Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 717 Lure the enemy to ambush
On the side of Chang Yong, the 2-on-3 helicopter gun battle between the two sides has begun. The 2mm cannons of the two Chinese Wuzhi 10s have a certain advantage in range, and the opponent has the upper hand in the rate of fire.The double-action also uses the helmet to aim, and the machine gun that follows the pilot's sight sweeps the outline of the target in the distance. It is basically not accurate, and it just presses the ground, but both sides are in contact and testing, slowly approaching, try Use the missile seeker to lock on to the opponent.

Since the contact time of armed helicopters is longer than that of fixed-wing fighters, the contest of missile locking and unlocking has also become a test of nerves.

Both sides try to avoid exposing the sides and try to meet the enemy head-on. Although these missiles have omni-directional attack capabilities, they still need to be very close to lock the front.In this kind of air combat, missile overload is meaningless, and the only thing of value is a more sensitive seeker.

Wuzhi pressed 10 steps at a time, using the range of the cannon to force the opponent to turn sideways to avoid it first. Several shells flew past the rotor of the Super Cobra, and the pilot was forced to turn to one side in order to escape. The Yan missile seeker took the lead in locking the target.

The slow scanning audio in the pilot's ears suddenly changed to a high-frequency lock reminder. Two Tianyan missiles flew off the pylon and shot directly at the target.In a hurry, a Super Cobra also responded with 2 Sidewinder missiles.So the two sides began to fire tracer bullets to disrupt each other's aiming. 2 missiles staggered in the air, each flying forward.However, the Rattlesnake just shot blindly, without aiming at anything at all. It didn't do much except startle the Chinese pilot in a cold sweat.The Tianyan launched by the Chinese helicopter was launched after biting the heat source of the target, so after penetrating the tracer barrage, it still hit one of them accurately.Blowing off the rotors of a Super Cobra, the helicopter plummeted to the ground.

Chang Yong is in the middle commanding and dealing with a large number of enemy planes. His millimeter-wave radar serves as an effective reconnaissance node, which can transmit the position of the enemy plane to the rear through the data link.Under the coordination of the ground command and the air command plane, nearby fighter jets are coming.He himself has been under the radar surveillance of the Patriots position in the distance. From the moment he seized the altitude with the opponent, all the Wuzhi 10s have been tracked by the opponent's fire control radar, but the distance is too far, and the opponent's missiles have never made a move.In fact, as long as the Chinese helicopter lowered its altitude a little, it would be enough to take advantage of the curvature of the earth and ground clutter to get rid of that radar.

Eichmann found it difficult to take advantage of himself. If he swarmed up, he might be able to win back a victory, but he is not the kind of commander who stalks. He thinks it is time to retreat. The rear security radar has seen enemy fighter planes approaching.He quickly thought of a strategy. Maybe he could lure the enemy attack helicopters to the Avengers position. That would be relatively simple. He immediately contacted the rear headquarters and asked the Avengers position not to turn on the search radar and identification friend or foe, so as not to alarm the enemy.

15 kilometers away, Yahini is ready to implement his plan. He does not have sufficient communication protection, only inter-vehicle communication, but for him, knowing the location of each tank is enough.He predicted that most of the helicopters that passed by just now would not come back the same way.

There were no absolutes at the time, and he had to try his luck.

The plan is very simple. He sent his two smartest vehicles to lure the enemy, and then deployed the main firepower on the side of the retreat route of the decoy team. He hoped that when the group of M2A1 pursued, they could expose the weak armored area on the side. .

If the enemy can grasp Yahini's position in advance, they can easily think of such a plan, but the reconnaissance advantage is not on their side.The middle and high altitudes on this battlefield are completely monitored by the radars of both sides, but there are many loopholes in the low altitudes. Yahini, relying on an inconspicuous small drone, has actually grasped an asymmetrical reconnaissance advantage.As an extension of the tank commander's line of sight, this kind of drone can sometimes play a key role, but not every team uses it as a standard configuration, and many tank commanders don't take it seriously.

Charles Cook from Australia, missed the opportunity to work with the South Korean tank unit last night, he thought that spread out to search a larger area, ended up wasting the night observation advantage in the wrong direction, and also ran out of fuel , and the engine of one of his tanks was damaged in an earlier battle. Fortunately, an M88 tank repair vehicle and a few tank trucks were transferred, and now he can go into battle with confidence again. It is hoped that the nearby Pakistani troops will be wiped out as soon as possible, so that they can engage in vicious contests with the Chinese army.

