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Even Borisov did not understand why Yanayev ordered him to personally talk to the designers of these R&D projects, and even arrange a touching and sensational performance. Was it just to show that the Soviet government cared deeply about these projects and about these designers? He doesn't think there's any need for that.

He didn't understand what Yanayev was trying to write, and maybe he never understood what Yanayev was thinking. Because Borisov did not meet the Soviet scientists who carried out scientific experiments in the harshest environment, nor did he meet the scientific researchers who received a meager salary but still did not give up the Soviet military weapons research and development project.

They take huge risks without any great rewards, but they never complain about their work. Because they are the unyielding backbone of the country, carrying the glorious dreams of a red empire.

And that bow is to tell these people that from now on, the motherland will not let you down.

Yanayev was not a high-ranking bureaucrat, he was well aware of the important role that the people play in a country. Without the support of the people of the entire Soviet Union, the entire regime would cease to exist - even in the most dangerous moments of 1991, when the overwhelming majority of people stood up against the secession of the country. They are not understood by those who seek to embezzle state property in the name of democracy.

Including the T80U experimental improvement plan developed at the same time, as well as the modification plan of the T72, because in the previous Gulf War, the monkey version of the T72 tank gave Western countries the impression that Soviet-made tanks could not penetrate the main battle tanks of the United States. In fact, it is largely because the United States has adopted depleted uranium armor, so Yanayev will let the Soviet tank development program continue to process and add points, and they urgently need to find a way to deal with the M1A1 main battle tank.

Fortunately, in the midst of the Grozny War. The combination of tanks and attack aircraft made it possible for the Soviet tanks to suffer great losses in urban warfare. Nor did it leave the world with the impression that Soviet-style tanks were fragile. After all, the T80 tank explosions after hitting the RPG were endless.

The then Minister of Defense of Russia, Paul? Grachev believed that the defeat in Chechnya was to blame for the design of the tanks, and tried to divert the attention of society from the real causes of the defeat, such as the lack of training and thorough operations of the combat units. On 20 February 1995, Lieutenant General A. Golkin of the General Command of the Armored Forces of the Russian Army published the results of an investigation into the destroyed armored vehicles, successfully convincing the Ministry of Defense not to procure any gas turbine tanks.

Now Yanayev put forward the condition that the development of the T80 and T72 should continue, and that some kind of balance should be found between the two, that is, the development of a tank between the T80 and T72. And Yanayev proposed that the defense capability of the tank is also a top priority. Even if the Soviet Union could not reproduce depleted uranium armor, it would at least find weapons that could restrain it.

Similarly, the Akula-class nuclear submarine was the last attack nuclear submarine developed before the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Yanayev also invested heavily in this program, although the construction of nuclear submarines was slowed down due to economic difficulties, Yanayev said that the Soviet submarine fleet must maintain a certain combat effectiveness. In other words, Yanayev gradually balanced his focus on the army and navy. Under Yanayev's influence, the Soviet Union's current army development thinking has changed from pushing Europe through the torrent of steel to being able to defend the current territorial defense line.

In other words, it was also the result of the Soviet Union's forced compression of the strategic line of defense for economic reasons. Now the situation of the United States and the Soviet Union vying for hegemony has turned into a temporary lead for the United States, and the Soviet Union and other countries have united to oppose national hegemony. However, there is a relationship of competition and cooperation. Let the world situation become a little incomprehensible.

In April of this year, the Kamov Design Bureau unveiled a new helicopter gunship, in between. The design bureau came to the conclusion after the end of the war in Afghanistan in the USSR that the helicopter of the future must automatically perform mechanical actions such as low-altitude flight, target capture, weapon launch, navigation, etc.; There is no need for the driver to be too involved in these operations, and only the effort needs to be spent on the study and judgment of the task content.

When announcing the new helicopter, the Soviet Union once considered deceiving NATO countries, because the single-seat design is very advanced, so in fact, the first two Ka-50 helicopters developed were specially made of fake two-way glass covers, and intelligence also confirmed that they took effect in the reports of Western countries, and many NATO countries were deceived.

The Soviet Aviation Yearbook notes that the US Department of Defense said that the helicopter did not have an anti-tank design. And mainly for air-to-air combat use. At the same time, the Ka-50 helicopter, like other gunships, has two tandem crews, the second in a slightly higher seat in the rear.

Yanayev was naturally interested in this new type of helicopter gunship, if a kind of armed helicopter that could do all the work with one pilot, but the single-seat helicopter technology of the Kamov Design Bureau was not mature enough, so Yanayev issued an order to the Kamov Design Bureau to continue to deepen the development of the operating system of the Ka-50 single-seat helicopter and reduce the workload of the pilot.

Now the Ka-50 has entered the full-scale production stage, and the Ka-50 only reduced the number of buildings when the Soviet Union cut military spending, and because of the change in the status of the Military Industrial Commission, the Kamov Design Bureau boldly presented its own design, hoping to obtain strong support from the Soviet military.

Considering the unstable development prospects of single-seat helicopters and the problems of Ka-50 operation, although he liked this helicopter, Yanayev was not in a hurry to agree to this design, but tactfully observed the follow-up development and told the other party that the Soviet military did not want to adopt it for the time being, and hoped that the Kamov Design Bureau could improve a more perfect armed helicopter to meet the needs of the Soviet army.

After reading the documents, Yanayev signed them, a bold attempt by the Soviet military industry to continue the projects that were supposed to be discontinued. Even Yanayev himself did not know how these weapons would affect future timelines.

When Borisov asked Yanayev why he had suddenly made such a decision to raise the Military-Industrial Commission out of the ordinary, he replied, "All I can do now is to support the army as much as possible in terms of equipment, the Soviet army must have weapons to fight a war, and I do not want our soldiers to use backward weapons to fight a brutal enemy." ”

"They are the great Red Army soldiers of the Republic, not the gray beasts of Tsarist Russia." (To be continued.) )