Chapter 1247 Giant Beast Upgrade

Martin completed his mission in the Soviet Union, and Malashenko also used Martin to achieve his own goals.

So this can be said to be mutual use, and of course it can also be seen as a kind of cooperation.

However, this is only Malashenko's unilateral knowledge. Martin always thought that the photos he took were genuine first-hand information until he said goodbye to Malashenko. They were indeed the new heavy tanks of the Russians.

Malashenko didn't know whether such smoke bombs would be effective for the Germans, but as he said to Kurbalov, as long as it could interfere with the Germans' judgment of the real situation, it would be successful.

Malashenko had reason to believe that the speed had greatly exceeded the development progress of the Soviet heavy tanks in the existing history, and in fact had exceeded the limit of the German army's prediction based on the current situation. The Germans would never guess what kind of surprise their opponents had prepared for them. After removing all the wrong factors, the technology tree climbed smoothly as if it was turned on.

Will the Germans take countermeasures?

Of course, otherwise they could just sit and wait to die.

After the Tiger tank, will there be a more advanced German steel monster that will be born in advance?

It is not clear. The impact of the butterfly effect is no longer something that Malashenko can judge and recognize with existing history, so Malashenko will desperately and desperately improve the development progress of his own equipment. In short, the Germans bring out new monsters, and I have monsters that are more powerful than you. I will always suppress you and see how big a wave your German zoo can make.

The days after that have been relatively peaceful.

Malashenko is stepping up the final preparation training for his troops. Before the final moment of the war, the Stalin Guards First Tank Division is definitely inferior to the original Stalin Guards First Heavy Tank Brigade in terms of combat experience and proficiency in tactics.

But at this point, there is no other way except to force the duck to the shelf. Malashenko hopes that the powerful new equipment that has just been obtained can make a breakthrough and use equipment to make up for the lack of personnel.

Speaking of equipment, even in the last days of preparation before the war, all kinds of new equipment were delivered to Malashenko in an endless stream.

Among these new equipment, there are two things that Malashenko values ​​most, one of which is the ISU-152 self-propelled howitzer.

After the mass production of the IS6 heavy tank was fully launched, some IS2 heavy tank chassis that had already come off the production line and were waiting for the turret to be hoisted became embarrassing.

After convening a simple meeting to discuss the idea of ​​transplanting the head of the IS6 onto the body of the IS2, Kotin rejected it.

First of all, the turret seat ring of the IS2 body and the docking diameter of the IS6 turret are completely different, and they cannot be put in without modification.

Moreover, Kotin did not have the leisure time to play the head-swapping game with the two completely different design configurations of the IS2 and IS6. Kotin's main concern now is how to increase the production of IS6 as soon as possible. For the IS2 heavy tank chassis that have been actually manufactured, Kotin's final solution is to slightly transform them into self-propelled howitzers.

The thicker protective armor than the original SU-152 self-propelled howitzer gives the ISU-152 amazing protective performance. The armor layout with the upper armor of the IS2 heavy tank body extending upward and tilted covering is powerful enough.

Another thing that Malashenko did not expect is that in this time and space, because the improvement plan of the upper armor of the IS2 heavy tank body was completed earlier, the driver's seat protective armor that was originally divided into two pieces and tilted at different angles has now become a whole design that is exactly the same as the later IS2 heavy tank.

This change deliberately guided by Malashenko indirectly affected the design of the ISU-152 self-propelled howitzer, which can be regarded as a huge surprise beyond Malashenko's expectations.

The ISU-152 self-propelled howitzer with a design change has modified the chassis defense layout of the IS2 heavy tank. The original whole upper front armor of the vehicle body has changed its angle and stretched upward directly until it completely covers the entire front of the fighting compartment.

According to Malashenko's rough estimate using the normal formula, the main armor belt on the front of the fighting compartment of the ISU-152 self-propelled howitzer with a changed design can theoretically provide more than 180 mm of equivalent defense when facing the enemy's full-caliber capped armor-piercing projectile under a horizontal incoming trajectory, and this is still considering the effect of the enemy's cap being turned straight.

If the cap is not turned straight, and the shot is a sharp-pointed tungsten core sub-caliber armor-piercing projectile that is easy to ricochet, that is, the kind of lame special projectile that the Germans standardly equip, the ISU-152's frontal armor protection is even more equivalent.

When dealing with this kind of crappy armor-piercing shells that are extremely weak in front of sloped armor, the expected equivalent armor protection value can exceed 230 mm at least. Taking into account the influence of the incident angle, this is an abnormal level of protection that cannot be penetrated by all the tungsten core sub-caliber armor-piercing shells of the German army at this stage.

To be more specific, unless you encounter the German PAK 43 Long 88 or the Scrap Man, or a more terrifying monster carrying a Long 88 and rushing into the battlefield and appearing in advance, the ISU152's front combat compartment protective armor is equivalent to invincibility. Only the root of the huge breech block is not equipped with armor because it takes up too much space, so you have to be careful when fighting.

The rest is the ISU-152's crotch, that is, the lower front armor of the vehicle body. Well, this place is still the same as the existing history, and it has not changed at all. Even the Panther can penetrate it with one shot at a regular combat distance, not to mention the Long 88 with even more abnormal attributes.

So even if the ISU-152 goes to the battlefield, it still has to be careful. The good times like the KV1 in 1941 will not happen to the ISU-152.

Moreover, this huge and extremely heavy steel behemoth with only a single-stream transmission and unable to turn on the spot has no turret. The principle that no turret means no human rights also applies to the battlefield. You have to be careful of ambushes and flanks at all times.

In short, the small number of ISU-152s, only 24 of which have been installed, is good news after all.

This steel behemoth that can not only provide long-range indirect fire support, but also rely on heavy armor to get close to the front line of the battlefield has been liked by Malashenko since the last SU-152. It can be called a battlefield all-rounder.

Now that there is a new version of the ship with enhanced PLUS, Comrade Lao Ma is obviously happy.

However, compared with the ISU-152, what Malashenko paid more attention to was another new tank, a new medium tank that was produced completely.