Chapter 458 Recoilless Cannon

"Attention, the French armored troops are found ahead." At the same time, the German tankers on the opposite side also found them. Almost at the same time, they made a decision to speed up!

Now, it's a race to see who can run faster, who can rush to the bridge first and occupy the bridge!

If you look at the distance, the German armored forces are farther from the bridge, but there are still some motorcycles in front of the German armored forces!

When the armored troops are charging, they are not charging forward aimlessly. They need to detect the enemy's situation. All of this is temporarily achieved by motorcycles. When the motorcycles detect the enemy's situation and report it, the tanks behind it. The unit commander will make the decision whether to fight or retreat.

Commanding armored units is a complete science.

For example, now, in front of the German armored forces, there are several motorcycles at a distance of two or three kilometers. At this time, the driver of the motorcycle turns the accelerator, and in the roar of the engine, the motorcycle quickly moves towards the bridge over there. go.

Torres, the driver at the front, drove with great skill. When he crossed a small dirt slope, his motorcycle even flew up!

When the front wheel hit the ground again, the sturdy front fork retracted a lot, he twisted the throttle, and the motorcycle continued to roar, heading for the bridge ahead.

Finally, the front wheel of the motorcycle stepped on the bridge. At this time, the Frenchman on the opposite side was still two kilometers away from the bridge!

"Quick, quick!" the squad leader of the reconnaissance squad, Locke, shouted, "Occupy the opposite bridgehead position!"

Occupy the other side!

Now, the war has just begun, and this place belongs to the theoretical rear. Therefore, the French have not deployed troops here at all. They can preemptively occupy the opposite bridgehead position and protect the bridge!

The motorcycle drove on the bridge, rushed over quickly, and then reached the opposite side of the bridge. At this time, the French tank over there was still one kilometer away from the bridge!

Now, the bridgehead is temporarily under the control of the German army, but the tanks behind them are still two or three kilometers away, and the French tanks on the opposite side are already close at hand.

Motorcycles are nothing to tanks, they can get close enough to kill the Germans and retake the bridge.

In fact, the French commander also thought so. Even de Gaulle, who was behind, did not have too many doubts after seeing this situation. He believed that occupying the bridge was not too difficult. S-35 tanks can easily crush each other!

At this time, the 47mm tank gun of the S-35 tank was ready to be loaded with ammunition, but Bailey gave up using the tank gun after thinking for a while.

In this day and age, if the tank gun fires, the tank must stop, which will waste precious time. What they need most is to race against time. After all, the German tanks are also in sight.

So, give up the use of tank guns and use machine guns instead!

German motorcycles do not have any armor protection, so as long as we rush over and shoot with machine guns, we can kill all those motorcycle riders!

Bei continued to take a last look with the telescope, intending to drill back into the turret. At this moment, he found a motorcycle on the opposite side. It was a little strange. On the sidecar of the motorcycle, a long pipe was quickly assembled. Come!

Motorcycles can be said to be a kind of panacea tool. Due to their high horsepower, they can be as small as crew reconnaissance, as large as towing various artillery pieces, and even aircraft.

Now, most of the motorcycles equipped in German tank troops are only for reconnaissance. The sidecars of these motorcycles are mainly equipped with machine guns.

However, Germany has also made some emergency plans at the same time. For example, its own scouts may encounter the opponent's tanks, and they can't escape. What should I do at this time?

In this concern, a small number of individual cannons were installed in the motorcycles of the scouts. This is the 75mm recoilless gun code-named LG40!

Ordinary artillery has a strong reaction force when shooting. On the one hand, it is necessary to increase the weight of the gun mount. On the other hand, the accuracy of shooting is not high, and the vibration of the gun body will cause This leads to errors, which is also the principle that any two shells will not fall into the same crater on the battlefield.

How to eliminate the back seat, this is a problem studied by many military architects, originally developed in the hands of U.S. Navy Major Davis.

His idea is also very simple, put two projectiles with opposite tails in a gun barrel with openings at both ends to fire.

When shooting, the real bullet is shot forward, and the fake projectile is thrown backward. In this way, the front and rear forces cancel each other out, so that the gun fire does not recoil. The ejected fake projectiles were scattered not far behind the breech of the gun.

The world's first recoilless gun, invented in 1914, is known as the "Davis Gun".

Unfortunately, it is still not practical. After a few years, it is improved. It is not a fake projectile, but a gas of gunpowder. As long as the front and rear forces are offset, the reaction force can be eliminated.

So, the recoilless gun appeared like this.

And Germany is also closely following the trend of the world, developing various advanced weapons, of course, will not let go of recoilless guns, this thing is relatively light.

The development party Krupp used a large number of light alloys to manufacture the LG40. The total combat weight of this gun is only 145 kilograms, which can meet the tactical requirements of the German airborne operations.

And this weight includes the gun mount. Now, when it is installed on the side bucket, there is no need for the gun mount. The entire gun is only 80 kilograms!

So, what advantages does it have over a bazooka? Of course, it has a long range. After all, this is an artillery. Even if it is only 75 mm in diameter, its range has reached a maximum of 6.8 kilometers!

The bazooka has a range of only a few hundred meters. Of course, the bazooka is lighter, which is unmatched by recoilless guns.

Now, it is too easy to deal with the S-35 tank one kilometer away!

The gunner sitting on the back seat of the motorcycle quickly turned the steering wheel and pressed his eyes tightly to the sights. In his eyes, the huge figures of the S-35 tanks were the best targets.

There was no time to defend, and after he took aim, he pulled the trigger immediately.

"boom!"

A huge explosion sounded, and at this moment, there was a rumbling sound in his two ears, and a severe pain came from the ears.

Blood was slowly seeping out from inside.

In terms of operation, he must wear earmuffs, but now, he must race against time. When the opponent's tank continues to approach one thousand meters, the tank's machine gun will kill them all.

He has no choice. As a soldier, I have long been willing to sacrifice myself!