Steel Soviet Union

"Keep distance between each vehicle crew and rush into formation! The guard company will follow me and charge forward!"

Different from the previous attacks in the past, this new round of cluster assault was personally led by Malashenko. The IS7 heavy tank with turret call sign 177 took the lead and rushed to the forefront. Following them were 13 IS7 heavy tanks belonging to the guard heavy tank company directly under the division headquarters.

This is Zhukov mobilizing his personal connections to open up emergency transportation channels from the rear to the front line. He was pulled directly from the Kirov Factory in Leningrad to the front line without any hindrance. The latest batch delivered to the leadership division had just come off the production line. The IS7 mass-produced heavy tank.

As a result, the leadership division has achieved the goal of all command vehicles at company level and above being IS7 heavy tanks, and the guard company directly under Malashenko has become the first company in the division to be completely equipped with IS7 heavy tanks.

It not only ensures the battlefield survivability of grassroots commanders, but also maintains the battlefield safety of Malashenko, the heart and soul of the entire division, and adds an elite heavy tank company that is always on standby at Malashenko's disposal. .

And now, these IS7 heavy tanks, which are like prehistoric monsters that have broken free of their chains, are coming in groups, more than a dozen of them, with a large group of IS6 heavy tanks of the same size, heading towards the tanks that were first bombed by planes. Immediately afterwards, a mess of German positions that were bombarded came straight towards them.

The German soldiers who walked out of the shell-proof holes and surviving fortifications, their bodies shaken and paralyzed like mud, didn't even have time to take a breath. The ground shook more and more violently under their feet and the loud roar in the air shook their eardrums. It has once again attracted their attention and bound their souls.

"Tanks! Lots of Russian tanks!!!"

"Oh my god, do the Russians have so many super monsters? How come there are so many!?"

"Combat position, everyone is in combat position! Everyone is in position and ready to fight!!!"

There was a flurry of chaos. The roars and shouts on the entire German position even overshadowed the sound of the Red Army's heavy tanks charging straight at them. Disorder and chaos spread like plague and wildfire throughout the entire battlefield. It spread rapidly on the battlefield, infecting everything almost instantly.

This cannot be blamed on these German soldiers for being picky and inactive. In fact, this cannot be blamed entirely on them.

This kind of firepower projection density and such strike power have far exceeded the limit that any regular army on the earth can withstand.

If you change the same position to any other army, you can't say absolutely that it will perform better than these German field troops. At least these German soldiers can find what they should do and their obligations in the chaos. , and execute it as quickly as possible. This is already very rare and worthy of bragging.

But there is no necessary connection between the two, just as hard work may not necessarily lead to success.

Before the vast majority of German soldiers found suitable anti-tank weapons, although those soldiers were extremely large, their speed was completely disproportionate to them. It was simply outrageous. Even those who were already good at maneuvering and had sufficient Even the IS6 heavy tanks, which stunned the German soldiers, were unable to catch up. The "Russian super steel monsters" that were left behind were already in front of them. At an extremely close distance, they began to roar towards the most threatening target within the field of vision. Fire.

boom--

call out--

Boom——

A 130 mm full-caliber grenade was fired through the air, and a ball of orange-red flames that instantly rose and dissipated quickly exploded on the spot.

The surrounding German soldiers who were still struggling to wield the engineer shovel in their hands and trying to dig out the PAK 43 anti-tank gun from under the hidden layer of soil as soon as possible had no chance to dodge, let alone time to react. The words have been sent to heaven.

No accuracy during high-speed maneuvers?

I can hit a group of unprotected soft targets from 200 meters to the face with damn accuracy!

According to Malashenko's own words, I could kill a German guy even if I sent this shell fifty meters behind his butt. Who can tell you the accuracy of the Red Navy's 130mm naval gun with your flesh and blood.

The heavy tank group that rushed to the front and maintained a dense breakthrough formation was advancing at high speed. Some of the German troops on the position who had restored limited defensive firepower had begun to resist.

Large-caliber anti-tank guns and anti-tank missiles that can ensure effective accuracy at close range roared towards them. Malashenko, who had a panoramic view of all this, had no intention of taking it seriously.

Except for the fact that Malashenko's prototype only has homogeneous steel armor, it is equipped with modular external composite armor to enhance its resistance to chemical energy armor penetration.

All remaining batches of mass-produced IS7 heavy tanks in the guard tank companies directly under the division headquarters are all new vehicles with rubber sandwich composite armor.

And in line with the concept of "since you build a good vehicle, make it the best, and it is exclusively for the Guards." This batch of mass-produced IS7 main armor belt composite armor configuration is still based on IS6 actual combat feedback and standard construction. Made a new upgrade based on the model.

The original three-layer composite structure of "homogeneous steel-rubber interlayer-homogeneous steel" of the second batch of IS6 heavy tanks has been upgraded to "homogeneous steel-rubber interlayer-homogeneous steel-rubber interlayer-homogeneous steel-rubber inner Lining's six-layer composite structure.

The newly added rubber lining was specially added at the request of Malashenko. Live ammunition tests at the shooting range have shown that this seemingly inconspicuous small lining can have an extraordinary effect.

The test report clearly states that it can reduce the number of armor fragments caused by collapse during passive energy breakdown by at least 60% compared to pure homogeneous steel plates without rubber lining. .

The result of this is to directly increase the survival rate of the crew members when the armor is penetrated, especially for the projectile warhead which has no charge and relies solely on the fragments and projectile fragments brought up when the armor is penetrated by high-speed kinetic energy impact, and Kinetic energy armor-piercing projectiles that use the projectile itself to carry out internal damage have a very strong weakening effect.

That's right, it's aimed at the high-penetration tungsten core armor-piercing bullets that your Germans always love to use.

For today's leading divisions that particularly emphasize the survivability of tanks on the battlefield, this importance does not belong to the improvement of hard outer armor protection. The living experienced tank crews are far better than the one or even three brand-new vehicles they drive. Tanks are more important.

So when these ferocious and huge armored monsters were swallowing up all kinds of kinetic and chemical energy anti-tank ammunition, seemingly unaffected, they rushed up to face-to-face distance, while those on the position repeatedly made useless efforts and watched helplessly. As all this happened, the shock and despair in the hearts of the German soldiers was completely predictable.

But just like what Malashenko is thinking at this moment

All this so far has just begun.