Chapter 1342 Half Penetration!

It is not an easy task to directly break through the front face of the Tiger King with a physical thickness of 180 mm and a slight inclination.

Considering the inevitable incidence angle inclination problem in actual combat, and the disguised enhancement of equivalent thickness armor brought about by it. This level of defense is very close to the limit penetration of most anti-armor firepower during World War II. Even the 122 heirloom that the Red Army heavy tank is most proud of, it is not as simple as talking on paper to penetrate the Tiger King in actual combat.

The biggest advantage that Malashenko has is not actually the three elements of firepower, protection, and mobility, but the inequality of key intelligence information. A simple and straightforward manifestation is that Malashenko fully knows all the key performance and weaknesses of the Tiger King.

The German army is still at the level of knowing nothing about the core performance data of the IS6 heavy tank, which has just started mass production and has been put into the front line on a large scale, and only has the prototype photos in Guderian's hands.

The asymmetry of information and intelligence is a very important advantage in war, whether it is the current World War II or the future war in the distant future.

While knowing the performance of his main gun, he also knows the opponent's defense strength and weaknesses. Malashenko, who has poor intelligence, is betting that his IS4 is definitely strong enough. As the strongest firepower of the current German tanks, the Chang 88 is useless in front of the IS4. The indestructible armor is the biggest confidence of Malashenko to dare to approach the King Tiger head-on.

As for whether the 122 heirloom can effectively penetrate the King Tiger's big face when it approaches and shoots, to be honest, Malashenko, who is only talking about war on paper based on publicly available data in the future, is now in a state of uncertainty and has no 100% absolute certainty.

But the current reality that the arrow is on the string and has to be shot does not leave Malashenko with other choices. Whether it can be penetrated can only be known after trying.

Finally, the distance was within the 300-meter straight line set by Malashenko. Whether the front armor of the King Tiger turret could be penetrated with one shot depended on this move. Iushkin, who received Malashenko's order, acted without hesitation and carried out the final calibration and locking before the gun roared.

"Aiming point! Remember not to hit the gun shield!"

This was the last reminder from Malashenko before he died.

"I know, don't rush me! Give me time!"

Iushkin was calm and held his breath. As always, he didn't like someone to interrupt and urge him at the last moment before he was looking for the opportunity to fire, although this was a key detail that Malashenko had to explain clearly.

The King Tiger, which was only 300 meters away from Malashenko's command vehicle, had not yet realized that a disaster was coming. From Iushkin's gun mirror aiming angle, the deflected turret was indeed not an excellent attack angle, and it was obviously aimed at other tanks.

But there is no other choice now. The IS4, which is not known for its mobility but for its nearly invincible armor protection, cannot maneuver a horizontal path, adjust the shooting angle, and try to hit the front armor of the King Tiger vertically. This is simply unrealistic at the moment.

Seryosha, who accurately grasped the joysticks in both hands, followed his previous cooperation experience and quickly completed the on-the-spot parking when he estimated that Iushkin had roughly completed the aiming.

As Seryosha expected, Iushkin, who was praised by Lavrinenko as "the best gunner in our division", was indeed not a person who could eat for nothing. Iushkin, who had already mastered the realm of "man-gun unity", had already completed the aiming of the turret when Seryosha started to slow down just now. The elevation and direction machines were operated at the same time and in one go.

The 60-ton heavy steel body barely stopped with the huge inertia of the slippery road. The main gun that rose and fell with the shaking of the vehicle body would soon be completely horizontal and motionless, leaving Iushkin only a very short time of less than two seconds to accurately aim.

But fortunately, two seconds was enough for Iushkin.

Boom-

There was no loud report of the completion of aiming, nor was there a loud roar of Malashenko's order to fire.

Iushkin, who knew what he should do and knew that he must believe in himself at the critical moment, pulled the main gun firing lever at hand and ignited the cartridge primer at the moment he thought was most appropriate.

The fiercely burning propellant was instantly transformed into surging and spreading chemical energy. The high-energy flames in the closed barrel, against the projectile squeezed out of the shell, violently passed through the barrel. Under the cover of the muzzle storm and flames, it rushed straight towards the target with a sonic barrier that tore through the air.

The Tiger King, standing still, was still aiming at the target. No one knew whether the Tiger King would choose to fire in the next second, but the reality was that the Tiger King was in danger at this second.

The shell hit the Tiger King's turret accurately with an incident angle of less than 10 degrees from the left front. Iushkin, who was finally reminded by Malashenko, perfectly avoided the Tiger King's pig-nose gun shield and hit the shell firmly on the face of the pancake-faced turret armor, which was perfect.

The armor-piercing projectile that smashed the wind cap used to maintain the speed and reduce wind resistance carried extremely strong kinetic energy. Due to the relationship between the inclination angle of the armor itself and the incident angle of the shell, the equivalent homogeneous steel armor with a thickness of 190 mm blocked the forward movement of the ballistic trajectory.

But this is obviously far from enough to completely resist the 122mm full-caliber wind cap armor-piercing projectile that maintains a very high speed at a firing distance of 300 meters.

The shell did not completely penetrate the armor and pour into it as Malashenko expected, but it did not go to waste like the previous IS6 cluster firing. The final result of this precise shot was somewhat unexpected even for Malashenko.

The armor-piercing projectile with a huge caliber exhausted its kinetic energy before completely penetrating the armor and pouring into the vehicle, and got stuck in the severely distorted and deformed front armor of the King Tiger turret.

But for Malashenko, it was very lucky that the front end of the projectile that was directly stuck on the front face of the King Tiger turret had actually completely penetrated the armor and penetrated into the turret. The rear half of the butt, which was getting thicker and thicker as it went further back, was the culprit that caused the projectile to be stuck in the armor and failed to penetrate completely.

There is a special way to describe this situation in military terms. Malashenko also knows it in his heart, but it is rare to encounter it before. It is as rare as winning 5 million in the lottery!

The professional term is called semi-penetration. You ask what the effect is in the case of semi-penetration?

Look at the internal armor fragments that are smashed and thrown up by the tip of the projectile, and when the armor-piercing delay fuse is successfully triggered, the upcoming full-equivalent warhead explosion can be fully known.