Chapter 924: Counterattack with 125mm grenades
Void! The best hope of the Americans, their anti-tank missiles, was actually not able to tear apart the front armor of Soviet tanks! This also dashed the last hope of the Americans, and at the same time, the launch of these anti-tank missiles completely angered the East German People's Army on the opposite side. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Grenades, launch, kill those anti-tank missiles!" Carl shouted over the radio.
Grenade!
When the tank is moving, it never stuffs ammunition in the chamber, and only when the commander's order comes down, it will be stuffed with the corresponding ammunition, after all, when the target is not clear, it is impossible to determine the type of ammunition, for example, now, if you want to kill those anti-tank missiles, grenades will definitely come more happily! Moreover, compared to armor-piercing shells, it is necessary to aim accurately, and grenades are not needed, as long as they aim at the approximate location, and one shot will be solved!
On the turret seat, a circle of ammunition is rotating rapidly, and then, a grenade is stuffed into the chamber by the automatic loader, according to the position of the opponent when it was fired just now, the gun commander took aim, and then pressed the button.
"Boom!" With a huge explosion, a 125-mm high-explosive grenade flew over!
In addition to the necessary guarding tanks left along the way, the 21st Regiment now has more than seventy T-72 tanks, which are now aimed at those anti-tank missile firing positions in front, almost two shells aimed at one target!
If it is nighttime, it is difficult to aim at a distance of two thousand meters because of the limited distance of infrared imaging night vision devices, but now, the east has brightened, the sky has gradually improved, and the field of vision is wide, what is there not to see?
With the roar of death, the 125-mm high-explosive grenade flew towards the firing positions of those anti-tank missiles!
At this time, the Americans were in amazement, how could they not penetrate it? How can it not be broken down? At this moment, they saw the smoke flying from the muzzle of the opponent's tank, and then they saw those shells flying!
Not good, damn it, they reacted too quickly and fired shells at their side!
Although it is not as spectacular as when the 155 mm grenade is fired, the 125 mm grenade is enough to turn the entire position into a sea of fire! Some American soldiers turned around and ran behind in horror, while others lay on the ground, holding their heads and waiting for that moment to come.
At this time, the anti-tank missiles on the board showed their superiority, and seeing that the situation was not good, they immediately started the car and fell backwards!
However, the shells came violently, almost instantaneously!
"Boom!" An artillery shell exploded two meters from the launch position of an anti-tank missile, and in an instant, the ground shook, and countless shrapnel flew up!
The American soldier lying on the ground, in an instant, felt his chest, as if he had been slapped hard by something, as if he was diving into the water, his belly first touched the water, and it was as if he had been punched in the boxing ring, his throat was hot, and he spit out a mouthful of blood.
He has already suffered serious internal injuries!
When the shells of large-caliber howitzers are flying, lying on the ground is the stupidest option, but running backwards is not a good way either!
The flying shrapnel caught up with the American soldier who was running backwards quickly, and in an instant, he felt a huge wave of air on his back, and countless shrapnel hit his body in the wave of air!
He staggered forward, then fell, bleeding from his mouth, and his back, slowly all turning red.
A jeep, carrying an anti-tank missile launcher, was rapidly moving back, a shell, and it turned out to hit it exactly! In a huge explosion, the entire launch vehicle turned into a flaming fireball!
Of course, there were also lucky ones, several American GIs saw that the situation was not good, and immediately ran in the direction of their own tanks, hiding behind the tanks, listening to the thumping sound of shrapnel hitting the tank's armor after the shells exploded, but fortunately they themselves were unscathed!
The feeling of escaping death was not pleasant, and they felt that their clothes were already soaked.
Anti-tank missiles, which are not suitable for frontal use on the battlefield! Especially the anti-tank missile carried by individual soldiers, it is more suitable for ambushing the position of the opponent's armored troops to carry out a sneak attack from the side, and, after the fight, run away, and immediately transfer the position!
Now, the two sides are on a frontal battlefield! Face to face with anti-tank missiles, shooters are quite dangerous, although anti-tank missiles have a distance advantage, ordinary armor-piercing shells, a distance of two thousand meters is already very against the sky, and anti-tank missiles easily have a range of more than 3,000 meters, but they can't withstand the bombardment of domestic grenades!
The anti-tank missile unit was devastating in an instant, and Montel knew that he had no choice! It must be solved with tank-to-tank!
"Attention, reload armor-piercing shells, ready to destroy the Soviets' tanks." Montel continued to give orders for battle.
Reload armor-piercing bullets! Inside the tall M1 tank, a dark-skinned black loader stuffed heavy armor-piercing shells into the chamber.
At this time, Western tanks had not yet used automatic loaders, and the Frenchman's Leclerc was the first tank to use automatic loaders, but it has not yet been successfully developed. Fortunately, Westerners are already tall, especially in American tanks, and the loaders are almost always played by blacks.
In later generations, although the M1 tank used the same 120 mm smoothbore gun as Germany, the ammunition was completely produced by the Americans themselves, and the depleted uranium armor-piercing projectile produced by the United States relied on its own technology, and the armor-piercing ability was a grade higher than that of Germany's 120 mm.
But now, the United States has hurriedly replaced 120 mm smoothbore guns, and the shells have not yet had time to develop a new type of depleted uranium shells, just like depleted uranium armor, which are still in difficult labor, and American tanks are equipped with ordinary DM33 armor-piercing shells that are the same as those of Germany.
In fact, the 120 mm tank gun, Rheinmetall has been exploring for 60 years, and until 74, this kind of tank gun has already seen the first hints.
At the same time, the firepower of a tank gun is determined not only by the gun itself, but also by the ammunition it uses. And this 44-caliber 120-mm tank gun originally used the DM23 kinetic armor-piercing projectile based on the Israeli M23 Hetz design, which was equipped with a Leopard 2.
DM23 was then replaced by DM33 and began to be exported to many countries, including Japan, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland, among others.
Later, a further model, the DM43, was jointly developed by France and Germany, which was even more powerful. At the same time, the United States also developed a unique kinetic energy projectile, the M829 series using depleted uranium cores, which made great contributions in the Gulf War in later generations. (To be continued.) )