Re: Blood and Iron

The war was rapidly coming to an end. Bruno knew the chaos that would follow in the interwar period. While in his past life the end of the Great Wars was truly the end of western civilization as the world knew it.

In this life, it was very possible that it would be the first nail in the coffin for post- enlightenment political philosophies. Liberalism, Marxism, and the nascent fascism which had yet to rear its ugly head. The world would be forced to realize that the hierarchal structures that came so naturally to mankind were not so easily replaced after all.

In Bruno's past life, he believed the total collapse of western civilization, which from his perspective as very near prior to his death, would herald in a new dark age, and that would ultimately restructure society back to a more natural state, even if millions would burn in the chaos that followed.

But in this life, the failed systems that had brought the world to the precipice in his past life had yet to truly blossom into the dominant ideology that ruled the world. Monarch would win as a result of his actions, and this would cause those more liberal societies like France to break apart and ignite in civil strife.

Sure, the Balkans would also become a shit show of the highest magnitude, but that was a common reality for the region. And while political agreements with the Kaiser to secure the future of the German Reich and its status as the global hegemon had been brokered, the forced multipliers that were necessary to achieve this end in practice had yet to do so.

Bruno had, like it or not, spark an arms race between Germany and the rest of the world. Airplanes, tanks, armored vehicles, automatic weapons, submarines, etc. These were all relatively new designs, which Bruno had brought into life far earlier than they should have otherwise been.

And if Germany was going to secure its place as the world's foremost military power, they could not rest on their laurels while the rest of the world clawed their way to their newly forged throne. No advancements needed to be made.

Anyone who refused to do so was bound to stagnate and eventually be overcome by their rivals, no matter how superior they may be in the present. This was the reality of life, and Bruno had no plans to make such a mistake.

Having been granted some free time as the German Army prepared itself for the final push into Paris in a major autumn offensive. Bruno decided to begin drafting basic designs for the next generation of weaponry. Which he would spend the next few weeks, if not months, of his spare time doing.

He had introduced a rather primitive variation of combined arms warfare to the world. And because his enemies on the global stage would no doubt try their best to copy his homework, so to speak, Bruno simply had to up his game.

In this life, he had introduced the E-10 as the platform for all of his armored vehicles in the great war, save for the Sdkfz 251 series of half tracks. The reason for this was due to its ease of production, modification, and scalability.

In addition to the fact that it consumed far less rare earth metals, which Germany was naturally lacking within its borders. In his past life, the Entwicklung series of armored vehicles came in several models based upon tonnage.

More or less, they were all the same basic design aside from some minor adjustments like wheel placement, and number of. The E-10 which his Panzer-I was based upon was the smallest of these designs. Weighing between 10 to 25 tonnes depending on the overall design. This was a light tank model and was superior to anything else that could have fulfilled the role up into 1945 and maybe even just beyond. While Bruno intended to continue production of his variation of the Panzer I for years to come, he intended to lower the volume, as they were only really needed as scout and reconnaissance vehicles going forward.

Or in some cases, they could be used as a foreign aid during the coming years. The initial replacement of the E-10/Panzer I would be the E-25. Starting with what Bruno would label as the Panzer II. He planned to over the coming years have his engineers perfect his basic sketch. The Panzer II made use of the same Rolled Homogenous Armor and sloped design. But was just scaled up to a length of 5.66m and a width of 3.41m. In addition to this, it would be granted an improved engine in order to properly balance the power to weight ratio of the larger and heavier tank.

The primary gun would be an 8.8 cm KwK 43. This was the powerful gun utilized on the infamous Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf. B Tiger II, better known by the moniker of "King Tiger." In Bruno's past life, the King Tiger was one of the most impressive feats of armor fielded during the Second World War on any considerable scale.

However, while the main gun was capable of destroying any other piece of armor in the war with ease, it suffered later on from reliability issues as a result of its complicated production, and the deteriorating state of the German industry.

This gun, however, was mounted to a superior E-25 Chassis, via a rounded turret based upon early prototype designs for the Leopard 1 MBT, which came in the years after the Second World War had ended.

The tank would make use of the Armor-piercing composite rigid (APCR) Pzgr 43 shells for its primary gun, and would have a coaxially mounted 7.92x57mm MG-34 machine gun for dealing with infantry. РἈ𐌽ọΒ̧

Naturally, Bruno did not intend to reveal the existence of the Panzer II to the world for many years to come. As to do so would only further give his enemies ideas on how to compete with him.

His hopes were to continue sending Panzer Is in foreign aid to allied states, and in foreign conflicts over the course of the next few decades, while his rivals continued their attempts to improve upon their designs that were already greater than anything fielded during the Great War during his past life.

At the very least Bruno wanted the thousands of Panzer IIs he would produced throughout the latter half of the 1910s, as well as the 1920s to see service at the onset of whatever future war was to come and still be able to perform at least on a level playing field with the enemy.

No doubt, Bruno had plans for the creation of a Panzer III model that was even greater, but these would not be introduced until further developments necessitated their invention. As even currently, the introduction of the E-25/Panzer II would no doubt be stressing the current limitations of German engineering and production of the era.

And while the Panzer II was the first of many improvements to armored warfare to come, Bruno had two other armored vehicles in mind to replace his current half-tracks on the front lines of war within the next few years.

But first he would have to send these designs back to his companies so that they could properly process and improve upon them. Which he was quick to do before ending his work

Then and there for the day.

After all, while the wars of the future were a concern to be sure, they were still relatively distant, and while he was still at home for the limited time he had, Bruno intended to spend the majority of it with his beloved family.

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