The commander of a tank standing guard outside the valley was looking around with binoculars.Suddenly there was a dull impact, followed by the sound of a distant cannon, obviously a kinetic shell hit the turret.

The commander quickly got into the tank, but the debris that burst out when the tungsten core broke still brushed his eyebrows.The commander didn't have time to drag off his helmet and bandage it, so he hurriedly informed the company commander behind that there was a situation here.

The blood blurred his right eye, making it impossible for him to use the scope to look outside, but he knew that since it was an energy round, it could only come from an enemy tank.

The second energy bomb flew over from a distance and hit the turret again, but it couldn't penetrate it either.This time, the commander saw the trajectory of the shell. He adjusted the multiple of the perimeter mirror to the maximum, and saw a tank in the distance.

The gunner measured the distance, and the number stopped at 3500 meters. Obviously, the opponent was in a daze and wanted to penetrate the M1A2 at such a distance, but in the end it just broke the commander's face.According to the information held by this unit, even at half the distance of 3500 meters, enemy tanks cannot penetrate the frontal depleted uranium armor of the M1A2.

"Captain Porcupine, I see the target. It is one of the two main battle tanks of the enemy. It is 3.5 kilometers away. Only one is seen."

"Got it. We'll be right there."

Cook said on the other end of the radio, his tone was calm and full of confidence.At night, his thermal imaging camera can gain an advantage of about 500 meters. If the enemy thinks that the above disadvantages can be eliminated in the daytime, and he can take the initiative to fight, he can't wait for it. The dual advantages of firepower and protection of the M1A2 are likely to have the ability to destroy the opponent first at a longer distance.

"Attention all, the formation does not need to be expanded, so as not to scare them away. Everything follows my command."

"Company commander, do you want to call for artillery fire?"

"It's not necessary, but those vipers are not far from us."

Yahini stood on a mountain 7 kilometers away, looking at the hazy blue smoke from the mountain pass in the distance. It was the exhaust gas transpired from the engine before the large-scale operation of the tank. It is impossible for ordinary people to observe such subtle traces from such a long distance. But he can.

He hoped that his decoy team would not play it off. After all, it was difficult to control the distance if they had to retreat in front of more than a dozen enemy artillery pieces, and had to turn around to let the enemy follow up according to the preset route.

One tank of the enemy decoy team in front began to release smoke, while the other was still lurking, ready to cover alternately according to the plan to distract the enemy's attention.

Cook saw the smoke ahead and knew that the enemy was about to run, so he ordered all the tanks to pursue quickly.In addition to armor and firepower, he is confident that the M1A2's advantages in mobility are enough for the enemy to regret provoking him.

"There must be more than one enemy, we are in double file, don't spread out."

He continued to emphasize his order just now, if the formation spread out, the enemy would easily see his number and maybe hide, and he hoped to induce more enemy tanks to appear.

If it wasn't for the rain yesterday, nine of his 12 tanks would raise smoke and dust all over the sky, but now he felt that he didn't have to worry about such a situation, as it was difficult for the enemy to notice how much he had from a long distance.

Soon the group of tanks increased their speed to 55 kilometers per hour, almost running wildly in the wilderness.The road wheels inside the tracks bounced quickly on the uneven ground, and the artillery pointed steadily forward.

When the wind direction is uncertain, the tankers in the front row can see the Chinese Type 99 tank appearing and disappearing from the smoke. Although it is not as fast as tracking and firing, it can measure the distance and relative speed, and then coordinate the tilt of the artillery trunnion through the artillery servo. so that the muzzle is always pointed at the opponent.After pursuing all the way, the distance was reduced from 3500 meters to 2000 meters. The gunners calmly adjusted the temperature of the medicine, the temperature, and the crosswind, and only waited for the target to be exposed for a long time.

Cook drilled out of the turret. He noticed that the terrain in the south was slightly higher, and it was possible to lurk enemy tanks.Just as he was hesitant, a cannonball flew obliquely from that direction. The cannonball missed and hit the muddy ground, kicking up a cloud of mud.

The lurking tank found that it missed, started to smoke and fled, and it seemed that the enemy had nothing tricky.

Yahini had already returned to his tank at this time, waiting for the enemy column that underestimated the enemy to pass by his eyes.The smoke released by the enemy decoy team will also hinder him from aiming. He expects that when the smoke clears from his eyes, the enemy will almost be there.The infantry was still following his tank closely, and their anti-tank missiles were basically exhausted, so they could only follow along, but there were still a few avant-garde missiles left, which could play some anti-air effects.

