It's been a while since Malashenko experienced such a strong and exciting visual impact. He remembers the time when he was fighting against the Nazis in Berlin.
Wait, it seems that it wasn’t that long ago when we were playing Nazis in Berlin?
Forget it, it doesn't matter. Anyway, the big guy in front of me, who is not too big, gives people the impression that he is really awesome.
The main gun, which is rotated backward from the turret, with the gun barrel facing backward, and fixed in the engine room to facilitate railway transportation, looks quite familiar. It has a feeling of "the Red Navy has abundant military virtues ashore", which is similar to the IS7
It can be said that the sight of the 130 main gun is of the same origin.
The root cause is traced back to the source, which is actually the improved version of the main gun of the Red Navy B-43 100mm naval gun on the vehicle.
Of course, that does not mean that the "borrowed" Red Navy naval gun first appeared on a tracked tank. Another Red Army tank destroyer that is quite famous and equally powerful - the SU-100, a long time ago
He used it on that cannon and opened a lot of cans in the German zoo.
The monsters in the zoo were killed and their turret heads flew to the ground, which was a real feat. Of course, it also fully proved the powerful power of the "ship gun in the vehicle" main gun.
On the other hand, the Red Army has long wanted to install 100 guns in tanks, and the idea even came earlier than the request for 100 guns in tank destroyers.
Malashenko still remembers the scene when he visited the factory and Morozov pointed to the long-nosed T34 and said to himself, "Is that the last T34 tank, the Cherno Alpha?"
The T34-100, which had insurmountable flaws, ended in failure before, but its design and development experience and exploration results were turned into technical reserves, which were retained by Donglai and used in the improvement and upgrade of Donglai's latest T43 tank.
Project in progress.
Perhaps because he has always been obsessed with the failure of the T34-100 project, Morozov, who has never given up on upgrading the firepower of his tanks, made full plans when the latest T43 tank project was established.
However, medium tanks are far different from heavy tanks. They can be made into high-quality products with low quantity and high quality. They are specially equipped for elite troops and used for centralized breakthroughs. A smaller quantity will not be too overwhelming. Medium tanks
Is it necessary to ensure that every Red Army tank unit has a practical mainstay?
The demand for wrong production is huge, so large that just looking at the numbers is enough to make people scream that the medium tanks must be delivered in guaranteed quantities, otherwise the Red Army will not be able to compromise on its fundamental needs no matter what.
Morozov had no choice but to use the T43's 85mm main gun, which, although not nearly as powerful, had a large barrel and was large enough to compete with tank destroyers.
The production capacity of mm vehicle-mounted main guns at that time simply could not meet the minimum bottom line requirement for the monthly delivery quantity of medium tanks, or even less than half.
If I dare to mass-produce the 100mm main gun, then I will wait for the Red Army, ah no, maybe the comrades from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should come to me and discuss my ideals in front of me.
The 85mm gun T43 has been finalized and put into production, but the design improvement work on the 100mm gun version of the T43 has never stopped.
Based on the principle of "since the artillery can be produced, he should design it first" and unwilling to give up any available time, Morozov led the team with the few limited research guns in his lap and 100mm samples.
Cannon, I personally went to the production workshop to continuously make plans and constantly change the design. While waiting for the production of 100 guns to be ramped up, I did my best to change the 100mm gun version of the T43 to something beyond my reach.
Strong is the best.”
The hard work paid off. Morozov believed that the T43-100 prototype, which "has been modified to the point where there is no room for modification, and the current technical level is just that," was finally completed in early 1945.
Arriving at that time, the Red Army's 100mm vehicle-mounted main gun has also been ramped up. It has the premise of not affecting the supply of tank destroyer main guns, and at the same time, it provides the basis for large-scale mass production of medium-sized guns.
Tanks ensure the availability of main gun supply.
At this point, Kotin had thought about installing it on his own car, and Morozov also thought about installing the "hot and spicy" 100mm main gun on his own car. In the end, Morozov took the lead.
It was installed in its own medium tank and started mass production.
It is also the transplanted version of the 100mm main gun of the Red Navy with superior performance that gives the T43-100 the "penetration" capability that was originally designed in the pre-development design to defeat the heavyweight target of the King Tiger.
So what about "defense"? How can we withstand the fierce bombardment of the long 88 main gun?
The fragile main armor belt of the early T43 proved to be useless, at least not in the face of the 88mm or even the stronger 128mm.
