Having received (coped with) the Romanian delegates, Stalin left Manturov, Beria and Molotov behind. After www.biquge.info waiting for Malenkov and Voroshilov to come in, a meeting of the National Defense Committee was immediately held.

The USSR State Defense Committee was the highest decision-making body of the USSR Armed Forces and the defense system, and was an ad hoc supreme state body with full powers during the Great Patriotic War.

Solely? Did you hear that right? That's right, carte blanche to be! This committee, consisting of six people (including Manturov), headed all the departments and organs of the state during the war and had the ability to mobilize all the material, spiritual and military forces of the state.

State organs, military, economic, and trade union organs at all levels must unconditionally implement all resolutions and orders of the National Defense Committee. Even the Supreme High Command and the entire armed forces of the Soviet Union had to accept the leadership of the State Defense Committee, unconditionally carry out the military and political tasks assigned by the State Defense Committee, and exercise strategic leadership over the armed struggle through the headquarters of the Supreme High Command.

Although the power of the National Defense Council was great, Manturov, as the youngest and youngest member of the entire committee, did not have much power.

Many times he only participated in the decision-making of the committee in the form of a similar adviser or staff officer, and put forward some suggestions, while the rear construction and the retreat of the front-line industries in charge of his responsibility were originally his duties and duties as the people's commissar of construction, and his actual power was not much greater.

"Comrades, I received a report from the Air Force not long ago." Manturov took out a report and said: "This report shows that our fighters have a lack of firepower, because of the lack of firepower, we lost several air battles over Romania, resulting in the loss of air supremacy in western Transylvania."

There is no doubt that our Yak-3 and La-7 fighters are superior to the German fighters in terms of performance, but in terms of firepower, and protection, they are much inferior to the German FW190 fighters.

Now that the war has entered a critical juncture, air supremacy is very important to us, and we need a fighter with more firepower and better protection to counter the German superiority in air firepower.

The number of such fighters does not need to be too large, and even if each fighter division has only 10 such aircraft, it is believed that it will be able to effectively enhance the combat effectiveness of our air force. ”

Manturov was right in saying that the current Soviet fighters did have the problem of insufficient firepower. Both the Yak-3 and the La-7 can only be equipped with a maximum of 3 machine guns/B-20 cannons.

The German FW190, on the other hand, was capable of arming 4 cannons and 2 machine guns, bringing the total number of guns to 6. Moreover, the FW190's defense capability is surprisingly good, and it is difficult to deal with this kind of fighter that combines firepower and protection without enough firepower.

But the question is, how to make a fighter with more firepower? If so, let the Yakovlev Design Bureau do it, or let the Lavochkin Design Bureau do it? Is it based on the Yak-3 or on the basis of the La-7? Or is it about developing a completely new fighter and starting a new series?

Malenkov, who is in charge of managing the aviation industry, also agreed, after listening to Manturov's opinion: "Comrade Manturov, in fact, I also think that it is necessary for us to develop a fighter with stronger firepower.

But so far, our technical conditions are not very good. In terms of aircraft and engine manufacturing technology, it is still lagging behind Germany, Britain and the United States.

And a fighter with firepower comparable to FW190 and equipped with 6 machine guns or cannons requires an engine with a high output power, and the existing engines in our country cannot achieve such a level for the time being.

If we want to develop a high-power fighter, we must first develop an engine with a large output power, so that we can carry more weapons without affecting performance and flight speed. ”

Malenkov was a man of weak leadership skills, and in the history as we know him, when he became chairman of the Supreme Council of Ministers, his indecisive character doomed him to not being a great leader.

It has to be said that during his two years in the party and government (1953-1955), Malenkov did make a great contribution to the economy of the Soviet Union, his governing philosophy and political views also conformed to the actual situation of the Soviet Union, and the living standards and working conditions of the people (especially the peasants) were also greatly improved.

However, these good governance concepts and these "good policies" for governing the country did not come up with them alone.

It must be said that Malenkov was a person who was very happy to listen to the opinions of others. The main reason why he is willing to listen to the opinions of others is actually because he does not have the ability to think independently, so he has to seek the ideas of others (especially experts) before making every decision, so he has these constructive policies and decisions.

In addition to being indecisive and difficult to make decisions, Malenkov had a fatal problem - that is, he did not know how to unite people's hearts. This characteristic led to his many enemies, and in the face of the attacks of his political opponent Khrushchev, he had no power to fight back, and not many people were willing to stand up for him.

As a result, this leader who had been in power for a while, who had risen to power since the Great Purge, was forced to resign from the post of chairman of the Supreme Council of Ministers after only two years in power, and was later branded as a member of the "** group" and removed from all positions.

Still, he's a good performer. He was able to complete the work assigned above with great efficiency. Historically, as a member of the National Defense Committee in charge of the aviation industry, he had a good ability to execute, and successfully accomplished his main task - to dramatically increase the production of aircraft, so that the Soviet Union could gradually gain air supremacy.

Coupled with his expertise in mechanics (he graduated from Moscow State Technical University with a major in mechanical engineering) and a certain knowledge of the production of engines and other parts in the aviation industry, he was able to do a good job in the field of the aviation industry in the National Defense Committee.

"Comrade Malenkov, you are right." Manturov responded: "It is true that our country's technology in aero engines is even more backward than that of developed countries such as the United States, Great Britain, and Germany, so it is necessary for us to have the Mikulin, Klimov and Svetov design bureaus develop engines with greater power."

As for the design of the airframe, I personally propose to let the Lavochkin Design Bureau carry out the task of designing a new fighter.

If I'm not mistaken, the La-5 fighter was initially fitted with four Shewak 20mm cannons during the test flight phase, but in order to solve the problem of engine heat dissipation, two additional engine radiators had to be installed on both sides of the fuselage to make room for them.

If we can solve the problem of heat dissipation, I believe that Comrade Lavochkin will be able to develop a new fighter capable of installing four, or even five, Б-20 cannons on the basis of the La-7 fighter (one mounted on the middle fuselage and two on each side wing). ”