Soldiers' Assault: Veteran Special Agents and New Recruits

Chapter 417 Counterattack by Seizing Heavy Tanks (Skip Recommended)

Rebel soldiers received orders from their leader and led a group of rebels to attack the hostage camp, intending to slaughter all the hostages inside.

As a result, just as they rushed over, they ran into Xu Sanduo and his group who were coming over.

The two sides clashed at the entrance to the hostage camp, exchanging fire and exploding in a fierce battle.

The rebel soldiers, holding a positional advantage, were the first to enter the hostage camp.

Three rebels were left to guard the North Archway, while the remaining two rebels headed straight for the hostage camp to complete the task assigned by the rebel leaders.

They thought the hostage camp was full of lambs, and that the rebel soldiers could slaughter them however they wanted once they rushed in.

But the result was that the rebels suffered a crushing defeat!

The two rebels were planning to massacre a group of hostages, who were like meat on a chopping board, completely at their mercy, without any pressure whatsoever.

As a result, two rebels rushed into the hostage camp through the gate, their minds filled with thoughts of how to unleash a massacre.

Neither of the two rebel soldiers fired their weapons, but the lambs in the hostage camp were the first to act, aiming a burst of bullets at the rebels rushing in from outside.

"Da da da, pa pa pa..."

Automatic rifles mixed with pistol fire rushed towards the rebel soldiers.

Two rebel soldiers were caught off guard and were hit by several bullets in a short time. One of them was completely unprepared and was hit from head to toe.

Whether it's a vital spot or a non-vital one, the bullets hit, and the only outcome is death.

The remaining rebel was positioned further back, and the bullets had all been absorbed by the rebels in front of him. He was lucky enough to only be hit in the thigh.

The rebels simply couldn't understand how hostages could possess weapons.

Unexpectedly, when Jackie Chan and his group left, they specially organized a defense team of rebel soldiers, mainly to guard the hostage camp.

The rebel soldiers rushed in recklessly, essentially handing their lives to the government troops.

Only one person was killed; they were lucky.

The government soldiers and hostages in the hostage camp got off to a good start, and their initial anxiety finally subsided.

The initial tension and anxiety subsided after killing a rebel soldier at the start of the game.

They are even more determined to hold on!

The remaining rebel soldier was wounded and dared not charge in any further. He could only retreat in fear and tell the masked man that the hostage camp was under defense.

The masked man was already finding it extremely difficult to resist Xu Sanduo and his group.

Hearing that there were defenders inside the hostage camp and several guns, I immediately became very agitated and my mood soured.

They intended to lead all their men in and kill everyone in the hostage camp.

Unfortunately, the situation was completely out of control and was not within his control at all. He could not kill them as he pleased, and it had become possible for him to infiltrate their ranks.

The masked man could only shield Xu Sanduo and the others and use a walkie-talkie to call for help from the rebel leader.

Hopefully, the rebel leader can call a team to come and support the hostage camp. Then, they can easily carry out the massacre and elimination of the hostage camp.

The rebel leader received a distress call from the hostage camp, but the situation had already become very complicated.

The will is willing, but the ability is insufficient!

With his outstanding personal abilities, Zhuang Yan successfully sneaked into the central square and completed the task assigned by Jackie Chan.

They successfully seized a tank from the poorly guarded square.

And it's no ordinary tank!

He managed to acquire a T72B main battle heavy tank.

T-72 Main Battle Tank (English: T-72 Main Battle Tank[1], Russian: T-72ОСНОВНОЙБОЕВОЙТАНК[2]).

This is a third-generation main battle tank designed and produced by the Soviet Union in the early 1970s.

The T-72 main battle tank design adhered to the Soviet Army's consistent combat concept, with a system configuration that was easy to produce. It not only retained the low profile characteristic of Soviet tanks, but also features such as the 125mm large-caliber main gun.

It can launch artillery-launched missiles and is equipped with a series of advanced equipment such as an automatic loader.

It is also equipped with a turbocharged diesel engine with a total power of 780 horsepower and NBC protection devices, which is a significant improvement over the second generation in terms of defense.

The T-72 was developed starting in 1967 and entered service with the Soviet Army in 1973, taking a total of five years to develop.

As a third-generation main battle tank, the T-72 tank is simple to manufacture, reliable and durable, and can be regarded as another masterpiece of the former Soviet Union after the T-34 tank.

Not only did it serve extensively in the Soviet army, but it was also exported and licensed for production by Warsaw Pact allies such as Poland and Czechoslovakia.

It almost became the new hallmark of Soviet tanks, leading to an astonishing production of over 25000 vehicles.

The T-72 tank's hull is welded from steel plates, and its interior is divided into three parts: the front driver's compartment, the middle fighting compartment, and the rear engine compartment.

