"Cannonballs?!" Conrad shook his head.

Although Qin Chuan's suggestions have always been very constructive, such as bazookas, ME163, etc., this time...... Conrad believes that Qin Chuan is a layman to tanks at all.

Because the German military industry has studied all kinds of shells, and it can even be said that the shells have been turned over and over again, but in the end they have not been able to play any tricks.

"Yes, cannonballs!" Qin Chuan explained while drawing on the paper: "This kind of shell is fired from a smoothbore cannon, and its body is an elongated rod, we know ...... The cannonball is only affected by gravity and air resistance in the air, and the elongated rod can minimize its resistance, and firing it with a smoothbore gun can increase its muzzle velocity so that it can gain as much kinetic energy as possible. At the same time, because the warhead has a small area of sharp force, it can have a great penetration when hitting the armor of the tank! ”

Hearing this, Conrad's face immediately showed a cautious look, because Qin Chuan's simple words had proved that he was not ignorant of tanks, at least shells.

Conrad glanced at Qin Chuan unexpectedly, and then said to the drawing: "But such a slender rod-shaped cannonball...... How can we fire it with artillery? ”

"We can make a butt for it!" Qin Chuan replied: "This butt is divided into two halves, the size is the same as the caliber of the gun, the long-rod projectile body is sandwiched in the middle, and after launching, due to air resistance, the butt will automatically separate from the long-rod projectile body!" ”

Hearing Conrad's eyes lit up: "Lieutenant Colonel, but a long-rod projectile like this, it can't keep itself stable during flight......"

Before Conrad could finish speaking, Qin Chuan added a few more strokes to the back of the long-rod bullet body and said, "This is simple, we can add four cross-tails to it!" ”

This kind of armor-piercing projectile will shed its shell and can fly stably in the air with a tail, so it is called a tail stabilized shell-piercing projectile.

Conrad couldn't help but be stunned when he looked at the drawings on the paper, he sometimes looked up at Qin Chuan and sometimes at the drawings, and said with some disbelief: "Lieutenant Colonel, are you sure that such a shell can work?" ”

"Why don't you try?" Qin Chuan said.

"In principle...... It does seem to work! Conrad nodded as he looked and said, "Why didn't we think of using this method, it's like an arrow, Lieutenant Colonel...... You make a shell into an arrow, but this arrow is an iron arrow, and it is fired from a cannon, and it shoots at the enemy's tank, and then pierces a hole in the tank's armor......"

Then Conrad turned his gaze to the sharp arrow, and continued: "It is conceivable that after the smoothbore cannon launches it, all the kinetic energy will be applied to the arrow, and its ability to pierce the armor of the enemy's tank will be unparalleled!" ”

CONRAD WAS RIGHT, MODERN TAIL STABILIZED SHELLING ARMOR-PIERCING SHELLS CAN EASILY PENETRATE HUNDREDS OF MILLIMETERS, AND MODERN GERMAN 120MM TANK GUNS CAN PENETRATE HOMOGENEOUS ARMOR AT A DISTANCE OF 2 KILOMETERS AT 600 KM.

AT THIS TIME, THE FRONT ARMOR OF THE "TIGER" WAS ONLY 102MM, AND EVEN THE MOST BULKY "MOUSE" HAD ONLY 240MM OF ARMOR, AND THE THICKNESS OF THESE ARMORS WAS SCUM UNDER THE "TAIL STABILIZED SHELLING ARMOR-PIERCING PROJECTILE".

"This shell needs to be made of a very hard material, doesn't it?" Conrad asked.

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied: "Of course, and because it penetrates the target armor at an extremely high speed, it must also be able to withstand high temperatures!" ”

"Tungsten core armor-piercing bullet!" Conrad replied.

This was not at all technically difficult for Germany, because German tanks were already generally equipped with tungsten core armor-piercing shells, and even the HS129 fighters, as mentioned earlier, were specially developed for enemy tanks...... In order to improve the penetration of its anti-tank guns, it was also equipped with tungsten core armor-piercing shells.

The problem is that tungsten is a mineral that is in short supply in Germany, and coupled with the blockade of the Allies, Germany can not get much tungsten, mainly imported from Spain.

"But!" Conrad said, "If it works, it's worth it!" ”

Of course it's worth it, an armor-piercing projectile that can penetrate any enemy tank, and also has a long range with extremely high accuracy...... This allowed German tanks to destroy almost any opponent.

Eventually, Colonel Conrad sighed and said, "You convinced me, Lieutenant Colonel. If this shell ...... If it can easily penetrate armor hundreds of millimeters thick, then there really is no point in developing thicker armored tanks, because they will be the same as we said before: under its blow, there is no difference between a heavy tank with thick armor and a light tank with thin armor! ”

"That's what I'm trying to say!" Qin Chuan said: "So ......"

"I know, Lieutenant Colonel!" Conrad raised the drawings drawn by Yang Qinchuan and said: "If this shell proves to be effective, then all heavy tanks will stop researching." We're not stupid enough to pile resources on some pointless project, we need resources right now! ”

"That's good!" Qin Chuan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard this.

"I have a question, Lieutenant Colonel!"

"What's the problem?"

"If you keep thinking ......" Conrad looked up at the drawing, "I mean, you take it to heart instead of saying it, then what happens in the end?" ”

Qin Chuan knew what Conrad meant:

If Qin Chuan doesn't say it, then Germany won't produce it, and if it can't produce it, it will be impossible to put it into use on the battlefield, and if it doesn't put it into use, it means that the enemy doesn't know the existence of this thing, and of course it can't be imitated.

As a result, in the end, Germany did not need to worry about the problem of "tail stabilized shelling armor-piercing shells".

"I don't know, Colonel!" Qin Chuan said: "Perhaps, one day the enemy will think of it and use it on the battlefield first, and then we will regret it!" ”

Conrad nodded in agreement.

Qin Chuan was not lying, because the British first used shell-piercing shells (APDS) on 6-pounder anti-tank guns in October 1944, and then on 17-pounder anti-tank guns and Firefly tanks.

The difference is that (APDS) is fired from rifled guns, so the accuracy and penetration depth will be much worse.

BUT EVEN THEN, IT WAS ABLE TO PENETRATE 1000MM OF ARMOR AT A DISTANCE OF 192 METERS, AND THE GERMAN "KING TIGER" HAD NO ADVANTAGE AT THAT TIME.

However, Qin Chuan has changed this, so none of this will happen.

At least Qin Chuan believes that the "rat-type" tank, which cannot play a role in actual combat at all, will not appear again.

At the same time, if the German military industry can really change the artillery of the "Leopard" tank to a smoothbore gun and equip it with a "tail stabilized shelling armor-piercing projectile" as Qin Chuan thought, then the "Leopard" tank will become the strongest tank on the battlefield, and even the "Tiger" tank cannot match it.