"It will be worn as soon as it is hit, and it will be worn every time it is hit" has almost become a joke for some time ago, the German heavy armor battalion missed the Red Army's new medium tank. The face was bruised and swollen in front of Stalin's heavy tank, and finally got rid of the medium tank.
I have regained my face.
Similar jokes were passed to Morozov's ears through the Soviet intelligence system and prisoners' confessions.
Although the design specifications proposed by the Red Army do not require medium tanks to be able to block the firepower of heavy tanks, it is simply unrealistic in wartime conditions, and they do not have the time to conduct such research. But on the surface, Morozov remained silent.
, but kept the drawings in his private room and continued the big work, secretly vowing that he must find his place with the latest T43-100.
When I first started pre-research on the T43-100, there was no ready-made King Tiger prototype. I had never heard of a monster like the King Tiger appearing on the battlefield.
Based on the idea that "the guns are all the same anyway", Morozov directly obtained an early-stage Ferdinand captured by the Red Army during the Battle of Kursk and used it as a research object.
It was controlled by the active tank crew of the Red Army responsible for testing the prototype. It fired repeatedly at homogeneous steel target plates of various angles and thicknesses. It recorded the different shots one by one and then improved the design.
There were even accidents during this period. Ferdinand, who was used too hard by Morozov and was used as a cow and horse, could not bear the huge workload. During a certain test, the power cabin smoked, the telex system was overloaded, and the cable caught fire.
It burned. Fortunately, no one was injured because it was discovered and disposed of in time. But the Ferdinand, which was used as a free cow and horse, was completely ruined. He had neither the ability to overhaul the thing nor the need to repair it, so he just did it.
Scrap disposal.
Fortunately, at that time, there was already a ready-made King Tiger that had been dragged back from the front line and reserved for research in the back yard.
With the real King Tiger mislabeled object, Morozov can test more things, and the armor configuration design that has already been perfected is finally completed.
The 120mm physically thick hull arranged at a 60-degree tilt angle is placed first on the armor plate, plus the 200mm physically thick gun mantlet that protrudes outward along the gun base. Finally, it is supplemented by a flat oval round shield.
Autumn, but the most valuable thing is a turret with excellent defensive configuration.
Morozov was quite satisfied with the results of the test. The shooting range test showed that the armored box target with this configuration was not only able to completely withstand the firing of the King Tiger Chang 88 from the front, but even the ones that were later captured were also towed.
The Jagdtiger 128 cannon used for testing can also be blocked.
Even if the forward-looking nature of the pre-research design has been fully realized, even if the previous armor thickness was obtained through continuous testing and modification during the implementation of the design. But is it true that the pre-research design is "paper-based" in building a car?
"At this stage, we have already taken into account a series of problems caused by the weight and thickness of the armor, and left enough room for reinforcement in advance. Only then can we achieve Ming's previous achievements of allowing maneuverability to meet the standard even after the protection is in place.
Oh, there is another thing worth mentioning.
After Malashenko proposed the concept and assisted in the design, the latest composite armor technology, which is now in full use, has also been integrated into the design of the latest T43-100 tank.
In the previous finalized design plan, the T43-100 adopted an armor design of "60 mm homogeneous steel + 40 mm rubber interlayer + 60 mm homogeneous steel + 20 mm rubber interlayer", with a total physical thickness of 180 mm.
The effect of the middle layer of rubber is obvious, weakening the chemical and metal jets; the innermost layer of rubber, in addition to having a certain weakening effect, can prevent the metal fragments from falling and sputtering when the armor is passively penetrated, and has a good anti-collapse effect.
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If the armor is semi-penetrated and the warhead cannot enter the outside of the vehicle, it can almost prevent the small number of all armor fragments from collapsing. It is a simple but very easy-to-use design, and the same is true for Malashen.
It was first proposed by Ke.
The design of the turret part is a bit more complicated. In addition to the 200mm physical thickness of the pure armor steel gun mantlet, the left and right sides of the turret have the same "sandwich" configuration composite armor design as the front of the car body. The specific thickness is not.
The "120 steel + 40 rubber + 80 steel + 20 rubber" structure from the outside to the outside has the same anti-collapse outer rubber lining design as the car body.
The reason for adding a rubber interlayer is obvious - to resist the chemical armor-piercing weapons that will appear in the future.
