The power of the 155mm grenade is quite powerful. Even if you stay inside the tank, you can still feel the vibration caused by the explosion of the 155mm grenade nearby. For those soldiers staying in the half-track armored transport vehicle, it can

It's not just a simple vibration. The air wave from the explosion of the 155mm grenade can already shake the vehicle violently. If you are unlucky and the impact point of the shell is closer, it may even be enough to directly overturn the armored vehicle.

The shrapnel of the 155mm artillery shell hit the weak armor of the half-track armored personnel carrier, making a series of clanging sounds. Although according to the design, the armor of the half-track armored personnel carrier should be able to defend against 155mm artillery shells.

Shrapnel, but the sound still made the soldiers in the car have their hearts in their throats.

Fortunately, the bombardment ended quickly. Then, the sound of engines was heard in the sky, and Allied attack planes appeared.

Appearing in the sky are the PA-38 attack aircraft and PA-47 attack aircraft of the 21st Attack Aircraft Wing. The wings of these aircraft are full of rockets. These things can even kill enemies like

A tiger has such thick skin.

As the bombardment stopped, the anti-aircraft gunners or anti-aircraft machine gunners who had been hiding in the car opened the hatch cover one after another, climbed out, and prepared to fire wildly with various anti-aircraft weapons. However, their reaction was obviously slow.

, US military attack aircraft have begun to fire rockets.

Before the bombardment ended, U.S. military attack planes were already hovering near the battlefield and waiting. As soon as the bombardment ended, they launched an attack and successfully created a time lag. When the Germans had just climbed out, they had not had time to move the muzzle or

As soon as the guns turned around, the US military attack planes fired a series of rockets at them.

To say that rockets are really a good thing, although military fans of later generations will immediately have concepts such as "** wire, low-end, not on the table" in their heads when they see rockets, and even

As long as I see footage of an aircraft launching rockets, I will curse my backward thinking. In fact, even in later generations, when the opponent's air defense has been suppressed and used to deal with living targets, rockets are still quite powerful.

Effective means. Even the richest and most handsome U.S. Air Force is still equipped with aircraft such as the AC-130 worth 190 million US dollars, which are specially used to bully women. Moreover, shooting rockets is also a matter of the 21st century.

Common training programs for the U.S. Air Force.

As for World War II, rockets were even more of a high-end, foreign-style good thing. In that era, there were no anti-aircraft missiles, and the killing range of anti-aircraft artillery was very limited. Large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery had slow response and low firing rate, and was not effective against

The attack efficiency of small targets is very low. The effective range of small and medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns is quite limited. The effective range of some anti-aircraft guns, such as 20mm anti-aircraft guns, is even far inferior to that of aviation rockets. In this way, aviation rockets

The bullet is almost a stand-off weapon. It is perfect for the first round of attacks.

Malone fired eight aviation rockets at a half-track vehicle with dual 37mm anti-aircraft guns. Among the targets, the 37mm anti-aircraft guns were the highest priority target. The German 37mm anti-aircraft guns and the US military's 40mm anti-aircraft guns

Both are derived from the Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun, which is quite close in performance. Judging from the test of the previously captured German 37 gun, the effective range of this gun against air targets is more effective than that of aviation rockets.

It has a larger range and is astonishingly destructive, so this type of artillery is determined to be the top priority target during an attack.

There is a problem with rockets, that is, their accuracy is not high. Even modern rockets, even those used by rich and handsome people like the modern United States, use laser gyro aviation rockets, which are not high-precision weapons, let alone high-precision weapons.

It was a thing from World War II. If it was not done well, it was not uncommon for the launched rocket to turn around on its own while flying. In the Pacific, there was an unlucky US military fighter jet that was launched by itself, and then ended up in the air.

The rocket that spun around in the air and flew back was shot down. This may be regarded as the most bizarre shooting down in history.

However, Ma Long was not so unlucky. None of the rockets he fired happened to fly upside down, and the third rocket hit the target accurately, blowing up the half-track armored vehicle into a big fireball. And the other rockets hit the target accurately.

Although several rockets did not hit any big targets, they were not without success. Several German soldiers who had just jumped out of another armored vehicle were blown away by a rocket that Ma Long missed.

In the first round of attacks, because American attack aircraft focused more on attacking those self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, especially those 37mm anti-aircraft guns with thicker and longer barrels, many self-propelled 37mm anti-aircraft guns were even attacked by more than three

Attack aircraft attack. Such a concentrated attack will of course also bring another consequence: most of the tanks are safe and sound.

In order to strengthen anti-air firepower, the Germans replaced the mg-34 machine guns on some tank turrets with large-caliber mg-131. For example, Wittmann's Tiger tank was replaced with an mg-

131 machine gun. In the round of assault just launched by the US military, their machine gunners fired a series of bullets at a PA-38 attack aircraft. However, these bullets did not shoot down the aircraft, and even these bullets

He didn't even touch the enemy plane's skin.

Wittmann knew that when the US attack planes turned back again, the tanks that had escaped this time would be in danger. But in this unobstructed place, the self-defense firepower of the tanks alone could not withstand it.