The 12 enemy tanks, eager to swallow the target in one gulp, quickly entered the field of vision.Yahini's 2 companies began to freely track the target, waiting for an order to fire a salvo.

Yahini observed that the opponent had no special reaction to the laser rangefinder, and he decided not to rush to fire and wait for a better time.The leading tank galloped past less than 1100 meters ahead.Tasim stared at the target, holding the handle of the gun console with both hands, and tracked the target steadily.Commander Yahini didn't have any extra words. He let Tasim shoot completely. Although he was also tracking the same tank that was probably the company command vehicle in the commander's field of vision, he was not going to go beyond the shooting.At such a distance, he believed that his gunner would not make any mistakes.

A triangle above the front sight began to flash, the angular velocity sensor had been tracking stably for a long enough time, and the sampling for calculating the lead had been completed.

"Fire."

Yahini shouted, not just to his gunner, but to the whole group.

More than a dozen cannons fired together, ejecting high-speed kinetic energy bombs.These ammunition immediately separated from the air-tight carrier after they were discharged from the chamber, relying only on a sub-caliber tungsten core and flying to the target with four tail fins. The hood penetrates enemy armor.

Cook's tank hit the shell about 0.5 seconds earlier than other tanks, and Yahini guessed almost intuitively that it was a command vehicle.When he was shot, he was commandingly standing on the side of the artillery. This position prevented him from being killed by the armor-piercing projectile that penetrated the side armor immediately, and the armor-piercing projectile was blocked by the artillery's altitude machine.But then the second armor-piercing projectile hit the tank's tail compartment, detonating the ammunition.

The rest of the mercenary tanks were also attacked by flanking fire at about the same time. Suddenly, they were in an extremely unfavorable environment. The enemy's fire was not only close, but also directly hit their flanks.

After the first round of firing, more than half of the M1A2 tanks stopped and burned.The remaining ones that were not destroyed began to turn their heads. After all, these foreign mercenaries are well-trained tankers, unlike those Indian tankers who were immediately caught blind and couldn't find North once they were attacked.But they will face far more enemy tanks than them, and most of the Type 99 tanks hide their chassis very well.The surviving M1A2 can only keep maneuvering for image stabilization aiming, while Pakistani tanks can continue to perform more sure disturbance aiming while the loader is working. Parking and shooting can ensure the absolute stability of the artillery platform itself, increasing the hit rate by one Magnitude.

Yahini could see Tasim aiming at the center of the turret of a tank rushing forward, almost aiming at the muzzle of the artillery.He just wanted to challenge the opponent's amazing frontal armor on purpose.

There was a loud noise, the shell flew towards the target 800 meters away, and hit the bottom of the gun shield. For a while, it was impossible to see whether the shell had penetrated or not, and the target was not on fire, but his gun barrel lost control and was raised high. It seems that It was the armor piercing round that damaged the trunnion and the hi-lo machine, but it was still running.Now that the target had no power to fight back, Tasim loaded the grenade for the second time and directly bombarded the lower part of the raised barrel, which was slightly lower than before. He knew that the shell would explode a few inches above the driver's head.

The grenade exploded in the bomb nest area of ​​the tank, the turret was lifted to one side, and flames began to emerge from the gap in the seat ring. Yahini wanted to turn to the next one immediately, but he couldn't find a target to shoot for a while. In 18 tanks After 2 or 3 shots in a row, all enemy tanks have been hit at least once.Cook waited in the valley for nearly 40 minutes just to replace an engine, but in less than a minute, all the tanks were destroyed.

Yahini had no time to savor the victory, the laser warning device sounded suddenly, and the irradiation was from a certain position behind the side, and the laser suppression began to work. Instead of emitting smoke, he turned the peripheral vision device immediately, but failed to find it.

He realized that this was the worst possible scenario, the laser coming from the helicopter in the sky.In order to confirm his assumption, he immediately got out of the tank, and sure enough, he saw 2 black spots hovering in the western sky. If they had fired Dow missiles silently just now, he might be finished by now, but it doesn't look like Dow. Shi, is some kind of semi-active laser-guided missile.

He ordered the whole group to fire smoke and back up.Before the order was executed, a Hellfire missile flew past its scalp and hit an open space behind it.He quickly drilled back into the tank so as not to interfere with the range of the laser countermeasure equipment on the turret.There are only two things that can be done at present, one is to quickly hide in the smoke.The second is to call the infantry company. They still have a few vanguard missiles, hoping to protect themselves.

(End of this chapter)