Chapter 403: The Book of Battle
The rolling torrent of armor, like locusts, is overwhelming, and the artillery fire in the sky can swallow up the whole of Europe at any time! A huge fleet, advanced airborne troops, and even the British on the other side of the strait don't want to sit still!
A magnificent offensive, and on the first day, the armored forces advanced two hundred kilometers! This is still the result of a fierce confrontation that came out of the illusion! The combat effectiveness of the ground armored forces of the USSR was once again displayed in front of the West. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"General Andrey, didn't you say that we could observe these tanks?" Rear Admiral George looked at the T-80 tank more than ten meters away and couldn't help but feel a little depressed.
The three-day exercise was over, and before the end, the Western observation group hoped to go to the exercise troops to have a look, and Andrei agreed and brought them here, but unfortunately, more than ten meters away from the tank, it was already stopped by the army!
No, you can't get any closer!
"Major General George, I already answered your question when I received you a few days ago, and it's perfectly okay to observe our tanks up close." Andrei said: "Now, it's close enough to the tank more than ten meters away, right?" ”
"General Andrey, you are humiliating us, our tanks of Great Britain are much better than your ones!" Major General George couldn't bear it, it can be said that the whole exercise was humiliating the Western world, and now, the exercise is over, and not even a tank is allowed to look at it!
Humiliate? Hearing Major General George's protest, Andrei smiled: "Your tank, the most advanced is the Challenger 1, which weighs sixty-four tons, and is laid with your latest Chobham armor, but even if it is a high-hardness alloy steel plate, an expansion reaction layer, a sheet-like alumina ceramic layer, a high-hardness alloy steel backplate and an aluminum-containing metal lining developed by your engineers, it is alternately arranged, and placed at a large inclination angle, and the gap is filled by refractory cushioning materials such as special rubber. This vaunted armor actually increased the protection against armor-piercing shells to more than 550 mm, and the defense against armor-piercing shells to about 450 mm. Can it withstand the latest depleted uranium armor-piercing shells fired by our 125-mm tank guns? Our penetration depth is 1,000 mm. ”
Andre's words made Major General George suddenly shocked, the British Challenger tank relies on Chobham armor, which is the most advanced composite armor in the Western world, and even the American M1 tank uses this kind of armor! And now, the formula, layout and performance of the armor have been clearly explained by the other party, could it be that there are spies on their own side?
Humiliating you? What can you do to dishonor you? Andrei continued: "Also, your tanks have always been guarding the rifled guns, and your 120mm tank guns have fired 200 shells, and the rifling has been lost, right?" Why don't we find a place to openly compare your Challenger 1 with our T-80 tanks, and we don't need to compare our best mobility, the engine of the Challenger 1 is not as good as our gas turbines, and we are at a distance of a thousand meters, firing a shell at each other? To be fair, let your shells hit our tanks first. ”
If it weren't for the triumph of reason over anger, Major General George would have really wanted to agree to Andrei's request, however, Major General George knew that it was impossible! The armor of your own Challenger 1 tank really can't withstand the blow of 125mm depleted uranium armor-piercing shells! The American-made M1 can't stand it, and neither can your own tanks! And the Soviets' tanks, with composite armor and reactive armor, can withstand their own artillery strikes!
"How? General George, do you dare? "We can bet that if we win, how about planting our sickle and axe flag on the Houses of Parliament in London?" ”
Boom, Major General George felt that his brain, it exploded with a bang, and it was all blank, this is a naked, bloody threat! In this special period, the Soviet Union is making war on the side of Western Europe!
Western Europe, can it cope with the war?
United States, White House.
"This exercise of the Soviets still did not deviate from the mode of previous Soviet operations, that is, the ground assault group with tanks as the core broke through to the opponent in great depth, and this tactic, which has been finalized since the 30s, has been used until now. It can be said that the core of the Soviet Army was the tank. "The assistant for national security affairs is analyzing in detail the Soviet Union's Western 79 military exercises.
Although the representatives of the United States were not able to participate in this exercise, after all, compared with previous exercises, the degree of openness of the Soviet exercise was quite high, and this was the first time in history that the West was invited to observe it!
As a result, the United States has access to a considerable amount of useful information, which is even more than the intelligence system has been able to obtain over the years.
"The main tanks of the Soviets were the new T-72 and T-80. Among them, the T-72 is a third-generation main battle tank developed by Nizhny Tagil, which is equipped with composite armor and a large-caliber smoothbore gun, and has good comprehensive combat performance. The T-80 tank is a new type of tank developed by Omsk on the basis of the T-64B tank, which uses a gas turbine as a power plant and greatly improves its mobility, and we estimate that the combat effectiveness of this tank is 50 percent higher than that of the T-64. ”
"All the weapons of the Soviets are designed to cooperate with tank groups, such as their BMP series infantry fighting vehicles, which are purely fragmented to meet the requirements of infantry and tank coordination in high-speed mechanized assaults. We can see the sequence of the Soviet attack, behind the Soviet tanks, this infantry fighting vehicle carrying infantry to charge the enemy high ground is a spectacular scene. At the same time, all artillery in the Soviet army achieved self-propelled development, in particular, they were very fond of large-scale fire coverage, and the proportion of armament of MLRS was further increased. And we also saw a cluster of Mi-24 helicopter gunships in cooperation with ground forces to conduct operations in great depth. ”
"So, what is the conclusion of this exercise?" President Carter is obviously impatient, there have been too many worries lately, he has been overwhelmed, his subordinates have said so much, he still doesn't understand, what is the conclusion?
"The conclusion is that the Soviet army has reached its heyday, and the ground forces of the USSR are arguably the most powerful in the world. If war breaks out and the Soviet Panzer Corps attack from under the Berlin Wall, it will take only 8 days for the Eiffel Tower in Paris to plant the sickle and axe flag. (To be continued.) )