Red Soviet Union

On the battlefield of the island country, the American-made m1 tank used a 105mm tank gun. Even if it fired the latest armor-piercing shells, it could not destroy the Soviet T-72 tank. Therefore, the United States knew at that time that the 105mm tank gun could not stop it. Soviet armor flooded.

If you want to continue to gain an advantage, you can only continue to find a way on the caliber of the tank gun! At the same time, because the German Leopard 2 tanks have already started to use 120mm tank guns, the United States introduced the 120mm tank guns from Rheinmetall and replaced them with m1 tanks.

However, in the early morning battle, the Challenger's 120mm tank gun did not pose a threat to the T-72 tank at all, which put a lot of psychological pressure on the American tank soldiers. Although the British rifled guns were somewhat outdated, but, The armor-piercing performance of their armor-piercing projectiles is also quite good. Since their guns cannot penetrate Soviet tanks, their own guns may not be effective either.

Fortunately, apart from the 120mm tank guns, they have other ways to deal with tanks. For example, in the current Hardett barracks, there are more than a dozen four-wheel launchers of anti-tank missiles. At the same time, there are more than 20 Equipped with individual anti-tank missiles.

In this way, they still have the ability to strike Soviet-made tanks from a long distance!

TOW anti-tank missiles!

This is a second-generation heavy-duty anti-tank missile weapon system developed by the Hughes Aircraft Company of the United States in 1962, with tube launch, optical aiming, infrared automatic tracking, and wired guidance. It was mass-produced and equipped with troops in 1970. At the same time, this missile was widely used in the Vietnam War and the Fourth Middle East War, and achieved good results.

Now, this missile has also undergone some improvements and is named Tao 1 missile. It shortens the launch tube to 1067 mm, which is beneficial to overcome the difficulty of manipulating the launch device under large lateral wind conditions. At the same time, the firing range has been increased from 3000 meters to 3750 meters. The armor-piercing ability has also been further improved, reaching the level of static armor-piercing ability of 800 mm.

This is also the greatest hope of the U.S. army. If these missiles fly out, even if they can destroy twenty T-72 tanks, the tank troops on the opposite side will be hit hard! As long as they stop and stop attacking, they can effectively delay time!

One after another, the missiles flew out of the launch tube, dragging their flames. At the same time, the operator's eyes were fixed on the sight, pressing the reticle on his target at all times.

The tail of the missile continuously releases wires, and through these wires, guidance information continuously enters the missile.

No, they fired missiles, damn it! The soldiers of the West German Defense Force who ran over with the tank suddenly opened their eyes wide. They were originally behind the tank, and their subconscious movements immediately fell to the ground. .

They are familiar with this weapon. After improvement, the armor-piercing ability of this weapon has reached the level of 800mm! Even our own Leopard 2 tanks can't stop the fire of this anti-tank missile!

After a while, when the tank is hit, it will explode. At that time, if it is too close, it will be affected!

Compared with the speed of armor-piercing projectiles fired by tank guns at eight or nine hundred meters per second, the speed of missiles is very slow, about three hundred meters per second. It takes seven or eight seconds to fly a distance of two thousand meters.

The soldiers of the West German Defense Force lying on the ground could see the missiles going up and down, but they were actually constantly adjusting their flight trajectories. Then, a TOW missile accurately hit a tank in front of them. !

In the next moment, the tank might be killed. Thinking of the turret flying high, the soldiers on the side felt terrible. I hope the tankers can walk quickly and not experience pain!

The TOW anti-tank missile flew up like this! Its front warhead just hit the turret of the t-72 tank!

Unfortunately, the first thing it encountered was explosive reactive armor!

When the impact is felt,

The piezoelectric fuze of the warhead of the TOW anti-tank missile is triggered, detonating the 3.6 kg high explosive charged in the rear shaped warhead. The conical cavity at the front end of the warhead is close to a metal charge The hood gathers the energy generated by the explosion on the target, and at the same time makes the melted drug-shaped hood form a metal jet and shoot forward, rushing towards the target armor in front!

Unlike thin-rod armor-piercing projectiles, missiles do not adopt head-to-head tactics because their speed is not high, but use metal jets to burn through them! This is the hollow charge shaped warhead! The charge is made into a hollow cylindrical powder column with a tapered hole, and a metal cover is added on the surface of the tapered hole powder, so that the molten metal cover will converge into a stream of metal with high speed, temperature and pressure during the explosion. Energy jets, the focus effect, destroy armor!

At the same time, after entering the armor, the metal heat flow will continue to attenuate. If it penetrates the armor before the decay is over, it is called a successful breakdown. If the energy of the metal heat flow decays to zero and does not penetrate the armor, it is a failure. up.

However, now, this metal jet has encountered a third situation!

Because, at the same time it exploded, the other side also exploded!

The reactive armor was hit violently, and it was also detonated at the same time! The wedge-shaped steel plate makes the explosive produce an asymmetrical detonation. The dynamic steel plate moves quickly and produces a shearing effect.

Originally, it was going to wear out the armor-piercing rod that came up, but now, it felt different, a jet of metal came towards it!

No matter what it is, what comes and consumes!

As a result, the rushing metal jet was also consumed by the moving steel plates! And, more importantly, because of the effect of the steel plate, this metal jet deviated from its direction!

As a result, this metal jet, which was able to penetrate the stationary 800 mm thick uniform armor, had no strength to attack the main armor after being consumed by the reactive armor! Not even armor-piercing bullets are as effective!

This is determined by the basic principle. The armor-piercing of the energy-gathering warhead relies on the converging metal jets, but now, the jets are blocked by the reactive armor, consumed and diffused, and they lose the ability to attack!

Reactive armor, anti-shape warhead is more effective! This is also in later generations. In order to fight against reactive armor, two-stage series hollow charges were used, that is, two hollow charge warheads were connected in series. The smaller charge in the front detonated first, blowing up the reactive armor, and then the main weapon The drug detonated and penetrated the main armor! The axes of these two charges must be strictly on a straight line, so that the armor-piercing effect will be better.

However, this is already the Tao 2a missile. Historically, it was only entered service in 1987. Now, the best anti-tank missile in the United States is still the Tao 1 in their hands!

This kind of missile is ineffective against the t-72 wearing reactive armor!