Chapter 538 Allied Tanks

The pre-stored cooling water hits the high-temperature gun barrel and makes a sizzling sound. A large amount of water vapor immediately surges, blocking the saber's vision during the cooling process. (Baidu search., "") (Baidu search., "")

This is a last resort. First, doing so will reduce the life of the barrel. In addition, the white mist that blocks the shooter's sight will temporarily cause this fire point to lose its combat effectiveness. This is why the engineers responsible for maintaining the barrel must support their comrades at other points to seek fire cover during the cooling process.

Now, two destroyers in the entire expeditionary fleet have been injured by attack and withdrawn from the fleet formation, and several warships have been injured to varying degrees.

Fortunately, the combat formation has not yet withdrawn from the combat formation and continue to fight, and the aircraft carriers and missile ships in the center of the fleet have basically not been damaged. As long as the safety of missile ships and aircraft carriers can be ensured, the combat effectiveness of this fleet is still terrifying.

The third wave of US attack aircraft group that was preparing to enter the attack area was suddenly attacked by China's automatic air defense weapon attack, but the number was not large and only ten.

However, the directions of these ten automatic attack weapons flew over were somewhat different. They did not fly from the direction of the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet, but from Port Lincoln.

The news was shocked to the American commander who was still commanding the battle near the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet. Damn, did the Chinese warships run to the land?

Fortunately, his heart has withstood such a test several times today, and finally he was not scared to death. Think about it carefully, if the Chinese can move such things to warships, they will naturally also move them to land for use.

That's right, these air defense missiles launched from the ground were launched by a temporary air defense missile battalion. Their mission is to urgently rush from the original garrison to the coast to intercept US aircraft that entered the range.

The sudden appearance of air defense reinforcements shocked the third wave of the US military's attack aircraft group. They did not look like the second wave of aircraft. They only realized that the Chinese had such a supreme killer after they arrived over the Chinese expeditionary fleet.

In order to ensure the effectiveness of the attack on the Chinese expeditionary fleet, the US commander deliberately did not tell the next two waves of aircraft that the Chinese had such terrifying air defense weapons, just to avoid the spirit of the army being shaken after knowing it.

The results of ten air defense missiles are not great. At least for more than 100 aircraft, even if all hits are only a minor damage, it is of great significance to the psychological deterrence of the pilots of the third wave of raids. Many American pilots made a new guess about the difficulty of this mission, which is to infinitely amplify the strength of the other party.

This amplification makes the pilots' nervous and nervous reaction speed slow down, which is the huge impact of the so-called psychological pressure on the corresponding level.

After launching the existing air defense missiles, the missile battalion quickly evacuated armed maneuver and could not run. The number of opponent's planes was too large. Even if he was willing to sacrifice himself, he would not do this, even if he wanted to attract some opponent's planes to reduce the pressure on the expeditionary fleet.

The third wave of attack aircraft group did indeed separate some aircraft to wipe out these surface-to-air missile launch devices, but when they chased behind the buttocks of these missile vehicles, they were attacked by the anti-aircraft artillery group lying here,

The two American planes in front, which were constantly firing Chinese missile launchers with machine guns at the front, were immediately exploded in the air. The plane behind turned around and evacuated as soon as they saw that the other party was prepared.

The air defense missile battalion, which escaped the disaster, was happy to find that the number of casualties was not large, and most of the damaged vehicles were missile launchers. The launch frames and other hydraulic equipment of many missile launchers were pierced and damaged. However, this is not a big problem for the air defense missile battalion. Just replace the launch frame or repair the hydraulic device directly.

The missile radar vehicles and control command vehicles that are truly the most important for missiles have not been damaged. If these electronic devices are attacked and damaged, they will not even need to repair circuit boards or electronic parts for repair. This can only be done by pulling them to several special maintenance agencies in the war zone.

When the third wave of the US attack aircraft group that attacked the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet arrived, more than 30 fighter jets arrived from the north of the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet, that is, in the direction of Port Augusta, came to reinforce. This was the final combat power that the Air Force could draw. The remaining air force now had to deal with the restraining offensive launched by the Australian and American coalition forces on the east side of Port Augusta.

With one move, China launched an annihilation strike against the third US special-mix fleet mobilized the fourth and second US special-mix fleets, and also mobilized the ground forces of both sides to fight.

After Nimitz decided to launch an attack on the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet to siege Wei and rescue Zhao, Nimitz immediately communicated with Patton, who was commanding the army. After learning about the crisis and dangers faced by the Third Special Mix Fleet, Patton immediately ordered the front line to launch an interfering attack, intending to put greater pressure on the squadron to rescue the destruction of the Third Special Mix Fleet.

The Chinese Army immediately launched artillery fire strikes on the ground forces of the US Army. However, this time, more and more troops were put into combat, and more and more troops were fighting. The two sides fought back and forth near the original midline. The entire Battle of Port Augusta finally started a full-scale battle.

