"Before introducing new and future-oriented equipment, I suggest you look at a gadget - a gun."

Stalin was very happy when talking about this design: "This gun was not made by our former design masters and scientific research authorities. It was developed by a wounded and demobilized soldier in his spare time and achieved good results in the shooting range comparison test last week. This fully demonstrates that people's creativity and exploration spirit are the first priority. As long as there is a person, any kind of miracle in the world can be created. In the future, the Party and leading cadres at all levels should pay special attention to the pioneering spirit at the grassroots level and inspire their spirit of soaring. We will eventually grow old and die. Whether the glory of the Soviet Union can be restored and the victory of the world revolution depends on the performance of the younger generation! Here I would like to praise Comrade Bragoravov, who did not dislike this young man because he was low in the starting point and was injured. He discovered talents for the party and the country. I suggest awarding him the title of Soviet hero!"

Lieutenant General Bragorov is a member of the All-Soviet Equipment Planning Committee and the authority of Soviet infantry weapons. He serves as the dean of the Derrensky Artillery Academy and is in charge of the field of infantry weapons. Although he is considered a senior cadre and is qualified to participate in the 3,000-person conference, he is still a very inconspicuous role among the real senior management. Now Stalin publicly praised him at the Politburo meeting. His superior, Marshal Voroshilov, was also honored. He quickly stood up and said: "I have seen the deeds of this comrade. He is completely self-taught. He has also won the Red Star Medal. I think it is mainly because Comrade Stalin has good teaching. He is your good soldier and a good son and daughter of the Party! Comrade Bragorov has fully implemented your work line and policy, and has always worked diligently and made contributions to the country in every position."

The person excavated by Lieutenant General Bragorov was Kalashnikov. Kalashnikov, who was only 22 years old during the Patriotic War, was recalled to the army to serve as the commander of the T-34 tank. He was seriously injured in a battle. Although he was rescued, he became a disabled person since then. His right hand was unable to move freely, and of course he also lost the qualification to continue driving the tank.

Someone asked him in the hospital, "Why are only the German army equipped with automatic rifles, and we are not even equipped with old rifles?" This immediately inspired Kalashnikov's whim to design a new automatic rifle. After being discharged from the hospital, he returned to the team to fight without approval. During his recovery, Kalashnikov decided to go to the railway locomotive repair station where he had worked before, and explore the firearm design while working. He manually polished an automatic rifle in a simple small work shed and sent it to the Derrensky Artillery Academy for trial and evaluation.

The review committee believed that the rifle mechanism was too complex and its overall performance did not exceed that of the Poposa submachine gun. However, this unsuccessful design attracted the attention of Lieutenant General Bragorov and personally recommended Kalashnikov to go to the Advanced Infantry Firearms School for further studies. In early 1944, after countless test failures, the 25-year-old Kalashnikov designed a 7.62mm semi-automatic carbine. Since the German army began to equip the stg43 in large quantities, it put great psychological pressure on the front-line Soviet army, and Boposa was unable to cope. After the armistice, the All-Sui Equipment Planning Committee immediately proposed the requirement to design a fully automatic rifle.

Kalashnikov referred to the structure of the stg43 and combined with the basic design of his semi-automatic carbine, he rushed for several months and took out a fully automatic rifle AK44 and sent it to participate in the national shooting range selection test. In the extreme shooting review, the outstanding performance of the AK44 (see the picture below) made many judges present look at it with admiration: 15,000 bullets were shot continuously. Although the barrel was red, the shooting accuracy did not change much. The sample guns of other competitors could not work normally after several shots and could not even fire at all.

The review committee carefully calculated and counted the test results, compared each set of shooting data, sorted all the data into a comprehensive report and reported it, and agreed that: "The 7.62mm assault rifle designed by Sergeant Kalashnikov was recommended to be included in the official equipment after necessary modifications and improvements."

The Red Army had the idea of ​​equiping fully automatic rifles in the 1930s, but at that time it was suppressed by the fact that ammunition was consumed too much, not economical, and large-scale equipment was not feasible. Now that we are preparing to build a "small but elite" army, we naturally cannot let go of all weapons that enhance the strength of individual soldiers.

Kalashnikov, a weapon designer who came from the grassroots and was self-taught, was more in line with Stalin's appetite and political work propaganda. In addition, the rifle he designed did perform well, Stalin was ready to promote another Soviet hero.

In addition to assault rifles, the General Staff and the Equipment Planning Commission also recommended the development of helicopters, jets and rockets, especially jets, which they believe are top priorities.

The founder of modern cosmic navigation, the Russian Konstantin Thiorkovsky, foresaw the development of new prospects for jet propulsion to open up aircraft. This led the Soviet Union to study jet propulsion technology in the 1930s and began to work on this work at the same time.

