Chapter 317: Not enough penetration? Then use equivalent force to make up for it!
Chapter 317 Not enough penetration? Then use equivalent to make up for it!
”Oh my god! These bandits are running so fast!”
Pulling the bayonet out of the looters’ bodies, the debt-ridden man standing on the trench glanced at the bottom of the slope in front.
On the hillside below the high ground, dozens of bodies were lying crookedly, as well as rifles and shovels thrown away by the fleeing looters.
This is the high ground on the north side of Songlinyu, and it is also the position of the Bear Fang Thousand Man Team.
Just over ten minutes ago, the Death Corps, as usual, fired a round of mortars at the looters hiding here and digging pits.
After being harassed by the New Alliance’s mortars for a whole day, the looters hiding on the high ground have long been accustomed to it. They lay calmly in the half-dug trenches, waiting for the sound of the guns to stop before continuing to dig.
However, what they didn’t expect was that this time when they raised their heads, they were facing a bunch of shining bayonets.
Those looters who were digging fortifications never dreamed that the New Alliance, with only so few people, would dare to charge back at their positions!
What they didn’t expect was that as soon as the mortars on the opposite side stopped, these people rushed up to kill them.
Anyway, when they came to their senses, it was too late.
The whistle and shouts of the charge almost rushed to their faces while stepping on the smoking craters.
At this time, many looters even had shovels in their hands, and the rifles thrown on the ground were not even loaded.
The construction site boy and Brick jumped into the trench first, and the automatic rifles in their hands shot a burst of gunfire, instantly setting off a bloody storm in the narrow tunnel.
The looters who were sent to dig pits were themselves the third-line combat power of the tribe.
Although they also followed Xiongya from the north of the Valley Province to the south, they usually chased others and
had never seen such a fierce fighting style!
Especially when they saw the awakened centurion being stabbed into a sieve by several bayonets, the morale of the remaining two hundred people collapsed instantly. They had no courage to resist at all. They just wished their parents had given them two more legs and fled to the forest at the foot of the mountain.
In less than ten minutes, the battle was over.
Kakarot looked to the north with a telescope. The fleeing soldiers of the plunderers had already fled into the woods north of the highlands.
”…The reinforcements will probably arrive soon. According to the intelligence from the air force, Xiongya and his men seem to be stationed in a mountain valley about five kilometers to the north.”
Debt Big Eyes said with a grin.
”Do they still have a thousand people now?”
”I don’t know. The organization of these plunderers is weird. A team of ten may have twenty people, and a team of a thousand may not have exactly a thousand people.”
The construction site boy and the brick looked at the edge paddling on the side.
”Captain, what do you say?”
The edge paddling said with a smile.
”What else do you need to say? Bury the explosives!”
”Didn’t the brothers of the Burning Corps say that they would blow up the toilets of these beasts? We can’t let down the high hopes of our allies.”
At this point, he suddenly remembered something and added another sentence.
”By the way, take back the rifles, shovels, earth-moving carts, and sacks of soil they left behind. We will confiscate them!”
Hearing this, everyone’s faces showed evil smiles at the same time.
”Okay!”
After burying T-En-T in the Predator’s trench, Brother Edge quickly led his men back to the southern hilltop before the enemy reinforcements arrived, and without saying a word, he got into the anti-artillery cave.
After waiting for a full hour, the artillery on the opposite side finally arrived and fired several rounds of 100mm artillery at their positions. When
the shells landed on the players’ positions, except for a few who were still online on duty, the other players had already gone offline.
Even dinner was eaten in reality.
The looters who had previously abandoned their positions and fled returned to the high ground under the encouragement of the artillery fire and the threat of the bear teeth.
However, what shocked them was that the people of the New Alliance not only picked up the weapons and ammunition they had dropped, but also dragged away the shovels, carts, and even the bags for carrying soil.
The entire position was plundered bare, and even the corpses were dragged together and poured with fuel and burned, leaving them with nothing.
Who is the looter? !
Due to the lack of tools, they could only wait for supplies to be delivered from behind while gritting their teeth and using local materials, or simply digging with their hands.
When the looters returned to the trenches, their nightmare really began with a series of explosions…
…
North of Dawn City.
In the weapons test site.
A scrapped Conqueror No. 10 tank was parked in the center of the open space.
The twisted steel had been deformed, with only three pairs of road wheels left, and a large hole was opened in the chassis, and the entire body of the vehicle was black.
Previously, the Black Snake Thousand-man Team drove this tank to the northern suburbs to collect money, but the ammunition rack and fuel tank were blown up on the spot by the “Crawler” quadruped robot carrying bombs.
After that, the tank was dragged into the industrial zone and repeatedly disassembled for research. After squeezing out the last bit of value, it was thrown into the weapons test site as a target.