In the initial ground battle, China still puts the defensive first. After all, most of the air force is drawn out to attack the third special mixed fleet and reinforce the expeditionary fleet. The remaining air force is only on the defensive when facing the aggressive attack momentum of the US Air Force. When it is at a disadvantage in terms of number, the air force fighter jets rely more on ground air defense forces to defend each other.

In the battle for air supremacy in the Port Augusta campaign, U.S. Air Force aircraft were also deterred by air defense missiles and automatic two-five air defense artillery from ground air defense forces.

Also out of fear of these mysterious weapons, the US Air Force was particularly careful in attacking ground targets. They carefully observed various combat troops on the ground, looking for targets they attacked, and carefully looking for mysterious weapons that might attack them.

Affected by the deterrence of China's ground air defense weapons, the combat effectiveness of the US Air Force was greatly reduced in combat, which made the Chinese Army troops cheaper and there was no more interference in the sky. The Chinese Army and the Australian and US Army were fighting near the center line.

"American tank troops were found ahead!!"

A Chinese tank battalion in front suddenly discovered a team of US armored troops from the other end of the center line. The smoke and dust from the tracks made the sky yellow. Due to the constraints of balance of air force, American planes did not dare to break into the Chinese army too much, and China also tried its best to use ground troops to resist the attacks of the opponent's air and two sides on the ground.

"Is it the Sherman tank? How many are it? It's just the new tiger tank sacrifice flag that we used!"

Li Weigang, who has become the battalion commander of the tank battalion, turned the observation mirror to the opposite direction. However, this look doesn't matter, but it scared Li Weigang because what entered its eyes was not the Sherman-style tank that everyone often used to be stupid and silly, but an obvious new type of tank.

"All units should pay attention to the discovery of new US tanks in front! The communication vehicle immediately sent information to the rear. Compared with the Sherman tank, this type of tank is estimated to be more than three meters in size, but the tank body is significantly lower than the Sherman-style, especially without the large slope armor on the front of the Sherman-style, the body is close to ours in a ship shape."

"The turret is obviously huge in size, and it looks even more plump from the side. The caliber of the gun is estimated to be about 100 mm, and there is also a small turret above the turret. The barrel size is estimated to be loaded with a heavy machine gun with a caliber of 12.7 mm. The material and thickness of the turret protective steel are currently unknown. The horizontal inclination angle of the armor on the head of the vehicle body has been visually measured to be between 20 and 30 degrees."

"The horizontal inclination angle of the vehicle body is about 30 to 40 degrees, and there are many smoke launching devices on both sides of the turret. The power speed of the vehicle body is faster than that of the Sherman tank. The above is information before contact and fire exchange, and send it immediately!!"

The correspondent did not neglect, and he immediately sent back all the information on the new US tanks observed by Li Weigang to the rear.

After seeing it, you have equipped a new tank. Isn’t it that I have no equipment? Hong Agen saw that the other party was arrogant and angry, so he didn’t make a fuss.

"All combat units should pay attention that the other side is a new tank. Our side is also a new tank. We are all cheering up to let these big-headed tanks know the power of the new generation of the main battle tank of the Chinese army, the "Tiger"!"

The new main battle tank of the US military seen by Li Weigang is the new main battle tank jointly developed by the United States, Britain and France, code-named "Alliance".

This tank was discovered on the Soviet battlefield by the Tiger Style and the Chinese-made Rising Bear Series tanks. The United States, Britain, France and other countries were embarrassed to find that there was no tank that could be the opponent of these tanks. They devoted all the tank research and production power of the Three Kingdoms to study and study some of the wreckage and some production materials transported from the Soviet Union.

The opponents targeted by this tank at the beginning of its development were very clear, namely the Chinese and Russian Brutal Bear II main battle tank and the German Tiger heavy tank. For this reason, this "Alliance" tank caused many troubles to researchers from the United States, Britain and France during its development.

A very important indicator for measuring a tank is the offensive and defensive balance ability of a tank. It is easy to say that the attack power is easy to say. It is difficult to study a cannon with a large caliber, a long body tube, and a shock-absorbing rear seat area in a short period of time, but it is not impossible to complete.

Although the artillery with a caliber of 105 mm and a distance of 42 times is not enough to deal with the currently famous Chinese Wind Bear II and German Tiger, after testing, after entering 1,200 meters, the artillery of this caliber has certain capabilities to threaten the above two tanks.

Only when entering a distance of one thousand meters or a more secure distance of less than 800 meters can this artillery be sufficient to penetrate the side armor of the two targets and even threaten the opponent's front armor.

The attack power is solved and the protection ability is easy to deal with. Although the hard steel armor like the dangling armor installed by the Bear II type cannot be copied, if it really doesn't work, the armor thickness of the "Alliance" tank is increased.

Just doing this is to soar the weight of the Allied tanks. Although the weight of nearly 55 tons has greatly improved the Allied tanks' ability to resist strikes, the heavy weight has put the tank engine's last performance indicator to the most serious test.

