Chapter 777： 17-pounder vs 128-mm gun

As a veteran country, the British Army's background is very profound.

When the German tank threat came, they entered a rapid development stage. The first to be developed was the 2-pounder gun. This 40-mm caliber anti-tank gun has been widely equipped in the British army.

Of course, the performance of actual combat has also come out. This kind of anti-tank gun has zero power against the German new tank!

Then, they made persistent efforts and developed a 6-pound anti-tank gun. In some units, they have been equipped. However, this 57mm tank gun on the battlefield in North Africa shows that it is still not good and cannot penetrate. The main armor of the German tank!

How thick is the armor of the German tank? This is everyone’s question. The specific data has always been kept confidential, and the German tanks have not been left behind on the battlefield.

Therefore, how thick the armor of German tanks is has always been a mystery, and Britain has not stopped developing new anti-tank weapons.

In this era, the best way to increase the power of tank guns is, of course, to increase the caliber. Almost all countries do this.

The German tanks are no exception. They have 75mm and 88mm tank guns. The Soviet tanks are also equipped with 76mm barrels. Therefore, the British side is intensively developing new 17-pounder guns. .

These are all for the artillery shells. When converted to the barrel, it is 76.2 mm, which is definitely not small. The British anti-tank guns have almost developed rapidly recently.

When using the matching mk3t armor-piercing projectile, it can penetrate 110 mm thick average armor at close range. Can the thickness of the German tank exceed 100 mm?

Moreover, the newer armor-piercing projectile is still under development and can have a greater penetration depth.

This kind of anti-tank gun was developed only recently. After that, all the produced, that is, the first 100 guns, were pushed to the London line of defense, hoping to delay the attack of German tanks.

Of course, it can only be hysteresis.

Even if this kind of anti-tank gun can penetrate German tanks? There's not enough! A hundred guns were scattered over a defense line of more than ten kilometers.

For example, here, only two 17-pounder guns can reach, and now they are not facing an opponent like the Panther 3 tank, but a more terrifying big guy!

How thick is the opponent's armor? No one knows. What they know is that, generally speaking, the bottom of the tank is the weakest place.

Now, the opponent is climbing a dirt slope, and the front end of the car body is raised. From here, you can just see the bottom of the opponent's car body, just hit that place!

"Fire!"

After discovering the behemoth on the opposite side, I was shocked and ready to start, especially next to the 17-pounder gun. The gunner nervously stuffed the cannonball in, shook the high-low machine and aimed!

What they were aiming at was the upper part of the soil slope. Now, when the opponent's tank appeared, the gunner pulled the gun cord violently.

"Boom!" At the muzzle, the fire was full of flames, and the 7.69 kg warhead flew towards the opposite side with an initial speed of 884 meters per second, with everyone's expectations!

Victory in one fell swoop!

If the other party's conspiracy is bankrupt if the final word is settled, the other party's conspiracy will go bankrupt, and the other party will definitely stop for a few days. When the backup comes, one's own side will be more confident.

If you can’t get through...

There is no more if, when I think of this, the shells have whizzed and flew to the bottom of the opponent's car accurately!

In everyone's attention, I saw this shell grazing the bottom armor of the opponent, turning around, and a fierce pierced into the soil below!

Bounced!

When the opponent raised just now, the angle was just right, causing this flying shell to produce a ricochet and pierce it aside!

The last chance for the British just disappeared.

They guessed right, the bottom of the mouse tank has the weakest protection, only 60 mm thick armor, although this armor is already thicker than the main armor of many tanks.

After all, there is no need to worry about armor-piercing bullets at the bottom, as long as it can be mine-proof.

But now? From a tricky angle, the British fired a cannonball toward the bottom of the opponent, but it was a pity that the cannonball bounced off.

At this time, the black smoke of the huge engine is coming from the tail, and the mouse tank has come down from the slope! Its barrel slowly raised.

"Target, straight ahead, anti-tank gun, main gun, grenade, fire!" Sergeant Rip, the commander, yelled calmly.

"Understood!" the two loader shouted loudly.

The turret of the mouse tank is quite huge and there is plenty of space inside, so two loaders are arranged.

One loader picked up the grenade warhead and stuffed it into the barrel, while the other picked up the propellant pack, stuffed it in as well, then closed the gun door and shouted loudly: "Loading finished!"

It is fired once, and it needs to be loaded twice. That's right, this kind of shell is loaded with ammunition.

As the caliber of the artillery increases, the shells will become heavier and heavier. In this way, the overall shells will be difficult to carry. Therefore, the divided shells appear.

This was not a problem at first, because this 128mm cannon was originally used as an anti-aircraft gun and was first used on German warships. Automatic devices can handle everything.

Germany has the tradition of changing the antiaircraft artillery to the tank gun. The 88mm gun is the most famous one. Now the mouse tank is so huge, of course, you can’t just use the 88mm gun, and you don’t have time to develop a cannon specifically for it. Without that kind of energy, it almost copied the structure of the 128mm anti-aircraft gun.

However, the automatic loading mechanism has not been added, and it is loaded manually. On the tank, the weight factor must be considered.

The gunner stepped on the button, and the turret turned quickly under the hydraulic drive. Then, he shouted loudly: "Aiming finished, fire!"

Fire!

"Boom!" Amid the loud sound of the gun, the entire turret was filled with smoke.

When the antiaircraft artillery is changed to the tank gun, there must be many improvements. After all, the internal space of the turret is small, and the exhaust gas from the shells is enough to cause a headache for the designer, and a special smoking device is needed.

But this mouse tank does not have the energy to do this, it is mainly for testing the chassis.

The captain coughed and wiped the lens of the scope in front of him, looking ahead.

At the muzzle, a huge fireball spurted out, and a 128mm high-explosive grenade flew forward!

"Boom!" At the position of the 17-pounder gun 900 meters away, the heavy anti-tank gun was blown into flight in an instant! The barrel of the gun was crooked, the wheels on the gun carriage flew to the side, and several gunners, even at this moment, turned into minced meat.

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