Prevent the attack from the attack fleet. Now, the best way is to speed up the assault, break into the enemy's army, and make the enemy shrink back due to the danger of accidental attack.

Obviously, other tanks also had this idea. In fact, the German army took this situation into consideration when they set off. The tanks were attacking at high speed at this time. Under normal circumstances, the infantry would definitely not be able to keep up. So, can they let

The half-track armored personnel carrier carries the soldiers all the way to the enemy's position. What if the infantry dismounts to fight? This involves taking a lot of risks. First of all, when the infantry does not dismount, the tank

During the assault, there is still no assistance from the infantry, and it will still be very troublesome when facing anti-tank guns. Secondly, the weakly armored personnel carriers are filled with infantry and rush into the range of the enemy anti-tank guns.

Just one shot can kill a group of Germans. This is obviously not a good idea. Therefore, this approach was quickly rejected during the pre-war discussions. In the end, the plan approved by the discussion made Gao proud

The Germanic people suffered because this method was actually copied from the inferior Slavs.

The Soviet army, which lacks enough armored transport vehicles, has always been accustomed to using tanks to carry infantry. This is to bring a few infantrymen next to the turret of a tank. During an assault, these infantrymen carrying automatic weapons can fight with the tanks.

Cooperate with each other to point out the location of enemy firepower points to the tanks, and use automatic weapons to destroy the German infantrymen carrying iron fists. Of course, this approach will often cause high casualties to the infantrymen, because these infantrymen are compared with those on the ground.

It is difficult for those who run away to dodge when facing artillery fire and machine gun fire. However, the Soviets do not care too much about this casualty, because the price paid in the assault operation can always be recovered after the breakthrough is formed.

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Now the Germans could only adopt this approach. Wittmann slowed down the speed of the car and at the same time exposed half of his body and waved to the soldiers who were lying not far from the tank to avoid the air attack, gesturing for them to get on the car. Those soldiers

A soldier got up, ran a few steps, and jumped onto the tank from behind.

A total of four German soldiers climbed onto Wittmann's tank. Two of them held MP-40 submachine guns, and the other two soldiers used Mauser 98k rifles. Wittmann frowned and looked at them.

He said: "Guys, hurry up!" and then shouted into the tank: "Speed ​​up!"

In order to make it easier to carry infantry on the tank, the Soviets often welded a steel handrail behind the turret. This trick was also copied. Four infantrymen grasped the handrail, but the acceleration of the heavy tank did not slow down the speed of the car.

It's so violent, but as long as you pay attention and don't catch it, you won't fall.

Wittmann got into the tank again, and after a while, he got out with an MP-40.

"Which of you knows how to use a machine gun?" Wittmann asked.

"I, I know how to use it!" said a guy holding a Mauser 98k rifle.

Wittmann looked at this person. He was a half-grown child who looked to be only sixteen or seventeen years old. There was only a light layer of down on his lips. Wittmann shook his head and said, "There are still people who have shot machine guns."

?”

"I, I have fired machine guns." said a veteran in his forties with deep wrinkles on his face holding an MP-40 submachine gun, "but I am not a machine gunner, I have only fired."

"Okay!" Wittmann said, "Give your MP-40 to the brother with the Mauser 98k, and you go use that machine gun. Your main task is to use it for air defense - don't try to shoot down the plane.

As long as you can drive it away - boy, what's your name, Chris? Well, Chris, throw away your Mauser 98k, you can't even hit an elephant with it on a tank! Take this

!”

Wittmann handed his MP-40 to the half-year-old kid who volunteered to be a machine gunner, then patted him on the shoulder and said: "Use this to deal with those guys holding bazookas! The safety of the tank is

It’s up to you!”

Then he looked around at everyone: "Also, if you find the enemy's anti-tank gun, shout! The canopy is open, but it's better to make the sound louder. Use the clock direction to indicate the direction, do you understand?"

"Understood!" all the infantrymen replied.

At this time, the US attack aircraft turned back again. Since the most threatening 37mm self-propelled anti-aircraft guns had been destroyed, the actions of the American attack aircraft seemed more bold this time. Compared with the last time, they were obviously

The speed has been slowed down, and when launching rockets, their firing distance is also closer. But obviously their main target is still the self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, but the focus of the attack has changed from the two-mounted 37mm cannon to the four-unit

Mounted 20 mm cannon.

However, in the last round of attacks, those PA-38 and PA-47 attack aircraft consumed too many rockets, so now, they sometimes have to rely on the cannons on the aircraft to solve the problem. But there are

Some of the 20mm anti-aircraft guns installed on the Leopard tank competition cannot be solved by the 20mm guns on the US military attack aircraft. To solve them, larger caliber aircraft guns are needed.

Both PA-38 and PA-47 are equipped with 37mm aircraft cannons. However, the ballistic characteristics of this aircraft gun are much worse than that of the 20mm cannon, and the rate of fire is much slower. Therefore, if you want to shoot accurately, you must
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