In Li Weigang's initial report, he visually estimated that the opponent's speed was faster than the Sherman style, which was actually his illusion that the engines of Allied tanks could not bear such heavy loads.

In the drawings and production process instructions of Chinese high-power diesel engines stolen by British spies from German factories and other units, many places have not even been able to understand them thoroughly.

The final result of using other parts that barely meet the required strength is a decrease in overall output power, shortening the renovation and maintenance time and increasing attendance time.

Not to mention the US, British and French 3** factory without guidance from China, the finished engine products not only consume a sharp increase in fuel consumption, but also greatly repair and maintenance time was compressed by severe wear and tear to a working time of 120 hours.

However, in terms of output power, it barely meets the requirements, which can only allow the 55-ton Allied tank to have a little speed advantage. Of course, this advantage refers to the Tiger tank.

"The gunners of all combat units should pay attention to the target distance of 2,500. In terms of body shape, the opponent's protective armor is definitely much thicker than the previous Sherman style. It is placed at 1,500 meters to open fire to ensure the first round hit effect. The current wind speed is level 2, loading the tail wing with tungsten core armor-piercing bullets, paying attention to the impact of the wind direction on the stable projectiles of the smoothbore gun tail wing. A series of tanks are concentrated to shoot three new US tanks in front."

Li Weigang saw every move of the US military through the observation mirror. The opponent's huge turret was a very easy target for shooters. After quickly loading the ammunition, the Chinese tank placed in front pointed a huge 125 mm gun barrel towards the tank that the US military was pressing up fiercely.

The Chinese tanks on the opposite side were parked there and waiting for the American tanks to enter the range. Seeing that the Chinese tanks were still trying to deal with them with the old methods, the anger in the hearts of the American tank crew was rising: You guys still use this trick!

The tankers on the US military are eager to fight. The formation of Chinese tanks aroused the new and old hatreds of American tank soldiers. Chinese tank soldiers often placed tweeters on the tank bodies during patrols in the past, shouting in English to let the Sherman tofu tank come out and die!

What is tofu?

American soldiers who have eaten Chinese food all understand that tofu is the kind of soft food that Chinese people like to eat that looks square, white and tender, looks pretty but cannot withstand a light force.

This is a slap in the face unscrupulously, but what can it do?

When the Sherman tank faces the Bear, it is a soft persimmon like tofu. Whether it is speed, firepower or protection, four or five Shermans will deal with a Chinese Bear tank. If the opponent is not ambushed and caught off guard from behind, there will be no chance of winning in front of the fire.

Today, they are equipped with new tanks and finally no longer have to be clamored by the Chinese. The humiliation they suffered in the past can finally take revenge!

Although the roaring engines and the working conditions of the tanks in the Allied tanks made the American, British and French soldiers who like to enjoy them a little crazy, with better survivability, few people would care about these things.

However, as they got closer and closer to the other side, the American tank commander, commander and gunner all discovered a problem, that is, the tanks on the opposite side seemed to be different from the previous bears. They could not say that they were completely different, because the tanks seemed to be quite close in appearance and edges of the tanks.

The tank's turret seems to be bigger and the barrel is thicker...

One of the important reasons why the opponent did not see at a glance is that the tiger and the bear are very close in appearance, and the turret size and lines are also very close. The slightly enlarged turret is combined with the one-two-five cannons, which can't be distinguished at first glance.

But if there is a violent bear next to these tigers at this time, then the American tank soldiers will definitely be able to compare the opponent they are facing now is definitely not the opponent they are familiar with in their daily lives.

Of course, what the other party is seeing now is the front. If you look at it from the side, the rear of the turret of the new generation of Tiger main battle tank can be identified and identified at a glance.

"Open fire!!"

The tanks on both sides opened fire at 1,500 meters away from the other side at the same time. The Americans planned to use such a distance to let the other side know that their forty-two-time cannon was not the stepping stone to smash the cannon with a short 76mm tube.

China is trying to use the best shooting range circle to test whether the thickness and hardness of its guns and the opponent's armor can withstand the power of its new tank's artillery. Both sides' intentions are to give the opponent a warning, but after firing, completely different scenes appear...

Both sides had three tanks hit, but the outcome was completely different.

Three tanks on the Chinese tank side shook three times, and the opponent's artillery fire was good, and they directly hit the front part of the Chinese tank. Only the three-layer composite armor with a thickness of up to 200 mm easily resisted the opponent's kinetic energy by the armored steel core. The huge kinetic energy was transmitted to the tank body, which made the Chinese tank shake its body.

On the other side of the American tank, the flames and thick smoke from the three pillars soared into the sky made the American soldiers feel cold.

"I'm fork! Why is this still the case?"

This was the case with the Sherman tank in the past, but now I have replaced it with a new tank, but why is it still the same? The American tankers are full of question marks, and they can't believe the facts that are happening in front of them.

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