Now, Balzen, who was once hot-blooded, calmed down. What the general said was a terrible fact. In that battle, the German armored battalion only had three No. 4 vehicles in total. As a result, the RPGs that the troops were proud of were deflated. After all, they
It was destroyed. The result was that crazy warriors fired projectiles at its road wheels within a distance of less than fifty meters. After all, the armor there was quite weak, so the destruction was completed.
Destroying three vehicles was so laborious, and dozens of dedicated anti-tank warriors were killed or wounded in the whole process. If the enemy really assembled a group of tanks, even if our own side had many anti-tank guns, the defense line would still be overwhelmed!
For a moment, Balzen had serious worries about his future.
Although everyone tacitly understands each other, the current discussion is about how to defeat the Imperial Division in a defensive state. Everyone knows why we are discussing this. Because after defeating the Imperial Division, the door to Smolensk will be completely opened.
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Balzen was so passionate about fighting that he was so crazy that he didn't care about life or death. Now he knew a little but couldn't speak nonsense, so he asked anxiously: "General, we...we must have an excellent anti-tank weapon. We must be able to
Destroy those Panzer IV tanks safely and efficiently. Otherwise, our three troops will definitely suffer huge casualties."
Can Yang Mingzhi answer Balzen's appeal? Of course.
After all, Yang Mingzhi is very aware of the armor thickness of the current German Panzer IV tank, and even knows what its composition model is.
Before Yang Mingzhi could speak, Lavrenti said: "Of course we have excellent weapons, which are catfish rocket launchers. Doesn't it say in the order document? We will be equipped with catfish rocket launchers! The general is here now, and the general will definitely provide us with a large number of them.
It’s a personal rocket launcher, you’re right.”
Lavrenti immediately cast an expectant look, and Yang Mingzhi smiled awkwardly and nodded in agreement.
Balzen breathed a sigh of relief, but he felt that the general had other ideas.
Balzen shrugged and said: "General, to be honest, I organized a special anti-tank battalion in my army. This battalion is really very special. When the individual rocket launchers promised by the superiors are in place, I will turn the entire battalion into a special anti-tank battalion."
into a rocket launcher and anti-tank battalion.
I'm afraid that my troops will not get 57mm combat anti-cannons, and at most they will get 45mm. 45mm combat anti-cannons. I am really worried about the German No. 4 with 90mm armor. I am also worried about the standard RPGs issued by the logistics department.
Warhead is just as worried.
What I trust now is the individual rocket launcher. I only know that when we use it to fight tanks, it is always successful. Of course, it also has a big disadvantage. Although the Catfish's flight is very stable, it requires the shooter to aim, even if the German tank is a big target.
Our shooters are not always so accurate in aiming and firing. Besides, the flying speed of the warhead is not very fast. Although it can hit the target one thousand meters away, it is very likely that the German tank has already moved several meters away within the time when the projectile flew over one thousand meters.
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So I have to follow what you did, organize multiple anti-rocket artillery groups to get a higher hit rate with numbers."
"Huh? Balzen, your idea is wonderful!" Yang Mingzhi clapped his hands happily.
Not only Yang Mingzhi, but also Lavrenti and Yevgeny were suddenly enlightened, because they had no such intention at all.
"It seems that I must learn from Comrade Balzen." Yevgeny praised.
"Yes! After I go back, I will also have to form a rocket launcher anti-tank battalion to deal with any type of German tanks." Lavrenti immediately poured himself a glass of wine, raised the glass high and said in praise: "Here's to you, Commander of the 324th Division!"
It seems that Balzen has found an excellent way to target the powerful German tanks?
Yang Mingzhi does not think so, but it is undeniable that Balzen's idea is based on the best tactics that can be implemented by existing weapons.
When Yang Mingzhi was still in Novosibirsk, he led his people to take the lead in developing assault rifles, and his mind never gave up on the research and development of rocket launchers.
For more than a month, Liguschkov has basically been cooking around the large number of technical documents returned from the swamp. Even if it is fried, the achievements of the design bureau in the swamp can only be achieved by popularization. Just imagine a large number of unguided individual rocket equipment
The troops will bring great tactical advantages to the grassroots troops.
But "Catfish" rockets, or "Flying Fish" rockets like drones, are unguided weapons that fly to the target based on inertial force and calculated trajectories.
Enemy targets are often not targets that can stand still and be hit. For example, when a tank sees something flying towards it, the driver's instinctive reaction is to step on the accelerator to escape. Even if the accelerator is hit for a moment, the tank can run several meters, and this can already
Avoid the powerful "Catfish" bombardment. Perhaps the effect of near-missing can still give No. 4 a heavy hit, but don't expect such lucky events to happen frequently.
The fact is often that a near-missile bomb cannot inflict fatal damage to the No. 4. It often sustains some minor injuries and continues to fight after repairs.
