Long before the First World War, Daimler and Mercedes-Benz, as two companies that had nothing to do with each other, had already begun to produce transport equipment for the German army. During the war, they participated in the development of two light tanks, LK-1 and LK-2, and, of course, in the end, there were no consequences, and the war was over.

And after the end of World War I, the German economy began to go into a cold winter. The automotive industry was no exception, and in order to get out of the crisis, the two companies merged to form Daimler-Benz AG.

Since its founding, the company has continued to actively respond to the needs of the German government and to try new areas. In addition to the production of military cars for the military, it also began to get involved in the field of German tank design.

The most representative of these is, of course, the prototype of the No. 3 medium tank, codenamed ZW, which won the final production order from the German military after beating other competitors in the 1937 prototype tests.

When it comes to German tanks in World War II, many people will mention the Tiger, King Tiger and the like, but in fact, the significance of the No. 3 tank is also very great, among them, the most representative is that this tank is the first tank in the world to use an independent torsion bar suspension.

It is a very successful attempt to solve the shock absorption problem of the suspension system with a torsion bar horizontally in the car body, with a large dynamic stroke, simple structure, very little space occupied by the car body, and very good elasticity and reliability. This suspension, until now, is also the main suspension scheme of the tank.

In the later period, due to the constant sending of letters from tank technology, tank No. 3 began to take a back seat. However, its main position was still replaced by the Leopard tank, which was also developed by Daimler-Benz.

After World War II, Mercedes-Benz has put its main focus on the research and development of civilian cars, however, it soon recovered and began to enter the military field again, not to mention that Mercedes-Benz heavy trucks are often used in the army, in addition to Mercedes-Benz heavy trucks, Mercedes-Benz companies also have a lot of professional military vehicles.

Say, the Bobcat armored reconnaissance vehicle.

The sector that manufactures civilian automobiles will soon be able to set foot in is the wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, which is one of the Lynx armored reconnaissance vehicles, which are wheeled vehicles with a four-axle drive scheme, and in the late seventies, they were already massively equipped with troops.

It was only later, because of the scarcity of orders, production had to be stopped, and in recent years, the Germans have been planning to study new wheeled armored vehicles, and at the same time have planned to sell this Bobcat armored reconnaissance vehicle.

Since the big countries in the East are going to hold this international defense exhibition, Mercedes-Benz is naturally the only one to take out this wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicle.

Hearing Mia talk about this vehicle, Qin Zhenhua was also interested: "This car is an eight-wheeled structure." ”

"That's right, what you are producing now are six-wheeled armored vehicles, and it is not easy to rise from six to eight wheels, especially the steering system, if the level of the designer is not enough, there will even be a situation of difficult steering." Mia introduced.

The automobile branch of the first machine factory is separate from the other factories, and Mia is mainly in the automobile branch, so she will not see the secrets of the other machine factories, but the wheeled infantry fighting vehicles produced by the first machine factory are also in the automobile branch, and Mia can occasionally see them.

The products of a machine plant are all six-wheeled, and until now they have not had eight-wheeled infantry fighting vehicles.

Therefore, this is also a blank, even if it is a machine factory to introduce these technologies for production, then Mercedes-Benz can also make a profit.

Rising from six wheels to eight wheels is not only a matter of having an extra row of tires, but more importantly, it is the addition of this row of tires, and it also has the ability to steer!

Now, in this era, the mainstream way of heavy trucks is still the rear double axle, two drive axles in the back, eight tires, a row of steering axles in front, two tires, on the road, has never seen a two-row steering axle vehicle.

It was not until the late nineties, or even the new millennium, that the first four and the last eight would rise as the king of bicycles.

The first four are the front four tires, two rows of steering axles, the rear eight, or the back eight tires, two rows of drive axles, and one more row of steering axles in front, so that in case there is a steering wheel puncture on the road, it will not be out of control, which increases the safety factor of the vehicle.

Later, there were even freaks like the first four and the last four, which were purely a product of policy.

Those car factories with poor technology, although they have installed an extra row of steering wheels in front, but there is often a strange problem of eating tires, the tires are like being gnawed by something, only eating that part, and in the process of vehicle operation, the second row of steering wheels will keep vibrating, causing the steering wheel to shake.

In short, it is not so easy to add a row of steering wheels without diamonds, without porcelain work.

When it comes to military armored vehicles, adding this row is even more complicated, because armored vehicles use thick off-road tires, and the resistance to steering is already large, and if it is not done well, it will be difficult to steer.

Qin Zhenhua nodded: "That's right, steering difficulty is a big problem, but there is a way to solve it, just like your Bobcat armored car, can't it be solved simply?" We welcome this armored vehicle to participate in the exhibition, and when we arrange a booth, we will also find you a suitable booth. I think it's good to be next to the booth of our machine factory. ”

Since a machine factory is dominant, it must occupy the best booth, and the Mercedes-Benz heavy truck of a machine factory must also participate in the exhibition, and the Mercedes-Benz heavy truck can be used as a transition to connect with the Mercedes-Benz booth, which can be regarded as a help to Qin Zhenhua to his old friends within his ability.

"That's very good." Mia said, "Also, aren't you looking for emblems?" This is the emblem we made. ”

As she spoke, Mia took out a piece of paper, Qin Zhenhua just glanced at it, and immediately shook her head: "Of course this can't work, your emblem can't be passed here with me." ”

What kind of emblem is that? In the middle is a trident logo, and then, in those three separate spaces, the logos of the great powers of the East, Germany, and a tank are painted.

If I agreed, I wouldn't agree with it.

"Qin, you are so stubborn, in your army equipment, our German products are quite a lot, now, this exhibition, promote our friendship, isn't that very good? Why are you so resistant? ”

Qin Zhenhua stretched out his hand: "The palms and backs of the hands are full of meat, but your painting also reminds me that when the time comes, when we print brochures, we can print the logos of all manufacturers, and when the time comes, put the logo of your trident in a conspicuous place, so it's okay, right?" ”