Chapter 2650: Killing Giant Beasts (Part 1)

After the historic defeat in Stalingrad, the Germans began to think about what went wrong. Why did the well-equipped and powerful German army lose to the second-rate ragtag army composed of sweaty workers and mud-legged people digging for food in the fields?

One obvious result of thinking is that the Germans think there is a problem with their equipment system.

A very important point is that there is no professional street fighting equipment, especially the front-line mobile assault heavy artillery that can break through the defense of heavy buildings.

In stark contrast to the Soviet army's development path of caliber is justice, your German development ideas in armored vehicle artillery have always been to not make large calibers if you can make high calibers, and not make thick noses if you can make fishing rods. Thick noses are industrial garbage made by inferior barbarians with no craftsmanship. My great Germany should make high-caliber fishing rods to show that German technology is the best in the world.

The idea of ​​high caliber cannot be said to be wrong, it can only be said that it is indeed a method, but the derivative problem that comes from this is that your German tank guns and anti-tank guns have enough penetration, but what about the warhead charge of high-explosive grenades? Increasing the barrel caliber ratio of the gun can only increase the muzzle velocity and armor penetration depth, but it cannot allow high-explosive grenades to carry more warhead charges out of the fishing rod.

In view of this, you Germans immediately took off your pants and farted, and started a new research and development route for large-caliber artillery armored vehicles. And you went to extremes right from the start. The medium-sized fully enclosed siege gun vehicle started with the 150mm caliber of the Grizzlies. As for the heavy ones, it was even more amazing. The Sturmtiger, which was modified from the chassis of the Tiger VI tank, directly carried a 380mm large barrel.

Yes, that's right, it's the same caliber as the main gun of the German Persian Cat battleship, and the head of a certain Corgi is also this.

After the Germans took the small-caliber and high-magnification development route, they started a new business and opened a large-caliber and low-magnification technology tree. The parallel development of two-line design ideas will not be discussed for the time being. This kind of performance art of taking off pants and farting will bring many burdens and disadvantages to their own research and development and industrial production capacity.

The Sturmtiger itself is actually a bidirectional extreme freak thing.

The firepower is really fierce. The 380mm large barrel can't be considered an ordinary cannon. It should be called a small aerial bomb launcher. A 380mm rocket-propelled grenade is fired, and the unique wind-breaking whistling sound like an old cow going crazy can scare people to death.

What if you get hit by this thing?

Damn, let alone an armored combat vehicle, even a three-story building can't withstand such a blow. The only possible result is that it collapses into half of the building on the spot. Even if it is a near miss explosion without a direct hit, it is enough to tear off half of your broken building.

However, this thing is extreme in both directions. It is ridiculously powerful and takes so long to reload that it makes people want to curse. Loading 380mm rocket-assisted grenades in a fully enclosed combat compartment is simply a nightmare. Even with mechanical assistance and a double loader configuration, it is still a drop in the bucket.

Of course, this must be a good thing for Malashenko at the moment.

The Sturmtiger fired only once and instantly killed an IS6 plus a squad of infantry.

This is also thanks to the fact that the leader division has rich combat experience and has always attached importance to the enemy in tactics. In the street fighting environment, the line of troops was pulled wide enough and the formation was scattered enough, so that there was no embarrassing incident of being destroyed by a German gun.

And the reloading interval before the German Sturmtiger fired again was the only chance for Malashenko to kill this thing and prevent it from spitting on his side and causing greater casualties.

"Have you finished pretending? It's my turn! Alpaca!"

The Germans kept a final trump card until now. If Malashenko didn't say anything, wouldn't it be a lack of courtesy?

"Armor-piercing sabot loaded! Iushkin, no! Gunner aiming! Enemy heavy assault gun, ready to fire!"

Malashenko, who was fluent in speaking, called the wrong person in a hurry, and Iushkin's name came out instantly.

To make matters worse, when Malashenko shouted this, he didn't have time to switch channels, and Iushkin on the other end of the radio heard Malashenko's words clearly.

"Comrade commander, I'm not in your car. Do you need to update and supplement my orders?"

The tone didn't sound serious, but rather teasing. He wanted to rush over and give Iushkin, the stinky bastard, a hard kick on his ass. Naturally, Malashenko's next words were not good at all.

"Stop the bullshit! Hurry up and use armor-piercing discarding sabots, double-shot! Follow me! Get ready!!!"

"No problem, I've been waiting for you to say this!"

Despite the many setbacks and difficulties in materials science on the road to research and development, it is not easy to achieve a revolutionary military technology breakthrough in the war years.

But under the guidance of Malashenko, and the painstaking research and development of all comrades who worked together and united for this project, a series of problems existing in the early 122mm sub-caliber armor-piercing discarding sabots, as well as a series of defects exposed in actual combat, especially the lack of accuracy, were finally solved one by one through day and night efforts.

Even those that have not been solved and have temporary technical bottlenecks have at least been greatly upgraded and optimized, which has undergone essential changes compared to the initial test batch of 122mm sub-caliber armor-piercing discarding sabots.

And this time, the strongest tank gun in service has been upgraded. It is no longer a 122mm gun but a transplanted version of the Red Navy's 130mm naval gun. This objective reality also prompted the R&D team to do it in one step. Not only did they solve the existing problems and technical defects, but they also used the updated technical patches to complete the research and development of sub-caliber armor-piercing shells for 130mm guns.

Once the technical bottleneck is broken, even if it is a partial breakthrough, it is not difficult to directly apply the technology to make another armor-piercing shell of similar caliber, especially for a world-class industrial power like the Soviet Union.

Malashenko knew very well what kind of opponent he was facing

That was to further enhance the defense on the basis of the chassis of the Tiger VI tank, especially the German precious item with an unusually thick and heavy main armor belt on the front of the fighting room.

It's not that the full-caliber 130mm capped armor-piercing shells are not enough, but in order to reduce the probability of non-penetration caused by possible ricochets and misaligned angles of incidence, Malashenko decided to use this latest powerful shell that was personally escorted by Kotin before the Battle of Berlin to solve the battle.

It was the first time to deal with such a powerful target. Even though Malashenko had personally fired a few test shots before the war and found that the new shells had indeed been greatly improved, he was a little unsure. We can only hope that this thing is not a "special shell for shooting range performance" with a silver gun wax head. Whether it is effective in actual combat depends on the next shot!

"It must be effective! Damn!"