Colonel Terteney is confident in his new car, because technically it will not be outdated for at least 10 years, and now it is far behind the tank technology of other countries! In contrast to ИС, those tanks in Germany are "kindergarten children". Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

With great firepower, excellent protection and balanced mobility, no opponent can beat the Stalin type in a fair match! Once attacked, it would be the Stalin type, with its heavy armor and invincible firepower, to open a passage of blood and fire for the "lightweights" behind it, and the T34 and the "crazy field mice" could easily accompany them to expand the breakthrough and tear through any line of defense with the cooperation of the infantry on board - this was also the tactic of the KV-1, but the ИС type was more powerful and safe!

Two of the 20 heavy tanks were commanded, and from the time they were transferred to the mixed regiment, Terteney was studying to become a qualified commander of a new tank. The ИС is electrified more than any previous tank, the main gun is a horizontal prismatic semi-automatic bolt, and there is also a blowing device for residual gases in the barrel, and if there is a crane, it will take only 20 minutes to change the barrel in field conditions! When the shell is fired, the bolt opens automatically, and the empty cartridge case drawn from the chamber is thrown into the shell collector under the bolt. At the same time as the shell was loaded, the bolt automatically closed and was fired by an electric shock device - it was so advanced that Terteney was ecstatic when he first saw it!

During qualitative tests, the maximum rate of fire of the gun crew in the test state reached 9 rounds per minute! It is estimated that this rate will not be achieved in real combat conditions, but the rate of fire of 7 to 8 rounds per minute can still be achieved by a skilled crew - but such a rate of fire is not needed at this time, because no opponent needs it to spend such a fatal amount of ammunition.

On the Minsk-Latom road defense line, the front-line troops reported that some German tanks No. 4 had appeared, but most of them were No. 3 tanks, and the anti-tank guns on the anti-tank positions were basically small-caliber, and there were no powerful 88-mm anti-aircraft guns.

The Ural comrades conducted various tests on their new product, and the frontal armor of the ИС type was basically immune to German anti-tank guns up to and including 75 mm at any distance (this would have been the case with the 75-mm semi-automatic KwK42 L70 tank gun produced by Rheinmetall that the Leopard tank was equipped with). The "empty barrel" ИС was also tested with a captured KwK36 L56 88-mm anti-aircraft gun, and there were no problems at a distance of 500 meters. However, due to the defects of the steel casting process, the inner plate may collapse due to "bad luck", so the manual recommends - if you encounter 88mm anti-aircraft artillery shelling, try to destroy the opponent at a distance of 1000 meters!

The 105-mm high-explosive grenade combined with the high-precision shelling of the Type 40 tank gun at a distance of 1000 meters was by no means good news for the German anti-tank gun positions! The radius of destruction of the grenade is more than 15 meters, which is almost 20 meters! This is not like the artistic representation in the movie, where the shells are still alive and kicking around - once the person on the artillery position is not prostrate, once hit in a standard operating position, the probability of survival of a human target within a radius of 15 meters is close to zero!

The Stalin type was not invincible, but the biggest opponent of the tank was the enemy tank, and there were many opponents of the anti-tank guns, and in such a vehicle, the tank crew had enough courage to confront any opponent.

As for those anti-tank guns of the German army with a caliber of less than 75 mm, if necessary, they can be crushed directly with tracks! The Red Mammoth is coming, it's like an ancient beast, you can hunt it, but the price will be immense, because it's more powerful than you!

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When Robert Anthony Eden finally arrived at the railway station "Belarus" in Moscow, he saw the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR waiting for him on the platform - this was a high courtesy, and it was in accordance with international practice to greet foreign ministers of other countries at the railway station as long as the deputy foreign minister or the chief of protocol department greeted him.

"Looks like the Soviets want to be more friendly, allies." Thinking about it, Aiden has a strange feeling - an ally of Soviet Russia?

But it was not only Soviet diplomats who were "greeting" the British delegation at the station, but also other busy military personnel on the platform, the troops being mobilized through Moscow - the British delegation had not yet reached the level of treatment that required a closed station.

This was normal, but the emotions of the innumerable Red Army seemed to erupt in an instant, because of an enthusiastic broadcast coming from the loudspeaker of the station, which was connected to the Moscow Broadcasting Network, and whenever the Propaganda and Agitation Department had important news, the station would suspend its own broadcasts and connect to the Moscow Broadcasting Network.

