The front armor of the leopard tank is tilted. If it is used to deal with the projectiles coming from the front, the tilted armor design can increase the defense effect and cause the other side's projectiles to jump. But at this moment, the leopard tank is rushing down the roadbed, so the incident angle of this Soviet tank shell has doubled, Almost offsets most of the tilt angle of the tilted armor.
At the same time, the Soviet tank firing was not a T-26 fast tank with obviously insufficient main gun caliber, nor a T-34 tank and a KV-1 tank with the same general power, but a Stalin tank with a main gun of 122mm caliber and less than 25 in mass production!
On the basis of sacrificing the firing speed, the power of this kind of tank gun using split ammunition is a little bit larger than that of the main German 88 mm caliber tank gun. Although the overall performance is not better than that of the world-famous 88 gun due to the difficulty of loading, this kind of gun is very important in armor piercing power, Finally, it gave the Soviet tanks the ability to confront the German tanks head-on.
What's more unfortunate is that the armor piercing bullet from the Soviet new Stalin tank hit a very coincidental spot at the welding point between the muzzle of the front heading machine gun and the front armor plate of the leopard tank body.
So in this case, the leopard tank's thick front armor plate was punctured. The shells, with broken armor and various small parts that were shaken down by the huge vibration, gathered into a torrent of hot steel, splashed back and forth in the body of the leopard tank, and penetrated all the things blocking the road.
"My God! Car one is hit! Car one is hit! " The No.2 leopard tank is still on the roadbed. As soon as it has completed its turn, the commander of No.2 vehicle group saw the picture of his friendly tank being destroyed. That's an ace tank that has destroyed more than ten enemy tanks! That's the existence of idols in our minds! On this unnamed Road, it was so easily destroyed.
Five members of the tank crew, five fresh lives, and the soldiers who had just been alive, instantly became five piles of bodies that had been pierced by shrapnel. On the battlefield, there was no time to show compassion for the living, and the side of the No. 2 leopard tank was filled with a column of earth smoke.
"Two tanks! They have two new tanks The captains of tank 2 knew that their communication channels must be monitored by their own people in the rear. While commanding the battle, they reported all the situations they encountered to the rear battalion or even the regimental division as much as possible.
"Stop moving forward, reverse slowly, pay attention to the distance behind the roadbed, release smoke, and load armor piercing bullets!" None of the members of the German tank fleet who have been fighting for a long time is a soft persimmon. After a short period of confusion, all the staff of the No.2 vehicle calmed down, because they all know that tension can't keep them alive in the battlefield. Only calm and calm can make them live longer.
"Dark green painting! They have bigger turrets and no corners! " The commander of No.2 car was staring at the Soviet tank in the distance with a telescope, and he was reporting the results of his observation.
"Boom!" The tank gun of the leopard tank opened fire, and one armor piercing bullet hit the turret of the Soviet tank accurately. It seems that the power of Germany's new tungsten alloy super armor piercing bullet is very terrible. At a distance of 1000 meters, it almost penetrated Stalin's tank through the thickened armor. Unfortunately, Germany's luck is not very good, The shell hit the thickest turret of Stalin's tank.
The shell did not penetrate the opponent, leaving a deep hole in the armor of Stalin's tank as a memorial. However, the huge shock had damaged the internal structure of the Stalin tank. The Soviet tank came to a lurching stop, and a little smoke came out of the rear engine hood.
"No breakdown! Super armor piercing, load The conductor put down his telescope and urged his men to prepare for the next attack.
And behind a bush not far from the German tank, in the cabin of the Stalin tank with black Pentagram that has not been started, the man with scar on his face narrowed his eyes, gave a cold hum and scolded: "fool, as soon as he saw the credit, he rushed forward... To die?"
Scold to scold, but the loader beside him, like a deaf man, quietly pushed the warhead into the gun bore, bent down to get the charge out from under the floor, put it into the gun bore and closed the bolt.
"Fire!" Scar face did not hesitate, immediately ordered to continue firing. This may be the record of the longest distance exchange of fire between the two sides since the outbreak of the Second World War. Before that, only German tanks fired unilaterally, but no other tank fired back at a distance of 1100 meters and hit and destroyed German tanks.
However, it was obvious that the Soviet tanks were too slow to save their poor companions. Just before the Soviet tanks fired the second shell, the German tanks fired the second and third shells. A shell hit the track of Stalin's tank, flew more than ten tracks of the tank, and destroyed three load-bearing wheels; Another shell finally lived up to the expectations of the German tank crew, broke through the front armor of Stalin's tank body, and completely destroyed the steel giant which rushed out to pick up cheap but was put out by one shot.
"It's finally broken down!" Before the German tank crew could breathe a breath to relieve themselves, they felt their tanks shaking violently as if they had been hit by a magnitude 8 earthquake. These soldiers who have been fighting in tanks for a long time all know that their tanks were hit by their opponents' guns. What's different from usual is that the caliber of the gun that hit the leopard tank this time was a little big, and it broke through the front armor plate of the early production leopard tank of type A at once. Without the slightest suspense, the electromechanical staff and drivers must be more or less in danger. The captain of car No.2 didn't hesitate. He had half of his body outside and jumped out of the turret with his hands, then jumped out of his tank regardless of the height.