Steel Soviet Union

There is no doubt that the birth of the Soviet Union represented the establishment of the first national power based on communism as a political platform.

The red flags intertwined with hammers and sickles made those European capitalists who sucked the flesh and blood of the workers and peasants feel as if they were sitting on pins and needles, deeply frightened and unable to sleep at night.

The future world belongs to us! We cultivate the fields now and harvest the fruits in the future. We are the future of the world!

The capitalists now control the world, but their rule is about to end! We are the creators of the future, and the chains on our bodies must be smashed!

Rumors and lies surround us, but our spirit will overcome everything! Firm your faith and fight to the end! Dungeons and dragons will be torn apart!

So let the red flag fly and the torch be held high! Light our way forward! We are staunch warriors, fighting for the future!

The firm song of faith spans the long distance between national borders and reveals the awakening of consciousness of the workers and peasants. The hammers and sickles who fight under the red flag and have faith are not acting for selfish desires or forced orders. This is a battle. A battle of faith to defend the fruits of victory and supreme communism.

The same song melody and different lyrics distinguish two common groups on the front line and the rear who are also fighting for their beliefs and defending their achievements.

It doesn’t matter who you are as a Red Army soldier, a worker, or a peasant.

What is important is that when the invaders who try to drag the fruits of communism back to the decadent old world are completely defeated, all people with sacred beliefs can stand proudly on the red homeland where the fruits of communism still exist, regardless of national boundaries, and stand on the iron Under the bright red flag with the hammer and sickle intertwined, the words from the heart were shouted loudly.

"We believe in communism!"

His sincere admiration for the tank factory workers in front of him came from the bottom of his heart. Malashenko, who was walking closely behind Engineer Ivankov, soon followed the former and stopped.

"The situation is no longer what it used to be, Lieutenant Colonel Malashenko. After the original main production lines and valuable equipment were removed, those of us left behind can only continue to produce tanks using the most primitive methods. This is after we have tried our best. maximum output.”

Following Engineer Ivankov's still hoarse introduction, what appeared in front of Malashenko and his loader Kirill was a row of steel behemoths parked neatly in the corner of the factory, waiting to be awakened. .

"Is this a T35!? It's unbelievable! I thought they had all been wiped out by the Germans!"

The expression on Kirill's face, which was about to drop to his feet when he spoke in surprise, was the same as that of Malashenko, a future time traveler. At this moment, Malashenko's expression was also one of shock and unwillingness to give in. The root cause was that he was in front of him. The giant steel beast headed by this car was simply too unexpected.

The long and narrow pull-up body like a bus requires eight pairs of road wheels to completely lift it. A main turret and four secondary turrets are stacked on the body in a pyramid shape like stacked blocks, towering and spectacular.

This multi-turret steel behemoth, which is obviously flashy from the perspective of future tank development ideas, is exactly the T35 multi-turret heavy tank that has almost disappeared from the Red Army tank sequence in 1941.

As a deformed product born under the guidance of the early position breakthrough warfare theory of the Red Army tank force, the T35 heavy tank is equipped with a total of five turrets, three in the front and two in the back, to enhance firepower output.

There are two 62mm DT light machine gun turrets for anti-infantry missions and two 45mm 20-K tank gun turrets for anti-tank missions, one at the front and rear of the vehicle body.

The main turret stacked on top of these four secondary turrets is equipped with a 76mm KT-28 short-barreled tank gun, which mainly performs fire support and anti-fortification tasks, and basically does not have anti-tank capabilities.

The Red Army tank designers hope that this T35 heavy tank will be a "perfect tank" that can handle all combat tasks on the battlefield. The design idea is very beautiful, but the more they expect the perfect design idea, the less they often get the final result they expected. result.

In order to carry a tank body with a total of five turrets, it had to be designed to be very long and widened to ensure that the load-bearing capacity was up to standard. Such a large number of turrets also greatly increased the armor sharing area that needed to be effectively protected on the entire tank.

After this back and forth, the projected area that required relatively heavy armor defense on the entire tank suddenly reached an unprecedented and astonishing level.

Although the T35 heavy tank after finalization and production has a combat weight of up to 52 tons, which far exceeds the total combat weight of the KV1 heavy tank, the armor defense of its key parts is really shocking and disproportionate to the weight.

A total of five combat turrets, including the main turret, only have a pitiful armor coverage of 20-25 mm. Although the front of the vehicle body is protected by sloped armor with the same design idea as the KV1 heavy tank, the physical thickness is not Even if the high armor is arranged at an angle, it is difficult to obtain a high equivalent defense.

The weak points of the upper and lower armor of the vehicle body only have an equivalent armor defense of less than 35 mm. Even the early Type IV tanks and Type III A assault guns of the German army, which currently have poor armor-piercing capabilities, can fight at conventional engagement distances. Penetrate it, let alone the Panzer III tank equipped with Type 40 tungsten core armor-piercing projectiles dedicated to anti-tank missions.

In order to carry the five-turret extended version of the vehicle, it is cumbersome to maneuver and inconvenient to turn. On off-road conditions, the T35 tank even needs to drive to gentle land to slowly complete the turn. It does not have the ability to turn on rough off-road roads. .

If you are not careful, you may even break the tank drive shaft or gearbox gear due to overload. This is even worse than the KV1 heavy tank, which was criticized for its poor maneuverability. It was gloriously praised by the drivers of the Red Army tank soldiers as " The most difficult beast to tame."

The T35 heavy tank can be said to be unparalleled in terms of firepower, protection, and mobility. Like the T28 multi-turret medium tank of the same period, they are both representative works of the Red Army's tank design ideas that went astray during this period. , the pursuit of the perfect tank that was "all-rounder on the battlefield" ended up with the ridiculous end of being "bad at everything".

The "notoriety" of the T35 heavy tank is not only well understood by Malashenko, a future traveler, but even Kirill, a top music student who just graduated from Moscow University, has heard about it.

The bulky and towering shape and the light tank-level armor protection that were completely disproportionate to it were incredible even to the Germans who had captured this vehicle.

"This thing is simply an extended version of the coffin! Whoever drives this thing to the battlefield will be unlucky!"

Malashenko, with a black face, thought so.