Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 620
In He Fan's tank company, two chariots have been destroyed by the gunners. The commander's periscope, the commander can only observe the outside through the periscope.Fortunately, most of the snipers were hiding in the ruins outside Leh, some distance away from He Fan.

He Fan knew that he needed to indicate a more far-reaching target for the drone, so he had to leave the chariot.Hiding in a car and hearing only the armor constantly being hit by small-caliber weapons, it was difficult to find the main threat.The whirlwind in an uncertain direction in the open valley makes the performance of enemy snipers not so stable. It should be difficult for these infantry old-fashioned SVD sniper rifles to hit a target as big as a person from 800 meters away.

He Fan carefully observed the surrounding environment. In front of the No. 01 tank, there was a MiG-21 fighter jet with a damaged landing gear tilted to one side.When He Fan was studying the satellite map of Leh a month ago, the plane was here. It was apparently abandoned due to lack of parts; this was the first cover he could use. There was a shattered BMP50 tank wrecked by a drone.If he could get to that position, his vision would be very good. If he dared not drive the tank out of the bunker to the position protruding from the runway, he would definitely become a target of public criticism.The enemy lacks guided weapons to attack the top with curved shots, but there is still a lot of anti-tank firepower with flat shots.

He took the laser range finder and radio, jumped out of the tank, hid next to the damaged MiG-21 a few times, poked his head out from the dilapidated skin at the rear, and made sure that the four 4mm guns were still firing into the sky. Not moving here.He dodged, jumped into the huge crater blasted by the 23kg bomb on the side, took a few quick steps, and climbed out from under the wheeled tank next to the crater, but the enemy still didn't notice him.

He crawled forward, using the wreckage of an An-12 and several damaged helicopters as cover, and moved forward quickly.There are also several frozen bodies in the helicopter. Their armbands are embroidered with a cartoon eagle holding a lightning bolt. The eagle has the word 50 at its feet. This is the logo of the 50th Parachute Brigade of India. Apparently they fell to their deaths before they could land. Here it is. The vileness of EMP is evident.

He Fan climbed all the way under the abandoned chariot. The back door of the chariot was open, and the inside was scorched black. The wreckage should have been destroyed by a cloud bomb attack not long ago.

As he had previously judged from satellite photos, the location had good visibility.He hid behind the track and carefully observed the target with a rangefinder, while recording the target's bearing and distance.

You can see the enemy troops running around in the snow. Their uniforms and weapons are different from those of the 8th Mountain Division. It is much easier to avoid air strikes. The main force of India’s garrison here has always been the Artillery Brigade directly under the 50th Mountain Division. However, most of the soldiers have been poorly trained and their military skills are not strong, but it seems that it is no longer the group of stupid artillery who are staying on the surface to resist. It should be the reinforcements of the [-]th Parachute Brigade of India.

1.5 kilometers away, several self-propelled anti-aircraft guns are driving through the potholed ruins, and occasionally you can see the tall erected barrels.Other anti-aircraft guns were scattered and fired in all directions, and the sound of the guns kept coming and going. After a few long bursts, a drone was beaten down.Looking at the situation, it doesn't look like the result of anti-aircraft guns fighting alone.

After all the radars in Leh were destroyed, why did these simple anti-aircraft guns still stop the anti-aircraft fire, and the coordination was good.This is a problem that the superior wants to figure out. The speed of the drone is slow, and it needs to observe the ground for a long time before attacking. This seems to have given the enemy some opportunities for some imprecise command post. Now he needs to find out this command post.

During his search, another drone carrying a bomb swayed and fell. It fell not far away, and the explosion almost deafened He Fan's ears.

He used the zoom lens of the laser pointer to observe bit by bit, and finally saw a man with a walkie-talkie standing on a flat-roofed building away from all the anti-aircraft guns. Standing next to him was another man, holding a cylindrical object, However, the way he held it showed that it was not an anti-aircraft missile. The man raised the pillar and placed it squarely in front of his head, using it to observe the drones in the air.It turned out to be an old-fashioned combined image rangefinder, and the person next to him was shouting on the walkie-talkie from time to time.

