Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 705
All the tankers are waiting for the flares to fall. The feeling at the moment is really unprecedented. The night has always been a friend of this elite force and the nemesis of the Indian tank force, but now this experience has been reversed.Generally speaking, even if the technology of night vision equipment is slightly better, after the gun is fired once, the shooter will appear as the barrel heats up, but this does not happen, which means that the opponent's detection technology The lead is not 100 meters or 200 meters, but a very huge advantage.

"Commander 2, have you found the laser ranging beam?" Yahini asked.

"Not yet, but some crews turned off the laser warning just now."

"Don't be too big, just be careful."

Yahini climbed out of the turret and looked into the distance with binoculars. The bombardment to the north continued, and each silent arc could briefly illuminate the horizon. If a tank or two was moving, he might see it.However, he guessed that the enemy would not come from the direction they were shooting just now. They would probably take advantage of the soft sound of the gas engine to come around from a certain direction. He could guess the approximate number of routes by himself.Fortunately, he has deployed infantry on the flanks, on the one hand as a warning, but also to prevent the infantry from getting too close to him and being covered by the enemy's long-range firearms.On nights like this, infantry should be able to hear m200 series tanks from 1 meters away.

He communicated several times with the infantry using external communication, but the infantry still hadn't found anything. He was determined to wait a little longer instead of acting rashly.

On a hill less than one kilometer away from the dry river where the Yahini tank group was hiding, a squad of infantrymen sat there, looking up at the stars in the sky. Can't see anything.The whole squad has an anti-tank missile with a thermal imaging device, but the superiors do not allow them to use it without finding the target, because the battery can only maintain a short cooling effect.

The soldiers heard crackling in the woods to the east, like the sound of some trees being crushed a kilometer away, and after a while, the sound died away.They immediately reported the situation to their superiors, and the company commander was noncommittal about these situations and told them to wait.At the same time, the rest of the infantry around heard similar voices.To a certain extent, blacking out the eyes can make people focus on listening more, and all this information was collected by Yahini.He studied the possibility of the enemy's encirclement from the east on the digital map. Obviously, the opponent was very careful and didn't rely on a little advantage to rush directly. Of course, it was more likely to avoid aerial reconnaissance.They want to start from directions that are not easy to be detected by air radar, and they are far more careful than ordinary Indian troops.

Yahini also has a small drone that he can throw, but the small motor-driven aircraft has no night vision equipment and is basically useless.

He picked up the communicator and selected off-vehicle communication on the control box. He had given the company commander a mobile phone on the vehicle as a communication device, and now he had to coordinate with the infantry.Assuming that the enemy uses villages and woods to bypass his flank, he should be very close at this moment. Of course, the enemy is likely not to be close enough to be seen by his own thermal imager. India has seized Type 99 tanks (the one lost by Yahini) , so Americans must know how far this tank can see at night.

As Yahini guessed, a few kilometers away, 14 M1A2 tanks are scattered and approaching. They also cannot obtain enough intelligence from the air, but their thermal imaging cameras have a much longer range than their opponents, but The thermal imager is only a passive device. It can only judge the distance according to the arc, but it cannot measure the distance accurately, which is necessary for calling long-range firepower.

Captain Charles Cook is from Australia and once served in the 2st Australian Armored Regiment, commanding the A1 tank which is similar to the Abrams A[-].

Cook joined this war as a mercenary definitely not for money, nor because he likes Indians, actually he hates Chinese and Indians, and other people of color, he is here to kill.

Half an hour ago, on his way to the main mission area, he accidentally ran into Yahini's convoy, but the two sides were separated by 3.5 kilometers.At first I thought it was the idiots of the Indian tank battalion running around, but soon got the news that the Indian tank company on the flank was devastated.He noticed that his opponent was moving in the opposite direction, so he immediately notified his superiors and prepared to fight.His ambush circle was not completed, and Yahini's tank rushed all the way without noticing it. In a hurry, he used the two most ideally positioned vehicles to open fire and destroyed a tank.Sure enough, the enemy was in chaos, but the chaos didn't last long. While he organized the artillery to shoot rapidly, the enemy retreated in an extremely orderly manner and ran out of the shelling area. Then, because the smoke covered the infrared channel, he Also lost surveillance of the enemy.

