Steel Soviet Union

Remove the excess fuel segments and replace them with warhead charges?

Malashenko immediately became happy when he heard this. This old guy Kogin is really good. Why the hell didn't he think of it in the first place? That's a damn good idea hey!

The TOS-1, which has a completely different design function from Andryusha, is a frontline heavily armored assault vehicle, so it does not need a long range like Andryusha, so it can stay in a safe rear position to fight the enemy. The target was covered with a barrage of curved rockets. The only mission of TOS-1 is to use her 16 rounds of 310mm rockets to feed the German sticks until they are full within visual range.

Since it is a combat zone within two kilometers, the extra fuel is naturally not needed. TOS-1 does not need to send rockets such a long distance at all. Wouldn't it be better to remove the excess rocket engine fuel section and replace it with a warhead charge? After all, this fuel is not as powerful as a direct charge, right?

What? Too much power, you say?

Come on, what's the point of having excessive power when it comes to destroying German sticks? If it doesn't blow up the German stick until there's not even a scrap left, it's not called overpowering, I'm sure.

After understanding the situation, Malashenko took a deep breath and looked at the soldiers of his leadership division on the flatbed truck, who had begun to untie the fixed steel cables and enter the vehicle, preparing to set off to transport the newly arrived baby. They drove away.

Driving the body and chassis of the IS2 is not a problem at all for these veterans. It is a familiar road that has long memorized the key points. Malashenko couldn't help but throw out the question that he was very interested in when he saw this scene. The problem.

"So, Comrade Andre, can you tell me the warhead charge of this specialized ammunition that you specially designed for TOS-1?"

At this moment, Comrade Lao Ma only felt that he was a little deer in his heart. To be honest, he was quite excited. Andreusha, who is already famous for her powerful power, would have gained 35% more warhead charge. ? This fucking thing is so satisfying just thinking about it, I can send the German sticks to heaven one by one.

Perhaps he had expected that Malashenko would ask similar questions, but it could also be that as a key technician on the project, he had already memorized all the relevant parameters by heart.

In short, when Andre's answer came out without hesitation, Comrade Ma immediately felt his blood pressure rising after hearing the words.

"The total charge of the improved specialized rocket warhead is 8 kilograms. Comrade General, as I said before, compared to the prototype baseline version of the Andlyusa ammunition, the charge is increased by about 35%. Therefore, I It is guaranteed that she is absolutely powerful and can easily destroy any Fascist ground target that dares to stand in the way, regardless of whether it is movable or immovable.

What is the concept of 8 kilograms of warhead charge?

A very simple comparison. The warhead charge of a 152mm Soviet Justice high-explosive bomb is about 25 kilograms. If converted in this way, in terms of the warhead charge that directly affects the power of the ammunition, this kind of The specially improved 310mm special heavy-duty rocket is already more than twice as powerful as the 152 high-explosive bomb.

Not to mention that this thing doesn't need to be loaded. It follows the same design pattern as the rocket launcher and is preloaded with ammunition in the box. The loading time can be completely ignored before her ammunition is exhausted.

Therefore, when TOS-1 fires all 16 rounds of specialized and improved ammunition in a very short period of time and throws them all out at once, in terms of the amount of firepower projected, it is approximately equivalent to 2 The charge of the 152 high-explosive bomb was thrown in the German stick's face.

Well, it almost reached 100, which is a little bit regretful.

Moreover, this is just the explosive firepower of a TOS-1.

What if we gather a few more vehicles and fire a volley at the dilapidated building where a large number of German sticks are entrenched?

Ah, it is a beautiful thing to use TOS-1 to volley into the German bunker. Malashenko felt that he was so fragrant that snot bubbles were almost coming out of his nose, and he felt a little ecstatic.

However, what Andrei wanted to say did not end there. What made Malashenko even more unexpected was that he had to say it now.

"There is another situation, Comrade General."

"Based on the design ideas you proposed and the battlefield environment in which TOS-1 should appear, during the design process, Comrade Kejing believed that more targeted ammunition should be developed and distributed for TOS-1 to better adapt to the battlefield environment. In order to achieve its due battlefield effectiveness, she does have the potential to be very versatile, and we are convinced of this.”

"For example, when facing a building where fascists are hiding, it's like what happened in Stalingrad."

"Simple high-explosive rockets are powerful, but if they only trigger the fuse on the outer wall of the building and explode, it will be difficult to kill enemies hiding in the complex environment inside the building."

"Earlier, our design team went to Stalingrad for actual research and investigation of the battlefield ruins, and concluded that the complex internal structure of large civilian buildings has a very strong attenuation effect on traditional high-explosive ammunition, making high-explosive The actual destructive power and killing radius of the ammunition are far lower than in the field environment, especially if it explodes directly on the outer wall of the building. Even a full 8 kilograms of warhead charge will be greatly reduced. "

"In view of this, under the design leadership of Comrade Kojing, we developed a brand-new semi-armor-piercing warhead ammunition specifically designed to destroy ordinary civilian buildings."

"According to the design configuration, it uses a delayed-detonation warhead fuze, which will trigger and delay-detonate the warhead charge after breaking through the outer wall of the building, that is, after the rocket engine's impact kinetic energy is completely exhausted and the advance stops. , explodes from inside a building densely populated by enemies, greatly increasing the damage effect to the internal structure of the building and the killing power of personnel. The principle is somewhat similar to the full-caliber armor-piercing projectile of a tank main gun, which uses an armor-piercing delayed fuze detonation charge. "

“Because of this, there are very mature design concepts for reference and reference, so the development of this specialized ammunition is very smooth, and the structure is also very simple and reliable. It only needs to replace the warhead and fuze on the basis of ordinary ammunition. It has achieved good results in limited shooting range tests, with the fuze triggering success rate reaching over 90%. According to experimental ammunition, this result is very good and fully meets actual combat standards.”

"It's just that the design and structure of this ammunition is a little more complicated in comparison. It's not as simple as removing part of the rocket engine fuel section and replacing it with an incremental warhead charge."

"So this time we only brought you half a box for each vehicle, which means 8 rounds of ammunition for each vehicle."

"On the one hand, this is caused by the temporary failure to keep up with the trial production output. On the other hand, it has not yet been tested in actual combat. We are not sure whether the new ammunition designed and developed based on our understanding of the design concept you proposed will work. Whether it satisfies you and whether it can really meet the needs of the battlefield and produce the desired effect all needs to be tested with actual combat feedback.”