Chapter 3237 The Legendary Tank

Looking at the Soviet army's steel torrent rushing forward, Jack raised his telescope in the dust and clearly saw the model of the vehicle. He couldn't help but exclaimed.

"I've never seen that before, General. Is that your army's new tank?"

For the West, it is indeed the first time it has been made public. Whether it is surprise or shock, it is normal. However, this is exactly what Malashenko meant. He pulled it out to show it to people, and he got the permission of his superiors so that there is no leakage.

"Yes, it is the most powerful new main battle tank of the leader's army. Its firepower, protection, and mobility have been comprehensively improved. After seeing it, you will be able to appreciate its power."

It seems that everything has been said, but it can also be understood as nothing has been said, which is referred to as "nonsense literature".

What Malashenko said can be seen by any serious soldier. There is actually no difference between listening and not listening.

But you can't say that Malashenko did not explain it and what he said was false. Every sentence is true and every word is true. How can there be any falsehood?

Jack was a little confused by Malashenko's "one word from you is better than another word from you". He blinked and didn't know what to say. He could only smile and nod.

"That's right, General. These tanks have obvious powerful performance."

Pulling them out for you to see does not mean that the detailed parameters must be told to you. Only by mixing strategic clarity and strategic ambiguity can the maximum effect be achieved. This is Malashenko's fundamental purpose.

In fact, the tanks that are galloping on the exercise field at this moment are the strongest main battle tanks in active service of the Soviet Army, the T-59 main battle tank, which was born under the close cooperation between Malashenko and the rear military industry departments and provided a number of design ideas and technical guidance.

There is also an interesting thing worth mentioning. The official equipment number of this tank is not directly awarded and named by the Soviet Army Tank and Armored Forces General Administration as usual.

Instead, in a series of suggestions and reports submitted by Malashenko, Malashenko first proposed the name "T-59" in written form.

What the superior likes, the subordinates will like even more.

Knowing that General Malashenko was well supported by Moscow at least in the military field, the Soviet Army Tank and Armored Forces General Administration then naturally adopted the equipment name first proposed by Malashenko and officially awarded it to the latest main battle tank.

The new T-59 main battle tank is the epitome of the latest Soviet tank technology. Once it was born, it directly challenged the throne of the world's strongest main battle tank.

This new tank pioneered the use of "quartz sand + ceramic" sandwich composite armor for the first time, completely abandoning the "rubber + laminated plywood" composite armor that has been used on the previous Soviet tanks and has been continuously modified. The tank's anti-penetration and anti-breakage protection effects have been further greatly improved.

In terms of firepower performance, the latest 125mm smoothbore tank gun was installed for the first time, which can fire many types of ammunition such as tail-stabilized armor-piercing shells, tail-stabilized armor-piercing shells, and tail-stabilized high-explosive grenades.

What made Khrushchev most ecstatic was that, with the full support and assistance of Malashenko, the new 125mm smoothbore tank gun also had the ability to launch cannon-launched missiles.

While the Americans next door were still deliberately studying how to use low-pressure, low-caliber and lousy guns to launch missiles and constantly making technical compromises, which led to the final tank guns that had almost no ability that normal tank guns should have, but instead turned the cart before the horse into "missile launchers".

The Soviet army had already pioneered the integration of radio-guided missiles and tank guns without affecting the performance of the tank guns themselves, making the new tank guns completely powerful and able to launch missiles for precise strikes.

The comparison between these two situations directly hit Khrushchev's ecstasy point.

As a missile enthusiast, he was naturally very happy to read it, and now he has achieved a technological gap that is completely ahead of the enemy. The double happiness is simply too happy and sudden.

Khrushchev, overjoyed, not only issued a commendation order for all project personnel of the Kharkov Design Bureau, but also issued a commendation order for Malashenko to the whole army, and issued the Victory Medal at the same time to commend Comrade Malashenko for his outstanding contribution to national defense construction.

At first, Malashenko didn't understand what this move meant. He wondered why he picked up such a precious Victory Medal for nothing, thinking that he didn't lead the troops at the front level to victory.

Later, when Lavrinenko heard about this, he reminded him of his self-conjecture that "it was a great victory for Comrade Khrushchev."

After thinking about it, Malashenko seemed to realize something and gave up. Since it was awarded for merit, he deserved it.

From a practical perspective, the US military on the other side was still using the M60 as its leader, the British were complacently thinking that "my Chivtan is invincible", the West Germans were still trying to modify the Leopard 1, and the French thought that "your German Leopard 1 is not as good as my AMX30".

The effect of the T-59's sudden appearance was completely shocking, at least it should have been so.

But since its birth, Khrushchev, who regarded it as a treasure, personally intervened in the distribution and deployment of this new tank. In the following years, it was only deployed in the Moscow garrison and the Western Military District. Due to the need for confidentiality, it was not equipped to Malashenko's East German cluster at the first time.

Of course, the confidentiality effect is also there. NATO, which has only heard about it but not seen it, has long been able to imagine the "Russians' latest powerful tanks".

They only vaguely know that the Russians have such a thing, but they don't know what it looks like, how it performs, and what its strengths and weaknesses are.

This situation continued until the Soviet Army's successor new tank project was officially finalized, which was also implemented under Malashenko's design ideas and technical guidance, and was about to be put into production on the last eve of the first batch.

Malashenko, who has always actively advocated that the East German cluster should also be equipped with new equipment, got the T-59 main battle tank, which is still the strongest in the world, after waiting for several years, at least before the Soviet Army's new tanks were equipped in the troops.

Speaking of which, this happened just last year, and it has been less than a year so far.

But even in this less than a year, NATO, which is closer than ever to the T-59, still has not been able to learn the details of this powerful tank.

They didn't even get a close-up photo, but the Stasi took advantage of the opportunity to go fishing, catching more than a dozen people and having a German dinner in the basement.

At this moment, whether it was written information or seeing it with his own eyes, for Jack, it was the first time in history that he saw the true face of this "legendary tank".