Chapter 933 Descends From the Sky

"Loading high-explosive bombs, the No. 1 charge." Each of the Karl cannons was organized into a company. At this time, next to the No. 2 gun Eva, the commander was meticulously commanding.

Historically, there was only one type of projectile for this type of gun, that is, concrete armor-piercing projectiles, which could penetrate a concrete layer with a maximum thickness of 2.5 meters, and were specially used to hit enemy fortifications.

But now, this cannon has been improved, and it also has the task of launching high-explosive shells. Moreover, the ballistics are more excellent. At the end of the shell, it falls directly from the sky, falling vertically, hiding behind any bunkers. use.

Following his order, a loading car next to him began to get busy.

The shell of this kind of gun weighs two tons, so ordinary loading methods are basically ineffective. In order to cooperate with this kind of gun, Rheinland also specially designed an ammunition carrier using the Panther 2 tank chassis. Equipped with a mechanical boom and special ammunition transport clips, the hauler can directly refill the mortar on the battlefield.

Now, following the command of the company commander, the mechanical boom slowly transfers the two-ton warhead to the breech of the gun. After accurate alignment, the projectile is pushed into the chamber with a special push rod. All of this is hydraulically assisted. , very easy.

Depending on the range, they use two types of propellants, the first charge is the shortest range, and now, they don't need a particularly long distance.

During the entire loading process, the gun body has been horizontal, and when the loading is completed, it begins to stand up.

Work hard, come on!

The two gunners on both sides quickly turned the crank handle to shake the gun body!

This gun body weighs more than ten tons, but it relies on the strength of two people's arms!

Yes, at the time of design, because the power of the hydraulic system was not enough, the erection of the gun body required manual means! It may also be that this system is inherited from the ordinary howitzer, that is, it needs to manually shake the height and direction of the machine.

As long as you give me a fulcrum, I can tilt the earth, and it is completely possible to reduce the force requirement through a mechanical solution, but this comes at a price in distance.

From the current point of view, that is, the gunners on both sides shook dozens of times, and the gun body only rose at a small angle!

Turning the crank handle of a 105mm or 155mm howitzer under intense field conditions is already very hard work, not to mention a super cannon!

Even for the strongest gunners, each pitch movement of the gun body takes 4 to 6 minutes. Therefore, the standard gun fire rate stated in the code of operation of this mortar is 6 rounds per hour. Even if one round is fired every ten minutes, this should also take into account the factor of the manual crank.

Because, not only does it have to be shaken up, but also needs to be flattened every time it is loaded! This is definitely the worst job ever!

Gunners have long been accustomed to it. German guns have always had this feature. For example, the Tiger tank is very slow to shake the turret. However, another advantage it brings is that it has high precision and can be accurately shaken to a certain angle. .

At three minutes and fifty seconds, the gunner slowed down, then stopped: "The angle is correct."

Just shake the high and low machine. In terms of direction, you can only fine-tune one angle. The steering of a large angle is carried out by the chassis. The rotation of the two tracks can change the entire gun body to a large angle. From this point of view, it also It's a self-propelled gun.

"Fire!"

"boom!"

General cannons have long barrels. The longer the barrel, the more work the gunpowder does, and the faster the shells go out, the farther they can hit.

However, the mortar is the opposite. Its barrel is less than twice the diameter of the muzzle, and the utilization rate of gunpowder is very low. It belongs to the smoothbore with large shooting angle, low initial velocity and high arc ballistic trajectory. artillery.

Although the range is short, the projectile is powerful and is mainly used to destroy solid fortifications. (Without a conscience cannon, it can be regarded as this kind of cannon.)

Now, after firing, the 2-ton warhead is only accelerated to a speed of 245 meters per second, and the naked eye can keep up with its progress.

In the black smoke, the warhead drew a beautiful curve and flew towards the Soviet soldiers rushing towards the opposite side.

Due to the low speed, the sound of it rubbing against the air became even more muffled, and the Soviet soldiers couldn't help but raised their heads and looked at a behemoth in the sky.

Then, the thing flew above their heads, as if it had exhausted all the energy, and fell directly from the sky!

Yes, it just fell down vertically! This kind of ballistics is quite strange. The warhead that fell from the sky shows more and more of its hugeness. The faces of the Soviet soldiers have a horrified expression.

No one is afraid of death, especially in front of the enemy's secret weapon.

The sound of the warhead falling down was like a howl of death. The attacking Soviet soldiers stopped their steps and looked for a place to hide.

There was chaos all around. In the middle of them, the commander of the T-34 tank also opened the cover on his head and looked into the sky.

Getting bigger and bigger, almost instantly, his tank was shrouded in darkness.

When he understood what happened, the captain only had time to shout loudly: "Quick, speed up and drive forward!"

Just now, the infantry outside was chaotic, and the tankers didn't dare to start, for fear that the random opening would crush the infantry. In the cooperation of the infantry and tank, this is quite a terrible thing, pressing the infantry under the track. , the psychological pressure of tankers is very high.

And now, there is nothing to worry about, hurry up and leave!

Hearing his order, the driver in front stepped on the accelerator, but unfortunately, the tank just moved half the length of the body, and the huge bomb on it fell on the turret unevenly!

What does it feel like to be hit by a two-ton shell? If this tank could talk, it would scream.

"Boom!" As a high-explosive projectile, it exploded immediately after hitting the ground, but now, it first hit the turret, and then the explosion occurred, although the interval was only less than a second, the iron dozen Tons of turrets were smashed flat at this moment!

Yes, it's smashed! A two-ton cannonball, falling from the sky and accelerating to a speed of several hundred meters per second, has quite a huge amount of energy!

The entire tank also moved toward the ground with the collision. The coil spring on the road wheel broke because it could not bear the huge pressure, and the crawler was pressed down for tens of centimeters abruptly!

At the moment of the impact, all the people inside the tank bleed from their seven orifices because of the violent collision, and the top captain was directly crushed into meat patties!