On the morning of June 6, 1937, Lin Jun met Zhuzov-Yakovlevich-Kotin, who had come to greet him at the Leningrad railway station. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Hello, Comrade Andrei, I didn't expect to meet again in just four months." Kotin looked good, he was transferred to the design bureau of the Kirov plant in Leningrad on the 23rd of last month, and the original chief designer, Ivanov, was purged because he was denounced as a "Trotskyist". However, unlike in history, this Ivanov was not executed after the examination, but was "dispatched" to Nizhny Tagil as a "coolie" and worked as a designer at the railway carriage factory there -- this was all arranged by Lin Jun to make Alexander: to Nizhny Tagil, the "unlucky" designer, could still exert his "residual heat" and "prepare" for the railway carriage factory to establish a new tank production base. Of course, the comrades of Nizhny Tagil also "quite welcomed" the arrival of Ivanov, because it was not only arranged by Comrades Andrei and Alexander, but also known to everyone about Ivanov's ability to work.

"Comrade Kotin, I didn't expect to meet again so soon. This time it's just a routine, stay for two days and leave. ”

Lin Jun was telling the truth, he would stay in Leningrad for two days at most, because a group of people had already set off to Sochi first.

Leningrad was the base of heavy industry in Russia as early as the Tsarist period, and after the twenties, the Soviets built it into the most important research and production base of tanks and armored vehicles in the Soviet Union. In 1937, there were three factories for the research and production of tanks and armored vehicles in Leningrad, these 3 plants were the Voroshilov plant, that is, the 174 plant; the Bolshevik plant, i.e. the 100 plant; The Leningrad Kirov plant, the 185 plant, and the original design groups of the three factories were also combined, leaving only one general design bureau to supervise the production of the three plants. Among the three factories, Factory 185 is the most powerful, and the current director of the factory is Saltzman, and the chief designer of the three factories is this Kejing in front of Lin Jun.

Friends born before the 50s should have heard the name of the Kirov factory, in fact, in the Soviet Union, there were many factories named "Kirov", that is, in Leningrad, the real "meaning" of the "Kirov factory" is a consortium of enterprises, with a number of subordinate factories, and in the 30s there were already tens of thousands of workers.

Historically, the "Kirov Factory" was once known as the "Monster Factory", because it was this Kotin who led two groups of designers under his command to come up with several "powerful and unrealistic" heavy tank schemes, the heaviest of which exceeded 120 tons. Moreover, some designs have also made prototypes, and the results can be imagined, and the mobility of each design can be "matched" with the T-35. After watching the performance tests of these big guys, Stalin once wittily said that they were "tanks in department stores, which can be fired at any time with shells"! -- Historically, Stalin said this in September 1939, and this sentence also announced the end of the "multi-turret era" of the Soviet tank industry.

The appearance of Lin Jun brought this "department store" general period to an end two years ahead of schedule, and when Kotin took over the tank design of Leningrad, his predecessor already had a relatively complete heavy tank design scheme, which could just be "borrowed" by Kotin. For the young designer, it was now "everything in place, only the east wind was needed" - just waiting for the Kharkov B-2 engine and the new high-power tank gun to go into mass production.

This time, Lin Jun's "business trip" is no longer the "lonely" one like last time, and Fekochinov, Snornick and Landskozy have always been on the side—his current identity is completely different.

In the afternoon of the same day, Lin Jun inspected and visited the "Kirov" factory, where the tanks produced are T-26S1937 in addition to various tractors and field artillery, and because the Kharkov side is also producing tanks of the same model, the production capacity here is not running at full capacity, and everything is preparing for the heavy tanks that have not yet been "born". Of course, the surplus production capacity was not wasted, it was used in the production of tractors.

In the Soviet Union, a factory that could produce tractors could produce tanks, and on the contrary, it was a "piece of cake" to use the production line of tank factories for the production of tractor supporting products. Moreover, what makes Lin Jun even more "admired" is that the main parts of the "Kirov" products basically do not need to be transferred from other factories, and its internal factories are its "parts suppliers", and it has established a basically independent production system -- this is why during the siege of Leningrad in World War II for more than two years, there was still a steady stream of tanks directly from the factory workshop to the front! Although this is directly related to the strong will of the Leningrad people, without the overall supporting production capacity, there would not be those T-34s that have not yet been painted directly from the production line to the line of fire to participate in the battle.

