526 Assault, Long Weiyi! (b)
"Didn't hit! Aim and come again! Kassa, as the driver, couldn't help but feel lost when he saw the distant shells just exploding next to the enemy tank.
If this run hits directly next to the opponent's tracks, it will be fine, and the opponent's tank tracks will not be able to withstand the explosion of heavy artillery shells at all.
If you crawl the nest, it will be scrapped directly when the time comes.
Tanks that can't be moved, on the battlefield, basically set up a pile of scrap metal.
"Turn! It fired! "When the commander saw that Ankara in the distance did not hit with a single shot, he immediately scolded China to death, and the Chinese liars bragged that the first hit rate was at least 60 percent, but they only met those 40 percent!
Ankara's heart tightened.
The click of the sprocket inside the automatic loading mechanism told him that the shells had been reloaded.
The opponent's T72 also uses an automatic reloading mechanism, and the rate of fire is no slower than that of the Chinese-produced Longwei tank. The caliber of the main guns of both sides is about the same, and it depends on who can aim more accurately and fight faster, otherwise, they will have to be beaten by the other side.
Seeing the fire spewing from the muzzle of the opponent's gun, Ankara did not pay attention to it, dodging the shells, this is the driver's business. Moreover, the speed of the shell is higher than that of the tank, and if the opponent takes aim, he will not be able to dodge it at all. Nervously with one eye on the scope, listening to the various parameters reported by the commander with his ears pricked up, he kept manipulating the turret with both hands to rotate, and the muzzle of the gun was once again aimed at the T72 that was rushing towards this side, and more tanks also appeared in the scope.
"It's now!" When it felt that the muzzle in front of the scope coincided with the turret of the opposing tank, Ankara pressed the launch button again.
"Boom!" The mouth of the tank's thick barrel erupted again, and then one of the tracks of the entire tank left the ground, flipped slightly to the side, and landed heavily on the uneven ground, shaking the tank like a swing. And it was calm.
I don't know at what point Ankara was already maneuvering the tank turret at a 90-degree angle to the entire tank body.
The huge recoil force made the tank, which was less than forty tons, almost overturned.
"Allah willing!" After this shot, the entire tank came to a standstill, and no one made any more movements, all looking at the Iraqi T72 tank in the distance.
"Shelling! Circumvent to the left! "The tank at the front has already fired a shell. Seeing that their shells had not yet landed, the opponent's shells hit again, and the commander didn't care to observe whether there was a first hit, and commanded the tank to evade, the engine began to roar again, bursts of black smoke came out of the buttocks, and the whole tank roared and rushed out diagonally forward.
"Boom!" The attacking shells exploded more than 10 meters next to the Ryo-1 tank.
Quietly waiting for the shells on his side to hit the opponent's tank No. 111, he didn't pay attention to it at all.
The first shell missed, and the second did not hit. They're in trouble.
The friendly forces behind had not yet come up, and more than a dozen enemy tanks had already appeared in their field of vision.
The distance of more than three kilometers is not far away, and under the full-speed impact of the tank, it takes less than two minutes to collide together. At that time, tank guns were no longer of much use. The best combat distance for a tank is between 1,000 and 5,000 meters.
Of course, the accuracy of shooting at a distance of 5,000 meters will drop a lot. Plus the range of armor-piercing shells tends to be only about two kilometers, beyond this distance. This will greatly reduce the armor-piercing ability of armor-piercing bullets. Such a problem does not exist with ordinary tank shells, and high-explosive armor-piercing shells have a much higher range of action than tail shell-out armor-piercing shells.
"One more shot! Aim in their direction, Casa, and rush forward! While despising the fighting qualities of the invaders, the commander quickly gave the battle order and directed the driver to continue the assault in front. While instructing the gunners to continue firing.
At this moment, he no longer bothered to report the firing parameters displayed by the computer in front of him to the gunners behind him.
"Boom!" The second shell exploded less than three meters behind the T72, and if it weren't for the T72 breaking through to the side, this shell would have really landed on the turret of the tank.
