The sense of oppression that tanks give to the infantry is innate, not to mention the huge phalanx of hundreds of tanks, although it has not moved, it has already given people the confidence to overwhelm and destroy all opponents, because this is the T34 of the Soviets!

"Comrade Andrey, all production T34s are equipped with the latest F-34 (Model 1938) 42 times caliber barreled 76.2mm tank guns, with 75 rounds of ammunition, one DT machine gun each for the front machine gun and one parallel machine gun, and the latest ДШК-38 12.7mm large-caliber machine gun for the anti-aircraft machine gun (that is, the DShK38 "Deshka" machine gun. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info), 3906 rounds of ammunition for 7.62 mm machine guns, 550 rounds for anti-aircraft machine guns, and all tanks are equipped with radios. Due to the addition of a high-power radio, the main gun ammunition of the command tank has been reduced to 71 rounds, and other characteristics are exactly the same as those of the normal type. ”

Maksaryov proudly introduced the masterpiece of the factory like Lin Jun.

"Good, good!"

Except for the anti-aircraft machine gun, which was not installed in the nearby armory, all the other accessories of the tanks in front of me were installed, including the "featured" additional mailbox on the rear of the car.

"I heard about it some time ago, in order to equip them with the right weapons, you can make the comrades on the Ural side jump chickens and dogs!"

The designers of Gorky and Izhevsk worked day and night for more than half a year to design and produce tank guns and anti-aircraft machine guns with reliable performance, and when Lin Jun inspected them, he had already clearly understood the situation at that time from the comrades there, especially the design group of Deg Galev in order to come up with suitable large-caliber machine guns, everyone lost a circle, and the hair on the head of the chief designer comrade was even less.

Upon hearing Lin Jun's words, Koshkin said: "Actually, not only us, but also the comrades on the Leningrad side are in a hurry to get equipment, so that the comrades over there have worked hard. ”

This Koshkin also became shrewd and shifted the blame to Leningrad, but he also told the truth: the general designer of the Kirov plant, Zhuzov-Yakovlevich-Kotin, in order to find a tank gun that could be made for his heavy tank, put pressure directly on the tank gun development unit through his father-in-law Voroshinov!

According to the original plan, if the development of the main gun cannot keep up with the overall development work, the T34 will temporarily use the L11 (Model 36) 76.2mm cannon. However, due to the higher firepower requirements of Kotin's heavy tank, it could not be made up with a tank gun with a 30.5 times the barrel, and it was completely a situation of waiting for the rice to be cooked, and what was even worse for Leningrad was that the research speed of the heavy tank was far behind the T34!

There is no way, the initiative of the engine has been dragged in the hands of Kharkov before the middle of last year, plus the design group of Koshkin here is working desperately as if it is fate, at the end of November last year, the T34 prototype completed all the tests, and the performance of the T34 exceeded the imagination of everyone in the Soviet Union, and at that time the prototype of Kokin, who was catching up, had just rolled off the assembly line, if it were not for the factors of the People's Commissar of Defense, some people would like to propose to cancel the development and production plan of heavy tanks and go all out to produce T34, All these unfavorable factors led to the fact that last year, Voroshinov called Gorky twice in three days to inquire about the progress of the development of the tank gun.

Fortunately, Gorky and Izhevsk finally lived up to expectations and came up with usable products in a timely manner, which made everyone happy.

"Comrade Andrey, we have done ample experiments with the existing anti-tank guns, except for the 76.2-mm tank gun, which can penetrate the frontal armor of the T34 at a relatively close range, the 45-mm anti-tank gun and the 37-mm, 47-mm anti-tank guns equipped by the western countries cannot penetrate its frontal armor at any distance, while our F-34 can penetrate any potential opponent at the maximum engagement distance."

"I said Comrade Mark Salyov, that must also be hit." Lin Jun didn't want his comrades to be swept away by the epoch-making equipment in their hands.

"Comrade Andrey, it's not nonsense, the hit rate of the T34 against tank targets at a distance of 1500 is still good."

