Chapter 1,417 The Last Wave of Dress Changes

Chapter 1417 The last wave of costume changes

"Here it comes, boys, our new equipment has arrived! I hope you like them!" The man known as Armor Mike looked at the heavy-duty train entering the station in the distance and said happily to his subordinates.

The Lancer battle group commanded by this guy in the early days of the war started the first large-scale battle on the Eastern Front - the first wave of attacks in the border battle. With the sharp penetration capabilities and powerful assault capabilities of the armored forces, his battle group Successfully defeated the enemy in person and divided the enemy's forces in depth. Mission accomplished. Later, this Lancer battle group participated in various battles on the Eastern and Western Fronts and achieved great fame.

In the previously concluded Polish Pocket Battle, the Lancer Battle Group once again acted as Prince Leopold's attack hammer. Shortly after the battle began, the Lancer Battle Group, which was the first round of attack, was unexpectedly attacked. Withdrawn from the battle line, their vehicles were then replenished with other damaged units, and these personnel returned to the Blacksburg training ground, the headquarters of the armored forces in Bavaria, where they will receive one of Bavaria's latest batches Tanks and assault guns.

"Look, these guys seem to be a whole circle bigger than our Cricket and Hu Feng. Look at the turret. If I guessed correctly, the artillery on it should be the regiment's 75MM gun." One person said.

"And the guy behind it seems to be a kind of half-track armored vehicle? But it's bigger than what we've seen before."

"Yes, this time, everything we saw is larger than before. I hope these things can be more stable, otherwise it will not be easy to repair if it breaks down."

Soon, among the waiting crowd, a group of people began to comment on the equipment that had just been delivered. The excitement and anxiety of receiving new equipment filled the entire crowd.

"Mike, what do you think of these things?" Ron Huck, also a veteran armored general in the Bavarian Army and known as the captain of the fire brigade, patted the old man on the shoulder and said.

"We are going further and further down the road of heavy cavalry." Mike pointed at the big guy called the Wolf tank in the distance and said. "Thicker frontal armor, more powerful firepower, and then there is no improvement in mobility. All the newly added power is used to improve armor and firepower. However, there is no improvement in speed."

"I heard that it is to protect the front from the armor-piercing bullets of the French 75MM rapid-fire cannon." Major General Haq said.

"Is it necessary?" Mike felt that the designers of tanks and armored vehicles were too perverted in their pursuit of firepower! "Even if they are immune to 75MM rapid-fire cannons, the French still have 105MM cannons. Can't they block this thing's attack?"

"Otherwise, you've been hanging out on the Eastern Front.

Hun's brain is frozen. "Huck shook his head and said, with a trace of melancholy on his face. "After you returned to the Eastern Front, my assault group stayed on the Western Front for half a year and went to the battlefield three times. The cruelty was far from that. The Eastern Front is comparable. The Cricket tank no longer had any advantage against the British MK5 tank, and when the French FT10 tank destroyer was put into large-scale service, all other vehicles except Hu Feng had no technical advantages. "

"On the Western Front, what we have been considering is not how far we can run, but how to penetrate the opponent's defense line. The French 75MM cannon, the British 12-pound rapid-fire cannon, and the even more terrifying 18-pound rapid-fire cannon. These artillery pieces are a complete disaster for the armored forces. If there is a slight mistake, our tanks will be slaughtered as easily as infantry facing machine guns!" Huck made a gesture to let the other party listen to him for a while: "What you said Yes, even if you add more armor, artillery in the British and French forces can still penetrate your tank, but if it is put into actual combat, the situation will be completely different."

"We are all veterans. Britain, France and Germany all know the equipment level of an infantry division. On the Western Front, the real main forces fighting are France and Germany. Although the British also have hundreds of thousands of troops, they are not in a decisive position. The ones we face the most are the French, so okay, I will start to explain to you now how much of a tactical advantage a tank that is completely immune to 75MM artillery has."

"The number of artillery pieces in a division is not large. Under current circumstances, the maximum strength of a French division is about 11,000 people. What equipment do these troops have? They have at least 12 companies of 75MM artillery, and there will also be 3 to 4 companies of 105MM howitzers. If you are lucky, there may be 105MM cannons or 155MM howitzers. As for higher-level artillery, such as 155MM cannons, these things will not appear in the division unless they are additional accessories. In the first-level organization. (The French artillery battery is a 4-gun battery, and the German rapid-fire artillery battery is a 6-gun battery.)"

"If your tank can be immune to the 75MM rapid-fire artillery, it can also withstand the attack of the 105MM howitzer. Within the scope of a division, the opponent can only penetrate your artillery with a very small number of 105MM cannons. This number Generally there will be no more than 8! In other words, as long as you are not particularly unlucky, you will generally not encounter these things when launching an attack, because the 105MM cannon is also responsible for counter-artillery and suppression tasks and is deployed at the back. Understand Did I mean that?" After Huck finished speaking, he stared at Mike, waiting for his answer.

"I seem to understand something." Mike nodded and said. The combat requirement of this tank called Wolf is to be immune to almost all French division first-line artillery! If the old Cricket tanks are still used, then the number of artillery pieces in a division's forward position that can kill Cricket tanks from the front may be 40, but if it is replaced by a Wolf, then there may be none! From the 15-ton weight gain of the Cricket tank to the 22-ton weight of the current Wolf tank, the weight cost is huge, but the improvement in defense can simply be described as subversive!

As for what you said about attacking the side? There is no way. In fact, side attacks are not particularly effective, because side attacks generally mean a larger angle of incidence. The side attack position makes the tank's side armor thinner, but its defensive power is stronger than its physical thickness. . Moreover, the Wolf tank has also been optimized for this problem.

However, both Mike and Huck only considered the most basic frontline tactics. When the prince decided to build a Wolf tank, he considered more far-reaching issues! Although there is a saying that the addition of a weapon may not determine the outcome of a battle, but for tactics and military production, an excellent weapon can definitely have an impact at the campaign level.

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