Chapter 508： Take dud (1/2)

Meyer was very excited. He only left two tank destroyers to help guard the French general and escorted them back to the rear. All his remaining troops stayed behind, waiting for the next order.

This was a gap before the war. Meyer's men quickly carried out tank maintenance.

When I was fighting, I was very excited and didn't feel anything. But now, when I finished the fight, I saw that my tank was seriously injured.

The opponent’s 40mm banging gun left several holes in the front armor plate. The largest one can even be inserted into a fist, but the armor plate was not penetrated. The Panther 3 tank was well protected. Tank soldiers!

Ordinarily, the damaged tanks should retreat to the rear and use electric welding and other equipment to fill in the damaged parts before they can continue to participate in the battle. But now, they are obviously unwilling to wait.

What are you waiting for? A big battle is just around the corner. The First Armored Division that encircled and wiped out the entire Britain, they must participate in the war!

”Attention, be careful!” At this time, on Meyer's tank, several people were working carefully.

The blind cannonball is still in the barrel, and the cannonball must be taken out first.

This is quite dangerous. After the cannonball is loaded into the barrel, it must be fired out. Withdrawing the cannonball will be dangerous.

Theoretically speaking, there is inertia insurance on the shells, and the inertia insurance will be released only when the shells are shot out of the barrel and the speed is sufficient.

This is a necessary measure. Otherwise, for example, a fuse that explodes from an impact, without this set of insurance, it will easily explode if it is hit during transportation, which is quite dangerous.

However, as for machinery, there are accidents. What if this shell is a special case?

Gently opened the rear of the gun door, the loader carefully checked the tail of the shell, the firing pin had hit, leaving a small pit at the bottom, but the propellant in the barrel was not fired. The problem with the fuze.

He tried hard with both hands, but the barrel did not move.

”The heat expands and the cold shrinks, I can't take it off anymore,” he shouted.

When firing, with multiple firings, the temperature inside the barrel is very high and the space becomes larger. Therefore, it is easy to load the shells, but now, the battle is over and the space inside the barrel becomes smaller.

If it's normal, that's not a problem. After all, in cold conditions, the shells must be able to be loaded.

The problem is that in the fierce battle just now, they fired more than 20 shells. Every time they fired, there would be residual propellant.

These residues make the internal space smaller, and at the same time the friction becomes larger, making it difficult to remove.

”It seems that you can only use the old method.” The gunner said: ”Roll the barrel to the lowest point and take the steel drill.”

On the side of the tank's hull, a long steel drill can be drawn out, which is just one meter longer than the tank's barrel. This thing is used to maintain the tank's barrel.

After every firing, the gunpowder residue in the barrel must be cleaned in time. Now, this steel drill has other functions.

The gunner is a veteran. He was smoking a cigarette, holding a steel drill in both hands, stuffed it to the innermost point, and then shouted: ”Give me a hammer!”

A sledgehammer is essential for tank maintenance.

”Smash!” the gunner shouted to the driver.

The driver was a little worried: ”In this case, will the shells explode?

Tank guns are all high-pressure guns, and they have a lot of propellant. If you don't pay attention, if you blow up the shells, you will definitely blow up the barrels and send them all to the sky. ”