1500 meters, that is already beyond the maximum engagement distance of ordinary tank guns in the 30s, and those small-caliber anti-tank guns basically have no power to fight back at this distance.

In fact, at the height of World War II, the standard engagement distance of tanks was still within 1,000 meters, and the most battles were about 500 meters. This year and next, the German army will develop and equip them with 50mm and 75mm anti-tank guns, but the performance is still inferior to the F34. Lin Jun couldn't remember the armor-piercing ability of the German 50mm anti-tank gun at all distances, but at a distance of 500 meters, the T34 should be immune to it, and only the 75mm anti-tank gun would pose a threat to the T34, but by 41, the main anti-tank guns of the German army were still 37 mm goods, only some of them were 50 mm, and they were basically waste in front of the T34.

"As long as the T34 has absolute superiority at the usual engagement distance, it is a victory, and I don't expect it to be able to hold off the Germans' 88mm guns."

"We also know that the Germans developed armor-piercing shells for their Type 18 anti-aircraft guns, and this is the design index of Comrade Leningrad." Mark Salyov was funny.

The current T34 is completely superior to any tank in the West, and when the day of the battle is engaged, it will definitely make the opponents of the Soviets unforgettable for life, and one production line can roll off the assembly line 150 units a month, which is a production efficiency that other countries dare not think of now, and its manufacturing process is too easy.

"T34 Shock! Lao Tzu not only uses quality to make your iron turtle a pile of waste, but also drowns you with quantity! ”

"What happened to our original BT-7 line?"

"The number of production has dropped to the original twenty percent, and by the middle of this year it will be completely discontinued, concentrating all efforts on the production of the T34. Now we have stockpiled enough raw materials, but if we start the second production line according to the current ration, we will only be able to guarantee the production of 200 to 250 vehicles per month by the end of the year. ”

The director's concern is justified, the current production volume is based on the stockpiling of raw materials that began last year, and the raw materials supplied to the Kharkiv Comintern Locomotive Plant in peacetime cannot feed the two production lines that are running at full capacity.

"I'll go back and fight for the quota, you guys get ready first, and you'll be busy when the time comes."

From 41 to 45 years in history, excluding the T34-76 type, the output of the T34-85 type alone exceeded 18,000, this production capacity is not worried about excess, but afraid that the raw materials are not ******* and talked for a while, a group of people walked into the tank group, Lin Jun saw that there were many tanks in the first row of slogans written on the turret, the most is: For the Soviets! For Comrade Lenin! On the one hand, there were also tanks with the names of Soviet leaders and famous figures written in paint - this is the characteristic of Soviet tanks.

"Hero of the Soviet Union Andrei Nikolayevich Plunyakov!" Lin Jun's eyes widened, looking at the tank named after himself in front of him in a daze.

"I said comrades, why did you put my name on it?!"

I have already seen "Stalin", "Kalinin", "Voroshinov" just now-------, but it seems that I am not enough for this grade, right?

"Comrade Andrei, of course you have this qualification, you are the only two-time Hero of the Soviet Union in our Soviets, and the tankers who will drive this tank in the future will definitely be proud to be able to drive a tank named after you!"

The comrades' "flattery" words made Lin Jun's face a little hot, which felt really weird. In the past, I had seen tanks with various slogans and names written on them during military parades, and there was also a habit of writing names and slogans for airplanes in the air force, but it was still a little difficult to accept the tanks named after them.

In fact, Lin Jun was not accustomed to this convention, in fact, in the current Soviet Union, some city streets, schools, and collective farms were named after it, but he didn't care about these situations, because he was either in Spain or China at that time, and he didn't know.

At this time, four people wearing tanker uniforms appeared in the crowd behind him, and Lin Jun recognized these comrades at a glance as his own tank driving "instructors" last year.

"Comrade Andrey, please get in the car." Maksaryov handed Lin Jun a tank uniform.

