The original intention of the design of the half-track vehicle is to take into account both speed and off-road performance. In terms of off-road performance, it is somewhere between the crawler chassis and the wheel type.@ Top @ Point. @ Novel

In terms of speed, it is equally high and low. At the same time, it also has the advantage of being more resistant to damage. For example, if one of the road wheels is knocked off during a battle, it may still be used. If it is a wheeled chariot, all four wheels will be destroyed.

I completely fell to my knees. The biggest advantages of wheeled armored vehicles are that they are fast, fuel-efficient, have a long range, and are cheap. (Of course, I think of Germany’s later ones.

Because the 234 series armored vehicles use a complex 8*8 chassis, the cost will be higher, but unfortunately the author has no clue--!) And another problem is that half-track vehicles can be built very large, such as the Germans in World War II in history

18-ton half-track vehicle. The final wheeled armored vehicle seems to be about 12 tons. (234 series.)

In addition to the battle over the chassis, the Germans are still struggling with the positioning of wheeled armored vehicles. That is, should they be used as pure infantry carriers? Or should they be used as a beneficial supplementary force for tank attacks? The former emphasizes the ability to carry infantry, and the latter

The vehicle does not need to be equipped with infantry, but emphasizes firepower and protection. Germany has ready-made armored personnel carriers, but they are all open-top, and their firepower is only a general-purpose machine gun. This firepower is basically useless in an attack.

It didn't play a big role. The Germans saw that China had installed a powerful 30mm machine gun on armored vehicles. So the Germans also wanted to install one on the original basis, but then they found that this artillery was relatively

It is too big for the original vehicle! Including the weight of the gun mount, which is nearly 200kg, and the ammunition. Plus the necessary protection and so on, it directly takes up all the space for the infantry behind.

If it was just a matter of space, it would be tolerated, but soon, the Germans believed that as a tank equipped with a rapid-fire gun, it was not enough to only defend against shrapnel and machine gun fire. The Germans did not know the Chinese infantry

What level of protection does a tank have? But Germany

People think that their tank must be able to defend against the opponent's machine gun fire. From a cost perspective, since you have given this vehicle an expensive chassis and a machine gun plus about 5 operators. If the other party lets

If you wipe it out in one turn, that would be too much.

But then the Germans discovered that the defense standards were difficult to determine. Want to defend against the design of a 30mm cannon? The Germans compared it with the 30mm rapid-fire cannon they were designing, and were shocked. The 30mm tungsten alloy fired by this artillery

Armor-piercing bullets can penetrate nearly 70mm of armor at a distance of about 400 meters at a 30-degree impact angle! If it is simply blocked from the front, it is not a big problem, but what about the sides? If you surround it with armor, the weight will be lost

Got it!

The weight of the new infantry fighting vehicle must be controlled at around 14 tons. The maximum cross-country speed must be at least 35 kilometers per hour, and the maximum road speed must be 50 kilometers per hour. This means that this tank needs an engine with at least 200 horsepower.

Of course, this is when using a half-track chassis. If you use a wheeled armored vehicle, the speed will increase. The Germans finally decided to maintain a 35mm protection standard with an inclination of 40 degrees on the front of the half-track vehicle, and at least the sides

It can resist the attack of armor-piercing bullets from large-caliber machine guns. The reason for this decision is that there is generally a gap between large-caliber machine guns and artillery in the weapons composition of the Allied Powers and China. Judging from the power of Chinese weapons, judging from the intelligence possessed by the Germans

, China only has 12.7mm machine guns and 30mm machine guns. Even if the side protection is strengthened, it will be difficult to block the attack of the 30mm machine gun. It is better to directly set the defense standard at the level of defense against large-caliber machine guns.

The protection standards were finalized. Then came the weapons. The Germans finally decided to introduce ready-made 30mm cannons from the Air Force to make a transition after considering various factors such as the amount of ammunition carried and the number of materials. Then they would look at the actual situation before making improvements.

But soon, the artillery was finalized, and the issue of ammunition types came up again. It is not that the German 30mm machine gun does not have armor-piercing or high-explosive ammunition, but the problem of how to replace the shells in actual combat! To put it simply, that is,

For example, if a No. 4 tank encounters an armored target, the loader can simply load an armor-piercing round into it. If it encounters a bunker or infantry, high-explosive rounds will be used. However, the machine gun is fed by a belt, and the high-explosive round will be used.

How do you change explosive bombs and armor-piercing bombs? Do you want to temporarily change the bomb chain? Obviously it is impossible. The 30mm guns of the Air Force generally perform anti-armor tasks, so they are all armor-piercing bombs. And the German armored vehicles obviously also have anti-infantry capabilities, so

How to solve this problem?

The use of complex ammunition feeders is not impossible to solve, but the cost and reliability are really difficult to solve. So the Germans chose a cruder solution, which is to add high-explosive ammunition to every five rounds on the ammunition chain.

