Chapter 779 17-Pounder Gun vs 128mm Gun

As a veteran country, the British Army has a very deep heritage.

When the Germans' tank threat came, they entered a stage of rapid development. The first developed was the 2-pounder gun. This 40mm caliber anti-tank gun has been equipped in a large number of British troops.

Of course, the performance in actual combat has also come out. This anti-tank gun has zero power on the new German tanks!

Then, they made persistent efforts and developed a 6-pounder anti-tank gun, which has been equipped in some units. However, this 57mm caliber tank gun, on the battlefield in North Africa, shows that it is still not good and cannot be penetrated. The main armor of the German tank!

How thick is the armor of the German tanks? This is everyone's question. The specific data has always been kept secret. On the battlefield, no German tanks have been left behind.

Therefore, how thick the armor of German tanks has always been a mystery, and the United Kingdom has not stopped developing new anti-tank weapons.

In this era, the best way to increase the power of tank guns is of course to increase the caliber. Almost all countries do this.

The German tanks are no exception. They have 75mm and 88mm guns, and the Soviet tanks also carry 76mm barrels. Therefore, the British side has been intensively developing new 17-pounder guns. .

These are all for artillery shells. Converted to the barrel, this is 76.2 mm, which is definitely not small. British anti-tank guns have developed rapidly recently.

When using the matching MK3T armor-piercing projectile, it can penetrate the average armor of 110 mm at close range. Can the thickness of the German tank exceed 100 mm?

Moreover, newer armor-piercing rounds are still in development and can have greater penetration.

This kind of anti-tank gun was only developed recently. After that, all the produced ones, that is, the first 100 guns, were pushed to the defense line of London, hoping to delay the attack of German tanks.

Of course, only hysteresis.

What if this anti-tank gun could penetrate German tanks? There's not enough! A hundred guns, scattered over a dozen kilometers of defense, were scattered.

For example, here, only two 17-pounder guns can reach, and now, what they have to face is no longer an opponent like the Panther 3 tank, but a more terrifying big guy!

How thick is the opponent's armor? No one knows, what they know is that, generally speaking, the bottom of the tank is the weakest place.

Now, the opponent is climbing the dirt slope, the front end of the car body is raised, and from here, you can just see the bottom of the opponent's car body, hit that place!

"Fire!"

After discovering the behemoth on the opposite side, this side was shocked and ready to start, especially next to the 17-pounder gun, the gunner nervously stuffed the shells in, quickly shook the high and low machine, and aimed!

They aimed at the upper part of the slope, and now, when the opponent's tank appeared, the gunner yanked the gun's rope.

"Boom!" At the muzzle, the 7.69kg warhead flew towards the opposite side with everyone's expectations at an initial speed of 884 meters per second!

Victory is here!

If the sound of the gun is fixed and the opponent is blown up, then the opponent's conspiracy will go bankrupt, and the opponent will definitely stop for a few days. When the backup arrives, the opponent will be more confident.

If you can't get through...

There is no if, when I think of this, the shell has already roared and accurately flew to the bottom of the opponent's car body!

In the eyes of everyone, I saw the shell rubbed against the opponent's bottom armor, turned in a different direction, and a savage plunged into the soil below!

Bounce!

When the opponent raised it just now, the angle was just right, so that the flying shell produced a ricochet and stabbed to the side!

The British's last chance was gone.

They guessed right. The bottom of the Rat tank has the weakest protection, with only 60mm thick armor, although this armor is already thicker than the main armor of many tanks.

After all, there is no need to worry about armor-piercing bullets at the bottom, as long as it can protect against mines.

But what about now? The British fired a cannonball at the bottom of the opponent at a tricky angle, but unfortunately the cannonball bounced off.

At this time, the black smoke of the huge engine was emitting from the tail, and the rat tank had already come down from the soil slope! Its gun barrel slowly raised.

"Target, straight ahead, anti-tank guns, main guns, grenades, fire!" Commander Sergeant Rip shouted calmly.

"Understood!" the two loaders shouted.

The turret of the Rat tank is quite large, and there is plenty of space inside, so two loaders are arranged.

One loader picked up the grenade warhead and stuffed it into the gun chamber, while the other picked up the propellant pack and stuffed it in the same, then closed the gun door and shouted loudly, "Filled!"

Once fired, it needs to be loaded twice. Yes, this kind of shell is divided into ammunition.

As the caliber of the artillery increases, the artillery shell will become heavier and heavier, so that the overall artillery shell will cause difficulty in handling, so the sub-packaged artillery shell appears like this.

This was not a problem at first, because this 128mm cannon was originally used as an anti-aircraft gun, and it was first used on German warships, and the automatic device could handle everything.

Germany has a tradition of changing anti-aircraft guns to tank guns. The 88mm gun is the most famous one. The current rat tank is so huge, of course, it can't only take 88mm guns, and there is no time to develop cannons for it. I don't have that kind of energy, so I almost copied the structure of the 128mm anti-aircraft gun.

It's just that the automatic loading mechanism is not added, and manual loading is used. On the tank, the weight factor must be taken into account.

The gunner stepped on the button, and the turret turned rapidly under the hydraulic drive. Then, he shouted loudly: "Aim and fire!"

Fire!

"Boom!" In the huge sound of guns, the entire interior of the turret was filled with smoke.

When changing the anti-aircraft gun to the tank gun, there must be a lot of improvements. After all, the internal space of the turret is small, and the exhaust gas of the artillery shell is enough to give the designer a headache, and a special smoking device is needed.

But this rat tank has no energy to engage in these, it is mainly to test the chassis.

While coughing, the commander wiped the lens of the scope in front of him, looking forward.

At the muzzle, a huge fireball spewed out, and a 128mm high-explosive grenade flew forward!

"Boom!" On the emplacement of the 17-pounder gun 900 meters away, the heavy anti-tank gun was blown into the air in an instant! The gun barrel was crooked, the wheels on the gun mount flew to the side, and several gunners, even at this moment, turned into pieces of meat.

The 128mm high-explosive grenade is so brutal!