Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 279 Accurate Night Shooting

Abad quietly moved to the old airport complex in the west. It was pitch black and there were no troops stationed there yet.He had 19 shells left, all armor-piercing, which was more than enough for him.The enemy's turning of the guns to the south was what he wanted. The early night vision equipment on the Type 89 can detect the enemy with the light of airport searchlights and flares, and he heard that the gunner and commander of the T90 share the channel of the thermal imaging camera. It's hard to find himself hiding in the dark. Whether this rumor is true or not, he needs to use his life to verify it.

The driver cleverly found the gap in the thick machine castle, so that the gun barrel could just stretch through.The gunners took careful aim at the hordes of enemy tanks speeding past in front, and the Indians were deep behind enemy lines, so that they did not dare to disperse their forces, and they did not send even a single platoon to charge towards this dark building, breaking straight to the old airfield which is still in use , but exposed the weak side, which is a big mistake.

As before, the laser ranging did not cause any legendary photoelectric suppression. The aiming light spot followed the turret of an Indian tank steadily. The turret of the Type 89 rotated slowly, which is the most stable for measuring angular velocity. Move gently.

After the loud noise that shook the sky, the completely unsuspecting tank exploded in an emergency stop. The body hadn't stopped yet, but the turret had already exploded into the sky.

The Type 89 car body has not yet stopped under the huge recoil, and all the personnel on the car have started to operate at high speed. The loader began to load the heavy shells and propellants in place, while Abad was busy searching for the next target.The huge fire when the tank destroyer fired did not cause any reaction from the Indian tanks, and they continued to bury their heads in the forward charge.Obviously, most of the car commanders focused their attention on the front. Facing the Red Arrow 9, which would be destroyed in one blow, it was indeed reasonable to take care of one thing and lose another.

Abad couldn't help sneering, he saw the enemy's weakness.Before that, he thought that the White Tiger Division had no weaknesses.But now he knows that behind their valor lies the panic-stricken nature. Perhaps these tankers were India's best soldiers. The commander still hasn't done his full duty; as a commander, he should keep an eye on the hidden threat at all times during the attack, and his line of sight should search around instead of overlapping the gunner's firing line too much.

A few months ago, Abad was an aging rookie commanding an equally amateur car rental and a huge outdated anti-tank gun vehicle, and his target score was [-] out of [-], which turned out to be the best in the regiment .After being honed by brutal wars, the entire regiment has disappeared.But now, he could already see the fault in the enemy's elite division.

The second round of shells has been loaded calmly, and the gunner has also completed aiming. It is not difficult for a well-trained crew to hit a target moving at a constant speed 600 meters away.

After the deafening shooting sound, the turret of another T90 was blown up to the sky. The gunner's shooting was very tricky. He knew where to shoot to remove the turret, so that it was difficult for the rest of the Indian tanks to distinguish and destroy the direction of the tank's firepower. up. In his eyes, the T90 is no longer an extremely tough monster, but an ordinary target that can be easily destroyed.

Azarid has been observing the enemy's launch vehicles in front of him. He saw 4 launch points, and there may be some hidden ones. Come forward, otherwise there is no way to shoot.He really regretted not letting infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled mortars accompany him at the beginning. At that time, he rejected those self-propelled mortars with insufficient climbing ability because he felt cumbersome, but now he urgently needs these curved firepower but does not have one.The air force must be hopeless, he can only rely on the loss of the entire platoon and company to fight against these cheap but very despicable wheeled tanks.

The Chinese shooters stationed at the northernmost end of the airport responded calmly. These tanks hid behind the thick concrete stone piers as an excellent cover.After extremist groups stormed the naval base in Karachi and destroyed several P3Cs a few years ago, most of Pakistan's airports built these thick barricades to prevent trucks laden with explosives from rushing into the airport unhindered.These barricades are now life-saving bunkers.In terms of the armor of the launching vehicle itself, it is very difficult to resist the 90mm machine gun of the T12.7.Fight tanks with these 4X4 chassis wheeled vehicles, completely asymmetrical.According to Lin Huaisheng's whimsical order, the primary target of the missile at a long distance should be the enemy's command vehicle, but right now, the enemy is rushing towards them like a tide under the cover of darkness, and it is very easy to find a clear target to shoot at. difficult,.

On the launch vehicle carried by the company commander, the shooter aimed the reticle at the outline of an enemy tank, and slowly moved the firing line.With an order, a missile flew away from the launch pad and flew straight away with a trail of smoke.

The guidance control box constantly accepts the instructions of the TV goniometer, and transmits the correction signal to the receiver through the laser transmitter, and it will hit the target in sight.But as the flares fell from the sky, the tank suddenly disappeared into the darkness again, and soon, no outlines could be seen in the thermal imager.The missile was still flying forward in a daze, and after only a few seconds, it would mop away. Fortunately, the commander has been searching for the rest of the targets.

