Chapter 631: Battle of the Nullarbor Armor Conference (Medium)
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"Boom...... Rumble...... Boom ...... "35 76-mm guns fired in unison,
According to Major Greenham's idea, the Chinese Red Fox frontal armor will not exceed 25 mm, and although it is arranged at an angle, it will certainly not be able to block the blow of the 76 gun at this distance. Besides, they still use armor-piercing bullets, which don't rely on kinetic energy.
And at this time, the third round of missiles came again.
Just when the missile was launched, the 76-mm shells of the M5 also arrived, the quality of the Australian army was good, and the observation and sighting system of the M5 was also good, and the first round of shelling at a distance of 3,500 meters had 4 hits.
"Boom...... Rumble...... Boom......" Four flames suddenly exploded on the four red foxes.
"Hit, hit!" The channel heard the cheers of the Australian officers and men, and although they only hit four shots, they finally returned fire. The feeling of being beaten just now is terrible, terrible!
"Z word evasion!" Without looking at the result, Major Greenham immediately ordered the evasion. The 35 M5s immediately began to maneuver in a zigzag motion, and also released smoke canisters and infrared jamming bombs, but the two rounds of missiles just now have made most tanks use these jamming devices almost to the fullest.
"Boom...... Rumble...... The hit rate of the ...... missile was even higher, and 11 more M5s were smashed into burning wreckage.
Under the influence of the passion to defend the homeland and the country, the morale of the Australian army is quite high. It means that although more than half of them have been lost, only 24 M5s remain, they have no intention of backing down. Instead, they drove at full speed and continued to assault forward.
Without orders from their superiors, the M5s made another emergency stop, ready to shoot another round to avenge their comrades.
"My God, what's going on?" Only then did Major Greenham have time to look at the results of the battle, but the situation made his eyes almost pop out. Because the four red foxes that were shot did not turn into a pile of wreckage as he thought.
What surprised him when he arrived. Just now, I obviously hit four red foxes, but now it seems that there is no impact?
No, there is still an impact. The front face of one of the Red Foxes was scorched black, which was an obvious sign of the reactive armor explosion after being hit by an armor-piercing bullet. Well, armor-piercing shells are not good at this, although because of the low requirements for kinetic energy, the striking distance is much longer than armor-piercing shells. But the disadvantage is also obvious, once the opponent hangs the fence armor or reactive armor, the effect is greatly reduced.
The bazooka of this plane has been played since the First World War, and everyone has been playing armor-piercing shells for so many years, and the countermeasures that should be taken are naturally available, and the principles are almost the same, just the difference between fine and coarse. Even other countries have come up with reactive armor, and China, which was the first to invent armored combat vehicles and rocket launchers, will naturally have these things, and it would be strange if they didn't come up with them.
Okay, it's not surprising that the Red Fox has reactive armor, but what the hell are the other two? Those two looked like they had been hit by armor-piercing shells, but how did they look like they didn't have any? Well, I should say that there is still, and if Greenham looked closer, he would see that there was a fist-sized pit in their front face.
Red foxes are indeed thin-skinned dumplings, that's right. But it depends on who you compare with, and the main battle tank of the giant panda and the red panda is definitely far inferior, even the lynx infantry fighting vehicle is much thicker than it, because it has to consider the floating ability, it must only be thinner, but compared with its foreign counterparts of the same era, its armor is much thicker. Because of the use of new materials such as foam metal, iron and aluminum alloy for weight reduction, it can make the armor thicker under the premise of buoyancy. The Australian army's estimate of its armor is not enough, and the front armor of the red fox is 35 mm.
Of course, this thickness cannot be compared with that of the main battle tank. But the problem is that its armor is not ordinary armor, but a tungsten whisker mesh composite armor with extremely unnatural performance. It is really not easy for the Yankees' 76mm armor-piercing projectiles to penetrate its front face, at least to close the distance to within 800 meters. What's more, it can also be plugged in with additional modular tungsten whisker mesh composite armor......
Yes, because this side of South Australia is basically plain, the climate is dry, and the rivers are negligible, so the Red Fox and other armored vehicles sent here are basically equipped with external armor. Now as the striker, these Red Foxes are not only equipped with modular tungsten whisker mesh composite armor, but also modular reactive armor and fence armor. So not to mention that it is difficult for the Australian army's M5 to kill these red foxes, even the M6 and M7 are a little difficult.
Of course, this only refers to the front face, if you hit or burst the chrysanthemum from the side, you will definitely not be able to bear it. However, with the Red Fox's maximum speed of breaking 100, it is difficult for these tanks to go around its side.
Major Greenham was slightly comforted by the fact that he saw a red fox exiting the battle because the shell had hit the missile launcher on its right, and the two detonated missiles had damaged its turret and sighting system.
