Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 730 Missile Failure
The retreat of the Type 13 assault guns turned into a disaster. He Fan concentrated a battalion of howitzers and launched a continuous bombardment of its hidden area. With the instructions of the 99 tank company, even if it ran out of the tank by using the low-lying terrain Cannon shooting range, still can't simply retreat.Of the three artillery companies in the entire artillery battalion, one is always firing, one is in transfer, and the other is replenishing ammunition in the reserve position.There are six 6mm guns ramping fire at any time.Coupled with an artillery radar at the battalion headquarters, which keeps an eye on the opponent's movements, the battalion commander can dispatch a company on the reserve position at any time to suppress it.Major General Frings needs to face the pressure of fighting on two fronts. Although the Pakistani army in the north does not seem to be ready for battle, he must leave some artillery ready.He can only hand over the task of suppressing Chinese artillery to the Air Force, but it is limited to this area, and it is not a place where the U.S. Air Force can dispatch as it pleases.

This area, which the enemy quickly fell to, also hides Type 13 wheeled assault guns and some American-made Stryker wheeled tanks.Yelinsky's command routine was completely expected by He Fan. He used wheeled tanks to form a mixed force as a vanguard to conduct forward reconnaissance and indicate targets for the artillery, but the final result was to hit a rock with an egg.

Right now his self-propelled artillery has a limited range and is completely suppressed.The 155mm grenade fired by the Chinese artillery has a very large range of damage to wheeled tanks. Among the large number of tanks waiting to escape on the road, almost half of them were destroyed by one or two wheels, or even more than ten meters. Flying debris may also destroy those wheels, although they can still be driven temporarily, but the maneuverability is greatly reduced, and according to the combat principles, these tanks must be withdrawn from combat and awaiting repair.

Light combat vehicles are at the heart of ground warfare in the so-called new military revolution that Rumsfeld is pushing, arguing that digitization can replace armor.But reality has proved that these weapons are not suitable for assaults in the main direction.Unlike Rumsfeld, He Fan worked with wheeled assault guns for a period of time during the Assam campaign. He observed that these weapons did have advantages in terms of deployment, river crossing, and less reliance on logistics, especially The advantages of road maneuvering and air transportation are indeed difficult for the commander to give up, but he also realizes that relying on these advantages alone is not enough to defeat a really tough opponent.

Now, these wheeled vehicles are rushing to use the 4-lane East New Delhi Highway to retreat. The Japanese troops are forced to stay behind for cover. The Yelinsky Battalion is rushing, but they encounter India who is retreating along the road and has no command. The 28th tank division competed for the road, but they couldn't get up quickly.

He Fan was sitting 2 kilometers behind the town. He got into the tank and glanced at the white steam trails covering the eastern sky. He transferred the 35mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, the main force of the air defense, to shoot at the enemy infantry. It was a bit of a mistake, but Lin Huaisheng promised to give him the air superiority over the corridor, and now it depends on whether he can fulfill his promise.He will not change the attack plan for the helicopters that break into the defense zone. In fact, even if the plan is changed, it will not be able to reverse the disadvantage of the tanks facing the helicopters. The current time window is temporarily on the side of the enemy helicopters. He expects some costs.

He ordered the first battalion, which had just arrived, to enter the starting position.He has never bothered to fight the enemy head-on, but today is an exception, because the enemy stepped on his veins.

The tank company in front had already advanced a certain distance. The tanks pushed away the burning Stryker and the wreckage of the Type 13 assault gun, and continued to fire forward at the targets blocked on the road.The enemy went up to the vital point, but chose to attack the 2nd company that followed up, so it couldn't interfere here for the time being.The Pioneer Company immediately caught up and destroyed more than half of the wheeled vehicles that were crowded on the road and in the wilderness and could not run at all.He Fan expects to repeatedly launch offense and defense in flat areas, leaving behind a large number of enemy wreckage to distract the enemy commander's attention.

The smoke billowing ahead is getting closer and closer, obviously a large number of enemy tanks are about to show up.

He Fan instructed the front tank company to slow down from the rear, and first used a round of artillery-fired missiles to withstand the enemy's attack.He has already noticed from the digital map that the opponent's terrain is relatively high, and it is not conducive to hiding the chassis. This advantage seems to be useful.At this time, another tank company of his was attacked by a helicopter gunship and suffered heavy losses. He had to call the Air Force for immediate support to buy time for his air defense forces on the way to arrive.

