Can the long tube 7 1 double caliber 88 gun penetrate the side armor and engine armor of the third generation main battle tanks?

In fact, the front of a modern tank is thicker, because the tank is an offensive weapon and must face the enemy head-on. The front is the place where it was hit, so its armor is the thickest. However, the weight of the tank is limited, and most of the defensive armor has been arranged in front. There is basically no thick armor defense in other positions, and other positions only have about 25 mm heavy machine guns with the caliber of 12.7, so most tank guns in these positions can penetrate the side armor of modern tanks in World War II. But the side armor of modern tanks usually hangs explosive reaction armor. This kind of additional armor is mainly used to prevent the armor-piercing projectile from spraying high-speed metal jet. For armor-piercing projectiles, the effect is not obvious, but it also has some effect, just that it is not obvious.

The tail is the weakest part of the tank, and this place will not be equipped with additional armor for engine exhaust heat dissipation, while RPG and other armor-piercing projectiles are mainly grille armor, which is useful for RPG, but useless for kinetic energy projectiles such as armor-piercing projectiles, so the probability of penetrating modern tanks from the tail of the tank is still very high. After all, the armor thickness of these places will not exceed 50 mm.

And like the Tiger King tank in Germany in World War II, it is 7 1 times longer. The muzzle velocity of Chang 88 gun is different when different kinds of ammunition are used. The highest is PzGr.40 APCR ammunition, which is relatively light, but it also reaches 7.3kg, and can shoot the muzzle velocity of1130m/s. At the distance of 100m, the 88 gun can penetrate 304mm vertical homogeneous steel armor or 2300 mm. The penetration depth of Long 88 gun can penetrate the 2200k vertical armor plate with hardness of 132mm at a distance of 2000m, which can meet the requirements of penetrating the side armor and engine armor of modern three-generation main battle tanks.