The rapid progress of chemically penetrable armor-piercing weapons in the armor-piercing depth made Morozov realize that this emerging weapon category has achieved rapid development in a very short period of time, and the level of threat to armor even exceeds that of traditional dynamically penetrable armor-piercing projectiles. In the future,
It is bound to become a powerful protective enemy of tanks and vehicles, and it is undoubtedly imperative to enhance the protection of chemically capable armor-piercing weapons.
To this end, Morozov not only added the most fashionable composite armor design to the T43-100, he even used Kojing, who was exchanged for Malashenko's matchmaking, to help and provide a full set of external composite armor with technical support.
The design has also been integrated.
That kind of complete set of additional armor, which consists of two thin steel plates sandwiched between a layer of rubber and hung on the outside of the tank just like the armor of ancient generals, has been proven in actual combat to significantly enhance the tank's resistance to chemically penetrable weapons.
Even the T3485, which was already somewhat outdated at the end of the war, could ignore the heavy bombardment of the Panzerfaust 100 after hanging on that thing, and charged into battle like a bull in a china shop with Nazi anti-tank grenades.
With all those mature and reliable innovative designs, coupled with the powerful skills of "three years of sharpening a sword" in Morozov's T43 car, the parked truck in front of Malashenko was created, with the whole body hanging on it.
After being fully equipped with external composite armor, it is now a fully armed "super medium tank".
The old designer comrades called her "T43-100" because the entire project team, including Morozov, had been called that since the pre-research on that thing began, when there was no official project number.
Later, even after getting the project number, the name was so smooth that it was passed on by word of mouth without changing it. In the past, even the Red Army approved the official equipment number after the initial batch was put into production, otherwise it was simply called "T43A"
"Finished" means the first deeply improved sub-model of the T43 medium tank.
But Malashenko, who witnessed this scene with his own eyes, knew it.
Should we judge and analyze based on our own knowledge of existing history and our memories of previous lives?
That thing shouldn't be called T43A. It was actually a bit ahead of its time.
Although the design uses a lot of innovative technologies, coupled with the premature birth, its appearance and history have changed a lot.
But there is one thing that has not changed: the true "classic inheritance and strong flavor".
What is it?
Of course it is a "five wrong road wheel"!
To put it bluntly, seeing the "Five Wrong Road Wheels" is better than seeing my own blue Tao Cong Yu and Mu Yaishenko. Otherwise, I will never forget how influential that thing was in the existing history until my death.
And that thing is similar to that thing. It is a tank with a very similar appearance. Its name in the existing history should not be the "T-54 1947" type.
Now, that thing was born two years ahead of schedule, and is equipped with protective armor that is more efficient but simple and practical than in the existing history, and is far more powerful than the earliest T54 1945 model in the existing history.
The protection will directly throw out the existing historical versions and various improved T54 models two years later, four years later, or even six years later.
If we look at it according to the existing historical standards, the T54A, which has been deeply modified, is comparable to the T43A of the timeline in front of us.
Malashenko never expected that he didn't take care of it at first because he didn't want to cause Kogin to misunderstand, let alone get involved in the competition between the two men, and intentionally ignored the development of Morozov's medium tank.
In the end, they actually built such a powerful "super-real-time production car".
Although it is not as shocking as the two "heavy-mounted twin evils" of IS7 and ISU-203, Malashenko made the mistake of Morozov being too late to help.
If Malashenko is just a game cheat, there is no doubt that Kotin is the kind who "hacked the entire game" right after the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. He directly took off on the spot and blasted through all the achievements.
Morozov was different. He survived the most difficult first half of the game, but failed only in the second half, and his abilities were not as comprehensive as Kotin's.
So whether Morozov could do something like this has "shocked Malashenko for a whole year".
It's a little regretful that I didn't arrive in time for the Great Patriotic War, but at least I couldn't be there for even one battlefield. At least I was in time for the last train.
Well, that means that I, a Japanese devil, will be able to eat the "IS7+T43A+BMP43+ISU203+TOS1A" limited edition package right now, and that is the less powerful IS6.
And the secondary equipment of ISU-152A.
Is this the supreme and top-notch treatment that even Germans don’t enjoy?
Malashenko doesn't want anything else right now, he just hopes that the Japanese and the Kwantung Army, those bastards who are causing trouble in the Northeast, will never surrender as soon as they see a swarm of tanks rushing towards them.
That would be so boring.
We must definitely exert our "bushido spirit" to the end, just like Lan Ming begs us, okay?