readx; If you only count the main tanks in service, there are probably more than 20,000 advanced tanks, and if you count the old goods, then the number of tanks will reach nearly 40,000. Although this figure is nothing compared with the total production of various countries, this is not the case, and now it is talking about the number of tanks, not the total number of production.www.biquge.info

If other countries can barely fight the T15 with heavy tanks, but in the face of the more advanced T18 tank, it is basically impossible to fight.

"According to the feedback from the front, the Chinese' T18 tanks are more powerful than we expected, their protection is even better than our Tiger tanks, and their firepower is obviously more powerful than their T15, even exceeding our 88mm long-barreled tank guns. In the course of the battle, many of our 75-mm anti-tank guns were still unable to effectively penetrate their frontal armor at medium distances, so we speculate that their frontal armor protection was at least equivalent to more than 300 mm. A German officer was speaking to a group of German generals.

"Do you mean that even our seventy-five-mm anti-tank guns are not capable of fighting T18 tanks?" A German general asked.

"It's not hard, it's true!"

"In that case, what about our Tiger tanks?" Another asked.

"If our Tiger tank is fighting the T18 at medium range, the main gun on our Tiger tank should be able to effectively threaten their frontal armor, but the main gun of the same T18 tank can also bring a blow to our Tiger tank!" He only talked about firepower and protection here, and it was at a medium range, and as for the mobile surname and other surnames, he didn't say anything.

I think that the two really do not have a comparative surname, the T18 of the Chinese climb the mountain and go into the water, the mobile surname is not even comparable to the Chinese Army's own T15 tank, and the Tiger tank as a standard heavy tank, don't say anything mobile surname can.

Although the Germans believe that in terms of firepower and protection, the Tiger tank should be able to compete with the T18 tank, but they also ignore one point, that is, in the German sequence, the Tiger tank is a heavy tank, and the T18 tank is the main medium tank in the Chinese Army sequence, the cost of the two and the time required are completely unequal, China's T15 \18 tank, corresponding to the T34 series in the Soviet Army and the No. 4 series in the German Army. As for the heavy tank, in the Chinese Army, it is a T17 heavy tank, which is actually a heavy tank developed for the IS series of the Soviet Army in World War II, and the tonnage, protection and firepower are very scary, a tank gun of 125 mm caliber, and a weight of more than 60 tons. However, the Chinese army has never had much affection for heavy tanks, and so far less than 1,000 have been produced, and they were discontinued in 1943.

But in the Soviet army, in order to fight the Chinese T15 tanks, they produced a large number of IS series tanks, and the German army produced Tiger tanks in order to fight the T34-85 and IS series tanks.

The technological gap between them has led to a very different positioning of their tanks, and other countries treat China's T15\18 tanks as heavy tanks is the most obvious representative.

The T15 tank was enough to shock Western countries back then, and this time the official debut of the T18 tank of the Chinese Army made Western countries drop their jaws.

Although they have also obtained some information about the T18 tank before, what the Chinese Army has always said is that the T18 tank is an improved model of the T15 tank, and the relationship between the T15 tank and the T12 is the relationship between T9 and T12, and the Chinese Army has always said that the T15\18 series, which leads the outside world to think that the T18 tank should be similar to the T15 tank, but I didn't expect the difference to be so big.

If even the German Tiger tanks could not effectively resist the Chinese T18 tanks in these years, then it was even more difficult for the T18 tanks of other countries to resist the Chinese T18 tanks.

After getting the news, the Soviet Union and Russia increased the service process of the T44 tank, and the United States also increased the research and development service process of the new tank.

The world's tank development process has once again been pulled forward by China!

In fact, they did not know that the technological innovation of the T18 tank was not only reflected in the hull and main gun, but also in the shells.

On the T18 tank, a new type of armor-piercing projectile was adopted, and this armor-piercing projectile is a shell-piercing projectile, the core of its armor-piercing is a small-caliber tungsten alloy, and the external is soft metal, after the gun is ejected, this layer of external soft metal will fall off, leaving only a tungsten alloy to continue to move forward to obtain a higher muzzle velocity, and a higher muzzle velocity represents a stronger armor-piercing ability. This kind of shelling armor-piercing projectile is combined with China's unique tungsten alloy warhead, and the armor-piercing ability is enough to sweep the frontal armor of all tanks in service. Sub-caliber armor-piercing shells are not a new concept in the world, and similar types of ammunition have been developed and put into service in Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

However, their sub-caliber armor-piercing shells are all armor-piercing shells that cannot be detached for the time being, although the Germans have also developed sub-caliber armor-piercing shells, but they have not yet been put into large-scale application for the time being, and they cannot get a large amount of tungsten ore to produce armor-piercing warheads.

