Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 504 Run or fight back
Yahini's sneak attack entered the third round. The enemy shrank appropriately and used the terrain to hide, but they did not attack blindly, as if they had lost their temper at all.The situation was beyond Yahini's expectations. He had seen many irascible Indian commanders get hotheaded after several rounds of blows. They usually outflanked from both sides to show that they had the initiative.But apart from the mortar fire that landed far away, he has not received a decent counterattack.This inevitably made the company commander suspicious. His ability to go deep behind enemy lines is undoubtedly a technical advantage, but the battlefield is always one-way and transparent, and the enemy will see every move.How would the commander of the 9th Brigade respond?Will the latest get in the Apache helicopter?This is indeed a serious problem.

The 9th Armored Brigade suffered a one-sided blow, and had no power to fight back in the night. The opponent controlled the distance well, making the T72's observation methods useless.There are more and more burning wrecks left on the periphery. The shrinking tank group began to emit hot smoke and ignite some oil drums on the flanks to destroy the thermal imager observation of the Pakistani tanks. However, these passive defense methods have limited effects. As long as the opponent Still hiding in the dark and constantly moving, it is still possible to obtain an effective image after the gain under the constant adjustment of the angle, and then capture the outline of the tank.The situation of being beaten cannot be reversed for a while.

Although the fight went smoothly, Yahini still turned to the direction of the deputy company commander's unit again in fear, to observe. After firing, he would look there every 50 to 5 seconds.The detachment of the deputy company commander also consists of 1.2 tanks, just [-] kilometers to the south, forming a crossfire with his own detachment.

In a blink of an eye, a Type 99 tank caught fire and exploded. The white light from the explosion blocked the other vehicles in Yahini's sight. The shining light spot swayed up and down, from far to near, affixed to the second tank, and succeeded in an instant, destroying the tank in one fell swoop.

This is a typical air-to-ground strike on February [-], and the opponent's hit rate is [-]%. It can be seen that the launch platform is quite stable, and it is by no means a fighter jet.

"It's an enemy helicopter, retreat immediately and launch interference."

While calling for retreat, he turned the peripheral vision device.Subsequently, the hovering enemy helicopter was captured in the thermal imager, about 2 to 3 kilometers away, with various weapons hanging under the short wings, which looked hideous and rough.

Originally, Yahini could not identify the model of the helicopter through a thermal imaging silhouette at such a long distance, but the huge millimeter-wave radar on the rotor of the helicopter clearly showed that it was an Apache helicopter that he feared the most. Recently, rumors of this new type of weapon appearing on the front line have been constant. A few days ago, his position was attacked by a helicopter suspected of being an Apache. Finally, thanks to a fighter jet from the Air Force, it was repelled, but Today, with all communications lost, it is impossible for the Air Force to come to help.

"All back up and retreat into the mountains."

Ten seconds later, he issued a second order.But the massacre of Apache is still going on. The Indian pilots are simply daring. One of the helicopters without millimeter-wave radar rushed straight from the other side and almost flew over the head of the squadron tank. You can see the deputy company commander’s car. The anti-aircraft machine gun started to fight back, but the effect was very little. Apache shook around a few times, avoided the weak firepower, and then used a series of rockets to destroy the tank cleanly; the most elite direct company of the armored group, Lost 10 expensive tanks, just in 3 seconds.

Yahini has not felt fear for a long time. Even half a year ago, he was still a trainee commander, and he was not too nervous when facing about a battalion of enemy tanks by bicycle in the desert. The swaying barrel can see that the enemy can't see himself.But the current situation is completely different. After the enemy tried a small killing method, an invisible, one-sided pressure almost crushed him.It wasn't 2 slow-moving transport helicopters, and they almost certainly had laser warnings, but there was no way out, and he had to try a counterattack.

"The enemy's altitude is within the shooting range, aim and fire, and replace with laser-guided shells."

