In addition to political and economic reasons, the future war demand also makes the crown prince prepare as much as possible! You should know that in this era, automobiles, especially heavy trucks, are still a very high-end industrial product! The automobiles in this era are far from the level that many people need to reduce production capacity in the 21st century later!

For example, in history, Germany only produced 62,400 trucks and 7,500 semi-track trucks in 1941. In 1942, it was only 78,200 trucks and 10,700 semi-track trucks! In 1943, Germany's truck production reached its peak! The total number reached 109,085! By 1944, Germany's truck production was 88,088. Although it had a decline, it was much more than the Soviet Union. The latter's output during the same period was 53,467!

However......these trucks are far from enough! The reason is very simple. There is a BT on the Allied forces called the United States! Historically, during World War II, the Soviet Union produced a total of 343,000 cars, and the United States gave 343,624 cars to the Soviet Union! (The Allied forces gave a total of 401,000 cars.) Among them, the truck production is as high as 313,184, the number of cars is as high as 20,968, and the rest is buses! And if the truck performance is to be considered, the Gas series with a horsepower of only 40 to 50 horsepower is naturally not comparable to American trucks.

Let’s not talk about the authentic American trucks, the horsepower of the Gas series is even lower than that of the Willy MB Jeep! The latter has 65 horsepower! This car looks like a Jeep, and is also positioned as a 0.25-ton light vehicle, but it is very useful! It can usually be used to tow a 75MM light howitzer.

As for the Soviet Gas car compared with genuine American trucks, the gap is even bigger! For example, General Motors' CCK 2.5-ton truck uses a 105-horsepower engine. Although the power of Stubeck's US6 2.5-ton truck is a little lower, it also has 87 horsepower. To be honest, the so-called Gas series trucks in the Soviet Union can only be used as a Jeep level in terms of power systems!

If the Opel Lightning Truck, which is the largest production of the Germans in the second battle, is the United Kingdom in the United States' 2.5-ton truck series. Historically, the output of German Opel trucks during wartime was about 82,000. But what about the Americans? The output of CCK 2.5-ton trucks mentioned by General Motors alone is as high as 562,750! It is about 7 times the output of Opel trucks! Even the production of Stubeck US6 vehicles with relatively small output is 197,000, which is more than twice that of Opel trucks! The German front-line army is much larger than that of the U.S. Army!

Therefore, from these data alone, one result can be analyzed, that is, in history, Germany's automobile production was far from enough to demand! A very important problem for the German Army on the Eastern Front in World War II was poor logistics supply. On the one hand, it was because the road conditions in Russia were very bad, and on the other hand, it was because the number of motor vehicles in Germany was still insufficient. Usually, it was normal for a division-level unit to have more than twice the number of carriages than trucks!

Well, if war starts again in the future, how many vehicles will the German Army need? This question is actually hard to say, because there are too many aspects involved. It is difficult to predict. But if we look at tactical organization, we can also analyze it.

Did the Germans not pay attention to logistics in history? Obviously not! The Germans actually designed the armored forces well. In order to ensure the mobility and supply of the troops, they equipped a large number of vehicles in the organization table. If we take the monthly plan as an example, an armored division has 13,000 troops. In order to maintain the normal operation of this division, the German military needs to equip this division with 601 small cars (trucks, 529 motorcycles and 201 non-armored semi-track vehicles!

By looking at the time, you can understand that when this organization is formulated, it is already time for Germany to set sunset, so all troops will face the problem of shrinking. In fact, the 13,000-man monthly armored division is not the ideal version in the minds of the Germans. They are much weaker than the 215 German armored division, and the number of tanks has dropped from 215 to 160. The number of self-propelled anti-tank guns and assault guns has also dropped from 45 to 21. In addition, the infantry battalion has also lost some towed anti-tank guns. In other words, the previous logistics vehicles are still the product of compression. So, how many vehicles does the German armored infantry division need for a month of 17,000?

The Germans wrote this in the compilation table, such a division requires 771 small cars, 1,946 trucks, 226 non-armored semi-tracks, and 662 motorcycles! It can be seen how large the number of motor vehicles a real armored division needed in the second battle was. To give an example of an image, in history, Opel cars had a production of just over 80,000, and without considering replacement and damage, they could only support 20 armored divisions. Millions of other German troops would never use an Opel Lightning Truck!

It is precisely because of the huge gap between history and reality that the so-called annual organization in Germany has never been realized in the later period! So, in the end, the Germans could only think about the gorgeous organization and watch the magnificent organization and the lightning feeling of the armored troops. However, in fact, the vehicle organization that was already quite good in the eyes of the Germans was just average in the eyes of the United States and Britain. Also as a division-level unit, the vehicles that were equipped with the United States and Britain were more and better than Germany!

The highest level of mechanization of the army in the entire 2nd World War was the US and British army. The strong industrial strength of the Americans and the smaller British army allowed them to equip enough vehicles for the army. So, let's take a look at the motor vehicles that Britain assigned to the troops in the late stage of the war. (As for why we didn't look for the United States, the reason is very simple. The author only has detailed information on the configuration of the British army's vehicles......)

Taking the British Armored Division after Normandy as an example, an armored division had about 15,000 personnel. It was equipped with 853 motorcycles, 390 various light vehicles and jeeps. The number of general personnel carriers and semi-track vehicles was 216, and the number of ambulances was 36.

Then the remaining hard goods came, and the vehicles below were actual transport vehicles, including Intan Trucks, 1309 3-ton trucks, 130 various tractors and 219 various tow trucks!

The British armored troops had a large number of vehicles, but in fact, the vehicles of the infantry division were not inferior to those of the armored division at all! A later British infantry division had a staffing of 18,000 people. In a division, there were 983 motorcycles, 495 light vehicles and jeeps, 595 general personnel carriers and semi-track trucks, 52 ambulances, 881 15-inch trucks, and 1,056 3-ton trucks. 205 various tractors and 262 trailers!

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