Re: Blood and Iron-Chapter 350: Introducing the E-25 Part II

After ensuring his blueprints arrived where he desired them to, Bruno spent the rest of the day with his family, but when he was up bright and early on the morrow, he was quick to get back to work. After all, the e-25 Chassis could be used to create multiple platforms that would replace the E-10s he already had in existence within the coming years.

The German 8th Army was currently serving as an example of future warfare, and while many nations would try to copy its exact layout over the course of the next few years, Bruno was already planning on how to vastly improve its performance. Read the latest on novelbuddy

Starting with the introduction of the E-25 Chassis, and the variations it could make use of. The e-10 Self Propelled Aircraft Guns he currently had in service were very primitive. They were essentially a tank chassis with a slightly modified flak gun bolted onto its top.

And while these had proven quite effective at counter allied air power thus far. They had a major flaw. And that was the exposure of the men utilizing the guns who sat on top of the tank chassis without any protection other than the basic gun shield on the flak gun.

Mounting a proper armored turret onto an E-10 Chassis would have required more time than Bruno had when designing his current SPAAG variants, and would be stressing the limits of the platform by adding unnecessary weight.

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But the E-25, which was more or less an improved version of the Panzer V "Panther" Chassis was more than suited to handle such a load. And because of this, Bruno designed two distinctive variants to serve as his mobile anti-aircraft platforms.

The first design made use of a Zwillingsflak 30mm MK 103 twin anti-aircraft gun in an oscilating turret based upon the infamous Kugelblitz design, which saw limited service during the end of the second world war of Bruno’s past life.

While the second design made use of 2x 37mm Flak 341 mounted in a Coelian style turret. With the enemy aircraft Bruno and the German army would face in the coming years, these two designs should be sufficient to deal with any threats posed to a German combined armed force.

In addition to this, Bruno began developing designs for self-propelled anti-tank guns and self-propelled artillery. The first of which was what he called the Jagdpanzer. It was more or less a Jagdpanther from his previous life’s timeline, but both improved and simplified in design.

After finishing his SPAAGs and Jagdpanzers, Bruno drew up a basic concept for a self-propelled artillery making use of the 15cm sfh 18 field gun. The design was similar to the infamous "Hummel" system used by Germany during the second world war of Bruno’s past life, but made use of the e-25 Chassis, and an enclosed turret.

The last piece of technology that Bruno would currently be introducing based upon the E-25 Chassis was the Schützenpanzerwagen E-25 Kätze. This was an infantry fighting vehicle which made use of the E-25 to carry a squad into battle.

At the same time, it had a 20 mm HS 820 auto-cannon and turret inspired by the one used on the German cold war era Schützenpanzer Lang HS.30 from Bruno’s past life. It was his intent to make his Battalion Tactical Groups have 2x Mechanized Companies making use of these IFVs, 1x Tank Company with the E-25/Panzer II.

And Finally 1x Motorized Company inside his last major design for the day. This design was essentially an armored personnel carrier based on a fusion of the WW2 German SdkfZ 251 and postwar Spz 12-3 "HS.30".

This APC made use of the same overall design of the German SdkfZ 251 enclosed halftracks that were currently employed in service within the 8th Army, but removed the rear tracks and replaced them with an addition 4x4 wheeled setup. Making the vehicle a 6x6 wheeled APC in total.

In addition to this the main weapon mounted on this new and improved wheeled APC was the same 20 mm HS 820 auto-cannon turret being mounted on the previously mentioned Schützenpanzerwagen E-25 Kätze thus simplifying the means of producing these two distinctive armored vehicles, as well as the logistic supply network to support them.

Any other additional variations of these weapons could be modified in the future. Whether that be the introduction of armored ambulances, command vehicles, engineering vehicles et cetera.

Currently speaking creating these variations was not the priority for Bruno and his corporation’s employees were already knowledgeable and experienced in this regard to handle such matters without his direct intervention.

As a result, Bruno took one last glance over the basic designs he had spent the last few weeks of his spare time engaging in. Before making any edits that he could immediately spot.

After doing all of this, he sent these designs over to his engineering team to begin the process of refinement, perfection, prototyping, testing, etc. that was a process of arms development that would take months if not years worth of time.

Sure, Bruno could give these talented men an overall idea of how the next generations should be made, but when it came down to the fine details of how to actually make them, that was their job, and not his. Thus, it would still be another few years before any of these new and advanced weapons entered service.

But now that these men had experience designing tanks, and their variations, a concept which previously didn’t exist, it would be much quicker for them to perfect what Bruno had given them, and make a functional product.

It was not going to be a five to ten year long project like it had been in his past. Especially since the E-25 chassis that most of his new weapons were based upon was simply a scaled-up version of the E-10 already being mass produced into service.

However, although the armored vehicles of the German Army’s next generation were now officially in the process of development, Bruno would need to do the same for the German Air Force and its Navy. Something he had the time to engage in now that he still had a month left before the final campaign of the Great War was to be waged.

But while Bruno was developing these basic weapons outlines for his engineers, the other powers were making their moves as well. For example, the King of England and the German Kaiser were now meeting to discuss the future of their two nations, and a potential end to the ongoing war between them.