Anti-pirated chapter~~~! I have changed it in my old age!!!

Then there was the performance of the 88mm anti-aircraft gun. I have to say that the firing rate of the 88mm anti-aircraft gun is indeed faster (can't it be fast? This thing has a lighter shell. The weight of the entire loading bullet is not as heavy as the other person's warhead.) But why can't the effect be seen?

Boom! Boom! With repeated explosions, the bunker was covered by flames and smoke, but surprisingly, the bunker in the distance was destroyed. After firing a shell, Markenson finally couldn't help it. He ordered to stop shooting and check it out in person.

"You did it on purpose, right?" Markonson said with a twitching face. It would be fine to say that the target construction standards are the same. The two targets are exactly the same, the same concrete mark, the same thickness, and the same rammed earth layer! But after all, the armor-piercing capabilities of the two guns are different. At a distance of 1,200 meters, the 107mm cannon can penetrate the rammed earth layer and the concrete layer with a thickness of about 0.7 meters inside. However, the 88mm anti-aircraft gun was a little difficult at this distance. The first few shells did not even penetrate completely. Although the shells behind were penetrated, there was too little internal charge and their destructiveness was very limited...

Facing the powerful lethality, Markensen had nothing to say. However, he still doubted the so-called stability of this weapon. "As long as you can ensure that they can use it smoothly on the battlefield, if there is a vehicle overturn or any other problem, you can handle it yourself. Don't expect others to help you. This thing is too heavy."

However, afterwards, the performance of the beetle-type self-propelled artillery can be described as amazing. Although the armor protection is poor, relying on the powerful artillery, this weapon can clean the targets one by one at a safe distance. Moreover, because the power of a single shell is huge, in fact, the damage ability of the shell of the same weight is higher than that of the 88mm rapid-fire cannon. According to the later German Army, the damage effect of a 107mm armor-piercing shell is twice to three times that of 88mm. For grenades, a 107mm grenade can support 3.5 88mm shells! Of course, this is a later story, and I won't mention it for now.

When Markonson saw another chariot, he found that his views were refreshed again! Because this self-propelled cannon seemed even more extreme than beetles! "This thing is like an obese wasp!" Markonson commented.

"You are right. The name of this chariot is the hornet! It is equipped with a 150mm heavy infantry cannon. You can understand it as a product after the conventional 150mm howitzer barrel is cut off." The Bavarian officer next to it explained.

The overall layout of this artillery, known as the Wasp, is similar to that of a beetle. It is a 150mm heavy infantry gun (also called a howitzer. In short, the barrel is shorter than an ordinary howitzer, about 10 times the body tube.) This artillery is positioned as accompanies the infantry's close-range support, defense operations, and the use of special shells to deal with solid bunkers.

"Is it necessary? How many shells can this thing be loaded?" Markens found that his imagination was really not on the same level as the Bavarians. (If you can't do it, you can use Baidu to build a 150mm infantry cannon in the second battle. It's also the territory of a hornet, so it's not too much to install a 150mm infantry cannon?)

"It can carry up to 16 shells and launch cartridges. The range is relatively close, about 7,000 meters. As for the function, this cannon can reach 75 degrees. It can also fire flat, covering the firing range of the flat cannon and most mortars at the same time. The biggest feature of this cannon is that its power is large enough. A 48kg heavy howitzer and a concrete armor-piercing shell weighing up to 98kg can completely deal with most targets, and it is even more useful in defense operations." A Bavarian officer explained.

How powerful is a 150mm grenade? According to the tests of later Russians, a shell that falls on the ground can explode a huge crater with a depth of 1.8 meters and a diameter of more than 5 meters... and shrapnel can be distributed in a range of thousands of square meters! The power of the 150mm infantry cannon is definitely at the division level, but it can be assigned to the regiment or even the battalion level! This is definitely an enhancement to the combat effectiveness of the grassroots level. (In the 2nd battle, a German infantry regiment had 2 150mm heavy infantry cannons, which is very effective in defense operations.)

"If I guess correctly, you should be equipped with a large number of mortars, right?" Markens was completely speechless about the Bavarian Legion's pursuit of extreme firepower.

"No, this time we don't plan to equip too many mortars, because in this long-distance offensive operation, large-caliber mortars are actually not easy to use." The Bavarian officer next to him shook his head.

"First of all, the advantage of mortars is that they are bending in ballistics, which can be deployed in bunkers or reverse inclined positions to avoid the opponent's direct aiming fire. On the other hand, they are large-scale projection in a short period of time. The disadvantage is also obvious. They cannot be shot directly, and have a relatively close range and lower accuracy. As the caliber increases, when the caliber of the mortar exceeds 160mm, the rate of fire will decrease, because most of the mortars are bore guns. You need to load a shell weighing more than 30 kilograms from the high gun mouth. Imagine this scene, and you should never expect how high the rate of fire is." Markensen is not an artilleryman, so some professional technical issues need to be explained specifically.

Are mortars easy to use? Of course they are easy to use. Ninety percent of the firepower of the Soviet infantry in the second World War came from mortars. The same is true for the Germans. The Americans' 82mm mortars and 107mm chemical mortars are also very famous. But there are many problems. Otherwise, the mortars will directly replace the self-controlled artillery.

For the offensive party, the supply pressure is very high. They need to transport ammunition and oil from hundreds or even hundreds of kilometers away to the continuously extending front line. Mortars are very light, but at the same time they are not very accurate. Even if you can improve the accuracy by increasing rifling, it is incomparable to the body-barred artillery after all. When the amount of ammunition required to complete the task exceeds the weight advantage provided by the lightweight of the artillery itself, the efficiency ratio of the mortar will decrease in long-distance raid operations, thus becoming less useful than the body-barred artillery.
Chapter completed!