One of the most “pressing questions” of the Great Patriotic War is: what needed to be done so that the Red Army (RKKA) would not stop short of Moscow, Leningrad, and Stalingrad? Around this circle of tasks, the entire literature of that period about “being transported into another world” seems to revolve. There are no lack of “recipes”: from befriending Hitler to “they should have surrendered then—stayed in Munich and drank ‘Bavarian.’” The main “mistake” lies in the weakness of the RKKA’s PTО and the underestimation of Germany’s ability to quickly develop heavy T-V and T-VI—because of this, interesting projects were halted: the KV-3 tank and the Zis-2 gun. Tanks tried to hit with the shortened USV gun, which couldn’t stand up to “Tigers.” It was lightened by making the ZiS-3, and the Germans were firing with our 76-mm F-22, taken out of our production.
In the rush, the D-5T and later ZiS-S-53 guns used for the tanks noticeably fell behind the Germans’ 75- and 88-mm guns. These problems might have been “solved” by the KV-3—but not in the quantity of two units. A Brahmin from Ceylon sent a former tanker from the 21st century to разобраться with them.