Chapter 349: Introducing the E-25 Part I
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.