Chapter 1270 Energy Breaking Armor

The appearance of the Iron Fist was long anticipated by Malashenko. Now it only confirms Malashenko's earlier speculation and confirms the fact that a greater battlefield threat has arrived.

Different from any anti-armor weapons in the past, the weapon attributes of the Iron Fist itself have a completely different positioning.

Anti-tank guns, anti-tank guns, or armor-piercing shells fired by tank main guns, these weapons all use the strong chemical energy generated by the intense combustion of propellants in a confined space to shoot metal solid bullets at enemy armored targets, thereby producing a strong penetration and destruction effect on armor.

In professional military terminology, this type of weapon has a unified classification, which is called "kinetic armor-piercing weapons", which rely on the metal impact kinetic energy converted from the chemical energy of the propellant to damage the armor.

In comparison, whether it is the German Iron Fist or the American Bazooka, or even the later Soviet RPG, it can also include many modern anti-tank missiles in the future.

This type of weapon with a completely different destructive effect is classified as a "chemical energy armor-piercing weapon". It relies on the warhead conical charge cap to condense the warhead charge to produce a slender, high-temperature metal jet, condensing most of the chemical energy generated by the warhead charge explosion at one point to produce powerful power, and breaking the thick armor of the tank through the high temperature of chemical energy to cause damage.

If you think it is too difficult to understand, there is actually a more down-to-earth way to describe it.

The forward speed of the front tip of the metal jet is as high as 8,000 meters per second or even stronger, while the maximum flight speed of the APFSDS tail-stabilized discarding sabot armor-piercing projectile used by modern main battle tanks, commonly known as the "steel needle projectile", is only hovering below the muzzle velocity of 1,800 meters per second.

High temperature and high speed, shaped energy armor-piercing, this is the trump card skill that all chemical energy weapons have tried and tested to deal with heavy armor.

As Malashenko said, dealing with chemical energy armor-piercing weapons was indeed a relatively difficult issue during World War II. During this period, spears were generally stronger than shields. Traditional homogeneous steel armor was like a piece of pork placed in front of a red-hot knife, waiting to be slaughtered in front of chemical energy armor-piercing weapons.

But if we look at the problem from the perspective of the 21st century, chemical energy armor-piercing weapons are not that difficult to deal with.

Adding grille armor, commonly known as "iron fences", to tanks, by detonating armor-piercing warheads in advance to extend the ballistic advance distance of the metal jet, forcing the metal jet condensed and concentrated by the conical charge cover to disperse before contacting the real main armor.

As a result, the power of chemical energy gathered at one point is naturally greatly reduced, and the dispersed metal jet contacts a larger area of ​​the main armor belt, and the forward speed of the jet itself is also lower. Under this trade-off, the armor-piercing depth is naturally greatly reduced. Almost all armored combat vehicles are suitable for the modification of grille armor, which is the cheapest and most convenient modification method.

As long as the conditions are suitable, the modification can be completed directly on the battlefield. Adding a few iron railings is something that even the green uncles in the Middle East in the 21st century can easily do.

But this method also has relatively bad aspects, that is, the effect of reducing the armor penetration depth of the metal jet is poor. The metal jet that continues to move forward after hitting the grille armor still has considerable power. If it hits the weak parts of the tank and the weak links of the armor, it may still be penetrated, especially when the enemy uses chemical energy weapons with greater power and higher armor penetration depth.

For example, the "tank killer" heavy anti-tank rocket launcher, which has not yet appeared but will definitely appear in the future, is the strongest infantry anti-tank weapon of the German army in World War II.

The American bazooka, which is boasted to the sky, is the younger brother of the younger brother in front of this thing. It is hit hard by this thing. Even if the armor at the weak part is equipped with iron railings, it is still useless. The place that should be penetrated will still be penetrated. The grille armor is not completely omnipotent.

Knowing clearly that he has made an extremely huge impact on the military technology of both the Soviet Union and Germany in this time and space, Malashenko, who is prepared for the rainy day, must consider it from a more dangerous premise, and cannot just come up with a grille armor.

Otherwise, when the Germans really come up with some infantry anti-armor weapon that is stronger than the "tank killer", how can I survive at that time? The heavy tanks are all dealt with by you one by one, what's the use of my thick heavy armor?

At that time, the situation will return to the embarrassing state when the Tiger tank first appeared, and the KV1 armor has become a burden and useless. Malashenko does not want to taste the bitterness that he has tasted once again.

With the current technological state of the Great Patriotic War, Malashenko can't come up with any good solutions, and don't even think about the high-tech product of the active defense system!

But there is still something with simple craftsmanship and not much technical content that is worth a try. This is also what Malashenko envisioned, no matter how powerful the Germans come up with chemical anti-tank weapons, it will definitely be enough, and it is the most suitable passive defense artifact for heavy tanks.

But if this plan is to be completed, battlefield modification alone will not work. This requires at least a complete set of heavy industry system support, and a supporting design team to draw up plans and test repeatedly to complete it.

In other words, Malashenko still needs the help of an old friend, the Soviet genius heavy tank designer: Comrade Kotin.

"We can only deal with it this way for now. The Panzerfaust 60 is good enough to hit the side armor and T34 and T43, but it is not qualified to deal with IS6 and IS4. After this battle, we must go back to Kotin to talk about it. We can't drag it on any longer!"

Malachenko, who is very clear about the power level of the Panzerfaust 60, is not really worried about how much damage this thing can cause to heavy tanks.

You have to know that his subordinates are now full of IS4 and IS6, and it is difficult for IS2 to gather a battalion even with lanterns.

These two heavy tanks with better defensive performance have stronger resistance to the Panzerfaust 60. There is no area on the entire front main armor belt of the IS4 that can be penetrated by the Panzerfaust 60, while the upper and lower parts of the IS6 body are absolutely immune to the Panzerfaust 60.

Only the 150mm physical thickness homogeneous steel armor area with a gun mirror on the front side of the turret can be penetrated by the Panzerfaust 60, and this can only be done when the incident angle is correct. If it is slightly off, it will only make a sound and leave a black stain.

In other words, this kind of weak armor part, which is already relatively reliable and close to the maximum armor penetration depth of the Panzerfaust 60, can be easily solved by simple battlefield modification, adding grille armor and skirts that can detonate metal jets in advance.