Bright Sword starts with the grenade flat.

Chapter 197 Air supremacy

I thought that since the tank could deal with the Japs, it should also be able to deal with the American Pershing tanks, but the result was of course one can imagine.

It has no effect at all. The Pershing tank is different from the Little Japanese's Bean Tank. The Little Japanese's Bean Tank does not use shaped armor-piercing bullets, but uses a slightly larger caliber heavy machine gun such as the M2 heavy machine gun. Steel-core bullets can easily penetrate them.

But what about the Pershing tank! Not only is the frontal armor 102 mm thick, but the side armor is 76 mm thick, and this does not include the tilting effect of the armor.

Therefore, it is simply unrealistic to rely solely on shaped armor-piercing projectiles modified from grenade grenades to defeat the American Pershing tanks head-on in positional battles.

Because the upper limit of the grenade weight, volume and caliber weight of the grenade are there, the upper limit of armor penetration is naturally only that much.

After all, we cannot expect that a shaped armor-piercing projectile weighing only over 800 grams can achieve an armor-piercing depth of more than ten centimeters or even dozens of centimeters!
The RPG is different. Its rocket shaped armor-piercing ammunition weighs more than ten kilograms, and its caliber is 105 millimeters. Therefore, it can naturally hold more explosives and achieve deeper penetration.

So when the superiors asked Liu Xiu if there was any way to create a more powerful anti-tank weapon, Liu Xiu naturally sent the RPG he had just made to the superiors, and also gave it along with the drawings.

Liu Xiu's idea was also very simple. After all, the main task of his steel rolling mill was naturally to manufacture fighter jets, especially the Peregrine Falcon fighter jets that had an absolute suppressive effect on US military fighter jets.

Therefore, naturally we cannot focus on producing RPGs. You must know that with the recovery of all inland chassis, there will be a lot of arsenal!

But there should be no problem in making an RPG. After all, this RPG is something that even a rural handicraft workshop can make by hand.

After Liu Xiu handed over the samples and drawings of the RPG, they went through some tests. Naturally, they became very interested in the RPG, an individual cannon and a guerrilla artifact, because they found that this thing was simply for its size. Generally custom-made.

Some of the larger ones include factories such as Tiyuan Arsenal. The production capacity of these factories means that they may not be able to manufacture tanks and artillery.

This thing is easier to carry than a heavy machine gun, and its individual weight is not very heavy, but it is very convenient whether it is used to deal with enemy heavy tanks or machine gun fire points.

To be honest, the manufacturing difficulty of this RPG is actually not comparable to that of a semi-automatic rifle. Not only does it not require any rifling, it even does not require many springs.

You must know that compared with the RPG, the total weight of the M18 mm recoilless rifle reaches kilograms, and even if the tripod is removed, it still weighs kilograms.

It's even better than the M18 20mm recoilless rifle and M mm recoilless rifle they captured from the US Army.

In addition to being heavy, the M18 is also relatively long. The entire barrel is meters, so it is not very convenient to carry during the march.

And in addition, because the M18 does not use the same super-caliber as the RPG, the weight of its ammunition is only kilograms, so the armor-breaking ability of the shaped armor-piercing projectile is also very weak, and can only penetrate Six millimeters of armor.

In other words, even if the M18 recoilless rifle of the American army is captured, it cannot be used to deal with the American Pershing tank head-on. Whether it is frontal armor or side armor, it depends on luck. As for the M20 18mm recoilless gun, it is much more powerful than the M20. Because the weight of the M shell alone reaches ten kilograms, the penetration depth of its shaped energy-breaking armor-piercing projectile is also greatly increased. At the level of millimeters, it can barely deal with the Pershing tank.

Of course, as the caliber increases, its weight naturally increases. The weight of the barrel has increased from the M18's kilograms to kilograms.

However, this weight is not unbearable. After all, it is only about ninety kilograms. Even with the addition of cannonballs, it is only one hundred and ten kilograms.

A strong person can resist being hit on the shoulder by gritting his teeth.

Of course, the most critical thing is to carry it on the march. Unlike the M18, which only weighs 20 kilograms or kilograms, the M weighs kilograms and kilograms, which is equivalent to carrying a person while running.

Ordinary people can't carry this weight for a few kilometers. After all, not all people like Wei Dayong have practiced martial arts and can carry a large living person for dozens of miles.

Therefore, the RPG's barrel weight of only eight kilograms can be easily carried, and although both the RPG and the M18 use recoilless rifle firing methods, the methods used are different, so the strength requirements for steel are not the same. It is not very high and does not need to be made of high-strength alloy steel.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for family workshops in rural areas to produce this stuff.

Because the frontline was tight against American tanks, the day after passing the test, all arsenals capable of producing RPGs had received the drawings and started production.

Just when Liu Xiu's side came up with an RPG because of a battle in Wu Qianli, Wu Qianli's side also successfully helped Ji Chungeng complete the task of blowing up the communication tower, and continued to take the radio to the front line to command.

However, when Liu Xiu watched Wu Qianli risk his life by stuffing explosive packets into the bottom of the tank to blow up the tank in order to deal with the US Army's Pershing tank, he realized how dangerous it was to deal with the tank without anti-tank weapons.

Liu Xiu did not have this feeling during the Anti-Japanese War. After all, Liu Xiu joined the Eighth Route Army at that time, so there were naturally fewer Japs tanks on the battlefield behind enemy lines. Then when the Japs paid attention to the Eighth Route Army and launched a major sweep, Liu Xiu Xiudu has already developed a grenade shaped armor-piercing grenade, turning the little devil's tank into a living target on the battlefield.

After the birth of anti-tank individual weapons like RPG, which are lightweight, easy to use and powerful, tanks seem to have reached the end of the road. No matter what kind of tank, basically they can't withstand an RPG shot. If they can block it, then try another one. , you must know that the RPG launcher has not changed but the ammunition is increasing.

From the first 80 mm shaped armor-piercing bombs, to the later cloud burst bombs, and then some tandem shaped armor-piercing bombs, and then it is said that Zhong Dong’s small workshop over there has come up with something with a caliber of 150 mm. The shaped charge armor-piercing projectile can destroy super-large-caliber ammunition such as the Merkava tank head-on with one shot.

After Liu Xiu completed the RPG, he focused on the production of Peregrine Falcon fighter jets in the steel rolling mill.

Due to the lack of high-precision machine tools here, even the presence of Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong, two level 1 and fitters, cannot change the fact that the production of KV turbojet engines is slow.

But Liu Xiu also understands that relying on his own Peregrine Falcon test aircraft alone is not enough. After all, the United States has at least hundreds or even thousands of Saber fighters!
To form absolute air suppression, you must have at least one hundred Peregrine Falcons to ensure that you have absolute air supremacy and prevent the US aircraft from taking off.

(End of this chapter)