Chapter 186 Super Tank
Nathan Coleman did not expect that his classmate would be promoted so quickly.
Just after those drawings were taken away, news came again from Berlin. Marshal Goering greatly appreciated the latest weapon inventions and gave the Easterners the best treatment.
In the communication, he even unabashedly called him "my dearest professor" (the original owner of the body had the title of professor)
And when He Chi put one of his ideas in a letter After an afternoon of interviews, a team of weapons experts from Berlin arrived in Copenhagen on a special plane of the Air Force.
For several days it was brightly lit.
The guard level of the Weapons Research Institute is already equivalent to that of the Heisenberg Laboratory, and even Coleman himself has to go through an approval process before he can enter.
The corridor was full of armed guards, but Coleman passed three checkpoints 200 meters away, and finally came to a room with no windows at all.
And his former classmate was standing in front of a blackboard, shouting in a fanatical tone that he had never heard before
"The empire needs larger-sized artillery! The thickest Armor! The most powerful engine! ”
"This will be a moving fortress! A giant on land!"
"The British, the Soviets, and future Americans, any enemy of the empire will be torn to pieces in front of it!"
As He Chi spoke, he waved his fists in an exaggerated way, using rich upper body language to encourage the audience around him. That look seemed familiar to Coleman.
This was what he seemed to be like when he heard the head of state's speech for the first time in 1936.
"What on earth is he doing?" Nathan Coleman walked closer and found a line of German written next to the blackboard
"Plank 8 tank design discussion meeting."
"Plank 8 tank? Such a big number?"
As we all know, the main tanks currently in service in Germany are No. 1 to 4, the most important tanks The force is the No. 4 medium tank called the "Military Horse", and the numbers behind it are the "No. 5 Leopard", "No. 6 Tiger" and the "No. 6 Tiger" that are still under design
Lion Pose No. 7"
So what is No. 8?
"Having said so much, I hope that everyone can feel my design concept up close. Although it can be seen on the drawings, I still hope that everyone can see it visually in reality." Dongfangren said with his right hand Pull up the side curtain.
What? ! ! ! Already have a sample car? ! ! ! This is impossible! ! ! !
Of course it’s impossible.
The curtain was pulled away, and a huge figure appeared in front of people's eyes. It was a 1:1 model made of cement.
Although it is made of cement, the oppressive power of the monster on the opposite side is still undiminished. The fundamental reason is that it is too big.
The body length exceeds ten meters and the width exceeds five meters. The No. 4 tank next to it for comparison is like a small toy in front of it.
The track adopts an overhead setting, which shows that the designer fully considers the weight of the heavy tank when walking. It is not whimsical. There are nacelles on both sides of the vehicle body that protrude from the outside of the vehicle, including the top. The shooting tower has a total of three machine gun weapons.
And its main gun is at least 120 mm in length based on visual inspection, and this sturdy artillery is actually installed in a twin unit. In order to be able to control this pair of artillery, its turret is also very huge. The turret is almost the same size as a Panzer II tank. There is a round sheath near the twin gun barrels. Although I don’t know what it is used for, it exudes a peculiar industrial aesthetic. The two sides of the top of the hatch cover are actually equipped with four tubes tilted at 45 degrees. Look. It looks like it is used to launch smoke grenades or anti-aircraft rockets.
In short, this is a steel behemoth armed to the teeth, a hellish weapon that has never appeared in the world.
While Coleman was shocked, he was immediately mesmerized.
It is a romance that only belongs to men. This should be the perfect weapon for the Third Reich.
But the reason remaining in his mind reminded him, can such a weapon like the Titan really be manufactured?
"No doubt, it can be manufactured in theory." He Chi seemed to hear Coleman's thoughts and walked over from the side.
“It will be equipped with a 4800-horsepower MB-517 diesel engine and a 3500-horsepower small gasoline engine to ensure that the speed can be maintained at 30 kilometers per hour under a total combat weight of more than 140 tons. .”
"The front armor is 240 mm, and the thinnest armor position is more than 60 mm. It is set at an oblique angle and has twin 128 mm KwK44L/55 main guns. Nothing can stop its attack."
"This It sounds incredible, did you come up with this design alone?" Coleman murmured.
"Of course, this is what I considered when I went there."
Strictly speaking, He Chi did not lie. The tank in front of him is no longer the stillborn Rat tank in history. Designed. This is the product of He Chi piecing together the designs of the British TOG2 heavy tank, the German Maus super-heavy tank, and the Soviet-made IS-4 tank at his own pleasure.
He Chi himself didn’t know how the final product would turn out.
Oh, by the way, the initial basic appearance design actually wanted to use the appearance of TOG2, but later He Chi felt that it was too ugly and was afraid that he would not be able to impress Goering and Mustache, so he borrowed the Soviet Union's virtual appearance from an ancient real-time strategy game. Heavy tank appearance design.
Looking at the model, not to mention anything else, the aesthetics alone are definitely better than any other design in history. If the F14 fighter jet is like a stewardess with slender legs, then this tank exudes power all over. Beautiful muscular man.
Of course, He Chi himself knows that these things are all false. Once the theoretical argument is entered, the requirements are higher than that of the Rat tank. Every step of the design will make engineers feel embarrassed and want to hit the wall.
If the Germans could put this thing on the road in 1945, he would have considered the Germans to be extremely talented.
But it doesn’t matter, he just wants to muddy the water now and drag it until the end of the copy. It would be better if he disgusted the Germans’ nuclear program by the way.
He was only responsible for making PPT, and the follow-up matters had nothing to do with him. Money was not considered at all.
He didn’t want to, but someone thought for him. Marshal Goering, who thought he was the number two figure in the German top management, reported “his plan” to the head of state, in order to make this design treasure As soon as possible, some of the funds from the Heisenberg team were secretly withheld, which caused He Chi to inadvertently give De A heavy blow to China’s nuclear program (Historically, why the funding for the German nuclear fission team in 1941 was only a few million marks has always been an unclear bad debt.)
“Okay, that’s it for today. I'll introduce the details to you later." He Chi pulled Coleman and left through the passage on the side.
And in a certain corner of the room, there were some special eyes staring at him.
(End of this chapter)