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The Third Empire - Chapter 1167

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:35:33 AM


Chapter 1167: 1167

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In 1935, the Soviet Navy purchased the m1932 25mm mechanism gun of boforth company in Sweden, which began the development of anti-aircraft mechanism gun in the Soviet Union.

Before that, the Soviet anti-aircraft guns were supplied with cartridges. They could only be called anti-aircraft guns, not machine guns. Their weak continuous fire was unable to deal with fast aircraft.

After they got it, the Soviet Navy tested and proved the excellent performance of this mechanism gun. However, from the Soviet point of view that the Soviet Union likes to brush the caliber, the caliber of the 25mm antiaircraft gun is a little small, which does not meet the Soviet Union's demand for antiaircraft guns. Therefore, according to the structure of this antiaircraft gun, they developed a 45mm antiaircraft mechanism gun, called "72-k".

After the caliber is large, the power is indeed high, but at the same time, it also means that the self weight of the antiaircraft gun increases and the number of ammunition is reduced. Therefore, it is modified. The caliber of the new mechanism gun is reduced to 37mm, code named "61-k" antiaircraft gun. In October 1938, the first sample gun of "61-k" was manufactured.

In 1939, this kind of antiaircraft gun began to be finalized and mass produced, and was named m1939 37mm antiaircraft gun.

Since 39, this antiaircraft gun has been continuously produced from Kalinin factory and equipped to Soviet troops. At this time, it is also stimulated by the German air force. The classic battle examples of the German air force are the heavy burden on the shoulders of the Soviet army.

The effect of this kind of anti-aircraft gun is not very good. After groping, four anti-aircraft guns are put together to form an anti-aircraft gun company, which is the most exaggerated. This kind of firepower can defend the surrounding area of seven kilometers, which is enough to protect the shore defense gun position.

At this time, the anti-aircraft artillery company was nervously staring at the distant sky, where the German Stuka bombers had already flown.

For an anti-aircraft gun, there must be eight artillery, binding each firing data. If there is a slight deviation, it will miss. Now everyone is highly concentrated.

Suddenly, a shooter with the best eyesight found the situation: "this Stuka doesn't carry a bomb!"

The Stuka bomber is light and has no built-in bomb compartment. The bomb can only be hung outside. Now, the Stuka is empty under the belly and has nothing.

Oh, no, I got it!

The company commander of the artillery company turned his head. At this time, a roaring Stuka came out of the clouds behind him.

"Go, go, go, turn around!"

Almost without the command of the company commander, the first gunner began to turn the steering wheel in a hurry.

The whole antiaircraft gun weighs more than two tons. Now you need to turn the rotary table by hand. Of course, the speed will not be very fast.

There are two anti-aircraft gun positions in total. There are four anti-aircraft guns in each position. The fire density is absolutely not low, which is enough for them to guard the shore defense guns here.

But just then, they made a serious mistake. The anti-aircraft guns in these two positions were attracted by the flying Stuka. Now, it takes time for them to turn the gun body 180 degrees.

Although the Soviet positions are well arranged, it is a pity that they still lack practical combat experience.

At this time, Franz, who was responsible for attracting attention, pulled the operating lever, pedaled the rudder and flew in the other direction when he approached the other party's fire area.

As the Soviet anti-aircraft artillery nervously turned their guns, the terrible Stuka bomber had swooped down.

If it is an enemy warship, the Stuka bomber must be as close as possible, or even hundreds of meters away from the target before pulling up. Only in this case can the attack accuracy be high enough.

However, it is different to fire shore defense guns.

Because the shore defense gun can't move.

The Stuka bomber dived down on the 1500 meter high cloud. When it dived to an altitude of one kilometer, the pilot had pressed the launch button with great confidence.

Under the belly of the machine, a ton of bomb flew away from the hanger, dragging a flame towards the huge shore defense gun. At this time, Stuka stepped up the accelerator and pulled it up and re penetrated into the clouds.

This is the war, the cruelest war. Only after several battles can these people mature in the battle. Don't look at the aircraft flying in a big way, and the clouds hanging over their heads are the most terrible.

The Gunners were still working hard and finally turned the gun body. At this time, a gunner was panting for breath. In the sky, the Stuka bomber who dropped the bomb was working hard to drill above the clouds. They had no time to bind the firing data, but stepped on the launcher blankly.

"Bang, bang, bang." The shell was far from Stuka and couldn't hit at all.

The terrible bomb, dragging a hot flame, quickly dived down from the sky. It was almost vertical. With the help of the tail rocket, it hardly deviated from any direction and hit the top of the shore defense gun.

The warhead penetrated the thick concrete shell of the shore defense gun turret and drilled into it. When the impact vibration reached the ground, everyone turned pale.

"Boom!" More huge explosion came. A hot flame poured up under the base of the whole shore defense gun, and the air flow flew here with countless fragments.

"Ah." A gunner screamed and a piece of concrete fragment hit his chest. He was surprised to see that the fragment seemed to be shot into his body like a bullet. He didn't feel pain, but saw blood gurgling out.

The whole anti-aircraft artillery position has been affected. As the protagonist of the attack, the shore defense artillery is naturally not much better.

The 305 mm gun barrel was built by Krupp for tsarist Russia before World War I. It has experienced ups and downs for decades, but now it is separated from the base of the turret in a huge explosion.

The bent barrel fell more than ten meters away from the turret and was completely scrapped.

The gun barrel in the middle barely supported it and didn't fall down, but a hot flame came out from the inside of the gun barrel. It looked so strange.

One Stuka attracted attention in front, and the other came out of the clouds for a sneak attack. A successful sneak attack by the German naval aviation troops killed an important coastal defense gun of the Soviet Union. At the same time, it also made the Soviets aware of the gap between them and the Germans.

Other coastal artillery positions, in a short shock, immediately changed their tactics. Their anti-aircraft guns aimed at the clouds in the sky and even fired relentlessly at the clouds.

There was smoke everywhere.




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