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In fact, the armor of the German Leopard tank cannot be described as thick and heavy in the sequence of the German tank troops, at least the thickness of the front armor steel plate of the King Tiger tank at this stage is definitely more than twice as thick as the Leopard tank. However, there is a saying in China, called "people must die more than people, and goods must be thrown away", which means that things are afraid of comparison, as long as there is comparison, the advantages and disadvantages can be distinguished.

The thickness of the upper armor of the upper part of the front end of the hull, which is most likely to be hit by the Japanese army, is 25 mm, even according to the bulletproof requirements of the German armored reconnaissance vehicle, the word barely can be used to describe the protection level of the Japanese tank. What's even more sad is that the Japanese tanks still have to make another discount on this level of protection, because the Japanese tanks use riveted steel plate structure, compared with the welded and cast structure, I don't know how much the grade has dropped.

After this armor structure is hit by a shell, the steel plate that is the main force to withstand the attack will not become the main force part, and the strong force will be transmitted to the riveting structure, causing the rivets to fall off, and then because the force is too great, these rivets will become "bullets" flying everywhere inside the car body, killing all the people and equipment in the tank.

For this reason, this stressed structure has been replaced by welding and casting, and has become an obsolete design. Modern tanks no longer use riveted structures, which can already be well illustrated that this design is very unsuccessful on tanks. However, during World War II, many tanks had to adopt this design, such as Italian tanks, Japanese tanks and British tanks......

In contrast, the German Leopard tank surpassed the Japanese tank in terms of the thickness of the armor, as well as the angle of inclination of the armor, and the rationality of the armor structure. Perhaps there is no comparison between the two at all, since this horizontal comparison can even be said to be an insult to the German Leopard tank.

The words are divided into two ends, measuring whether the armor thickness of a tank is sufficient, and also analyzing the opponent's anti-armor capabilities. For example, even if the armor thickness of the Japanese tanks is generally about 20 mm, when these tanks face the Chinese army, which has no anti-tank guns and tanks, the Japanese tanks can still be regarded as absolutely thick and armory.

Therefore, it is necessary to analyze which of the two opposing tanks has thicker armor, and it also depends on the armor-piercing ability of the artillery of both sides. In this regard, the gap between the Japanese army and the German army was even greater, so huge that people could not bear to look at it directly.

The Japanese Type 97 tank had a 57 mm caliber short-barreled gun, which was actually a type of artillery used to support infantry and had very average armor-piercing capabilities. No matter how ordinary it is, in fact, only one pitiful statistic proves the backwardness of this artillery: this thing has no way of penetrating any German active tank - from the Leopard to the King Tiger.

On the other hand, although the armor thickness of the German Leopard tank, which emphasizes maneuverability and reliability, is slightly outdated, it is equipped with a 75 mm long-barreled 75 mm tank gun, which can definitely be regarded as one of the three most powerful tank guns in service.

The other two types of artillery that surpassed the 75 mm caliber tank guns of the German army were the 88 mm caliber tank guns equipped on the Tiger tank, and the other was the 105 mm caliber tank guns that the King Tiger tank had just been equipped with. As for the 122 mm tank guns equipped with the Soviet Union, because of the temporary modification and subloading of ammunition, the overall performance is not as good as the 75 mm tank guns used by the German army.

The Japanese army's steel smelting technology is good, and the 25 mm thickness of the tank armor smelted can resist 37 mm caliber anti-tank guns -- in other words, if the German Leopard tank uses a new tungsten alloy armor-piercing projectile, it can easily penetrate the Japanese Type 97 tank at a distance of 2,000 meters......

Of course, there are many strange innovations in Japanese tank design, such as the fact that there is no intercom device inside the Japanese tank, which makes the communication between the crew members of the tank very noisy and noisy. As a result, the Japanese army relied on gesturing to communicate in the car.

Relying on slapping different parts of the driver to convey commands such as stopping or accelerating is also a means of forcibly entertaining oneself on a chaotic battlefield. What is even more strange is that Japan actually called this tank, which weighs only a dozen tons, a medium tank -- so hypnotizing its own tank unit really has a feeling that people can't laugh or cry.

