Steel Soviet Union

What Lavrinenko said at this moment was actually unknown to Malashenko, who was the supreme commander of the army. It was just that the current tense situation, which had been kicked to the doorstep by the Germans, could no longer be controlled by Malashenko. Leading the troops to train to the extent of forming actual combat effectiveness, the task of defending Moscow is like a sword of Damocles hanging over Malashenko's head and may be struck down at any time.

"We don't have so much time, Lavry. Those German fascists are now rushing toward Moscow like hungry wolves on the Siberian plains. They will never give up until they take Moscow this winter, at least. It will be like this before their heads are broken and their attack energy is exhausted."

"These eight prototype tanks are not only used for us to repel those German fascists to defend Moscow, but more importantly, they are used to test the actual combat conditions of these different turrets in the following battles. Summary After completing the report, it will be sent back to the Second Tank Design Bureau in Chelyabinsk.”

"Comrade Kogin, the director of the Second Tank Design Bureau, who is leading our Red Army's future heavy tank plan, wrote to me specifically to tell me that even if these prototype tanks were lost in battle, they should try to save the wreckage and transport it back to the rear for inspection and evaluation. It is no exaggeration. "This is about the future of our Red Army tank force, you know what I mean, Lavery."

After hearing the words from Malashenko's mouth, he turned back and looked at the eight steel behemoths in front of him. Lavrinenko, who still hesitated in his heart but knew that he could no longer make any changes, sighed. Take a breath.

"How do you plan to arrange these eight prototype tanks? Will they be allocated to the battalion-level units below or will they be used together?"

Facing Lavrinenko's question, Malashenko, who had already made plans and plans, naturally replied immediately without thinking.

"The new prototype tanks that are scattered do not have any cohesion. We have no way of knowing what kind of combat effectiveness these prototype vehicles, which are related to the development of the next generation of heavy tanks of our Red Army, will explode when they are brought together."

"My plan is to gather all these eight tanks at the regiment headquarters and form a tank company directly under the regiment headquarters. I will directly lead and command the operations during the battle. And you will also be assigned one of them, Lavry, just As before, you still follow me directly under the regiment as my deputy. Without your cooperation, I always feel like something is missing. "

Lavrinenko couldn't help but raise his lips after hearing these playful words from Malashenko's mouth. The tacit cooperation since Yelnya's battle has reached this point and there is no need to say anything more.

"So can you tell me which one you like? Each of these prototype turrets is slightly different. I hope I can find one that I am satisfied with among the remaining cars you selected."

Malashenko, who knew that Lavrinenko was joking with him, did not take these joking words to heart. After taking two steps forward, he raised his right hand and pointed at the car directly in front of him. distance to the nearest tank.

"I already picked one of them before you came. Now I'll point it out to you so that you don't take my car away. As for the remaining seven, you can pick any one you want, and then take the last six. I will leave you with the original team that I brought from Leningrad, so that when we go to the front line, the tacit understanding will naturally be much better."

Looking at the prototype heavy tank pointed by Malashenko in front of him, the hunched and round turret like a turtle changed the overall layout of the previous KV1 heavy tank turret placed on the chassis, and became more Similar to the T34 medium tank, the front turret layout is placed on the body chassis.

The size of this new turret is so huge that it is almost twice the size of the original KV1 heavy tank turret in terms of appearance alone. Although it is not as tall and exaggerated as the "large toilet head" of the KV2 heavy tank, this 85mm main gun, which should originally belong to the mighty and majestic ranks, is quite a toothpick when placed on this huge turret. The smell of gunfire was faintly revealed.

"I don't understand, Malashenko, why does the turret of the prototype you selected look so weird? It should be described like this. I'm not sure if this is the most appropriate way to describe it. It looks like Putting a 76mm tank gun on the KV2 turret is just as funny and awkward.”

After hearing the words from Lavrinenko's mouth next to him, Malashenko's face immediately revealed a mysterious smile that was difficult to detect. As a future time traveler, Malashenko knew very well that the eight turrets in front of him had very different shapes. Among the 85mm D-5T main gun prototypes, only the one chosen by me is the true "loving father".

Based on the existing historical track that was not changed by Malashenko himself, the new Soviet heavy tank prototype equipped with an 85mm main gun was not put into the front-line battlefield for the first time until September 1943, equipping the elite of the Red Army. The heavy tank breakthrough regiment arrived and joined the battle to liberate the left bank theater of Ukraine.

This type of heavy tank is equipped with an 85mm D-5T main gun and a new prototype turret but uses a KV1 chassis. It is essentially an excessive product of the IS1 heavy tank development plan that was urgently launched after the impact of the German Tiger tank. It is a future After changing the original history, Comrade Kogin was delayed in the development of the IS1 heavy tank chassis and was eager to verify the actual combat performance of the new prototype turret as a test heavy tank.

Its total output is only a little over a hundred vehicles, which is like a drop in the ocean among the Red Army tank units that are often measured in the tens of thousands.

But in the timeline that was changed by the wings of Malashenko, the "little butterfly", Comrade Kogin, who urgently started the research and development plan for a new heavy tank nearly two years in advance, was obviously still a little confused.

The adversity actual combat encounter based on the impact of the German Tiger heavy tanks simply does not exist at the moment. Comrade Kotin, who crossed the river blindfolded, is the unique number one genius in the design of Soviet heavy tanks, but he still did it under such circumstances. A total of eight prototype tanks with different turrets were built in the "confused road ahead" in order to select the best turret design through actual combat testing and feedback from frontline troops.

It didn't take long for Malashenko, who took over these eight 85-gun prototype vehicles, to figure out the "difficulty in selection" and "design bottleneck" Comrade Kotin was currently facing because the timeline was too advanced.

Among these eight prototype tanks, I was very surprised and pleasantly surprised to find the "true body of the loving father" who later ran through the turret design of Stalin's first and second heavy tanks. Malashenko, who was already aware of the difficulties that Kotin was currently facing, He immediately decided to continue fanning his little wings to help Comrade Kogin. Only a summary report submitted after actual combat can be used to finalize the turret plan for the real Stalin tank that will be released soon.