At this moment, Chu Guang was standing at the edge of the shooting range with Vanus, inspecting the latest anti-armor weapons developed by Goblin Technology.
According to the battle report sent from the front line, the predators have begun to learn to be smart and are thinking about converting light trucks into anti-aircraft trucks.
Although the Goblin Corps’ air force has already raised the predators’ factories with the cooperation of the Burning Corps, Chu Guang does not think they will put all their eggs in one basket.
Those predators will definitely be more careful in the future.
They may even move the factory from the surface to the underground.
The predators have obviously realized that without reliable anti-aircraft weapons, their tanks can only be live targets on the front line.
Without the protection of armored units, they would have to pay multiple casualties to take Qingshi County back from the hands of the New Alliance.
Before the Ya Clan’s tanks went to the front line, the New Alliance needed more and more effective anti-armor means to cope with the ever-changing battlefield.
”Start testing equipment No. 1.”
”Received!”
Hearing the manager’s order, Mosquito waved his hand, and the player with the ID “Killer God” immediately trotted to the edge of the shooting range.
Half-crouching behind the shooting bunker made of sandbags, Killer God skillfully took out the recoilless gun barrel from the box, unfolded the folding bracket and completed the installation.
Loading, aiming, opening the safety…
The whole set of actions was smooth and completed in one go.
With a bang, thick smoke and armor-piercing shells rushed out of the launch tube, dragging a column of smoke towards the tank a hundred meters away.
The moment the missile hit, the left armor of the tank exploded with sparks and thick smoke.
”It’s a hit!”
Seeing this, the soul chaser who was waiting on the side first shouted, then immediately ran forward to check, and then shouted excitedly.
”It’s penetrated! It’s penetrated!”
The other life professional players standing by and watching couldn’t help but shout excitedly.
”Awesome!!”
”666!”
”This is too cruel!”
Many of these players were newcomers who had just joined the Beta version. Because of their “special skills”, they were recruited into Goblin Technology by Brother Mosquito. I
had always heard Mosquito bragging on the forum before, and now I finally saw it with my own eyes.
Of course, there are also big players who disagree.
”What’s so great about blowing up a scrap?”
”This tank looks like it’s only at the level of a T72.”
”That’s exaggerated. It’s at the peak level of World War II at best. I don’t even see any reactive armor. An RPG can penetrate it in minutes.”
”What nonsense! The Tiger has this kind of defense? It’s obviously composite armor, okay!”
The two little players started arguing about the performance of the tank.
But this was just a small episode.
Chu Guang, standing aside, looked at the wreckage of the Conqueror No. 10 not far away with a satisfied smile on his face.
However, due to his majestic personality, his smile was not very obvious when there were many people.
There was only one person in the entire shooting range with a heavy expression.
That was Vanus.
As a former centurion of the legion, he knew better than anyone the true strength of the Conqueror No. 10 tank.
He just shook his head and poured a basin of cold water on him.
”It’s useless.”
”This is the twelfth experiment.” ”
Even if it penetrates, it doesn’t mean anything.”
Although he couldn’t understand what those people were shouting, he didn’t need to understand their cheerful expressions. He could guess with his toes what those people were happy about.
A scrapped tank.
It took twelve rounds to penetrate the armor, and it penetrated the side armor.
As long as the infantry and machine guns around the tank were not just for show, there would be no chance for them to fire so many times on the battlefield.
Mosquito obviously realized this problem.
After the excitement wore off, he scratched his head in confusion.
”It’s unscientific…”
”This armor is too tough!”
Benchmarked against T72?
T72 is not that tough.
Before the improved model came out, the side armor was only 80mm.
What’s more, they used hollow charge armor-piercing shells.
Without N shields, explosive reactive weapons, and grilles on the side, not to mention the old Russian T72, even the M1 and Leopard II would be scared. Especially for the Leopard II, where the ammunition rack is placed in the body, if a pencil-sized hole is penetrated on the left front, the head will be blown off if you are unlucky.
In order to improve the armor-piercing ability, Mosquito even sacrificed the effective range. While keeping the propellant unchanged, the weight of the III warhead warhead was increased by 1.5 times.
At present, this model is named by him as tandem armor-piercing projectile. Although the range is quite touching, only 150m, the maximum penetration depth in the vertical plane has reached an astonishing 400mm!
The side armor of this Conqueror No. 10 tank does not look so thick, and there is no reactive armor on the outside.
Mosquito thought about it and could only think of two possibilities.
There must be a bug!
Anyway, it is definitely not his problem!
Listening to Mosquito’s mumbling, Chu Guang relayed his confusion to Vanus standing next to him.
After listening to Mosquito’s confusion, the latter gave a concise answer.
”…The main tank of the Legion is the Conqueror V light tank. When dealing with common mutant creatures or survivor settlements, the armor is generally not very thick. The Conqueror X heavy tank was designed with forces with certain industrial capabilities such as the Great Rift Valley and the Enterprise as its imaginary enemy.”
