Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 327 Hover Attack
Wang Tiechuan's team fell into a dangerous situation with its back against the Brahmaputra River. He had dealt with the Indian-Tibetan special forces for more than half a year. Fang always suffered some losses.This is the first time in his scouting career, not only because he has penetrated too deep into the enemy's rear this time, but also because Lausanne has changed his tactics, adding helicopters and wolf dogs that are difficult to get rid of during the pursuit.In the previous pursuits, due to the problem of air-ground coordination, it was difficult for the army helicopter to cooperate tacitly with the commander of the special forces on the ground, but this time, Lausanne came up with a new way to solve this problem.

A Polaris helicopter of the Indian Army has been indicating the target for the pursuers in the rear. When the helicopter flies over the snow wolf's head, the soldiers above can clearly see the personnel below through the thermal imaging equipment.He kept dropping smoke bombs to indicate the position of the special forces that were chasing after him. Coincidentally, the red smoke bombs he used were the same as the attack indication signal agreed between Wang Tiechuan and the headquarters.

Behind Lausanne was a soldier with a radio on his back, who stayed on both sides.After catching the snow wolf's trail, he was determined not to let it escape through his fingers again.He is constantly in contact with all sides, ready to crush the enemy completely.According to the map, escaping along the forest along the Yarlung Zangbo River is a dead end. The enemy is either in a daze, or has some backup plan that he can't guess for the time being.On the bright side, the chief of intelligence went to southern Tibet in person, which allowed Lausanne to no longer be restrained by his superiors and to mobilize all possible forces.He knew that Director Chamain had sharp eyesight and good hands and eyes, and he was definitely not something that an old-fashioned person like Chaguye could easily fool.

Sure enough, Charmain appeared in the radio communication in person. He went straight to the point and asked the value of the sudden enemy situation.Lausanne told him that the enemy was so deep that they must be preparing for their new offensive; he believed that as long as he could capture a few alive, he could fully grasp the enemy's overall plan.On the other side of the radio, Charmain thought for a moment, and then told Lausanne that it was imperative to prevent this group of people from escaping.

The damn Polaris overhead suddenly broke in two and plummeted downward, the steam trails of the two missiles flying by were clearly visible.

Wang Tiechuan knew that the helicopter unit approaching along the river had arrived, and he was very worried that the air would fire at him indiscriminately, because the support plan was very hasty and had never been practiced. His own team hid in a ravine and trained behind closed doors. The army aviation regiment also has little confidence.

Although Snow Wolf's personnel all carry IR identification devices, they are only passive identification devices attached to them, and the effect is very poor during the daytime. If the other party does not use infrared thermal imaging equipment to observe at close range, it is useless.Wang Tiechuan called the soldiers to move closer to the river through the individual radio station to avoid accidental injury.At the same time, he ordered the covering troops on the ridge to give up blocking, so as to avoid confusion in identifying the battlefield.For technical reasons, Wang Tiechuan was unable to directly communicate with the approaching helicopter unit, and he didn't even know which unit his superiors sent to respond.

For the Chinese Army, there are still many lessons to be made up in the technical link of ground-air coordination. For any army that is moving from defense to offense, this is a hurdle that must be overcome.The coordination level of Luosang Zhaxi's troops may be lower, but their communication is still smooth, and the young Chinese Army Aviation Corps will soon be thrown into this chaotic battle where experience must be used to make up for the lack of technology.

The three helicopters participating in the ground attack suddenly raised their altitude and appeared on the high mountain.As indicated by the red smoke, they were ready to fire immediately.It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and the attack helicopters had an unobstructed field of fire.

The air command plane promptly reminded the team leader Chang Yong that the satellite communication with the team was interrupted, so we must pay attention to the identification of friend and foe.Chang Yong immediately rejected his teammates' request to fire. He knew that he had a heavy responsibility and hoped to see the target further.

This is a risky decision, helicopters hovering in the air will become a target, and intelligence shows that Indian and Tibetan special forces always carry portable anti-aircraft missiles.

"Attention Red Eagle 9, use infrared thermal imaging equipment to identify the target again. Pay attention to the IR signal." He called a helicopter at the front and used the TV thermal imaging camera to observe the battlefield first.At the same time, he drove the machine to play and rushed to his teammates.

"Red Eagle 9 understands."

Red Eagle 9 hovered in the air and slowly adjusted the field of view of the thermal imager.It can be seen that two groups of people on the ground are exchanging fire about 0 meters apart. He can see that the battle is fierce, but he can't tell which team is the snow wolf.

"Red Eagle 1, found a ground exchange of fire. Unable to identify friend or foe. The image is not very clear."

"pass it to me."

Chang Chang started using his own TV thermal imaging equipment and captured images of the engagement zone at a slant distance of about 1.5 kilometers, which is quite close for helicopter operations, but the huge water vapor on the river interfered with the equipment's effect , He was also unable to make an accurate judgment, and it seemed that he could only continue to act after the communication was cleared.

The millimeter-wave radar suddenly discovered a low-altitude and low-speed target appearing at the 4 o'clock position. Chang Yong turned his head and saw that there was a rotor rising on the ridge in the side and rear direction. It was an LCH light armed helicopter. There are so many sudden variables.

The pilot of an Indian light helicopter tasked with intercepting the ground infiltration was so taken aback by what he saw that he thought he was dazzled.Because there were 4 black fully armed attack helicopters, which was not told by the headquarters. The pilot assessed the situation, he was in an excellent attack position, but he was also at a 1 to [-] numerical disadvantage.He quickly made a decision to attack from the rear and escape after he succeeded. If he had known that there was a radar above the rotor of the Chinese lead plane, and had found the LCH ten seconds earlier than him, he would not have taken the risk .