Several J-10Cs were ordered to quickly get rid of the radar confrontation with the enemy fighter plane 60 kilometers away, rush to the low altitude, and search for the helicopter target near the ground instead.This gives the F15C in the distance an excellent opportunity to use the radar to track the target.However, the J-16 and Su-30 fighters coming from the northeast quickly took over the situation and forced the enemy to fight.

Song Ning on the command plane changed his strategy very quickly, and put the escorting air superiority fighter planes into attacking the helicopters, and put the bomb-carrying heavy planes that originally needed to be escorted into interception operations.As a price, the heavy aircraft dropped a large number of satellite-guided glide bombs in advance. The bombs were initially set on the enemy's breakthrough in the morning. Due to the unsatisfactory distance and height, most of these bombs could not hit the target area.

For Song Ning, he is already familiar with making quick task adjustments and conversions.He knows that in the current air confrontation, the Chinese Air Force has a numerical advantage, but there are also some shortcomings. After all, the enemy aircraft group takes off at a relatively short distance. How to convert the advantage into a victory in the ground battle depends on the commander's reaction.Another advantage he has is that a Red Flag 9 missile position that has been quietly deployed forward is ready, and the target is still hidden. Lin Huaisheng promised that the air force will have the final say on when to go into combat.

Zheng Hui flew a medium-range bomb at a distance of 70 kilometers. Although it was destined to be impossible to hit, it forced the two F2Cs to give up the sneak attack on the J-15C fleet. Clearly see the number of enemies.One of Zheng Hui's wingmen turned to guard, while the other wingman and him continued to monitor F10. The F10 can escape with an easy turn, but this blow bought time for the low-altitude J-16 fighter.

It is difficult for the three J-3Cs to effectively lock the hovering helicopter through radar. They must drill under the clouds and search with their eyes. According to the position of the enemy plane indicated last time on the ground, the three pilots dispersed to pursue and kill them.The enemy's helicopter has no ability to fight back, but there are many risks on the battlefield, and you must always be vigilant.

A pilot first saw helicopters flying over the horizon, what appeared to be 2 Black Hawks, of course he did not know that they were the enemy's rescue team to save the pilot.

The pilot turns his head and aligns the target with the aiming ring under the helmet.The helmet aiming device, using gyro stabilization, can accurately and quickly transmit the azimuth angle information to the missile.He tried to slow down and fly in the same direction as the target to buy more time for the seeker to search.The alarm sounded suddenly, and an enemy ground missile suddenly appeared at 4 o'clock, and the distance was unknown.But now he must keep steady, let alone turn his head around. He is determined to take a gamble, no matter what the enemy situation is, he will neither dodge nor launch interference within a few seconds (for fear of interfering with the missile lock).

The beep of the missile locked on, and he cut off the fire decisively, then rolled and looked back.Just in time to see the enemy missile rising into the sky wrapped in white smoke, as he expected, it was not the kind with a lot of kinetic energy, so he quickly turned and fled.

This airspace is full of Avenger systems. As long as the warning is timely, it is not too difficult to dodge. Of course, it is a different matter if it is the powerful Hawk. This kind of missile has a lot of kinetic energy, and it is difficult to avoid it simply by accelerating or maneuvering. , The power of the warhead is also much stronger than that of the Avenger, even if it explodes 10 meters away, it still has the ability to shoot down the fighter.

Another J-10 turned to the position where the missile was fired, and soon saw two enemy vehicles, one of which was a Humvee with a launch pad falling out of the position, and the other appeared to be a command vehicle with a radar on it.

The pilot reduced the accelerator, let go of the command vehicle, and only strafed the vehicles behind him. He knew that the Avenger missile could fire without radar and fire control, but it was too difficult to hit such a target with a high-speed aircraft. , the enemy escaped smoothly by making several sharp turns.

However, the pilot's hatred for these anti-aircraft weapons is natural. He decided to stick to the ground and look for opportunities around the second circle. During the period, he tried to use the helmet sight to guide the missile seeker and scan the truck that was less than 300 meters away.You can see that the rotating launcher of the enemy tank is turning towards you, but it is unbelievable that the missile lock has succeeded, perhaps because the launcher just launched the Stinger missile.He quickly fired the missile, then climbed to escape.

The foreign soldiers on the launch vehicle watched the huge fighter plane rising from the ground, but dropped a missile. The missile started to speed up close to the ground, and then turned and flew straight. The huge overload made its flying speed Always unhappy.The mercenaries even had time to jump out of the car and escape.The missile hit the target accurately, blowing up the Humvee along with the remaining 6 missiles.

