Chapter 1723 The eleventh company was killed by tigers
After approaching a sufficient distance, the discarding sabot armor-piercing projectile that Malashenko kept as a trump card finally showed its effect at the moment when it was most needed.
Boom boom boom——
Stalin's heavy tanks, which were stationary on the position and served as anti-tank bunkers, opened fire again. The roaring muzzle of the main gun burst out with surging flames, which spread out from the muzzle brake and struck people with scorching heat.
What roared out from the black muzzle were no longer full-caliber armor-piercing bullets, but sub-caliber bullets that automatically separated the outer covering of the shell immediately after exiting the chamber, leaving only the armor-piercing body of the bullet core to continue traveling forward at high speed.
The huge and bulky King Tigers relied on the powerful long-range direct fire cover behind them, and with a dull steel roar, they advanced to the final distance of just over 300 meters away from the position.
The accuracy of the discarding sabot armor-piercing projectile is very poor, so bad that Comrade Ma even complained about it and called it a "peeing cannonball". But no matter how poor its accuracy is, there should always be a limit. There is still no problem in hitting the front projection of a behemoth like the King Tiger at a distance of three hundred meters.
If the accuracy is so bad that it can't even hit this, Malashenko doesn't have to use this thing as a trump card. The useless shells that can't hit at a distance of 300 meters will still have eggs! ?
Just like the armor-piercing discarding sabot that made its debut against the thick-skinned Jagdtiger but won the first battle, the facts proved that Malashenko’s predictions had no problems at all. It is really easy to deal with those stupid and heavy King Tigers.
The scorching and whistling shells were like red-hot sharp knives piercing a cream cake, easily piercing the sloping armor plate on the front of the King Tiger's strongest car body.
The astonishing chamber volume of the 122 Heirloom main gun gives the armor-piercing core an extremely high muzzle velocity and launch kinetic energy.
Although there is no detailed verification data, it can be pointed out what the muzzle velocity of this new type of armor-piercing discarding sabot is.
But according to Malashenko's own estimation, the muzzle velocity of this thing must be at least 1,200 meters per second. Just from the visual experience of the tracer trajectory after exiting the barrel, it is obvious that it is The flight speed of the bullet core's armor-piercing body is much higher than the Long 88 of the Tiger King.
You must know that the King Tiger's 88mm long gun has the highest muzzle velocity when firing full-caliber armor-piercing projectiles in the entire World War II. It breaks through the kilometer per second mark and has strong kinetic energy, especially when fighting long-distance targets. The advantage is huge, from firing to hitting, it is almost impossible to capture the fleeting time.
But now, the muzzle velocity of our new discarding sabot armor-piercing projectiles is even better and faster.
This concept is like the moment a cannon is fired, before anyone has time to react, the shells have already roared through the wind, smashed through the armor on the front of the King Tiger's body, and poured into it. All that the human eye could see was the gaping hole in King Tiger's armor.
Unless the core armor-piercing body without charge is igniting fuel or explosive ammunition, it is impossible to tell whether the enemy tank has been destroyed simply by judging from its appearance.
Logically speaking, when it is impossible to determine that the target has been destroyed, it is undoubtedly the best choice to make up for it at the right time.
However, the remaining stock of armor-piercing sabots of the 1st Stalin Guards Tank Division has long been insufficient, and it is only a small amount. It is obviously unwise to leave it here and continue to unleash firepower wantonly.
These artillery shells, which have impressive accuracy but can be of great use at critical moments, must be used sparingly. Otherwise, if they are all wasted and the Germans are not suppressed by then, you will really regret that you have no place to buy any medicine. .
The various Red Army vehicle crews who fired the shot were looking forward to a surprising and satisfactory result, and the fact that followed did satisfy their wishes, just as Comrade Lao Ma had expected.
Most of the King Tigers who were shot once or even several times at the same time continued to move forward for a while under the influence of inertia and then slowly stopped. There was no further movement on the spot, just like a zombie car whose engine suddenly died. The pestle stood there, motionless.
It cannot be said that this part of King Tiger who was turned into a zombie car is lucky. It seems a bit inappropriate to describe it this way, but the reality is that there are indeed existences that are more miserable than this part of King Tiger, and they are around us.
Those King Tigers who were unfortunately hit in vital parts proved the powerful armor-piercing power of the Red Army's experimental discarding sabots.
The core armor-piercing body, which broke through the main armor belt on the front and penetrated into the vehicle with strong residual kinetic energy, continued to fly forward at high speed along the slightly changed ballistic trajectory, easily tearing apart the fragile obstacles blocking the road ahead. The flesh, mixed with various soft tissues and blood, was beaten on the spot, leaving flesh and blood scattered and torn to pieces.
After destroying the fragile flesh and blood of human beings, these armor-piercing bodies with remaining kinetic energy that has not yet been exhausted can continue to cause damage. The end point on its ballistic path is either the ammunition rack or the huge fuel tank. In short, it is inseparable from the word "fire" under the kinetic energy impact.
The ignition of fuel and the fire in the car can only be regarded as inconspicuous small fires now. The powerful ammunition explosion caused by the explosion of the ammunition rack by a shot is the real volcanic eruption.
Boom boom boom——
The King Tigers, whose bodies were filled with overloaded ammunition and saturated fuel, were almost torn into pieces. Various wreckage and armor fragments flew in the air and were blown up all over the sky.
It should have been a happy blessing to have enough supplies to cope with a brutal battle.
But those German armored soldiers in the car who were unlucky enough to fly to heaven and whose ashes were blown away probably never thought that this car full of fuel and ammunition that they had just replenished would actually become the last "additional meal" on the road to hell. , send the brothers to eat and drink so that they can go on the road successfully.
The King Tiger, who was motionless after being beaten into a zombie car, coupled with those that had suffered strong ammunition explosions or caught fire, had turned into flaming coffins and hot wreckage with black smoke rising.
Just this wave of main gun salvo after changing to armor-piercing discarding sabots, killed as many as 11 King Tigers!
What is the concept of 11 vehicles?
Assuming that an independent heavy armored battalion of the National Defense Forces is fully equipped with 45 heavy tanks, this is equivalent to a wave of salvoes that reduces up to a quarter of the combat strength of the entire battalion.
In other words, with three more salvos like this, the entire battalion's organization could be completely erased from the German order of battle.
Well, the premise is that the last King Tiger is not counted as a battalion.
Especially when the independent heavy armored battalions of the National Defense Forces were almost not fully equipped in 1944. Either there were not enough tanks, or they had some shabby Panzer IVs and Panthers to fill up the numbers, these 11 King Tigers It is natural to imagine what being killed in an instant means to the German army.
