Chapter 1511 (1/2)
Soon, the warhead of the rocket came into close contact with the front armor of the Panther 3 tank.
On the battlefield, there are not many times when they can hit the front armor of the car body. Generally speaking, they hit the turret armor.
This is because in a normal exchange of fire, both sides are almost at the same height. When shooting at each other, considering the ballistic bending caused by gravity and other factors, the probability of shells hitting the front of the turret is the highest.
Therefore, the armor on the front of all tanks and turrets is also the thickest. The thickness of the main armor of panther 3 here has reached 130mm, all of which are the best nickel alloy steel. In this way, Panther 3 tanks can resist the frontal attack of 85mm tank guns.
Even 85 mm shells are not afraid. Now, bazuka's caliber is only 60 mm, but the penetration depth cannot be calculated in this way.
It uses the principle of shaped charge warhead, which breaks through each other through metal jet.
Moreover, Aiken aimed in the shell pit, almost half of his body was exposed, and the bazooka was less than half a meter high from the ground. In this way, he almost shot upward with his head up. When the shell hit, it hit the armor of the opposite car body, almost from the middle of the radio operator and the driver.
The armor here is only 100 mm thick.
At the moment when the warhead hit the armor, the huge pressure brought by the collision immediately triggered the mechanical fuse in front of the warhead. The explosion of explosives inside the copper drug cover formed a strong heat, melted the front drug cover, and then formed a hot metal heat flow with a temperature of more than thousands of degrees, and rushed violently towards the armor in front, Just like a high-pressure water gun can easily blow through the mud layer, in front of it, the metal is like soft bread, which can be broken as long as it is tied with a fork.
The metal heat flow impacts rapidly towards the front. In fact, it is not positive. The heat flow has a deflection angle of about 10 degrees, which makes its impact distance longer. In the process of impact, the heat flow is constantly cooling and decelerating, which is somewhat similar to the hard impact of armor piercing bullets.
If you can penetrate the opponent's armor before the energy of metal heat flow is exhausted, the armor will be broken successfully. If the armor is still thick after depletion, it cannot be penetrated.
The silent contest lasted only a short moment, and the heat flow successfully penetrated the excellent nickel alloy armor of Germany, and then went to the back.
The temperature of metal heat flow is still five or six Baidu. When it penetrates, a huge flame comes out of the small hole and sweeps the whole tank.
In this heat flow, no one can live. Several tank hands inside turned into barbecue in an instant. At the same time, the flame ignited the shells inside“ Boom! ”
The tank was killed and exploded. The huge explosion energy of ammunition came out of the pressure relief plate at the back, and thick smoke rose from the rear of the whole tank. Due to the timely pressure relief, the tank's turret was not overturned, but it also lost its combat capability.
The power of the bazooka is very powerful. Take the historical data. Germany's iron fist 30 has a range of 30m and a penetration depth of 140mm; Iron fist 60 has a range of 60m and a penetration depth of 200mm; Iron fist 100 has a range of 100m and a penetration depth of 220mm.
It can be seen that no tank can block the shooting of this individual weapon. Even the mouse tank has a frontal gun shield of only 180 mm.
As for bazuka, there are two theories. One is the vertical armor breaking thickness of 127 mm, and the other is the armor breaking thickness of 76 mm when incident at 60 degrees( It may be a data after conversion.) In short, bazuka can break through the body of panther 3. Except for the front gun shield, other places can't bear bazuka's attack!
(of course, there are many opinions. Some say that this thing is chicken ribs. In history, it can't even penetrate the leopard main armor, and it can't beat the t-34-85. Now, according to Huadong Zhixiong, set it at the front body armor that just broke through Panther 3! It should be regarded as the later improved bazuka.)
At the beginning, Shrek was worried about getting the rocket launcher out. It was from this point of view. It was simple and effective. The big killer of infantry anti tank was unfavorable to Germany.
It was the first time in the whole Soviet German battlefield that infantry destroyed terrible and ferocious tanks with their own weapons!