Steel Soviet Union

Unlike armor-piercing bullets that cannot penetrate a heavy armored tank, which means they cannot cause damage, high-explosive bullets have low muzzle velocity, severe ballistic droop, and long-distance bullet 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, which greatly increases the probability of high-explosive bombs hitting at long distances. There is no need to consider the low muzzle velocity of the high-explosive shell itself. After combining the attenuation speed with the corresponding distance, and then calculating the traveling speed of the enemy armored unit, we finally get the result of 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 still a backward war era without any fire control system and relies solely on the gunner's experience and manual operation. It is natural to imagine how worrying this accuracy is.

Fortunately, that damn Tiger King had its legs broken and couldn't move. Now it was a real target sandbag, ready to be slaughtered. Therefore, there is no problem in using high-explosive bombs to hit such a fixed target with accuracy. You can also get reliable guarantee.

After being washed away by a blast of 122 high-explosive bombs, the King Tiger was in an extremely miserable state. Although it is not known how many rounds of high-explosive bombs were accurately hit on the King Tiger and exploded, but he kept holding it up through his 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.

The skirt armor guarding the tracks on both sides of the car body was almost completely blown away and washed away. After losing the skirt armor, the King Tiger looked extremely awkward, giving people a strange feeling that the shape of the car body and the tracks did not match. .

Of course, the damage done to the King Tiger, which had a broken leg, didn't stop 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. It was left as unusually abrupt as a tree stump.

Although the armor plate on the entire front of the 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 generated by the high-explosive bomb has aggravated the situation, which directly caused the armor plate on the front of the Tiger King's car body to look like this. , just like the surface of the moon, it is full of pits and depressions, which is 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 the armor had a good end. They ranged from being directly paralyzed and bursting into flames to being directly hit by the 122mm high-explosive shells. At worst, they were directly blasted through the body dome and other key parts, and the ammunition rack was detonated on the spot. Causing an explosion.

As long as the tube is thick enough and the amount of medicine is large enough! Even if your German guy drives a heavy tank, he can still kill you with high-explosive bombs!

The only thing Kulbalov was unsure about was that the 1st Stalin 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 weighed nearly 70 tons in combat, Kurbalov honestly felt that it was really unreasonable.

The powerful protective performance of this thing is far superior to any tank in the German army. It has been qualitatively upgraded. It has no obvious weakness in mid- and long-range firefights. It can compete with any tank currently in service in the Red Army. .

The reason why Malashenko ordered Kulbalov's tanks to attack was because the Red Army really couldn't deal with this precious steel of nearly 70 tons at medium and long distances. Otherwise, if you can hit him from a distance, 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 bullets, it is better to add high-explosive bullets to cause some trouble for the Tiger King. It 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 had originally harbored such thoughts, was soon shocked on the spot.

This Tiger King, as if possessed by an evil spirit, is not completely dead yet! After almost ten seconds of silence, he began to turn the turret again and aim at the target.

"Asshole! How thick is the armor of this thing? How can it still hit after being blasted like this?!"

"No, Comrade Commander! Something doesn't seem right. There's something unusual about King Tiger. Look!"

Before Kurbalov's complaint could be finished, the gunner, who was controlling the high-magnification, narrow-view 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 is acceptable, it can be compared to an adult's normal running and fitness. So now the turret speed of this King Tiger is like a hobbling old man entering his twilight 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 at it and instantly came to the conclusion: Such a poor turret rotation speed can only explain one problem. Isn't the turret steering gear of this King Tiger now 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 perfect for the Red Army.

The Tiger King, which had already broken its leg, was now more seriously injured and suffered from cervical spondylosis. The threat it could pose to the Red Army after being disabled in this way was already so low that it could be ignored.