"Boom...... Rumble...... ......The remaining 24 M5s roared in unison, and this time the distance between the two sides had been reduced to 2,200 meters.
"Whoosh...... Sou...... The 21 Red Foxes on the opposite side of the ...... also launched another missile attack.
"Boom...... Rumble...... Boom ......" 7 fireballs erupted from the Red Fox's side, and 7 Red Foxes were hit. One of them shook suddenly, and fell down all of a sudden, and the left tire was blown out of two, and one was blown away, and the car must not be used at this time, and the members of the car crew hurriedly ran out of the back door. Another one was hit in the turret, the sighting equipment was blown up, and even the 30 guns and machine gun were blown up, and the Red Fox quickly reversed and withdrew from the battle.
"Boom...... Rumble...... Boom ......" At this time, 21 Red Arrows 4 also arrived. When the Z-shaped mobile tank dodges anti-tank missiles, the effect is definitely better than that of stationary and straight driving, plus the jamming device, this round of missiles did not reach the theoretical hit rate of 90%,
This round of missiles hit 13 M5 tanks, 11 were reduced to rubble, and two were blown off tracks and paralyzed on the road.
The remaining 11 M5 tanks had already rushed to a distance of 1,700 meters, and this time their short-stop salvo had 5 hits, one of which finally had an effect. A Red Fox that had been blown off its reactive armor was unlucky enough to take another shot in the same position and was destroyed by this armor-piercing projectile. Several other vehicles were hit by tires and sighting systems.
And at this moment, the fifth round of red arrows came.
"Oh my God, how can they still have it? Aren't there only four rounds?" exclaimed Major Greenham. The smoke covered them, but it also obscured their vision, and they didn't notice that the red fox on the Chinese side had reloaded.
And, to his greatest horror, some of the infantrymen ran out of the back door of the red fox, some of them carrying something like a bazooka on their shoulders, but in a larger circle.
These infantrymen ran to the interval of the red fox, and then took those "large bazookas" and lay them on the ground. Greenham seemed to see in the captain's mirror that a Chinese officer was smiling wickedly at him, as if he had seen something of value.
"Whoosh...... Sou...... Whoosh ...... dozens of fire dragons flew out of those "large bazookas". They follow the Red Arrow4 fired by the Red Fox, which looks similar in appearance to the Red Arrow4, but is a little smaller.
Greenham's M5 dodged an incoming Red Arrow 4 again, but the smaller one followed by a turn in the air, and the M5 couldn't dodge it anymore.
"Oh no, it's a man-in-one anti-tank missile!" Major Greenham's mournful wail rang out in the channel, and then disappeared in a violent explosion.
That's right, it was the individual anti-tank missile that destroyed him, the Red Arrow 5 individual anti-tank missile that China only installed last year, using infrared/optical imaging guidance, with a range of at least 75 meters and a maximum of 2,500 meters, with target memory capabilities, which can be launched and left alone. Not only can it be used to hit armored targets, but it can also be used to hit bunkers, fire points, and the like. In fact, this thing is an improved version of the Red Arrow-12, because of the use of new materials and high-energy batteries, it weighs less than the Red Arrow-12, including the battery pack is only 14 kilograms.
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When Red Fox and M5 were fighting, the battle between the other two sides was almost over.
The Giant Panda and the Red Panda are easier to deal with hard-armored targets such as armored fighting vehicles, which are equipped with bistable devices and have the ability to shoot on the go. The first salvo from 2,000 meters away killed a quarter of the opponent's vehicles, and the next thing was the target shooting competition.
When the infantry on the Red Fox's side fired individual anti-tank missiles, the Panda's side also killed the last few M6s and M7s.
In this tank battle, the Australian army lost one hundred and forty-four M6 and M7 tanks and forty-eight M5 light tanks. Australia's 11th Panzer Division was directly knocked out by two-thirds, so to speak, directly disabled.
The losses of the Chinese army were only 3 giant pandas, 6 red pandas and 5 red foxes, and at least most of them could be repaired.
Lieutenant Colonel Chen Sihua, deputy commander of the 1102nd Regiment leading the team, had just collected the wounded soldiers and damaged combat vehicles, sorted out the ammunition, and saw the smoke and dust flying on the opposite side. The smoke and dust kicked up by these vehicles obscured the sky and the ground vibrated like a tumbling dark cloud, rumbling to the top.
"Xiao Chen, you have already fought a battle, now stand back and ......" At this time, the voice of Major General Xu Chen, the division commander, came from Lieutenant Colonel Chen's headphones.
"Yes, division commander......" Although Lieutenant Colonel Chen was very confident in his panda, he still felt a little drumming in his heart when he saw the black, ant-like armored troops on the opposite side. So he hurriedly retreated with his subordinates.
At this time, behind them, there was also smoke and dust, and a large group of giant pandas and red pandas loomed in the smoke and dust, and rushed over at a faster speed.