Chapter 237 Hammer and Sickle

There is no doubt that the birth of the Soviet Union represents the establishment of the first national regime with communism as its political program.

The red flag between the hammer and sickle made the European capitalists who sucked the blood of the workers and peasants feel deeply frightened and sleepless at night.

The future world belongs to us! The fields are cultivated by us now, and the fruits of the future are harvested by us. We are the future of the world!

The capitalists are now in control of the world, but their rule is about to end! We are the creators of the future, and the chains on our bodies will be broken!

Rumors and lies surround us, but our spirit will overcome everything! Firm your beliefs and fight to the end! Dungeons and dragons will be torn apart!

So let the red flag fly and the torch be held high! Light up our way forward! We are determined fighters, fighting towards the future!

The song of firm faith spanned the long distance between national borders, indicating the awakening of consciousness of the workers and peasants. The hammers and sickles fighting under the red flag with faith in their hearts were not acting for their own selfish desires or forced orders. This was a battle of faith to defend the fruits of victory and supreme communism.

The same song melody and different lyrics distinguished the front and the rear, two common groups that also fought for faith and defended the fruits.

The Red Army, workers, and peasants, it doesn't matter what their identities are.

What matters is that when the invaders who tried to drag the fruits of communism back to the corrupt old world are completely defeated, all people with sacred faith can stand proudly on the red homeland where the fruits are still there regardless of national boundaries, standing under the bright red flag of the hammer and sickle and shouting out the words from the heart.

"We believe in communism!"

With sincere admiration for the tank factory workers in front of him, Malashenko, who was walking closely behind Engineer Ivankov, stopped short after following the former.

"The situation is different from before, Lieutenant Colonel Malashenko. After the original main production line and valuable equipment were withdrawn, we who stayed behind can only continue to produce tanks in the most primitive way. This is the maximum output after we have done our best."

Accompanied by the hoarse voice of engineer Ivankov, what appeared in front of Malashenko and his loader Kirill was a row of steel behemoths neatly parked in the corner of the factory waiting to be awakened.

"Is this T35!? It's unbelievable! I thought they had been wiped out by the Germans!"

Like Kirill, who was almost about to drop his jaw to his feet in surprise, Malashenko, a later time traveler, was also shocked at this moment. The root cause was that the huge steel behemoth in front of him was simply too unexpected.

The long and narrow body of the bus needs 8 pairs of road wheels to fully support it. A main turret and four secondary turrets are stacked on the body in a pyramid shape like building blocks, towering and spectacular.

This multi-turret steel behemoth, which is obviously flashy from the perspective of future tank development ideas, is the T35 multi-turret heavy tank that is almost disappearing in the Red Army tank sequence in 1941.

As a deformed product born under the guidance of the early position breakthrough theory of the Red Army tank unit, the T35 heavy tank is equipped with a total of five turrets, three in the front and two in the back, to enhance firepower output.

There are two 62mm DT light machine gun turrets for anti-infantry missions and two 45mm 20-K tank gun turrets for anti-tank missions, one in front and one in the back of the vehicle.

The main turret stacked on these four secondary turrets is equipped with a 76mm KT-28 short-barreled tank gun, which mainly performs fire support and anti-fortification tasks and basically has no anti-tank capability.

The Red Army tank designers hoped that the T35 heavy tank would be able to handle all combat missions on the battlefield. The design idea of ​​the "perfect tank" is very beautiful, but the more you expect a perfect design idea, the less you will get the desired final result.

In order to carry a total of five turrets, the tank body had to be designed to be very long and wide to ensure that the carrying capacity meets the standard. Such a large number of turrets also greatly increased the armor distribution area that needs to be effectively protected on the entire tank.

As a result, the projection area of ​​the entire tank that needs to be equipped with relatively heavy armor defense has reached an unprecedented and astonishing level.

Although the T35 heavy tank after finalization and production has a combat weight of 52 tons, which is far higher than the KV1 heavy tank, the armor defense of its key parts is really disproportionate to its weight, which is shocking.

The five combat turrets, including the main turret, are only covered with a pitiful 20-25 mm of armor. Although the front of the vehicle body is protected by the same inclined armor design as the KV1 heavy tank, the armor with low physical thickness cannot provide too high equivalent defense even if it is arranged in an inclined manner.

The weak points of the upper and lower front armor of the vehicle body have only less than 35 mm equivalent armor defense. Even the early Type 4 tanks and Type 3A assault guns with poor armor-piercing capabilities of the German army can penetrate them at conventional combat distances, not to mention the Type 3 tank equipped with Type 40 tungsten core armor-piercing shells dedicated to anti-tank missions.

In order to carry five turrets, the extended version of the facelifted body is clumsy and difficult to turn. In off-road conditions, the T35 tank even needs to drive to flat land to slowly complete the turn, and it does not have the ability to turn on rugged off-road roads.

If you are not careful, the tank drive shaft or gearbox gear may break due to the heavy load. It is even worse than the KV1 heavy tank, which is already criticized for its poor mobility. It is gloriously praised by the drivers of the Red Army tank soldiers as "the most difficult beast to tame".

The T35 heavy tank, which is not good in firepower, protection, and mobility, is a representative work of the Red Army tank design ideas that went astray during this period, just like the T28 multi-turret medium tank of the same period. The perfect tank that pursued "all-rounders on the battlefield" ended up with a ridiculous ending of "everything is bad".

The "notoriety" of the T35 heavy tank is not only well known to Malashenko, a time traveler from the future, but even Kirill, a top student in the music department who just graduated from Moscow University, has heard of it.

The heavy and majestic shape and the light tank-level armor protection that is completely inconsistent with it are incredible even for the German army that has captured this vehicle.

"This thing is simply an extended version of a facelifted coffin! Whoever drives this thing on the battlefield will be unlucky!"

Malashenko thought with a frown on his face.