At a desperate distance, Tasim fired an armor-piercing round at the ever-moving enemy helicopter before he could even measure the range.Of course, everyone knows that it is impossible to hit, and this kind of blind shooting is just to change into a laser beam shell as soon as possible to try your luck.He watched the shells flying far away, and while the loading machine was jingling, while loading, the gunner measured the range of the still visible Apache (the other longbow was hidden in the darkness). The only thing he can do right now.

In the gunner's field of view, the Apache was moving rapidly across the air to acquire a new firing position, and in a few moments it ran out of his narrow-field sight.Yahini can still keep up with the target with a wide-angle, small magnification and wide field of view, but the gunner's field of view is still slowly rotating with the turret. To put it bluntly, the tank's sighting does not exist to capture this kind of target at all.The units in the distance are releasing smoke in desperation, which makes the air killers have to constantly change positions. Of course, their movement is much faster than that of tanks.The top machine gun of the tracked tank couldn't keep up with its movement at all, and the flames fired by the tank could be seen dancing in the air, completely unable to touch the helicopter.Fortunately, this Apache only moved horizontally and did not use vertical maneuvering, so it seemed a little underestimated. Of course, with such a huge advantage, some urgency is inevitable.

The Apache skirted the side of the tank, stopped again, and then quickly hovered and turned, apparently needing a stable platform before firing.Seeing that the time was ripe, Tasim pressed the launch button of the laser rangefinder, and when the 2.1 km number jumped out on the screen, the helicopter gave up shooting and quickly moved to get rid of the continuous laser irradiation. Obviously, as soon as the laser hit the plane, He reacted much faster than the previous Russian-made aircraft, indicating that some kind of extremely sensitive laser warning equipment had worked.It is almost impossible to use the irradiator of the laser beam missile to continuously track its angle change and launch an attack.

However, this failed attack temporarily destroyed the attack of the last two tanks of this arrogant helicopter unit, but the Apache was still unwilling to give up, and continued to fly around the remaining tanks looking for opportunities, while the other still watched. less than.

"Maybe we should retreat quietly?" A thought haunted Yahini. He always felt that he had at least the talent to take on the important task of commanding an armored regiment, because he always made the right choice in fierce battles faster than other commanders. But right now, his thoughts are a little messed up.The enemy may not have seen him yet. If you allow your teammates to sacrifice, at least you can buy some time to hide in the mountains, save half of your troops, and continue to provoke the opponent, which will eventually lead to the destruction of the whole team. Is it meaningful?

"I think... we still..."

"Listen to me, let me try again." It was Tasim who spoke, which surprised Yahini secretly. Tasim has never been brave, although his artillery was quite accurate.

"Are you sure?" he blurted out.

"No, but I want to try."

After hesitating for a second, Yahini finally made a decision: "Okay, let's fight."

The chariot suddenly stopped and stayed at the end of the team. At this moment, the rest of the tanks had retreated a lot. Yahini gave the gunner the trust and stopped to take a gamble. He didn't know what Tasim could do. You can use clumsy missiles to hit that nimble helicopter like a dragonfly, but give it a try anyway.

The enemy is 2000 to 2500 meters away. If this blow is sent flying, the most serious consequence that may be caused is to expose yourself. Then the enemy will quickly rush over and wipe out the tank after finishing the detachment; of course, if you do not fight back, The enemy is still likely to pounce, after all, they have a search radar that can see through night and smoke.

Just when Yahini made a difficult decision, the defiant Apache easily found a new shooting position, and it hovered in the air again.Yahini turned the sight by 60° before finding the target. After the turret followed steadily, Tasim was able to see the target again.His chances are very slim. If he continues to track the target in the usual way, the enemy will notice it in no more than a second. It only needs to move sideways for a certain distance horizontally, or pull it up directly, to destroy all aim.

Tasim pressed the laser on his right hand to aim at the sight, he aimed at the upper part of the enemy plane's rotor, and then cut off the fire decisively.This is the method he came up with on a whim. Although it is not aimed directly, it can at least keep up with the enemy's angle movement, and then aim at the last moment. Whether this method is possible, he does not know, because the enemy's precision The distance is not clear, and on the other hand, at the last moment, the laser beam missile can only correct a few close angles along with the front sight in the scope, and the enemy's large-scale maneuvering in any direction , can escape the sight of the scope in an instant.How is the timing?It's all about luck.