The driver's seat is located in the center of the front of the vehicle. The driver has a hatch on the top armor plate of the vehicle, which can be opened and closed from inside the vehicle.

When driving with the window open, the driver must first turn the cannon to one side at a certain angle and then fix it in place.

The T-72 tank has a V-shaped wave deflector and headlights on the upper front armor plate of the hull; its model number is ФГ-125.

The front compartments on either side of the driver house bulletproof fuel tanks, and a bulldozer blade is mounted on the lower front deck of the vehicle, providing protection under normal circumstances.

The vehicle has fuel tanks and toolboxes on both sides of the fenders, and two additional 200-liter diesel fuel tanks can be installed at the rear of the vehicle.

The turret is a cast structure, hemispherical in shape, located above the center of the vehicle body.

The turret can accommodate two crew members: the commander and the gunner. The commander is on the right side of the turret, and the gunner is on the left. Each of them has a turret hatch.

The commander's cupola adopts a double-layer movable seat structure, which can rotate synchronously in the opposite direction to the turret.

The fighting compartment is equipped with a rotary autoloader, eliminating the need for a loader found in older models. The layout of the fighting compartment is arranged around the autoloader.

The entire combat section, including the top deck of the hull, is tilted forward, thus increasing the gun depression angle when it moves forward.

Moreover, when the artillery turns to the rear, the depression angle automatically increases to avoid colliding with the rear protrusion.

Except for homogeneous armor in non-critical areas, the upper front of the T-72 tank hull uses composite armor.

The upper front armor is 200 mm thick and consists of three layers: an outer layer of 80 mm thick homogeneous steel plates and an inner layer of 20 mm thick homogeneous steel plates, and a middle layer of 100 mm thick non-metallic material.

The turret is made of cast steel, with varying thicknesses in different parts, the thickest being at the front of the turret.

Early T-72 tanks had four openable shielding plates on the outer edge of the front fenders, with the first plate being smaller and the other three being slightly larger.

It consists of thick metal plates and rubber plates, and is hinged to the fender.

The hinge has a spring that can open the shielding plate outward, forming an angle of 70 to 80 degrees with the longitudinal axis of the vehicle body.

When a tank passes by, obstacles beside the vehicle can press the shielding plate down to be parallel to the vehicle body, without affecting the tank's passability; normally, the shielding plate is fixed with a chain with hooks.

Later T-72 tanks were equipped with integrated side skirts. Both the deployable shielding plates and the integrated side skirts provided protection against armor-piercing projectiles.

The walls of the cockpit and fighting compartment are lined with lead-containing organic materials, with a thickness of 20 to 30 millimeters. These materials provide protection against radiation and fast neutron flux, while also reducing the secondary damage caused by fragments from the inner armor.

The NBC protection device is a collective protection type, consisting of detection devices, control devices, booster fans, filter canisters, and shut-off mechanisms.

It can filter the air entering the vehicle, and the onboard filter can disinfect radioactive dust and chemical agents inside the vehicle as necessary.

If the M60 that Jackie Chan destroyed had such a NBC (nuclear, biological, and chemical) protection system.

The burning of Jackie Chan's car bomb would have blocked some of the smoke from entering the car, preventing the champion soldiers inside from panicking.

Ultimately, it's highly unlikely that the scenario of him hastily running out of the car and being caught by Jackie Chan will actually occur.

The T-72 excels in defense and other aspects, surpassing second-generation tanks in almost every way, and is particularly outstanding in terms of firepower.

T-72坦克的主要武器，是1门2A46式短后坐距离的125毫米滑膛坦克炮。

The barrel is 48 times the caliber and consists of components such as the barrel, breech, cradle, recoil mechanism, recoil mechanism, thermal sleeve, and smoke extraction device.

The elevation angle of the artillery relative to the turret reached an astonishing nearly twenty degrees.

Because the turret ring is tilted forward by 1.5°, the actual elevation angle of the gun when it is forward is -6° to +13°, and the actual elevation angle of the gun when it is backward is -3° to +16°.

The T-72 is primarily equipped with a 125mm smoothbore gun and is a rare "jumbo" among tanks.

主要型号为2A46系列，包括2A46M和2A46M1。

It can fire fin-stabilized discarding sabot armor-piercing projectiles, which have an astonishing maximum effective range of 2120 meters and an initial velocity of 1800 meters per second.

The armor-piercing thickness is 300 mm/1000 m.

It can also fire more powerful tungsten alloy fin-stabilized discarding sabot armor-piercing projectiles, with an effective range of 2500 meters and a penetration depth of 420 millimeters at 2000 meters.

The penetration depth within 1500 meters is even more astonishing, reaching an astonishing 500 millimeters.

