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Chapter 230 Air-ground coordination
After Liu Xiu finished speaking, he asked a shocking question:
"What if our current identity is reversed! We are well-equipped, have planes and tanks, especially a lot of planes, but not many soldiers, and the enemy has a lot of soldiers, but no planes and no tanks, then how should we fight? !
Or the enemy has about the same number of fighters and fighters as us, so how should we fight! How can the aircraft and ground teams cooperate to minimize our losses and casualties? "

Following Liu Xiu's question, the students and teachers sitting here also fell into deep thought, thinking about Liu Xiu's question!
However, at this time, Li Yunlong raised his hand again. Liu Xiu naturally signaled Li Yunlong to answer, and Li Yunlong stood up and said:
"I'm talking about Comrade Liu Xiu! In fact, you have already found the answer to your question! Didn't you already practice it in the battle of Zhaozhuang when Chu Yunfei and I faced off! Between the Air Force and the Army The most important factor is how to correctly guide the fighter planes to bomb!"

Regarding Li Yunlong's words, Liu Xiu had to admit Li Yunlong's war acumen, because it was true that the most important factor in the integration of air and land was the coordination of bombing guidance.

Since the Italian pilot dropped the first bomb in 1911, air power has begun to show its power, bringing human warfare from the two-dimensional world into the three-dimensional world. At the same time, a new problem has been brought about, which is the cooperation between air power and ground power. This has become an unavoidable and long-standing problem that has always troubled military commanders of various armies for more than a hundred years.

To put it simply, air-ground coordination is to solve who you are and who I am, that is, identification of friend or foe, what I want you to do, that is, task assignment, and how well you do it, that is, the effect of bombing or attack. This is a process that starts over and over again. Looking at just a few problems, I don’t know how many detours we have gone through and how many setbacks we have suffered in actually solving them.

Because during World War II, the speed of ground attack aircraft and bombers exceeded 400 kilometers per hour, and they would pass by in the crossfire line in a matter of minutes at most.

At this time, the ground must be filled with smoke and flames. The enemy and us are intertwined with each other. It is impossible to distinguish them instantly. It often takes several flights to determine. The pilot must not only pay attention to the ground, but also pay attention to whether there are enemies in the air. fighter jet.

And the premise of all this is that there is no getting lost or flying to the wrong place. You must know that when GPS was not popular, flying to the wrong location or even getting lost was common.

At that time, the pilot needs to memorize the local map, the settings of the navigation points, and the terrain and features of the target area. Otherwise, if he flies wrongly, it will be a minor problem and he may not even be able to fly back. At the same time, there will be constant urging from superiors, requests or calls for help from ground personnel in the pilot's earphones. In this case, can the pilot carefully distinguish between friend and foe? Therefore, accidental explosion is naturally inevitable!
But fortunately, Liu Xiu got a map of enemies and friends after the Anti-Japanese War. This kind of navigation map is countless times more powerful than GPS. So you don’t have to worry about flying by mistake or bombing by mistake.

In the early days of the Shude battlefield, we often saw the engine room behind the tank being covered with its own flag. However, this flag was easy to distinguish and could prevent the air force from accidentally bombing it. Of course, this is only done when the army has the air supremacy. When it reaches the Western Front battlefield or the later stage of Shude battlefield, it will basically not be seen. Doing this again is tantamount to asking for a fight.

However, this method can only be the simplest identification of friend and foe. The battlefield situation is ever-changing. It not only prevents accidental damage but also achieves the purpose of combat. This makes it more complicated and requires timely communication between the air and ground.

Although the fighter planes in World War II already have radios, the radios are not like in the game, where they can communicate at any time, without noise, interference, or communication failure. After all, let alone World War II, there is radio interference even in modern wars!
In World War II, radios often had trouble making calls and contact, and noise made communication difficult. Not to mention that the Air Force and Army often used different frequency bands, and it was common for the Air Force and the Army not to communicate with each other.

The most famous accidental attack was the accidental attack on the 82nd Airborne Lion during the landing in Sicily on the night of July 11, 1943. This was the case. The radio frequency bands of the air force, ground air defense forces and landing fleet were different, and the superiors did not do a good job. communication, twenty-three planes were shot down, and hundreds of well-trained airborne troops were killed or injured. During the development process, the US military proposed the method of developing identification boards, and during use, it was gradually able to indicate the attack direction and target to the attack aircraft. This was a huge improvement at the time. For the first time, air-ground coordination began to be controlled, greatly improving attack efficiency.

Then during use, it was discovered that ground guides could be set up to allow air force pilots in the army's frontline units to directly communicate with attack aircraft via radio, and there would be no difficulties and obstacles in communication, reducing the possibility of accidental strikes. At the same time, light aircraft such as L-6 are used for aerial observation and radio relay communication.

This works well in the Namandi landing, but takes up valuable trained pilot resources. Moreover, stripes were used on combat aircraft during the Normandy landings, which were simple and effective to prevent accidental strikes. In an operation as large as the Normandy landings, the rate of air-ground accidental attacks was negligible. This was the highest level of air-ground coordination during World War II.

Of course, this method of guidance was also spread to the Xian'ao battlefield. In the Changjin Lake movie, Lei Zhisheng died trying to take away the red smoke grenades dropped by the reconnaissance aircraft to guide the bombing. Fortunately, because The existence of Liu Xiu changed the tragedy in the movie.

Because Liu Xiu is a military fan and a time traveler, he naturally understands how to solve the problem of correct bombing of fighter planes. That's why Li Yunlong used bombing guidance for the first time in the battle between Zhao Zhuang and Li Yunlong, but after Li Yunlong's answer, Liu Xiu smiled and said:

"That's right! I've found a way! Otherwise, I wouldn't dare to stand here and explain it to you! Although I have found it, I can't ask the Air Force instructors to fly over every time! So teach the Army how to do it correctly Using bombing guidance is the real purpose of my class here!
After all, the fighter planes on the battlefield are fleeting, and the day lily may be cold by the time the Air Force flight instructor flies over to guide them! Now I am here to explain how to conduct bombing guidance. After you graduate and go back, you can conduct bombing guidance training! "

Liu Xiu then explained what should be paid attention to before conducting bombing guidance. For example, if there are a large number of anti-aircraft artillery on the enemy position, then do not conduct bombing guidance, because this is not bombing guidance, but guiding bombers to die. Another example is Effective communication before bombing leads.

For example, how big is the enemy's position and whether there are any strong fortifications, etc.

After all, it is natural to use different bombs when facing different targets. If it is a solid fortification, then it is natural to use a bomb with a delayed collision fuse. If it is an unprotected person, then clustering is naturally the best.

However, if it is a convoy of armored tanks, then incendiary bombs are the most effective.

(End of this chapter)