Such a huge gap is still unknown to the Japanese army, and they don't even know that because the Germans are far ahead in lens processing technology, the sighting system equipped on the Leopard tank can easily find the Japanese tank camouflaged at a distance of 1,000 meters. So when the Germans were expanding their breakthrough, the gun commander of a Leopard tank spotted a Japanese tank disguised as steppe bushes.

"Found a Japanese camouflage, behind which maybe an anti-tank gun, maybe a Japanese tank...... Maybe I should open fire and greet these poor Japanese. At least the German tanks were equipped with intercom devices for crew members, so the German commanders did not have to rely on gesturing or kicking their butts to contact their superiors or give mission orders to the driver.

"More than 1,000 meters? If you fire at this distance, you may be deflected by the enemy's armor. In another German tank behind this tank, the commander, who was slightly shaking, pressed the throat intercom to his comrades.

Hearing the suggestion in the headset, the German tank commander who found the target was unimpressed, and said to the radio with a smile: "Have you read the Far East knowledge manual sent to you? The thickness of the armor of the Japanese tank is about the same as that of the T-26, will you wait for the T-26 tank to get close to a distance of 800 meters before firing?"

"God, there are still people in this world who fight with T-26 tanks again...... That's not a tank! I repeat it's not a tank! By our standards, it should be called a tracked armored reconnaissance vehicle! Or something else, but it can't be called a tank!" the commander who was sitting in the tank and followed the tank in front of him continued to complain.

However, the German Leopard tank in front of it was not going to waste any more time, its turret pointed at the Japanese tank disguised as a bush in the distance, and then suddenly stopped its advance, and then opened fire fiercely, firing a deadly shell.

The velocity of this powerful shell was already more than 1,000 meters per second when it flew out of the gun muzzle of the Leopard tank, and such a high muzzle velocity gave this shell unparalleled penetrating ability. Because the speed was so fast, it only took a split second for the shell to cross a distance of a kilometer and tear through the camouflage in front of the Japanese tank.

As if with a gust of wind, the camouflage grass was cut and crushed, and behind the weeds, sandbags piled up to increase the protection of the Japanese tanks were also scattered and splashed with great force. Finally, the shell hit the armored deck of the Japanese tank with a loud bang.

"Boom!" Before the surrounding Japanese troops could react, the shell easily penetrated the armor of the Japanese tank, directly shaking off all the rivets around it, and leaving a charred black hole the size of a fist in the front of the armor plate.

The Japanese tank, which had been hit by the shell, shook a little, and the entire turret became slightly twisted by the tremendous impact force. The steel plates on the side of the turret used for protection were even broken, and the gaps in the welds were exposed...... Without looking at the internal structure, it is already known that the tank was destroyed very completely.

The Japanese tank soldiers inside didn't have time to react at all, they were already pierced through their bodies by countless shrapnel and blazing steel torrents, and they didn't even have time to scream before they went back to see their Amaterasu.

In the face of the Japanese tanks, the 75-millimeter caliber tank guns used by Germany seriously overflowed in power! This shell even destroyed the front armor plate of the turret of the Japanese Type 97 tank, and then destroyed the self-defense machine gun hanging behind the turret of the tank, and then passed through the turrets of the two tanks, and a few meters behind the hull of the Japanese tank, it burrowed into the dirt and splashed a cloud of dust.

Miyamoto, the commander of the Japanese tank, who was watching the battle not far away, was speechless by the scene in front of his tank, which was protected by camouflage bushes and weeds in front of his tank, and then sandbags piled up on the bunker...... None of these tactics seemed to save the fate of the Japanese tank, as the opponents still destroyed it.

What is even more exaggerated, or even more unbelievable, is that the German artillery shells actually pierced the Japanese tank after penetrating the armor of the Japanese tank, and Miyamoto, the Japanese tank commander, was so powerful that he began to regret that he had brought his tank troops to such a place to die.

He couldn't understand why the German tank could fire so calmly at a distance of about 1,000 meters, and what means the other side used to find out that he only exposed a tank with a turret on the outside. He also couldn't understand why the opponent's tank guns could hit turret-sized targets with a single shot at a distance of 1,000 meters......

In short, Miyamoto was messy, and it was the first time he had seen such a powerful opponent, which made him afraid.

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