Steel Soviet Union

Yes, in the existing timeline in Malashenko's memory, the IS4 heavy tank was a project that was officially launched in November 1943. (っ◔◡◔)っ

This extremely powerful and expensive heavy tank is a complete World War II design, not a Cold War tank after the end of World War II, although its powerful performance and various key indicators are indeed more like a Cold War heavy tank.

So when the timeline forwards to 1943, Malashenko’s seemingly feeble action of flapping his wings in 1941 has now turned into a roaring hurricane that is enough to leave a mark on history. This is the butterfly effect. The best and most thorough expression.

Project 701, the IS4 heavy tank, which was put on the schedule more than half a year in advance, will bear fruit in what form? Malashenko is not very sure about this, and it has seriously exceeded the historical prediction within his ability.

Logically speaking, the IS4 heavy tank is too expensive to build. The manpower and material resources invested in building one tank can be used to build two and a half IS2 heavy tanks.

Although this is due to the fact that the IS2 is too expensive, if you put the IS4 on the German side, you may be shouted at as cheap and conscientious.

But in the final analysis, IS4 does not conform to the spirit of the Soviet tank force in World War II. It should be killed, or at least it cannot be mass-produced like IS2.

But in terms of personal emotions, Malashenko admitted that he really hopes that the IS4 heavy tank can be mass-produced, even if it is only a small-scale mass production, just enough to replace one of his own brigade.

As long as he survives and survives Kursk, the most difficult period of the Patriotic War will be over for him.

The last remaining task is to ensure that you can successfully survive until the day when Mustache swallows pills and shoots himself with a gun. Before then, he will not be shot to death in the tank and turned into a coffin barbecue. In short, he will survive until the war. victory.

The more powerful the heavy tank is, the more it will help Malashenko realize this difficult life ideal, and the IS4 heavy tank undoubtedly meets this realistic need.

Compared to the IS7, which had frighteningly high performance indicators at the level of World War II and whose cost has skyrocketed, the IS4 is undoubtedly more valuable and has already launched plans, with a higher possibility of completion and mass production as soon as possible.

It is true that Malashenko is a hero of the Soviet Union, but heroes are also human beings, with hearts, livers, feelings, and personal relationships.

In order to survive until the end of the war to save his life, and to give a perfect result to those who love him in every sense of the word, Malashenko, after weighing it repeatedly in his heart, chose words that were contrary to the truth.

"This is a great plan, Comrade Kotin. I seem to be able to see the glorious future of our Red Army Guards Heavy Tank Force from it. All the Nazi iron coffins will bow down under this body of steel and turn into a pile of The burning steel coffin, and this fire will guide us to the final victory in Berlin."

Malashenko, who held a design sketch in each hand, had a rare literary moment and expressed his true inner emotions. Unexpectedly, this aroused the nerves of the somewhat less confident Kogin.

"Is it true? Comrade Malashenko, do you think our current design is very good?"

Ke Jing's concept of IS4 is still at the drawing stage. It is understandable that he is not confident. Even the project chief engineer himself was not very sure before the actual prototype was built, whether it was World War II or the 21st century. in this way.

But Malashenko is different. Malashenko, who has future memories in his head, clearly knows the power of the IS4 heavy tank.

As long as this is a powerful treasure that can be mass-produced, it will definitely have an absolute physical conquest effect on German soldiers. There is no second possibility.

Now that Kejin has started the project in advance, I will try my best to help him later. At worst, I can ask Comrade Zhu to tell me about it, so as to add another vigorous and powerful heavy tank legend to the glorious history of the Patriotic War. Isn’t that a bad idea?

What's more, the Germans, who have begun to be distorted and accelerated by the double-edged sword of the butterfly effect, may not know what kind of monsters will be thrown into the battlefield in advance, and it cannot be ruled out that there are magically modified monsters that should not exist in the existing history. Frontline possible.

With IS4, who has such a high probability of realization, as his backer, he also has the confidence to be prepared.

Even if something is readily available and not used, it is better than trying to use it but finding it is not available, just like condoms in the 21st century.

Malashenko, who had already made up his mind with a firm idea, nodded calmly, put the two design drawings in his hands back on the table, sorted them out, and then gave his final answer to Kogin, who looked expectant. .

