Chapter 1964: Legend of Speed

The rocket assault tank issue has come to an end here. Malashenko will complete the tasks that Kotin needs him to help complete. After that, the rest of the work will depend on Kotin himself, and judging from the current situation, there should not be too many problems. Malashenko thinks this matter is basically reliable.

"I hope it can be used earlier. Time is really not available. The future offensive battles will only become more and more difficult."

After looking at the infantry fighting vehicles, and solving the problem of how to deal with the chassis of the IS2 heavy tanks for Kotin, Kotin's related matters have basically come to an end.

If there is nothing else, Malashenko should set off and return to the front line to lead the newly upgraded leader division to deal with the next battle.

However, it seems that there is still one thing that must be done by Malashenko himself. The 260 project test work personally presided over by Shashmurin at the Kirov Factory in Leningrad needs our old comrade Ma to go and see it in person.

There is no way, this 260 engineering vehicle is absolutely of great importance.

Let’s not talk about how much combat power it can bring to the troops in the future. This depends on the production volume after it is finalized and put into production.

The only thing that can be determined is that Malashenko will definitely use this thing to replace the IS4 heavy tank, which has been criticized for a long time and has mediocre performance, and become his new generation of vehicles.

This is not to say that the IS4 heavy tank is not good, and Malashenko looks down on it.

But for the Stalin Guards First Tank Division, which is fully equipped with IS6 heavy tanks as the main force, the low mobility caused by the 60-ton weight of the IS4 is really too troublesome.

It is true that the IS4 is not slow compared to ordinary heavy tanks. For example, the mobility of the IS4 is much stronger than the German Tiger King. But the important thing is that the IS4 is a "relative mobility disadvantage" to the IS6, and it will not keep up with the pace in the high-speed offensive rhythm and fall behind seriously.

The troops under his command were advancing rapidly and rushing forward, while Malashenko's command vehicle was far behind, and it was left there, trying its best to get to the front line of the conflict as quickly as possible to facilitate command.

But the speed of the car is always not subject to human subjective will. No matter how anxious you are, the IS4 can still run at that speed, and there will be no change. It will still not keep up with the large troops.

Similar things have happened more than once on the battlefield, and even several times it has directly affected Malashenko's control and combat command of the troops. To put it seriously, this is an unresolved problem and even a hidden danger.

If there is a problem, it must be solved. When the problem accumulates and becomes a big problem and cannot be solved, it will be too late to find a solution.

It seems unnecessary to change the command vehicle back to IS6. It is indeed a backward behavior. Malashenko has always placed his bets on the next generation of updated heavy tanks. It is believed that it will have a better integration of speed, firepower and mobility than the IS4, and it can be called perfect. This ideal model that Malashenko has high hopes for is the Project 260 under the leadership of Shashmulin.

Others may not know, but Malashenko cannot be unaware of how outrageous the speed and mobility of the final derivative of Project 260, which is the thing named "IS-7".

If the IS6 is a medium tank among heavy tanks, then the IS7 is undoubtedly a light tank among heavy tanks.

In the existing history, in order to ensure that this 70-ton Soviet super steel behemoth has strong enough mobility, Shashmulin led the design team to consider a variety of design schemes and different styles of engines, and finally selected the Soviet Red Navy M-50F3V12 cylinder 1250 horsepower diesel engine as the core heart to drive the huge body of the IS7 heavy tank.

Just like the previous generation of Red Army heavy tanks in the past, the heart of the IS7 is not a new design.

In order to ensure that the new equipment is mature and reliable and can form a stable and efficient combat capability as soon as possible after it is put into production, the heart of the IS7 is usually taken from the existing shelf products and used.

On the Soviet Red Navy side, the heart of the IS7 was originally used on torpedo boats, with a maximum horsepower output of up to 1,250 horsepower, enough for a torpedo boat to carry a heavy torpedo and speed across the sea. Even if it is used on the 70-ton IS7, the power-to-weight ratio is still as high as 85.

What does a power-to-weight ratio of 85 mean?

This means that the power-to-weight ratio of the IS7 not only completely beats all heavy tanks in World War II, including any of the Red Army's own Stalin series heavy tanks, but also blows up the power-to-weight ratio of some embarrassing and lame third-generation main battle tanks in the 21st century.

Yes, that's right, I'm talking about the teaser 2 with the country of the little brother. The power-to-weight ratio of the black tea is truly "men are silent, women are crying", and its mobility is undoubtedly "the shame of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and the worst in NATO", and even the IS7, which is half a century older than it, can easily beat it.

Once the IS7 is in hand, Malashenko even has to specifically order his command vehicle to run slower so that the IS6 heavy tanks of the follow-up large force can keep up with the pace and not fall behind.

As long as Shashmulin's design plan is not too different from the existing history and remains basically unchanged, then this situation is bound to occur, and it is not nonsense.

As for Shashmulin's personal ability, Malashenko has absolute confidence.

After knowing and contacting this buddy for such a long time, Malashenko has indeed discovered that this assistant of Kotin is an outstanding chief designer who dares to innovate boldly, has all kinds of wild ideas in design ideas and dares to practice.

Malashenko has already thought about it. As long as the results of this trip to Leningrad are satisfactory and the factory test of Project 260 can be successfully concluded, then he must take it away and use those German sticks to test whether this thing is good or not.

"I hope everything goes well. I'm really fed up with the turtle-like IS4."

As agreed before, Malashenko took a plane with Shashmulin to Leningrad the next day, and flew straight to the horizon with Kotin seeing him off at the airport.

If time wasn't really tight, Malashenko actually wanted to go to Morozov to see if there was anything he could do to help. After all, the follow-up batch improvement of medium tanks is also very important.

But things have their priorities, and solving the IS7 problem quickly is Malashenko's top priority. Comrade Lao Ma, who has never been so excited, can't wait to see this unprecedented super heavy tank.