Chapter 926 An Unlucky Car

At present, the United States has not yet developed new depleted uranium armor-piercing projectiles. They use the same DM33 armor-piercing projectiles as the Germans.

The U.S. military also reacted quickly. In fact, when the Soviet tanks opened fire, they had already begun preparing for shooting. When the Soviet tank shells fell on their side, the U.S. M1 tanks also fired shells over!

The thermal jacket made of fiberglass casting is used to keep the temperature of the barrel constant. The German craftsmanship that strives for perfection makes the accuracy of this tank gun quite high. Now, although the distance between the two sides is still more than 2,000 meters, the tank gun bombardment has already begun!

At the same time, the M1's sighting and observation system is also very advanced, and they are confident that they can hit the enemy from two kilometers away!

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Now, we just hope that this German-designed 120mm tank gun shell can destroy the enemy, so that our morale will be greatly boosted!

With their expectations, with a loud bang, a flame flashed at the muzzle, and a shiny piercing rod threw away the three-petal aluminum bullet support and flew forward!

The new 120mm tank gun, with its high chamber pressure, allows the speed of this type of shell to reach 1,500 meters per second! It only takes more than one second to fly this two thousand meter distance!

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At the same time, after discovering the salvo of artillery shells from the opposite side, the attacking T-72 troops on this side all stopped in unison!

Continue to drive at a constant speed? What kind of arrogant commander would it take to do that?

The T-72 tanks made a squeaking sound while speeding and the body of the tank leaned forward. Sudden braking while moving is also a challenge for the tank. One of the tanks, due to the inertia of braking, almost had its gun barrel poked into the ground in front, and swayed back and forth twice before it stabilized again.

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Braking is a tactic commonly used by tank troops. After all, compared with sudden acceleration, braking is more likely to change the tank's state of motion. As a result, many of those whistling shells hit the open space in front of the tank.

In shooting from a moving object to a stationary object, the tank's computer has already calculated the lead time based on the target's constant speed. Therefore, when the target's speed suddenly changes, the accuracy will be lost.

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However, some shells, originally aimed at the turret, hit the main armor in front heavily after the target braked suddenly!

The slender tungsten alloy bullet core drilled into the main armor, and the first thing it encountered was the explosive armor! After the explosive armor consumed some of its energy, the bullet core continued to drill inside!

Enter the armor and keep drilling in, drilling in! Finally, it can't drill any further!

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In fact, it had already penetrated the middle layer and was about to penetrate the main armor when it was still a few centimeters away!

Unfortunately, it was still blocked!

This 120mm shell can penetrate 560mm of homogeneous steel plate at a distance of 2000 meters, which is just within the resistance of Soviet tanks.

The number of millimeters of armor penetration also depends on the type of armor-piercing projectile. For example, explosive reactive armor has better protection against shaped charge warheads, so it can defend against metal jets that penetrate 800 mm thick homogeneous armor at rest. However, hard-to-hard armor-piercing projectiles can only defend against about 600 mm.

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The T-72 is still a low-end Soviet tank, and its protection level is not as good as the more advanced T-80.

But, for now, that's enough!

Of course, there are also unlucky ones.

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A slender tungsten alloy rod penetrated directly into the main armor of a T-72 tank without detonating the reactive armor.

The reactive armor is block-shaped and fixed with bolts. However, due to various reasons, it is impossible to cover all positions with reactive armor. As a result, this armor-piercing projectile just penetrated through the gap between two pieces of reactive armor!

Without the blocking of reactive armor, the tungsten alloy armor-piercing bullet immediately penetrated the main armor! When the debris generated during the penetration process hit the ammunition of the turntable automatic loader, a powerful explosion instantly blew the turret more than a meter high!

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Thick black smoke and blazing flames enveloped the unfortunate tank. The turret fell heavily from the sky and turned to the side. The black smoke was still emitting, as if telling something.

Fighting requires sacrifice, but for freedom, this sacrifice is worth it!

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It works, it works! Montel was excited when he saw the tank on the opposite side being destroyed. Other shells flew away, but this one hit the enemy and destroyed it!

So what are you afraid of? Keep shooting!

After discovering that one of their tanks had been destroyed, the East German armored soldiers became completely furious.

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"Fire missiles and beat the Americans!" Carl shouted loudly on the radio.

Gun-launched missiles! Compared to the Western world, the Soviet Union has a unique weapon in its equipment, which is the gun-launched missile!

Originally, at this distance, the use of depleted uranium armor-piercing shells would have been enough, but the destruction of their own tanks completely angered the East German armored soldiers, so they used their most powerful weapons without hesitation.

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In the last island war, the Soviet Union already had a mature artillery-launched missile, the 9M112 artillery-launched missile, with a maximum range of 4,000 meters, a theoretical hit rate of 80%, and a vertical static armor-piercing power of 600 mm. Its performance was already quite powerful at the time.

Now, several years later, the Soviet Union has developed a newer gun-launched missile, the 9M119 Reed Diver. Compared with the original 9M112, the biggest change is the replacement of the original radio command guidance with semi-active laser guidance, which greatly improves reliability.

The maximum range is still 4,000 meters. At the same time, the new warhead has been improved, and the rocket engine has been creatively placed in front of the main charge. From the tip of the warhead to the back, it is: the first-stage hollow armor-piercing charge cap, the rocket engine, and the second-stage hollow armor-piercing charge cap (main charge). In this way, the length-limited gun-launched missile has realized the series connection of hollow armor-piercing charges for the first time, allowing the gun-launched missile to have the ability to penetrate reactive armor!

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The vertical static armor-piercing power of the missile warhead is 700 to 900 mm. Not to mention the M1 with Chobham armor now, even the M1A1 with depleted uranium armor can never withstand the attack of such a missile!

The Americans' firing made the East German tank soldiers extremely angry. With the roar of the muzzles, the 9M119, dragging flames, flew towards the opposite side!

The only drawback is that the flight time of the gun-launched missile is a bit long. However, the Americans load the shells manually, and the speed is not very fast.