The 82nd Brigade was assigned to the tractor factory to produce rifle parts, which was also Sisoy's excuse to transfer the troops to Stalingrad.
Sisoy immediately called Shulka into his office and pushed a design drawing in front of Shulka.
Shulka looked at it and saw that it should be what Shulka said was a "tail-stabilized discarding sabot", but it looked very different from modern ones.
Sure enough, Sisoy said: "Comrade Shulka, this is a new armor-piercing projectile that we have initially designed according to your idea. However, many people think that it is not realistic because the accuracy will be affected by the bullet support..."
Shulka couldn't help but laugh: "With such a design, the accuracy will of course be greatly affected!"
It turns out that what Sisoy and others designed was to surround the entire bullet core in the bullet holder, so the appearance looks the same as an ordinary artillery shell.
This is not a problem at first, but when the bullet holder is separated from the bullet core, it will often block the bullet core head and lead the bullet core to deflect... and then there will be a situation where the deviation is thousands of miles away.
But this doesn’t seem surprising. Modern “fin-stabilized discarding sabots” have evolved one model after another, and finally reached the most scientific structure.
Shulka thought it was simple because he knew what it would look like in the end, while Sisoy and others were completely groping in the dark. They were even at the stage of theoretical research at this time, so some mistakes were normal.
"Is there any other design besides this?" Sisoy asked doubtfully.
"Why can't the bullet core be longer than the bullet holder?" Shulka picked up the pen next to him and said while drawing on the paper: "The bullet core will be limited in length internally, and more importantly
Like you said, accuracy is greatly affected. If the core grows out of the stock, like this..."
Shulka pushed the drawn picture in front of Sisoy with three strokes. Sisoy's eyes were wide open. He held the drawing as if he had found a treasure and praised: "Great method, Shulka.
You are simply a genius! We should have transferred you here a long time ago!"
"In addition!" Shulka added: "The length-to-diameter ratio of the bullet core is best 20 to 1. After making it, we'd better put a thin copper hoop on the outside of the bullet holder!"
"Thin copper hoop?"
"Yes!" Shulka said: "In this way, it will not be divided into two halves before use. When the cannonball is fired from the chamber, the friction between the cannonball and the barrel will wear down the copper hoop.
It falls off, and then... after the cannon is ejected from the chamber, the bullet holder will automatically fall off under the action of resistance!"
"Awesome, Shulka!" Sisoy nodded repeatedly: "These ideas are so great! I can almost see what they will look like when they are produced!"
Some things are not difficult at all if you know their structure.
The point is, when they first came out, no one knew what their most scientific and reasonable structure was.
This requires long-term experiments and even the cost of blood and lives to be perfected step by step.
What Shulka did was to omit all this intermediate process.
Major Mikhailovich showed some dissatisfaction with the new task of making rifle parts.
"We are a fighting force!" Major Mikhailovich complained: "But now we are being used as workers here. One day, when we go to the battlefield, we will not be able to use these skills to defeat the enemy!"
"Comrade Major!" Shulka piled a pile of information on Major Mikhailovich's desk and said, "I think we should take a look at this!"
"What is this?" Mikhailovich looked at Shulka in confusion.
"A city map of Stalingrad!" Shulka said: "And a map of the city and its sewers!"
Shulka asked Kalashnikov to obtain these materials... As Shulka, he does not have the authority to use these materials because they are military secrets during wartime.
"What do we need this for?"
"Training!" Shulka replied lightly.
Mikhailovich spread his hands, waiting for Shulka's further explanation.
"Let's put it this way!" Shulka had already thought of an excuse. Of course, it was just an excuse.
"We definitely don't have an advantage when facing the enemy in the field!" Shulka said: "This is determined by the fact that we have no equipment and insufficient ammunition!"
Mikhailovich nodded in agreement.
"But that's not necessarily the case in urban warfare!" Shulka continued: "We all know that once urban warfare becomes intense, collapsed buildings will become obstacles for enemy tanks, and buildings will make the enemy's artillery and air force unable to find them.
Target, then the enemy will only be able to fight us with infantry. To put it simply, both the enemy and us are lightly equipped!"
Mikhailovich nodded again.
"The problem is that we don't know that we will be facing enemies in the city in the future!" Andrianka interjected.
After a moment of silence, Mikhailovich said: "Shulka is right. With our current equipment, no matter how we train in field operations, we will be dead ends on the battlefield in the future. That is
Training in this field is almost meaningless. But if it is urban combat... it will have the ability to fight, which means it is possible to win. So, why not?"
"Yes, why not?" Shulka said.
Mikhailovich's analysis made sense, so Andrianka nodded in agreement.
It’s just that Andrianka’s enthusiasm is not very high, because he thinks that even so, these trainings may be in vain... There are not many urban street fighting trainings that can be encountered in actual combat, and there is still a big gap between whether they can be effective.
The element of luck.
What they didn't know was that Shulka had a clear target. He knew that in a few months there would be an unprecedentedly brutal street battle in Stalingrad, where they were.
On the other hand, Shulka was confident that he could keep the 82nd Infantry Regiment in Stalingrad.
This is mainly because the 82nd Infantry Regiment is part of the Bryansk Front and is still being reorganized.
At the same time, the production of rifle parts is in short supply during wartime. If cannon fodder units like the 82nd Infantry Regiment can play some role in producing parts in the rear, why not?
Then, the 82nd Infantry Regiment just had to wait for the day when the Germans reached Stalingrad.
By then, even if the 82nd Infantry Regiment does not want to fight this battle, they will be organized by the Soviet army and become part of Stalin's defense war.
For a force like a punishment battalion, if it wants to turn over, it must fight a big and beautiful battle vigorously.