Chapter 2624: Rate of fire

The Challenger tank uses the Kangda 12V-1200 turbocharged diesel engine produced by Perkins Engine Company, which outputs 1200 horsepower at 2300 revolutions per minute. If compared with the Xiong Guo tank, this engine It's already pretty good, but its own weight is larger. Compared with the weight of the bear country of more than 40 tons, this tank weighs more than 60 tons. Therefore, the tank becomes slow when it starts to move.
Now, their slow tank, in the high temperature of the desert, the engine can't even output a thousand horsepower, and if the speed is too high, it will overheat.
The power output of the engine has a lot to do with the speed. It’s like someone who buys a car and brags about the horsepower of their car every day, but when driving, they don’t dare to step on the accelerator for fear of fuel consumption. I can’t wait to go idling for the whole journey. In this way, the power is actually not as good as a van. As long as the throttle is dry to the end, Wuling Hongguang is the most leathery.
Now in the desert, their engine is limited to less than two thousand revolutions. If it is higher, the engine should be hot.
Everything in the desert is destroying them and creating problems for them. The current Challenger tank is advancing slowly like this.
Wanting them to take on the task of advancing from the side is embarrassing them, but now they have no choice, because the two sides have already started fighting, they are obligated to help their friendly forces fight, not to mention, they can't just watch their brothers. The troops died.
On the turret of the Challenger tank, a commander exposed half of his body, holding a telescope, watching the situation on the battlefield here.
It is quite dangerous to expose half of the body on the battlefield, but they have no other way. The situation here seems to be very dangerous, and they must understand clearly.
When the commander saw it clearly, he was shocked. Isn't this the Eagle Nation's tactics? How could it be imitated by the Date Palm Country? While firing, while retreating, on the surface it is retreating, but in fact, it is constantly relying on the advantage of long-distance artillery to destroy the enemy's vital force.
To complete such a tactic, several prerequisites are required. First, the car must be reversed quickly and efficiently, otherwise it will be overtaken if you can’t go far out. Second, the long-range artillery shooting must be quite accurate. Only in this way can it effectively kill the opponent and destroy the enemy's vital power while keeping one's own absolute security.
These were originally only available to the Eagle Nation Tank Troops. Now, how come they have become exclusive to the Date Palm Nation Troops? The tanks of the Date Palm Country are too powerful, right? Besides, it seems that the Eagles’ counterattack is too weak, why didn’t they hit them? At this distance, only to be beaten, not to fight back?
Regardless of him, your side now rushes up, goes behind the opponent, and attacks from behind the opponent. It is quite efficient. The most common armor-piercing projectile can easily destroy the opponent's tank.
With this thought, he put down his binoculars, and then got into the tank. The moment he entered the turret, he felt the whole tank tremble.
Side attack, there is an ambush!
The big reason for the super weight of the Challenger tank is their Chobham armor. This armor is quite strong in protection, but it is also heavy. After all, it is ceramic.
This kind of armor is mainly distributed in the front of the tank, where is the most important. As for the side, it is ordinary homogeneous steel armor. How can it block the attack of the opponent's armor-piercing projectile?
Almost at this moment, his tank was pierced, and a powerful armor-piercing projectile penetrated from the left side of his turret, tearing him into pieces, and then changed direction, rotating and hitting the ammunition.
"Boom!" Niu Country's armored forces would never have thought that they would be attacked from the side, and the first shell hit their commander's tank!
On the battlefield, you must be cautious, especially commanders, to camouflage, see that all tanks are two whip antennas, in fact, it is a kind of camouflage, only command tanks need two whip antennas, ordinary One of his tanks is fake, so the opponent doesn’t know which tank is the commander.
And now, the other party actually took a telescope and looked at the battlefield here for a long time. Who else would he bombard?
The armored troops of the Niu country have entered the ambush circle of the tank troops of the date palm country!
The 79 tank fired violently from the back of the sand dune. At this time, the pursuit was the rate of fire!
There are many indicators for tanks, the first hit rate, the accuracy of the shells' attack, and the rate of fire are also very critical factors.
How long will it take for the second shell to be fired in the first shot?
The loading of fixed-loading shells is the easiest, after adding the automatic loading machine, it is even easier. Now, the semi-automatic loading machine is a compromise between reliability and high speed.
The loader moved the cannonball to the platform of the autoloader, and then automatically reloaded it. When the loading was completed, the gunner had completed the aiming according to the commander’s command, stepped on the firing device, and with a bang, the cannonball struck. Get out!
When the yellow-orange-orange shells came out, the loader had already loaded the next round of shells. The semi-automatic loader continued to load, aim, and shoot. In one minute, they hit six rounds. The highest rate of fire can be fired once in ten seconds!
In such a short period of time, the armored soldiers of Niu Country could not find the position where the enemy appeared. They have been hit one by one and burst into flames. In the desert, these armored soldiers are in a state of daze. The car body continued to move forward, and the turret was spinning in a circle, ready to find where the sneak attack came from.
"At nine o'clock, the enemy was found!" Finally, a tanker called out. After a short sneak attack, they finally found the target. At this time, the Challenger tank unit had already destroyed more than 30 vehicles!
Only ten 79 tanks ambush them! Their hit rate reached 50%!
For tanks, the hit rate is not high. During the World War, only a dozen shells can be shot. Modern tanks may have an 80% hit rate on the training ground. In actual combat, , Fifty percent, is already quite high.
After discovering the sneak attack tank, the Challenger tank team immediately turned, the track crushed the desert, and rumbling towards the target. After completing this ninety-degree turn, they could finally breathe a sigh of relief. Robust Chobham armor, they absolutely do not believe that their tanks will be destroyed.
Playing the side, they have no temper, and now they are protected from the front.
Go up, chase!