There were actually many Red Army tank soldiers who thought ahead of time to fire a few shots at the Germans with armor-piercing discarding sabots. However, due to the command of the division commander: "If you can't penetrate at this distance, rush up and go around", they habitually and resolutely obeyed the division commander's instructions.
Everyone did it without hesitation.
Besides, this is still on the battlefield, and there is no time and no reason to question the order of the comrade division commander.
This is a basic requirement and must be achieved in any army in the world that has strict laws and regulations and strict military discipline. If everyone questions the orders of their superiors, there is no need to fight the battle and they can just vote. What's more, in the name of a leader
Stalin's 1st Guards Tank Division is still one of the best.
So if strictly speaking, it is Comrade Ma who actually takes the blame for not thinking about using armor-piercing sabots to hunt tigers until now. This blame cannot be shaken off no matter what.
But even if the comrade division commander wants to self-examine his sins, he has to wait until the battle is over. There is no time on the battlefield to think about such trivial matters. In any case, it is still necessary to deal with the gang of Germans in front of you.
It is imperative to do it.
That is to say, after Malashenko ordered the use of armor-piercing discarding sabots, a huge change that could subvert the war situation began.
boom--
There is more than one IS6 heavy tank that has been loaded with discarding sabot armor-piercing bullets in the barrel. Although it is impossible to fire such rare armor-piercing bullets with an open mouth, a few are only issued to each vehicle of the elite vehicle crews with the highest record in the division.
, treat it as a trump card to press the bottom of the box and save it for the most critical moment.
But this rare quantity still cannot stop the determination of those elite commanders to "use it when it is necessary". If you keep something that cannot produce offspring in your hands, even if you hide it, it is just a waste. It is better to take it out as soon as possible and try it first.
As for the power, let's have an idea in mind, and the group of German monsters wearing heavy armor are obviously the best targets for the attack.
The armor-piercing projectiles whizzing out from the flashing muzzle were screaming shrilly, and it was only a matter of a blink of an eye from firing to hitting the target at a distance of only more than a hundred meters. As for that criticism.
The incredible accuracy is no longer a problem at a distance of just a hundred meters.
The vehicle body is so strong that it can withstand the heavy armor of any active tank gun and anti-tank gun of the Red Army, but it seems to be reduced to paper when faced with the new type of discarding sabot armor-piercing projectiles.
Like a red-hot knife slicing through butter, the armor-piercing core easily tore through the armor and poured into it. Each vehicle crew aimed directly at their respective targets and opened fire. Of course, they would not all aim at the same target location.
Some of the bullet cores penetrate the armor and go straight to the front of the vehicle body, just like Malashenko's first opening fire attack.
Some of them were aimed at the main armor belt on the front of the Jaeger's combat chamber, which was the thickest, and even if they couldn't penetrate it, they still had to give it a try.
You may not be able to penetrate it if you try it, but you will never know whether it will penetrate it if you don’t try it. Moreover, most of the tank soldiers except Malashenko are not interested in this new monster tank of the Germans.
I don’t know anything about it, let alone how its armor defense weights are arranged, and where the thickest armor parts are.
But the result that came after a fleeting moment was that the front of the Hunter Tiger's body and the front of the fighting room were like paper and could not withstand this terrible kinetic energy impact. It was drilled away by a 122 shell compared to the previous ones.
After perforating a much smaller eye, the armor was penetrated on the spot.
"There is no ricochet! It seems, it seems to have penetrated!"
"Keep reloading and don't stop! Keep watching, the Germans may still move!"
Applying tracer paint to armor-piercing bullets has two functions. One is to facilitate the observation of the ballistic trajectory and final impact point, so that the second round can be trimmed and calibrated if the first round misses, thereby improving the hit accuracy.
The second step is to confirm with the naked eye whether the armor-piercing projectile fired has ricochet. After all, the popular trajectory of a ricochet pointing at the sky or piercing the earth in an instant is indeed extremely dazzling and dazzling.
The absence of a ricochet probably means that the probability of penetrating the enemy's armor is higher. At least the worst result can be eliminated directly through naked eye observation. Even if it does not penetrate, it is still more likely than a ricochet.
Easy to accept.
The captains of each vehicle, who felt unsure, loudly ordered to speed up the reloading to ensure that if the Germans' broken vehicles were not dead, they would be able to make up for the second shot as quickly as possible after they started moving again, without giving the Germans any chance.
Take a breather.
Comrade Division Commander's on-the-spot effect of the shot just now was unavoidable by chance. No one can guarantee that this new and unreliable discarding sabot armor-piercing projectile will be 100% sure to penetrate the frontal armor of the Germans. Careful sailing.
The truth never goes out of style.
But what surprised almost all the experienced and cautious comrades of the vehicle commanders was that none of those huge German monsters were hit by several shots at almost the same time, some even as many as four or five times.
If there is any movement after the hit, there is no need to fight back.
Although none of the Jagdtigers exploded and were blown up into the sky, some Jagdtigers began to emit hot black smoke shortly after being hit. The black smoke poured out from the closed car.
, it’s just like someone’s cooking method where the lid of the pot is covered and it gets burnt.
That is to say, at the moment when the Red Army commanders, who were holding their breath and not daring to divert their attention for a moment, were almost shouting out excitedly, an even more exciting scene suddenly took place before that.
"It worked! The new armor-piercing projectile is working! We penetrated it! The Germans are abandoning their vehicles!"
Maybe he was injured and had difficulty moving, or maybe he was just completely stunned when the armor was penetrated.
The surviving German armored soldiers in the car were obviously half a beat slower in abandoning the car and escaping. The first unlucky person who escaped the car the fastest was about ten seconds after the car was penetrated.
Those who can run out and escape to heaven are undoubtedly lucky, but their butts will be burned by fire halfway through, and those who have swallowed up their hope will fall to the bottom instantly like a roller coaster.
"Ah! Ahhh! It's hot! It's so hot! Water, who has water!!!"
He almost rolled down from the back door of the flaming fighting room and fell to the ground. His whole body was engulfed by the scalding flames. At first glance, he could see that his body was covered with leaked gasoline and his clothes were set on fire.
That's why it looks like this.
Any veteran with some battlefield experience knows that this person cannot be saved at all.
Even after he was rescued, he was completely black and suffered severe burns like carbon. He was so miserable that he could not even put on clothes, could not speak, and could only lie on the bed to maintain a basic state of life and linger like a living dead.
In this era when medical technology is not as advanced as in the future world, the remaining life of such a person can only be calculated in hours.
The final fate awaiting them is either death from organ failure or severe burns complicated by various serious infections.
Living is 10,000 times more painful than dying, which is what this person is talking about in his last moments before his death.
But the more painful the time, the more delicious the winner's fruit is for the warriors who long for revenge. It is undeniable that human nature has a dark side. Even if it is so cruel, the pain and wailing are like the miserable situation of purgatory on earth, it can still
The many Red Army tank soldiers holding sighting equipment looked at it with great interest.
"The machine guns cease fire. Leave them alone and let these bastards burn slowly! I just love to see the German sticks being purified by the flames."