”Composite armor, positive pressure three-defense system, low dependence on electronic devices, sustained combat performance… these are all key points in the design.”
”Especially the armor. The body armor of the Conqueror X has a special ceramic and fiber sandwich between two layers of homogeneous steel, and the surface of the sandwich is protected by a lightweight, high-temperature resistant porous material. Generally, after the metal jet of the armor-piercing projectile penetrates the first layer of homogeneous steel, it will diffuse along the surface of the second layer, causing the jet to quickly lose focus.”
”It is meaningless to simply discuss the thickness of the armor. The metal jet of the armor-piercing shell cannot penetrate the second layer at all. If it is an original and intact Conqueror No. 10, even if you use ten rounds of armor-piercing shells, it may not work. It is better to use hard core armor-piercing shells directly, which may be easier to penetrate.”
As we all know, once the metal jet loses focus, it is like a water gun with a shower connected to the muzzle, and the armor-piercing ability is directly reduced to zero.
Defeating the opponent with sufficient quantity and relatively cheap cost is the consistent strategic thinking of the legion. The purpose of the Conqueror No. 10 tank is not to surpass the armor of the Great Rift Valley in performance, but to increase the cost of destroying the opponent.
If any infantryman carrying a recoilless gun can destroy the tank, the armor torrent will lose its meaning. The reason
why it can penetrate at the twelfth round is largely because this tank has been put here as a target for countless times.
Maybe the metal jet of the armor-piercing shell has filled the “guiding gap” on the surface of the interlayer!
Chu Guang was not discouraged by Vanus’ answer, but just smiled faintly.
”It’s okay. If we can’t deal with Conqueror X, we can still bully light and medium vehicles. What’s more, if the armor-piercing shells don’t work, we still have other ways.”
Vanus asked curiously.
”Oh? For example?”
Chu Guang looked at Mosquito.
”Start testing equipment No. 2.”
Seeing that the manager was talking to him, Mosquito nodded quickly.
”Okay!”
It’s understandable that the customer is not satisfied with the power of equipment No. 1. He himself is not very satisfied with the power of that thing.
But it doesn’t matter.
He designed two countermeasures for Conqueror X, and using tandem armor-piercing shells with greater penetration is only one of them.
If it can’t penetrate, then blow it up!
The tank wreckage at the shooting range could not withstand the second tossing, so Mosquito took Chu Guang and Vanus to the test site of the No. 2 weapon.
A reinforced concrete fortification was built on the bare land. The entire fortification imitated the shape of a tank and simulated the structure of the vehicle body and road wheels.
Vanus didn’t say anything after seeing this thing.
However, when his eyes fell on the aluminum alloy bracket behind the shooting bunker and the six-rotor drone on the bracket, he was stunned.
”This is…”
Before Chu Guang spoke, Mosquito, who was standing next to him, had already introduced it with great excitement.
”This is the No. 2 equipment built by our Goblin Technology for the Conquest Tank – the ‘Switchblade’ suicide drone! Of course, I prefer to call it the ‘flying anti-everything IED’!”
Vanus looked confused.
Even after reading the simultaneous translation on the VM, he didn’t understand what this guy was saying.
But Mosquito himself didn’t say it to him.
There is only one person who has the right to make the decision and place an order to buy arms, and that is the manager standing next to him.
He just needs to make this person feel comfortable!
”…The six-rotor structure ensures maneuverability! The solid-state hydrogen battery ensures endurance! Due to the aerodynamic design of the casing, it can fold the rotors after locking onto the target and glide without power! We have improved the motor output power of the drone, and its maximum load capacity can even reach 15 kg!”
”15 kg load! Hehe, if all of it is used to carry mixed explosives, its explosive power can even be comparable to two 155mm series!”
”We have designed two types of warheads for the switchblade, which can be installed on the top of the drone or hung under the drone to dive and attack the top. Because the rotor is foldable, our switchblade can not only take off and land on the ground, but also be ejected or airdropped.”
”In a word, this thing can be used against both armor and infantry, and it is very useful!”
The entire drone is roughly equivalent to an enlarged version of the Y-1 Firefly. The motor is produced by the Lister factory, the carbon nanometer design is completed by the scientific expedition team, and the control program is Xiaoqi’s masterpiece.
As for what Goblin Technology has completed, it is mainly the aerodynamic design and the warhead design.
Compared to the portable drone that can be stuffed into a backpack, the shape of this “switchblade” is more like the plant protection drone commonly seen in the agricultural field.
After finally reading the translation on the VM, Vanus looked at Chu Guang with a strange expression.
”So… this thing is equivalent to a drone with a remote-controlled bomb tied to it?”
