Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 316 Disrupting the Situation
"Try another grenade," Sandor said.He realized that sub-caliber ammunition does not have an advantage at long distances, and grenades may be able to better utilize the accuracy of this rifled gun.

The loader struggled to lift the only grenade in the turret from the ammunition rack and loaded it into the barrel. At the same time, the gunner selected the grenade trajectory on the fire control panel and adjusted the barrel wear correction by one scale.

The grenade launch mode can also use image stabilization to aim and automatically calculate the shooting elements. However, the gunner knows that under normal circumstances, the use of grenade can only be used to shoot at a stationary target at a long distance. The low initial velocity and curved trajectory determine that the grenade is difficult. Directly hit the maneuvering target at a long distance.However, if a 120mm grenade can explode near the target, this kind of ammunition is quite sure to destroy the walking part of the tank.

The Chinese chariot ahead sensed danger and began to change its course.The changeable route made it impossible for the Indian gunners to predict the advance.Artillery angle measurement equipment can only measure the average angle change of the target within a few seconds, and then calculate the advance shooting amount. Even modern fire control equipment can accurately calculate most of the shooting parameters through the computer, but it takes a few seconds to judge the target. The position behind the clock can still only be sampled by the rotational speed of its own turret (that is, the average rate of change of the angular velocity driving the turret when the gunner tracks the target). Hitting the target is entirely dependent on luck.

Sandor observed the target through a monitor. He did not urge the gunner. The gunner spent nearly 15 seconds on stable tracking again. He was looking forward to the fire control computer being able to measure more accurate linear changes in angular velocity.

Arjun's artillery finally fired again. After a long flight, the shell finally landed not far from the target. The huge explosion took effect, and the chariot of unknown model stopped suddenly.Sandor immediately switched to high-magnification observation, and at the same time called the loader to fill in an armor-piercing shell. It seemed that the power of the shell had damaged the target.But just as the loader struggled to load the shells, the BMP-3-like tank started to move again.

"Damn it," Sandel swore, and it looked like the tank was all right again, maybe just stalled.

Three kilometers away, the driver of the Chinese chariot clings to the joystick to control the direction of the chariot. The blood on his head has covered his eyes, but now is not the time to stop.

Previously, drivers had been driving with their heads up outside to the moonlight, and no driver likes to tuck their heads in the cockpit and steer the vehicle through the narrow sight glass.Moreover, he did not expect to drop a grenade suddenly, and as a result, a single piece broke his forehead.

Now the driver didn't have time to bandage the wound, so he could only take the time to wipe off the blood that blocked his vision with his right sleeve, and then control the tank again through the simple night vision device in front of him.This was a dangerous moment. The blind angle of the night vision equipment was too large, which was not suitable for such a complex terrain. The tank broke through the ditch several times, and the driver relied on his experience to control the tank and rush out.Fortunately, he was skilled, so he didn't stay in one place for a long time and became the target of the enemy.

The company commander asked about the situation from time to time, the driver didn't bother to report the fact that he was wounded, he knew it would be useless, because there was no one to replace him, and there was at least one platoon of enemy tanks waiting for his mistake on the other side of the darkness Now, he thought, he must do his best to give those gunners a little pain.Thinking of this, he pushed open the hatch, and stuck his head out of the cockpit again. The moonlight is good today, and he can use this light to see the road conditions in front of him clearly, so as not to get stuck again.Most of the fixed periscopes on the cockpit have no night vision function, and the only low-light observation mirror has a large dead angle, and the part blocked by the front armor plate cannot be seen, so he has to take risks.

The chariot was roaring on the accelerator in the field, and soon another shell landed 50 meters behind the car. The air wave swept over the driver's head, blowing up the blood-soaked and coagulated hair, and the wound was exposed on the ground. Under the hot air, it hurts endlessly.However, a shell 50 meters away will not pose the slightest threat to the tank until it dies.The driver felt that either his variable speed was working, or the Indian shooter had regressed.

Sandor watched the artillery shells of his side fall one after another around the enemy vehicles, but none of them caused enough threat.The enemy was changing course and speed all the time, which made it more difficult for the gunner to aim.After a round of firing, all the Arjun tanks stopped firing, because the shells were unsustainable, and most of the grenades were stored in the shell racks inside the hull, not in the turrets that were within reach, and the gunners could only wait. It takes at least a minute for the loader to carry these heavy shells.

Li Ping on the east side of the Indian tank was ready to shoot the second round of flares. He was well concealed, and the enemy could not see him and his troops at all.When the Indian army moved through the area, Spanga foresaw the future guerrilla warfare problem, so he set out to formulate an operation that violated international law by driving all the villagers near the railway bridge and blowing up the houses. Now Li Ping is using these ruins to slowly approach the enemy.At a closer distance, he can launch flares at a greater angle, which may increase the duration of the flares. His anti-tank troops do not have too professional launchers, and some are just 35mm launchers on rifles.

