The Soviet Union, the Ural Mountain Arsenal, codenamed Project 9137, has now been completed and is undergoing a ribbon-cutting ceremony for commissioning. The project included the construction of a series of tank production plants in Chelyabinsk and the transformation of the city into a city dedicated to the production of tanks.

The chimneys erected like forests here are a testament to its grandeur and grandeur, and if you include some skilled workers who have been evacuated from Minsk, Kharkiv and Donetsk, it has 30,000 employees and is another industrial heart of the Soviet Union.

Of course, this plant was an important base for the production of tanks in the Soviet Union, and the lathe equipment, which was formed with the help of American engineers, was also being prepared for the production of new Soviet tanks. This tank was a war monster carefully designed by Soviet scientists, and it was a decisive weapon that Stalin had high hopes for.

Armed with a 76 mm gun, the tank was converted from a Soviet anti-aircraft gun, which was very practical and more powerful than the main gun of the KV-1, which required less steel than the KV-1. The entire tank used the same inclined armor plates as the German tanks, with the only difference being that the tank had a hatch in and out of the front armor plates.

This tank has 7 load-bearing wheels, of course, this is directly related to the suspension system of the Christie tank that Germany bought first, and the Soviet Union did not get the relevant patents and technology, so it couldn't get any decent shock absorption scheme for a while, so it had to use the technology on the KV-1 tank to deal with it temporarily.

Of course, it has to be said that by mistake, the King Tiger tank being developed by Germany and the T-34 tank that the Soviet Union is preparing to produce both use "torsion bar suspension", and the experience of later generations has proved that torsion bar suspension is the mainstream choice of tank suspension system. This suspension has a number of advantages over the Christie suspension, which is now commonly used in German tanks.

Because the suspension of the Christie tank is designed by the principle of spring force, this suspension takes up a lot of space inside the hull, which also makes the internal space of the T-34 tank in another time and space, as well as the German Leopard Tiger tank produced by Accardo in this time and space, a little messy, which affects the storage of ammunition and the placement of equipment.

This is also the time Accardo was misled by his own hearsay "T-34 tank mythology", and he became a director in a daze. In fact, from the perspective of simple lifting structure and space utilization, torsion bar suspension is a tank suspension method that is generally recognized by everyone.

What is ridiculous is that the much-criticized suspension system of the Tiger tank and Leopard tank produced by Nazi Germany in another time and space is the torsion bar suspension commonly used by the American M1 main battle tank, the German Leopard 2A6 main battle tank, the Chinese Type 99 main battle tank, and the Russian T-72 and T-80 main battle tanks. On the contrary, the Christie suspension adopted by the mythical T-34 tank was completely eliminated.

In fact, this is explained by the Germans' own suspension design: the German tanks did use a more advanced and simple and reliable suspension system, but because of their own persistence and unavoidable hardships, they changed a simple and advanced suspension system beyond recognition.

To put it simply, the torsion bar suspension must stagger the position of the load wheels on both sides, so as to place the "torsion bar" that needs to cross the entire car body, which also causes the "problem" of asymmetry of the load wheels on both sides of the tank. Of course, this asymmetry does not affect daily use at all, but it is simply an unbearable "disaster" for Nazi German designers in another time and space.

It is well known that in another time and space, the Tiger and Leopard tanks used a staggered load-bearing wheel structure, which was forced to be adopted due to the insufficient rubber weighing capacity of the wheel-bearing wheel edges, which meant that Germany had to find a way to install more load-bearing wheels to support the weight of the entire tank under the limited length of the hull. For the torsion bar structure, engineers were required to install more torsion bars - as many as 16 torsion bars in the Tiger and Leopard styles, so that the simple structural advantages of the torsion bar were immediately lost.

Of course, another reason that complicates the Tiger and Leopard running mechanisms was that Hitler and the German designers found them themselves - they could not stand the asymmetry of their tank's load wheels, so they resorted to the means of making the complex staggered load wheels symmetrical...... Isn't it beautiful? Isn't it a surprise? So many Virgo German designers and leaders appear together in the history of World War II in Germany, which really makes people want to cry without tears.

In addition, the problem of the engine of the Tiger tank itself is small and large, and the problem of transmission failure has also caused an illusion that later scholars have fallen into a misunderstanding: the T-34 tank has a simple structure and few failures, while the Tiger tank has many complex structures. This is a very wrong argument, at least not comprehensive.

