The No. 214 King Tiger, which was shot through the front armor of the car body, was very unlucky, but to a certain extent, it was also lucky.
At least this armor-piercing bullet, which penetrated the armor in one shot, was not an armor-piercing bullet with a charge. Although three people in the turret fighting room were injured, two seriously and one lightly, at least they were still alive without losing their lives, even if it was only temporary.
The escape hatch at the back of the King Tiger's turret was opened from the inside out. The three German armored soldiers, all of whom had different jobs, were very affectionate and loyal. They helped the minor injuries and the serious ones, and climbed out of the turret one by one.
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When the two people on the front and passenger seats at the front of the vehicle saw that something was wrong, they smeared the soles of their feet and ran away decisively. The bottom escape hatch in the center of the chassis of the vehicle was quickly opened, and the two people got out from under the tank one after another.
Escaped.
One of the five King Tigers is hitched, and now there are only four left.
The gun shield at the base of the gun was hit by a detached King Tiger, but the situation was not bad. The armor-piercing body of the bullet could not penetrate the root of such a thick gun shield, let alone damage the front of the turret behind the gun shield.
The entire armor plate was stuck like a toy javelin stuck on the target, unable to move, and did not cause any substantial damage to the King Tiger.
After confirming that the vehicle could continue to fight and had not been truly penetrated, the unfortunate King Tiger began to move again, just like the other King Tigers around it, it continued to turn the turret and drive the muzzle.
The two IS6s were paralyzed to the ground and could not move. Although they were still resisting, at least the threat level had been reduced to the next level. What is more important were the 7 intact IS6 heavy tanks that could still move.
"Bolt, stop those remaining Russians! They are targeting us!!!"
"What!?"
The shouts from his comrades on the radio channel drew Bolt's attention back to the periscope, as he had just turned away and was debugging the commander's radio station in the turret.
It was as if the armor of a King Tiger was penetrated on the spot, and the scene of the crew abandoning the vehicle gave these Russians confidence and completed the final confirmation before effectively firing on the enemy.
The remaining 7 intact IS6 heavy tanks have all been parked now, and the turrets undergoing final fine-tuning and correction all illustrate what these Russians are planning to do.
There is no need to continue to rush forward, the real moment to take action is now.
As the commander of the team, Bolt certainly knew that a King Tiger under his command had been overturned on the spot. Although it was not clear whether this was an accident or a coincidence, or whether it was due to some new power-enhancing improvements used by the Russians, in short it could
What is confirmed is that the Russians can indeed destroy the King Tiger head-on at the current distance.
These seven vehicles that could move plus the two that could not move, Bolt soon realized that he was about to face fierce fire from nine enemy vehicles that could penetrate his own armor, and that kind of chilling trembling suddenly came over him.
In the back of my mind, the muzzle of the giant cannon, a black hole visible to the naked eye in the periscope, seemed to be about to swallow up lives in the next second.
"Damn it, it's over now!"
...
"Aimed!"
"Fire!"
boom--
The seven IS6 heavy tanks that parked one after another opened fire almost at once, taking the first step before the four King Tigers on the opposite side who could still fight opened fire again.
The seven armor-piercing bullets that roared towards his face were all discarding sabots, without exception. Bolt, who knew nothing about this, had no time to think, let alone react, in such a short period of time. He only knew what was coming next.
Things must be bad.
Ding-ding——
Boom——
boom--
It was further forward than the two paralyzed IS6s, which resulted in better accuracy and higher penetration. The salvo attack under Kirill's order was finally
Got results.
The armor on the right side of the front face of the turret was instantly penetrated, opening a hole the size of a fist. The gunner and commander, who were sitting in parallel on the trajectory of the ballistic advance, were instantly killed. Even though it was a sub-caliber armor-piercing shelling projectile,
This is also a discarding sabot armor-piercing projectile shot by the 122 gun. The cross-sectional size of the armor-piercing body of the projectile core is still a full circle larger than that of ordinary small-caliber artillery shells.
Two German armored soldiers who did not react to the pain until they died, and who did not even know how they died, were shot one after another by the armor-piercing body of the bullet core. Such headshots
It's not the kind of effect caused by bullets fired from small weapons, but a headshot that literally cuts off even the flesh on your neck and shoulders.
All the soft and hard tissues of the human body above the collarbone completely disappeared, leaving only a large mass of splattered bloody tissue on the cold turret bulkhead.
However, the real destruction and death have just begun, and it is undoubtedly too early to say it is over.
The armor-piercing body that killed two German armored soldiers continued to advance, and almost instantly hit the first ready-to-fire ammunition rack at the back of the King Tiger turret.
Failure of ammunition to explode is the vast majority of situations that occur after sabot-piercing sabots penetrate armor, but this does not mean that tanks penetrated by this stuff have no chance of ammunition to explode.
The high temperature and heat caused by the instantaneous violent impact and friction that penetrated the upper armor still remained on the front end of the armor-piercing body of the bullet core that had become deformed.
The moment the metal jacket of the propellant barrel was torn off, the propellant contained inside the barrel was instantly ignited, emitting a dazzling flash of light.
The entire ammunition rack exploded in a chain reaction in just a split second. The explosion was so fast that humans had no time to react and the violent explosion swept through the entire vehicle in an instant.
The King Tiger, which was in a combat-enclosed state, could not withstand the instantaneous intense pressure inside the vehicle caused by the explosion of ammunition. It was merely buckled to the vehicle body instead of a rigidly connected huge turret and took off on the spot, as if it were a rocket.
It rose vertically into the sky and was launched from the turret ring.
When the huge hot turret, which had been completely blackened inside, fell to the ground with a loud noise, no one knew, and no one cared about the current situation of the five armored soldiers who were originally fighting in this body of steel.
One King Tiger suffered an ammunition explosion, but this does not mean that this was the only King Tiger that was destroyed.
Two King Tigers had their armor penetrated, and one King Tiger's ammunition exploded. Bolt, who originally had four King Tigers left on hand that could compete with the King Tigers, was shocked to find out.
In just two or three seconds, the person who had just been giving orders turned out to be the last hope, the only one left alone.
What on earth did those Russians do? Don’t past combat experiences and intelligence say that the Russian heavy tanks can only penetrate the weak area of the turret armor from the front at extremely close range? If this is true,
So what the fuck is this shit going on right now!?