The Merkava tank, a masterpiece of the sword, for Israel, the loss point equipment does not matter, human life is the most important, so sparing no effort to increase the protection of the tank is the goal they tirelessly pursue. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

It's a pity that Israel doesn't have any advanced composite armor technology, and their tanks even have to use ordinary homogeneous steel as armor, Merkava MK1 model, is such a product, so, Israeli engineers have to try their best, for example, the turret uses a super large bevel, and increases the thickness of protection by tilting the steel plate, however, the turret can be tilted, and the front of the hull can't be tilted, so they had to change the convention and move the huge engine to the front to charge, so that The entire power compartment can be counted as "frontal armor". (In China, this method was once highly respected, and the hero of East China was once extremely envious of the Merkava tank, and now it seems that ...... ）

Since Merkava only had homogeneous steel armor, in order to achieve the design protection value, it had to keep increasing weight, and as a result, in the 70s, Merkava was a monster weighing 58 tons, you know, the Soviet-made tanks of this era were only 40 tons. At the same time, the Merkava MK1 is a typical gap armor, with as many as five layers of gaps, and the front of the hull is also composed of three decks, and these gap armor, in order to make full use of the space, actually installed fuel tanks in the gap to make use. Yes, it is the fuel tank, in the consciousness of the Israelis, diesel fuel is blunt and not easy to burn, in the end, the Merkava tank was created to achieve its purpose, there are no tanks around Israel that can penetrate the front of the body of the Mk1, not because of how good the armor is, but because it is too thick! The armor layer is close to 300 mm, plus a power compartment with a thickness of more than 1.2 meters, that is, the engine, ordinary 105 shelling armor-piercing shells cannot drill so thick.

However, now it is different, the Syrians on the opposite side, who are moving over, are T-72 tanks! In order to allow his servant countries to take out the power of the West, at Andrei's suggestion, these export equipment was not reduced, and Andrei at home persuaded the military top brass that the T-80 tank was the most advanced tank in the Soviet Union, so the cheap T-72 did not need too much secrecy, and if you want to kill the Western tank, you must export a sufficient amount of weapons to the servant countries!

If you have the T-80 as a secret, you don't have to do the castration version of the T-72 anymore.

Moreover, artillery missiles are also exported synchronously. Originally, the performance of the 125-mm tank gun surpassed the Israeli 105-mm tank gun, even if they developed an updated armor-piercing projectile, the advantage of caliber was there, and now, the artillery-launched missile successfully launched the first round of attacks!

Not all artillery missiles penetrated the engine in front, and some did not, but when the engine was scrapped, Merkava lay on its stomach, and some artillery missiles hit Merkava's turret, relying on the two-stage hollow armor-piercing powder cover, successfully tearing apart Merkava's turret!

In the violent explosion, one after another Merkava tanks were shot and caught fire, and many tank crews successfully escaped from the tanks, Merkava's biggest advantage is that even if it is destroyed, it has a greater chance of rescuing its own fighters!

Looking at the mess around him, Nako was very depressed, the opponent's artillery missiles bombed out more than 20 of his own tanks in the first round! However, when the first round of blows passed, the distance between the two sides was shortened to 1,500 meters!

"Shoot, shoot!" Naco shouted over the radio.

The distance of 1500 meters is enough to ensure the penetration depth of the M111 armor-piercing projectile! With Nako's order, his tank shuddered, the hull shook, and the smell of gunpowder instantly spread throughout the tank.

At the muzzle, a fireball appeared, and at the tip of the fireball, an armor-piercing bullet made of tungsten alloy, threw away the butt and flew forward!

Historically, in the 82-year Lebanese War, Israel's Merkava tank and the Syrian army's T-72M officially fought, and the result of the battle was that Israel's M111 armor-piercing shells could destroy the T-72M tank! Even an M111 armor-piercing projectile fired from an old Magazi tank can penetrate an opponent!

After that, Soviet technicians analyzed the problems, and, thanks to the acquisition of the captured Magaz-3 with reactive armor from the Syrian army, the Soviet Union finally used the technology to recreate its own reactive armor, which was attached to the T-72.

And now, the armored forces of the Soviets have made great progress in technology, for example, now, these T-72 tanks are with reactive armor!

In just over two seconds, the warhead of the M111 armor-piercing projectile has already flown to the T-72 tank opposite! The warhead hit the turret of the T-72, as a kind of cast turret, the T-72 did not hit, but at this time, on the outside of the cast turret, it was driving a brick-like reactive armor!

"Boom!" The reactive armor exploded, which neutralized part of the strength of the M111 armor-piercing projectile, and at the same time, made the warhead of the M111 tilt at a large angle! Then, the warhead passed through the reactive armor and continued to move forward, finally touching the main armor!

It's digging in, it's a battle of spear and shield! As it continued to drill, it came across a layer of quartz sand balls inside, which quickly melted, blocking the continued entry of the armor-piercing projectiles!

The armor-piercing shell was stuck in the turret like this, as if the nurse gave an injection to the patient without pulling out the needle, and at the same time, the turret suddenly shook, and in a huge roar, the muzzle of the 125-mm tank gun released a ball of fireball, and the same tail stabilized the shell-piercing shell and flew over!

Naco looked at his own fire in discouragement, but did not achieve any effect, and the opponent's tank actually withstood the attack of his own M111 armor-piercing shells! This armor-piercing bullet is your secret weapon! It was originally planned to hit the tank units of Syria heavily with such armor-piercing shells, but now, there are no results!

You can't carry it hard, it's time to retreat! As soon as Nako wanted to order his troops to retreat, he felt the body of the car vibrate violently and was hit by the opponent!

A 125-mm armor-piercing projectile, flying from a distance, hit the turret of the Merkava tank, with a large inclination, a multi-layered turret, and a constant collision sound, it was the opponent's armor-piercing shell, piercing through the interstitial armor of the turret layer by layer! (To be continued.) )