As a veteran country, the British Army has a very deep heritage.

When the Germans threatened tanks, they entered a rapid stage of development, and the first thing to be developed was the 2-pounder gun, a 40 mm anti-tank gun, which was massively equipped with British troops.

Of course, the performance of the real combat also came out, this anti-tank gun, the power of the new tank of the Germans was zero!

Then, they made persistent efforts and developed a 6-pounder anti-tank gun, which in some units was already equipped, but this tank gun with a caliber of 57 mm, on the battlefield in North Africa, showed that it was still not good to penetrate the main armor of the German tanks!

The tanks of the Germans, how thick was the armor? This is a question for everyone, the specific data has always been kept secret, and on the battlefield, there were no cases where the tanks of the Germans were left behind.

Therefore, the exact thickness of the armor of German tanks has always been a mystery, and the British did not stop developing new anti-tank weapons.

In this era, the best way to increase the power of tank guns is, of course, to increase the caliber, and almost all countries do this.

The Germans' tanks were no exception, they had 75 mm and 88 mm tank guns, and the Soviet tanks also carried 76 mm barrels, so the British side was in full swing to develop a new 17-pounder gun.

These are for artillery shells, converted to the barrel, this is 76.2 mm, which is definitely not small, and British anti-tank guns, almost in recent times, have developed by leaps and bounds.

When using the matching MK3T armor-piercing projectile, which can penetrate 110 mm thick average armor at close range, can the German tank be more than 100 mm thick?

Moreover, an updated armor-piercing projectile is still being developed, which can boast a greater penetration depth.

This anti-tank gun was only recently developed, and after that, all of the produced, that is, the first batch of 100, was pushed to the defense line in London, hoping to delay the attack of German tanks.

Of course, it can only be hysteresis.

Even if this anti-tank gun could penetrate the tanks of the Germans? The number is too small! A hundred guns, scattered over a line of more than ten kilometers, will be sparsely sparse.

Here, for example, only two 17-pounder guns can reach, and now, they have to face no opponents like the Panther 3 tank, but even more terrifying big guys!

How thick is the opponent's armor? No one knows, what they do know is that, in general, the bottom of the tank, is the weakest point.

Now, the opponent is climbing the dirt slope, the front end of the car body is raised, and from your own side, you can just see the bottom of the opponent's car body, just hit that place!

"Fire!"

When the behemoth on the opposite side was discovered, this side was shocked and ready to start, especially next to the 17-pounder gun, the gunner nervously stuffed the shell into it, quickly shook the high and low machine, and aimed!

They were aiming at the upper part of the dirt slope, and now, when the opposing tanks appeared, the gunners pulled the gun rope sharply.

"Boom!" At the muzzle, the fire flared, and the 7.69 kg warhead, with an initial velocity of 884 meters per second, flew towards the opposite side with everyone's expectations!

Win or lose!

If the final word is made and the other party is blown up, then the other party's conspiracy will be bankrupt, and the other party will definitely stop for a few days, and when the backup comes, the other side will be more confident.

If you can't get through...

There is no if, when I think of this, the shell has already flown to the bottom of the opponent's hull with a whistling!

In the eyes of everyone, I saw that this shell grazed the bottom armor of the other party, turned in a different direction, and a fierce man pierced into the dirt below!

Bounced!

When the other party raised it just now, the angle was just right, so that the flying cannonball produced a ricochet and pierced to the side!

The last chance of the British, just gone.

They guessed correctly, the bottom of the rat tank has the weakest protection, only 60 mm thick armor, although this armor is already thicker than the main armor of many tanks.

After all, there is no need to worry about armor-piercing shells at the bottom, as long as it is mine-proof.

But what about now? The British, at a tricky angle, fired a shell at the bottom of the opponent, but unfortunately the shell was bounced off.

At this time, the tail was emitting black smoke from a huge engine, and the rat tank, which had already come down from the dirt slope! Its barrel slowly raised.

"Target, straight ahead, anti-tank gun, main gun, grenade, fire!" The commander, Sergeant Rip, shouted calmly.

"Understood!" The two loaders shouted loudly.

The turret of the rat tank is quite large, and there is plenty of space inside, so two loaders are arranged.

One loader picked up the grenade warhead and stuffed it into the chamber, while the other, carrying the propellant bag, stuffed it in the same way, then closed the gun door and shouted: "Reloaded!" ”

If you fire once, you have to reload it twice, yes, this kind of shell is a split ammunition.

As the caliber of the gun increases, the shells will become heavier and heavier, so that the overall shells will cause difficulty in handling, so the shells in separate packs will appear.

This was not a problem, because the 128 mm cannon was originally used as an anti-aircraft gun, and it was first used on German warships, and the automatics could do everything.

Germany has a tradition of changing anti-aircraft guns to tank guns, and the 88-mm gun is the most famous one, and the current rat-type tank is so huge, of course, it can't just take the 88-mm gun, and there is no time to develop a cannon specifically for it, and there is no kind of energy, so it almost copied the 128-mm anti-aircraft gun structure.

It's just that the automatic loading mechanism was not added, manual loading was used, and on the tank, the weight factor had to be taken into account.

The gun commander pressed the button, and the turret turned rapidly under the hydraulic drive, and then he shouted loudly: "Aim and fire!" ”

Fire!

"Boom!" In the loud sound of cannons, the entire turret was filled with smoke.

When the anti-aircraft gun is changed to a tank gun, there must be a lot of improvements, after all, the internal space of the turret is narrow, and the exhaust gas of the shell alone is enough to give the designer a headache, and a special smoking device is required.

But this rat tank, there is no energy for these things now, it is mainly for testing the chassis.

The commander coughed as he wiped the lenses of the scope in front of him and looked ahead.

At the muzzle, a huge fireball erupted, and a 128-mm high-explosive grenade flew forward!

"Boom!" On the gun position of the 17-pounder gun 900 meters away, the heavy anti-tank gun was blown up in an instant! The barrel of the gun was crooked, the wheels on the gun carriage flew to the side, and several gunners, even at this moment, turned into minced meat.

The 128 mm high-explosive grenade is so ferocious!

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