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The Third Empire - Chapter 1583

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:25:33 AM


Chapter 1583: 1583

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Ural Mountain, belonging to the central part of the Soviet Union, starts from baidalaz Bay in the Kara Sea of the Arctic Ocean in the north and ends in the Kazakh grassland in the south, stretching more than 2000 kilometers, between the Eastern European Plain and the Siberian plain.

The mountains are generally not high, with an average altitude of 500-1200 meters; The people's peak at 1894 meters in the sub polar region is the highest peak in the Ural region.

This is the dividing line between Asia and Europe. For the Soviets, they always attached importance to the industrial construction of Europe. In the past, the Ural Mountain area was simply a place for prisoners to be exiled.

However, the Ural Mountains are a mineral treasure house of the Soviet Union. Its east slope contains minerals such as magnet, copper, aluminum, platinum and asbestos; On the west slope, potassium salt, oil and natural gas are stored.

There are also a large number of forestry resources. A large area of broad-leaved forest and coniferous forest are distributed on the west slope, in which basswood, oak, maple, white birch and other tree species grow; The east slope is mostly larch, and broad-leaved forest is rare.

Such mineral resources are vital to the Soviet Union. Along the mountains of the Ural Mountains, there are some cities, such as Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, perm, UFA, yizevsk, olenburg, lower tagir, Magnitogorsk and Kurgan.

Now, the industries of these cities have developed greatly, because almost all the industries in the Soviet West have been relocated.

Yekatarinnaburg is an important machinery production base. Chelyabinsk is a famous tank and automobile base, steel-making base and the most important railway hub. Magnitogorsk, lower tagir, Sverdlovsk and UFA are part of the Ural steel-making Industrial Zone, which is a large-scale steel-making, iron making, coal coking Coal mining and iron ore industrial base.

Lower tagir, factory 183.

The Soviet Union also often named factories with numerical numbers. In later generations, it spread more of their names, Ural Mountain locomotive factory.

It used to be the Ural railway vehicle manufacturing plant of i.v. Stalin. Later, with the deterioration of the situation in Ukraine, the Kharkov steam locomotive plant was relocated as a whole, and they synthesized the latest and larger Ural Mountain locomotive plant.

At present, the locomotive factory is producing T-34 tanks day and night. Although this tank does not have much technical advantages in front of the Germans, its design is simple and its output is large to meet the needs of the Soviet Union.

Defeat your opponent with a huge number!

Now there is a shortage of oil, but the Soviets are also trying their best to increase oil production, and the bombed second Baku is also resuming oil production, which has nothing to do with them.

They just have to produce tanks.

When the Soviet Union was facing a critical moment of life and death, the workers of the tank factory in lower tagir also broke out great production enthusiasm. When there were only a few pieces of bread every day, they were still producing day and night. Now the monthly output has reached an amazing 700!

This can be compared with Germany. Although Germany has integrated European industries and distributed by Krupp, the monthly output of Germany's most important Tiger tanks does not exceed 400, which is the total output of all factories.

A tank factory in Tangier can produce 700 tanks a month!

At this time, a large number of tanks had been parked in the open space outside the factory. These newly built tanks were waiting for railway transportation.

In order to transport iron ore from the Ural Mountains, the Germans also built a railway. Now, this railway has played a role, which can make their transportation more convenient.

Even so, because all places need transportation, they have to wait for material dispatching.

At the same time, next to the tank factory, there is a corresponding tank design bureau, code kb-520.

This design bureau has a long history. They are the design team that once led by Koshkin to develop the famous T-34 tank.

It's a pity that Koshkin died young, which makes people sad. After that, the design bureau was led by Alexander a. molozov, Koshkin's close friend.

In this period, they are quite nervous. Although there is an industrial foundation here, they are still facing a mess.

There is a shortage of rubber, steel and electrical equipment, and almost all the required materials are in short supply.

In this case, the design bureau must improve the production of tanks and try its best to save every ton of rubber, steel, armor steel, wires and all precious production materials.

Therefore, almost all parts of the prototype T-34 tank have been modified to adapt to this difficult wartime environment. For example, copper parts are replaced by iron castings and rivets are replaced by welding. The production procedure is greatly simplified, the production speed is accelerated and the cost is reduced. This made a great contribution to the large-scale production of T-34 tanks in wartime conditions.

As for poor product quality? Of course, he doesn't have to worry about it. Anyway, the average life of a tank on the battlefield is no more than ten hours, as long as it can drive up.

Compared with Germany's excellence, there are leather interiors inside the tank turret to keep soldiers from kowtowing. The Soviet tank is the difference between Rolls Royce and three horses.

However, molozov knows that it is not enough to produce these T-34 purely for consumption.

"Now we lack everything. It's good to be able to complete the production tasks set by our superiors. We simply don't have the ability to improve tanks." In the humble conference room, n-a-kucherenko, Molotov's assistant, said.

It's a new round of disputes. Such disputes have started almost since it was put into operation here.

Molotov wants to improve the T-34

"We can see that the current T-34 is purely the role of consuming German shells. We can't even destroy German Tiger style from the back. In this case, we still produce backward T-34, which is actually a crime. We must improve and can't wait." Molotov stressed again.

Not to mention the relationship between Koshkin who left, I can't bear to watch the end of the T-34 today. I just cherish the lives of front-line soldiers and must improve the existing tanks.

"How to change it?" Asked another assistant, a-v-kolesnikov.

He was keenly aware that Molotov's words had changed. A few days ago, he had been calling for the development of new tanks, but today, it suddenly turned into the improvement of existing tanks. Maybe it was less difficult?

"Our firepower is seriously insufficient. We must improve the tank gun. We can choose from the existing guns. It is most appropriate to use the 85mm anti-aircraft gun. At the same time, expand our bottom seat, increase the turret space and change it into a three person turret." Said Molotov.

(it is also said that the 85mm gun is from a cannon?)




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