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When informed that the next-generation Obiekt 430 tank would still be armed with a 100mm gun even though NATO now had a 105mm gun, he [Chuikov] made it abundantly clear that he wanted the next Soviet tank to have a bigger gun than NATO’s.
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He called the head of the GBTU Main Armor Directorate, Marshal Pavel P. Poluboyarov, into his office in Moscow for a severe dressing down. Poluboyarov admitted that Uralvagon had developed a tank with a 115mm gun, but that there had been problems with the stabilizer. Chuikov screamed at Poluboyarov, “Why are you jerking me around over this stabilizer? I don’t care if it’s mounted on a pig! Just come up with this gun!”
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He called the head of the GBTU Main Armor Directorate, Marshal Pavel P. Poluboyarov, into his office in Moscow for a severe dressing down. Poluboyarov admitted that Uralvagon had developed a tank with a 115mm gun, but that there had been problems with the stabilizer. Chuikov screamed at Poluboyarov, “Why are you jerking me around over this stabilizer? I don’t care if it’s mounted on a pig! Just come up with this gun!”