It seems that the Indians are at the end of their ropes and have to use this kind of thing to measure distance.That unremarkable house was obviously the headquarters.There are no anti-aircraft weapons around it, which should be intentional, in order to prevent being targeted by drones.

He Fan held his breath and did not leave in a hurry, but continued to search. During this period, the enemy fired two anti-tank missiles at his tank group, and one of the missiles flew past him when it passed through the airport.But none of the missiles hit, they were blocked by the wreckage of the bunker, and only a few insignificant jets blew on the tank armor.

The low body of the mountain tank makes it easy to use various obstacles. Hiding behind these bunkers can avoid various direct weapons and laser beam missiles.As for top-attack missiles such as the Javelin, they cannot lock on to tank turrets that do not heat up.

His eyes moved, and the planar map of Leh in his mind kept moving along with it. Taking advantage of the fact that the war was not too tight a while ago, he had been studying the landforms and buildings of Leh through satellite maps, and often imagined from the perspective of the opponent. The enemy's firepower configuration.He has an impression of almost every unnamed highland and marked bunker.According to his own ideas, he searched for every commanding height with a wide view. If he was asked to deploy heavy firepower, he would choose such a place.These fortifications built on the slope of the mountain not only have a good range of fire, but under normal circumstances, the firing port is in the dead angle of the satellite's field of view, and you must get close to scout to find love.

After his line shifted to a hillside, he saw a suspicious slender black shadow on a white-capped highland. The black shadow was unusually parallel to the ground. There is a dead end, or something else is wrong.He felt that this was more like the figure-eight shooting port of a dark fort.

He Fan adjusted the magnification to the maximum, but the distance was too large and he still couldn't see clearly.With an idea, he simply used a laser rangefinder to measure the shadow, so that he could determine whether the shadow was flat from a rough reading.

Sure enough, a simple judgment can be made from the readings of the rangefinder. It is not a shadow, but an obviously sunken hole, and the depth is still very large.The enemy's fortress he hit last time fired, and it was hidden in such a corner. As a result, he lost a tank.

"Damn it, play tricks with me? You're still too young."

He rubbed his frozen hands excitedly.As he was about to make further confirmation, the wreckage beside him made a crisp sound, followed by a second sound. It seemed that a gunman had spotted him.He quickly turned around on his knees, and then ran back under various covers.

The Indian gunman in the distance kept firing until he emptied the 10-round magazine and failed to hit the target; for this sniper, the prey 1 km away was too reluctant, and the target within 200 meters It is more sure.

He Fan jumped up and jumped onto the tank with a standard two-step step. Before the enemy rushed to load the magazine, he had already got into the turret.

The turret of the tank turned, trying to point a beam of laser light at the inconspicuous building in the center of Leh, but the position where the tank was currently staying could not directly point to the target, because it was blocked by other buildings, but it didn't matter, He Fan had a good memory, That building can be pointed out directly on the map.

On the monitor, he directly calls up the zoomable planar map of Leh, which is a digital terrain model based on the satellite map, and any building on the surface can be found in it.He recalled the frontal features of the equal building, and the azimuth scale displayed on the rangefinder at that time, and then made a confirmation, so he made a mark on the target.

Soon a voice came from my ear: "Move the crutches, received the target, confirm the enemy's command post?"

"Confirm. There are ranging facilities and communication equipment above, and there should be people below. Medium concrete fortifications, use time-delay fuze."

"Understood. The drone will be here soon."

Afterwards, he made a mark on the front of the hill where the dark fort was found. This time, he dared not hand it over to the drone at will. The 100kg bomb could not touch the strong fortress at all.

He pulled down the weapon selection and chose the Russian-made 1.5-ton TV-guided bomb. It would be great if it could get into the enemy's firing port. Of course, this meant mobilizing a formation of the Air Force to dispatch.

In fact, as a core node with a very high command level, he can choose most of the weapons in the combat sequence, as long as he feels it is necessary.However, the deployment of the air force is not within the authority and requires the approval of the superior.Especially with the development of the war process, Leh is no longer in the sight of the higher-ups, and the Air Force has rarely been directly involved in combat in this area.Higher-ups hope to resolve the battle in Leh with artillery and drone units alone, which can also deliver precision-guided weapons.