Chu Guang was quite satisfied with the shape of this thing and said with a smile.
”Is it not possible?”
Vanus was silent for a while and gave an uncertain answer.
”It’s not impossible, but the conditions are extremely harsh.”
”How harsh?”
Vanus answered carefully.
”Only under certain circumstances can the kinetic energy of the explosive be concentrated on the armor surface. If you just throw the bomb on it… a ten-kilogram warhead may not be enough.”
The shock wave of general explosives spreads in all directions, and in order to achieve the effect of armor penetration, the kinetic energy generated by the explosion must be transmitted to the armor surface as much as possible.
And the contact surface needs to be as small as possible.
If you just throw the bomb on it, ten kilograms of explosives may only scrape off a little paint, unless it is a monster like metallic hydrogen with a detonation speed of 24,000.
As for the “solid hydrogen” produced independently by the New Alliance?
The power is far worse.
Chu Guang didn’t care about Vanus’s doubts, but just smiled happily.
”…So as long as certain conditions are met, a ten-kilogram warhead can also paralyze Conqueror No. 10, right?”
Vanus nodded.
”The only weakness of Conqueror No. 10 is the chassis, which is the weakest part of the vehicle’s armor. But you can’t expect to be so lucky every time, taking advantage of the surrounding infantry’s inattention to break the tracks and stuff the explosives under the chassis to detonate.”
Chu Guang didn’t say anything, but waved his hand, indicating that Mosquito could start.
Seeing the manager’s actions, Mosquito immediately trotted to the side of the launcher excitedly and drove away the God of Killing who was about to operate it for him.
How could he let others take this opportunity to show off in front of the camp leader NPC?
”Get going, let me do it!”
The God of Killing was immediately unhappy.
”Damn! Didn’t you say that I would be the one to test it?”
Mosquito continued without blushing.
”I told you to test the armor-piercing shells, not the switchblade. Listen to me, this equipment is difficult to operate. I’m afraid you can’t control yourself. Let me do it!”
”@#%￥!”
This is not a fixed-wing aircraft. How difficult is it to operate!
The God of Death walked away cursing.
After driving away the younger brother standing next to the launcher, Mosquito directly connected the drone with VM and synchronized the image of the drone camera on the screen.
Target locked!
Route setting completed!
Launch!
With the button pressed, the drone lying on the launcher was like an arrow shot from a string, and it bounced off the launcher.
The propeller roared, and everyone saw the drone speeding along the ground. In an instant, it flew hundreds of meters away and plunged directly into the crotch of the concrete tank.
With a bang, the flames of the explosion shot up into the sky, and the thick smoke instantly rose twenty or thirty meters, which actually lifted the concrete fortification from the ground and blew it into pieces!
The dust dissipated.
There was only a crater more than ten meters wide and concrete debris scattered around.
Even the steel bars in the cement were blown to pieces, and there was not a single intact one.
The crowd watching on the side dodged the falling dirt and stone chips.
Vanus, who was standing next to Chu Guang, did not move, and everyone was dumbfounded.
A drone carrying a remote-controlled bomb drilled into the crotch of a tank?
Is it possible to play like this?
No matter how you think about it, the cost of drones and remote-controlled bombs is much cheaper than those anti-tank missiles.
”Beautiful!”
Chu Guang, who clenched his fists, couldn’t help but shout.
Although it was a target made of concrete, with such a great power, it would be difficult for even a real tank to drive out of the thick smoke of the explosion intact. Looking
at the mosquito walking towards this side, Chu Guang coughed lightly and said with a serious expression.
”I am very satisfied with Plan 2. It would be better if the maneuverability is a little stronger!”
”I plan to purchase 100 aircraft and require them to be completed within a month. Can you do it?”
Mosquito immediately patted his chest and promised confidently when he heard this.
”Don’t worry, respected manager, Goblin Technology never disappoints its customers!”
Chu Guang looked at Vanus, with a smile on his face with a hint of boasting.
”How is it? Is this powerful enough?”
Vanus’s Adam’s apple moved, and he nodded with his eyes wide open.
”… Maybe? If your drone can fly over and not be shot down.”
This thing is powerful, but its speed is not as fast as missiles and artillery shells, and the noise of the propeller is also a big problem.
But in terms of power alone, even he can’t find fault. Anyway,
if he were to drive a tank, he would definitely not want to be hit by such a bullet under his butt.
After all, even if the tank can withstand it, the people inside can’t!
Chu Guang looked at the concrete wreckage not far away, with a happy smile on his face.
”Don’t worry about this problem. By the end of the month, we will have at least 100 switchblades, and our enemies have at most 20 to 30 tanks.”
”Even if we exchange 10 drones for one of their tanks.”
”It will definitely be more profitable for us!”
Finally I’m back home. I’m so tired from the New Year (collapse)
(End of this chapter)
