Chapter 1255: Blocking by Five Anti-Tank Guns
A hard-fought battle began.
The Stalin tank is also divided into many models, the original models, Stalin-1 and Stalin-2, look like an enlarged T-34, the turret is also very similar, until the Stalin -3, it began to change a lot, the turret has become a round tortoise shell, since then the protection has improved by leaps and bounds, and it has almost become a standardized turret style until the T-90 in later generations.
The current Stalin tank is a crossover of Stalin-1 and Stalin-2, almost directly starting from Stalin-3, stimulated by the T-34, in the shadow of the failure of the KV tank, Kotin can be regarded as showing some real skills.
It is only because of the defects of the power system that although this tank has a good bulletproof appearance, the overall weight is only 46 tons, which is far from the 60 tons like the later Stalin-4.
The Stalin-4 is the product of quick success, the power of the diesel engine can not keep up, so that the tank's maneuverability is very poor, at the same time, the transmission system is unreliable, often malfunctioning, plus the most terrible overturn king, the turret turned 30 degrees may overturn, the result is only a few hundred units produced.
However, the 250 mm thick armor on the front of the Stalin-4 turret is definitely a miracle, and the current Stalin tank, the frontal turret thickness is only 160 mm, which is still a good spherical effect.
In the past, it was able to withstand the blow of the Tiger tank's 88mm gun, not because it was thick enough, but because of the terrible ricochet, and now, the tungsten alloy core has not been ejected, it has penetrated!
The tungsten alloy warhead was rapidly drilling into it, melting a small hole in the surrounding armor steel, and at the same time, its speed was getting slower and slower, slower and slower, and when its storage speed was less than one-third, the front had already been drilled through.
With a speed of several hundred meters per second, with the surrounding melted heat, with a fierce murderous aura, the warhead burrowed into the turret.
The thickness of 160 mm, converted into German armor steel, is at most 130 mm, and in the cast turret, there are countless bubbles, and now, the 75 mm shelling armor-piercing projectile will not waste much strength at all, as long as it can hit and not be bounced off, it will definitely be able to penetrate!
The warhead pierced in, flew in the narrow turret, and first hit the body of the most unlucky commander, and the commander's body was instantly pierced by the red-hot armor-piercing projectile, and before he even had time to scream, a large hole appeared in his body, with countless flesh and blood splashes, and the warhead continued to penetrate backwards, hitting the back of the turret, and then rebounded back and pierced into the body of the gun commander.
The entire turret was full of bloody scenes, but, fortunately, this armor-piercing shell did not detonate the tank.
Yes, the tank is still there, it has not been destroyed.
If it is an armor-piercing shell of a naval gun, the internal charge is charged, while the armor-piercing projectile of a tank has only a hard metal rod, and it cannot directly produce an explosive effect.
Most tanks, after being hit by an armor-piercing projectile, the armor-piercing projectile flies with a hot current, which can always hit the ammunition, hit the engine, and detonate the inside of the tank.
Of course, there are unexpected situations, such as right now.
The tank was accurately hit, and all three people inside the turret had turned into pulp, but the tank still existed.
This made the artillery of the anti-tank gun on the opposite side quite depressed, and Locke thought that he had missed the hit.
At this time, the second armor-piercing shell had just been loaded, and he wanted to give the tank another shot, but he saw that the target tank stopped, and the driver in front of him crawled out of it covered in blood.
The tank was hit, and the flesh of several people in the back splashed on the driver in front, and the driver's heart was full of fear, he thought that his tank was going to explode in the next moment, and quickly opened the hatch and climbed out.
His battle is over, even if he continues to drive forward, there is no one behind him, he can't continue to fight in a tank, at most he is just pretending.
"Boom!" The second armor-piercing projectile, again flew to a Stalin tank to its right, and this time, missed, and the tank was still advancing.
"Quick, keep shooting!" Locke shouted loudly from the gun emplacement.
All kinds of German artillery, the rate of fire is quite high, the current 75 mm anti-tank gun, the rate of fire is as high as 14 rounds per minute, almost less than five seconds to complete a shot, if the other side is more scattered, then it will waste some time to aim at the target, but now, the Soviets' tanks are quite densely arranged, in this case, the well-trained anti-tank gunners give full play to the advantages of the artillery, almost every five seconds.
This almost drove the tank forces of the Soviets crazy.
Near him, there were also four 75mm anti-tank guns, and an anti-tank gun battery composed of these five anti-tank guns actually contained the attack of hundreds of their tanks!
It's unbelievable.
Their first few shells were fired at the Stalin tanks, and the five guns, each firing about four shells, destroyed eight Stalin tanks.
How much time did they take? It's less than twenty seconds!
How far can a tank unit advance in twenty seconds? It's just a hundred meters, a hundred meters away!
What could be more maddening?
From a distance of fifteen hundred meters, they rushed to fourteen hundred meters, and their eight Stalin tanks were scrapped, and on the opposite side, there were no tank units of the Germans, just a few infantry guns.
Now, they can't shoot back, their tank guns, they can't shoot accurately at a distance of more than a thousand meters, and now if they want to shoot, they have to stop, which will make their impact even slower, and every minute of delay, there will be a lot of danger.
The commander of the tank unit, Christoph, was a little cold, and he originally thought that Stalin's tanks were strong enough to break through with Lieutenant General Muzichenko first, but the Stalin tanks were reimbursed!
He was not in the Stalin tank, but on a T-34 tank, after all, the spherical turret of the Stalin tank led to a rather cramped interior space, and there was no way to arrange more than two radios needed to command the tank.
Now that all the Stalin's tanks have been killed, Kristof has realized that something is wrong, but unfortunately he has no other way, as long as he starts to charge, then there is only one option left: "Charge, even if there is one tank left, rush over and open a gap for our infantry!" ”
They are determined to charge with the determination to die, and such troops are the most combat-effective.