The sky was brightly illuminated again, Colonel Sandor noticed from the periscope that the outside became like daylight, he pushed open the hatch and stretched out his head, the whole sky above his head was burning.

"They want to surround and annihilate main battle tanks at night? How is that possible?"

The colonel was hesitant to speak. He never thought that this would happen. You must know that the cost of the thermal imaging equipment of the main battle tank alone can be equivalent to an infantry fighting vehicle. For modern warfare, , which is an insurmountable technical threshold.However, a vicious and unusual commander in the enemy formation dug this hole for the lieutenant colonel, and thought of all the details.Lieutenant Colonel Sandor, he doesn't have much choice now, he can only wait on the spot. If the tank is activated now, the loader may not be able to move the shells into the turret.Although this tank imitates the Leopard II tank and has a large shape, the design of many parts is not reasonable.Of course, Western tanks finally gave up the automatic loader and added a loader post. Part of the reason is that their soldiers are strong enough. For Indian soldiers who are vegetarians all the year round, a 120mm shell is really difficult. Sandor According to statistics on the efficiency of the loaders, only the speed of the first three shells can meet the requirements of the German training program. This is the physical limit of most Indian loaders.

Taking advantage of the outline of the Arjun tank emerging from the white light sight, the Type 97 infantry fighting vehicle finally had the opportunity to counterattack. The tank in the wild maneuver began to slow down under the command of the company commander, which was to launch a laser beam. A prerequisite for weapons.Of course, the chariot cannot completely stop under the enemy's muzzle, and the final aim must rely on the image stabilization system to stabilize the field of view.

The guided shells fired by the 100mm artillery circled the laser beam and flew towards the target in a spiral shape.The Indian tank released smoke and slowly backed up in accordance with standard defensive measures.But the action is a bit late.The first missile to arrive accurately hit the turret of an Arjun tank. When the warhead detonated the reactive armor, the metal jet penetrated the armor and entered the battle compartment.

The hit Indian tank instantly ignited a fire, and then touched the air pressure switch of one fire extinguisher. After 0.5 seconds, the other fire extinguisher was also activated by high temperature, and a large amount of fire extinguishing agent instantly extinguished the fire in the car. The 100mm laser beam round is smaller in size, expect it to destroy a 60 ton tank in one hit.But Lin Huaisheng had already figured this out. He didn't believe that small missiles could quickly destroy the enemy, just like he didn't believe that Yahini boasted that he could deal with enemies several times his own.He believed that only with sufficient firepower could it be possible to engulf the enemy.

A volley of 12 missiles fired by the machine company, no matter what angle these missiles hit Arjun or the reactive armor, its tandem warheads have a high degree of confidence to penetrate Arjun's steel plate .

Before the flares lost their effect, 5 Arjun tanks were hit. Although only 2 of them completely lost their combat effectiveness, Commander Sandor couldn't sit still. He suddenly realized that the enemy should have touched his own door .An hour ago, he was still contemplating how to eliminate the guerrillas in the mountains. He didn't expect to be dragged back by a force that came out of the mountains, and he suffered a big loss.

The lieutenant colonel called the whole team to retreat slowly through the radio. He did not dare to order the release of smoke for the time being, lest the troops become chaotic.Spanga's headquarters strictly ordered him to hold the road for an hour.He could only use the road embankment to block the deadly fire of enemy tanks to the west, while keeping the tanks head-on to the threat to the north.

Sandor's call for help from the headquarters really shocked Spanga. For the past month, he has spent every day in a state of high tension. It was a conspiracy, because the intelligence department had obtained the number and equipment details of the troops transferred by the Chinese Army to Quetta. In his opinion, the enemy was not prepared to defend to the death, because what they brought in was a capable offensive force.The frontline commander named Zhou Yaohua should have come to the frontline with the mission of taking the initiative to break the deadlock.But Spanga's staff did not bother to speculate when or where the enemy might break the situation.He is a brilliant soldier and knows one thing well - war is like a game. The best choice is not to follow the enemy's thinking and anticipate the opponent's offensive. Only by actively attacking can the opponent be exhausted.For this reason, when the army's transportation capacity reached its limit, he thought of a trick, which was to secretly send a newly arrived S300 battalion across the Nar River and complete the deployment. This is a very ideal area. The altitude is not as high as the Suleiman area, which can fill the radar's view to the west, and then cover the firepower over Quetta Airport.Although the missile is bound to become the end of the battle when it hits the sky over Quetta, it is not a problem to deal with the transport plane.

Within 12 hours, Spanga's plan will be completed. The Chinese army will either sit back and watch the transportation line be cut off, or be pinned down to make some countermeasures.

Spanga deployed the weakly mobile 43rd Regiment here to prevent possible counterattacks by the enemy. He did not expect the Chinese army to attack first. What he feared most was that the S300 unit was discovered by the enemy and destroyed together. He didn't know if this battalion had been exposed, and the sudden outbreak of hostility in the Jebri area was still unclear, which made him fall into panic.

(End of this chapter)