Unlike armor-piercing bullets that fail to penetrate a heavy armored tank, which is equivalent to being unable to cause damage, high-explosive bullets have low muzzle velocity, severe ballistic droop, and long-distance velocity attenuation that is unbearable and extremely unsuitable.
Used to attack enemy moving armor targets at long distances.
However, once a large-caliber high-explosive shell accurately hits an enemy tank, even a heavy tank with strong armor and powerful guns will suffer varying degrees of damage depending on the location of the hit. It depends on where your high-explosive shell hits.
On what part.
And there is another very important point, that is, the German Tiger King has a broken leg and cannot move. This greatly increases the probability of high-explosive bombs hitting at long distances. There is no need to consider high-explosive bombs anymore.
The inherently low muzzle velocity, combined with the corresponding distance attenuation speed, and then the traveling speed of the enemy armored unit are finally calculated to determine how much advance should be fired.
Not every Red Army gunner is a professional mathematician. In reality, it is much more difficult to hit moving armored targets at long distances with high-explosive shells than in the game. What's more, this is a country without any fire control system, relying solely on the gunner's experience and
In the war years when manual operation was backward, it is natural to imagine how worrisome this accuracy is.
Fortunately, that damn Tiger King had its legs broken and couldn't move. Now it was a genuine target sandbag, ready to be slaughtered by anyone. So there is no problem in using high-explosive bombs to hit such a fixed target. The accuracy is high.
You can also get reliable guarantees.
The King Tiger was in an extremely miserable state after being washed away by a blast of 122 high-explosive bombs. Although I don’t know exactly how many rounds of high-explosive bombs were accurately hit on the King Tiger and exploded, but I kept holding it up through my hands.
Although the telescope and the flares hanging high in the sky were saved, Kulbalov could clearly see the miserable appearance of the King Tiger.
Almost all of the skirt armor guarding the tracks on both sides of the car body was blown away. After being cleaned, the King Tiger looked extremely awkward after losing the skirt armor, giving people a strange feeling that the shape of the car body and the tracks did not match.
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Of course, the damage caused to the King Tiger with a broken leg didn't end there.
The MG34 roof-mounted machine gun that was originally mounted on the head of this King Tiger has now disappeared. Only the bottom part of the machine gun mount is still on the machine gun mount, like a big tree that has just been felled by lumberjacks.
What was left was like a tree stump, unusually abrupt.
Although the armor plate on the front of the entire car body was not penetrated, serious armor peeling occurred under the concentrated bombardment of multiple high-explosive and armor-piercing projectiles.
The large piece of missing armor that was blown away by the energy impact has now disappeared. The chemical energy blasting impact produced by the high-explosive bomb has aggravated the situation, which directly caused the armor plate on the front of the Tiger King's body to look like it is now.
, just like the surface of the moon, there are pits and depressions that are unbearable to look at.
There seems to be only so much damage on the surface, but no one can say clearly how much internal damage this King Tiger actually has.
Judging from past actual combat experience, Kulbalov is 60% sure that this King Tiger has lost its combat capability.
None of the German tanks that were hit by 122mm high-explosive shells in the middle of their armor had a good end. At worst, they were paralyzed on the spot and caught fire. At worst, they were directly knocked through the body dome and other key parts, detonating the ammunition rack on the spot.
Causing an explosion.
As long as the pipe is thick enough and the explosive charge is large enough! Even if your German guy is driving a heavy tank, he can still kill you with high-explosive bombs!
The only thing Kulbalov was unsure about was that Stalin's 1st Guards Tank Division had no experience in using high-explosive bombs to bombard the new German King Tiger heavy tanks. In the past, 122mm high-explosive bombs were used to kill the most powerful German tanks.
It’s the little tiger of the previous generation, the one weighing 56 tons.
As for the King Tiger, which weighs nearly 70 tons in combat, to be honest, Kurbalov felt really unlucky.
The sturdy protective performance of this damn thing is far superior to any tank in the German army. It has been qualitatively upgraded. It has no obvious weakness in medium and long-range firefights. It can fight against any tank currently in service in the Red Army.
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The reason why Malashenko ordered Kulbalov's tanks to attack was because the Red Army really couldn't deal with this nearly 70-ton steel precious metal at medium and long distances. Otherwise, it could have been given to him from a long distance.
If it's raised, why rush forward dangerously and shoot at close range?
Kulbalov knew that the use of high-explosive shells for bombardment was the independent decision of the experienced commanders of the following crews.
To be honest, there is nothing wrong with this decision. Rather than being unable to penetrate the armor-piercing bullet, it is better to add high-explosive bullets to cause some trouble for the Tiger King, which is much better than the embarrassment of just hearing a sound.
But as for whether the high-explosive bomb could destroy the King Tiger, Kulbalov just felt that it should be possible at this moment, but he was not absolutely sure, only 60% at most.
As for what happened next, Kulbalov, who originally had such thoughts, was quickly shocked on the spot.
This King Tiger, which seemed to have been possessed by an evil spirit, was actually not completely dead yet! After being silent for about ten seconds, it began to turn the turret again and aim at the target.
"Asshole! How thick is the armor of this thing? How can it still fight after being blasted like this?!"
"No, Comrade Commander! Something doesn't seem right. That King Tiger is a little weird, look!"
Before Kurbalov's complaint could be finished, the gunner, who was controlling the high-magnification, narrow-field gun scope for aiming, had already seen the details clearly and immediately spoke to remind him.
"What!?"
After picking up the telescope and taking a closer look, Kulbalov finally saw clearly what he meant by saying something was wrong.
The speed at which this Tiger King rotates the turret is like suffering from cervical spondylosis. If the original speed of rotating the turret was acceptable, it can be compared to an adult's normal running and fitness. Then the current speed of this Tiger King's turret is simply
Just like a shambling old man entering his final years, the speed of turning the turret bit by bit is as slow as a tortoise crawling.
"Okay! The high-explosive bombs are effective, but there is something wrong with King Tiger's steering machine!"
As the saying goes, laymen watch the excitement, while insiders watch the door.
Kulbalov, who was a professional tank soldier and held the position of regimental commander, only took one look and came to an instant conclusion: Such a poor turret rotation speed can only explain one problem. The King Tiger's turret steering gear is not stuck by debris.
If it is difficult to rotate, it means that the electric steering gear is scrapped and a hand steering gear is used for driving.
No matter what the situation is, it is the best for the Red Army.
The King Tiger, which already had a broken leg, was now even more seriously injured and suffered from cervical spondylosis. The threat it could pose to the Red Army after becoming so disabled was already so low that it could be ignored.