Chapter 207: Uranium Dust
A large iron mound more than a meter thick! Hearing this, Locke suddenly had a feeling that the world was spinning, God! How did the Soviets, a bunch of madmen, do it?
Impossible, absolutely impossible!
Now, the L7 type 105-mm tank gun, which is widely equipped in the West, at a distance of a thousand meters, the penetration depth of the most advanced armor-piercing shells cannot reach 500 mm, and the 125-mm tank guns of the Soviets have a penetration depth of up to one meter? It's certainly not possible!
It must have been the Soviets who were acting in front of Albert!
"Albert, are you sure that it was the Soviets who fired from their tanks?" Locke froze and asked Albert. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
"Of course, it was a tank next to us that fired, the sound was very loud at that time, my ears are still buzzing, the distance should be fifteen hundred meters, when I went to look at it, the iron block that was penetrated, the hole was still hot, my hands didn't dare to go up and touch it, there was an iron chute next to the hole, it must have just hit." "The Soviets warned me not to take pictures and not to write about the situation in the newspapers," Albert said. β
The target is still hot! That must have just been pierced! Hearing this, Locke suddenly remembered something: "Come on, take Mr. Albert to the hospital for an examination!" β
"Hey, I'm not sick, why should I go to the hospital?" Albert said: "When you're done, I'm going to write a manuscript, I'm busy, and I can't make it to tomorrow's newspaper if I procrastinate." β
"For your health. Mr. Albert, you may have been exposed to an excess of radioactive elements, and you may develop cancer. Locke's words immediately frightened Albert.
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Yokota. U.S. Forces Command in Japan.
"Locke, is the intelligence reliable?" Holding the information that has just been printed. There was still the smell of ink on it, and the commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, Major General Field Taylor, had a serious face.
Intelligence above. It was difficult for Major General Field to accept that the tanks of the Soviets had become so powerful in performance?
"Basically reliable." Locke didn't feel the other party's rudeness at Major General Field's question, after all, even he couldn't believe it.
The Soviets' 125-mm tank guns, in the last war, had already verified their absolute superiority over the tanks of the island nation, and the Type 61 was penetrated with one shot. The armor of the Type 74 could not stop the fire of the 125-mm tank gun.
However, even then, the Americans were confident in their M1 tanks. After all, no matter how powerful the Soviets' tank guns are, that is, a depth of three or four hundred millimeters, the M1 composite armor developed from Chobham armor has a protection level of nearly 500 millimeters of homogeneous armor, coupled with the oblique arrangement, it is enough to block a 125 mm tank gun.
This is also the deployment of the Americans with their own M1 tanks to Hokkaido. The reason for the use of the islanders, with the help of a skirmish, even to test the performance of their own new tank, at the same time. Even if it is penetrated, it is the islanders who die.
At the same time, in order to increase the protection of the Type 74 tanks of the island nation. The United States provided the island nation with composite armor mounted on the front of the turret and the main armor of the hull of the Type 74 tank. All that is offered is the finished product. The manufacturing process and ingredients are unknown to the islanders.
Only these new tanks. to be able to achieve superiority over Soviet tanks, there is no qualitative superiority, and there is no quantitative superiority, this is still a fart.
But now, this quality advantage doesn't seem to be an advantage anymore. Of course, Rear Admiral Field knew that the latest M1 tank could not withstand this kind of armor-piercing projectile all at once.
Basically reliable! It's not that I don't believe it, it's just that I don't want to believe it, and now, it seems that the Soviets' armored equipment technology is far ahead of the United States.
"We examined two journalists, Albert and Yoron, and extracted a small amount of radioactive uranium from their bodies, which shows that the Soviets did use depleted uranium armor-piercing shells, and we have also experimented in China, depleted uranium armor-piercing shells will burn in the process of armor-piercing, increasing armor-piercing ability. It's just that this armor-piercing bullet will cause a certain amount of environmental pollution, and people nearby will have the possibility of inhaling excessive uranium dust. Locke said.
The Soviets could falsify on the iron block, for example, the middle was empty, but they would never falsify in the surrounding environment, and the discovery that the two had inhaled radioactive uranium dust almost determined that the Soviets had indeed mastered the technology of depleted uranium armor-piercing shells. And with this technology as a basis, plus the large caliber of the 125-mm tank gun, it is also possible to reach a penetration depth of one meter.
One meter of penetration! The M1 tank was also papier-mΓ’chΓ© in front of the Soviets!
"And what about the armor protection of the Soviets' tanks?" Major General Field asked.
If the Soviets only hit the tank guns far, it would not make their own side completely lose confidence, and the M1 tank with gas turbines has the acceleration performance that other tanks can match, that is, they have the ability to dodge the shells fired by the other side.
As long as they rush forward, the Soviets' tanks will still become their own targets, and the M1 tank has an excellent fire control system, and the first hit rate of dynamic and dynamic movements is also quite high.
"The ability to protect is classified, we don't know, but if you look at these photos, the Soviets have added something to their tanks." Locke said.
In the last battle, the Soviets' T-72 tank, once by the island nation's Type 74 tank at close range, the bombardment blew up the tank turret, which is still the oldest 105 tank gun armor-piercing shell of the islanders, and the United States has the latest development of the 105 mm tank gun armor-piercing projectile, after conversion, you can get a thousand meters away, the M1 tank is also able to penetrate the main armor of the Soviets' tank.
The Soviets also knew this, so the Soviets would definitely rebuild their tanks, and now, the bricks that appear on these tanks should be their transformation based on combat experience.
Locke didn't know what it was, and the experienced Major General Field, glanced at it and chuckled in his heart: "It's explosive reactive armor!" β
Explosive reactive armor was a popular means of tank protection ten years ago, but due to various technical problems, many countries froze the project after research. Major General Field, however, knew that the Israeli Rafael company had successfully manufactured the "Jacket" reactive armor and equipped it on their tanks, which greatly improved the level of protection of old M60 and other tanks.
Now, these Soviets are obviously explosive reactive armor, but they are more massive, and it seems that this reactive armor of the Soviets should be more effective. (To be continued.) )