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After the first round of test firing, the answer in front of us was already obvious.

The sub-caliber tungsten alloy sabot armor-piercing projectile launched through the 122 Heirloom can not only penetrate the armor on the front of the Jagdtiger body that is tilted at a large angle, but also has an excellent effect on correcting and penetrating the tilted armor. It can also penetrate the front of the Hunter Tiger combat chamber without pressure. The super protective armor with a physical thickness of 250 mm penetrates the soul with one shot.

At this moment, Malashenko could already determine from the scene in front of him that the new batch of experimental discarding sabots sent by Kotin had a penetrating distance of about 100 meters, which definitely exceeded 270 mm, and had a far superior performance. The tilted armor-piercing power of full-caliber armor-piercing projectiles.

The specific diagonal penetration is not yet clear. Because the technology is immature and there are still many areas that need improvement, and it is the first batch of test shells, the report Kotin sent to Malashenko did not mention the specific diagonal penetration. How much to wear, so Malashenko can only guess now.

It is said that the 100-meter penetration of this thing definitely exceeded 270 mm. This is because when each crew actually fired at the front armor of the Jagdtiger fighting room, it was not a completely vertical angle of incidence due to their position. The shells hit the The frontal armor of the Hunter Tiger combat room must be more or less equivalent armor.

In addition, after the artillery shell penetrates the front armor of the fighting room, it can continue to penetrate deep into the vehicle space and cause damage. This must mean that the armor-piercing body of the bullet core that has penetrated into the vehicle body still retains a certain residual kinetic energy.

If the maximum penetration value is exactly the same as or even very close to the enemy's defensive armor, then there will inevitably be an embarrassing situation of semi-penetration or even harmless breakdown. But such a situation obviously does not exist at the moment, so it goes without saying what the real result will be.

This new type of discarding sabot armor-piercing projectile is not only effective against the heaviest armored vehicles of the Germans, but also has the best effect of having a surplus of penetration depth. After penetrating the armor, it can continue to penetrate deep into the vehicle and bring up enough armor fragments. Even the discarding sabot armor-piercing projectile with extremely poor aftereffects can still deliver a fatal blow to the German's heavily armored monster.

The cruel war in reality is different from the game. The armor of the vehicle was penetrated, the comrades were beaten to a bloody pulp and died beside him. He was still wounded and endured severe pain, but he could still persist in fighting and did not choose to abandon the vehicle. .

Malashenko dare not say that such people do not exist in the German army, but even if they do exist, they must be an extremely elite and fanatical minority. Most of the time only those SS soldiers with sick and twisted beliefs can do it, but we have encountered some in past battles.

As for the armored forces of the Wehrmacht after 1944?

Haha, I'm sorry, it's not like we, the old horse, look down on these crotchless German guys who are full of new recruits.

After 1944, the armored soldiers of the National Defense Forces even drove out of gas cars and threw them all over the streets without feeling distressed. With such cowardice, you can still expect this group of people to choose not to abandon the vehicle and keep fighting even when the crew members are killed? Malashenko is still more willing to believe that Hitler suddenly realized his conscience and it would be more realistic to announce his resignation as head of state and go to power tomorrow.

From 1941 to now, when the armor was penetrated and people died, the armored soldiers of the Wehrmacht still persisted in fighting and did not abandon their vehicles. Malashenko can say with conscience: I have never even heard of it. several.

With this realistic situation as the premise, the disadvantages of the discarding sabot armor-piercing projectiles having poor aftereffects and being difficult to cause the ammunition to explode are no longer weaknesses.

As long as you can penetrate the armor and kill the people inside, it is easy to force the frightened Germans to abandon the vehicle on the spot and withdraw from the battle. If it has this level of after-effects, it is still easy to achieve this with armor-piercing shelling shells. The actual results in front of us have well proved this.

That is, within less than a minute after the first round of salvo ended, those Jaegers who had been beaten to death on the spot began to show more signs of black smoke coming out of the car. A few cars were still covered in black smoke for a brief period, but were soon replaced by flames. It was obvious that the ignited gasoline burning in the cars had quickly expanded into an out-of-control fire.

Even the extremely large interior space of the Hunter cannot accommodate the fire beasts blessed by the most primitive destructive power of nature. Being surrounded and devoured by raging flames is the only foreseeable and inevitable ending.

However, a fire is only the beginning of the disaster. Just like the crater of a volcano always erupts as a sign of black smoke before it erupts, a more terrifying disaster is coming after this.

"Everyone is ready, the fireworks are about to be released!"

"What?"

Malashenko whispered, and Iushkin looked confused. Before he could recover, an earth-shaking huge explosion immediately sounded on the battlefield, falling straight down like thunder from the sky and exploding on the ground.

Under the catalytic action of the fire, a Jagdiger, which was only a hundred meters away, exploded with powerful and devastating ammunition just as Malashenko predicted.

The power of a truckload of 128mm artillery shells exploding is not comparable to the power of the King Tiger's truckload of 88mm artillery shells.

Compared with the King Tiger, the larger Jaguar has more space to accommodate retractable cannonballs. Carrying more shells on the battlefield should be an advantage in a longer-term operation, but it is a completely different matter when the ammunition explodes.

The power of the Jagdtiger's explosion was so great that Malashenko, who was protected by the thick armor of his car a hundred meters away, felt a trace of ignorance at the moment when the loud noise rang out and the sound wave was transmitted. Was it an illusive shaking? His head was buzzing for an instant.

"I'm sorry! Is there something wrong with this German guy's brain? How many artillery shells must be stuffed in this car!? To make such a big noise!"

No matter what Comrade Lao Ma felt in his heart, he was amazed and scolding his mother. The moment the ammunition exploded, the hunting tiger that was blown to pieces had already suffered a terrible disaster.

The spare track pads hung on both sides of the combat room, which could barely provide some defensive effect, were directly blown away hundreds of meters away by the explosion shock wave and disappeared. The heavy staggered road wheels on both sides of the car body and the running gear composed of wide track pads were also completely blown up from the inside out from the car. The huge deformed road wheels were thrown out in the flames and black smoke. It was simply Brighter than a fucking shooting star.

Holding the commander's periscope in front of him with his hand, Comrade Ma was looking at the Hunter Tiger gun barrel that had been twisted into a twist, and even the breech block was blown away. In addition to being amazed, Comrade Ma felt a little more in his heart. "Mixed feelings".

After all, it is rare to see the entire main gun and its mantlet being blown out of the car and flying more than ten meters away. Malashenko barely knew how powerful the explosion was, which could forcefully blow the main gun from the vehicle.