Twenty kilometers away, another depth of the desert, a hidden military base is being built.

If you have money, everything is easy to do!

Yellow sand is everywhere, and the whistling wind is blowing. This is a terrifying sandstorm in the desert!

In the reinforced concrete room in the base, Cialique listened to the reports of the engineers present.

The one who presided over the meeting was Alfred.

"The war in the future will inevitably be dominated by tanks, so our design indicators for tanks must be carefully considered," said Alfred.

Experts from various companies were gathered here. They came here secretly and participated in the research and development together according to the call of Krupp. Moreover, they signed a contract. Once they came here, they would not be able to go back within five years.

This will ensure maximum confidentiality.

As a future tank commander, Guderian also attended the meeting.

Tank design indicators! Originally, this was not difficult for them. It had nothing to do with each company, and the military proposed the indicators entirely.

But now, they have nothing to do with the military, so this initial indicator has to be determined by themselves, so they must be cautious.

Once the general direction is wrong, it will be in vain in the past few years.

"Now, our technology in tanks is still blank." An engineer said: "In order to reduce the difficulty of the project, I suggest that we start with the simplest ten-ton light tank. Now, we have news that the British are developing this type of tank."

Now, it is less than 1925! All countries have a blank look at what the future tank will look like. Among them, the British, as the inventors of tanks, have always attracted the attention of other countries.

Now, the UK design team led by John Valentine Carden and VyvianLoyd are designing the prototype of the MK.E.

The body of this car uses riveted armor, and its power source is the British Armstrong-made upright four-cylinder gasoline engine, and the suspension system uses a trolley-style suspension system.

The dual-rail structure has four pairs on the left and right. Each pair of bearing rails is connected to two wheels, and two pairs of wheels on the left and right sides are equipped with a spring structure. This suspension system is considered to be a very good system that can withstand long distances and is a very excellent design in this era.

This kind of tank is the later-definite Wicks tank. Although it was not put into use in large quantities in the UK, it was widely learned by other countries. The Soviet Union created the T-26 tank based on this tank, and Germany also created its own tank No. 1 based on this tank.

The total production of the world exceeds 10,000 vehicles, has fully affected the tank designs around the world!

Now, the design of German tanks also needs to start from imitation, so it is an opportunity to target the tanks being developed by Britain.

"No, this kind of tank is not what our armored forces need, it is too small." Guderian immediately retorted.

Since he arrived here, Guderian has been busy and organized the troops of several thousand people, and first used cardboard for training. He is even more looking forward to the arrival of the tank.

However, Guderian didn't want his tank troops to use this kind of thing!

The ten-ton tank is too small, which means it cannot have thick armor, and a large-caliber anti-tank gun can kill it! At the same time, it cannot carry more powerful artillery!

Apart from being able to be used by scouts, this kind of tank is almost useless!

In later generations, Tank No. 1 participated in the Spanish civil war. Testing the combat effectiveness of this tank was almost the same as Guderian had predicted, and it was of little use!

"Godrian, what about your opinion?" Alfred asked.

"I think we should divide tanks into two basic types, namely the main tanks carrying high-speed guns for anti-armor combat, and the support tanks carrying large-caliber guns to shoot high-explosive ammunition. Our combination ratio during combat is three companies' main battle tanks and one company's support tank."

Guderian was very forward-looking, and his view was not without reason. Later generations, it was under his suggestion that Germany carried out the research and development and equipment of the No. 3 and No. 4 tanks at the same time.

"The two types of tanks have a weight of about 24 tons, which can adapt to the load limit of our highway bridges. The maximum travel speed is 35 kilometers per hour. The two tanks cooperate with each other. The former is equipped with high-speed tank guns, which are mainly used to attack enemy tanks, and the latter is equipped with larger caliber howitzers, which are used for anti-infantry combat."

Of course, Guderian came prepared. The thoughts and researches from these days have formed the current conclusions in Guderian's mind.

"Godrian, you have a good idea, but now, we don't have much technical accumulation, and we may not be able to directly make more than 20 tons of tanks." An expert from Henschel said: "The technical difficulty is too great, and it may force us to finally terminate the project."

Technical difficulty! In Germany today, it can be said that there is no pre-research, and it all starts from scratch. In this case, the best way is to first create a primary model and then gradually develop it.

The twenty-ton plan proposed by Guderian is a bit too advanced.

At this moment, Cialek spoke: "Why do you need to use two types of tanks? Can it be combined into one?"

World War II can be said to be the world of tanks. Various tanks galloped across the battlefield and fought on the battlefield, and the tank soldiers became the greatest troops.

Cialek, who loved World War II research, discovered a strange phenomenon. The German tank No. 3 and No. 4 tanks were slightly similar to the British cruise tanks and infantry tanks.

Why not integrate into a tank? Like later generations, there are not many categories at all! It is the main battle tank!

"Because we cannot make the right guns," said Guderian. "Anti-tank requires the initial velocity of the shells, so the caliber cannot be too large, otherwise the barrel will be too long. Now, we can choose from 37mm anti-tank guns, while anti-infantry needs large caliber howitzers. My idea is to use 75mm caliber short-barrel howitzers. Unless we study monster tanks with multiple turrets, they can only be separated."
Chapter completed!