Chapter 1377: The depression angle is not enough
The opponent is really cunning!
When the 66th Armored Battalion, the vanguard arrived, the battalion commander Karl Maus looked at the tank in the mud in the distance and admired his opponent.
The height is too low.
It is impossible for your tank guns to have such a depression angle, that is, if you rashly launch an attack now, your shells will almost always fly above the opponent's turret, and they will not hit the opponent's tank at all.
The other side can easily project their shells onto their own tanks, although with additional armor, the protection performance of the Tiger tank has been greatly improved, they can carry it hard, but after all, it will also cause damage to the armor.
If the angle is not coincidental, you may be pierced by the other party.
Now, a thousand meters away, Karl-Maus ordered his tank to stop, and he looked at the tank with only the turret exposed, and he almost admired the other side.
The position of the opponent is also very clever, just on the side of the road, that is, if your tank troops want to advance, they must pass over its side, even if it is a Tiger tank, the end of being hit by a 122mm tank gun on the side is quite terrible.
A tank stuck in a mud puddle actually blocked the way of its entire armored division, and I really don't know what to say.
"The best thing we can do is call in air support." On his side, the gun commander also spoke: "We can't hit it, but our HS-129 attack aircraft can easily destroy it." ”
"Yes, the best thing to do is to call our attack aircraft, but our time is precious!"
Yes, time is precious.
Attack aircraft cannot be in the sky at all times, call the HS-129, it will take at least twenty minutes, they will lose precious time!
What is Karl Maus worried about? Of course, it's because I'm worried that the enemy will run away!
There is no doubt that these tanks will not appear here for no reason, it must be that the enemy accidentally fell here when he was retreating, which means that their large army is nearby, and for tankers, fighting with the enemy's tanks is the most exciting, and Karl Maus can't help but want to catch up.
Twenty minutes is enough to make the other party run away, and he is running out of time.
"But we don't have enough pitch." The gun commander said.
"The pitch angle is not enough, the skids come to make up!" Karl Mauss said: "Remove our skids, put them behind the tank, prop them up, and increase our depression angle!" ”
Since it was driving in a swampy area, the tank troops had long been prepared, and behind each tank, there was a thick log, anyway, the Soviet Union lacked nothing else, at least this wood was not lacking.
This piece of wood was originally intended to be used when the car was trapped, but now it can be taken out in advance!
"We have to aim at it, otherwise it's easy to overturn," said the gun commander.
"Understood." The driver in front gently pulled his steering wheel, and the Tiger tank's hydraulic transmission understood the intention, and the track on the left turned forward, and the track on the right turned backwards, allowing the tank to make a dashing turn on the spot.
The hull was facing the Stalin tank, and the loader got out of the turret, climbed behind the tank, pulled the steel cable, loosened the log carried behind the hull, and it rolled off.
"Reverse!" The loader stood behind the tank and shouted loudly.
The tracks on both sides are shaking, slowly retreating backwards, little by little to the log, when the track and the log touch, the log turned, and the bark outside was gnawed off by the tracks, fortunately, I ate hard, and went up smoothly!
When both tracks went up, the hull of the tank leaned forward at once, and the gun commander looked at his vision and shouted loudly: "Good! ”
Although the hull of the car is only raised by about ten degrees from the back, it is enough to support the aiming of the tank gun, and the gun commander is slowly turning his steering wheel, he must aim!
German tank guns and sights were quite sophisticated, which allowed them to fire at long distances, but not the Soviet ones, beyond 500 meters, the hit rate was reduced considerably, and when a thousand meters away, the hit rate was not even 10 percent.
Now, Stalin's tank only left a turtle shell on the horizon, and it was originally intended to be able to kill a few more German tanks, but now, the German tank actually stopped a thousand meters away, and the gun commander watched in the sight that the other party was actually going to warp the tank, and his heart sank.
"The Germans' tanks actually increased the depression angle by tilting the hull, and we don't have time, let's fight." The gun commander said to the commander.
Commander Yuri's heart also sank, it seems that the tactics they formulated are useless, and they plan to wait for the other party to get close and kill a few more, but now it seems that the other party does not plan to approach at all, and wants to fire at his own side from a distance.
Because Stalin's tanks were too slow to reload, they didn't open fire right away, and by now, Yuri knew that there was no need to wait.
"Aim for me." Yuri said, "Their hulls are cocked, just in time for us to hit the top of their turrets, and we must penetrate their tanks!" ”
The protection of any tank cannot be the same everywhere, and the top is definitely the weakest, such as the Stalin tank, the frontal protection is more than 100 mm, but the top is not even 50 mm, so the HS129 in the air can easily penetrate it with a 40 mm cannon.
Germans, certainly the same.
"Understood." The gun commander carefully adjusted his tank gun, and when he stepped on the blaster, he saw that the target tank was actually bursting with a burst of fire.
"Boom!" Almost simultaneously, 88-mm tank guns and 122-mm tank guns were fired!
If it is compared to the caliber, then of course, 122 mm is more dominant, but the German technology is more advanced, when the shell flies out of the barrel, the rear butt is thrown away, the tail is open, and the slender core flies towards the opposite side.
At the same time, Karl Maus shouted: "Drive!" ”
Of course, he also saw the opposite side firing, although the distance was a thousand meters, he still couldn't take it lightly, compared with the opposite side, his advantage was that he could move, stand up and shoot a cannon, and after the cannon, of course he had to dodge.
A puff of black smoke rose from the tail of the Tiger tank, the diesel engine rattled, and the tracks gnawed at the bark and thundered down from the logs behind.
Then, the 122mm shell flew past the top of its turret, breaking the radio antenna behind it, and the shell flew past with a terrible roar, causing everyone's eardrums in the turret to hurt.