Steel Soviet Union

The ISU-152 is an out-and-out good thing. It can be used as a direct-fire artillery for direct-aiming bombardment, and it can also be used as a large-caliber support howitzer for indirect fire and bombardment.

What's even more valuable is that this precious thing also has heavy armor protection. The IS2 heavy tank body was modified in advance due to Malashenko's arrival, and the two-stage upper armor design of the body that originally had poor defense was cancelled. It was changed in advance to the front of the monolithic welded armored body of the 1944 IS2 heavy tank.

The protective advantages of the improved car body were also inherited by the ISU152. After slightly adjusting the tilt angle, the original upper armor of the entire car body was greatly stretched upwards and extended to cover the entire front of the fighting room, becoming a piece of extremely heavy defense. Welded armor.

What's more interesting is that the ISU152 produced by this design has a somewhat um, "peculiar" appearance in the words of Comrade Lao Ma.

The appearance is very different from the ISU152 in the original timeline, but it is somewhat similar to the design of the German Panther tank destroyer. Both of them have a whole piece of armor on the front of the car body that extends upwards and covers the entire front of the fighting room. The difference is that the ISU152 carries a larger, thicker but shorter gun barrel, while the Cheetah has a thin and long German gun barrel. The family heirloom is 88 years old.

This design not only enhances the frontal protection effect, but also reduces the total combat weight of the vehicle because the armor material tonnage is reduced compared to the historical ISU152, which is only just over 44 tons. The maneuverability performance has also been improved, and the power-to-weight ratio has been slightly improved.

But even if the ISU152 has an improved power-to-weight ratio, it is still unrealistic to expect this thing to be as fast as the mid-tank maneuverable IS6, just like a second-hand Alto can't catch up with Pagani no matter how much it is modified.

Not only the ISU152, but also the Katyusha rocket launcher carried on a wheeled chassis is now far behind Malashenko and cannot keep up.

However, the Katyusha Battalion was left behind not because of poor mobility, but because the process of reloading after a wave of this thing was simply a nightmare. As the saying goes, "volleying is exciting for a while, but the logistics are scolded." Loading ammunition for Katyusha is a laborious and laborious task, not much better than the hard-working ground crew who loaded ammunition for fighter cannons in later generations.

One was unable to keep up with the maneuver, and the other was delayed by reloading.

All in all, the factual situation faced by Malashenko now is that none of the artillery of the two battalions is of use, and there is no way to provide him with fire support.

Who can blame this?

To be honest, you can't blame anyone. As Comrade Political Commissar said, the main reason is that Malashenko's attack speed is too fast.

As long as we can be a little slower and wait a little while, the ISU152 Battalion will not fall behind and catch up, and the Katyusha Battalion can catch up in time after loading the ammunition. The fact is so real.

"Damn it! And you said you rushed too fast?! That's just holy shit!!!"

Malashenko, who was mourning in his heart, was also made to lose his temper. The artillery is not in place yet, but you can't stop fighting. At best, you can just bravely rush forward and confront the Germans. How can his mother be afraid of you, King Meow? Just do it and it’s done!

"Contact me immediately when the artillery is in place. I'll be online at any time! Over!"

Malashenko, who said the last words to his political commissar, threw away the microphone and ignored it. He turned his attention to the battle and prepared to fight the Germans face to face.

That is to say, in the short time Malashenko was telegraphing to Petrov's political commissar, the German tanks, which had posed in advance, entered combat mode and parked their vehicles, had already opened fire on Kulbalov's troops.

The first person to speak was naturally the one with the longest range and the strongest firepower among the German tanks, that is, the few King Tiger heavy tanks.

It is not unusual for an elite SS armored division such as the Viking Division to obtain the King Tiger. As the private army of the head of state, it is indeed qualified to enjoy such preferential treatment.

It's as long and thin as a fishing rod, but it makes no small noise when firing.

Although the caliber is the same, the artillery shells used by the King Tiger are not the same as those of the Tiger. The propellant barrel of the King Tiger shell is half longer than that of the Tiger, and the amount of propellant is one third more. The result derived from this is that the muzzle velocity is higher, the armor-piercing kinetic energy is stronger, and the power is greater. The 88mm full-caliber capped armor-piercing projectile that breaks through the kilometer per second mark escapes instantly.

From the time the projectile rushed out of the muzzle to hitting the Red Army tank at the front, the entire process took too long to be reflected by the naked eye. At best, one could only see a silver-white tracer trail passing through the air.

The armor-piercing projectiles fired head-on are indeed very powerful, enough to penetrate most of the armored vehicles on earth at the same time.

However, the current target of shooting is the mass-produced IS6 heavy tank that was created by Malashenko, a time traveler. The result is completely different.

The armor-piercing projectile that hit the tilted front of the car was bounced straight away, pointing diagonally towards the sky, leaving only a sharp whistling sound and a bright tracer in the air.

Oh, and there is also the not-too-deep unpenetrated crater on the front of the IS6 body.

Not surprisingly, the German Chang 88 was unable to deal with the thick-skinned IS6 at a distance of nearly 5 kilometers. Even if Zeiss's optical sighting system is very good and fully supports the King Tiger's first hit on a target the size of a heavy tank at a distance of 5 kilometers, hitting and penetrating are really completely different things.

And this is also the fundamental confidence that Malashenko dared to order the troops to rush directly towards the Germans without artillery support.

As long as it doesn't hit the critical weakness, the German's Chang 88 will not be able to penetrate most of the main armor belt on the front of the IS6 even if it is fired close to the face. This is an absolute defense in the true sense!

Not to mention the IS4, which is a monster that even the first-generation short-barrel fin-stabilized discarding sabot armor-piercing projectile in the early Cold War couldn't attack.

The Germans want to eat IS4 with full-caliber ammunition?

It would be more meaningful to think about how to dig potatoes in a Siberian farmhouse in a fun and interesting way.

Even though multiple firings were ineffective, the German tanks that never gave up continued to fire at the oncoming Soviet tanks. Armor-piercing bullets roared out of the muzzle one after another, shooting straight away. The distance was getting closer and closer, and the accuracy was getting higher and higher.

The IS6 heavy tanks, whose armors were being beaten, could not remain invincible forever, and unexpected emergencies soon occurred.