Chapter 833 The First Breakdown
The warhead of the armor-piercing projectile keeps drilling inward. This is a battle between a spear and a shield. It depends on who is more capable!
However, it still stopped, just a dozen millimeters away from the end of the armor, it stopped helplessly, and it still didn't drill through!
In theory, it has a penetration depth of 106 mm, but that is only a theory. In practice, there are many limitations. For example, the German armor is denser, that is, harder, and at the same time, the front is attached. A piece of track, adding thickness, and that's it, it's blocked!
For the tankers inside the car body, this is not the first time that such a situation has occurred. They firmly believe that their tanks will not be penetrated!
"Fire, grenade, kill it!" At this moment, Carl shouted loudly.
Whoever wants to challenge the German armored forces will have to pay the same price. For example, now, they must also be prepared to be killed!
In less than a minute, the roaring cannonball flew towards the opposite side! Carl was in the sight, looking at the situation on the opposite side, and found the gun mantlet on the opposite side, moving forward slowly!
Yes, the other party is actually shifting positions, but they are not backward, but forward!
Several people pushed the anti-tank guns and moved forward a few meters, which made them panting. This is a big guy with more than two tons!
Then, Zanog shouted loudly: "Tungsten alloy armor-piercing bullets, reload!"
Yes, when ordinary armor-piercing projectiles cannot penetrate the opponent, tungsten alloy armor-piercing projectiles must be used! This is almost the consensus of all countries in the world. The higher hardness of tungsten means that the armor-piercing ability is better. Even in later generations, it is still the king of tungsten alloy armor-piercing projectiles.
The only drawback is that this thing is too expensive. Now, when he found that ordinary armor-piercing bullets could not destroy the opponent, Zanog immediately ordered the armor-piercing bullets to be replaced without hesitation!
Now, another tank of the opponent is moving up, and the distance has been shortened to 700 meters!
After twisting the muzzle and re-aiming, Geoffrey pulled the roping again.
"boom!"
The second shell, with their hopes, flew out of the barrel. If it hasn't penetrated this time, then this anti-tank gun supported by the United States is a fire stick!
"Quick, reload!" Zanoog shouted loudly.
This time, there was no hit! The opponent's tank, which was moving rapidly, turned in a dashing turn, letting the shells on this side fly into the air!
Not every shot can be hit, in fact, on the battlefield, there is a one-fifth of the hit rate, which is the ace gunner!
A precious tungsten alloy armor-piercing bullet was wasted like this. They didn't have time to worry about it. A new armor-piercing bullet was stuffed into it again.
"Boom!" After a while, the shell was fired again!
And almost at the same time, they also felt a louder explosion coming from their ears, and the counterattack on the opposite side had begun! A grenade exploded just a few meters away from them!
At this time, Geoffrey's body just leaned against the shield, and the fragments hit the shield, making a loud bang, and after the sound, he was actually unscathed.
On the gun door, a piece of intestines was hung, and it was red everywhere. He removed the intestines with his hands and shouted loudly: "Armor-piercing bullets!"
Another loader, gritted his teeth, used his only remaining arm to stuff the cannonball in!
"Ready!"
The two of them are already the only artillerymen left in this artillery position.
In fact, throughout the brutal war of World War II, anti-tank gunners have always had a very high death rate, because they are the primary target of the opponent's tanks, and at the same time, they are only within 1,000 meters. High enough Accuracy, so that they have nowhere to escape, they can only fight bravely and destroy each other before they open fire!
Geoffrey returned to the gun position and made fine adjustments again. The previous shell still missed, and at this time, the opposite tank had already moved to a distance of 400 meters!
The other party stopped and was about to open fire!
"Go to hell!" Geoffrey tugged at the reel.
With a fierce whistling, this tungsten alloy armor-piercing projectile flew out again!
The penetration depth of the shell is related to many factors, among which the distance is also very important. The closer the distance, the greater the storage speed of the shell, and the higher the penetration depth.
Like now.
If it hits the gun mantlet, it will also have no result, because the gun mantlet of the Panther 3 tank is 130 mm thick, and only if it hits the front end of the car body can it have hope!
And this time, it didn't hit the front spare crawler, after all, it was impossible for the spare crawler to protect all positions.
Just like that, it drilled hard, drilled in, and then, with a loose head, went in!
In front of it is the radio operator on the right side of the car body. When the shell got in, the radio operator's head was gone!
The shell continued to fly forward, passed through the turret basket, broke the gunner's legs, and got into the ammunition rack behind.
"boom!"
The entire tank made a huge explosion sound, and the pressure relief plate at the back quickly opened to prevent the turret from being lifted off. However, during the huge impact, it was impossible for anyone to survive inside the tank!
Gun smoke came out of the pressure relief plate, and the British soldiers on the opposite side were immediately excited.
Break down, break down! For the first time in history, they finally penetrated the German tank from the front!
In an instant, countless people cheered, and some people paid attention to the anti-tank gun that destroyed the opponent's tank, but found that the surrounding area of the anti-tank gun was already full of blasting airflow, and there were at least ten or more shells. Blast around it!
Carl was furious.
On the battlefield, his tank can hit mines and have mechanical failures, but it must not be penetrated from the front by the opponent!
"Attention, stop moving forward, search the opposite side, find anti-tank guns with mantlets, fire immediately, and kill them!" The anger did not make Carl lose his mind, but he was more careful, the kind of anti-tank guns with anti-aircraft mantlets , it is possible to pierce them from the front!
In that case, kill them in advance!
In fact, not only the M5, but also the British 17-pounder gun can penetrate the Black Panther 3 from the front. Unfortunately, the British only produced a relatively small number and deployed them to the suburbs of London. As a result, first of all What they encountered was a rat tank, which made it impossible for them to play at all. What's more, the British were not equipped with tungsten alloy shells.
There is no weapon that can lead all the time, the only thing is to continuously improve and develop new technologies!