Chapter 1694 Purifying the Bad Tiger (Part 2)

After the first round of firing tests, the answer was obvious.

The sub-caliber tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells fired by the 122 Heirloom can not only penetrate the upper front armor of the Jagdtiger with a large angle of inclination, but also have excellent straightening and penetration effects on the inclined armor. It can also penetrate the front of the Jagdtiger's combat compartment without pressure, and the super protective armor with a physical thickness of 250 mm is hit with one shot.

At this moment, Malashenko can already confirm in his mind based on the scene in front of him that the vertical penetration of the new batch of experimental armor-piercing shells sent by Kotin at a distance of about 100 meters is definitely more than 270 mm, and has an inclined armor-piercing power far superior to that of full-caliber charge armor-piercing shells.

The specific oblique penetration is still unclear, because the technology is immature, there are still many places that need to be improved, and it is still the first batch of test shells. The report sent by Kotin to Malashenko did not mention the specific oblique penetration, so Malashenko can only rely on guessing now.

The vertical penetration of this thing at 100 meters definitely exceeded 270 mm. This is because when the crews actually shot at the front armor of the Jagdtiger fighting compartment, the angle of incidence was not completely vertical due to the position of the crews. The shells hitting the front armor of the Jagdtiger fighting compartment had to be considered as equivalent armor.

In addition, after the shells penetrated the front armor of the fighting compartment, they could continue to penetrate into the space inside the vehicle to cause damage, which must mean that the core armor-piercing body that penetrated into the vehicle body still had a certain amount of residual kinetic energy.

If the limit penetration value is exactly the same as the enemy's defensive armor, or even very close, there will inevitably be an embarrassing situation of half penetration or even harmless penetration. But such a situation obviously does not exist at the moment, so there is no need to say more about the real result.

This new type of armor-piercing shell is not only effective against the Germans' heaviest armored vehicles, but also has the best effect of surplus penetration. It can continue to penetrate into the vehicle after penetrating the armor and bring up enough armor fragments. Even armor-piercing shells with poor aftereffects can still give a fatal blow to the German heavy armor monsters.

The cruel war in reality is different from the game. There are tough men who can persist in fighting and not abandon their vehicles even when their armor is penetrated, their comrades are beaten to a bloody pulp and die beside them, and they themselves are injured and endure severe pain.

Malashenko dare not say that there are no such people in the German army, but even if they really exist, they must be a very elite and fanatical minority. Most of them can only be done by those SS with morbid and twisted beliefs, but they have encountered some in previous battles.

As for the armored soldiers of the Wehrmacht after 1944?

Haha, sorry, it’s not that our old Ma looks down on these Germans who are full of rookies.

The armored soldiers of the Wehrmacht after 1944 did not even feel sorry for throwing away their cars that ran out of gas all over the streets. With such cowardice, can you still expect these people to choose not to abandon their cars and continue to fight when the crew members are killed? Malashenko would rather believe that Hitler suddenly found his conscience and announced his resignation as the head of state tomorrow.

From 1941 to the present, Malashenko can say with a clear conscience that he has never heard of many Wehrmacht armored soldiers who insisted on fighting and not abandoning their vehicles even when their armor was penetrated and people died.

With this reality as a premise, the weakness of the armor-piercing shells with poor aftereffects and difficulty in causing ammunition explosions is no longer a weakness.

As long as the armor can be penetrated and the people inside can be killed, it is easy to force the terrified Germans to abandon their vehicles and withdraw from the battle on the spot. If the aftereffect of this degree of killing is achieved, the armor-piercing shells with sabots can still be easily achieved, and the actual results in front of us have proved this well.

That is, within less than a minute after the first round of salvos, those Jagdtigers that were shot dead on the spot began to have more signs of black smoke coming out of the car. A few cars were replaced by flames after a brief period of black smoke. It was obvious that the ignited gasoline burning in the car had quickly expanded into an uncontrollable fire.

Even the extremely spacious interior space of the Jagdpanther could not accommodate the fire beast blessed by the most primitive destructive power of nature. Being surrounded and swallowed by raging flames is the only foreseeable and inevitable outcome.

However, a big fire is only the beginning of a disaster, just like the sign that the crater will always emit black smoke before a volcanic eruption, and a more terrible disaster is about to come after this.

"Get ready, the fireworks are about to be set off!"

"What?"

Malashenko whispered, and Iushkin was still confused and had not recovered yet. A huge explosion that shook the world sounded on the battlefield, falling straight down like thunder in the sky and exploding the earth.

A Jagdpanther that was only a hundred meters away was catalyzed by the fire, and as Malashenko predicted, a strong and destructive ammunition explosion occurred.

The power of a truck full of 128mm shells exploding is not comparable to the power of a truck full of 88mm shells exploding in the Tiger King.

Compared with the Tiger King, the Jagdtiger, which has a wider interior, has more space to store and release shells. Carrying more shells should be an advantage for more sustained combat on the battlefield, but it is a completely different matter when ammunition explodes.

The power of the Jagdtiger explosion was so great that Malashenko, who was protected by the heavy armor of his car a hundred meters away, felt a slight shake at the moment when the loud noise sounded and the sound wave came, and his head was buzzing instantly.

"Fuck! Is this German crazy? How many shells must be stuffed in this car? It can make such a big noise!"

No matter what Comrade Lao Ma, who was amazed and cursed in his heart, felt, the Jagdtiger, which was blown to pieces at the moment of the ammunition explosion, was in a mess.

The spare track plates attached to both sides of the fighting room, which could barely provide a little defense, were directly blown away by the shock wave of the explosion and disappeared hundreds of meters away. The heavy staggered road wheels and wide track plates on both sides of the vehicle were completely blown up from the inside out. The huge deformed road wheels that were thrown out in the flames and black smoke were even more dazzling than a meteor.

Holding the commander's periscope in front of him, looking at the Jagdtiger gun barrel that had been twisted into a twist and even the breech block had been blown away, Comrade Lao Ma was amazed and had a bit of "mixed feelings" in his heart.

After all, it was rare to see the entire main gun and its gun shield being blown out of the car and flying more than ten meters away. Malashenko now had a rough idea of ​​how powerful the secondary explosion was that could blow the main gun off the car.