Chapter 185： great idea

New reactive armor? Hearing Andrei's words, Kartsev's eyes lit up. .しwχS520.

Now, Soviet armor development is at the advanced level in the world. Therefore, Soviet tanks mainly rely on composite armor to increase their protection capabilities. Until later generations, it was found that their own tank main armor could not stop Western 105mm tank guns. When advanced ammunition could not stop the western 120mm tank gun, the Soviet Union began to rapidly develop reactive armor and equip it on its own tanks.

And now, the Hokkaido war that has never been seen in history has broken out. In this war, the t-72 has shown the disadvantage of armor performance and can be penetrated by the 105mm tank gun of the island country!

This is still the armor-piercing projectile of the island country. If it were more advanced British and American ammunition, it could penetrate at a longer distance! Therefore, the armor protection capability of the t-72 tank must be increased!

If the same armor structure as the t-64 is adopted, it will greatly increase the cost and affect the large number of equipment of one's own tanks. Andrei proposed a new proposition, using reactive armor!

The tank is still built according to the original. After it is built, it is enough to add reactive armor on the outside! It was only previously limited by the capabilities of reactive armor that the Soviet Union was forced to abandon the technology.

Now, hearing Andre speak, the eyes of all the technicians are shining.

"Explosives can be sandwiched between two layers of steel plates, and this explosive is insensitive explosives, so that machine gun bullets and shell fragments cannot penetrate this layer of steel plates at all, and cannot detonate reactive armor, while insensitive explosives, It will detonate only when it encounters metal heat flow." Andre said: "In this way, the problems encountered by the previous reactive armor can be solved."

Hearing Kartsev nodded and praised: "Yes. This can solve the problems encountered by reactive armor! Andrei, you are so smart!"

"I was also reminded by the plan proposed by Dr. Held." Andre said: "Take a pen, I can draw the structure of the reactive armor I envision."

Pen and paper came quickly. Spreading the paper over the flat back armor of the t-72, Andrei drew it.

"The outer layer. It can be made of 3mm steel plate, with two 15mm thick armor plates arranged at an angle in the middle, one of which is the throwing plate and the other is the back plate, and the gap between the steel plates is filled with insensitive explosives. The overall size is 250 mm x 138 mm x 103 mm, in which about 350 grams of insensitive explosives are added, such as Semtine plastic explosives." Andrei explained while drawing: "This way. When the metal jet penetrates the shell After the blasting plate, the insensitive explosive located in the middle of the steel plate is detonated. Under the impetus of the explosive wave, the throwing plate flies out and the back plate moves in the opposite direction. The part of the jet is cut off and consumes the jet. Then the jet is de-tailed by the back plate, which greatly disturbs and interferes with the jet, and further reduces the penetration of the jet to the main armor. It can greatly reduce the anti-tank penetration of the metal jet through the tank armor. Weapons, like RPGs and anti-tank missiles, etc."

What Andrei said is the Contact-1 reactive armor that the Soviet Union officially equipped with troops in the 1980s. It is more advanced than the technology proposed by the Germans. It cleverly uses the wedge-shaped steel plate to generate an asymmetric detonation wave of the explosive, which pushes the steel plate to rapidly and violently consume and cut the jet. Better results were obtained.

"However, this device only has a better effect on metal jets, and the protection against armor-piercing projectiles is probably average, right?" At this moment, another technician asked a question.

Sure enough, the layman is watching the fun, and the expert is watching the doorway! The idea proposed by Andre made all the tank soldiers extremely excited, and the eyes of Andre were full of admiration, but. These technicians immediately thought of more difficult problems. How to prevent armor-piercing bullets?

After all, for tank soldiers. The biggest threat is the enemy's tanks. In tank operations, the proportion of armor-piercing shells used is increasing. In later generations, tanks are only equipped with armor-piercing shells and grenades.

If it can't protect against armor-piercing projectiles, then this reactive armor is still a failure.

"Then it needs to be further improved." Andre said: "Another mechanism that can be used to deal with armor-piercing projectiles is the shearing effect. Using two thicker high-hardness metal plates to move in opposite directions is equivalent to scissors. Cut off the armor-piercing rod that came."

If you only rely on improving the strength of the armor to resist the flying armor-piercing projectiles, the armor will have to become thicker and thicker, which is quite unrealistic. Therefore, it must be improved from the structure, and this shearing effect is more difficult to deal with armor-piercing projectiles. Yes, this is also the working principle of the later restrained armor.

Andre is familiar with these principles. Now, when he meets a tank designer, he can just explain what he knows and improve his tank level.

The scene where the t-72 is easily killed by the Yankees in later generations will not appear!

"The explosive reactive armor I just mentioned can solve the problem of shattering armor. It has a throwing plate and a back plate, which can be used as scissors. Although it cuts the high-strength warheads that are constantly flying, it attenuates the kinetic energy of the warheads. It's still possible, in order to achieve good results, we can combine the 3 explosive reactive armor units just mentioned, each unit has 10 to 15 mm thick throwing plates and back plates, and the unit group is equipped with anti-blunt armor. In this way, in the process of being penetrated by the armor-piercing rod, the throwing plate and the back plate move in the opposite direction, and together with the thickened steel shell on the outside, the three complete the destruction process of the armor-piercing rod together.” An Dere said.

This is just the basic principle After the specific development, there will be various engineering problems. Of course, these are not the scope of Andre's consideration. Andre just talks about the principle.

When Andre finished saying this, he felt the silence around him.

Kartsev's brain was like a slap in the face in an instant, yes, why didn't he think of it? The back and forth movement of the steel plate can just use the Coriolis force to offset the energy of the warhead!

"Comrade Kartsev?" Andrei asked involuntarily after waiting for three minutes.

"Andrei, your idea is really great!" Kartsev said: "For a talent like you, it's too subservient not to engage in tank design. Can I hire you to be our chief designer in Nizhny Tagil?"

"Comrade Kartsev, I still have a lot of small ideas." Andrei snickered in his heart. (To be continued.)

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