Chapter 189: Fury T-26
In terms of volume and length, it is a little larger than CV33, but in terms of height, the other party is far beyond it!
The top of the CV33 is almost flat, while the tanks coming across from the opposite side have a large turret on the top!
The body of the car is high in front and low in the back, and the neck is a bit long, and there is another turret on it. This kind of tank is the Soviet T-26! Especially on the top of the turret, the tank gun like a firewood stick made the Italian tank soldiers here even more frightened.
The opponent also has tanks, and there are tank guns on the opponent's tanks! Depending on the caliber, it is 45 mm!
The 45mm tank gun is definitely an extremely outdated tank gun compared to World War II, but now, at the end of 36, the 45mm tank gun is definitely powerful!
This tank, like the tanks of many other countries, was designed based on the British "Vicks" tank. It was officially established in 1931 and equipped with the Soviet Red Army in 1932. It was one of the early main equipment of the Soviet Red Army tank troops.
If compared with the German tanks I of the same period in history, the firepower of the T-26 is much higher than that of the I, and exceeds the II, reaching or even exceeding the 38t and the early III levels, after all, even the latter two are only equipped with 37mm guns.
The early T-26A adopted a parallel dual turret design, with the main gun having a 37mm caliber, and the T-26B having a 45mm caliber.
This reflects one principle of the Soviets, firepower, firepower! This is the first principle! Mobility and protection must give way to firepower!
Even if the armor protection of this T-26 light tank is only 15 mm, it does not have enough ability to resist the firepower of infantry. They must first strengthen the tank gun!
In the later stage, the same was true. When the KV2 appeared with a 152mm howitzer, it looked like a completely big-headed son, and even won the title of toilet head.
The T-26 tank is a tank equipped with a large amount of Soviets. Now, this tank has been secretly transported to Madrid!
Inside the tank, tank soldiers coming from the Soviet Union were driving.
Tanks are absolutely high-tech equipment in this era. It is impossible to train ordinary people to drive tanks to fight without three to five months. Not to mention anything else, the cumbersome operational keys require high school level.
Therefore, these tank soldiers all came from the Soviet Union and had at least one year of experience in operating tanks in their hands.
Now, the rebels are attacking Madrid, which is mainly a defensive war, but in a defensive war, you can still fight back several times!
For example, now! The rebels are in a fierce momentum and need to destroy their aura!
The engine of the T-26 tank rumbled. The ten-ton tank had a 91-horsepower engine at the tail. At this time, the gasoline engine was roaring. The tank soldiers operated the tanks and launched a counterattack towards the Italian army opposite.
T-26! The one who came was T-26! When the Italian tank soldiers saw the tanks on the opposite side clearly, they made their own choice without any hesitation, hung in reverse gear, and ran away!
Your own machine gun cannot pose a threat to the other party at all, and the other party's 45mm tank gun can easily destroy yourself!
The Italians are not stupid. They were originally looking forward to the German tanks to give them courage. Now, they are the only ones who are left with little confidence. Now, when they encounter the tanks on the opposite side, they can only choose to retreat when they cannot defeat them.
It is not that easy to turn around in a tank, and it will waste precious time, so they all chose to hang in reverse gear at the first time.
As for the infantrymen of the Noodle Army following behind, they were not stupid. Seeing that their tanks were retreating, of course, they also followed them and ran backwards.
"Oh, oh!" The soldiers in the position behind cheered instantly. They were extremely excited. As soon as their tanks were dispatched, they frightened the other party and retreated!
The cheers here are encouraging the T-26 tank troops. They step on the accelerator, increase their speed, and attack in the direction of the Italian army!
Any tank of this era has a forward speed greater than a reversing speed, so soon, the T-26 tank caught up with the retreating CV33 tank!
Although both types of tanks are small, there is no doubt that the CV33 tank is even smaller!
A T-26 tank stopped and the captain shouted loudly: "Aim, shoot!"
"Boom!" The T-26 tank roared, and the body of the car trembled violently. In the trembling, a 45mm shell flew over!
In this era, how to counterattack the armored forces is an emerging topic. After research, there are two common anti-armor shells, capped armor-piercing shells and steel core armor-piercing shells.
Among them, armor-piercing bullets are a common solution.
As the inclination angle of the armor on the front of the tank body or warship is getting larger and larger, this causes ordinary armor-piercing bombs to be easily bounced away by the inclined armor. If the warhead is blunt, the armor-piercing bombs can "turn positive" when they contact armor with a large inclination, reducing the incident angle of the warhead and making it easier to penetrate the armor.
Therefore, weld a quilt cap with better toughness and flat shape on the outside of the pointed head of the armor-piercing bullet to reduce jumping. This blunt head is called the "quilt cap" of the armor-piercing bullet. This is the blunt head quilt cap armor-piercing bullet.
These armored soldiers sent by Moscow are skilled and have a high accuracy in shooting from static to dynamic!
The 45mm armor-piercing projectile that flew out accurately hit the weak armor of CV33. Then, the quilt cap in front began to soften, and when the warhead inside was about to exert force, the target armor could no longer withstand the pressure of the impact and broke a big hole!
Following this big hole, the 45mm armor-piercing bullet drilled in, pierced from the front, through the back, and hit the engine behind.
A raging fire emerged from the inside of this CV33 tank and was destroyed accurately!
On the Badajoz front, this small tank put a lot of pressure on the defenders, and now, in front of the T-26 tank, this small tank is vulnerable!
Soviets have always attached great importance to the power of artillery fire. The current 45mm tank gun is also a product of this kind of thinking. How powerful is its firepower? It can penetrate about 40mm of armored steel at a distance of 100 meters!
The CV33 small tank has only a dozen millimeters of armor on the front, and it cannot withstand the shooting of such tank guns at all! As long as it hits, it will definitely be destroyed!
The T-26s made a deafening roar. Under their attack, the Italian army completely retreated!
Chapter completed!