"From now on, you can add Malashenko's name to the list of staunch supporters of Project 701, Comrade Kotin, and I personally hope that this project can be completed as soon as possible."

"Of course, if you want to say that when you go to Moscow for a meeting, that's okay. I'm happy for that to happen."

Compared with the last time they shook hands in Moscow, the handshake between Malashenko and Kotin this time has a stronger sense of cooperation.

Kogin hopes to use Malashenko's reputation and authoritative professional speech on actual combat experience to help his subsequent series of heavy tank plans develop in the right direction. And he was able to obtain smoother and faster approval in Moscow, and finally put it into large-scale mass production of armed Red Army heavy tank units, realizing the dual significance of his career and life.

Malashenko hopes that the heavy tank designed by Kotin will be as powerful as possible. If nothing else, it can arm the 1st Guards Heavy Tank Brigade to the teeth, pin the Germans to the ground and continue to blast the hammer. Friction, always keep the tank quality advantage on your side, and the result is undoubtedly the best.

This not only allows the Red Army to make smaller sacrifices and achieve greater victory on the road to victory in the Patriotic War, but also allows the probability coefficient of surviving until the end of the war to increase exponentially. It is a typical double good thing.

The trip to Chelyabinsk was short and busy. Both Kotin and Malashenko achieved the results they wanted. The sumptuous dinner that day was even more delicious than the unfinished meal at noon.

After sleeping in the place where Comrade Kotin specially arranged for the roar of the production lines at the tank factory, and with the distant sounds of machines and workers working overtime still echoing in his ears, Malashenko still had one thing hanging in his mind.

This trip to Chelyabinsk can be said to be fruitful.

Not only did he personally confirm the subsequent development, upgrade and improvement work of the IS1 heavy tank, he also made some correct improvement and design suggestions for the project to Kogin, and he almost saw the birth of the IS2 heavy tank.

At the same time, we also witnessed the IS6 and IS4, two more powerful heavy tanks that came out ahead of schedule due to a combination of circumstances and chance. Although one of these two buddies is a wooden model stuck with glue, and the other is not even a model at all but a pile of drawings, it is indeed on the agenda.

At the beginning of 1943, this progress is obviously fast enough.

For the remaining half of the day, he and Kogin almost sat in the office and communicated until late at night. Malashenko was convinced that everything he had done had gone all out for these two powerful heavy tanks.

The rest is just to "do your best and obey fate".

But only about the IS3 heavy tank, project code-named Project 703, Malashenko heard no news at all during this trip.

Out of sensitivity to his status as a time traveler, Malashenko did not ask Kogin too much for information in this regard. After all, if he told too many lies, even he would not know how to reconcile them.

Reminiscent of the fact that the IS3 heavy tank in history was only launched in the summer of 1944. To be honest, it was more than half a year later than the IS4 heavy tank code-named Project 701. It does not seem difficult to assume that it had not appeared in early 1943. Understand, it seems that the power of my wings is not powerful enough to break through for a whole year.

Malashenko turned over on the bed and continued to think. His mind kept recalling the details of the day, and slowly he began to feel that the absence of IS3 was not a big deal.

The protection design of the IS6 heavy tank is no worse than that of the IS3, and it does not have the deadly turret bomb area of ​​the IS3. What's more, like the IS3, the welding seam on the front of the arrow cluster type car body is too difficult to weld and the process is not in place, resulting in impact cracking. The armor on the front of the entire car body is directly arranged at a large angle and tilted in one step. Mao's Style, simplicity and durability.

In terms of maneuverability, the IS6's power-to-weight ratio on paper is far better than the IS3, which is not as fast as the IS4. The large-diameter road wheel structure gives the IS6 extremely strong off-road performance. As long as the dual-motor electric transmission system that takes up a lot of space is replaced by a mechanical transmission, everything will be fine.

In terms of firepower, everyone has the ancestral 122 cannon. Small modifications do not make much difference. Armor-piercing firepower and counter-fortification levels are at the same level.

With the IS6 just around the corner, Malashenko, who is eager to pursue the IS3, can't help but close his eyes as he thinks about it.

The fatigue of a busy day after taking the train and running around gradually swept over my body. The thunderous snoring, which could drown out the noise from the tank factory in the distance, soon began to slowly sound in the room.