Red Soviet Union

As if it was retribution, on the front, the Challenger tank had just destroyed an m60 tank, and then, on the side, a Challenger tank was destroyed by a tank of unknown origin!

Seeing the destruction of the Challenger tank, the morale of the West German Defense Force, which had just been severely hit, was immediately restored!

This is just the beginning!

The t-72 with an automatic loader has a rate of fire of six to eight rounds per minute, so, within the time the British guy reacted, the first round of shooting of the t-72 tank has already begun! At the same time, some even started the second round of shooting!

Not every shell can hit the target. The theoretical 90% first-shot hit rate will definitely drop to less than 30% in actual combat. And now, the t-72 tank rushing over, fired for the first time in the dynamic-to-static shooting, destroyed more than a dozen Challenger tanks, and the accuracy was already quite high!

At the same time, the well-trained British armored soldiers, their counterattacks have already begun!

Of course they would not stay in place and wait to be beaten. When they found out that the Soviet tanks were rushing from the side, they immediately made the right response!

Push the shift lever, the engine of the tank rumbles, David Brown's tn54 automatic transmission drives the tank to reverse, and at the same time, operate the steering wheel, the tank changes direction during the process of reversing, turning its strongest front Armor, facing the most dangerous direction just now.

However, they were not at ease, because in the previous island wars, American tanks that used the same Chobham armor as the Challenger tanks were penetrated by Soviet tanks from the front. Data, their tanks, armor penetration up to a meter!

This is also the reason why they didn't put forward gear. If the tanks from the Soviets came and they were still charging forward, wouldn't they be courting death? Must go back, back!

While retreating, he used his strongest main armor to face the threat, and started shooting on the move.

Boom! With a huge roar, a tail-stabilized shell-piercing shell flew out from the muzzle of the 120mm rifled gun!

With the further expansion of the caliber of tank guns, almost all mainstream tank guns use smoothbore guns. Among them, the 120mm tank gun produced by the German Rheinmetall company is the most advanced. However, the proud British Army still firmly holds the rifled gun hold on.

Rifled guns make the shells more accurate when they fly out, but the rifling squeezes the shells, which will reduce the muzzle velocity of the shells. Moreover, smoothbore guns can make thousands of rounds, while rifled guns can grind the rifling after one or two hundred rounds. Gone.

Also, rifling is a scourge for fin-stabilized sabot-piercing rounds.

Originally, the shells of smoothbore guns do not spin when flying out, or the spin is very small, so the tail fins are needed to stabilize them. However, when the rifled guns fly out, they spin, and adding tail fins is superfluous. Moreover, if the long-rod armor-piercing projectile spins at high speed, it is impossible to be stable at all, and it will lose stability instead.

Therefore, when the Challenger’s armor-piercing projectile is launched, the warhead adds a sliding bullet belt to reduce the rotational speed, and when the warhead goes out, it actually still rotates, but it’s not powerful, and the tail of this armor-piercing projectile is actually counterproductive. , which is to further reduce the rotation of the warhead and increase the stability.

The British Army is a very traditional and conservative army. Although it was the first army to invent tanks in history, it has always used tanks as weapons to support infantry, rather than independent main combat weapons.

Now, the 120mm rifled gun flies out of the shell. One of the advantages of the rifled gun is its high accuracy!

Sure enough, with their hope in mind, the tail-stabilized armor-piercing projectile smashed into the opposite T-72 tank with a sharp roar!

Boom! The pointed warhead flew to the turret of the T-72, but the turret was so untouched that a small-scale explosion occurred just when the two sides had just had close contact!

blast air,

The body of the armor-piercing projectile flickered in an instant, and it continued to drill forward. Who knows, it encountered another small-scale explosion! Once, once in a row, it happened three times in total!

This is the latest reactive armor manufactured by the Soviet Union. Compared with the previous reactive armor, the explosion time is further optimized. In less than one tenth of a second, the reactive armor that looks like a brick on the outside actually has three identical reactive armors inside. The armor unit modules exploded one after another. Each unit has a steel throwing plate and a back plate, which move in reverse during the explosion. Coupled with the thickened steel shell on the outside, these are constantly moving up and down to offset the impact of the armor-piercing projectile. Armor piercing strength!

If the steel plates don’t move, then it can just drill through, but now these steel plates are constantly moving up and down, which means that it has just penetrated the front steel plate, and this steel plate moves downward again, continuing to hinder it from moving forward. Fly forward, you have to keep drilling!

This is the shearing effect, which is the same as restraint armor. If the armor-piercing rod of the armor-piercing projectile is not strong enough, under this shearing effect, the armor-piercing rod may be cut into several pieces directly like cutting ham sausage.

However, the British are already familiar with the manufacture of piercing rods for armor-piercing projectiles. Although there are no piercing rods for depleted uranium armor-piercing projectiles, ordinary tungsten alloy piercing rods are also extremely hard!

After passing through those explosive armors, although the energy attenuation of the tungsten alloy piercing rod is quite severe, it is still drilling inside and entering the main armor!

Drill, keep drilling, tear off the armor, get inside!

Just as it continued to push, a small crack suddenly appeared from the middle of the rod, and then the tungsten alloy rod split into two parts!

Although after many tests, the development of the Challenger tank is still too hasty. This 120mm shell developed from the 105mm rifled gun adopts the same structure as the 105 gun. Hard, but a little brittle! As a result, it broke!

In later generations, it took the UK nearly ten years to develop before it could be considered to have matured this tasteless rifled gun. Now, in just two or three years, the Challenger tank itself still has many flaws. The armor-piercing projectiles tested on the battlefield still have problems when they encounter real sturdy tanks.

This is simply too embarrassing. If the armor-piercing bullet had feelings, it would definitely cry with its broken head at this time.

No breakdown!

The East German soldiers inside the tank had no fear at all. In the war on the island country, the strong protection ability of this tank has been tested, so there is no need to worry about being penetrated!

Boom! At the same time, the T-72 tank here continued to fire, and a Challenger tank that had just fired shells on the opposite side was destroyed!

The fierce exchange of fire here immediately attracted the attention of the United States. Montel knew that there was big trouble this time!