Chapter 283: Skoda Arsenal
The Skoda engineers on the side were silent. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Any product is soaked in the efforts of the engineers, and for these Skoda engineers, their tanks are like their children, and they want to produce all their tanks.
However, they also knew that this was impossible, compared with the German tanks, their tanks were too backward, for example, the armor was still riveted, and when the opponent's shells came and smashed the rivets off, the flying rivets were the greatest damage to the tank crew.
"Applying our streamlined production method, it is assigned to the subordinate factories of the Skoda Arsenal to manufacture separately and then assemble it here." Knypokamp continued: "In the past few days, we have already estimated that in the first three months, we should be able to produce 50 vehicles per month, and after becoming proficient, we should be able to reach 100 units per month, so that the Skoda Arsenal can produce thousands of Panther 3 tanks for us every year." ”
Ciric was immediately happy, the production here has reached thousands of vehicles per year, which is already quite a remarkable number, which is equivalent to doubling the production of his own tanks!
This means that by the end of this year, Germany will be able to reorganize ten fully equipped armored divisions! If it drags on for another year, and the war starts again at the end of next year, Germany will be able to reorganize twenty fully equipped armored divisions!
With these twenty armored divisions, it is enough to sweep all of Europe! Ciric is of course very confident that the Panther tank of this era is absolutely invincible! It took more than ten years to mature, and the performance is five years ahead of the entire era!
"So, what about these tanks that we originally produced, and the chassis?" Skoda's technician asked.
Hearing the other party's question, Knipokamp also set his eyes on Ciric, which, of course, had to be decided by Ciric.
Will these tanks, all scrapped? Of course not! After all, they have already been produced, and it would be a waste to return them all to the furnace at such a time!
In fact, if Germany does not have the strength of these years, this LT38 tank is already considered advanced equipment, this ten-ton tank, up to now, in the German equipment sequence, is actually blank, the lightest German tank Panther 2 tank, also belongs to the 20-ton class, and is about to be transformed, all in accordance with the 40-ton Panther 3 to improve.
Due to the high indicators, the production of such tanks was not large, and even in wartime, the factory became 24-hour uninterrupted production, and at most doubled the production.
And when it came to fighting the Soviet Union in the future, the Soviet Union had always relied on the sea of tanks, and Germany was always at a disadvantage in terms of the number of tanks.
Therefore, these existing tanks, directly scrapped, or thrown to the second-line troops, are wasted.
Second-line troops, just have a Mauser 98 rifle, what more tanks?
Ciric's mind spun around and he remembered something new.
Stalker Tank Destroyer! This is an excellent anti-tank weapon formed on a 38t tank chassis by simply using armor with a large inclination angle and erecting a long-barreled 75mm tank gun.
It is not considered a self-propelled gun, because it often charges with the tank, relying on the mobility of high speed and the protection of high-angle armor to take out the opposing tank!
This weapon only appeared in 44 years, when Germany has changed from offensive to defensive, and needs more anti-tank weapons, and this unique appearance of the assault gun, has become the treasure of the German army, its production is very high, the original goal set by Germany, is to produce thousands of vehicles per month, and Skoda company at the peak, can also produce four or five hundred vehicles a month.
In terms of quality, the German tanks are sufficient, and in terms of quantity, they are always not satisfied, so it is better to transform the existing chassis, including which manufactured LT-35 tanks, into such tank destroyers!
This is not a brainstorm, this tank destroyer is famous in history, and even the Allies praise the excellent performance of this tank destroyer.
And now, Shirek has launched his own explanation of the modification of this tank into a tank destroyer, and even drew a few sketches, the inclination angle should be large, the tank should be low, and the caliber of the tank gun should be large, which can be selected from the existing tank guns in Germany, and this modified tank has only one task, which is to kill the enemy's tank!
Ciric's explanation won the respect of the Czech military workers present, and they all said that General Ciric is all-round, and now, with such a transformation, this chassis of his own side will be of greater use, and even continue to produce in the future!
At the same time, this is also a proposal, and other modifications can be tried, such as armored personnel carriers.
During his inspection, Ciric successfully solved the problem of tank production and formulated a policy, some of the personnel studied how to modify the tank destroyer, and the other part of the personnel began to renovate the entire tank production workshop in preparation for the production of the Panther tank.
After completing the inspection of the tank department, Ciric continued to inspect the huge Škoda arsenal, the next of which was the Skoda small arms.
In this era, Skoda produced the ZB26 light machine gun, which was famous! For everyone who is familiar with the Anti-Japanese War, it is no stranger, because this machine gun shines on the battlefield in China!
The Czech plant in Brno alone exported 30,249 ZB-26 light machine guns to China between 1927 and 1939. And Huaxia itself imitates and produces more, the entire Chinese battlefield this ZB-26 light machine gun is about 100,000, in the Anti-Japanese War films, you can often see the machine gunner holding this Czech-made light machine gun, the top of the magazine, is its most obvious feature.
This light machine gun even won an order from the British Army to switch to a caliber of 7.7 mm. And its original caliber was 7.92 mm.
Yes, and the existing 7.92 Mauser in Germany, it is exactly the same!
The simple structure, low cost, and powerful firepower are the advantages of this light machine gun, as for the disadvantages, it is that the magazine of 20 rounds is too small, and the placement of the magazine on it somewhat blocks the view.
Now, Germany also has an advanced light machine gun, that is, MG34, in terms of performance, the performance of this light machine gun is more than ZB26, then, Brno Arsenal, should this light machine gun be discontinued, full production MG34?
The arrival of Ciric reassured them, and in the face of the supervisors and engineers here, including the designer of the ZB26, Halik, Shirek solemnly told them: "The performance of the ZB26 light machine gun is good, and this light machine gun can continue to be produced." ”
(To the previous question, the 7.92 mm stock of bullets will not be wasted, after all, there are class machine guns, which are all Mauser bullets, and second-line troops, who continue to use Mauser rifles, change to 6.8 mm caliber, because this is the best caliber, the power has not been reduced, and the caliber is small, which will save a lot of raw materials.) As for the original production line, if you change to a new caliber, you should just change the mold, right? Asking for a great solution to the doubt. )
(The information found by Huadong Zhixiong: the main parts of gun bullets, such as bullet shells, bullet shells, primer shells and tracer tube shells, etc., are all shaped in the shape of cups with bottoms, and their processing needs to use one of the most widely used processes in the production of gun bullets - "extension processing", which produces parts of different shapes and wall thicknesses, as long as the shape and size of the mold are changed.) )