fans play computer tank "fired" like real soldiers do not always think about how to operate a particular munition them the result is important.However, the toy is different from the real battle.In the war of tanks rarely go to war with each other, with the right leadership of the troops they are designed to break the enemy defense lines, mobile coverages fortified and violations rear communications.However, and the duel is possible, and if not armor-piercing tools are indispensable.Along with the usual "blanks" and podkalibernikami is often used and the cumulative projectile.World Of Tanks - the game, which the developers have tried to convey the most realistic technique of the Second World War and those munitions were used armies involved in it.Her condition did not claim to be a complete historical authenticity, but the general idea of the conditions it gives a tank battle.
In order to properly use possible arsenal of weapons attack, not necessarily, but it is advisable to know how the cumulative projectile what its basic characteristics, and when to use it, and in what can be limited and less expensive charges.
Tank evolution
first tanks were a slow moving artillery batteries (sometimes with multiple instruments), protected by bulletproof booking.These were the counterparts of armored trains, with the exception that they can not move on rails, and cross country and, of course, on the roads.The evolution of technological solutions has led to new ways to use armored vehicles, it has become more mobile, and took over part of the functions of the cavalry.The most advanced achievements could boast of Soviet engineering school, which by the end of the thirties of the XX century came to a general concept that defines the shape of the modern tank.The rest of the country until the end of the war continued to build war machines of outdated scheme, the front transmission, narrow tracks, riveted hull and petrol engines.Several large compared to the UK and the US success achieved by Nazi Germany.The engineers who built the "Tigers" and "Panthers" have made several attempts to increase the durability of their machines, using oblique book.Track width Germans also had to be changed according to the conditions of the Eastern Front.Long-barreled guns were another sign of approximating characteristics of the Wehrmacht tanks to modern standards.This progress is in the camp of our enemies stopped.
When we had cumulative ammunition
As history has shown, a common ideology of tank development, adopted in the USSR, the world's technical thought came only in the mid-fifties.But there were areas in which the opponent is ahead of us.At the beginning of the war in the armament of the German troops was the cumulative projectile.The operating principle of this formidable armor-piercing means, in general, was known Soviet designers according to intelligence reports.With the outbreak of hostilities, and the opportunity to explore the captured samples.But when trying to make a copy and analogues there were numerous technical difficulties.Only in 1944 the Soviet Union created its own artillery and tank cumulative projectile will pierce increased by the time the armor protection of German cars.Currently, most of the ammunition each combat unit is precisely because of this type of ammunition.
difficult situation on the Eastern Front
It should be noted the fact that at the beginning of the war the Germans was extremely difficult to deal with Soviet armored vehicles.All medium and especially heavy tanks, operated by the Red Army, had a sturdy protivosnaryadnym book, besides inclined.Caliber tower guns if they were (as T-1, for example, armed with only a machine gun) did not have to hit the T-34 and KV.With our tanks could only fight ground attack aircraft, field or anti-aircraft artillery, shoot, usually blanks.The effectiveness of increased if the charge was cumulative.Piercing projectiles also has a strong anti-armor, but it is in production was too complex and require high costs, and Germany, fought in addition to the Eastern Front and the sea, and in Africa, had to economize.
first attempts to create an anti-money
Immediately after the appearance of armored vehicles on the battlefield before the opposing parties raised the question of its destruction or, in extreme cases, causing the greatest harm to her.Normal cartridge protection does not break, even though her coat was not very thick because of low power internal combustion engines of the time (and that was during the First World).Special armor piercing ammunition was not there, they had to be invented.Design possibilities are limited by two factors: the value on the one side and damaging - other.The idea of moving in different directions.It reaches its peak was the cumulative projectile.The principle of operation of different armor-piercing shells will be discussed below.
The pierce armor
to pierce armor normal sheet, you need concentrated work on her site, giving it kinetic energy.The easiest way to do this with a shell, is a solid disc provided with a pointed end, crushes on impact with an obstacle.The condition of the destruction of barriers can become quite strong momentum, causing local voltage, exceeding the value of intermolecular bonds of the metal.And there were in the beginning: shoot blanks, knowing that the explosion produced even on the surface of the armor is unlikely to hit the manpower and equipment due to distraction of the shock wave.Fragments in this case, too, are practically useless.
