Life of a military representative?

  Some people may criticize me, saying that it is unlikely for Germany to produce a submarine similar to the 209 level during World War II. In fact, there is a certain gap between the level of that submarine and the 209, which cannot reach the level of the 209. This is limited by the industrial level of Germany at that time. However, with the help of the protagonist, some designs, equipment, and production processes of the 209 can be transplanted to World War II Germany. After all, the mechanical processing level of World War II Germany was still relatively high. But electronic devices were relatively poor. Moreover, the protagonist had to participate in the Norwegian campaign. Therefore, it is unlikely that they would wait for new equipment research from various companies, and the equipment on the submarine would still use German active-duty equipment as much as possible with possible improvements. This is also the last section of this chapter, and the protagonist will still follow history to participate in the Norwegian campaign. In this battle, he and his German comrades will drive a new-type submarine to attack the British, which can also be said to be using the Germans' hands to take revenge for the Chinese people who have been bullied by the British in modern history.

  Walter and Zhou Tianlei took a walk in the factory area after dinner.

  "Walter asked Zhou Tianlei: "Gao Te, why didn't you install those new devices on the submarine after taking them out? Wouldn't it greatly improve the combat performance of the submarine?"

  Zhou Tianlei smiled and said, "Although these things are better than what we used before in terms of performance, the technology for new equipment has not yet been fully grasped by various companies. For example, GEMA company has only just completed the principle reproduction of the air search radar I gave them, and they haven't even manufactured an engineering prototype yet. Can I afford to spend a lot of time waiting for them to give us more mature products before going into battle again?"

  Zhou Tianlei continued to say, "In industrial products, the advancement of technology and reliability are often contradictory. There are too many things that are advanced in technology but low in reliability. However, when reliability is high, technological advancement is often low. Therefore, our designers need to make a careful trade-off between these two aspects, and of course, there is also the issue of cost. A weapon may be very good, but if its production cost is too high, leading to a significant reduction in production volume, it's not worth it either. Do you think technological advantage can completely replace numerical advantage?"

  "It seems unlikely that a product with only technical advantages but no quantitative support can compete with products that have a quantitative advantage."

  "Our German products, I don't know if it's because our technical advantages are too advanced, often many things fall into a misunderstanding, thinking that as long as one or several items of technology we can greatly surpass our opponents, we can look down on our opponents. This phenomenon I call 'one trick to eat the world'. This may have worked in the cold weapon era, but now warfare has entered mechanization, any product is composed of multiple components. Its performance is the overall performance of multiple components, not just a few parts. Just like a bucket is made up of many wooden boards of different heights, its water capacity is not determined by the highest board inside, but by the lowest one. You see? So I think the performance of a product should be balanced, don't let one aspect be too advanced while others can't keep up, it won't work."

  Zhou Tianlei recalled the products made in the Soviet Union, which were not considered good or advanced when disassembled into parts, but the advantages they brought when combined often left people amazed. For example, the T-34 tank they are about to produce now has a good balance of firepower, defense, and mobility, making it a product that can play a significant role in war. Through its numerical advantage and performance not much lower than the advanced tanks of the German army, it defeated the German armored forces.

  Also, Western countries once studied the MiG-25 that defected to Japan and found that many of its components were made of steel. From a normal person's perspective, this plane's flight performance should not be very good. However, it was actually the former Soviet Union's high-altitude high-speed interceptor and set many flight records at the time. This shows the Russian people's system integration capabilities. If Americans had built this plane, who knows what kind of shape it would have taken?

  Walter muttered to himself: "The water-carrying capacity of a wooden barrel is not determined by the highest plank, but by the lowest one. It makes sense, our young engineers should learn from this sentence well." Gautier, I don't think you're an ordinary submarine commander, do you?

  Walter didn't hear Zhou Tianlei's response either, and when he turned around to look, he saw that Zhou Tianlei seemed to be in a state of deep contemplation, with a string of saliva already emerging from his mouth.

  Walter slapped him with a loud slap: "Gao Te, what are you thinking about? Are you thinking about women? No wonder they say that after your submarine soldiers have been out for a few months and come back, even if they see a cow, they will feel excited."

  Zhou Tianlei was slapped awake by Walter from his daydream, awkwardly smiling and saying "What were we just talking about?" Walter irritably replied "We were talking about how the height of your wooden barrel is determined by its shortest plank."

  "Then what did you want me to leave so much space for on the submarine? Don't you know that space is precious on a submarine?"

  "I'm well aware, I'm the submarine commander after all. But I want to leave those spaces for future technical upgrades and renovations of this submarine. You asked me earlier why I didn't wait for other companies to research advanced equipment and experiment with it on the boat? My boss told me to quickly form a combat-ready fleet armed with new submarines. Can I afford to wait for them just because of that? Moreover, as I said earlier, they haven't fully grasped the new technology yet, even if they manage to manufacture something. The reliability of their products will definitely be low, and they'll make some rookie mistakes too. How can we tolerate them making mistakes at the cost of our seasoned, experienced officers and soldiers? Besides, our current equipment is already sufficient for use, the foundation of this submarine has been laid quite well."

  "Walter suddenly realized: "This is the modular design you and I often talk about?" Zhou Tianlei was crying with laughter, this is still far from modular design."

  But he had no choice but to answer Walter's question: "This is the primary stage of modular design, and we can't implement the advanced stage due to current limitations."

  Walter suddenly asked: "Gao Te, I heard you haven't gotten married yet?"

  Zhou Tianlei asked back: "How did you know?" Walter smiled and said: "It's been circulating outside for a long time, saying that there might be some problem with you?" "What problem?"

  "Hmm... Hmm... It's just that I don't like women?" Zhou Tianlei was about to thoroughly collapse, what kind of logic is this? I only came here and changed Puli's personal history, erasing all his direct relatives from existence. Who knows if the heavens think this way so they won't feel awkward when meeting Puli's biological parents.

  But now how did it become that I am a glass, and indeed the ancient saying is true: three people make a tiger. It seems that I have to find one quickly, otherwise I don't know what shape I will become.

  "Now that the time is almost up, I have to hurry and give a lecture to those who will be staying on this new submarine in the future." He fled in disarray under Walter's mocking gaze.