Chapter 2275: The Belly of the Tiger King (Part 2)

Chapter 2280: The Belly of the Tiger King (Part 2)

The answer is not unsolvable. Malashenko found the source of the problem. It is used to rigidly connect and fix the entire cartridge case. The other end is directly connected to the breech block. The two structures are similar to the ear shafts of the artillery, but the volume is relatively small and not very noticeable.

Extending his index finger and touching the silver-shiny fixing rod of the rigid connection, Malashenko seemed to have touched something with a casual touch. He pressed his index finger with his thumb and twisted it. The smooth and greasy touch was indeed as expected by Malashenko.

After confirming that his guess was correct, Malashenko immediately raised his right index finger in front of Iushkin.

"Hydraulic oil, this thing is operated by hydraulic mechanical force. As expected, the hand-cranked device is a backup in case of power failure or equipment failure. The real operation method of this thing should be to press the button. The raising and resetting of the cylinder are all operated automatically by hydraulic machinery. Only the last step of pushing the bullet into the chamber is done manually. Now you know why the speed is slow?"

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Iushkin, who came to his senses, wanted to say "Let's press the button to see how fast this thing is", but now the power of the whole car has been cut off, the power compartment has stopped working for unknown reasons, and there is a body lying on the driver's seat at the front of the car body. Not to mention whether it can start the car at this time, just moving this body away from the driver's seat is annoying enough.

Who likes to deal with rotten blood and rotten meat all day long? It's just such a simple reason.

"So the loader only needs to press the button, then push the shell into the breech block, close the breech block, and that's it?"

It does sound a bit like "This is too easy, isn't it?", but Malashenko, who is basically sure that his guess is almost right, still nodded.

"If nothing unexpected happens, it's like this. It's a traditional skill of the Germans to like to design complex machinery. The simple semi-automatic loader is so complicated. The maintenance of this thing is a hassle."

Malashenko complained in a low voice while fiddling with the German loader to continue studying it. Iushkin, who looked at the thing in front of him and thought for a while, suddenly spoke again.

"Is this thing more powerful than our loader? It looks like the loading speed is much faster."

As a man, when it comes to "guns" and "force value", he always likes to compare with his opponent. This is the most basic competitive consciousness as a male creature.

This competitive consciousness, if you go back to the source, is the consciousness of competing for spouses and reproductive rights. Whoever has a stronger "gun" and a higher "force value" is the best. And the reloading speed is obviously a key factor in whether the "gun" is strong or not. This feeling that the Germans are "stronger than me" makes Iushkin feel a little uncomfortable.

"Yes, but not entirely."

Malashenko's answer was a little ambiguous. Iushkin decided to listen patiently instead of speaking immediately. He knew that Malashenko had something else to say.

"The Germans' reloading speed is indeed higher than ours, but you have to consider another problem."

"How many millimeters is this German gun? 88 mm. It could barely be considered a large-caliber tank gun before, but now it's just a waste. We not only have 122 main guns, but also 130 main guns. Because of the caliber, especially the damage effect on non-armored soft targets is much stronger than this gun. It is not an exaggeration to say that one gun can have the effect of three guns."

"There are always few times when armor-piercing shells can be used on the battlefield. Even if our division fights more armored confrontations than other troops, the ratio of armor-piercing shells to grenades per vehicle is only 1:5. The Stalin tanks of other guards units even only carry a few armor-piercing shells per vehicle, and the rest are all grenades."

"So, in the absolute In most battlefields, that is, in non-armored confrontations, our overall combat efficiency is still much higher than that of the Germans, but only in the new IS7. I estimate that the combat efficiency of the traditional 122 gun is similar to that of the new Chang 88 with a loader. The advantage of rate of fire can make up for some caliber disadvantages, but sometimes even if the number is piled up in the same unit time, it is difficult to achieve a qualitative change effect of caliber crushing, you know this. "

"It should be said that the Germans have made up for some disadvantages for themselves, but he is not qualified to say that they are better than us and the leader division. Even if it is simply a comparison of the firepower projection efficiency of tank guns, not to mention the comprehensive combat effectiveness of tanks, it is the same. "

Some things, you can't say that Ivushkin can't understand them at all.

The reason why he asked that was entirely because he trusted Malashenko as always.

The commander always knows a lot about the new weapons and equipment of the Germans. Iushkin thinks that asking the commander to interpret and analyze the equipment is definitely better than making random guesses. Judging from the result given by Malashenko, it is exactly the same as the answer Iushkin expected.

"That's right, the Germans want to surpass us with this thing? These Nazis are dreaming!"

Iushkin's expression seemed a little complacent, but Malashenko saw a different problem.

The standard capacity of the first ammunition rack of the IS7 loader is 6 rounds, and the standard capacity of the first ammunition rack of the Tiger King loader is slightly more, reaching 8 rounds.

But in essence, the first generation of semi-automatic loaders that were put into actual combat by the Soviet Union and Germany within less than half a year actually had a common shortcoming: the capacity of the ready-to-fire ammunition in the loader was too small.

The Red Army's IS7 was really helpless. The 130 shells transplanted from the naval destroyer's gun were huge and divided into separate shells, which resulted in the first ammunition rack at the rear end of the IS7 turret being divided into two layers, the upper layer was for projectiles,

As a result, even if the super-wide head of the IS7 was filled horizontally, after deducting the space occupied by the loader body, it could only accommodate only 6 shells.

In theory, the Germans did not have the constraint of "huge shells", and they had the conditions to achieve a larger loader capacity.

But you, San Dezi, like to do things, and you made you a thing similar to the French tank magazine gun after World War II, and took the revolver style of American cowboys. The fusion of the United States and France is really too un-German.

The German 88 loader has a very fast response speed. Coupled with the advantages of fixed loading, it is not uncommon to have a burst of fire every five seconds.

But the Germans failed to be a good student with both good character and good academic performance. Instead, they took a different approach and became a student with a special subject under the objective conditions. They increased the loading speed, but the ammunition capacity is still pitifully small. It only has two more rounds of ammunition capacity than the IS7 loader with a huge shell volume, wasting an existing advantage that could have been used for a lot of things.

What can Malashenko say about this?

I scratched my head and couldn't think of any suitable complaints, so I gave the Germans a sentence "If you have nothing to do, you can bite a lighter."