The current Panzer IV tank's frontal armor has been increased to 90 mm, and the total weight of the vehicle body has reached a huge 26 tons.
German military industrial companies have not yet developed a higher-horsepower engine, so equipping the heavier No. 4 with such an engine will weaken its maneuverability a lot.
The so-called 90 mm armor is actually made of two steel plates, one 40 mm and one 50 mm, because Germany currently does not have the ability to produce a 90 mm thick armor steel plate.
After all, it is armor steel, with a special alloy of various rare metals added to it. With the current technology of various countries, it is not easy to process it. Germany can currently process 50 mm level integral armor steel, which already reflects their superb technology.
. The German military industry department is still trying to increase the thickness.
Is just 90mm enough?
it's not true.
When all the tanks arrive at the front line, the veterans will try their best to add materials to the tank armor. Officers and soldiers from all warring countries are doing this. This is by no means a tacit understanding, but a lesson learned by the comrades in exchange for their lives!
Track shoes and road wheels were welded to the front armor and tail armor. The improved No. 4 was equipped with skirts on both sides. In order to further improve survivability, the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Division also welded the old load-bearing plates to the No. 4 skirts.
wheel.
The fence armor has also been further strengthened, and the fence network has become more complex.
After some operations, the weight of the tank increased by another ton, and it became a 27-ton oil tiger. However, the troops did not have the ability to conduct assault operations for a long time, and this operation was made as a last resort for defensive warfare.
They can basically withstand the Soviet RPG armor-piercing warhead attack, and can also withstand the Soviet large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery to a large extent.
The German army boasted that they had thought of all the tactics that the Soviet army could use to break defenses, and all that was left was how to strengthen their defenses.
The German army never imagined that General Berekov, who made RPG weapons very practical, was already planning to develop guided weapons.
Yes, it’s guidance!
Yang Mingzhi looked at Balzen, tapped the table and said: "Barzen, what you did is correct. In fact, I have a way to make the rockets launched by soldiers turn in the air. It can fly like it has eyes.
It can also hit a moving German tank at two thousand meters."
"Ah?" Balzen was shocked, "General, are you telling the truth? Do you think rockets can have eyes?"
Yang Mingzhi shrugged: "No. It's not that the rocket has eyes, but that the shooter doesn't just fire it and forget about it. I can use some means to let the shooter continue to control the flight direction of the rocket until it hits the target."
Even so, everyone still thinks Yang Mingzhi's words are like fantasy.
Here, especially Dobrov and Kalashnikov, who had been listening in, they both thought of some strange scenes. The rockets kept adjusting their flight direction, and the German tanks could not escape being hit no matter how they tried to escape.
destiny in.
Both of them were high-level intellectuals, especially Dobrov. Although he did not have the battlefield experience of Kaspersky, Dobrov was a man who had attended university. He immediately thought of what the general might be talking about.
Dobroff suddenly spoke: "Director, are you talking about radio remote control?"
Yang Mingzhi was taken aback. He looked at Dobrov, who was once very quiet, in surprise, and couldn't help but admire his imagination.
"Dobrov, can you continue to talk?"
"Okay, okay." Dobroff suddenly became excited. He felt that his ideas were on the right track with the director, so he said excitedly: "The American Tesla has made radio-controlled machinery a reality, so I am studying in college."
At that time, people from the radio club also developed a remote control car. I thought that since a remote control can control the movement of an electric car, it can be used to control other things, such as ships, airplanes, or even rockets. In theory, it is absolutely possible.
You are right, Comrade General."
"Of course!" Yang Mingzhi asked excitedly: "Comrade Dobrov, if you have some opportunities, can you develop a rocket that can fly remotely."
"This..." For a moment, Dobrov thought of what the director said to him a few days ago. In the so-called future, the person who supervises the production of firearms in the design bureau can be Kalashnikov, and he does not need to be obsessed with firearms research.
The design bureau is in great need of talents to develop rockets, and now Dobrov feels that his big opportunity is now.
"I can!" Dobroff gritted his teeth and said resolutely.
Regarding radio remote control, Dobrov understands its working principle. What remains is to combine it with weapons to form a complete weapon system. This is an arduous task, but the results will be revolutionary.
Yang Mingzhi nodded deeply: "There is a huge future for the militarized development of the radio field in the future. Comrade Dobrov, maybe you can become a pioneer in this aspect of the Soviet Union and even the world."
"Ah! Thank you for your encouragement."
"However, what I am talking about is not a radio-controlled rocket, but a wired remote control!"
Whether it is a wired or wireless remote control, the final result is that the rocket will turn around according to local conditions during flight to hit the most tricky German tank.
Yang Mingzhi clapped his hands violently, attracting everyone's attention to him.
"Comrades, our ultimate goal is to use powerful rockets to directly destroy German tanks. Only one catfish is enough to achieve the result, but it is difficult to achieve this process. We must use science and technology for this. Now I think
I have made a plan, and I am very convinced that it can be realized with the current technical level of the alliance!"
