Maintenance! If you have been an armored soldier, you should know that in the daily routine maintenance, there will be an adjustment of the track, holding a sledgehammer, holding a steel drill, disassembling and assembling the track, which is a necessary skill for the armored soldier, and if the track is not tight, it is easy to fall off or break off in the process of walking!

These are absolutely manual tasks, and wheeled ones don't have these contents, which are quite concise. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At the same time, if you can drive a car, you will drive a wheeled armored car, and if you can drive a tracked one, you must be able to drive a tractor!

And the current ten-wheeled off-road truck, this kind of chassis, will be the chassis of the wheeled armored car in the future!

For Ford, Ciric is full of confidence, because Ciric knows that in history, Ford has come up with the famous M8 wheeled armored car, which has produced tens of thousands of vehicles! In the UK, this armored car is affectionately called a greyhound!

The M8 wheeled armored vehicle was a six-wheel drive, with a maximum speed of 88 km/h, a maximum off-road speed of 48 km/h, a maximum range of 560 km, a wading depth of 0.6 meters, and a height of 0.3 meters over walls.

And the chassis of this armored car, which is almost quite similar to the all-wheel drive ten-wheeled truck, can be easily copied.

This is also the technical reserve that Ciric has given to Germany, and when this kind of truck is produced in a German factory, it can easily be converted at any time to produce wheeled armored vehicles.

Of course, for 6*6 driven armored vehicles, the cross-country ability still does not satisfy Ciric, what Ciric wants most is an 8*8 driven armored car, from the side, four tires in each row, almost occupying the entire length of the hull! This also made it more maneuverable, and it was the most common form of wheeled infantry fighting vehicles in later generations.

The old Ford was also quite shocked at this time by the technical data proposed by Ciric, the old Ford has been studying machinery, and the idea proposed by Ciric, of course, can be understood as soon as he thinks about it.

"In that case, first of all, we need to have high-power engines, and now we have engines that are less than 100 horsepower, which are too small, and we need engines that are 150 horsepower, or even 200 horsepower."

If you want to drive a car, you have to have an engine, and if you want to drive a ten-ton all-wheel drive truck, the engine has to be more powerful!

For example, the heavy truck of the United States in World War II, the MackNO1943-1945 heavy truck artillery tractor, weighing 13 tons, is equipped with a 159-horsepower engine, which is definitely a large model among automobile engines.

Ford produces cars, not airplanes, and Ford does not have the technical reserves for high-power engines, so the first problem that Ford raised was the engine!

Motor! For Ciric, this is no longer a difficult task!

"I believe that Ford's technology will definitely be able to develop a high-power engine." "If the progress is delayed for the time being, our Maybach company has a similar engine, and when the time comes, when the factory is built in Germany, it can be purchased from the supporting Maybach company, in addition to various gasoline engines, there are diesel engines that can be used, including a V6 diesel engine with an output of 230 horsepower, which is absolutely enough." ”

Maybach Company! This is an important automobile and engine company in Germany, there are various types of engines, for sports cars, there are 200 horsepower, however, this gasoline engine, is not suitable for trucks, and diesel engines are the most suitable!

Diesel engine!

Now, Maybach has started production of 500 hp V12 diesel engines for Germany's newest tank! At the same time, various other simplified models have been finalized.

Among them, there are mainly V6 and V8 engines, and the layout and structure of these engines are exactly the same! Cylinder barrels, pistons, etc., can be completely replaced! It can be said that it is equivalent to splitting from the V12 engine and splitting it in half, which is the V6 engine!

What are the benefits of this? Of course, it is greatly convenient for the supply of logistics! All kinds of components can be replaced, and the variety of logistics support will be greatly reduced! At the same time, it is also convenient for the production of supporting manufacturers!

It can even be said that once it enters the war mode, the main engine manufacturer only needs to produce a cylinder block, and can use various accessories of downstream manufacturers to quickly assemble this diesel engine! Capacity is not a problem!

Ford, most importantly, is streamlined production! The higher the output of various components, the lower the cost!

When Ford enters Germany, it will also bring this advanced production method to Germany to further reduce the production cost in Germany, and this V6 and V8 engine will also become the main driving force for various equipment of the German ground forces!

In fact, the current V6 has 230 horsepower, and the power is somewhat excessive, but it is even better, which can provide more powerful power to the truck, and the carrying capacity is stronger, and after the transformation into a wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, the strong power can make the wheeled infantry fighting vehicle have greater weight, which means that it can be on thicker armor! Plus a bigger turret!

Hearing what Ciric said about the engine, the old Ford also had a happy face: "A 230-horsepower diesel engine? ”

Old Ford, of course, knows that for a sedan, a gasoline engine with less noise and vibration looks high-end, while for a truck, a diesel engine with high torque and sufficient traction is of course more suitable!

I really didn't expect that Germany actually had a suitable diesel engine!

"Okay, then our Ford company will carry out chassis research and development, and I believe that this ten-wheeled truck will be developed soon." Ford Sr. said.

As long as the engine problem is solved, the chassis problem will not be difficult for Ford!

"As long as the research and development is completed and meets the needs of our army, we will carry out mass production, and the initial order will be tens of thousands." Ciric said.

A model, before it is developed, there will be a large amount of orders, which is what any manufacturer hopes for the most!

Now, when old Ford heard this, he was quite excited: "Okay, then we will operate immediately, and we will submit a plan to you soon about building a factory." "This matter is also the most beneficial for Ford, Ford can occupy more markets! And, from Germany, even to the whole of Europe!

As for the military purpose of this truck, old Ford doesn't care so much, as a businessman, the most important thing is profit!

Needless to say, even now, even in World War II, there are still a large number of American businessmen who are secretly doing business with Germany through neutral countries, and many of the resources that Germany needs are actually smuggled in.

And now, the supported Germany is also the idea of the American high-level, so there will be no resistance for Ford to build a factory in Germany!