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"So that!" Qin Chuan said to Conrad: "In the battle against the Soviet army, the 48th Panzer Army and the 2nd SS Panzer Army were obviously equipped with the 2nd SS Panzer Army, and there were more tanks. Why did the 48th Panzer Army progress smoothly while the 2nd SS Panzer Army was deeply trapped in the quagmire?"

"That's because the 48th Armored Army is equipped with ME63!" Conrad replied.

"This is the problem, Colonel!" Qin Chuan replied: "Compared with the 'Tiger', T34 is a cheap, batch-equipped equipment and can be quickly deployed. ME63 is a cheaper equipment for the T34, and at the same time it is also a large-scale production and quickly deployed equipment in a short period of time, so we can win the Kovo Plain and Prokorovka!"

"Lieutenant Colonel!" Conrad replied with a smile: "You seem to have completely ignored your role. As far as I know... If it weren't for your use of the Soviet anti-tank trench, the 48th Armored Army would not have won the victory!"

Qin Chuan was speechless for a moment. He didn't expect Conrad would use this as an argument, and what he said seemed to make sense.

"Colin!" Qin Chuan said: "Did you not see that more than half of the 'Tiger' failing during the battle and unable to fight?"

"But that's just because of the problem that the 'Tiger' has just been produced!" Conrad said: "It won't take long to solve these problems!"

"This cannot be solved!" Qin Chuan said: "Because these failures are caused by the excessive weight of the 'Tiger' itself, unless you reduce its weight!"

After pausing, Qin Chuan continued: "Also, because of the weight of the 'Tiger', many bridges and roads cannot bear its weight, which makes it have a lot of trouble in marching and combat!"

"We will solve these problems!" Conrad said.

"No, you can't solve it!" Qin Chuan expressed objection.

In fact, Qin Chuan knew very well that a series of problems such as the high failure rate and maintenance difficulties of the "Tiger" were not solved until the end of the war.

In the end, Colonel Conrad seemed to have no choice. He spread his hands and said, "Lieutenant Colonel, I don't know why you are biased against the 'Tiger Style', but it is indeed a tank that is loved by soldiers on the battlefield. Many people are proud to be able to drive it!"

Qin Chuan has to admit this, mainly because it has super strong defense and firepower. Many armored heroes have created one miracle after another on the battlefield in the "tiger style". For example, when they met Konisper in Malivo Village, and Weitmann and Karyus, they have created amazing results in hundreds of enemy tanks in the tiger style.

"I'm not biased against the 'Tiger', Colonel!" Qin Chuan said: "I mean, we can no longer waste time developing thicker and heavier tanks. It's a waste of time, and also a waste of resources and productivity!"

"Why?" Conrad spread his hands.

"As you said before, we can easily penetrate the heavy armor of the tank with one ME63, even 200 mm or even thicker!"

"But this problem has been solved, right?" Conrad asked back.

Qin Chuan was choked. In today's discussion, Conrad translated the sentence "to attack his shield with his spear" vividly.

"Lieutenant Colonel!" Conrad said: "So, if you think we shouldn't waste time on Tiger or heavier tanks, which tank do you think we should use?"

Qin Chuan replied without thinking: "The leopard style, its front armor is also 100MM and the 'Tiger style', but the side armor and rear armor are much thinner than the 'Tiger style', which makes its weight 12 tons lighter than the 'Tiger style', so the failure rate, mobility, and cost are much better than the 'Tiger style' in all aspects!"

The "Leopard" is the "No. 5" tank, one of the most successful medium-sized tanks in World War II. During the entire World War II period, the German army produced more than 6,000 vehicles, and together with the "No. 4" tank, it was the main tank of the German army on the battlefield.

"Lieutenant Colonel!" Conrad couldn't help laughing: "But the two use different artillery. The 'Tiger' can destroy the 'Leopard' from a distance, but the other way around it cannot. If two tanks meet... who do you think will win?"

It is obviously unfair to Conrad ask this.

However, this problem gave Qin Chuan an inspiration...

"Colin!" Qin Chuan said: "When we talked about ME63 just now, you said that the problem has been solved, so we don't have to worry about the rocket problem, so we can safely develop thicker armored tanks!"

"So that's it!" Conrad nodded.

"But..." Qin Chuan said: "What if there is another type of equipment that can easily penetrate hundreds of millimeters of armor?"

Conrad looked at Qin Chuan with an incredible expression and said hesitantly: "I don't think there will be such equipment, Lieutenant Colonel!"

"Of course there is such equipment, Colonel!" Qin Chuan said: "We can change the "Leopard" tank to another cannon!"

"Change another cannon?"

"Yes, replace it with a smoothbore gun!"

Conrad was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "Lieutenant Colonel, I don't think you understand, the range of smoothbore guns is far inferior to that of rifled guns..."

"Of course I know, colonel!" Qin Chuan said.

"Do you know and think we should switch back to smoothbore guns?" Conrad was a little confused.

There is a process for the changes in tank guns... Initially, due to technical and turret space issues, short-barrel mortars were generally installed.

Although smoothbore guns have the advantages of long life, they are unstable when fired without rifled shells and may roll in the air, so their range is far inferior to rifled guns... The rifle of rifled guns can rotate at high speed when they are fired, so they can fly stably in the air to increase the range and hit rate.

So when technical conditions permitted, all countries installed rifled guns. But after World War II... most countries once again replaced rifled guns with smoothbore guns.

The reason is that rifled guns have unsolvable disadvantages: such as short life, complex process, high cost and small initial speed.

However, the disadvantages of unstable shells of smoothbore can be solved well... If the gun cannot be changed, the shells will be changed so that they can remain stable in the air even if they are fired with smoothbore cannons.

So there is a "tail stable shell-out armor-piercing projectile"... It has to be said that human wisdom is infinite. Its appearance has enabled the tank gun to avoid all the shortcomings of rifled guns, and at the same time it has the advantages of long range and high hit rate of rifled guns. It can be said that it is the strength of two guns.
Chapter completed!