At first, the main focus of the development of jet propulsion experiments was basically liquid-fuel rocket engines. The most influential one was aero engine expert F. A. Cangjel. He developed the original Soviet jet propulsion engine between 1930 and 1933, but it was not adopted. In the late 1930s, two designers, A.M. Isaev and P.S. Dushkin, developed a liquid-fuel rocket jet engine. Later, it was installed on specially manufactured aircraft for testing, but it still did not receive the attention.

However, the subsequent designers were not discouraged. The young engineer Alship Mikhanovic Eureka designed the first aviation turbojet engine in 1937 without the support of most people. After years of hard work and solving a large number of technical problems, he developed the first Pд-1 turbojet engine prototype in the Soviet Union and obtained a license for continued development in April 1941. But at this moment, the war broke out and the development of turbojet engine was forced to be interrupted.

At that time, all the focus of work was shifted to the development of piston aircraft, and the jets that were temporarily invisible to the battlefield could only be shelved. Although this decision was issued by the Politburo, all designers, including Eureka, expressed their understanding and support. However, when the me-262 jet fighter appeared, the Supreme Soviet Command realized what they had missed and seemed to regret it - this was also one of the contents of Stalin's public review at the conference.

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The performance of the Crow and the Crow Eagle in the South Africa Battle made everyone see the power and dawn of the jet era. For this reason, Stalin personally ordered that Eureka be invited back to preside over the development of the jet engine. But everything started a new beginning and it was very difficult. The copy of Eureka's early works was soon successful. However, it was obvious that such a small thrust could not be used in actual combat. There must be breakthrough progress. After debate and many discussions, it was decided to adopt the policy of walking on two legs. Eureka led a group of engineers to continue to study the new power of domestic production, and organized a group of experts to adopt imitation methods to speed up the development of jet engines.

Although Germany's jet engine is good, it is useless to not get the drawings and physical objects. After making a request to the United States, the Soviet Union first provided the Is-1 drawings first and then delivered the drawings of T-43/85 and Is-2 (the drawings of T-44 and Is-3 are obviously impossible to hand over). Then it also cooperated effectively in helping to evacuate pilots and senior generals. In the face of the Soviet Union's request, the United States decided to repay the favor and gave the Soviet Union a batch of physical and technical drawings of jet engines. Considering that the Soviet Union was short of rare materials, it also sent more than 20 tons of materials for the first time - all air freight, and the transportation cost was higher than the price of the cargo.

The United States gave the Harveyland jet engine used on the Gloucester meteor. Although it was not the best batch, it was also a treasure for the Soviet Union and immediately started research and exploration.

As for the rocket project and the request for assistance for rocket engines, the Americans said they could not help, and asked the Soviet Union what information they had worth trading. The Soviet diplomats spread their hands and said they had no one, and they had no starting point at all. The Americans did not doubt that they had him, and believed that the Soviet Union's technical level could not be achieved, so they would not mention it from now on.

But in fact, the diplomatic envoy lied about this issue - maybe he didn't know what happened. The Soviets had Rockets and had phased results, but this result was in prison.

After the anti-counterfeiting began, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, the authoritative Soviet rocket researcher, was labeled as the "current ***" and was sent to prison and taken to Siberia to engage in heavy physical labor. The Ministry of Internal Affairs originally wanted to execute him, but after this report was put into Stalin's hands, it was suppressed and turned into detention.

There were a bunch of designers who went to prison with Korolev, including the famous aircraft designer Tupolev. After the beginning of the Patriotic War, most scientists were arranged to work. Tupolev made Korolev escape from the death camp and start developing rockets again, and he was still a prisoner. He worked for 12 hours a day, and the guards of his work and residence were tight, so they were not allowed to chat casually and had no freedom of movement. It was under such harsh conditions that Korolev successfully designed the first generation of Soviet rockets. By 1944, although his performance was not as good as V2, he was much more reliable than the American rockets' success rate. If it were such a low success rate, he would have been executed by the furious Equipment Committee.

After the German army used rockets on a large scale, Stalin could not sit still and instructed to accelerate research. Although it was the best to label Korolev as the current ***, Beria did not hesitate to "stand up" and admitted at the conference that he had made the mistake of "expanding the actual work of anti-counterfeiting" and asked Comrade Stalin and the Party Central Committee to forgive him. The wise leader of course was very good and immediately approved the rescue of a group of "Number elements", restored their reputation, took off their hats, and made up for treatment. Korolev, who had been a death row prisoner for seven years, transformed himself into a rare "technical authority" of Soviet rocket technology, and became a senior party cadre who enjoyed the treatment of lieutenant generals.
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