Chapter 671: Tungsten Alloy Armor-Piercing Bullet
Just now, they shifted their positions once, but now, they don't have time, the other side is already very close, if they move again, they can't wait to shoot again, they will be caught up by the other side.
At such times, they are left only to fight, fight!
Can't wear it? Then keep fighting!
At the same time as they opened fire, other firepower on the front line also began to fire, except for the terrible KV-1 tank, the rest of the tanks, there was nothing to fear.
Even Finnish soldiers, armed with anti-tank guns, were able to beat the BT-5 to the point of smoke immediately.
At this time, the KV-1 tank, which did not stop firing, was obviously a waste of time if it was advancing so slowly.
At this time, puffs of black smoke came out of the tail engine of the KV-1 tank, and it was constantly moving forward.
Crush the past! The defense line is in one direction, as long as he can rush through, and when he gets behind the defense line, these soldiers guarding the defense line will have to flee in the wilderness, and even they don't need to open fire, just use machine gun fire, they can beat the Finns to the ground!
"Boom!" The 50-mm anti-tank guns continued to fire, and now they have fired five shells, and the tank on the opposite side has also rushed to a distance of a hundred meters!
This shell flew to the opposite side again, but unfortunately, just like just now, it still couldn't penetrate the opponent's armor!
That huge monster-like tank is rumbling towards them! At this time, inside the tank, Mirokov and others were already full of confidence.
Their tanks, the most powerful, nothing will be able to penetrate their armor!
According to the information at the time of training, the thickness of the frontal armor of their tanks was up to 130 mm! This thickness is definitely more than the tanks of the Germans, so they will not be afraid of being penetrated at all, because in this era, anti-tank weapons that can penetrate them do not exist at all!
Finns, let me see how strong the Soviet army is!
The tank, rumbling forward, has just been hit by five shots, the opponent's head is quite high, but unfortunately, it can't be penetrated!
The driver even aimed at that side and drove over, first killing the opponent's anti-tank gun position!
Crush them all to death with your own tracks!
Here, Pattifo gritted his teeth and shouted, "Reload, keep reloading!" ”
There is only one chance left for one shot, and this one, if it can no longer be penetrated, then it can only be carried with an anti-tank grenade! Damn it, how thick is this tank of the Soviets?
You must know that this kind of anti-tank gun of your own side can penetrate 78 mm thick vertical steel plates 500 meters away, is it possible that the thickness of the opponent's armor is more than 100 mm?
"Yes!" The loader replied as he picked up the last shell in the ammunition box.
On their side, there were two ammunition boxes, and in each ammunition box, there were six shells, and now, in this ammunition box, only the last one remained.
When the loader picked it up, he clearly felt that this shell was heavier than the ones just now, what was going on?
Just as he quickly stuffed the shell into the chamber, his eyes saw that the color of the warhead was much brighter than the steel armor-piercing bullet just now!
"Fire!" At this moment, the tank on the opposite side had already moved to a distance of fifty meters, and this was already the last one! The ammo in the other ammo box is useless!
If this one can't be penetrated...
Pattifo's mind stopped here, and he watched as the shell he fired accurately hit the Soviets' tank close at hand, and he could even see several deep craters on the opponent's gun shield and the hull of the vehicle, all of which were left by his own shooting just now.
And this time, the shell, which carried their expectations, flew to the target at high speed, smashed heavily on the armor, and then, with all its might, the warhead drilled forward, drilled forward, and suddenly, the front of the head loosened.
It's been drilled through!
The warhead got into it, and just rubbed against the turret armor, forming a high temperature, and at this time, Mirokov in the turret seemed to smell the smell of scorching.
A thin molten metal splattered down with the armor-piercing projectile, and when it splashed on the gunner, the gunner made a terrible sound.
His pain was not long, the warhead that got in happened to hit the ammunition behind them, and then a violent explosion came!
"Boom!" The 76 mm shell emitted a violent explosion, and the high-temperature and high-pressure gas instantly stirred up a piece of flesh and blood in the entire turret, and there was no complete human body in it, all of which became like burnt meat filling.
The high-pressure gas drilled into the seat of the turret, where it was not tightly sealed, and then the gas began to vent.
If you look from the outside, you can see that with a loud bang, the seat of the turret is outward, and hot flames and black smoke come out, and with the explosion, the turret is lifted half a meter high, and then it falls down heavily.
Inside, there can't be another living person!
Destroyed, finally destroyed!
Pattifo suddenly remembered something and excitedly shouted: "Against this tank, you can use our tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells!" ”
It's not because of the proximity that they penetrate the opponent's, the opponent's tank, the armor is quite thick! How thick? Definitely more than a hundred millimeters!
Therefore, steel armor-piercing bullets cannot penetrate the opponent, even at zero distance!
Fortunately, in their ammunition, in addition to steel armor-piercing bullets, there is another one, that is, tungsten alloy armor-piercing bullets!
At the time of trial production, this 50 mm anti-tank gun, when using tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells, had a speed of nearly 1,200 meters per second, an effective range of 2,700 meters, and could penetrate 120 mm vertical steel plates at 500 meters!
Therefore, tungsten alloy armor-piercing bullet is a way that can significantly and effectively improve armor-piercing ability!
In later generations, armor-piercing bullets were almost dominated by tungsten alloy, and better than it, only depleted uranium armor-piercing bullets remained.
Armor-piercing bullets, hard hitting, the higher the strength, the better, tungsten alloy hardness, is the highest.
However, such armor-piercing shells are not equipped in large quantities, because, tungsten alloy is too expensive!
If it were a historical situation, Germany would not have had the luxury of using tungsten alloy to make artillery shells, which is simply a tyrannical thing. But now, with the secret excavation of tungsten ore in Austria, Germany can now mine 400,000 tons of stone and produce 1,800 tons of commercial metal tungsten every year.
Therefore, German tank guns also began to be equipped with a certain proportion of tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells.
Of course, if it was for Finland, it should not have supported tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells, but these shells were not shipped from the factory, but were eliminated from Germany's own equipment sequence.
And when Germany was equipping, in an ammunition box, six shells, one of them was a tungsten alloy warhead! Experienced artillery commanders cherish tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells and will use them when necessary!