Chapter 459 SU-152
This assault gun is the KV14 of the Soviet Army, and it was renamed SU-152 after it was equipped with troops.
The 152 behind means that it is equipped with a 152MM caliber ML-20 artillery.
It was supposed to be equipped with troops next year, that is, when the "Tiger Type" killed all Soviet troops on the Soviet-German battlefield and was beaten into a panic, it was produced as an emergency.
Now because of Shulka's suggestion, it is likely to be born simultaneously with the "Tiger" after it is equipped with the German army in batches.
"You know, Shulka!" Kalashnikov walked up to Shulka, who was eating with the soldiers at the side of the warehouse, and said, "Sometimes I think it's you who should stay with them more than me." , I seem to have taken your place!"
Speaking of which, Kalashnikov raised his head towards Sisoy and the others.
"Don't be stupid, Comrade Kalashnikov!" Shulka and Vodka swallowed the black bread in their mouths with difficulty, and replied vaguely: "It will be bad if this happens!"
"What?"
"You will die on the battlefield, and I will stay here knowing nothing!"
Kalashnikov laughed: "You are right, Shulka, no one can capture this thing except you!"
After a pause, Kalashnikov asked again worriedly: "You said, can they come up with something to deal with this new type of tank? Just like you said, our assault gun!"
"It's not a big problem!" Shulka replied: "This doesn't require any advanced technology, you just need to find a suitable artillery, and then integrate it with the tank chassis!"
"That's not what I'm worried about!" Kalashnikov said. "It's really not difficult to do, but how useful will it be on the battlefield? You know, we don't have air supremacy. If we make it an assault gun It's easy to be recognized by enemy pilots!"
Shulka thought while biting the food in his mouth.
Kalashnikov is right. If it is made into an assault gun like the Germans, due to the obvious difference in shape and the threat to the "Tiger", it will of course become the target of the German army.
The German army only needs to blow up the assault guns one by one, and then they can start the massacre with confidence.
Shulka suddenly understood why the SU-152 was so much like a tank.
"Why don't we make it look like a tank?" Shulka asked.
"Create the look of a tank?"
"Yes!" Shulka replied: "Although its barrel and turret can't rotate, the pilot can't see this. I mean, then they can't see the difference mixed in the tank!"
"That's right, Shulka!" Kalashnikov couldn't help but nodded again and again: "You solved another problem!"
"But it's just a transition after all!" Shulka said.
"Yes!" Kalashnikov agreed: "It is inherently deficient. If we want to give it a large-caliber artillery and make it look like a tank, it must be heavy, and at the same time, the protection capability may be seriously insufficient. !"
Kalashnikov's estimate is correct, the side armor of SU-152 is only 20MM, any anti-tank gun or even a mortar can pose a threat to it.
On the other hand, since the 152MM artillery is not a dedicated tank gun, the longest range of flat fire can only reach 700 meters. Although this distance is much better than that of the T34, which needs to enter 200 meters to penetrate, it is still at an absolute disadvantage.
"But they are thinking about developing a new tank that can fight it!" Kalashnikov said: "It will have a thicker tank gun, and of course it will have thicker armor!"
Shulka didn't speak.
This is a common problem in the development of tanks in this era. Both sides are building artillery and armor. The result is actually to see whose engine is better, so that they can block the enemy's artillery with thicker armor and penetrate it at the same time.
"What's the matter?" Seeing Shulka's expression changed, Kalashnikov couldn't help asking, "Is there something wrong?"
"We don't necessarily need thicker artillery, Comrade Kalashnikov!" Shulka wrapped the half-eaten bread in a waterproof cloth and stuffed it into his backpack, then took out a cigarette and handed it to Kalashnikov. took one.
Kalashnikov took the cigarette in doubt and asked, "How can we penetrate the enemy tank armor if we don't use larger caliber artillery?"
"Have you ever thought about a smoothbore gun?" Shulka lit a cigarette for the two of them: "It has higher kinetic energy and stronger armor-piercing ability!"
"It won't work, Shulka!" Kalashnikov laughed: "You know, although the smoothbore gun has stronger armor-piercing ability, but its accuracy is not enough, and it wants to hit the target at a long distance. It just depends on luck!"
This is the difference between smoothbore guns and rifled guns in this era.
Both can be said to have their own advantages and disadvantages.
Smoothbore guns have strong armor-piercing ability, but because there is no rifling in the barrel, the guns will not rotate after ejecting from the chamber, so the flight is unstable, which directly leads to its low hit rate.
Rifled guns have high accuracy, but due to the resistance of the rifling and the rotation of the shell, part of the energy is lost, which reduces the armor-piercing ability.
Comparing the two, almost everyone thinks that it is better to lose the armor-piercing ability than to be able to hit the target. After all, if the target cannot be hit, no matter how strong the armor-piercing ability is, it will be in vain.
So almost all tank guns in this era are rifled guns.
The problem is that the problem of unstable flight of smoothbore gun shells can be solved, but the problem of energy loss of rifled guns cannot be solved.
So modern tanks are reversed. Most countries use smoothbore guns, and only a few stubborn countries still use rifled guns.
"We can improve the smoothbore, Comrade Kalashnikov!" Shulka said.
"Improve, how to improve?" Kalashnikov laughed: "Shuerka, they (referring to scientists) have done much more research on artillery than you. No one can solve this problem, including our enemies... otherwise we will Not everyone uses rifled guns!"
Shulka raised his eyebrows.
He just happens to be someone out of the world.
Seeing Shulka's confident expression, Kalashnikov asked doubtfully, "You don't know...there is a solution?"
Shulka took Kalashnikov aside and said: "I'm not sure, Comrade Kalashnikov, but I think it should be kept a secret, otherwise if the enemy finds out..."
"I see!" Kalashnikov said, "If it's true, my God... Shulka, do you know what you're talking about?"
"Of course I know!"
"It will replace tanks all over the world with new barrels!" Kalashnikov said: "Now all tank guns will be eliminated, I can't believe you can do it!"
(end of this chapter)
