While the fierce fighting was going on outside Odessa, Fafnir received an order: requiring his Tiger King No. 223 to return to Odessa to provide cover for the retreat of a special force. This special force was led by a
The SS major named Hugo Weaving led the generals to break through the Soviet encirclement and retreat from the south of Odessa under the cover of some of the elite Wehrmacht troops transferred back.
Fafnir looked at this unit with curiosity - there were indeed some who looked like elite SS soldiers, but more of them contained carts of boxes and nerds who looked like they couldn't fight with glasses. The leader
The major had almost never appeared. The few times he appeared, he wore a mask, and the face under the mask could not be seen at all. There was an acquaintance in the team - Fafnir treated this person like a reptile.
The cold eyes have a deep memory, Captain Andre Anderst, he is now a captain. "You get the rank by killing the old, weak, women and children," Fafnir thought to himself, but he didn't want to do it at all.
Ask this question to this poisonous snake.
The breakout went quite smoothly. There were not many Soviet Red Army obstructions along the way. After all, they were still far away from encircling the Germans. The occasional Soviet tanks became Fafnir's bait. That road along the way
Captain Viper didn't seem to recognize the sergeant, and the two had no conversation at all.
Finally, when they were about to break away from the encirclement, this force ran into a large force of the Soviet Red Army. Fortunately, the Soviet Red Army was busy fighting the German troops defending here and could not spare too many troops to intercept this force.
A small force; unfortunately, the Soviet Red Army used heavy artillery to destroy this force. After one round of shelling, all the trucks carrying boxes and eye brothers were fine, but the SS soldiers suffered heavy casualties.
Fafnir sat unscathed in the No. 223 King Tiger. He watched a heavy artillery round tear a barrel truck into pieces and send it into the air. "It's a 152 heavy artillery. The Russians really think highly of us. This is all
An artillery regiment fired a volley, right? Huh? Isn't this the viper Captain Andre? 152 hits the target? His luck is really bad! The Russians' artillery shells avenged their guns..."
The captain with snake eyes was torn into countless pieces of flesh by the 152mm shells without saying a word.
Fortunately, the artillery fire went quickly, and Fafnir's Tiger King was well hidden. It seemed that the observing Soviet soldiers felt that there were not many targets worthy of artillery fire, so they stopped the artillery bombardment. The Soviets were about one company.
Under the cover of several T34s, the soldiers prepared to come down and capture the prisoners. Fafnir took the opportunity to attack suddenly and killed the unaware T34s at the beginning. The Soviet infantry was so frightened that they fled in a hurry, and Fafnir did not dare to pursue them.
The trucks immediately retreated with the remaining German tanks and armored vehicles.
Major Hugo Weaving was completely fine, and he didn't seem nervous at all - after all, he couldn't see his expression under the mask. At night, the unit successfully connected with the corresponding Waffen-SS unit.
The entire convoy was handed over. Major Hugo got out of the car and entered a very strange enclosed vehicle of the SS. He seemed to have taken off his mask before getting in, but due to the darkness, no one saw his movements and appearance.
——Except for Fafnir, who has night vision, Fafnir clearly saw that under Major Hugo’s mask was a red skull face, with no skin at all and atrophied muscles. It was basically a skull. "It seems.
It’s something amazing. The world has become more interesting.”
After the soldiers of the National Defense Force handed over the truck and box personnel, they set off to return to the construction. Fafnir leaned in the car and took a nap, and the driver followed the rear lights of the leading vehicle in front of him in the darkness. At dawn, they
A replenishment was carried out, and the personnel also took a rest in a Soviet village on the roadside. At night, they returned to Odessa, and the King Tiger was towed away for maintenance. Fafnir and the crew members immediately went
Take a shower and sleep.
Unbeknownst to him, factories in Germany had already started producing new equipment.
In 1942, after developing the Panther and Tiger, the German Army put forward a plan to design fresh tanks and armored vehicles with common parts. The Panther and Tiger 1 were quite successful on the battlefield, and Daimler and Porsche built on this basis.
The design drawings of the new car were proposed, and the development of the e-series officially began.
During this period, Daimler submitted a prototype of a new heavy tank: the Lion tank. It weighed 95 tons, had staggered road wheels, a tall body, and used a 105 mm tank gun. During the test, the two companies
The design drawings of e50, e75 and e100 were also proposed - they still have the design of staggered road wheels, and the body is still tall.
