"This thing is an ugly lump of iron. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Patting a near-finished model of a combat vehicle next to him, a German engineer said to his apprentices with regret.

In his experience, if he really designed such a rag in his lifetime, it would definitely be a shame that he would not be able to get rid of in his life.

This strange vehicle proposed by the Führer is simply a disaster of industrial civilization, and such a desecration of the word industry is absolutely an unbearable historical retrogression.

Everything produced by German industry is the finest work of art possible, and this thing is simply indescribable.

"It'...... It's just a soapbox, and trust me, I've come up with the best and most apt word to describe it. The engineer looked at the object helplessly, and reluctantly gave what he thought was a very pertinent assessment.

By the standards of German engineers, or by German industrial production capacity, this newly designed armored vehicle is really a soapbox.

The chassis of the 38T tank, which has been lengthened and widened, has more than 40% of the parts of the original 38T tank.

In this way, the tank can be easily repaired on the front line and can be towed and transported by existing transport vehicles, which is very convenient.

The common purpose of the chassis makes it surprisingly low-cost, and the hull uses a large inclination that the German army has never seen, making this tank destroyer look very avant-garde.

How rudimentary is the Stalker tank destroyer? Just from its makeshift performance and makeshift design, you can see it.

In the eyes of German industry, this is just a special beggar vehicle that can barely be taken out for emergency purposes at the end of the world.

I have to say that their vision is indeed very vicious, and they can see at once that the Stalker tank destroyer is the beggar car that they launched in real history.

Even on the prototype production line in the factory, this Stalker shows its humble side.

It is almost welded out of some scrap iron sheets, because there is no painting, so the whole body is like patches, which is sad to see.

Because it was necessary to install a new PAK38 gun in a small body.

This artillery has a caliber of 50 mm, a long barrel of 60 times the caliber, and good armor-piercing ability, which was used by the German army to modify the No. 3 tank on a large scale, and was also equipped with many towed anti-tank guns of the same model.

Because the design of the 75 mm caliber anti-tank gun requested by Li Le could not be completed on time, the pursuers could only install relatively mature weapons at this stage.

It is precisely because of this ideological guidance that the pursuers have been turned into a hodgepodge of existing weapons.

In order to install a recoiled gun in a small space, the Pursuer had to place the gun on the right side of the central axis of the entire tank.

In this way, the 50 mm anti-tank gun had a firing range of only 6 to 7 degrees to the left and 12 to 13 degrees to the right.

However, because this gun is not placed on the central axis, the center of gravity of the entire Stalker tank is also offset.

As a result, the right side of the tank was subjected to more than 560 kilograms of pressure, which was a little better than the real stalkers in history, but it also broke down the German designers who pursued perfection.

They simply cannot understand how such garbage, which has a difference in turning radius to the left and to the right, can be delivered to the troops and allowed to continue to be used by them?

The extra weight of more than half a ton on one side makes the right suspension of the Stalker tank more easily damaged, affecting the tank's climbing, steering, and cross-country ability.

At the same time, the increased weight makes the tracks on the right side of the tank more prone to wear, as if a person with an incorrect walking posture is more prone to wear out on the parts of his soles that are often used......

The asymmetrical design on the left and right has made the German designers unbearable, and some other designs have made them even more desperate.

In the entire hunting chamber of the pursuer, the driver was at the forefront, and behind him was the gunner, and behind the gunner was the loader - three men arranged in a tandem, one next to the other.

On the right side is a cannon, and behind the cannon is the commander of the car, who also has the responsibility of being a radio operator.

In the small space, four people sat in an L-shape, but there were only two exits on the roof - one for the commander, and the rest of the people had to take the other exit behind the loader if they wanted to leave.

Normally, it is just a disadvantage that it is inconvenient to enter and exit, and once destroyed, the members of the Stalker can run out of up to 2 - the commander and the loader.

The remaining two did not have enough time to leave, they could only be burned inside the tank, which was another unbearable thing for the German designers.

It is worth mentioning that the Stalker tank destroyer uses the now fashionable and avant-garde inclined armor design, and it sticks to it on both sides.