The third J-3C finally flew in the right direction. The pilot used IRST to see a large list of targets on the hud. Obviously, there were more than 10 helicopters.He can only choose one of them to launch the missile, and then quickly turn to the other one to launch the last missile.

Eichmann's formation was now fighting in the middle of the battlefield. Within 2 minutes, half a company of Chinese tanks was destroyed by surprise. Most of his old drivers have good experience. Target perceives danger prematurely.Only at the last moment, the missile flew to the real target.

Their attack almost cut off the deep channel, making He Fan's follow-up attack unsustainable.The colonel felt that he had already dominated the battlefield. The anti-tank missiles carried by his troops were enough to destroy more than one regiment of tanks at a time. Even if only half of the regiment was killed, the battle would definitely turn around.

The ultraviolet warning equipment on the Longbow Apache helicopter first detected the ultraviolet radiation emitted by the smoke in the wake of the missile at the rear, immediately issued a warning and automatically launched a jamming bomb.The infrared flares did block the sight of the first approaching missile, but not every hovering helicopter sensed the threat, and the missile quickly drilled out, and the easy smoke found the second target, destroying it in one fell swoop.

Soon a second missile arrived and knocked out a helicopter that was firing rockets.This continuous attack within 2 seconds caused the helicopter group lined up in the air, ready to fight, into chaos.All the helicopters started firing jammers and making evasive actions together, and even two of them collided together.

This chaos is tantamount to giving up a great opportunity to attack.On the battlefield, there is always a live drama where one thing drops one thing, and all weapons always have their nemesis.Perhaps tanks are powerless against helicopters, but these armed helicopters are also helpless in front of fighter jets.

Just as the air battle was fiercely unfolding at various heights, several anti-aircraft tanks rushed to the theater at full speed, ready to intercept the helicopter. At the moment when the frontal tanks exchanged fire, a large number of M1A 2 tanks appeared from the smoke and dust, almost immediately after seeing the Chinese tanks. Just start shooting.

The advancing speed of the arrogant enemy tanks is extremely fast, almost reaching the cross-country speed limit. Judging by the momentum, they clearly want to swallow the opponent in one bite, while the Chinese tanks use the terrain to advance slowly, and begin to adapt to the opponent's aim and shooting rhythm. After the distance reading entered 4000 meters, the Chinese tank began to retreat.This is a tactic that He Fan formulated in advance according to the characteristics of the battlefield, and repeatedly seesawed.

Perhaps the enemy has their reasons to think that the fire control of the M1A2 is better, and it can hit maneuvering targets at a long distance, but the Chinese tankers know that this is unrealistic. At such a distance, even if they are blinded, it is impossible. Break down the front.Therefore, there are only two basic principles for Chinese tankers, one is to keep a distance, and the other is to use the terrain.

The terrain in this area is open, but there are some ups and downs in the middle of the battlefield. For good defenders, you can try to avoid leaking the chassis. However, the M1A2 tank has a large frontal projection and is located on a high terrain, so it can be induced to expose its complete front in advance. .

For the spiral-flying laser beam missile, its flight method determines that the accuracy is still too low to hit the turret 4.5 kilometers away, so it needs to be placed closer.However, whether these missiles can penetrate the enemy's frontal depleted uranium armor is indeed a huge unknown. Judging from the information already obtained, it cannot be penetrated.And the final duel is likely to involve armor-piercing projectiles fired at a range of 1500 meters or even closer.

It is a pity that He Fan's troops did not replenish depleted uranium armor-piercing ammunition because they did not have information that the foreign legion might dispatch tanks on a large scale. These ammunition is not a blank for the Chinese army.It’s just that it was originally estimated that the final armored battle would be carried out in the urban area of ​​New Delhi, so out of humanitarian considerations, such shells that might cause radioactive contamination were not used, but the enemy had no scruples in this regard, and they didn’t care about the radioactive dust falling on New Delhi. In residential areas.

Under the command of the company commander, all tanks fired laser beam shells at the same time, and the tanks kept retreating steadily to ensure that the gunner's laser beams were always aimed at the target.During the long flight, the target did not take evasive actions at all, nor did they fire smoke grenades. They either did not observe the approach of the missile, or they were very sure about the armor.

About half of the artillery-launched missiles hit, but none of the enemy tanks stopped, and the jet stream could not drill the front of the turret. This result will obviously increase the enemy's prestige, because they can rest assured that the artillery-launched missiles are ineffective against them. at any distance.

(End of this chapter)