As if it were retribution, on the front, the Challenger tank had just destroyed an M60 tank, and then, on the side, a Challenger tank had been destroyed by a tank of unknown origin!

Seeing the destruction of the Challenger tank, the morale of the West German Wehrmacht, which had just been badly hit, was immediately restored!

This is just the beginning!

The T-72 with an automatic loader was used, the rate of fire was up to six to eight rounds per minute, so, in the time of the British's reaction, the first round of firing of the T-72 tank had already begun! At the same time, some even the second round of shooting has already begun!

Not every shell will be able to hit the target, and the theoretical 90 percent of the first hit rate will definitely drop to less than 30 percent in real combat. www.biquge.info And now, the T-72 tank that rushed over, in the dynamic and static shooting, launched for the first time, destroying more than a dozen Challenger tanks, and the accuracy is already quite high!

And at the same time, the well-trained British armored troops, their return fire has also begun!

Of course, they did not stay where they were and waited to be beaten, and when they found out that it was a Soviet tank rushing from the side, they immediately responded correctly!

Pushing the gear lever, the tank engine rumbled, and the David Brown TN54 fully automatic transmission drove the tank to reverse, and at the same time, operating the steering wheel, the tank changed direction in the process of reversing, and turned its strongest front armor in the most dangerous direction.

However, they were not at ease, because in the previous island wars, the American tanks that used the same Chobham armor as the Challenger tanks were still penetrated by the Soviet tanks from the front, and the data exposed by the Soviets themselves at that time showed that their tanks had armor penetration depths of up to one meter!

This is also the reason why they did not hang the forward gear, if it is the tank of the Soviets who comes, and they are still rushing forward, isn't it looking for death? Gotta go back, go back!

While retreating, he faced the threat with the strongest main armor and began firing in the middle of the march.

"Boom!" With a huge roar, a tail stabilized deshelling armor-piercing shell flew out of the muzzle of the 120-mm rifled gun!

With the further expansion of the caliber of tank guns, almost all mainstream tank guns use smoothbore guns, among which the 120 mm tank guns produced by the German Rheinmetall company are the most advanced, but the proud British Army still firmly holds on to the rifled guns.

Rifled guns make shells fly out with higher accuracy, but rifling squeezes the shells, which will reduce the muzzle velocity of the shells, and the shots, smoothbore guns can have thousands of rounds, rifled guns, one or two hundred rounds will wear out the rifling.

Moreover, rifling is also a scourge for tail stabilized deshelling armor-piercing shells.

Originally, the shells of smoothbore guns do not spin when they fly out, or the spin is very small, so they need to use the tail to stabilize them, but when the rifled gun flies out, it is spin, and with the addition of the tail fin, it will add to the snake. Moreover, if the long-rod armor-piercing projectile spins at high speed, it is impossible to stabilize at all, but it will lose stability.

Therefore, when the Challenger's armor-piercing projectile is launched, the warhead adds a sliding bullet belt to reduce the rotational speed, and when the warhead goes out, it is actually still rotating, but it is not powerful, and the tail of this armor-piercing projectile is actually counterproductive, that is, to further reduce the rotation of the warhead and increase stability.

The British Army is a very traditional conservative army, and although it was the first army to invent tanks, it has always used tanks as a weapon to support infantry, rather than an independent main battle weapon.

And now, the 120-mm rifled gun flew out of the shells, and one of the advantages of the rifled gun was its high accuracy!

Sure enough, with their hopes, the tail stabilized shelling armor-piercing projectile smashed into the T-72 tank on the opposite side with a sharp roar!

"Boom!" The pointed warhead flew to the turret of the T-72, but the turret was so careless that just when the two sides had just made close contact, there was a small explosion!

The air flow of the explosion instantly shook the body of the armor-piercing bullet, and it continued to drill forward, who knows, it encountered another small-scale explosion! Once, even once, three times in total!

This is the latest reactive armor made in the Soviet Union, compared with the previous reactive armor, the explosion time is further optimized, in less than a fraction of a second, the brick-like reactive armor outside, inside is actually three identical reactive armor unit modules, there have been explosions, each unit has a steel throwing plate and a back plate, in the reverse movement in the explosion, plus the thickened steel shell outside, these are constantly moving up and down, counteracting the armor-piercing strength of the armor-piercing projectile!

If these steel plates do not move, then it can be drilled directly, but now these steel plates are constantly moving up and down, which means that it has just drilled through the steel plate in front of it, and this steel plate is moving downward, continuing to hinder it from flying forward, and it has to continue to drill!

This is the shear effect, the same as the restraint armor, if the armor-piercing rod of the armor-piercing projectile is not strong enough, under this shear effect, the armor-piercing rod may be cut into several pieces directly like cutting ham sausages.

However, the British are already familiar with the manufacture of armor-piercing bullets, although there is no depleted uranium armor-piercing bullet, ordinary tungsten alloy armor-piercing rods are also extremely hard!

After passing through those explosive armors, although the energy attenuation of the tungsten alloy piercing rod is quite powerful, it is still drilling into the main armor!

Drill, keep drilling, rip through the armor, and get inside!

Just as it continued to exert its strength, a small crack suddenly appeared from the middle of the piercing rod, and then, the tungsten alloy piercing rod split into two sections!

Although it has been tested many times, the development of the Challenger tank is still too hasty, and the shell of the 120 mm shell developed from the 105 mm rifled gun uses the same structure as the 105 gun, although the hardness is guaranteed, it is a little brittle! As a result, it broke!

In later generations, it took Britain nearly ten years to develop this kind of chicken rifled gun to mature, and now, in just two or three years, the Challenger tank itself still has many flaws, and the armor-piercing bullets that have not been tested on the battlefield still have problems when they encounter a real sturdy tank.

This is simply too embarrassing, if the armor-piercing bullet has feelings, at this time it will definitely hold the broken head and cry bitterly.

No breakdown!

The East German soldiers in the tank were not afraid at all, and in the war in the island country, they had already tested the strong protection ability of this tank, and they did not have to worry about being penetrated!

"Boom!" At the same time, the T-72 tank on this side continued to fire, and a Challenger tank that had just fired shells on the opposite side was destroyed!

The fierce exchange of fire here immediately attracted the attention of the American side, and Montel knew that there was big trouble this time! (To be continued.) )