Chapter 919 The Head Is Broken

As if it was retribution, a Challenger tank had just destroyed an M60 tank from the front, and then, from the side, a Challenger tank was destroyed by a tank of unknown origin!

Seeing the Challenger tanks destroyed, the morale of the West German Bundeswehr, which had just been severely hit, was immediately restored!

This is just the beginning!

The T-72 uses an automatic loader and has a firing rate of six to eight rounds per minute. Therefore, in the time it takes for the British to react, the first round of shooting of the T-72 tank has already begun! At the same time, some even have started the second round of shooting!

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Not every shell can hit the target. Theoretically, the first-shot hit rate of 90% will definitely drop below 30% in actual combat. But now, the T-72 tanks that rushed over destroyed more than a dozen Challenger tanks in the first firing in the dynamic-to-static shooting. The accuracy is already quite high!

At the same time, the well-trained British armored troops have begun their counterattack!

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Of course they would not stay there and wait to be attacked. When they found that it was Soviet tanks rushing towards them from the side, they immediately made the correct response!

Pushing the shift lever, the tank engine rumbled, and David Brown's TN54 fully automatic transmission drove the tank to reverse. At the same time, operating the steering wheel, the tank changed direction during the reversing process, and pointed its strongest front armor towards the most dangerous direction.

However, they were not reassured because in the previous island war, American tanks using the same Chobham armor as the Challenger tanks were still penetrated from the front by Soviet tanks. The data exposed by the Soviets themselves at the time showed that the armor penetration depth of their tanks was as high as one meter!

This is why they did not put the car in forward gear. If the tanks were Soviet tanks, wouldn't it be a death wish if they continued to charge forward? They had to retreat, retreat!

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While retreating, he used his strongest main armor to face the direction where the threat was coming from, and began shooting while moving.

"Boom!" With a loud roar, a fin-stabilized armor-piercing discarding sabot projectile flew out from the muzzle of the 120mm rifled gun!

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As the caliber of tank guns continues to expand, almost mainstream tank guns use smoothbore guns. Among them, the 120mm tank gun produced by Germany's Rheinmetall is the most advanced. However, the proud British Army still holds on to rifled guns.

Rifled cannons can make shells fly with greater accuracy, but the rifling squeezes the shells, which reduces the initial velocity of the shells. Also, a smoothbore can fire thousands of rounds, but a rifled cannon will only need one or two hundred rounds to wear out the rifling.

Moreover, rifling is also a scourge for fin-stabilized armor-piercing discarding sabot projectiles.

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Originally, the shells of smoothbore guns do not spin or spin very little when they fly out, so tail fins are needed to stabilize them. However, rifled guns spin when they fly out, so adding tail fins is superfluous. Moreover, if the long-rod armor-piercing projectile spins at high speed, it is impossible to stabilize it, and it will even lose stability.

Therefore, when the Challenger's armor-piercing projectile is fired, a sliding bullet is added to the warhead to reduce the rotation speed. When the warhead is fired, it is actually still rotating, but not as strongly. The tail fin of this armor-piercing projectile actually has a counter-effect, which is to further reduce the warhead's rotation and increase stability.

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The British Army is a very traditional and conservative army. Historically, although it was the first army to invent the tank, it has always used tanks as weapons to support infantry rather than independent main combat weapons.

And now, the 120mm rifled cannon has fired shells. One of the advantages of a rifled cannon is its high accuracy!

Sure enough, with their hopes, the fin-stabilized armor-piercing discarding sabot projectile hit the T-72 tank on the opposite side with a sharp whistle!

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"Boom!" The pointed warhead flew onto the turret of the T-72. However, the turret was so fragile that a small explosion occurred just as the two sides came into close contact!

The airflow from the explosion instantly shook the armor-piercing projectile, but it continued to drill forward, and unexpectedly, it encountered another small-scale explosion! Once, and once in a row, a total of three times!

This is the latest reactive armor manufactured by the Soviet Union. Compared with previous reactive armors, the explosion time has been further optimized. In less than 0.1 second, the brick-like reactive armor on the outside, which actually has three identical reactive armor unit modules, exploded one after another. Each unit has a steel ejector plate and back plate, which move in the opposite direction during the explosion. Coupled with the thickened steel shell on the outside, these are constantly moving up and down, offsetting the armor-piercing force of the armor-piercing projectile!

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If these steel plates did not move, then it could just drill through them directly. However, now these steel plates are constantly moving up and down, which means that it has just drilled through the steel plate in front, and this steel plate is moving downward again, continuing to hinder it from flying forward, so it has to continue drilling!

This is the shear effect, which is the same principle as constrained armor. If the armor-piercing rod of the armor-piercing projectile is not strong enough, under this shear effect, the armor-piercing rod may be cut into several pieces like cutting a sausage.

However, the British are already familiar with the manufacturing of armor-piercing rods. Although they do not have depleted uranium armor-piercing rods, ordinary tungsten alloy rods are also extremely hard!

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After passing through the explosive armors, although the energy of the tungsten alloy rod was greatly attenuated, it still drilled inside and entered the main armor!

Drill, keep drilling, tear open the armor and get inside!

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Just as it continued to exert force, a tiny crack suddenly appeared in the middle of the piercing rod, and then the tungsten alloy piercing rod split into two parts!

Although it had been tested many times, the Challenger tank was developed too hastily. The 120mm shell, which was developed from the 105mm rifled gun, used the same structure as the 105 gun. Although the hardness was guaranteed, it was a bit brittle! As a result, it broke!

In later generations, it took Britain nearly ten years to develop this useless rifled gun. Now, after only two or three years, the Challenger tank still has many defects. The armor-piercing shells have not been tested on the battlefield, and problems still arise when encountering real sturdy tanks.

This is simply too embarrassing. If the armor-piercing bullet had feelings, it would definitely be crying while holding its broken head.

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No penetration!

The East German soldiers in the tank were not afraid at all. The strong defensive capabilities of this tank had been tested in the war on the island country, so there was no need to worry about being penetrated!

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"Boom!" At the same time, the T-72 tank here continued to fire, and a Challenger tank on the opposite side that had just fired a shell was destroyed!

The fierce exchange of fire here immediately attracted the attention of the United States. Montel knew that there was big trouble this time!