Numerous problems arose when testing the Lion tank. The transmission system was as unreliable as ever, with frequent failures, taking up huge tonnage and space. The engine power was insufficient, and the entire vehicle had many failures. It ran slowly, with a speed of no more than 20 kilometers per hour. The only thing
It can be commended that the gun performed well, but it was hampered by weak armor-because the running gear and engine took up a lot of space and tonnage, the armor was still weak even after a good ricochet slope was designed, and the engine was placed in the front.
Once hit in the front, the entire vehicle immediately collapses! After strengthening the armor, the speed becomes unacceptably slow, and replacing a stronger engine requires more space and tonnage, making the endless loop almost unsolvable.
By 1943, as the captured Soviet Stalin tanks were sent to the German Ministry of Defense for evaluation, the Director of Armored Forces became increasingly unable to accept the designs of the two companies - the improved E-series became as big and thick as the Lion tank
Zhong, he had been exhausted by the lion and his remaining patience finally broke out after seeing the new e-series drawings!
The Director of Armored Forces drew his pistol and prepared to challenge the designers of the two companies for a duel! Or to shoot all the design teams directly! Finally, he was stopped by the Minister of Imperial Defense, and the two of them called the design team over and cursed.
, the Director of Armored Forces expressed his envy of Stalin's method of shooting unqualified designers, and at the same time threatened to implement this law in the empire. In the end, the Minister of Armaments and the Director of Armored Forces unanimously decided to shoot the Lion tank's future, and the completed prototype was directly returned to the furnace.
!Then the design of the new e-series must be proposed within a month, otherwise it will be difficult to say.
In 1943, the potential of the No. 4 tank had been exhausted. All production lines only produced the No. 4g variant, and half of the No. 4 production lines were directly converted to the production of the Panther G. The Tiger tank was
Production was stopped. King Tiger tanks also stopped production after completing the first batch of production, preparing to shift to the production of the e-series.
In the second half of 1943, the prototype of the e-series was finally produced. The engine was rear-mounted, the engine was mounted transversely, the staggered road wheels were abandoned, a new shape of the turret was adopted, and the height of the vehicle was reduced. These items were all considered by German designers one by one.
use.
e50: The actual weight of the vehicle is 46 tons. The engine is mounted horizontally at the rear. It does not use staggered road wheels, making the vehicle body lower than the Tiger tank and Panther tank. The vehicle body is still a sloped armor similar to that of the Panther. At the same time, the design of the Panther 2
Incorporated into the e50. The turret is like an inverted dish, but it is oval. The front of the turret is made of two wedge-shaped armors, covered with a mantlet. The gun uses an 88mml71 gun, and the turret is centrally mounted. The engine uses a new type
db800, 900 horsepower can allow this guy to run at a speed of 50km on the road and 35km off-road. The front armor is 150, the sides are 100, and the rear is 80. The turret is 180 in the front, 100 in the sides, and 80 in the rear.
e75: An enlarged version of the e50, more than 85% of the parts are common with the e50. A 128l55 gun is installed on the turret, with a tonnage of 72 tons, and the engine is hl234p50, 1200 horsepower. It can allow this big guy to run 30 kilometers on the road and off-road
At a speed of 20 kilometers, the front armor is 170mm thick, the sides are 120mm, and the rear is 100mm thick, while the turret is 220mm thick at the front, 140mm on the sides, and 100mm on the rear.
e100: The tonnage is as high as 105 tons. The appearance is more like a mouse in another design line, but the turret has also changed into the shape of a high-bottomed saucer. It uses a 128l70 gun, uses an hl335 engine, and a huge engine with a horsepower of up to 1900. Speed
It reaches 30 to 20 kilometers. The thickness of the front armor reaches a terrifying 220mm, and the side thickness reaches 180mm. The 150mm body at the back is matched with a 300mm front, 200mm side, and a terrifying 150mm turret at the back, making this guy look indestructible.
In the end, the headquarters made the decision to produce the e50 and e100, and the e75 was scrapped. On the other hand, Dr. Porsche was warned to stop using electric drive on the mouse, which made the mouse with a design weighing 180 tons gain a greater
Internal space and stronger armor - no wonder! Dr. Porsche is going to use a gas turbine! A gas turbine with up to 3,000 horsepower is a tragedy...