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The Third Empire - Chapter 931

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:41:21 AM


Chapter 931: 931

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"High explosive charge, No. 1 charge." Each Carl cannon was organized into a company. At this time, next to EVA of the No. 2 gun, the commander was meticulously commanding.

In history, this kind of gun has only one kind of projectile, that is, concrete armor piercing projectile, which can penetrate a 2.5-meter-thick concrete layer at most. It is specially used to fight the enemy's fortifications.

Now, the improved gun also has the task of firing high explosive bombs. Moreover, the trajectory is better. At the end of the shell, it falls directly from the sky and falls vertically. It is useless to hide behind any bunker.

With his order, a loading car next to him began to get busy.

The shell of this gun weighs two tons, so the ordinary loading means are simply ineffective. In order to cooperate with this gun, Rhine company also specially designed an ammunition carrier with Panther 2 tank chassis. The transporter is equipped with a mechanical boom and a special shell transport clamp, which can directly replenish ammunition for mortars on the battlefield.

Now, with the command of the company commander, the mechanical boom slowly transports the two ton warhead to the rear of the gun. After accurate alignment, it is pushed into the chamber with a special push rod. All this is hydraulically assisted and very easy.

According to the range, they use two kinds of propellants. The No. 1 charge has a short range. Now, they don't need a very long distance.

During the whole loading process, the gun body was always horizontal. When the loading was completed, it began to stand up.

Come on, come on!

The two Gunners on both sides quickly turned the handle and shook the gun body!

This gun body weighs more than ten tons, but it depends on the strength of two arms!

Yes, in the design, because the power of the hydraulic system is not enough, the erection of the gun body needs to rely on manual means! It may also be that this system is inherited from ordinary howitzers, that is, it needs to manually shake the height machine and steering machine.

As long as you give me a fulcrum, I can raise the earth and reduce the strength requirements through mechanical schemes. It is entirely possible, but it pays the price of distance.

From now on, the Gunners on both sides shook dozens of times, and the gun body only got up at a small angle!

It's hard to turn the handle of a 105mm or 155mm howitzer under fierce field conditions, not to mention a super cannon!

Even the strongest gunner takes four to six minutes to pitch the gun. Therefore, the standard gun firing speed specified in the code of conduct of this mortar gun is 6 rounds / hour. Even if one shell is fired every ten minutes, the factor of manual handle shaking should also be considered.

Because, not only shake it up, but also put it flat every time! This is definitely the worst job!

Gunners have long been used to it. German guns always have this feature. For example, Tiger tanks shake the turret very slowly. However, another advantage is that they have high precision and can swing to a certain angle accurately.

Three minutes and fifty seconds later, the gunner slowed down and then stopped: "the angle is correct."

Just shake the high-low machine. In terms of direction, only one angle can be fine tuned. The large angle steering is carried out by the chassis. The rotation of two crawlers can change the whole gun body to a large angle. From this point of view, it can also be said to be a self-propelled gun.

"Fire!"

"Boom!"

General cannons have long barrels. The longer the barrel, the more work the gunpowder does, and the faster the shells go out, the farther they hit.

However, the mortar gun does the opposite. Its barrel is less than twice the muzzle diameter. The utilization rate of gunpowder is very low. It belongs to a smooth bore gun with large firing angle, low initial velocity and high arc trajectory.

Although the range is short, the projectile is powerful and is mainly used to destroy solid fortifications( If you have no conscience, you can regard it as this kind of gun.)

Now, after firing, the 2-ton warhead is only accelerated to 245 meters per second, and the naked eye can keep up with its progress.

Shrouded in black smoke, the warhead drew a beautiful curve and flew towards the Soviet soldiers coming from the opposite side.

Due to its low speed, the sound made by its friction with the air was even lower. The Soviet soldiers couldn't help raising their heads and looking at a giant in the sky.

Then it flew over their heads, as if it had exhausted all its energy, and fell directly from the sky!

Yes, it fell upright! This trajectory is quite strange. The warhead falling from the sky shows its greatness more and more. There is a frightened expression on the face of the Soviet soldiers.

No one is afraid of death, especially in front of the enemy's secret weapons.

The whine of the warhead falling seemed to be a scream of death. These attacking Soviet soldiers stopped their steps and looked for a place to escape.

There was chaos around. In the middle of them, the commander of the T-34 tank also opened the lid on his head and looked into the sky.

Bigger and bigger, bigger and bigger, almost in an instant, his tank was shrouded in a dark shadow.

When he understood what had happened, the conductor only had time to shout, "come on, speed up and drive forward!"

Just now, when the infantry outside were disordered, the tank men dared not start, for fear that the disorderly opening would press on the infantry. In the coordination of Bu Tan, this is a terrible thing. Pressing their own infantry under their own tracks puts a lot of psychological pressure on the tank men.

Now, I can't care about anything. Drive away!

Hearing his order, the driver in front stepped on the accelerator. Unfortunately, the tank had just moved half the length of the body, and the huge bomb on it fell on the turret!

What's it like to be hit by a two ton shell? If the tank could talk, it would shout.

"Boom!" As a high explosive bomb, it will explode immediately after touching the ground, but now, it first hit the turret, and then the explosion occurred. Although it was only less than one second apart, the iron turret of more than ten tons was flattened at this moment!

Yes, it's flat! Two tons of shells fall from the sky and accelerate to a speed of hundreds of meters per second. The energy is quite huge!

The whole tank also moved towards the ground with the collision. The coil spring on the load wheel broke because it could not bear the huge pressure, and the track was pressed down for tens of centimeters!

At the moment of impact, all the people inside the tank bled because of the violent collision, and the top car captain was directly pressed into meat patties!




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