Lin Jun, who changed his uniform, got into the position of the gun commander, and now he is no longer the rookie when he first came last year, and he is familiar with the operating procedures of the T34 gun commander after a while, but the internal space of the T34 is only a little better than that of the BT-7, and a big man like Lin Jun is still a little uncomfortable inside.

The rumbling T34 has the speed and mobility not inferior to the BT fast tank, and the target has long been prepared on the shooting range, firing three armor-piercing shells in a row at a distance of 500 meters, and the same as last year, the two subsequent high-explosive grenades also used direct aimed fire, blowing up a pillbox made of reinforced concrete to pieces.

The fighting compartment full of gunsmoke was filled with the smell of ******, and the fan on one side quickly expelled harmful gases. The T34 abandons all unnecessary equipment while maintaining the most basic combat performance, and the biggest feature is that it does not have a turret basket (the people in the modern tank fighting compartment are in the gondola, and the seats will rotate with the turret to ensure that the person is facing the muzzle pointing position at all times). As soon as the turret turned, all three people inside had to follow it in circles - some people in the West used this to make fun of the T34, saying that the people inside were like spinning tops in circles.

The absence of a turret basket means that the tank crew needs to act in unison, otherwise it is easy to get into danger, and it is not fun to be hit by the rotating internal steel structure, but - "The tank is not a high-end car, and it is the last word that can defeat the enemy if you turn a few more times!" "It's important to save man-hours in production without designing a hanging basket.

Lin Jun, who drilled out of the "Andre", stood on the turret and looked down at the crowd and made an impromptu speech: "Comrades, this is our T34, the invincible T34!" Heroic Soviet tankmen will use it to win the war! ”

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It was already dinner time when I returned to the 183 factory, and there was no disturbance from the accident I had when I came last year, and the comrades were in high spirits because of the successful development of the new tank. Lin Jun is in a better mood, this T34 was produced by himself with a lot of effort to escort it.

But Lin Jun has not yet been carried away by the successful development and production of the new tank, the best tank also needs to be used correctly to maximize efficiency, and now the most important problem is in front of us: how to keep it secret in case the opponent in the west does not know about this epoch-making equipment.

Historically, the German army did not know about the existence of T34 and KB tanks in the USSR until after the start of the Soviet-German war, and the "T34 shock" appeared, and it would not be a good thing to let potential adversaries know about the existence of these tanks too early.

"It cannot appear at any military parade, after the deployment of troops, it is necessary to do the highest level of secrecy, and before the outbreak of the war, even if you participate in the battle, you must ensure that not a single T34 falls into the hands of the enemy!" It's easier said than done when you think about it, there is one thing that still makes Lin Jun feel a hint of black humor: "Suppression" also has its advantages, at least those suspected of collaborating with the enemy are either shot or excluded from important posts, in fact, the biggest effect of "suppression" is to destroy all hostile snobbery latent intelligence networks in the Soviet Union, but the price paid by the Soviets is huge.

Lin Jun's participation in the rebellion reduced the scale of the rebellion a lot, but those real spies were the first to be arrested and shot, and the Soviet no longer had the enemy's intelligence network: everything has two sides, but I didn't expect that the "rebellion" also had his benefits!

At the post-dinner meeting, the director of the plant reacted to a problem, one that would soon arise and would be difficult to solve: "Now Izhevsk supplies the "Deshka" machine gun to equip all the T34s, but with the fact that we understand that its production will be difficult to increase, and when the heavy tanks from the Leningrad side are put into production, we will not have a sufficient number of large-caliber machine guns. ”

There is no way to do this, the "Deshka" machine gun will also be supplied to the Red Navy and infantry units, plus the two new tanks will divide the remaining indicators, Kharkov and Leningrad will not have enough of them, not to mention that although the "Deshka" machine gun itself has excellent performance, it is still a slightly complex structure, and the production will not be too much.

"If the number of large-caliber machine guns is insufficient in the future, then equip some tanks with DT machine guns, which is also a way out of the way."

It's better to have an anti-aircraft machine gun than nothing, and it's good that the DT machine gun production is sufficient. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the WWW.QIDIAN.COM, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )