"The FlaK E-75." Topic

"The Entwicklung series (from German Entwicklung, "development"), more commonly known as the E-Series, was a late-World War II attempt by Germany to produce a standardised series of tank designs. There were to be standard designs in six different weight classes,(E-5,E-10,E-25,E-50,E-75 and E-100) from which several specialised variants were to be developed. This intended to reverse the trend of extremely complex tank designs that had resulted in poor production rates and mechanical unreliability.

The E-series designs were simpler, cheaper to produce and more efficient than their predecessors; however, their design offered only modest improvements in armour and firepower over the designs they were intended to replace, such as the Jagdpanzer 38(t), Panther Ausf.G or Tiger II; and would have represented the final standardization of German armoured vehicle design. Indeed, nearly all of the E-series vehicles — up through and including the E-75 — were intended to use what were essentially the Tiger II's eighty centimeter diameter, steel-rimmed road wheels for their suspension, meant to overlap each other (as on the later production Tiger I-E and Panther designs that also used them), abandoning the interleaved Schachtellaufwerk roadwheel system that first appeared on German military half-tracks in the early 1930s…."
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Winston Churchill said of aircraft production, "The first year you get a trickle, the second year a stream, and the third year a flood."

The E-series was a great idea for a country that wasn't in the middle of a war where it was being massively out-produced by its enemies.

Simplifying and standarfising production seems like a good idea for a country being outproduced. Building a 75 ton AA tank seems like a stupid idea.

Glup!….

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Armand

"Simplifying and standarfising production seems like a good idea for a country being outproduced."

These are new designs, though, not simplifications of existing designs. Churchill's words apply only too much. On the other hand, Allison's changes to the Merlin to dramatically simplify production involved modifications on existing production lines and methods.

"Simplifying and standarfising production seems like a good idea for a country in a major war."
Fixed that for you.

(smile)

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