An armor-piercing round. Anyway, the machine gun has a fast rate of fire. The rate of fire of several hundred rounds per minute is enough for this gun.

The gun can fire enough ammunition against targets of any nature within the effective range. In terms of secondary weapons selection, the Germans also equipped this tank with two caliber machine guns, one is a 7.92 caliber coaxial with the machine gun.

mm machine gun, and the other one is a 15mm large-caliber machine gun located on the top of the turret.

In the end, this tank called the Jaguar made up for the lack of direct firepower for Germany's armored spearhead. But unlike later infantry fighting vehicles, this tank cannot carry infantry, but is a pure

An auxiliary vehicle based on machine guns. Compared with the powerful Tiger series and the No. 3 series with many derivative models, the Jaguar tank is not well-known, but it is the German infantry's favorite direct-aiming support.

One of the weapons.

Like other models, as the war progressed, Germany's demand for anti-armor firepower also increased. When the production capacity of Site 3 was not enough, the Jaguar tank was also used to carry 75mm anti-tank guns. However, because

Weak defense, the number of this type of derivative tanks is not large, and the evaluation is not very high.

In addition to half-track vehicles, the Germans have also developed a variety of wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicles. Considering the conditions of fighting in the Middle East and India, the area is too vast, and both tracked reconnaissance vehicles and half-track vehicles have insufficient range and speed.

problem. For this reason, the Germans specially developed a Weasel-type reconnaissance vehicle. Although it is called a Weasel, it definitely does not mean that this tank has poor firepower and is very heavy.

Small. This 14-ton tank, which uses a 210-horsepower engine and an 8*8 chassis, has the largest range and highest speed in the German Army's arsenal. It can run at a speed of 90 kilometers per hour on the road.

It can also run at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour in off-road conditions, and the range has reached 600 kilometers on the road and 400 kilometers off-road!

Relative to its speed, the Weasel's weapons are even sharper. The Weasel-type infantry fighting vehicle can be equipped with almost all weapons in the German army weighing less than 1.5 tons, such as 75mm anti-tank guns, 30mm machine guns, and 150mm heavy mortars.

Cannon. It can also be mounted on a triple 20mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun as a guest anti-aircraft vehicle, or even mounted on the side of the vehicle body.

The rocket launch box serves as a rocket launcher. Of course, the direct result of equipping so many weapons under a weight of 15 tons is insufficient armor protection. This tank has 30mm sloped armor on the front, and the sides can only resist ordinary large-caliber machine guns.

When attacking an M2 machine gun that uses armor-piercing bullets, it depends on your character. It is a very unbalanced weapon.

If this kind of weapon is placed on a frontal battlefield, the most likely result is to be beaten into pieces by the opponent's powerful firepower. But if it is used in a different way, it will be different. The Weasel series of tanks have high mobility and

The powerful firepower provides great help for penetration and operations behind enemy lines. These troops specially equipped with Weasel-type tanks to perform destruction and penetration missions behind enemy lines are called wolf packs within Germany.

The most glorious time of the wolf pack is in the early stages of the war. They often slip in through the gap after the main force opens a gap. Before the opponent is trying to block the gap, they have already penetrated behind the enemy's rear and avoided the opponent's heavy attack.

Equip troops, specifically looking for military depots, supply points, and airports

Wait for key locations to launch an attack and beat the opponent's rear into a mess. This is partly because of the excellent maneuverability of the Weasel-type tanks, and partly because of the insufficient strength of the Allied Powers in the early stages of the development. Before the United States and Britain fully exerted their power, the front was maintained.

The density of troops on the defensive line is quite high, and the rear defense is naturally empty.

With the finalization of the Jaguar and Weasel series of battlefields, the German Army finally completed a new replacement plan from beginning to end. This failure in Italy allowed the Germans to learn a lot and see the future of themselves and the Chinese armored forces.

gap, and we have a certain understanding of the opponents we may encounter in the future. When the German armored forces appear in front of the world again a few years later, there will be no

The British, Americans and French were all shocked by these monsters of the Second Reich. Even Xu Jie admitted that the speed and level of the evolution of the German armored forces exceeded his imagination. However, because China's participation in the war was relatively

At the same time, there is also the biggest plug-in called time traveler, so although the German armored forces are very powerful, everything is within an acceptable range!

Just as the German Army was re-formulating its own equipment development plan, the situation on the Italian battlefield also changed greatly. On the one hand, the Austro-Hungarian troops, which had lost their strongest armor, were attacked by the British from the north and south.

Encircled by the Chinese Allied Forces, except for some people who escaped from the encirclement, the Allied Powers and the Chinese forces captured at least about 50,000 prisoners. As for the battle on the southern front, the American and French forces did not expect that a disaster was brewing.

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Chapter completed!