Of course he would not give up, 1 followed closely, preparing to cover the enemy secretly, but his platoon stupidly chose to cross the woods, this forest did not appear on the map, but the platoon leader wanted to take a shortcut, As a result, there was a lot of commotion.Now he can only continue to order the 1st platoon to approach the target, hoping that the opponent does not notice.

"Jonathan, do you see the target?" He called his rude platoon leader over the radio.

"I see it, but it's not very clear. They hid in the river bed and couldn't see the chassis."

"Side, you can hit their side turrets."

"The cross-section is a bit small, the enemy is almost facing me, I hope to get closer."

"They may be preparing again, continue to move forward for 200 meters, and can't get any closer."

"receive."

Cook watched his platoon slowly marching westward. The damn reconnaissance in front of the station did not even collect complete terrain information in this area. What modern warfare needs is not only maps with contour lines and roads, but most Fortunately, every building and major river branch and forest are marked on the digital map, especially for tank operations.Of course he can't understand the difficulties of Major General Frings. After losing four Global Hawks, he is really unable to complete such a detailed and complete battlefield terrain survey. precision mapping work.

The 3 platoons approached quietly in a wide area with an arc of about 90 degrees from north to east. Half of the vehicle crews could already see several targets, but the opponents took precautions and hid in a river branch, so they could only Few vehicles can be seen, and the front of the opponent's turret is almost facing the incoming fan.

Yahini waited quietly. The infantry company kept asking whether to launch flares, but was rejected every time. He asked half of the battalion commanders to switch to white light to observe and wait. It seemed a little blind, but in fact there were some of himself. The truth is, he has to wait until the opponent starts to measure the distance. At that moment, the enemy can no longer hide in the dark, and he can make a targeted counterattack.

The laser countermeasure equipment began to flicker, and an opponent in the dark was continuously measuring the distance. The countermeasure system finally started to work. It measured the enemy's position in the east, and at the same time kept countermeasures, making it impossible for the opponent to complete the distance measurement quickly. He ordered all the troops to start to reverse and retreat into the muddy pond, and at the same time ordered the infantry to immediately fire flares to the west.

4 flares flew due east, and then several more, these fell slowly and could illuminate an area for a long time.

The 4 Abrams tanks in the wilderness were completely exposed. They were sneaking forward at a low speed, trying to find a better angle to attack the side from about 2800 meters away. Such a distance is very difficult for the main gun to hit. Wear the opponent's front.

The infantry, who were the first to see the tanks under their noses, immediately rushed to prepare to launch anti-tank missiles. These tanks were indeed too quiet, and they were completely different from those diesel tanks.

Most of Yahini's tank crews are in the wetlands of the winding river. This position makes it difficult for the enemy to shoot at them, and there are many restrictions on their own fire.Right now, the crews at the firing angle are working quickly, and they must complete the shooting before the lights go out.

Tasim finally saw the target that had been measuring the distance to him. He quickly turned the main gun to turn to the opponent. While the car body was reversing hastily and violently fluctuated during the evasive action, he used the image stabilization equipment to quickly carry out a For serial aiming, most tank gunners do not have time to quickly go from ranging to aiming, but he has quick hands and a quick mind.

The enemy is about 99 kilometers away from the 3. In India's high-humidity environment, such a large distance is really not suitable for most thermal imaging cameras.He could see that the opponent's muzzle was aimed at this side, but it never fired. Maybe the laser countermeasures were working, and maybe the flares fell and interfered with its thermal imaging equipment.

After Tasim finished aiming, he fired first. The shells flew straight to the front of the target, but they didn't seem to penetrate. At the same time, there were two other tanks that fired, but none of them hit.

The second round of flares landed more accurately, and the infantry were firing flares at the target. This was not what Yahini wanted. He wanted to illuminate the entire battlefield. Obviously, there were more enemy tanks hiding in the dark.

The continuous lighting made it possible to launch artillery-launched missiles. One crew tried to launch a laser beam shell. After a long flight, the shell accurately hit the opponent's front.The metal jet tenaciously penetrated into the tank, killing the commander on one side, who happened to be the leader of a bad platoon.

