Chapter 854 Cost-Effectiveness

"You know?" Conrad raised his wine glass towards Qin Chuan and said, "They hate you so much that they wish they could send a spy to assassinate you, because they can count every thing you come up with casually. What they spent countless efforts on over the years has become a waste... Now, they can only consider tanks with thicker armor! "

"A tank with thicker armor?" Qin Chuan couldn't help but be startled when he heard this.

"Of course!" Colonel Conrad said: "Otherwise, how will we deal with the ME63 that may appear in the future? They plan to increase the armor thickness to 150MM, and it will be curved!"

Qin Chuan smiled and shook his head slightly.

Of course he knows about the 150MM armor, which is the "King Tiger" tank that is heavier than the "Tiger" tank.

At this time, the German military industry actually fell into a trap. Due to the increase in the enemy's anti-tank capabilities, it continued to increase the armor thickness of tanks, hoping to block all enemy anti-tank weapons on the battlefield. In the end, it even developed the "Rat" with an armor of 240MM. ".

What the German military industry did not consider is that such thick armor may indeed be able to block the attack of enemy anti-tank equipment, but it will increase the weight of the tank exponentially, not to mention the engine being overwhelmed, and roads, bridges, etc. will not be able to bear their weight. , so these tanks that looked perfect from the data... were far from as beautiful as imagined in actual combat.

They are even like the Soviet KV tanks. Most of them were not destroyed by the enemy, but were abandoned due to various malfunctions or blown up themselves to prevent them from falling into the hands of the enemy.

"What? Is there any problem?" Conrad asked when he saw Qin Chuan's expression was strange.

"Colonel!" Qin Chuan said, "I think you must remember the armor penetration depth of the rocket launcher!"

"Of course I remember!" Colonel Conrad said: "That thing can actually reach an astonishing 200MM penetration depth. It's incredible!"

Then Conrad seemed to understand something. His expression changed and he asked: "What do you mean..."

"Even if they increase the tank armor thickness to 150MM!" Qin Chuan said: "They still need to improve the engine, transmission, design turret, etc., but we only need to increase the charge of the ME63 warhead. Then, everything will return to normal. It’s in its original state!”

Conrad's expression froze.

Qin Chuan was right. As the saying goes, "The higher the road, the higher the magic." German engineers only thought that the armor of the tank should be thickened enough to withstand the thickness of the ME63, but they did not expect that the ME63 could also increase the penetration depth.

What's more terrible is that it is very difficult to thicken the armor of a tank, because the increased weight will cause a series of problems. However, it is very simple to increase the penetration of the ME63. It can even be said to be very simple... all that needs to be done is to increase the amount of powder and adjust the balance of the warhead.

"So...there's no way to solve this problem?" Conrad stuttered even when he spoke: "Does this mean that tanks are useless on the battlefield, and they will be targets for weapons like the ME63 in the future? "

Conrad used the word "future" in these words.

It can also be seen from this that Conrad was far-sighted... At this time, the ME63 had just been invented, and the hit rate was not very high. As it became more and more perfect, it reached a hit rate of more than 90% in modern times. strangeness.

Well, coupled with its terrifying penetration, it seems that the tanks are indeed hitting each other as soon as they come.

"Of course not, Colonel!" Qin Chuan replied: "Because tanks also have room for improvement, but the direction of improvement is not simply thickening the armor!"

"What else can stop it?" Conrad was puzzled.

"Like this..." Qin Chuan thought for a while and asked Conrad for a pen and paper. These things were all carried by Conrad.

While drawing Qin Chuan, he introduced: "Bazookas and ME63, the front part of the projectile is tapered, and it needs to hit the top fuse to explode..."

After saying that, Qin Chuan looked up at Conrad, who nodded and replied: "Of course!"

"But what if!" Qin Chuan continued to draw: "If we weld strips of grids like window panes on the side of the tank or the front of the body, then when the rocket hits the tank, it is likely to be hit by the grid. Block it... so it won't explode. Even if it does explode, the jet will not be concentrated and the pressure will be reduced because it is detonated in advance, so it will not be able to penetrate the tank's armor..."

"Great, Lieutenant Colonel!" Conrad replied: "This is a good method, and it is very simple. It can even deal with the enemy's magnetic anti-tank grenades..."

After a pause, Conrad continued: "It's just that we shouldn't expose this method too early. Of course, we can conduct secret experiments on it!"

Of course Qin Chuan knew what Conrad meant.

At this time, the anti-tank equipment, that is, the ME63, is mainly in the hands of the German army. If you do this too early, it will be tantamount to telling the enemy how to fight the ME63.

However, Qin Chuan knew that the German army was about to use this method at this time, because the American bazooka rocket launcher was also about to appear.

(Note: The bazooka was originally used in Africa for the first time in 1943)

"Do you know what my greatest experience was from walking around the Eastern Front?" Qin Chuan believed that it was necessary to discuss other issues with Conrad regarding tanks.

"What?" Conrad asked: "The cruelty of war?"

"That's true!" Qin Chuan replied, "But what I want to say is not this, but the number of enemy tanks... We always thought that we had almost destroyed the Soviet tanks, but in just a few months, their brand new tanks appeared in front of us in groups!"

"The Soviets are like this!" Conrad said, "They always focus on quantity and don't care how much combat effectiveness these tanks have!"

"Colonel!" Qin Chuan heard the disdain in Conrad's tone and asked, "Do you think the Soviets' way of developing tanks is wrong?

"Isn't it?" Conrad replied, "We have defeated them again and again on the battlefield, which proves that it is wrong to focus on quantity instead of quality. Our "Tiger" can easily defeat Soviet tanks that are several times larger than ours! "

Hearing this, Qin Chuan almost spat out a mouthful of blood onto the ceiling... He had gone through so much trouble to turn the tide in the Soviet Union, but he didn't expect that it would become evidence of the wrong development of Conrad's tank.

But how to say this problem?

It may be easy for modern people to understand that a very important criterion for evaluating tanks is its cost-effectiveness and production.

But people of this era don't understand these at all.

Especially Germany, in terms of tanks, almost obsessively pursues defense and firepower, and completely or partially ignores its cost-effectiveness and even mobility.