If you take a closer look at the technology used by German tanks in World War II, you will immediately understand that the Germans themselves have drawn a strange circle for themselves, and they have fallen into the "evil path" of tank performance.

German smelting technology was developed, and a process called case hardening was discovered, which brought the armor quality of German tanks to a higher level. However, the trade-off is that this case hardening process in Germany will increase the weight of the metal - similar to the hundred steels mentioned in martial arts novels, the different densities will naturally affect the weight.

So while improving protection, the weight of German tanks rose to a new height. Combined with the use of staggered wheels and double torsion bars, German tanks were almost ridiculously heavy at the time. Of course, the benefits of the double-row staggered load wheels are undeniable, and the comfort and stability of the tank are simply unmatched.

I don't know if you feel it, these performance improvements are all good: the tank's armor is thicker, and the running gear is also more effective, of course, if we count the consistent reputation of German tank guns, and Germany's far lead in sighting systems, we will find that this tank is infinitely close to one word: "perfect". So now a new question arises - is this tank really without shortcomings due to stronger armor, more comfortable running gear, and equally powerful artillery?

In order to make the tank have extraordinary mobility, the engines of these two tanks are naturally powerful and have excellent performance, but in that era, the improvement of performance brought about a plummeting in reliability, and the problem of a high failure rate appeared. Another fatal problem is reflected in fuel consumption, and the nickname "Oil Tiger" is not in vain.

Suppose you buy a car, the driving feeling is very good, the safety system is perfect, the interior is beautiful, and the appearance is enough to make you reflect your noble taste, then is this car really perfect? Is it very expensive when you repair the car? Did you vomit blood when you bought the car? Is the fuel consumption per 100 kilometers tear-jerking? You may have money and don't care about these shortcomings, but have you ever thought about what kind of disaster it is when you own tens of thousands of such cars and have to use them every day? At that time, Hitler and his logistics department were faced with such a catastrophe, so they did not lose unjustly.

In this time and space, the Germans did not fall into a terrible circle, the weight of their tanks has been maintained very well, and the good bulletproof shape makes up for the thickness of the armor in a certain way, and the German tanks at this time are steadily moving towards the concept of the main battle tank, rather than towards the road of no return to the heavy tank.

Hitler dug the pit, Accardo jumped without hesitation, he bought the patent for the Christie suspension system, and kept it strictly secret, using this actually very backward suspension on the new German tanks Leopard and Tiger, and was complacent that he had simplified the German tank and reduced the failure rate.

When German engineers didn't have to struggle with such a boring thing as "symmetry", when German engineers didn't have to sigh about the quality of the rubber on the edges of the load wheels, they naturally found a tank suspension system that was more suitable for war, that is, torsion bar suspension, which has been proven by time.

The layman was also stunned by the number jù that was later calculated, and it was then that he learned that the so-called T-34 myth was sometimes not all true. He admitted his mistake and ordered the design of Germany's next generation tank, the King Tiger, to use a more advanced torsion bar suspension.

The most advanced T-34 tanks in the Soviet Union now also use torsion bar suspension, and more avant-garde use of a rear-mounted gearbox. The tank also had sloping armor plates, excellent bulletproof appearance, and its 76 mm gun could threaten the early German Leopard tanks at a distance of 500 meters, and was fully equipped to compete with the equipment of the German tank forces.

Stalin arrived here today, inspected the production of the entire plant, and personally painted the first T-34 tank that drove off the production line, and surrounded by applause, the first advanced T-34 tank in the Soviet Union was officially put into service, and was immediately loaded onto the train and sent to the front line in Ukraine to participate in the new counterattack offensive.

This time, the Soviets mobilized 500,000 troops from the Far East and dispatched all the forces they could draw to the frontal front, which can be described as quite well prepared. The Soviet top was well aware of what would happen if Ukraine left control for a long time, and the anti-Soviet wave there was stronger than expected.

With soldiers who have experienced a hundred battles and are equipped with new weapons, the Soviet Red Army can be said to have invested a certain amount of money this time. This time Stalin decided not to let the politicians interfere anymore, and he prepared a real military commander for the million-strong army at the front. R1148