Chapter 2465: Legend of the Silver Bullet

That name, or nickname, came from the Western Front.

It is said that the name of this "Silver Bullet" that can hunt vampires and werewolves was given by the SS ace who ranked first in the German Armed Forces Armored Forces Performance Ranking. His own name is even more famous than his nickname "Silver Bullet". Many people have heard of his name before knowing the name of this new ammunition.

Does this new ammunition with a bullet head intentionally painted silver really have special effects?

The German gunner who was staring at the target with a telescope in his hand did not know.

He only knew that this thing played a super combat power on the Western Front. In the hands of those SS, the arrogant Americans and British were killed in a mess. The losses were so great that they could not find their way at all. They were beaten to a pulp and retreated, leaving only a burning wreckage and indescribable corpses.

There is no reason why our Wehrmacht cannot do what the SS can do.

And the projectile artillery in my hand has a larger caliber and a stronger amount of propellant. There is no reason why the 128 silver bullet can't do what the 105 silver bullet can do. This new type of artillery shell will definitely be able to deal with these Russians, it must be possible!

The German artillery commander who forced himself to calm down comforted himself silently in his heart, trying to find a reason to build confidence.

But at this moment, he ignored an important issue that cannot be ignored.

What level are the American tanks? What level are the tanks of the Russians on the opposite side?

You insist on comparing the younger brother who came to ask for apprenticeship with the brother who is waiting to accept the apprentice, and equate them equally. What else can you do except make yourself unhappy?

Boom--

The PAK 44 128mm heavy anti-tank gun on the German side fired again. This huge and bulky anti-tank gun that must be deployed using a fixed gun mount before it can fire is indeed terrifyingly powerful.

The pepper bottle muzzle brake, which is very similar to the IS7's 130mm main gun, instantly ejected a stream of blazing flames as the projectile was fired.

The violent gunpowder gas ejected from each eyelet of the pepper bottle muzzle brake. This muzzle brake, which is not required on the Jagdtiger of the same caliber due to tonnage, but must be used when deployed as an anti-tank gun, can absorb more than 70% of the recoil, and is indeed powerful.

But even so, the entire 128 gun fixed in the fortifications still couldn't withstand the remaining 30% of the powerful recoil, and the gun body was instantly shaken and shook violently like a tremor, almost shaking a German soldier who couldn't dodge to the ground.

"I hope this will work, it must work!"

This was the last sentence of the German gunner's silent prayer in his heart in the last second before firing, but at that time he didn't realize that this would be his final words of silent contemplation in this life.

Boom——

Almost at the same time as the Germans fired, the "silver bullet" for the 128mm gun had broken free from the restraint of the muzzle brake and began to rush towards the target not far away with a sharp whistling sound and a muzzle velocity of more than 1,000 meters per second. At this time, the ISU-152A on the opposite side, which had been fully loaded after a long wait, finally fired again.

The 152 concrete-destroying bullet, whose initial velocity was far less than that of the Germans on the opposite side, was powerful and heavy. It did not win by speed, but by the quality of the projectile and the huge impact destructive power.

On the trajectory of the ballistic flight that rushed out at high speed in the muzzle storm, it passed by the oncoming German projectile. The two projectiles shot at each other, and when they were closest, they were only separated by less than half a palm and passed each other.

The two projectiles, which were both powerful and heavy, even disturbed each other's flight trajectory due to the high-speed airflow formed by the wind resistance of the supersonic projectiles. Even if there was only a little impact, it was indeed an objective fact.

The lightning moment of hitting each other only lasted for the next fleeting second.

Boom——

Ding-bang——

Sure enough, the German armor-piercing shell, which was fired slightly first and had a great advantage in muzzle velocity, arrived first and hit the target first, but this did not mean that the German army had won.

The high-speed projectile that hit the armor plate in front of the ISU-152A fighting room had deformed long before it finally hit the target.

Don't get me wrong, it was not the poor quality of the German shells that caused the deformation during flight, but a deliberate and designed deformation, which is the so-called "silver bullet" feature.

Although it is used for 128mm guns, the armor-piercing projectile at the front of the shell is an authentic capped armor-piercing projectile directly transplanted from the Chang 88 shell.

Yes, this is a real sub-caliber armor-piercing shell, not a full-caliber old armor-piercing shell, but it is a little different from the sub-caliber armor-piercing shell proposed and developed by Malashenko.

The Soviet armor-piercing shell chose a new type of solid projectile without charge. Although the accuracy is not high, the ballistic trajectory is unstable, and the actual combat is seriously affected, it is indeed a new projectile designed and developed from the ground up.

The Germans saved trouble by using ready-made ones. They directly unloaded the smaller caliber projectiles in stock and installed them on the larger propellant cartridge by fastening the empty shells.

Using a larger amount of propellant to launch a smaller projectile, theoretically speaking, the amount of propellant applied to each gram of projectile mass does increase significantly. Using a larger dose of propellant to launch a smaller caliber projectile can indeed bring about a linear surge in muzzle velocity, at least compared to conventional armor-piercing projectiles of the same projectile caliber.

The direct effect of the significant increase in muzzle velocity from the kinetic energy conversion is a significant increase in penetration. The 88mm armor-piercing projectile fired out of the barrel by the 128 gun will quickly break free from the shell that automatically splits and falls off after the cartridge is tightened in a very short time after leaving the barrel.

So in fact, the only thing that is fired out by the huge amount of propellant is the lightweight 88mm caliber projectile itself. The 88mm projectile that enjoys the huge chamber volume of the 128mm gun can naturally achieve a much higher penetration than when fired by the long 88, thereby forming a qualitative change in armor-piercing power, which is the final result that the German army dreams of, at least in theory.

In terms of the working principle, the German's piercing projectile is actually the same as Malashenko's piercing projectile, but whether the actual effect is in line with the German's original intention when designing it is another matter.

It's like this 88mm armor-piercing projectile that hit the front armor plate of the ISU-152A's fighting compartment, but then it deformed again. This is not what you Germans expected.