Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 266
Sami pulled the firing trigger and fired. The intensive firepower fired by the 23mm machine gun burst out a wall of fire on the ground and quickly extended to the target.The barrage swept across the tank, piercing the weak engine bulkheads and air intake shutters, knocking out the diesel engine.The explosion-proof device activated within a tenth of a second to extinguish the fire, but the tank lost power and became a 47-ton barricade.

This strafing caused trouble for the advancement of the Indian tanks on the ground, but the colonel had no time to be complacent, and he quickly pulled up the plane to prepare for the battle.Because there is an enemy Su-30MKI fighter jet not far away, it is secretly targeting the J-10, and the electronic tactical threat system can roughly determine the position of the enemy plane to the east.However, he had to drop 2 bombs before going into air combat.In the cloud of dust rising from the south of the city, he could see a column of enemy tanks charging westward in scattered formation.Without time to think, he quickly leveled the plane and reduced speed.There was no time to circle around to observe the enemy, because the enemy radar beam was closely following.The colonel swept over the tank group at low altitude, and roughly dropped two bombs in a horizontal bombing method.When he pulled up the fighter plane, he looked back and saw that the throw was a bit sideways and missed any target, but this attack obviously made the Indians a little confused, because the tanks stopped one after another.

The bombing in the air once again bought time for Abad. He reminded the gunner to aim carefully before firing. The rest of the tanks had already fired 3 to 4 shells, but he didn’t want to shoot blindly. The firepower without the aiming head is meaningless. Accuracy is the key. The key.

The sudden stop of the enemy tank caused the stable calculation of angular velocity to be destroyed, and the ballistic calculation was restarted immediately. The accuracy of static-to-static shooting will mainly depend on the distance measurement. And shooting experience is also quite related. In short, the hit rate is probably much higher than static versus dynamic shooting.

The turrets of most of the Indian tanks were still aimed at the north, and they were alerting in the direction they thought was a threat. From this, Abad could judge that he was in the blind spot of the opponent's gunner and vehicle commander at the same time.In theory, only the fixed periscope under the gunner's hatch can see this angle, but in combat, the gunner should not use these devices.At the same time, the turning of the turret also exposed its weaker side turrets.

After a long wait, the aiming was completed.Still according to the impact point of the first shot, the gunner manually corrected the firing line slowly, moved a secret position to one side, and lowered the muzzle slightly.This is his judgment after tracking the movement of the first shell in the eyepiece with his naked eyes, which he believes is more effective than the crosswind sensor on the turret.

With a loud noise, the shell flew straight to the target under the extremely high chamber pressure. During the final flight, it began to become a little light, but this was expected by the gunner. The outdated ballistic computer on this tank, These variables cannot be calculated based on impact point, but the experience of the gunner can make up for it.

The shell easily penetrated the rear of the turret protected by non-reactive armor, approximately to the side of the autoloader turret, and the tungsten-core penetrator detonated the ammunition contained within. The T90's explosion suppression devices acted quickly, but the fire was out of control within a second and spread to the front of the battle room.After all four fire extinguishing bottles installed in various positions of the turret gradually lost pressure, the ammunition under the floor also began to burn and explode.In the end, only the driver climbed out from the front of the vehicle and rolled to the ground, and the rest of the crew failed to climb out of the tank.Abad watched as the enemy's turret was thrown up by the huge explosion and fell hard to the ground.

"This is Master White Tiger?" He sneered.He ambushed a regiment of the Indian 72st Armored Division equipped with T1 on the outskirts of Karachi. The enemy commander began to organize an effective counterattack after his second shot. Finding out who was beating him, it can be seen that the White Tiger Master is not as magical as they boasted.

"I hope he can continue to be confused." He felt a little smug in his heart, "Reloading is too slow, hurry up!"

Di Jiaqua, 3 kilometers away, was a little dizzy, not only confused by the unprovoked attack, but also inexplicable electronic interference made him lose contact with the regiment leader who was very close.The communication equipment of the T90 tank provided by Russia is very omitted. Even this command tank is only equipped with a VHF radio with a slightly higher power. The frequency band and channel are very limited. The 60-watt ultra-high-power calls used between departments are no longer possible.

"What the hell? Did anyone see who was firing at us?" he yelled into the radio, where he was still able to make duplex conversations with the surrounding A Company tanks by virtue of his power advantage.

"Company commander, I saw that the enemy's artillery shells didn't seem to be fired from the city, but flew from the front..."

"you sure?"

"Not sure."

Di Jiaqua suddenly realized that he preconceived that the enemy's firepower should come from a hidden direction, but he never paid attention to the unobstructed front.He turned the commander's sight glass to the west, but a burning tank in front of him blocked his view for a moment.

