Chapter 3115 Fake Tiger Ascends to Heaven (Part 1)
"Load armor-piercing shells! Target Russian tank, 800 meters ahead, gunner prepares!"
"Hi! The armor-piercing shells are loaded!"
"Ready--shoot!"
boom--
The Nissan 56-caliber barrel, copied from the German Kwk 36 88mm tank gun, flickered, and the muzzle brake flashed with fire, and a high-speed roaring 88mm full-caliber hooded armor-piercing projectile rushed straight towards the target. And go.
It's funny to say that the Japanese Army, which has never mass-produced such a large-caliber, high-pressure, long-barreled tank gun, initially obtained a full set of technical information and Tiger samples from the Germans, but continued to imitate Mao Huahu. I can't even handle this level of rubbing.
The scrap rate of trial-produced tank gun tubes remains high, resulting in unacceptable high costs and low production efficiency. The barrel life and shooting accuracy of the actual test firing with the imitation sample gun are far from the design indicators given by the Germans.
The once arrogant Army Red Deer took it for granted that the Germans were deliberately falsifying data and bragging. The actual performance of the short 88 gun was not that good at all.
But I went back and did a comparative test with the prototype gun on the Tiger tank prototype vehicle given by the Germans.
Hey, guess what?
The clown turned out to be the Army Red Deer himself. The design specifications in the technical information given by the German guy were all true. This was a huge embarrassment.
In fact, if you are willing to spend some time tinkering slowly and digesting the foreign technology, it should be possible. However, the Army Red Deer, which is eager to produce new heavy tanks, is short of time.
The Navy's technology for producing this type of high-pressure long-barreled artillery is actually superior, and it has all the required large calibers and is very experienced.
But the Army Red Deer, who really couldn't save his face, would not beg the Navy Red Deer even if he was killed.
In the end, I had no choice but to go back and find the Germans again. Together with the craftsmanship, equipment, production lines, technical parameters and even artillery experts who used the German cannons, they were all packaged and brought back so that they could be put into production immediately.
The price was that the Japanese Army, which was already strapped for portable assets, added a submarine full of gold to pay various expenses for the Germans who were so open-minded.
This move even brought the Germans themselves to their knees.
You Japanese can even shoot the world's largest caliber 460mm naval gun, but you can't even handle a tank gun that is far less difficult, and you still want to take the initiative to stick your head out and be slaughtered like a pig?
It's one thing not to understand, but it's another thing completely unrelated to kill a Japanese without any hesitation.
It's just that the Germans were cautious at the end and did not tell the Japanese about the current status of the Tiger tanks on the Eastern Front.
Instead, a few more representative battles on the Western Front were selected specifically for the Japanese to watch, which demonstrated the power of the Tiger style enough to beat all kinds of Xie Mantou to the ground, which corresponds to the "Steamed Bun Crisis" on the Japanese side. "It's the right medicine.
So the final result is that the Japanese go back to rub guns with joy, and the Germans also make a lot of money by hauling gold in trucks.
Everyone has a bright future, and it seemed that way at the time.
Except for the current Japanese tank troops who are driving Tigers to fight against IS7.
Ding-ding——
A huge metal collision sounded from the root of the mantlet on the front of the IS7 turret, and flying sparks accompanied the blunted and deformed warhead diagonally upwards and straight into the sky.
"Shooting has no effect! The target is still alive!"
"Nani!?"
The Japanese commander, who was waiting to shout "onboard", was stunned on the spot when he heard the gunner's report.
The commander swings up his periscope, which is a replica of a late-model Tiger, and takes a closer look.
After discovering that the Russian monster tank was not only fine after being shot alive, it was neither paralyzed nor exploded. Instead, it continued to move forward like a beast that broke out of its cage. Just look at the dust flying behind the butt of the tank. The posture is enough to show how outrageous its speed is.
"Onboard! Hit! Onboard! Onboard!!!"
"what sound?"
"It's coming from outside the car, it's shouting from outside!"
"idiot"
The Japanese commander didn't know who he was scolding when he said "Baga".
The tracers of the artillery shells outside the vehicle directly hit the Russian tank. The accompanying infantry, which thought that it was the "Decisive Weapon of the Imperial Army, the Fierce Tiger IV Heavy Tank", had completed a one-hit kill, was following. He screamed as if his blood had been pumped.
The more the two-legged infantrymen outside the car shouted happily, the more shrill and harsh the Japanese commander in the car and even the entire crew felt.
It was as if a big-eared shaving stick was slapping him in the face, and he couldn't lose face at all.
"Come again! Keep shooting! Reload armor-piercing shells!!!"
The angry Japanese tank commander actually did not believe in evil. He did not believe that the powerful main gun, which could penetrate the 160 mm thick armor plate with one hit in a target practice test, could not even scratch the skin of the Russian tank on the opposite side.
It must be a poor angle of impact that causes the ricochet!
That must be the case!
Recalling that the German instructors not only preached the truth personally, but also used the photos they brought with them to show the actual results of destroying the Russian "main force T-3485 tank."
The Japanese commander became more and more convinced that such a powerful heavy tank that he had never seen in his life would never be able to deal with the Russians' broken tractors, and the effect of the next shooting would be different.
"The armor-piercing shells are loaded (liao)!"
"Targeted!"
"Yo Xi! Shoot!!!"
boom--
Unwilling to fail, the Japanese fired another shot. The second full-caliber armor-piercing projectile hit the IS7's crotch area under the front of the vehicle.
There was no ricochet this time. The inclination angle of the lower part of the front of the IS7 arrow cluster is indeed relatively small, but it does not mean that the short 88 attack of the Japanese copycat Tiger will be effective.
Ding-ding——
The projectile that broke through the outermost uniform steel armor plate failed to move forward. Instead, with the warhead embedded in the armor plate and the bottom of the projectile still exposed, it got stuck directly under the front of the mass-produced IS7 hull. There is no movement within the sandwich of the composite armor plate.
"These Japs are crazy! The driver stops the car. Since he is looking for death, he will help them! The gunner is ready to fight back and load armor-piercing shells!"
Facing an old opponent like Tiger Style.
Comrade Commander, who was already familiar with its performance and quality, directly ordered the armor-piercing ammunition to be loaded, hoping to get close enough to entangle the Japanese troops to prevent them from escaping.
But at the moment, it seems that it is more necessary to put down this arrogance first.
Otherwise, it would have been quite troublesome and embarrassing if some unlucky Japanese had not hit the track with one shot and paralyzed it.
The fact that the IS7 was paralyzed by the Tiger will become a "classic joke" among the comrades of the commanders.
The huge 130 mm full-caliber armor-piercing projectile was pushed into the chamber by the last manual loading process.
The heavy but not cumbersome turtle shell-shaped turret immediately began to rotate at a speed that was unusually flexible and unlike a heavy tank, and the final precise aiming was ready.
"Send the Japanese devils' fake tiger to the sky and fire!"
