Vehicle Advanced Training

[Maj. Gen. Aleksei Nikolov]

Some of you may decide to go on to drive tanks, half-tracks, or other vehicles. This is where you'll learn to do that.

Each of these vehicles have a crew-you are not the sole person in the vehicle. As the vehicle commander, you must issue orders to your crew to complete your objectives. This training is mandatory for the 7th Armored.

Scenario 1 - BT-7 Light Tank
Maneuver the BT-7 through the obstacle course. The course includes ditches, barbed wire and other fences, hills, and a lightly wooded area you must maneuver through. At the end of the course you must destroy the three stationary and two moving tank targets and the four bunkers.

Scenario 2 - T-34 Medium Tank
This is the same training as the BT-7 described above.

Scenario 3 - BA-6 Armored Car
Drive an eight-man infantry squadron to their objective, an enemy-held hill. Once you arrive there, you must support the infantry attack, then help them hold the objective.

Scenario 4 - KV-1 Heavy Tank
Maneuver through a long obstacle course. The course contains several ditches and hills, as well as straightaways for you to take advantage of the KV-1's full speed on. Be sure to avoid marshy areas or the tank will sink. At the end of the course, destroy the four stationary and four moving tank targets.

[Sr.Leytenánt Lyaksandro Pribeg]

"Comrades, we have been gloriously supplied from the workers of the USSR this BT-7. To fully realize yourself and eliminate the alienation caused by capitalism, learn the functions of this machine."

Lyaksandro drove through the course. He hated the tank, a speedy death trap. As he tried to maneuver the tank through the ditches and shell-holes, it got stuck. As he tried to break through the barbed wire, it got tngles in the tank's tread. When he tried to break through the wooden fence, the tank got damaged. When he tried to navigate the wooded region, the tank stalled. Lyaksandro cursed loudly.

Worthless...

Loading the shells one at a time, Lyaksandro hand cranked to rotate the turret. The first shot at the stationary target was dead on. Nothing happened. The shell was a dud. Sandro loaded and fired, two more times, until something the first target finally lit up.

Two more. He re-aimed and fired. Lucky first shot took out the second stationary target. He aimed at the third target and fired three rounds until it was destroyed.

Sandro sighed as the moving target came.

The only real vehicle training he had before this was a tractor at his home in Sevastopol, and horse-drawn carriages. He carefully aimed, fired, and missed. And again, and again. After thirty minutes of trial and error, the moving tank targets had been somewhat destroyed, shredded with bits of shrapnel. He needed to get some more rounds before he finished the bunkers.

Using the 45mm gun, it took 5 rounds a piece before the bunkers crumbled. 20 rounds in all, taking a little less than a minute to reload each time. In a real battle he would have been dead a long time ago.

[Sr.Leytenánt Lyaksandro Pribeg]

That, was perhaps, the single worst attempt I've ever seen at writing a post for training. Jesus, where did you learn to write? Pathetic.
If I were you I'd cut off both of my hands just so this crappy writing never reaches the light of day again. Honestly, why do you even bother? You'd be more adept at writing nutritional facts for food products.
In any case, I don't see why you should bother going on. Really, I wouldn't read it if my life depended on it. Ugly, simply ugly.

[Mayór I. Molotov]

Prigeb, shaddup, you passed. Move on to the next part of training...

[Sr.Leytenánt Lyaksandro Pribeg]

;D

"Comrades, we have been gloriously supplied from the workers of the USSR this T-34. To fully realize yourself and eliminate the alienation caused by capitalism, learn the functions of this machine."

Lyaksandro did not understand, but got into the machine. The T-34 was much better than the BT-7. Although somewhat slower, the greater armor, superior strength, and overall easy handling made it a far more natural choice than the BT-7. The tank flew over the ditches, ate the barbed-wire, smashed through the wooden fence, and only stalled once in the wooded region. Lyaksandro was happy.

His crew quickly aimed the turret at the first stationary target. The tank recoiled slightly as the round went off. Lyaksandro looked and saw the target explode. This was much better than the other worthless machines he had to operate.

A few more rounds and the other two stationary targets were destroyed. Lyaksandro was almost bored. The machine worked too well. He hardly had to do anything compared to the other machine.

Sandro watched as the moving target came.

Trying to learn from past experience, he traced the moving targets to calculate their trajectory paths. The first target took him 5 shots to get it right. The next two targets he took out with one shot a piece. Lyaksandro was learning how to aim well with this new machine.

Although he had little background in mathematics, this was coming to him almost instinctually. He could easily predict where an object would be if it was moving at a constant velocity, or even at a constant acceleration.

Using the 76.2mm gun, it took about three rounds before each of the bunkers crumbled to the ground. The speed at which he could reload and the power of the shells made this machine infinitely better than the miserable BT-7.

[Mayór I. Molotov]

Pass comrade. Move on to part three.