Lin Jun is dismissive of a view decades later, that is, the "uselessness of Russian-style tanks" after the Gulf War. Yes, compared to those tanks of Western countries, tanks designed and manufactured by the USSR appeared crude, even "primitive"; But its advantages are also incomparable with those "advanced" tanks of the West: simple, reliable, easy to train in operation, easy to produce in large quantities.

Just imagine, if at the height of the Cold War, the armored flood of the "Red Empire" rushed to Western Europe, NATO generals might not be able to find any other way to deal with the overwhelming Soviet tanks except the nuclear weapons in their hands, because the NATO generals did not have at hand and could not get enough tanks to compete with the Soviet armored group -- their tanks were more like sophisticated instruments than "weapons."

Soviet generals and tank designers in World War II understood one thing: they needed simple and reliable weapons that could be produced in large quantities and that tank crews could familiarize themselves with in a short period of time. Because they have more "real combat experience" than any other country: their tanks have taken more blows on the front line than any other country, and there are countless battle-damaged tanks and real combat examples for them to study. The leaders of the Soviet Union knew better than anyone else that the life of tanks in war was very short-lived, and if they made "instruments" like the Western countries, they simply could not afford to consume them enormously -- the Germans' "pathological" pursuit of perfection in mechanical engineering was the best negative teaching material: their "Tiger" and "Leopard", although advanced, could not be mass-produced, because they were too "precise" and precise to the point of failure: for the sake of the "perfection" of the same machine, the Germans would modify anything they considered "insufficient". , the end result is that some "monsters" are often created. Compared to their Soviet counterparts, the Germans' tanks were often "one against three" in actual combat, but unfortunately the German tankers were often faced with Soviet tanks ten times their size.

The Soviet Union's demand for the tank industry was based on the premise of "fighting a large-scale war," and if the "Third World War" really broke out in that year, it would be a "disaster" for the West -- their weapons could not withstand consumption, the technical personnel who operated them did not have time to train, and the sophisticated tank factories could not withstand the blows.

In his previous life, Lin Jun and his comrades-in-arms discussed the reasons for the fiasco of Soviet-style tanks in the Gulf War, and Lin Jun's point of view at that time was: It is prepared for a large-scale war, and what is needed is a contest between two major powers.

The will to fight, the ability to command, the war potential, the strategic depth, the topography, and the weaponry -- these are the most important factors in the contest of war, and the opponents of the "multinational forces" in those years did not possess a single factor, so it is no wonder that they did not lose. Moreover, the Soviet-style tank can not only "adapt" to large-scale wars, but also "small fights" - because it is simple, solid, and cheap, it is definitely the favorite of the "third world": it is really unrealistic to let a bunch of "black buddies" who "have not graduated from elementary school" operate the M-1, and the "poor brothers" do not have so many dollars.

Soviet-style tanks are always Lin Jun's "favorite", and why Soviet-style tanks have so many points, Lin Jun can find the answer in tank research and manufacturing enterprises such as the "Kirov Factory".

The time for this trip to "inspect" Lin Jun was "insufficient," and he rushed to Factory 189 early the next morning to see the "Russia" being built on the slipway there. At present, the entire 189 factory is in a state of "semi-closure", and it is impossible for the "idle personnel" outside to enter, even the ordinary senior generals of the Red Army are "refused to visit"; The staff inside also need to go through multiple approvals when leaving the factory, all for the sake of confidentiality. Of course, Lin Jun was always "welcome to visit" -- not only because of his status as a military commissar, but also because of a person who could "freely" enter and leave Comrade Stalin's office as if it were "his own backyard," and there were probably not many places in the Soviet Union that Lin Jun could not enter, except for the places where "men were not allowed to enter."

Looking at the huge hull on the slipway, Lin Jun was "full of emotion" - maybe in two or three years, he would be able to take off and land on it, what would it be like?! Since the Red Navy had its own aviation academy, Lin Jun, who had been staying in Zhukov, did not know the method and progress of the training of carrier-based aviation, and could only rely on what he had seen in his previous life and some existing materials to "guess", but he knew one thing: If he wanted to be "cool" on the "Russia", he had to be a "cadet" for a while "honestly".

Orlov told him that since the carrier-based aircraft designed and manufactured for the aircraft carrier have not yet been in place, the "Belarusian" for sea trial training is equipped with I-15 fighters, and it is not yet equipped with bombers and torpedo planes, so it can only be "replaced" by a two-seater trainer plane with temporary sights. And the pilots on the "Belarus" are "carefully selected" veterans of naval aviation, and they will be the "pathfinders" of Soviet carrier-based aviation.

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