There are still many details that Malashenko wants to know about this powerful and unusual armored beast.
It can be seen that the 260 Project prototype in this tampered timeline is indeed very different from the IS7 in existing history. To fully understand it, we must rely on its creator, Shashmulin.
Introduce yourself.
"We have put all our efforts and efforts into installing all the details that can be considered and the reliable technologies that can be used, just so that she can show her full strength in the prototype test."
"If she is really put into production later, some of the advantages and unique features embodied in the existing prototypes may be deleted due to the cost of her prototype. This depends on the reasonable cost that the military can accept.
I hope you know how to balance it with the performance you hope to obtain, Comrade General."
There is a balance point between useful weapons and expensive weapons. How to accurately grasp this crucial balance point is related to the trade-off between performance and cost. This is what every weapons designer must consider.
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The same is true for Shashmulin. He clearly knows that an excellent weapon should also have excellent cost control capabilities. Otherwise, it can only be an expensive vase that makes the military shake its head, even if it is really very powerful.
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This prototype car, manufactured regardless of cost, can almost be regarded as the optimal state of Project 260.
The purpose is quite simple, as Shashmulin said: to present his masterpiece in an optimal state and to unleash its full potential on the testing ground. In this way, even if the military is dissatisfied with her performance and causes
If he loses the election, then Shashmulin will admit it. After all, he has tried his best and will not have any regrets if he fails.
But once the prototype car is approved in the prototype test and officially wins, the next thing will be relatively easy to handle.
First understand the customer's needs, understand the highest mass production cost that the military, which is quite satisfied with the prototype vehicle testing, can accept, and where is the lowest bottom line of performance reduction.
As long as these two key parameters are obtained, Shashmulin can further control the mass production cost and modify the performance of the prototype based on this, in order to meet the requirements of the military and achieve the closest to perfect mass production state.
, and officially launched the first batch of production work.
This kind of prototype vehicle construction method and process was not used much in the past. In most cases, Soviet tank prototypes were castrated products with deleted functions and incomplete equipment.
On the one hand, this is because wartime conditions are limited, time is tight, and tasks are heavy. The main design part must be completed first and then the prototype vehicle can be started immediately. First, a minimum performance indicator can be drawn up, which means that the lower limit of a mass-produced vehicle will not be lower than this.
Go show it to the military.
The advantage of this is that it can greatly save time on the project, and produce a prototype that can be used for performance demonstration as soon as possible, making everything simpler, especially for the Soviet Red Army, which was in a strategic disadvantage and urgently needed new tanks to reverse the situation on the battlefield.
Important, for example, this was the case with the first few prototypes of the is6 project jointly launched by Malashenko and Kotin.
In the later first batch of mass-produced models, many of the imperfect details of the prototypes were only added at that time. If Karamov hadn’t led people later and pushed Malashenko out of the car,
The is6 prototype has undergone major changes and upgrades. However, the overall performance of this thing is really not as good as the mass-produced version. Many details are actually not in place, so it is just for use.
The second reason is the cost budget control issue. Deleting and reducing decorations on the prototype vehicle can further reduce costs. This is very important when the project funds are not large or the cost of the prototype vehicle is somewhat overrun. As for the military's ability to
If they cannot accept the slightly higher unit price of a production car, then they have to wait until they see the actual performance of the prototype car.
If the performance is really very powerful and the money spent is worth the money, then the cost of the mass-produced car is actually acceptable as long as it is not too much higher. The is6 is also a representative of this aspect, with batches of
The mass production unit price is a full 15% higher than the expected price set by the military. This is the final result of Kejing's efforts to reduce the cost of the entire vehicle and try not to affect too much performance.
Although it is a bit expensive, the is6 is indeed worth the money, and can even be said to be excellent value for money.
Malashenko’s evaluation is: “In terms of comprehensive battlefield performance, the combat effectiveness of is6 has at least doubled on the basis of is2. In most cases, one is6 can be competent for tasks that two is2s can complete or even cannot complete.
"After all, the mobility and protection of is6 are greatly improved compared to is2. It can be said to be a qualitative change.
It is better able to withstand beatings and runs faster, and it also inherits the satisfying and powerful firepower of is2 as always. This means that the tactical flexibility of is6 is much higher than that of is2. There are even some things that cannot be completed by is2 originally.
Tasks such as high-speed rescue of medium tank troops and heavy fire support can be accomplished with the is6.
Therefore, Malashenko's statement that "is6's combat effectiveness is doubled compared to is2" is really not a lie. Compared with the 15% over-budget premium, it would be really good if the combat effectiveness is doubled!
If they only accept the price, regardless of how much the combat effectiveness is improved, and use this as an excuse to reject the is6 project, then the Soviet decision-makers really have a problem with their brains, and they are just as good as the Germans.
Although the higher mass production costs have led to a relatively slow increase in the output of the is6, it is indeed incomparable with the increase in output when the is2 was put into mass production. To this day, there are still many main Guards tank units queuing up waiting to be replaced. Ordinary
Not to mention ordinary tank troops, as long as they can get IS6, no matter how many they are, it is worth bragging to their brother troops.
But judging from the actual combat feedback of these main Guards tank units that have received is6, Malashenko’s original evaluation of is6 was completely correct, and the actual combat results were also very good. The cost was higher, and the production speed was slower in comparison.
The following are acceptable.
Now among those front-line troops who have received is6, there is even a weird saying that "is6 is an aggravated super version of t34".
Although Kogin knows that such remarks are recognition and praise of the powerful performance of the is6, to be honest, his masterpiece has been given a "Molozov-like" name, which is more or less arrogant and arrogant.
Jing felt something was wrong in his heart.
This is just like the girl next door who was born two years earlier is very beautiful, and your girl who was born two years later is even more beautiful, and then others say, "Your girl is just like the girl next door with enhanced power."
As a father, of course you are happy and you know it is a compliment, but you still feel that something is wrong there, a little weird, as if something has turned green.
If you can experience this feeling, then you can understand what Ke Jing feels like.