Chapter 2129 Destructive Firepower (Part 2)

Remove the extra fuel section and replace it with warhead charge?

Malashenko was immediately happy when he heard this. Kotin, this old friend, is really good. Why didn't he think of it at the beginning? This is a really good idea!

TOS-1, which is completely different from Andryusha in design and function, is a front-line heavy armored assault vehicle, so she does not need a longer range like Andryusha, so she can stay in the safe rear to cover the enemy position targets with indirect rocket barrage. The only mission of TOS-1 is to feed the German sticks with her 16 310mm rockets within the visual range.

Since it is a combat interval within two kilometers, the extra fuel is naturally not needed. TOS-1 does not need to send rockets to such a long distance. Then, wouldn't it be better to remove the extra rocket engine fuel section and replace it with warhead charge? After all, this fuel is not as powerful as direct charge, isn't it?

What? You said it was too powerful?

Come on, how can destroying the Germans be too powerful? If the Germans were not blown up to the point where there was not even a slag left, it would not be called too powerful, for sure.

Malashenko, who understood the situation, took a deep breath and looked at the soldiers of his leader division on the flatbed truck. They had already started to remove the fixed steel cables and entered the truck, preparing to drive the newly arrived babies away.

Driving the IS2 chassis was not a problem for these old birds at all. They had already memorized the key points by heart. Seeing this, Malashenko couldn't help but ask the question that he was very interested in.

"So, Comrade Andrei, can you tell me how much charge is in the warhead of this specialized ammunition designed by you for TOS-1?"

At this moment, Comrade Lao Ma felt that his heart was beating fast and he was really excited. If Andryusha, which was already famous for its huge power, was added with 35% of the charge, how much would it be? This is really exciting just to think about, and it will definitely send the German sticks to heaven one by one.

Perhaps he had expected Malashenko to ask similar questions, but it may also be that as a key technician of the project, he has already memorized all the relevant parameters.

In short, when Andre's answer came out without hesitation, Comrade Lao Ma felt his blood pressure rise a little bit.

"The total charge of the improved specialized rocket warhead is 8 kilograms, Comrade General, as I said before, compared with the prototype standard version of Andryusha ammunition, the charge is about 35%. Therefore, I can guarantee that she is absolutely powerful and can easily destroy any fascist ground target that dares to stand in the way, whether it is movable or immobile.

8 kilograms of warhead charge, what does it mean?

A very simple comparison, the warhead charge of a 152mm Soviet Justice high-explosive bomb is about 25 kilograms. If converted in this way, in terms of the warhead charge that directly affects the power of ammunition, this specialized 310mm special heavy rocket is more than twice that of the 152 high-explosive bomb.

Not to mention that this thing does not need to be loaded. It follows the same design pattern as the rocket launcher and belongs to the box pre-loaded ammunition. The loading time is very important in her ammunition. It can be completely ignored before it is exhausted.

So when TOS-1 fired all 16 rounds of specialized and improved special ammunition in a very short time, the amount of firepower and charge projected was roughly equivalent to throwing the charge of 2 rounds of 152 high-explosive bombs on the Germans' faces.

Well, it was almost 100, which is a little regrettable.

And this is just the burst firepower of one TOS-1.

What if we gather a few more and fire at the broken building where a large number of Germans are entrenched?

Ah, it is a wonderful thing to use TOS-1 to fire at the German bunkers. Malashenko felt that he was so fragrant that his nose was about to burst, and he felt a little bit like he was floating in the air.

However, what Andrei wanted to say was not over yet. What Malashenko did not expect was what he was going to say now.

"There is another situation, Comrade General. ”

“Based on the design ideas you proposed and the battlefield environment in which TOS-1 should appear, Comrade Kotin believed that more targeted ammunition should be developed and distributed to TOS-1 during the design process, so as to better adapt to the battlefield environment and exert its due battlefield effectiveness. It does have the potential for great versatility, and we are very sure of this.”

“For example, when facing a building where fascists are hiding, just like in Stalingrad.”

“Simple high-explosive rockets are certainly powerful, but if they only trigger the fuse on the outer wall of the building, it will be difficult to kill the enemy hiding in the complex environment inside the building.”

“Earlier, our design team went to the battlefield ruins of Stalingrad for actual research and investigation, and concluded that the complex internal structure of large civilian buildings has a very strong power attenuation effect on traditional high-explosive ammunition, making the actual destructive power and killing radius of high-explosive ammunition far lower than in the field environment. This is even more true if it explodes directly on the outer wall of a building. Even with a full 8 kilograms of warhead charge, its power will be greatly reduced. "

"In view of this, under the design leadership of Comrade Kojing, we developed a brand-new semi-armor-piercing warhead ammunition specifically designed to destroy ordinary civilian buildings."

"According to the design configuration, it uses a delayed-detonation warhead fuze, which will trigger and delay-detonate the warhead charge after breaking through the outer wall of the building, that is, after the rocket engine's impact kinetic energy is completely exhausted and the advance stops. , explodes from inside a building densely populated by enemies, greatly increasing the damage effect on the internal structure of the building and the killing power of personnel. The principle is somewhat similar to the full-caliber armor-piercing projectile of the tank main gun, which is an armor-piercing delayed fuze detonation charge. "

“Because of this, there are very mature design concepts for reference and reference, so the development of this specialized ammunition is very smooth, and the structure is also very simple and reliable. It only needs to replace the warhead and fuze on the basis of ordinary ammunition. It has achieved good results in limited shooting range tests, with the fuze triggering success rate reaching over 90%. According to experimental ammunition, this result is very good and fully meets actual combat standards.”

"It's just that the design and structure of this ammunition is a little more complicated in comparison. It's not as simple as removing part of the rocket engine fuel section and replacing it with an incremental warhead charge."

"So this time we only brought you half a box for each vehicle, which means 8 rounds of ammunition for each vehicle."

"On the one hand, this is caused by the temporary failure to keep up with the trial production output. On the other hand, it has not yet been tested in actual combat. We cannot be sure whether the new ammunition designed and developed based on our understanding of the design concept you proposed will work. Whether it satisfies you and whether it can really meet the needs of the battlefield and produce the desired effect all needs to be tested with actual combat feedback.”