During the huge shaking, both the commander and the gunner tightly held their respective grips, and put their eyes on the eyepiece. The image stabilization director counteracted the shaking of the vehicle body, which allowed them to watch this cluster of vengeful flames Throw it high and fly towards the target.

This is an impulsive counterattack, theoretically absurd to the extreme, and no tanker in the world has ever fought against a dexterous attack helicopter like this.Although a few hours ago, Tasim just used this artillery-launched missile that can control the flight path in a small area to knock down a heavy transport plane, but at that time the helicopter was transporting troops, and it was a little immobile, and it was very likely Mi 171 does not have high-precision laser equipment; Apache's response must be much more sensitive.

The impatient Indian pilot finally caught the infrared signal of the still stubborn tank on the ground in the smoke and dust. The effect of hot smoke against thermal imaging is not good, and he can easily complete the tracking.They had just returned from training at the U.S. military base in Bahrain. Although there was no time to fully complete the outline, it seemed that there was no serious problem in displaying 99% of the capabilities of this armed helicopter. Joining the battle at this moment, the team members had a great sense of historical mission to turn the crisis around.Although the first attack two days ago was not smooth, but today I finally caught a good opportunity. It is judged that the tank below is the Type [-] that the enemy relies on most and is not easily put into battle.

Although the U.S. military only gave India the old model of Hellfire missiles, which require relatively stable laser irradiation, it is more than enough to deal with tanks.From the perspective of the pilot, no matter how the tank crawling on the ground evades, it is almost in slow motion.Just in case, all the defensive sensors on the helicopter are in the receiving state, and if necessary, they can destroy the laser range by dodging, or directly launch jamming shells to deceive surface-to-air missiles.Not far from the north, there is another group of enemy tanks. He has already known through the data link information that the Apache Longbow carrying millimeter-wave radar can clearly see everything around. The enemy has no mobile anti-aircraft guns or anti-aircraft missiles. Vehicles, there are only about ten main battle tanks, in other words, they are just a pile of scrap metal.

A beam of laser light shot out from the spherical avionics pod on the gunship's nose, steadily tracking the enemy tank trying to escape through the smoke, and the enemy was still dazed at the moment.According to the American instructors, if the enemy tank detects the attack, they can choose to fly closer. Although the observation equipment of the tank can be 360° around, the blind angle of the upper field of view is very large, especially at night.He could even see clearly that the remote control machine gun on the top of the Type 99 tank was spinning around, which showed that the commander didn't know where he was at all.In fact, the use of machine guns is enough to destroy the tank, but to be on the safe side, the shooter is determined to use a missile. Anyway, this helicopter carries more than ten missiles and a large number of rockets, which is enough to reimburse an enemy company; the shooter calmly completes the lock , and then fired a missile, he did not know the timing was slightly later than Tasim fired the shell.

Tasim counted the time silently in his heart, and it was impossible for all fire control equipment to give him the correct answer.He can't adjust the beam of the laser beam too early, which may be detected by the enemy plane; nor too late, so that the missile will not have time to adjust to pass the target, in short, it is so twisted.

Seeing the enemy launch a missile, he held the handles on both sides of the aiming console horizontally with both hands, pushed forward slightly, and instantly aimed the crosshair at the bottom of the enemy plane's rotor.The missile flying in a spiral shape in the air was ordered to fall downward.The missile hit the helicopter in the sky with a perfect parabola, and almost at the same time as the Apache siren sounded, the missile directly penetrated the engine compartment and exploded there.

This helicopter is famous for its dexterity and strength, but the damage this time is not trivial, the entire rotor part was directly destroyed and blown up. Although the two pilots were protected from being killed by the armor and the thick canopy, the helicopter suddenly Losing lift, it fell straight down, and the Hellfire missile that was about to hit the tank, also because of the loss of illumination, passed one meter above the tank turret and fell into the sand in the distance.

(End of this chapter)