of the British arsenal.

In addition to arms, Skoda Arsenal also operates machine tools, thermal power equipment, and produces various heavy industrial products such as cars, cars, trucks, trams and trolleys, and electric locomotives. It can be said to be the backbone of Czechoslovakia's industry.

Now, although the Czech Republic has been torn apart, the Czech people are still living as before, as is the Skoda Arsenal in the Czech Republic. Every day, workers still go to work on time.

It's just that there are some new faces in the factory. Some engineers from Germany have joined the Skoda Arsenal. They are evaluating the products of the Skoda Arsenal to determine whether to transform them.

The first evaluation is the fist products of Skoda Arsenal, the LT-35 light tank and the LT-38 light tank.

Among them, the LT-35 light tank is a tank developed based on the British "Carden-Lloyd" ultra-light tank after a series of improvements.

This tank has a total combat weight of 10.5t, a crew of 4, a 37mm gun, and a 120-horsepower water-cooled gasoline engine; the gearbox has 6 forward gears and 6 reverse gears.

The maximum armor thickness is 35 mm. The maximum speed of the tank is 35km/h.

From this era, this tank is considered advanced, so it has been exported to many countries, with a total output of more than 200 vehicles.

However, compared with the German tanks, it is far behind.

At the same time, since last year, Skoda has also been improving this tank. The biggest improvement is to replace the 8 small-diameter road wheels on each side of the LT-35 tank with 4 large-diameter road wheels on each side.

This makes its maneuverability even better.

In other aspects, it has not changed. It is still a 37mm tank gun. The power of the engine has been slightly increased to 125 horsepower, while the dead weight has been reduced to 9.4 tons, and the maneuverability has been improved.

And this kind of improvement, called the LT-38 tank, has historically been mass-produced since 1938, and now, only a small number of chassis have been assembled.

For Skoda, this kind of tank is their pride, and in the eyes of German engineers, this kind of tank is something they can't even look at.

How hard to compare, it is probably similar to the performance of the No. 3 tank in history, and Germany in history, after acquiring these tanks, is also a treasure, and it is incorporated into its own army, renamed PzKpfw35t and PzKpfw38t tanks, after all , the number of German tanks at that time was also seriously insufficient.

And now, Germany is preparing to mass-produce the 40-ton Panther 3 tank. This 10-ton light tank is really bad, just like a child's toy!

"I suggest that the production of this LT-38 tank be stopped immediately." The engineer from Germany, Knipocamp, said to Cyric: "This tank simply cannot meet the needs of our army!"

Total stop!

Now, various military factories in Germany are in full production. Under the high efficiency of streamlined production, Speer became the Minister of Equipment, and under the vigorous improvement, the tank production of German military factories is developing rapidly.

It is expected that by this year, Germany's tank production should exceed 1,000. However, for the German armored forces, this is still a drop in the bucket.

According to Guderian's vision, the father of German armor, the ideal armored division should have an armored brigade, each brigade has 2 armored regiments, each regiment has 2 armored battalions, and each battalion has 4 tank companies. The number of tanks is 21, so the German armored division has a total of 336 tanks.

Then, the production of tanks in one year is only enough for the establishment of three armored divisions.

Even if the number of tanks is reduced, for example, each battalion is reduced from 4 tank companies to 3 tank companies, etc., the output in one year is enough for five tank divisions.

The original plan of the German executives was to build ten armored divisions this year. If there are not enough tanks, then the number of tanks in the tank division can only be further reduced.

And now, increasing the number of tanks is the most urgent. Let Skoda produce its own Panther tanks at full speed. This is the most important!

(Historically, when the war with the Soviet Union began in 1941, the annual output of German tanks was 3,083, and in 1944, after Speer took over military production, Germany's tank production reached an astonishing 7,908. Now, the Second World War has not yet broken out, and Germany has not transferred to the wartime military industry. Moreover, the production is still medium-sized tanks with relatively high working hours. However, according to the current situation in the book, the Soviet Union imported enough ore and sufficient funds. Therefore, one year production One thousand Black Panther tanks, shouldn’t it be considered nonsense by the East China Hero? The East China Hero is already frightened. If any data is unsatisfactory, some readers will abandon the book.)