Soviet Union 1991

Update 2

Even Borisov didn't know why Yanaev ordered him to talk to the designers of these R\u0026D projects in person, and even to arrange a touching and sensational performance in person. Was it just to show that the Soviet government cared about these projects and these designers? He thought it was unnecessary.

He didn't understand what Yanaev was thinking about, and perhaps he would never understand what Yanaev was thinking. Because Borisov had never seen those Soviet scientists who conducted scientific research experiments in the worst environment, and those researchers who took a meager salary but still did not give up the Soviet military weapons R\u0026D projects.

They took huge risks without any rich rewards, but never complained about their work. Because they are the unyielding backbone of this country, carrying the glorious dream of a red empire.

And that bow was to tell these people that from now on, the motherland will not let you down.

Yanaev is not a high-ranking bureaucrat. He knows the important role that people play in a country. Without the support of the entire Soviet people, the entire regime would cease to exist. Even at the most dangerous moment in 1991, the vast majority of people stood up to oppose the division of the country. They are not understood by those who attempt to embezzle state property under the banner of democracy.

Including the tentative improvement plan of the T80U and the modification plan of the T72 developed at the same time, because in the Gulf War, the monkey version of the T72 tank left Western countries with the impression that Soviet tanks could not penetrate the US main battle tanks. In fact, it was largely because the United States adopted depleted uranium armor, so Yanayev allowed the Soviet tank development plan to continue with processing and adding points. They urgently needed to find a way to deal with the M1A1 main battle tank.

Fortunately, in this Grozny War, the cooperation between tanks and attack aircraft prevented the Soviet tanks from suffering too much loss in urban warfare, and did not leave the world with the view that Soviet tanks were fragile. After all, the T80 tank explosion incidents after being hit by RPG were endless.

The then Russian Defense Minister Paul Grachev believed that the defeat in Chechnya should be attributed to the design of the tanks, trying to divert the public's attention from the real reasons for the defeat, such as insufficient training of combat troops and lack of careful action. On February 20, 1995, Lieutenant General A. Gorkin of the Russian Army Armored Forces General Command published the results of the investigation into the destroyed armored vehicles and successfully persuaded the Ministry of Defense not to purchase any gas turbine tanks.

Now Yanaev's condition is that the development of both T80 and T72 should continue. And find a balance between the two, that is, to develop a tank between T80 and T72. And Yanaev proposed that the tank's defensive capabilities are also a top priority. Even if the Soviet Union cannot replicate depleted uranium armor, at least it is necessary to find weapons that can restrain depleted uranium armor.

Similarly, the Akula-class nuclear submarine was the last attack nuclear submarine developed before the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Yanayev also invested a lot of energy in this project. Although the construction of nuclear submarines was slowed down due to economic difficulties, Yanayev said that the Soviet submarine fleet must maintain a certain combat effectiveness. In other words, Yanayev gradually balanced the focus between the army and the navy. Under the influence of Yanayev. The current Soviet army development idea has changed from the steel torrent to push Europe flatly to the army being able to defend the current national defense line.

In other words, this is also the result of the Soviet Union being forced to compress the strategic defense line due to economic reasons. Now the situation of the US-Soviet hegemony has become a temporary lead for the United States, and the Soviet Union and other countries have united to oppose the hegemony of the country. However, this relationship of competition and cooperation makes the world situation somewhat unpredictable.

In April this year, the Kamov Design Bureau announced a new type of armed helicopter. During this period, the design bureau came to a conclusion after the end of the Soviet-Afghan War that future helicopters must automatically perform mechanical actions such as low-altitude flight, target capture, weapon launch, and navigation; without the need for the driver to intervene in these operations, he only needs to spend his energy on the judgment of the mission content.

When announcing the new helicopter, the Soviet Union once considered deceiving NATO countries because the single-seat design was very advanced. So in fact, the first two Ka-50 helicopters developed were specially made with fake two-way glass covers, and intelligence also confirmed that it was effective in the reports of Western countries, and many NATO countries were deceived.

The Soviet Aviation Yearbook pointed out that the US Department of Defense said that this helicopter did not have an anti-tank design. It was mainly used for air-to-air combat. At the same time, the Ka-50 helicopter, like other armed helicopters, has two crew members in a row, and the second one is in a slightly higher seat at the back.

Yanayev was naturally interested in this new type of armed helicopter, if it was an armed helicopter that could complete all the work with one pilot, but the single-seat helicopter technology of the Kamov Design Bureau was not mature enough, so Yanayev gave the Kamov Design Bureau an order to continue to deepen the development of the operating system of the Ka-50 single-seat helicopter to reduce the workload of the pilot.

Now the Ka-50 has entered the full-scale production stage. When the Soviet Union cut military spending, the Ka-50 only reduced the number of units built, and because of the change in the status of the Military Industrial Committee, the Kamov Design Bureau boldly presented its own design, hoping to gain strong support from the Soviet military.

Considering the unstable development prospects of single-seat helicopters and the operational issues of Ka-50, although Yanayev liked this helicopter, he did not rush to agree to this design. Instead, he tactfully told the other party that the Soviet military did not want to adopt it for the time being and hoped that the Kamov Design Bureau could improve it to a more complete armed helicopter. To meet the needs of the Soviet army.

After reading these documents, Yanayev signed his name on them. This was a bold attempt by the Soviet military industry, which meant that those projects that were originally going to be discontinued could continue. Even Yanayev himself did not know what impact these weapons would have on the future timeline.

When Borisov asked Yanayev why he suddenly made the decision to raise the Military Industrial Commission, he replied, "All I can do now is to try my best to support the army in terms of equipment. The Soviet army must have weapons to fight. I don't want our soldiers to fight with barbaric enemies with backward weapons."

"They are the great Red Army soldiers of the Republic, not the gray beasts of Tsarist Russia." (To be continued.)