"Turn to the target at 2 o'clock." Before the commander finished speaking, there was a huge explosion in his ear, followed by the crackling sound of gravel flying onto the armor plate.It was the tank at 2 o'clock that fired and hit the concrete bunker.But its blow also completely exposed itself.

The shooter turns the single stick of the console and turns to this new target. The action should not be too hasty, so as not to miss the target when the laser receiver loses signal, and it should not be too slow, after all, this is the last opportunity that is fleeting.

Missiles swerve widely in the air, closely following the shooter's elusive line of fire.Now there is no time to range the target and not know if it is still within the minimum range, everything is with the commander's split-second judgment.

The missile gradually approached the line of sight, and in an instant it hit the moving T90S. It almost missed the target, but it still hit.The tank's explosion exposed the rest of the tanks behind it.The company commander secretly prayed that the tank would continue to burn, but contrary to expectations, the fire quickly diminished, and the rest of the Indian tanks also hid in the darkness again.If the Indian tanks hadn't fired, they could have stalked up while the flares dimmed.Once their artillery fires a shot, the white image in the opponent's commander's simple thermal imager will remain for a long time.

The crazy counterattack of the Indians finally reaped the first results. The launcher of a missile launch vehicle was hit by a perfectly accurate armor-piercing projectile. The kinetic energy projectile directly hit the optical sighting device in the middle of the launcher, leaving a very This blow made the follow-up launcher tilt down, and the chariot immediately lost its combat effectiveness.The company commander ordered the tank to withdraw from the battle quickly, but the tank was exposed during the retreat and was hit by a laser beam missile and caught fire.

The company commander guarding the northern end of the airfield has been calling the headquarters. He has only 5 tanks and obviously cannot delay the enemy. The enemy is almost here in a blink of an eye.

Within 100 seconds, Abad's 4 shots had stopped 3 enemy tanks on the road, and his shots gradually attracted the attention of the enemy.Several flanking T90s started turning their turrets, and one of them started firing at the lone tank. The Type 89 was forced to emit smoke and retreat slowly.The tank's turret is too big and high, which is an obvious weakness, and it can't be hidden as well as those 4-wheeled missile launchers that can be raised and lowered with the follow-up launcher.A round of armor-piercing bullets fired high hit the commander's conning tower, knocking off the periscope on Abad's head together with the machine gun.He immediately gave the order to stop, turned the guns, and turned on the tank.The enemy was reloading, an excellent opportunity he couldn't bear to give up.The Indian tank was getting closer and closer, and its machine gun had been firing in short bursts. In the gunner's sight, the white light from the 12.7mm tracer bullets rushed towards him. Such shooting can effectively guide the target for other companions.The bullets hit the thin turret from time to time, making a crackling sound. Fortunately, there are veterans here, and they will not be distracted too much.

The gunner pressed the launch button on the gun console, and waited slowly for the missile computer to correct the shooting point, but at the moment of firing, the T90, which was approaching at high speed, suddenly stopped suddenly.This is a cunning move to destroy the lead of the shot, which could theoretically destroy the line of sight tracking and allow the angular velocity calculation to restart.In simple disturbance shooting, stable tracking is the fundamental requirement for measuring angular velocity values. Compared with measuring distance or crosswind and other elements, this is the slowest link.The Indian commander has enough reasons to believe that his tactful stop and turn to reverse can roughly make up for the time difference of the second round of the T90 autoloader; perhaps he has obtained similar experience on other battlefields, and the change Speed ​​can make the enemy's shooting hit rate drop.However, the anti-tank destroyer he faced today was different. Its shooter could aim quickly with full manual control, even without stopping the firing line to fine-tune the elevation angle.The gunner has controlled various corrections invisibly.

While the muzzle was moving horizontally, it fired an astonishing shot. A chariot without shooting door technology should not have such an ability, but the shell accurately hit the front of the Indian tank that was lifting the barrel for loading. , destroyed the tank's cradle and rear counterweight.The heavy artillery lost its support and collapsed to one side, pressing the angry officer underneath.The fire in the rear was quickly extinguished as the extra communications equipment crowded out too much rear ammunition, and the ventilation equipment pushed the smoke out of the tank.

Abad didn't see the tank on fire, nor did he see anyone escape, but the elevation angle of the cannon was abnormally high. He didn't have time to think about it, and ordered the gunner to fire another round in order to completely destroy it.

The rest of the Indian tanks have also discovered this tank destroyer hiding on the flanks, but they are temporarily in a blind spot for shooting, watching the 1st battalion commander's car being completely destroyed by the second shell.

(End of this chapter)