The height of the vehicle is only 2 meters, and the height of the anti-aircraft machine gun on top is only 2.17 meters.

60 mm thick armor was used in front of it, and the inclination reached 60 degrees! Under the hull was also 60 mm thick armor with an angle of inclination of 40 degrees.

If you just look at the armor arranged in front of the hull, then this tank destroyer even has armor comparable to that of tank No. 4.

In fact, however, this was not the case, and the thickness of the armor in all other directions of the tank destroyer was simply miserable - less than 20 mm thick on the sides of the hull, and only 10 mm thick at the back and top.

This allows the Stalker tank destroyer to defend against bullets and shell fragments outside the front, and is not able to block armor-piercing shells at all.

Of course, the pursuer uses a modest 160 hp engine that allows it to run at 40 kilometers per hour.

Compared to the road speed, the off-road parameters are a bit miserable: because of the car's center of gravity, the car can only maintain an off-road speed of 17 kilometers per hour.

Another "advantage" that satisfies the top management is the cheap cost of the stalker. Despite the use of the more expensive 50 mm caliber anti-tank gun, the Stalker was still cheaper than the 38T tank, and much cheaper.

It saves man-hours and is simple enough to be produced by many unskilled apprentices, and the cost savings are almost enough to build one of these Stalker tank destroyers.

"I think this kind of thing is a kind of regression." The engineer sighed as he stroked the cold iron plate on the model of the Stalker tank destroyer.

He was personally involved in the design of this tank destroyer, and the whole design process was as if someone was rushing to work with a gun to his head.

Unstable center of gravity? No problem, make do, as long as you can drive! Insufficient armor thickness? It doesn't matter, it's better than nothing anyway!

After a problem that the German engineers regarded as a problem was simply discarded and abandoned, a road came to the fore.

"Backwards?" An officer walked over and likewise stroked the cheap Hunter tank destroyer in front of him: "It's simply a work of genius!" ”

"What? You say this soap dish is good? "German engineers simply don't believe their ears.

Some people even think that a work that has not been carefully designed at all, and exudes a sense of cutting corners from head to toe, is an epoch-making genius work.

"Sir, if you equip tank troops with this kind of weapon, then this weapon is definitely the worst piece of garbage." The officer smiled and spoke to the engineer in front of him.

Neither the engineer nor the apprentice workers around him spoke, for the officer was speaking exactly what they had just come to a conclusion.

But why, while agreeing with them, did the officer say that the weapon was the work of genius?

"But this weapon was not developed for armored forces." The officer didn't wait long, and then solved the mystery himself.

"It is an option to provide infantry with a cheap alternative to tanks." While stroking the cold steel, the officer looked at the huge "Führer's toy" with a satisfied expression.

Apparently, he was very pleased with the Führer's toy, since this weapon was the "ultimate product" of the army's project of a cheap self-propelled anti-tank gun.

The weapons equipped for the infantry do not need to be very delicate, because those infantry are not used to delicate things.

What they need is massive, inexpensive, and simple equipment that they can use casually and that doesn't require much maintenance.

As long as the performance is sufficient and better than the original weapon in hand, then this is the most popular advanced weapon for infantry!

It turns out what the infantry has in their hands? The 37 mm caliber anti-tank gun, nicknamed the can opener, was ridiculed for its ability to open only can iron, and could not penetrate enemy tanks at all.

Moreover, this weapon is still towed, and it needs a car to tow it, and when there is no car, it needs a mule to pull it, and when entering the position, it can only be pushed by soldiers!

Under this premise, the Führer offered the infantry another option: more ferocious armor-piercing firepower, basic armor protection, the ability to advance on their own, and even a cameo tank if necessary......

Is there a more genius option than that? When the generals of the army heard that they would be equipped with an armored self-propelled anti-tank gun in large quantities in the future, no one thought that this equipment was so badly designed.

What they saw was the magic of this weapon - it could effectively engage enemy tanks at a distance of 500 meters, and it could also accompany the infantry to attack and defend!

What the? You say this weapon is too rudimentary? My God...... You see it as an anti-tank gun with 360-degree armor protection without pushing around, don't you instantly feel that it is tall?