But He Fan knew that to deal with such a fortress hidden deep in the mountains, neither laser-guided bombs nor artillery would be effective, and a TV-guided weapon was necessary.

A drone in the clouds drops a 100kg bomb through imprecise enemy fire.Instead, it was an explosion on the ground that soared into the sky. Sure enough, what followed was that the enemy's anti-aircraft firepower became scattered and disorderly, and all artillery positions lost the distance data of the target.

Zheng Hui received an emergency order, took off from RKZ airport, and flew straight to Leh.

With Indian air defenses getting weaker and weaker, attacking Leh is not too dangerous a task.He was delayed on take-off because he had to load an unusual KAB 1500 bomb.

The characteristics of the target notified before take-off were limited. It was only known to be a rectangle. The size was about 1.8 meters high and nearly 10 meters wide. It was much larger than the air vent he attacked in Tespur last time. The biggest problem was that it was too late to carry out several simulated attacks. .It seems that it needs to rely on the temporary performance of the weapon instructor.

Zheng Hui entered from the south of Leh very calmly, and the altitude was controlled at 10000 meters. The radar irradiation in Srinagar was strong and weak at times, and he seemed to be keeping a sense of proportion, for fear of attracting a counterattack.

The final transportation corridor in the mountains and plains of northern India is already in jeopardy. There are only a few MiG-29s left in Kashmir that can still fight, and there are fewer and fewer missiles and parts on the air defense positions, especially the various Rael as the core of the position. , and there must be no loss. Using high power to track a target on the edge of the missile envelope means that it is less easy to hit and more likely to be locked by anti-radiation missiles, so the commander chooses to jump around on the spare frequency band, and at the same time Reduce radiated power.Zheng Hui got rid of the hesitant radar with one turn.

On the contrary, the small-caliber artillery below is still fighting wildly, but its range is not enough to reach the J-16.

Two escorting aircraft of the same type turned west, overpowering Srinagar's ground radar and forcing it to shut down. These fighters carried less powerful KH2T TV-guided missiles as backup attack aircraft.If Zheng Hui's landline missed, they would go up to it.

He Fan's choice of a 1.5-ton bomb was actually a little emotional, which stemmed from his personal grievances with the 180mm fortress gun. In fact, the KH29T is fully capable of this attack. .

Zheng Hui set automatic level flight and focused his attention on the nearby mountains, so as not to be caught off guard by a plane or a missile emerging from behind the mountains.Under normal circumstances, the task of guarding the rear is undertaken by the pilot in the back seat, but he is busy now.

A heavy bomb under the belly of the aircraft suddenly fell and glides towards the general target.The plane is very light and tends to look up, but the flight controller quickly stabilizes the attitude in level flight.

The speed of the bomb is continuously increasing, and it flies towards the target according to inertial navigation.

The weapons instructor stared at the monitor, and after penetrating a thin cloud, the small hill in front of him suddenly grew bigger. This kind of bomb can be thrown without locking, but the challenge lies in the extremely short time to search for the target.If the target cannot be found at the last moment, the large sum of foreign exchange will be wasted.

The rising sun in the east caused reflections on the snow-covered hillside, which made it difficult for him to identify. If the shock was too strong to find the hole, he had to move the bomb to another direction, so as not to pile up the broken stones on the ground. Near the target, sabotage the KH29T's second strike.

"Where the hell is the shooting port?" he murmured to himself.He could even see the Indian soldiers running in the snow, but he still couldn't find the target.His angle of view is obliquely downward, it is indeed not as easy as He Fan to find the target from a parallel direction,
Finally, a thin black line appeared and became wider and wider.He steadied the bomb, aiming his crosshairs at the dangling target.

Behind the firing port, two platoons of Indian soldiers were huddled there, watching the counterattack of the air defense forces.The sharp-eyed machete-like light gray thing fell from the sky. The soldiers thought it was another drone that was shot down, and some even started applauding.But the company commander saw it before the others, and he backed away in horror, until the back of his head was on the cold swishing barrel.

The bomb pierced the firing port and continued to fly for 30 meters. During the period, it knocked over the crane that was lifting the shell, then smashed through the concrete floor and fell into the ammunition depot below.

(End of this chapter)