Steel Soviet Union

"Where are those photos now? And the notes you took. Did you bring them with you?"

What Guderian was most concerned about was nothing more than the specific parameters and performance of his opponent's tanks. Understanding this specific information would be of vital help in developing the next generation of tanks and anti-armor weapons that are capable of countermeasures.

Without this key information, Guderian felt that he would have to rely on guessing and deception to speculate on the performance of the Russian tanks. This was the worst situation that he least wanted to see.

It would be better to have a photo, even a blurry one, than nothing at all. Fortunately, Buckman's next answer did not disappoint him.

"I brought all the important stuff, including my notes and photos, in the hope that they would be helpful."

Along with the words of his answer, what was handed to Guderian were the photos taken by Wink, the filler of Buckman's car assembly, with an old-fashioned camera that was not very professional, and the photos that Buckman took based on what he saw in the car. Some handwritten notes about what I saw and heard.

"Are the notes accurate? How sure are you?"

Guderian did not know what kind of SS armored soldier Bachmann was when he met him for the first time, nor what the abilities of the young man in front of him were.

Notes recorded by hand may not be accurate. This is directly related to the professional skills and professional level of the recorder.

So although it was a bit impolite to ask this, Guderian still did it. Even if it offended people, it was better than using wrong data to do wrong research and development, that's all.

Buckman could vaguely guess the reason why Guderian asked him this, but due to the hierarchy and etiquette between superiors and subordinates, Buckman respected Guderian from the bottom of his heart as the father of German armored forces. , and did not take it too seriously, even if it was a question of his own ability.

"I am ninety-five percent sure, General. In order to ensure accuracy, all data recorded in the book have been confirmed by me twice. I think I can be responsible for these data and information."

Obviously, the answer Guderian wanted was Bachman's words.

The photos in my hand flashed one after another like a slide show. Even if the black and white photos of today were taken closely and carefully, the blur effect still cannot be compared with the high-definition cameras of later generations. Even the most crotchless knockoff phone can produce much clearer results than this.

Afraid of missing any details, Guderian placed the photo closest to his eyes and looked at it again and again. If looking at one photo is not enough, then look at it two or three times.

Guderian took photos of the tank's appearance and saw the layout of the ammunition racks and the Russian markings on the shells in one breath. Guderian spent nearly ten minutes looking at the twelve photos over and over again, and then picked them up again. Buckman compared the notes he took down by himself, took a look at the notes, and then went to the photos with questions to find answers.

He was so focused that even his breathing was suppressed to a minimum. Even Bachman sitting aside did not dare to make any noise to disturb him too much. Bachman was quietly waiting for Guderian to finish reading the photos. .

About twenty minutes passed, maybe half an hour, but it couldn't be too short or less than this number.

After understanding everything he wanted to know, Guderian finally put down what he was holding, and with a somewhat unbelievable, confused and incredible expression and eyes, he looked back at Buckman, who was waiting quietly beside him.

"I can't believe this is true! The Russians gave up on the research and development of new tank guns and directly put their 122mm field cannon on tanks."

"Look, Buckman. The breech block in the photo has obvious characteristics of the Russian-made 122mm field cannon. It can be seen that the Russians have improved the breech block's retraction structure, but it remains basically unchanged. There is also this photo, which is a Russian 122mm subassembly artillery shell. I visited the captured sample gun a few days ago. There must be no mistake, it is this kind of gun! "

Guderian took out some other photos that had been placed here from his desk drawer for comparison.

For many days, Guderian has been studying the opponent's equipment based on witness reports from the front line, trying to figure out what kind of heavy tanks the Russians are equipped with, what caliber and style of new main gun they use, so that they can defeat the armored forces on the front line. There were exaggerated claims that "Tiger and Panther were simply vulnerable to powerful firepower."

Now, with the help of these "evidences" sent by Bachman, Guderian's guesses and research have finally come to light and come to fruition.

Even the Tiger tank's 88 gun, strictly speaking, is only in caliber, which is the same as the anti-aircraft gun known as the "anti-all gun".

In order to allow this new main gun to exert its maximum combat effectiveness in the Tiger tank, Germany's top military industry experts carried out a large number of subversive redesigns.

The breech mechanism of the 88mm anti-aircraft gun, which was originally too huge, was minimized and optimized to achieve better human-machine efficiency in the narrow turret. It is also tailor-made for this main gun, with a newly designed high-efficiency muzzle brake that can reduce recoil by more than 60%. The optimized design of other details is too numerous to list them all.

The "world's best" German technology has spent so much effort and effort on a main gun. The newly designed 88mm main gun adapted to the Tiger tank has the same caliber as the anti-aircraft gun. Almost every detail of the whole body is designed. It's a completely new cannon.

And now, the evidence before him is telling Guderian the cruelest reality.

Are you Germans weak? What's the point of tinkering with a tank's main gun? All the bells and whistles.

Look at our Soviet Red Army. From the existing artillery, just pick out the most productive and powerful one, put it on the tank, and easily tie the thing you designed with great effort to the beams and hang it!

My own children studied hard for a whole semester and stayed up late every day memorizing homework until late at night. The result was not as good as the kid from the old Wang family next door who crammed before the exam and did well in the exam, but was slapped straight away when the results came out.

One is "I have a car, and now I want to build a high-performance main gun specifically for this car."

Another said, "I have an awesome cannon now, and I have to find a way to put this cannon into any car that can be plugged into it."

This completely different design concept and equipment development ideas made Guderian truly feel the deep feeling of powerlessness, as if "all his efforts were wasted".

In terms of designing new weapons to better meet the needs of large-scale wars, Guderian had to admit in the face of the cruel facts that "Germany's world's number one in technology" once again lost to the stupid, black and rough Russian style. Violence.

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