Chapter 184： explosive reactive armor

"The overall performance of our tanks is still good, but the Western L7-type 105mm tank gun will also bring us a threat... しwχS520." Accompanying these people, they came to the front of the destroyed tanks, Tikhonov's heart was extremely heavy.

Kartsev carefully looked at the destroyed tank, the turret of the tank had been separated, and it was conceivable what kind of explosion had occurred.

"It was our ammunition that exploded," Kartsev said. "Our tank turret was penetrated by the opponent, which caused a violent explosion of our ammunition and knocked the turret off. We had to improve."

Among all the tanks, the T-72 is the easiest to explode and lift the turret. The main reason is the T-72's automatic loader.

In order to improve stability, simplify procedures, and facilitate mass production, the automatic loader used in the T-72 is different from that used in the T-64. The main magazine for storing ammunition is set in the turntable under the turret, which can be loaded with 22 Cannonball. The separate shells in the magazine are placed up and down horizontally, with the propellant above and the warhead below. When loading, the shell carrier rises to the height of the breech ring, first loading the warhead and then lowering to load the propellant.

That is to say, this part of the turret seat ring is just surrounded by artillery shells, and the opponent's armor-piercing projectiles fly, just enough to hit the ******, once the ****** is ignited, it will cause disaster sexual consequences.

The Western shells are mainly stored in the turret tail compartment, and a pressure relief plate is also set, although the actual effect is unknown. But it's in the rear after all, not like this. It happened to be a circle of the turret seat, and as long as it was bombed, it just worked hard from the seat ring.

"Then we will make a big change, improving the structure of the automatic loader, which is similar to redesigning a tank." Hearing Kartsev's words, a technician next to him said.

after all. The automatic loader is an important equipment in the tank. If this thing is changed, it has to be changed accordingly.

Kartsev frowned tightly: "The big changes have to be changed, and this is related to the lives of our soldiers!"

Kartsev's top priority is the safety of personnel! Tanks are meant to protect themselves and fight the enemy. If they cannot effectively protect themselves, how can they fight the enemy?

"Actually, it is not necessary to change the autoloader." At this moment. Andrei on the side spoke.

The T-72 uses this automatic loader and simplifies the structure, which is convenient for mass production, which is consistent with the Soviet Union's equipment guiding ideology. and. Later, Huaxia's main battle tanks used almost the same structure.

"Then what?" Kartsev asked Andrei.

"Change the outside, as long as our armor is thick enough to prevent the enemy's armor-piercing projectiles from penetrating, there will be no current problems." Andre said.

Modified armor, as long as the armor is thick enough, the opponent cannot penetrate it. That's it!

Modified armor? Hearing Andrei's words, Kartsev's brows were still frowning: "That will make the cost of our tanks soar."

The armor of the T-64 tank is hard enough to resist the blow of this 105mm armor-piercing projectile. However, the composite armor of the T-64 is quite complicated to manufacture, with many processes and high cost, so it is not suitable for the production of the T-72.

The main protection of the T-72 is also composite armor, which puts a sandwich of dissimilar materials between cast steel or rolled steel plates. The original production T-72 had only a turret made of homogeneous cast steel, and the front of the body was a layer of fiberglass-like material sandwiched between homogeneously rolled steel sheets. After that, the thickness of the turret of the T-72A was slightly increased, and a layer of quartz particles was placed in it; while the thickness of the turret of the T-72B was greatly increased, and the cavities on both sides of the main gun were placed in the cavities on both sides of the main gun. In addition, the front of the body is also additionally made of steel plates with higher hardness.

Now, the army landing in Hokkaido is equipped with T-72A tanks. Although it can block the L105mm tank gun of the island country at a long distance, it cannot be used at close range. Moreover, if it is replaced with more advanced Western ammunition , the T-72 is also unstoppable at long distances.

"Yes, it's outside." Andre said, "We can install an additional layer of explosive armor on the outside of the T-72 to increase the tank's protection."

Additional armor! In various photos of later generations, you can see that the T-72 tank is covered with rectangular bread cubes. This thing is explosive reactive armor!

"Explosive reactive armor?" Kartsev couldn't help frowning: "This project has long been terminated."

When the opponent's anti-tank weapons fly in, the explosives placed outside the opponent explode to destroy the opponent's weapons. The concept of this explosive reactive armor was first introduced in 1949 by Lavre of the Moscow Plumite Academy. The project proposed by Professor Jeff was established by the then Soviet Iron and Steel Research Institute, and further research and tests were carried out in the following ten years, and it was installed on a T-64 test vehicle for live-fire tests in the mid-1960s.

It's a pity, but the result was not ideal. At that time, it was just adding explosives outside. When the test vehicle was hit, it did blow up the flying shell, but the explosion of a piece of armor triggered the adjacent reactive armor. A chain explosion of blocks destroyed all sighting equipment on the outside.

Although the follow-up continued to improve, they also found in several subsequent tests that in addition to the warhead of the flying anti-tank missile and the armor-piercing shell fragmentation, the machine gun bullets and shell fragments can detonate the reactive armor. The final conclusion is to let People were frustrated, there were too many problems, and they could not be put into actual combat at all. Therefore, the Soviet Union could only transfer it to the technical reserve and terminated the research on this project.

Now, Andrei has proposed explosive armor, which makes Kartsev feel difficult. The ideal is full, and the reality is very skinny. This thing is useless!

"I don't know if you have heard that there is a Dr. Held in the West who proposed a new reactive armor structure?" Andre said.

Although he was a pilot in his previous life, he has been a military fan since he was a child. Andre is very clear about these things. The Soviet explosive reactive armor did not start a new project until 1982. At that time, Israel in the 1982 Lebanon War was captured. The tank, which is equipped with the jacket reactive armor developed by Israel itself, successfully resisted the attack of AT-3 anti-tank missiles and RPG-7 anti-tank rocket launchers.

And those reactive armors are based on the new theory proposed by Dr. Held. (To be continued.)