Chapter 1454: The Volley Was Fun, but the Logistics Staff Cursed

ISU-152 is an absolutely good thing. It can be used as a direct-fire artillery for direct-fire bombardment, and can also be used as a large-caliber support howitzer for indirect-fire bombardment.

What is even more valuable is that this treasure is also protected by heavy armor. The IS2 heavy tank body, which was modified in advance because of Malashenko's arrival, cancelled the original two-stage upper front armor design of the body with poor defense, and was changed in advance to the whole welded armored body upper front of the 1944 IS2 heavy tank.

The protective advantages of the improved body are also inherited by ISU152. After slightly adjusting the tilt angle, the original whole upper front armor of the body is directly extended upward to cover the entire front of the fighting room, becoming a whole piece of extremely heavy defense welded armor.

What is more interesting is that the ISU152 born from this design looks a bit uh, in the words of our old comrade Ma, it is "strange".

The appearance is very different from the ISU152 in the original timeline. It is a bit like the design of the German Jagdpanther tank destroyer. Both of them have a whole piece of upper front armor that extends upward and covers the entire front of the fighting compartment. The difference is that the ISU152 carries a larger and thicker but shorter gun barrel, while the Jagdpanther is a thin and long German heirloom 88.

This design not only enhances the frontal protection effect, but also reduces the combat weight of the whole vehicle to just over 44 tons because the tonnage of armor is reduced compared to the existing ISU152 in history. The performance in mobility has also risen, and the power-to-weight ratio has been slightly improved.

But even if the power-to-weight ratio of the ISU152 has been improved, it is still unrealistic to expect this thing to be as fast as the medium-tank IS6, just like a second-hand Alto can't catch up with Pagani no matter how much it is modified.

Not only the ISU152, but even the Katyusha rocket launcher carried by the wheeled chassis is now far behind by Malashenko and can't keep up.

However, the Katyusha battalion was left behind not because of its poor mobility, but because the process of reloading after firing a wave is simply a nightmare. As the saying goes, "Salvo fire is fun for a while, but logistics is a curse", reloading ammunition for Katyusha is a laborious and laborious job, not much better than the miserable ground crew who reloaded ammunition for fighter aircraft and machine guns in later generations.

One is that the mobility can't keep up, and the other is that the reloading delays time.

In short, the fact that Malashenko is facing now is that none of the artillery of the two battalions can be used and can't provide him with fire support.

Who can be blamed for this?

To be honest, you can't blame anyone. As Comrade Political Commissar said, it's mainly because Malashenko's attack speed is too fast.

If they had been a little slower and waited a little longer, the ISU152 Battalion would not have fallen behind, and the Katyusha Battalion would have been able to catch up in time after reloading their ammunition. This is the truth.

"Damn it! There is such a thing as rushing too fast?! Fuck it!!!"

Malachenko, who was wailing in his heart, was really upset. The artillery has not arrived yet, but you can't just stop fighting. At best, you can just rush up and confront the Germans head-on. Can your father be afraid of you, the King of Cats? Just do it!

"Contact me immediately when the artillery arrives. I'm online anytime! Over!"

After leaving the last words to the political commissar, Malachenko threw away the transmitter and ignored it. Instead, he focused all his attention on the battle, ready to fight the Germans face to face.

In the short time that Malashenko called Political Commissar Petrov, the German tanks that had already positioned themselves, entered combat mode, and stopped the car steadily had already opened fire at Kurbalov's troops.

The first to speak were naturally the German tanks with the longest range and the strongest firepower, that is, the few Tiger King heavy tanks.

It was not uncommon for the elite SS armored divisions such as the Viking Division to get the Tiger King. As the private troops of the head of state, they were indeed qualified to enjoy such preferential treatment.

It was long and thin, like a fishing rod, and the movement when firing was not small at all.

Although the caliber was the same, the shells used by the Tiger King were not compatible with the Tiger. The propellant cartridge of the Tiger King shell was half longer than that of the Tiger, and the propellant was one-third more. The result derived from this was a higher muzzle velocity, stronger armor-piercing kinetic energy, and greater power. The 88mm full-caliber capped armor-piercing shell that broke through the kilometer per second mark was instantly ejected from the barrel.

From the time the bullet rushed out of the muzzle to the time it hit the Red Army tank in the front, the whole process took time that the naked eye could not react to. At best, one could only see a silver-white tracer passing through the air.

The armor-piercing bullet that hit the face was indeed powerful, enough to penetrate most of the armored vehicles on Earth at the same time.

However, the current target of the shooting was the mass-produced IS6 heavy tank created by Malashenko, the time traveler, and the result that followed was completely different.

The armor-piercing bullet that hit the front of the tilted vehicle body was bounced straight out and pointed obliquely at the sky, leaving only a sharp whistling sound and a bright tracer in the air.

Oh, and there was also the not-too-deep unpenetrated crater on the front of the IS6 vehicle body.

Not surprisingly, the German Long 88 can't do anything to the tough IS6 at a distance of nearly 5 kilometers. Even if the optical sighting system of Zeiss is quite good and fully supports the King Tiger to hit the heavy tank-sized target at a distance of 5 kilometers, hitting and penetrating are really two completely different things.

And this is also the fundamental confidence that Malashenko dared to order the troops to rush directly towards the Germans without artillery support.

As long as it does not shoot at the vital weaknesses, the German Long 88 can't penetrate most of the front main armor belt of the IS6 even if it is close to the face and at zero distance. This is an absolute defense in the true sense!

As for the IS4, it goes without saying. This is a monster that even the first generation of short-rod tail-stabilized armor-piercing shells in the early Cold War can't bite.

The Germans want to eat IS4 with full-caliber charge shells?

It's more meaningful to think about how to dig potatoes in Siberian farmhouses.

Even though the repeated firing was ineffective, the German tanks, who had never given up, continued to fire at the Soviet tanks that were charging in front of them. The armor-piercing shells whizzed out from the muzzles one after another, shooting straight at them, getting closer and closer, and the accuracy was getting higher and higher.

The IS6 heavy tanks, whose armor was being hit and clanging, could not remain invincible forever, and the expected emergency soon occurred.