Billets cracked on the tank
Improved armor protection, and the application of its inclined arrangement reduced the effectiveness of solid armor-piercing projectile.Getting on the sloping plane, he often ricochet, though, because of their features sometimes turn out the way the so-called normalization.It consisted in the fact that after the first contact tip motion vector changed several (five degrees), and angle of impact of armor become more obtuse.This led to a more efficient distribution of the load on the infestation of affected land protection, and even if does not penetrate the armor, with the inner side of it formed a kind of funnel, and pieces of metal flew into the car at high speed, maiming and killing the crew.Besides, should not be discounted, and compression effects, in other words, a strong and rapid change in pressure (in essence, a powerful blow to the air waves).
piercing means
Rugged steel core encased in a softer shell, can solve the problem of destruction of armor protection.After hitting the rod as it goes beyond his time and shell has hit, concentrated in a small area.Podkaliberniki able to penetrate thick armor, partially preserving the advantages of shell-blanks.They have their flaws, less anti-armor at long distances and much more modest corner of normalization (reset of no more than two degrees).Despite the effectiveness of this ammunition was quite high tech, roads, besides not always cope with the task.And then there was ...
How does the cumulative projectile
The main drawback of all previous developments in armor-piercing ammunition is expressed in their name.They are designed to penetrate.But this is not enough.Well, we made a hole in the armor, but if it repaid the energy of the projectile, it can not cause substantial harm to the internal mechanisms and the crew.The tank can be repaired, heat sealing the hole, the wounded to the hospital tank, killed buried with honors, and send the car back into the fray.However, all this becomes impossible if the cumulative missile hit the armor.The principle of operation of it is that after burning holes in it rushes bursting charge, which destroys everything that seemed firmly protected.
device
Currently, anti-tank is no more effective than the cumulative projectile.World Of Tanks offers gamers buy them only for "gold", attributing these virtual ammunition "goldovym."And no wonder, with a successful hit, they guarantee the destruction of the target.Spend them at enemies that do not have a sufficiently high degree of protection, it is not necessary.If we can apply the usual "beshku" that is, armor-piercing shell, it is recommended to use it.Learn how to buy the cumulative projectile easily read rules of the game, but it is recommended not to waste, but then at the right moment it is just not enough.But it's the game, and in this battle ...
The device cumulative ammunition obschevoenny successfully applied the principle of concentration.In the small area of initial contact occurs jet of hot gas to the state of plasma, which is like a welder burns hole.Thermite action is accompanied by penetration into the protected space of the main charge, already torn by armor and carrying major damage.This principle is used in the device manual "Panzerfaust" is widely used at the end of the Second World War.Just work and projectile cumulative RPG.However, the problem tank builders learned to fight.
Reaction cumulative exposure
first samples broneprozhigayuschih munitions were designed for armor protection, application in tanks during the Second World War, and it was unpretentious.Nothing prevented the stream of hot gas to act on the metal layer, it occurred immediately after the impact.The simplest countermeasure - creating the conditions for premature tripping component of thermite charge.For this is enough to create the outer layer "falshbroni" - and a jet instead of metal will heat the air.
The second method is applicable to any tanks, created without taking into account the possibility of cumulative projectiles.It is necessary to dispel a concentrated stream of small kontrvzryvom, which can be put on the armor of TNT in special boxes on the outside surface of the machine.This method is now used widely.
The third method is used in the latest generation of tanks, which used an integrated armor technology.Modern protection - multilayer, it alternated ceramic fillers, explosives investigators and heavy-duty sheet armor.
Tandem shells
no such protection, which generally can not be overcome.In place of the usual "playboy" armor after the appearance of methods to counteract came tandem shaped-charge projectiles.The operating principle of it is different from the classical one that thermite and principal warheads are spaced along the length, and if false triggered the first stage, the second certainly reach the goal.Currently known antitank weapons with two or three charges.Focus thermite jets in some models (mainly Russian) are offset relative to each other, so that they do not interfere with one another.This provides the ability to penetrate up to 800 mm today protection.
Such cumulative projectile.War Thunder, World Of Tanks and other similar computer games provide an overview of the features of the use of this ammunition and its characteristics.It would be better if this knowledge will be useful only for gamers their virtual battles.
