Chapter 1337 Ice Storm (VI)

The 122mm cannon was able to beat the 100-gun in the bidding and finally succeeded in becoming the standard 122 heirloom of the Red Army's heavy tanks. This is not just because of the simple production capacity problem.

Powerful, efficient, and fierce firepower, it can easily deal with armored units, fortifications, or soft infantry targets. The battlefield flexibility and adaptability can meet the demanding actual combat requirements.

At the same time when the 122 gun was successfully installed on the Red Army's heavy tanks, you can't find a few tank guns in the world that are better than this thing to deal with armored units.

And after the actual installation, the battle-hardened Lavrinenko also gave a very high evaluation of the 122 gun.

Compared with the only disadvantage of slow loading speed, the advantages all over the body have been able to achieve "the flaws do not cover the merits".

Strong armor penetration depth, devastating killing aftereffects, and high muzzle velocity brought by the long main gun barrel with a high caliber ratio. The 122 gun can handle medium and long-range targets with ease, and the high amount of propellant brought by the large chamber volume is converted into ultra-high propellant combustion chemical energy.

When dealing with medium and long-range targets, the 122 gun can still maintain a considerable shell velocity when it finally hits the target after the air friction attenuation of the ballistic flight distance. For kinetic weapons, this means a higher penetration depth when hitting the target.

The United States likes to make big bricks fly, and the Russians like to use big barrels to take medicine.

As long as there is enough propellant, I can get you a high velocity for large-caliber shells. The reason is so simple.

But beautiful things are often like yesterday's flowers, and cruel reality can always tear beautiful things to pieces for you.

Lavrinenko was full of confidence in his own 122 heirloom. Since he saw that the German heavy tanks, whose specific models were still unclear, were still roughly intact and standing after direct artillery fire, they had been swept into the garbage dump and became yesterday's memory.

Most of the shells hit the target accurately, or it would be strange if such a large, stationary target could not be hit within the normal combat distance.

The Tiger Kings, which were hit hard by the 122mm gun, were indeed in a bad state. The two parts with the highest probability of being hit, the front of the hull and the front of the turret, were all pitted and full of bullet marks.

But even in such a situation, the armor of the Tiger Kings still withstood the strongest firepower of the Red Army's heavy tanks and survived this test.

The bullet holes scattered all over the main armor belt on the front were all in a non-penetration state. The bullet holes left by the large-caliber 122mm projectiles were so large that you could put your fist in them and easily draw a circle.

The non-penetration marks were as shocking as an iron ball falling from a high place and hitting the mud. It was extremely difficult to withstand such a powerful kinetic energy impact.

Some armor-piercing projectiles that did not penetrate were directly bounced and flew away, and some fell to the ground due to gravity after running out of kinetic energy. Of course, there are also projectiles that were directly detonated in the unpenetrated craters and exploded instantly, and there are also projectiles stuck in the unpenetrated armor.

But no matter which state it is, the only thing that is true is that all shells did not cause penetration! The shells that exploded in the unpenetrated craters cannot hurt the crew members inside. This is either the special sticky sleepy black tea armor-piercing shells of the British bulls, or the ordinary high-explosive charge of the warhead.

In the existing history of later generations, the King Tiger, which was known as the strongest heavy tank actually put into the battlefield during World War II, once again proved itself with its true absolute strength.

Even in this timeline that has been tampered with beyond recognition by Malashenko alone, the Chang 88 that the King Tiger is proud of has now become a stepping stone for hitting it, but this solid and powerful armor is still beyond doubt.

The armor of both sides can withstand the strongest armor-piercing firepower of the other side. To put it bluntly, you can't do anything to me, and I can't do anything to you.

Lavrinenko never thought about what to do in such a situation. This embarrassing situation is the first time he has encountered it in the fourth year of the Great Patriotic War. It is unheard of.

In the past heavy tank battles, either you can penetrate me or I can penetrate you.

Since the Tiger vs. IS1, it has always been like this. There is always one side with superior firepower and able to crush the other side's armor. This is the reality.

The battlefield scale that was originally tilted to one side has now become an almost completely balanced balance with equal weight and even strength on both sides.

"This broken car has a very powerful main gun and almost indestructible frontal armor. If you are not close to within 300 meters, Lavri, don't make any futile attempts. Like all German tanks, this thing's weakness is its vertical armor, but that is only on the front of the turret, which is very small and difficult to aim, and there is a pig nose gun shield in the way."

"Within 300 meters of the front of the turret? Do we have to rush forward another 500 meters under the short-loading direct fire of these monsters!?"

At this moment, Lavryenko, whose nerves were about to break, finally recalled what Malashenko told him again.

It's not that Lavryenko questioned the solution given by Malashenko, but there are too many uncertainties in the current situation to implement such a tactic, and it can even be said to be harder than climbing to the sky!

Our armor can indeed completely resist the enemy's direct fire at a distance of 800 meters, but this does not mean that the IS6's front main armor belt is absolutely invincible in front of the enemy.

Putting aside the weakness of the armor that was hollowed out on the turret because of the arrangement of the main gun sight, Lavrinenko, who is not clear about the specific situation of the opponent, is really unsure.

When the two sides shorten the battle distance, for example, to within 500 meters, or even to 300 meters as Malashenko said, can the main armor belt of the IS6 heavy tank still withstand the direct bombardment of those German monsters?

Can it withstand it? Lavrinenko himself really doesn't know, but the urgent and time-sensitive battlefield situation forces Lavrinenko to make a decision and issue an order on this life-and-death tactical arrangement.

The essence of war is a gamble, a huge gamble involving the future national destiny of the warring parties.

If you win the gamble, you are the father, and if you lose the gamble, you will be the grandson honestly.

People who are cowardly and can't afford to lose should just not fight at all. It's a waste of effort and a complete loss.

This is true in macro-strategy, and it is also true in local battlefields at the tactical level.

You must take risks to win. Every order you issue is not 100% safe and has varying degrees of failure probability. The key is to see whether the success probability of the order is worth it compared to the risk of failure.

Lavrinenko understood this, and he knew that he had little time left to hesitate and think.

Just when Lavrinenko's right hand touched the transmitter and was about to press the button, a barrage of fire and fire mixed with familiar words suddenly came and fell at this moment.