The Chinese did not have a lot of combat experience in tank drivers. Their limited budget and lack of much artillery for them to conduct live-fire training.
The Chinese are better at training without spending money than any other country in the world. In just two months, the best artillerymen were taught by Chinese instructors. You can also learn a lot.
"Boom!" The muzzle of the advancing tank once again flashed with fire and white smoke, and the body continued to shake, but it still did not stop the speed and momentum of the forward impact.
"Allah bless!" This time Ankara did not aim at the opposing tank again, but saw the opposing tank moving to the side, reserved a place for the body of the tank, and fired another shot.
The Chinese instructor told them that they had to judge the direction in which the opposing tank was turning, estimate the opponent's speed, and then calculate how much the opposing tank could move in the time it would take for the shells to reach the opponent. As for measuring the effect of wind on tank shells, it is not said at all, it is something used by snipers, and cannons cannot snipe as accurately as guns.
"Boom!"
This time, the shell landed a little in front of the T72 and exploded, and I saw the dirt flying in the distance, and then I faintly heard the sound of the shell exploding.
After the shell exploded, the opponent's tank did not move a car distance forward, and it stopped moving with black smoke from its buttocks.
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"
Three flashes of fire in a row, the T72 turret on its stomach withstood two shells, and soon, the T72 burst into flames with the sound of explosions, and the turret flew several meters high before falling heavily to the ground.
"Allah willing, keep rushing and kill them!" Suddenly, cheers rang out from inside the tanks that followed.
They were recruits, and their instructors told them that if they went up, they would die, and that they had not completed even the most basic training. However, now that they have just begun to make contact, they have already achieved the result of destroying a tank.
This is a very good stimulus for the confidence of all the people of the entire armored battalion.
When a tank was killed by several shells, the other tank drivers and crews on the Iraqi side were provoked to be ferocious, regardless of the distance. Regardless of whether he aimed or not, he began to aim at the opponent, and then pressed the shell launch button heavily.
"Two kilometers away, drive to the left and use armor-piercing shells against them! These tanks are just a pile of garbage! "Although he did not destroy the opponent's tanks again, neither did his comrades who followed behind. The three people on 111 were not disappointed either. At this distance, they still fired three shots.
The comrades-in-arms in the back also fired a lot of artillery, and without the command of their superiors, many tanks were fighting on their own. Sometimes several shells fell on an opposing tank, and it was easier to hit a target if not a single shell fell.
Seeing that the distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, the distance of two kilometers can already be clearly seen through the naked eye.
This has already allowed the Chinese instructors to let them save on the tail to stabilize the range of the shell-out armor-piercing projectile, and it is a relatively safe range.
The tanks on the Iraqi side, again, did not have an effective command. At the front they destroyed dozens of Iranian Patton tanks, and they had a lot of confidence in the advanced and powerful tanks that the Soviets sold them. Even if one of them is hit, it comes down to each other's luck.
It's not easy to hit a tank with a high-explosive shell!
The thickness of the T72's frontal armor can be very strong.
"Kasa, get closer, it's too far away now. Preferably around fifteen hundred meters! Let our allies attract enemy fire! We have only five special armor-piercing shells! "Ankara's confidence has swelled.
As a college student, and a math student, I have an amazing intuition about various trajectories.
Although neither of the two shells in front was able to hit the opposing tank. Then the explosion of that tank was hit by three shells, and he did not think that he was incapable. If it weren't for him, he killed the opponent's track and made the T72 lie on its stomach. There is simply no way to achieve such results.
The instructor told them that only with a special armor-piercing shell could they hit the T72 with one shot and cause the enemy tank to detonate.
As the distance got closer, several tanks had broken away from the middle line and rushed to the side. They think the same as the number 111 at the front. Attack from the flanks and take out enemies with armor-piercing shells at closer distance!
The chaotic shelling of both sides continued, and the Iranian tanks, without the command of senior officers, were fighting on their own; The officers and men of the Iraqi armored forces, whose eyes were red, who were stimulated by the tremendous merits, also no longer listened to the commander's commands.
