Steel Soviet Union

Kinetic energy armor-piercing projectiles, anti-tank missiles, anti-tank rifles, all anti-tank weapons that could be found were firing.

It can even barely reach the ultimate range, but the accuracy is not guaranteed at all.

The iron fists that can only be described as "half-Tibetan casualness" were swarmed by the Germans. Various projectile missiles were "swishing" to greet Malashenko, with constant roars and explosions.

Unexpectedly, "Teacher Ma came prepared" and "doesn't talk about martial arts ethics".

The past battles made Malashenko realize a more serious problem: these idiots have suffered many losses, and they know that the rags in their hands are basically useless against the heavy tanks of the Red Army. After just hearing the noise and creating fun, they simply changed to a more disgusting routine - hitting them on the track and breaking their legs when they met.

No matter how strong and sturdy the IS7's armor is, the tracks are still an unavoidable weakness and are the "Achilles' heel" of all tanks in the world.

Let alone being hit by an anti-tank gun on the tracks, even if a "gadget" like the Iron Fist was hit directly, a steel behemoth like the IS7 weighing more than 60 tons would have to rest on the spot. The lair, even in the best case scenario, becomes a fixed turret with a non-mobile, rotating turret.

It is obviously unacceptable to Malashenko that the IS7, which is already limited in number and precious, has been destroyed through such trouble.

Determined to solve this problem, Malashenko hired his own "General Manager", who was in charge of all field maintenance, field modification and logistics support tasks for the entire division. Karamo held the important position of commander of the comprehensive support brigade. husband.

The request is simple and only one, no unnecessary nonsense.

"I don't care what method you use, in short, you must find a way to solve the problem of my leg being broken by the Germans. There is no room for maneuver and it must be done!"

After receiving the order to kill his comrade, Karamov thought for a while, and brought some of his most reliable core technicians to discuss and discuss around IS7, and finally gave a "reliable" answer. The improvement plan must be made by the teacher comrade to make it reliable.”

Remove the original fenders on both sides of the IS7 body and the front end of the track. Only the front end piece needs to be removed and replaced with a solid reinforced armor plate, which is welded and permanently fixed.

Welding a layer of modular additional composite armor to the outside of this armor plate, and not expecting to remove it again, will serve as a permanent reinforcement of defense. Anyway, after one operation, it only adds a few hundred kilograms of weight. For the IS7, which already weighs over 65 tons and carries a torpedo boat engine, it is just a drizzle of weight, so why bother?

According to the test results given by Karamov, this will at least make it completely immune to the Germans' iron fist and tank killer bombardment. Permanent composite armor, which uses reinforced and welded solid armor steel as the base plate, is not easily blown apart by explosions and can withstand multiple blows repeatedly to exert an enhanced protective effect. This is the biggest advantage over ordinary external composite armor plates.

The disadvantage is not that it doesn't exist. Once it is welded to death, it will be difficult to replace it.

If it withstands too many blows and the entire composite armor and the solid steel bottom plate are completely destroyed, the entire bottom plate will have to be cut off and replaced, and then welded again.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. If you want strong enough protection, you have to make certain sacrifices. This is an inevitable trade-off.

Malashenko, who had indeed thought carefully about it, finally agreed to this plan, and asked Karamov to seize the time to urgently modify a batch of IS7s to test the effect first.

This test unit was also the heavy guard tank company of the division led by Malashenko. This battle was also the first actual combat test of this new improvement plan.

To be honest, whether this "battlefield local method transformation" which is quite "improving" means to be effective depends on today's experience.

The development of the situation was exactly as Malashenko expected.

The unscrupulous bunch of scumbags on the opposite side who came to the ancestral graves to emit black smoke really did the same thing again. As soon as all kinds of guided, unguided, kinetic or chemical anti-tank ammunition came up, they were almost all directed towards the key points of the IS7's tracks. Coming at you.

To be honest, Malashenko felt really unreasonable. To be honest, the power of those anti-tank ammunition of the Germans is not bad. It can even be said that the power is not small and very advanced. It is just that the defense power of IS7 is too strong. It's all just trash.

But can the newly added 50mm solid armor base plate and a layer of permanently welded modular composite armor plate really be able to withstand the power of these German anti-tank ammunition?

I have to admit that Malashenko really wanted to say - hanging.

The moment when the answer is revealed will come quickly and in the blink of an eye.

Boom boom boom——

Accompanied by several loud explosions one after another, the Panzerfaust anti-tank grenades, tank-killer rockets, and even an anti-tank missile fired by the Germans all successfully hit the front row, including Malashenko's car. IS7 heavy tank. And at such an extremely close range, almost all of them hit the crawler tracks or parts close to the crawler tracks without exception.

The tank-killing rocket that hit the composite armor plate exploded with a bang. This 88mm anti-tank rocket that was copied from the Yankee Bazooka has good power. Not only would the thin-skinned and big-bodied T3485 be fatal to it, but even the weak spots on the front of the turret and the front of the body of the IS2 would be effectively penetrated. It was indeed a powerful infantry anti-tank weapon these days.

But this time, the "leg-breaking skill" that had been tried and tested was destined to fail.

The tank-killing rocket that exploded against the composite armor plate did work smoothly, producing a metal jet and destructive aftereffects.

The outermost layer of welded composite armor alone will definitely not be able to withstand the direct bombardment of a tank killer, but with the 50mm solid steel armor as the base plate, this is not necessarily the case.

After a loud noise and waiting until the smoke cleared, the German anti-tank soldiers who thought that the Russian steel monster on the opposite side had been paralyzed and unable to move were shocked to find it.

The successful hit he just made not only failed to break the track and stop the Russian steel monster from moving forward, but it even failed to break the front fender of the track, which is stereotyped as "weak enough to fly away when exploded" Get rid of it.

The Russian steel monster with a terrifying size and great visual impact was still advancing like crazy. The roaring appearance of the weapon at full power seemed not to be affected at all by the blow just now, as if it made a sound when hit.

But the most shocking thing is not the scene in front of me. The state of another IS7 that swallowed an anti-tank missile alive is even more shocking.