Chapter 2479 Sixth Layer Heavy Armor

"Each crew, keep your distance and charge into formation! Guard company, follow me, charge forward!"

Unlike the previous attacks, this new round of cluster assault was led by Malashenko himself. The IS7 heavy tank with turret call sign 177 rushed to the front, followed closely by 13 IS7 heavy tanks of the guard heavy tank company directly under the division headquarters.

This was Zhukov mobilizing his personal connections to open up an emergency transportation route from the rear to the front line, and directly pulled the latest batch of IS7 mass-produced heavy tanks that had just come off the production line from the Kirov Factory in Leningrad to the front line and delivered to the leader division.

In this way, the leader division achieved that all the command vehicles at the company level and above were IS7 heavy tanks, and Malashenko's direct guard company also became the first company in the entire division to be fully equipped with IS7 heavy tanks.

It not only ensured the battlefield survival of the grassroots commanders, but also protected the battlefield safety of Malashenko, the heart and lifeline of the entire division, and added an elite heavy tank company that was ready to be dispatched at any time by Malashenko's hand.

And now, these IS7 heavy tanks, like prehistoric beasts that broke free from their chains, were rushing in groups, with a dozen of them and a large group of IS6 heavy tanks of the same size, towards the messy German positions that were first bombed by planes and then bombarded.

Those German soldiers who walked out of the anti-artillery holes and surviving fortifications, shaking their bodies like mud and paralyzed by the bombing, did not even have time to catch their breath. The increasingly violent shaking of the ground under their feet and the galloping roar in the air that vibrated their eardrums had once again attracted their attention and bound their souls.

"Tanks! So many Russian tanks!!!"

"Oh my god, do the Russians have so many super monsters? How can there be so many!?"

"Battle positions, everyone, fight positions! Get in position, get ready for battle!!!"

The scene was in chaos. The screams and shouts from the entire German position even drowned out the sound of the Red Army's heavy tanks rushing towards them. Disorder and chaos spread rapidly across the entire position like a plague and wildfire, infecting everything almost instantly.

This can't be blamed on the German army for being so lazy and doing nothing. In fact, the problem can't be attributed to them at all.

Such a density of firepower projection and such a powerful strike have far exceeded the limit that any regular army on this earth can bear.

If you change any other army to defend the same position, you dare not say that it will definitely perform better than these German field troops. At least these German soldiers can find what they should do and what they should do in the chaos, and do it as quickly as possible. This is very rare and worth bragging about.

But being able to do it is being able to do it, and doing it does not necessarily have substantive significance. There is no necessary connection between the two, just like hard work does not necessarily lead to success.

Before most German soldiers found the right anti-tank weapons, those who were extremely large in size but completely out of proportion to their speed were so fast that even the IS6 heavy tanks, which were already known for their mobility and were enough to make the German soldiers dumbfounded, could not catch up. The "Russian super steel monsters" that were left behind had already killed in front of them and began to roar and fire at the most threatening targets within the field of vision at a very close distance.

Boom——

Swoosh——

Boom——

A 130mm full-caliber grenade broke through the air, and a ball of orange-red fire that rose up instantly and dissipated quickly exploded on the spot.

The German soldiers around who were still struggling to swing their engineer shovels in their hands, trying to dig the PAK 43 anti-tank gun out from the half-covered floating soil layer as soon as possible, were sent into the sky without even a chance to dodge or react.

No accuracy under high-speed maneuvers?

I'm hitting a group of unprotected soft targets at a distance of 200 meters, and what accuracy do you want!

According to Malashenko himself, I can kill the German even if I send this shell 50 meters behind his ass. Who the hell talks about accuracy with your flesh and blood with the Red Navy's 130mm naval gun?

The heavy tank cluster that rushed to the front and maintained a dense breakthrough formation was advancing at high speed, and some of the German troops on the position who had restored limited defensive firepower had begun to resist.

Large-caliber anti-tank guns and anti-tank missiles that can ensure effective accuracy at close range whizzed in. Malashenko, who had a full view of all this, did not take it seriously at all.

Except for Malashenko's prototype vehicle, which only had homogeneous steel armor and was equipped with modular external composite armor to enhance its chemical armor-piercing performance.

All the remaining batches of mass-produced IS7 heavy tanks of the guard tank company directly under the division headquarters were all new vehicles with rubber sandwich composite armor.

And in line with the concept of "since we have built a good car, we should build it to the best, and the guards are dedicated to it", this batch of mass-produced IS7 main armor belt composite armor configuration has been completely upgraded based on the actual combat feedback and standard configuration of IS6.

From the original second batch of IS6 heavy tanks' three-layer composite structure of "homogeneous steel-rubber sandwich-homogeneous steel", it has been upgraded to a six-layer composite structure of "homogeneous steel-rubber sandwich-homogeneous steel-rubber sandwich-homogeneous steel-rubber lining".

The newly added rubber lining was specially added at the request of Malashenko. After live-fire tests at the shooting range, it was shown that this seemingly insignificant lining can have an extraordinary effect.

The test report clearly states that the number of armor fragments that can be reduced by the kinetic energy penetration is at least 60% less than that of pure homogeneous steel plates without rubber lining.

The result is that the survival rate of the crew members when the armor is penetrated is directly improved, especially for the kinetic energy armor-piercing projectiles that have no charge in the warhead and rely purely on high-speed kinetic energy to penetrate the armor. The fragments and projectile fragments brought up, as well as the projectile itself, are weakened.

That's right, it is aimed at the high-penetration caliber tungsten core armor-piercing projectiles that you Germans have always loved to use.

For the leadership division that now emphasizes the battlefield survivability of tank soldiers, this is not as important as the improvement of the hard protection of the outer armor. The experienced tank crews who are alive are far more important than one or even three brand-new tanks they drive.

So when these ferocious armored monsters swallowed all kinds of kinetic and chemical anti-tank ammunition and rushed to the face-to-face distance as if they were not affected at all, the shock and despair in the hearts of the German soldiers who repeatedly did useless work and watched all this happen were completely predictable.

But as Malashenko thought at this moment

So far, all this has just begun.