"Go around that tank, be careful. The turret hits the 270 bearing." He issued orders to the driver and gunner through the intercom in the car.The tank moved slowly to one side.

A deafening sound of metal tearing penetrated everyone's eardrums.

The air pressure alarm indicator flashed for a while, and then went out. It took Dijiaqua a second to realize that the core of the armor-piercing projectile fired by the enemy was broken, and the frontal armor of the T90 protected himself.He quickly put his eye on the eyepiece again, and adjusted the magnification to observe in the general direction. Now he can see that there are 3 black spots right there. With a larger magnification, he finally recognized that it was the muzzle alignment. Some kind of armored vehicle of its own.

"Did they fire the howitzers out at us?" a thought flashed through him.

"Damn it, the enemy is right under our noses and no one has noticed?" He shouted into the radio, as if to blame someone.His command tank has always been at the back of the formation, and it seems understandable that he didn't find the frontal enemy situation at the first time, but he turned the attention of the whole company to the wrong direction, which was indeed an undisputed miscommand.

"All fire at the frontal enemy. Hit hard?"

The gunner began to aim and measure the distance. He realized that this was a shot against time, so he quickly fired the laser to measure the distance.Although the laser warning/suppression system has not been effective, he knows that the ranging laser on the opposite side must also be scanning from his car body to obtain distance information.

"3300 meters?" The gunner couldn't believe the readings in front of him. This distance was too far. He knew that ballistic calculations allowed such long-distance shooting, but this 125mm gun had never shown extraordinary accuracy. Take a gamble.

The Indian T90s that were relieved fired one after another three kilometers away, but none of the shells hit; from the scope, it can be seen that these shells began to fly around about 2800 meters away, and at the last moment they almost completely lost stability. Regularly deviates from the target, and there is no way to correct it.

"How did this happen?" Azarid was also surprised. He thought about it further. He didn't know why, at the same distance, the enemy's shooting was so accurate?

In the sky, the second Il-76 landed smoothly on the old airport.Lin Huaisheng's second army arrived. Although the combined strength of these troops was not enough to defend the airport, it did bring him some hope.He ordered the paratroopers who arrived earlier to immediately support the Pakistani tank destroyers on the south side of the runway, where the situation was most critical.Lao Ding has been stopping there to observe the situation on the battlefield. He told Lin Huaisheng that those cars fought extremely well and completely stopped the enemy's rapid passage through the open field. Now that the enemy started to get confused, he stopped and shot at him .However, Lin Huaisheng knew that these chariots would not last long, so he must immediately support them in the battle.

A paratrooper combat vehicle located on the south side of the runway rushed to the launch position first and saw enemy tanks 4.5 kilometers away.After a very short preparation time, the shooter completed the combat preparations, and then launched a Red Arrow missile. This is a not-so-advanced anti-tank missile that relies on optical aiming and tracking. Its flight speed is very slow. The only advantage is that , will not touch the T90's active defense system.The shooter stared at the word mark inside the scope, aimed it at the target, and watched the missile slowly "stick" to the target automatically.In the end, the shooter saw a dazzling white flame, but after the flame passed, the T90 was still maneuvering, and it was obviously not penetrated.

Dijiaqua's attention was once again drawn to the northwest, and it was clear that the enemy's firepower to block it did not come from the same direction.This made him have a wrong judgment: these enemies came prepared, and he was crashing into the enemy's ambush circle.

In the air, the colonel has successfully found the Su-30MKI fighter that has been coveting him.After the radar locked on each other, the opponent suddenly lost his courage and started to turn around and run away. Maybe it didn't carry medium-range bombs, and he didn't know that this J-10 didn't have medium-range bombs either.

"Who is still in the air? The Lion Squadron is fleeing. I need information on the direction of the coast." He shouted to the radio. Song Ning had already flown away from the battlefield to find the refueling plane, and the command plane in the sky was also missing. Judging from the data link, there are still several fighter jets intercepting enemy planes that continue to break through the Suleiman Mountains in the air, but the direction to the south is already very empty.He knows that the Indians will not take advantage of this empty situation. They will also calculate the time spent in the air for the last combat aircraft to take off from Quetta. Now these aircraft must leave this airspace. The window of the Indian Air Force period is emerging.

Without an early warning command plane to monitor the south, he can only keep an eye on himself.Sure enough, after he turned to the south, he found enemy fighter planes appearing from the sea. The radar identification was a two-plane formation of MiG-29s.The two enemy planes that were about to run out of fuel were not what he was most worried about. What he was most afraid of was that the enemy would take the opportunity to conduct paratrooper operations in this area.From the fact that the enemy only destroyed the auxiliary facilities of the airport and did not directly destroy the runway, he could also guess the possible next move of the enemy.

(End of this chapter)