Captain Cook decisively ordered to stop the attack. He asked the tanks in front not to fire, and instructed the target location in an orderly manner, waiting for the M270 to clean up the opponent.But he couldn't give the specific location of the target for a while, because the ranging numbers have been changing drastically.

The 99-type laser jammer quickly counteracts the pulse code of the ranging laser. It can predict the arrival time of the next pulse and make a jamming response, destroying the opponent's data collection with a large number.The opponent's confrontation system must take a longer time to adapt.And such a period of time is enough for Yahini to do several things, including seeing the target clearly, releasing smoke, indicating the position of his own artillery fire, and retreating quickly.

Tracing back to the source, this fact also benefited from Yahini himself.During the Pannan retreat a few months ago, it was he who calmly destroyed the jammers on the top of several tank turrets before retreating into Iran. In the end, the opponent did not obtain first-hand information on this equipment.

Now the opponent can only look at the map, and according to his judgment of the enemy's route, delineate a rough fire strike area.

Yahini was in a scattered retreat, waiting for the enemy's fire attack, which in his view was bound to come.He hoped that the infantry would not be covered. If the fragmentation ammunition fell far away, the damage to the tank would be limited. If the enemy threw those mines again, the effect would be limited in the muddy field he chose.

The enemy's rocket attack was thrown away by him again. This time, the long-range attack was more mysterious than the previous one, and it landed a hundred meters away.Yahini's chariot suffered almost no damage, but a piece of shrapnel hit the external objective lens of the periscope, leaving an unclear crack in the field of vision.

The infantry on the commanding heights finally plucked up their courage and began to use anti-tank missiles. This kind of missile has a thermal imaging sight, and can see those enemy tanks within 2 kilometers, and the enemy tanks are limited by the field of vision (the commander dare not stick his head out ), has not noticed the location of these infantry.

A soldier holstered the target in the thermal imaging camera, allowed the launch cue to sound, and fired the first missile.

After the missile escaped from the launch tube, it spread its exaggerated wings and flew into the air.

The image in the sight is immediately converted into the infrared field of view of the missile seeker.All image data is communicated through a single ray trailing the missile.The seeker can always see the target, even when it is climbing.

Similar to a typical angle-seeking missile, the shooter must move the crosshairs to align with the target, the difference being that the angle is sensed differently as the missile flies downward.If you want to be on the safe side, you can aim at the front armor of the target, but it may not be able to destroy it. If you aim at the turret, there is a certain risk of falling behind the tank.

The apprehensive shooter found that the manipulation was far easier than he had expected. The main reason was that the speed of the missile was relatively slow, which was very conducive to his manipulation.The pale tank in the field of vision is getting bigger and bigger, and has not fired a smoke screen.

Novices always had some special luck, and this missile accurately hit the M1A2's turret roof armor, almost piercing the commander's hatch.

The tank took a hit, stopped abruptly, and then began to smoke and continuously spray fire from various exits, including the barrel.In the end, the fire got out of control and exposed several nearby tanks. The tanks only noticed the nearby infantry at this time, but only parallel machine guns could shoot at them.

The Chinese artillery in the rear, the reaction speed is slightly slower than the M270, but there is an infantry that can provide fire correction.After the first 155mm artillery shell fell, the artillery immediately got the corrected data. Although most of the Pakistani infantry had been in battle, there were still a few people who worked as artillery observation posts in Fort Fort.

Cook's most protruding row was completely covered. Our latest self-propelled artillery, using 1 rapid shots, tilted a large amount of ammunition to the surroundings of the 6 tanks that the enemy lost command and were retreating in a straight line within 3 seconds.Following behind, Cook found that his 20 tanks were reimbursed in an instant, and the enemy's losses were still unknown (he could not see the results of the M3 for the time being).

Yahini reminded the infantry to retreat immediately and not to approach him before dawn.He looked at his watch, it was only 2 o'clock, and it was very early before dawn. He didn't know if the enemy would put all his eggs in one basket and rush towards him.He got out of the turret and heard the roar of the plane overhead. The plane came from the west, and it must be his own.Thinking about it, the Chinese Air Force has gradually grasped the advantage and started to fight back.

He waited for a while, and suddenly saw the continuous explosion behind the mountain in front of him, just on the route where the enemy might retreat, and he thought to himself: You also have today?
(End of this chapter)