It was in this small restaurant that Yang Mingzhi became the first person to propose the "wire-guided anti-tank rocket launcher".
So, can it really be realized with the current technological level of the Soviet Union?
sure!
The "Catfish" successfully developed by Yang Mingzhi in the swamp, in order to increase its accuracy, the launch tube was rifled, and the tail fin of the projectile was also angled. The final result was that the rocket lost a little bit of its design speed, but
Because of the rotation during flight, the overall stability is great, because the projectile body forms a rotating top dragging white smoke.
But the anti-tank missile at this stage cannot be required to start spinning when it is launched.
Although the rotating wire-guided anti-tank missile is easier to throw out the metal wire, it is very difficult to control the flight direction of the projectile rotating at a higher speed. Although it can be solved, the Soviet Union in 1942 definitely lacked the solution
The technology of the problem.
So what method should be used? In that dimension, shortly after the war, the Soviet Union faced the anti-tank missiles developed by the French and immediately developed its own.
After all, in a sense, the anti-tank missile at that time was just a special rocket that could control the tail rudder.
Whether it is controlling the rudder or the vector nozzle, the purpose is to allow the projectile to obtain a force different from the central axis to achieve deflection of the projectile. It is actually a very simple technology, simple enough to be implemented quickly.
The rotation of the projectile is conducive to throwing the line, but it does not mean that it cannot be thrown without rotating. The metal wire actually only needs a special copper wire, which is wrapped around the projectile at the rear end of the tail fin.
The copper wire is very thin. Two kilometers of copper wire is wrapped around the projectile, which is actually a thin layer. The metallic color can be bonded with glue, and the tension of the projectile when it takes off can easily pull out the copper wire.
The Soviet Union now likes to use smokeless gunpowder to power rocket launchers, and its burning temperature exceeds a thousand degrees. As a wire, its melting point is a little higher than the flame temperature. Even so, using wire as a control wire is qualified.
After all, the projectile is flying fast, and the coiled copper wire is constantly being torn off. The copper wire at one position will be in contact with the hot flame for an instant, and then be left behind, and there will be no time to complete the melting.
With the help of this copper wire, the shooter adjusts the rudder and then completes the most basic movement adjustments in the four directions. He even modifies the handle so that one handle can control the entire rudder.
Yang Mingzhi's explanation made everyone listen with interest. What he said was by no means a fantasy, it was clearly about opening up a bright future.
In this regard, no amount of praise for his fantastic ideas is of much significance. Everyone who is doing it has only one question: when will the dream become a reality.
Balzen asked impatiently: "General, when will you come up with the real thing for us to equip. With it, I will no longer worry about the strongest tank of the German army."
The most powerful tank of the German army? At present, it should be the Tiger. But the German Tiger is still a secret, and the Soviet army knows very little about it. Fortunately, when the Soviet army was developing its own heavy tank KV1, many in the West believed that
Countries are also doing this. Therefore, if Germany takes out a heavy tank on the battlefield, the Soviet army may be suddenly stunned. After recovering, the Soviet army's counterattack will be very fierce.
In that dimension, the German army sent Tigers to participate in the war in Leningrad at the end of 1942. Unfortunately, only one of the four vehicles could continue to fight. Even one was enough! For a time, the Soviet army's various anti-tank guns were just for
The tiger is tickling, and the power of the 88mm anti-aircraft gun shooting at ground targets is really terrifying.
The Soviet army soon followed suit and installed its own 85mm anti-aircraft gun on the T34 site, and the T3485 was born. Although the bicycle performance of the T3485 is not as good as that of the Tiger, the Soviet Union's T3485 output in one month is as good as the "German Zoo"
With half a year's production, the Soviet Union made up for the lack of bicycle performance with extremely fast production.
Even the shortcoming is temporary. By the time the IS2 with a larger caliber main gun comes on stage, the Tiger's armor of more than 100 mm will have no meaning.
In the dimension where Yang Mingzhi is involved, since Yang Mingzhi has already considered the idea of producing and developing anti-tank ballistics, the war is bound to undergo a major change.
He definitely didn’t think about it and just let it go!
In this room, Yang Mingzhi made up his mind. When he returned to Novosibirsk, he would first hold a meeting with his subordinates, and then go to Lysenko in person and ask him to summon some talents from the Academy of Sciences. Yang Mingzhi estimated that only this kind of
Only by means of this method can we complete the production of anti-tank missiles in a short time.
Even so, he did not dare to expect that his ideal could be turned into reality within a month, nor did he expect that after production was completed, he could hand it over to his old subordinates to break through the armored defense lines of the Imperial Division.
After all, it will definitely be produced. Which troops can equip it first?
Of course, they are the three divisions under the old subordinates. Therefore, after a big war, they have to preserve the most basic organization and replenish anti-tank missiles when replenishing their troops. Unless, their entire army is annihilated...