Whether it is Germany, the United States, or the United Kingdom and Soviet Russia, their ration of sub-caliber armor-piercing shells is very small, and there are only two or three spare ones in a tank, and they usually use traditional cap-piercing shells. As for China, because there is no need to worry about tungsten ore, there are more sub-caliber armor-piercing shells made of tungsten alloy.

In terms of armor-piercing bullets, China has a very big advantage over other countries, that is, China has a lot of tungsten alloy to waste, tungsten alloy is very expensive in these years, and China almost controls more than 95% of the world's tungsten ore production, and during the war is to strictly control the export of tungsten ore. This has led to a serious shortage of tungsten ore in other countries, not to mention the use of armor-piercing bullets, even industrial applications are seriously insufficient, and China has no shortage of tungsten ore, which can be used in large quantities of tungsten alloy as armor-piercing bullets, which is completely the behavior of losers in other countries.

The Chinese Army's application of sub-caliber armor-piercing shells was actually during the Sino-Russian War in 1941, when the external soft-shell non-detachable sub-caliber armor-piercing bullets were used, and two years later, the sub-caliber armor-piercing bullets with a more superior surname were developed. If we go further, it is the modern tail stabilized deshelling armor-piercing projectile.

When the sub-caliber shell-piercing projectile, 105L50 rifled tank gun, and SV700 diesel engine were integrated into the T18 tank, it made the T18 completely out of the critical point that the technology of various countries during World War II could reach.

The stimulus of war has accelerated the research and development of various technologies, not only in China, but also in other countries, and the development of aircraft, tanks, and warships is much earlier than that of the original time and space.

These are due to the situation that you are chasing me, and the things you have developed are better than mine, so I will definitely increase my research and development efforts to develop things that are better than you, and this back and forth is to rapidly accelerate the progress of technology.

It can be said that this world war was a great leap forward in the history of the world's scientific development, and various scientific achievements in a short period of five or six years could not be obtained in the past 100 years.

In this war, there were jet planes, radars, missiles, infrared guidance, displays and so on, and it can be said that after World War II, the entire human society was brought into the state of modern society, and if there was no World War II, these processes would have to be delayed for at least twenty years or more.

Or is it a tank, after the protection ability of the T18 tank has been greatly strengthened, but in fact it is still unable to block the attack of the T18 tank's own main gun, the reason is not that the protection of the T18 tank is too poor, but that after the 105L50 rifled gun is equipped with the last caliber shelling armor-piercing projectile, the armor-piercing ability is too terrifying, and even the T18 itself cannot resist it.

However, these things are known to the Chinese armored forces, but the Germans do not know, they still guess the various surnames of the T18 tank according to their own technical conditions, and believe that the Tiger tank can effectively protect the T18 tank from the strike at a long distance, and the Long 88 tank gun on the Tiger tank should also be able to effectively penetrate the front of the T18 tank at a medium distance. In other words, what they estimated was that the Tiger tank and the T18 could destroy each other!

As for the facts, we have to talk about it after the fight! After all, it's all just their guesses.

On the night of April 13, the 2nd Panzer Division's battle group, under the onslaught of more than 70 tanks and more than 100 infantry fighting vehicles, broke through the German line in Xanthi, and the Germans were forced to retreat at about 3 a.m. that night, and then fled all the way west, and finally entered Thessaloniki. Here, there are already two Italian divisions, a German infantry division is deployed, and a German infantry division is on the way to reinforcements, at the same time, there is also an extremely important German armored division here is also rushing to support day and night, including more than 30 Tiger tanks, more than 30 Leopard tanks, and dozens of No. 4H tanks and a considerable number of self-propelled anti-tank guns, these armored vehicles are already the largest armored forces that the German army can concentrate in the Greek region.

In the years of war against the Soviet Union, the Germans lost a large number of tanks, and now the German army is still facing the counteroffensive of the Soviet army on the Eastern Front, and the armored forces are even more strained, this armored division is still temporarily transferred from Yugoslavia, originally used to reinforce the Italian front.

Here we have to talk about the development of the Germans' tanks, in fact, in World War II, the development of the Germans' tanks has not been smooth, although the famous Tiger tank and Leopard tank are strong, but the process is complex, the output is too small, and the production of the No. 4 series of tanks has been backward in the surname, although the later improved 4H type can fight against T34-76 and the Allied M4 tank, but in the face of T34-85 and so on is still powerless, as for the face of China's T15 and T18 not to mention.

In addition to the gap in Germany's tank design concept, the main thing is that their strategic resources have been greatly limited, and they don't want to build the Tiger tank so heavy, but there is no way, they can't obtain a large number of rare metals, and they can only strengthen the protection of the armor through surface hardening, and the relative weight of this armor is greater.

Now, Germany also hopes that the Tiger tank can withstand the offensive pace of the Chinese T18 tank, and many of the German forces in Thessaloniki, including the Tiger tank, are ready to respond to the attack of the Chinese troops at any time!