Against all current main battle tanks, as long as it can be hit head-on, it can be easily penetrated and sent to its doom in one shot.

However, this is not the limit!

Once equipped with depleted uranium alloy fin-stabilized discarding sabot armor-piercing projectiles, the effective range remains 2500 meters, but within the same 1500-meter range, the maximum penetration depth of homogeneous armor reaches an astonishing 610 millimeters.

besides……

It can also fire the 14M fin-stabilized armor-piercing projectile, which has an initial velocity of 900 m/s, a maximum direct-fire range of 4000 m, and an armor penetration thickness of 475 mm/1000 m.

Although its armor penetration is not as thick as the former, its effective range is superior.

Maximum effective range: 9400 meters.

The T-72's ability to carry such a wide variety of ammunition gives it a significant advantage over second-generation tanks, and its ammunition capacity is also excellent.

It can carry up to 39 shells, enough to fire at will on the battlefield.

The typical configuration is 12 fin-stabilized discarding sabot armor-piercing rounds, 21 fin-stabilized high-explosive fragmentation rounds, and 6 fin-stabilized high-explosive anti-tank rounds.

The automatic loader's rotating feeder holds 22 shells, with cartridge cases on top and projectiles on the bottom.

The rear center ammunition rack of the turret basket stores 9 shells; the small compartment to the right of the driver at the front of the vehicle stores 4 shells, and 3 shells are placed vertically and 1 shell is placed horizontally on the rotating base plate.

The T72 that Zhuang Yan stole was an upgraded version of the later improved T72B.

This upgraded tT72 turret is thickened, with a 435mm thick multi-layer aluminum plate and rubber composite layer on the front, greatly improving its defensive capabilities.

The top of the turret has also been upgraded with a 25mm thick neutron protection layer.

The U.S. Army nicknamed her "Super Dolly Patton".

The aiming device has also been upgraded to the 1A40 aiming device with a lead time calculation function, which allows for a wider range of weapons to be fired.

It can launch the 9K120 Svir laser-guided anti-tank missile.

Because of its unique ability to launch missiles, the T-72B has become a very important improved model series in the entire T-72 series.

Of course, it has advantages and disadvantages!

The T-72 main battle tank is a powerful and simple weapon platform.

Even though its performance is excellent in all aspects, with the advent of fourth-generation tanks, the T-72's performance is now far behind other tanks in the world today.

The firepower and protection capabilities of the T-72 main battle tank are no longer sufficient to deal with new threats.

Its mobility is far behind the times, its information capabilities are severely lacking, and it is seriously out of touch with the current global trend of networking and informatization.

Insufficient fire prevention and explosion suppression measures, weak defense capabilities, insufficient mobility, and lack of anti-interference capabilities, etc.

These and other problems are seriously troubling the T-72 and its users.

After all, this is a product of the last century. No matter how amazing it was at the time, it is normal for it to be left behind with the rapid development of technology.

but.

This is at the overall level.

Even in the Middle East, where technological development is relatively slow and the pace of military equipment updates is lagging behind, the T-72B remains an extremely powerful main battle tank.

As long as it is properly modified and its potential is fully explored.

At least it can barely keep up with the times. Not to mention competing with fourth-generation tanks, it can at least continue to fight against the latest third-generation tanks of other countries.

Zhuang Yan acquired a third-generation tank, specifically a T-72B with an extremely exaggerated caliber.

Now we can show off our power!

The 125mm main gun of the tank has a much stronger firepower per shell than the 105mm gun of the M60, and can be said to be in a completely different class.

Zhuang Yan couldn't control the entire tank by himself; he could only choose between firing the cannon and moving.

Given the overall passive situation on the battlefield, with everything else being crushed by the rebel soldiers, and even the most important hostage camp currently inaccessible.

Zhuang Yan first chose to enter the gunner's position and take control of the main gun of the T72B main battle tank.

"Idiot, I've got the tank and located the enemy. I'll clear the way for you now. Get ready to charge in."

While giving a radio notification, Zhuang Yan aimed the cannon at the archway of the hostage camp.

The masked rebels, who were desperately defending themselves, were waiting for reinforcements from their soldiers. Instead of receiving aid, they were met with a 125mm smoothbore cannon.

"Whoosh—"

The shell pierced the air, creating a whooshing sound.

"Amateur" tank gunner Zhuang Yan was very accurate; one shell precisely hit the right side of the archway, where the masked rebel man was located.

The immense power of the 125mm smoothbore cannon caused the entire right side of the archway to be completely destroyed in the explosion.

The masked man and his men who were hiding in this location were all wiped out in this explosion; they were either blown away or buried in the rubble.

(End of this chapter)