At this moment, there was a weird pause between the two army aviation units that also lacked helicopter combat experience. Due to communication problems, the superior party was unable to launch an attack after a long-distance attack, and was keeping silent; while the inferior party, because there was no radar warning equipment, and hastily decided to launch an attack on an unknown enemy.Although the scene is a bit naive, the integration of technology and tactics is not something that can be accomplished overnight. No army can easily gain valuable practical experience.

Chang Yong put aside the annoying identification problem, turned quickly, and prepared to launch a counterattack. He no longer has air-to-air missiles, but his radar has identified the opponent's model. He knows that the opponent also has no guided weapons available, and only fights with machine guns. , the opponent's 20mm cannon and weak protection will undoubtedly fall behind.

At the same time, the shooter of the Red Eagle 9 detected the infrared identification signal of the Snow Wolf troop jumping from the TV equipment, which made the white figure appear to have a slight change in light and dark.He checked it carefully for a while, and confirmed that it was not caused by the flickering of the monitor.

"Captain, we found our people. Request to attack."

"Great, launch the attack immediately, and leave the air to me." Just as Chang Yong finished speaking, the Indian LCH had already entered the range, and the shooter operated the cannon to start the first round of shooting.Helicopter air combat does not depend heavily on position. Although seizing a favorable azimuth and making the nose of the aircraft aim at the opponent as much as possible, you can gain some advantages. However, since the shooting range of the cannon is much larger than that of the fixed-wing fighter, the variables are still very large.

The first round of confrontation between the two sides ended. Since Red Eagle [-] was hovering and turning, it was easily hit by the opponent, but the firepower she fired also hit the opponent at the same time. The difference was that LCH started to smoke, while China's heavy armed helicopters completely resisted the shooting.

The pilot of the LCH weighed the good and the bad, decisively gave up the dominant shooting position, and began to turn to escape, which exposed its weaker side.For Chinese shooters, facing a light aircraft that is more flexible than themselves, they don’t have much time to aim. Quickly judge/fire through simple reticle lines, and continue to make corrections during shooting. These are the basic skills of shooters.

The shooter pulled the trigger without hesitation.Seeing sheets of shells flying towards the fleeing Indian plane like splashing water, this machine gun has a large and dense distribution at a distance of [-] kilometer.Although most of the cannonballs did not keep up with the rapidly turning target, the shooter used the erratic tracer bullets as a reference to accelerate the horizontal movement of the sight, which increased the tendency of the cannonballs to approach the target. At the same time, Chang Yong continued to maintain a level flight, providing other Stable shooting platform.

During the strafing, several shells hit the tail boom of the enemy plane, and the shrapnel penetrated the weak armor and destroyed the tail drive shaft.The helicopter suddenly began to spin out of control.For a helicopter, this is the most fatal injury, because it will completely destroy the control, and the pilot cannot even drop the aircraft to a relatively flat area, but can only let it spin and fall into the roaring river.

The appearance of this LCH made Chang Yong realize that the air force did not fully control the air supremacy here, especially in the low-altitude area.

He raised the altitude decisively and entered the air search state.The radar above the rotor allows him to take on temporary surveillance tasks. This millimeter-wave radar can scan [-] degrees, which is almost equivalent to an early warning aircraft. Spot enemy helicopters.

Meanwhile, the remaining three helicopters had fanned out and entered the fight.These aircraft have no precision-guided weapons and are woefully under-loaded.But at such a short distance, the power of the rocket pod is enough to make up for the problems in accuracy and quantity.

The first to attack was the Red Eagle [-]. The [-]mm rockets it fired roared towards the pursuing enemy. In order not to accidentally injure the Snow Wolf, the pilot could only slightly control the angle so that the rockets landed a little further back.The entire forest was plowed into scorched earth by the huge explosion, but the enemy suffered limited damage.Lausanne's troops began to react from their rage and shot into the air; for a long time, they didn't know which side these planes that had been watching the battle for a long time belonged to.The commander even believed that the LCH helicopter sent by his own side to intercept it was issued by the Indian army and had not been updated for a long time. There was no such heavy-duty armed helicopter in the "Manual of Identification of Weapons of Hostile Countries".

After being hit, the soldiers of the special forces figured out the opponent's camp, but light weapons couldn't help these heavy gunships at all.According to the establishment of the India-Tibet Special Forces, its search company does not carry anti-aircraft missiles.The support troops carrying portable anti-aircraft missiles are still climbing the mountain a few kilometers away.

The other two helicopters have completed their position transfer at this moment, and they began to shoot from different angles. Also because the chasing troops were too close to the snow wolf, they had some scruples in shooting. After the spectacular explosion, most of the enemies Still recalcitrant.

Next, the helicopter began to shoot with its [-]mm cannon. Under the close monitoring of the thermal imaging camera, all the concealment relying on trees was useless.After several rounds of shooting, the tenacious search company was finally broken up on the spot. The soldiers left the snow wolf and fled towards the mountains to the west. .He could see that this group of enemies still maintained a good formation during the rout, which showed their high level of tactical literacy and organization. However, this was also what Chang Yong wanted most. The intensive firepower he fired could cover an area of ​​about one hectare. area, and the enemy's formation happens to be within this range.

(End of this chapter)