Aiden didn't understand Russian very well, but he saw that the interpreter next to him was stunned for two seconds, and then a very happy look appeared on his face - the whole train station resounded with a series of "ula" sounds, Aiden knew that it was similar to "long live", but by no means shouting to welcome himself: he is not so important in the hearts of the Russians, Aiden knows it in his heart. ”

The train had stopped and was about to get off, and Aiden glanced at the translator.

"The Russians have just broadcast a news from the front: yesterday they killed Field Marshal Hans Günther von Kluge, commander of the 4th Army of Army Group Center, on the Minsk front."

It was time for Aiden to get off the bus, and he tried not to be affected by the broadcast, and greeted Molotov and others who greeted him -- Molotov and Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Brazzaville and head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department, who ordered the broadcast, apparently gave the British delegation a good "dismissal".

Last year, Kluge's Fourth Army swept through Western Europe, breaking through and dividing British and Belgian forces, leading to Belgium's surrender on the 28th. For a month, the Anglo-French army was on a rampage in France, and the British and French troops were no match for Kluger.

For the British, von Kluge was a very good, extremely difficult opponent, or one who could not be dealt with at all (because it was John Bull who was defeated). But it would have been killed by the Russians!

A German field marshal was killed, and Aiden knew that the Russians had in a short time had an excellent and heavy bargaining chip in the propaganda and agitation of the war!

This morning, Kluge's body was airlifted back to Germany, and the news of the marshal's martyrdom was broadcast on German radio - a point that Hitler and Goebbels had no intention of concealing, because they could not hide it at all. Originally, the "wolf's den" had the idea of making up the fall of the field marshal into a sudden illness and death, but in the end it was rejected: the news from the front line would spread through many channels, and the negative impact would be unimaginable.

Goebbels deserves to be "the best propaganda minister in the world", this "propaganda genius" with a doctorate from the University of Heidelberg shaped Kluge's death into the heroic sacrifice of German warriors, and through his and his subordinates' polishing, it will definitely greatly boost the war morale of the Third Reich!

Just a short time after listening to the Berlin broadcast, the prepared broadcast script was broadcast to the world in Moscow, and both sides were to make the most of the news of Klug's return, which was a propaganda war, but it was destined for the Soviet Union to have the upper hand.

The news from Berlin and Moscow caused a global sensation for a while, spreading like a whirlwind, and attracting great attention from the heads of state of the West - in London, Churchill was in a very good mood, although the victory belonged to the Bolsheviks; Roosevelt, Washington, was told the news in his bed, after which he apparently did not mean to blame the secretary who disturbed his rest......

The whole Soviet Union soon learned of the news as well, including Minsk, which was cheered several times by the defenders of the Pavlov building when they learned of it from a loudspeaker on the east bank of the Svisloch River.

The Germans did not eventually occupy LinkedIn's Pavlov building, which still stands on the west bank of the Svisloch River, despite its many holes and bruises. Although the building was filled with hundreds of defenders, including several officers, Sergeant Pavlov remained the supreme commander of the building - all comrades with higher ranks than him were happy to be subordinate to Comrade Sergeant here.

Everyone knows that this building and its story will be a legend, and it will be the pride of everyone's life to be a part of the legend - "I fought with Comrade Pavlov and defended the heroic Pavlov building!" ”

"I'm not a hero, but I fight with heroes." Such memories are worth remembering for a lifetime, although the names of the building's first defenders may remain in military history.

Lin Jun, who was at the Minsk City Defense Command, received a decision from the Moscow Supreme Soviet: to award Comrade Vasily Grigorievich Zaitsev, a member of the Guard, a member of the Guard, a hero of the Supreme Command, the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union".

Now Chuikov had to revise the prepared nomination document again, and Moscow was already ahead of the curve. Today, in the Moscow ward, Vasily has woken up, and Vukinskaya is in charge of the treatment of his trauma.

Vasily was happy to have killed the German marshal, but now he was still depressed - his eyes were his life, and fortunately the chief's wife told him that he could not be blind.

"The right eye is useless, then practice shooting in reverse." When Vasily learned of his injury, he made up his mind. (To be continued.) )