They have hundreds of tanks. The other party only has more than 30 cars, which is not enough at all!
They are driving, but the most powerful T72 of the Soviet Union, in the face of those backward Western tanks of the Iranian army, even if they do not stop there, they can carry several guns!
"Avoid! The shells are going to hit us! "Seeing a shell flying in front of his eyes, Commander No. 111 was so frightened that before he could give an order, the enemy's shell exploded on the side of the tank turret.
The sight scope that was facing that side shattered instantly, and I couldn't see that side anymore.
"Kassa, check to see if the tank can still move, don't stop, rush forward! Ankara, are there any problems? If not, give me a hard beating, leave our comrades-in-arms alone, whoever is closest to us, we will beat whom! "After being shot, there was no problem with the interior of the carriage, and the commander hurriedly ordered the driver to check the damage with the gunner.
The automatic alarm in the car does not have any red light display.
If other tanks were to be hit with such a shot, they would definitely have to be scrapped.
At the order of the commander, the driver began to drive the tank to the side, while Ankara maneuvered the battery to the side.
"No problem!"
"No problem!"
If you can start, the turret can rotate left and right, move high and low, and you can continue to fight.
Of course, this also has to be the suspension of the tank, hydraulic shock absorbers and other devices without problems.
"No problem, then beat those calves hard! Don't worry, find the nearest one first, those grandsons have already stopped. Casa, let's get our baby moving, don't stop! The commander excitedly threw a punch on his knee, and it was no problem to take one shot, and it was no problem to take two more shots like this. In a moment of excitement, the swearing words in the mouth of the Chinese instructor also spit out of his mouth.
Ankara licked her upper lip with her tongue, and then, as the instructor usually did, bit the side of her lower lip with her teeth, and her eyes became empty.
After hearing the commander command the target, he quickly took aim, and then controlled the automatic reloading mechanism to reverse, and moved five special armor-piercing shells, which were said to cost thousands of dollars each, to the loading position from the rear.
The T72, which stopped aiming and the barrel began to move downwards, aimed directly at the junction of the turret and the body, and pressed the shell launch button fiercely!
"Boom!"
The shell hit the junction accurately.
However, the high-explosive shells did not allow the opposing turrets to fly.
Controlling the hydraulic reloading mechanism, he once again loaded the special shelling armor-piercing bullet into the barrel, pointed the muzzle that had changed position due to recoil at the tank that had just been shot, and pressed the launch button again!
"Boom!" The fire flashed, and a very pointed, buttocked shell that was different from a normal cannonball, and a silvery-white cannonball flew out of the barrel.
After flying forward for a distance, the thicker part behind the shell suddenly cracked, like the petals of a blooming flower, and opened towards the back, and at this moment, the connection between the open shell and the slender part in the middle like the javelin head once again showed a violent flash of fire, and the sharp armor-piercing projectile gradually increased its speed again, flying towards the target in the distance......
"Bang!" The armor-piercing projectile was driven directly into the side of the T72 turret near the junction with the body, and penetrated inside.
"Boom!" The fire flashed again, and the massive turret flew up again, and then fell heavily to the ground under the attraction of gravity, and the sound of the explosion was transmitted in all directions in the shock wave of the explosion......
"Hahaha! Ankara, well done, that tank on the left, shit, actually opened fire, knock it out! Another shot knocked out a T72, and the commander roared with joy.
They did not know what material the shell-piercing shell was made of.
The Iranian Ministry of Defense purchased tungsten core tail shelling armor-piercing shells, while Liu Yijiu replaced this shell with depleted uranium armor-piercing shells, and installed some new explosives in the middle position, which is not large, only the power of ordinary 23mm cannons.
It is such a power, when the armor-piercing projectile penetrates the T72 turret, the strong jet stream destroys the entire cockpit, and then detonates the explosive part in the middle of the armor-piercing shell in the process of high temperature, and the explosion of the distance in the narrow space makes the entire unprotected magazine explode, and the ammunition of dozens of tank shells explodes at the same time, which can naturally blow up the tank turret of more than ten tons. (To be continued......)