Chapter 1295: Poverty Limits Imagination
The leader of the first air defense group went to the roof of the ship, carrying a long portable anti-aircraft missile launcher on his shoulder, and said loudly to the team members: "Just use Arrow 3, Colombia's old gunboat aircraft do not have infrared decoy shells, keep those 'needles', they have lion cub phantoms, and we have to rely on ourselves in a hurry!"
Is it safe to get to Panamanian territorial waters?
Everyone is not so naïve, they all dare to fire at the American ship, and the Colombian leadership probably will not care about the neighbor next door, who has just been cleaned up by the United States!
The San Jose, the treasure ship that can make even a smaller country suddenly rich. The Seeker had been out of salvage waters for more than seven hours, and if the Colombians had started preparing a few days earlier, they would have had enough time to rent an unmanned submersible or a normometric diving suit that could dive more than 200 meters underwater, and they would have found the gold and silver coins and bronze cannons scattered on the seabed.
The historical records contain at least 100 tons of gold, and other people may also play with their lives, and the poor can be more open-minded than the rich!
The ship won't be able to catch up, but it's going to be a gunboat, and you can guarantee that in half an hour there won't be a jet lion cub and a phantom to kill you?
With 150 nautical miles to go from the Canal Zone, anything can happen: even if it's only 1% feasible, it has to be 100% serious!
Good things have to be kept just in case, there are more than a dozen people on the platform, and on their shoulders are relatively old-fashioned second-generation portable anti-aircraft missiles Sam-14, a total of four launchers.
Sam-14 is the "Arrow 3" in the mouth of the team leader, they are retired Soviet soldiers, of course, they use the Soviet military codename, and they will not use the NATO number;
There are also four boxes with a length of nearly two meters, which were carried up to the roof of the building, and they contained the latest SAM-18, which is the "needle" type anti-aircraft missile that the team leader said.
He gave this order because the SAM-18 was the only model in the Soviet man-portable air defense system to use a dual-channel infrared seeker, and the target selection logic device in the seeker can identify various infrared false targets emitted by the target, and has a strong ability to resist infrared interference, and can deal with a variety of jamming such as signal flares, flash grenades and modulated infrared jamming.
Moreover, the SAM-18 missile also has a "unique ability" in the moment before the warhead is detonated, the logic device in the seeker can turn the missile aiming point from the engine tail flame area of the target to the middle of the fuselage to ensure the maximum damage to the target.
It's so advanced that it's an absolute waste to use against the AC-47 gunboat machine!
On the other hand, the Colombians on the other side have not even seen individual anti-aircraft missiles!
They had been using the AC-47 against drug traffickers and guerrillas for the past four or five years, and the man-portable anti-aircraft missiles flowing from the collapsing Red Empire had not yet had time to flow into South America, and it was almost impossible to get the SA-7 or Stinger.
Because of this, the Colombian Air Force has not yet encountered an opponent equipped with individual anti-aircraft missiles, and when did it not fight against drug dealers and guerrillas!
Even if bullets are sometimes wasted because of the dense vegetation of the rainforest, it means that opponents are barely able to carry heavy anti-aircraft guns, and the gunboats have barely encountered large-caliber machine gun counterattacks.
** At an altitude of 100 meters and a distance of one kilometer, it is easy to shoot down from the air with M3 machine guns, while the small and medium-caliber machine guns of the guerrillas have almost no power to fight back.
Even if the bullet flies this distance, and if you are lucky enough to explode and hit the plane, it will not be lethal.
Poverty limits the imagination of the Colombian Air Force, who will not understand how a top arms dealer will equip his ships with his name.
The leader of the air defense team leading the team here does not want to use the best anti-aircraft missiles, and your gunboat is a sharp weapon for dealing with sea and ground targets, but the premise is that it must be absolutely in the case of air supremacy and the opponent does not have sufficient anti-aircraft fire cover, because no matter how effective it is, the aircraft is still capable of propellers.
It can't fly fast, has poor mobility, and if it is used well, it is a big killing weapon, and if it is used in the wrong place, it will become a fire coffin!
The people on the "Seeker" were able to clearly hear the distance and altitude parameters of the incoming aircraft from the cockpit of the command room through the headsets, and then within two minutes, the air defense crews of each group could already visually see the twin-engine aircraft approaching from the stern direction.
The commander's voice was heard in the headset: "It can be determined that it is C47, a group is preparing to attack, and the timing is at your own disposal." Four shots, two seconds apart, don't interfere with each other, be sure to shoot down the target!
Two sets of preparations!"
This will be at the tail tarmac of the second group of members want to scold the mother, this actual combat with anti-aircraft missiles to shoot the plane is not much, but there is no way, who let them although the position is in the stern, but the angle of fire is not as good as others.
By this time, Andrei was already standing at the back of the cockpit wing, and he could see the approaching aircraft in the distance, and the radar operator in the cockpit kept loudly announcing the altitude and distance.
"The height is 900 meters, the distance is 5 kilometers... 4.5 km..."
The missiles carried by the two prevention and control teams can measure the speed and altitude of the target, and the operators just want to remind everyone and feel at ease.
"The Colombian AC-47T gunboat aircraft only had three M3 machine guns and used standard attack procedures, and they were committing suicide. ”
It was Miles who spoke, and most of his mind had been relieved.
In this regard, Andre said: "Fortunately, we have a boss who is crazy and rich enough, isn't it." ”
In this regard, Myers agreed, if it were not for the civilian ship, the boss would have been able to install heavy anti-aircraft missiles on the research ship, and even the anti-ship missiles would be moved up, anyway, there was space and tonnage for modification.
To be honest, except for a few big countries, the boss is the biggest arms dealer on the planet, and it is impossible to lack arms without anything.
Just as the two of them finished speaking, the four Sam-14 missiles on the shoulders of the four shooters lined up above their heads had already been turned on, and the difficulty of capturing and locking on the target at the same time was actually the level of an attack helicopter.
The number one shooter roared: "3 km away, launch!"
At this time, the AC47 3 km away began to change course, and instead of leaving, it intended to enter the attack course.
It is to prepare to "circle in circles", and after approaching the "searcher", fly in circles with a radius of about one kilometer.
The 1.42-meter-long, 7.5-centimeter-diameter slender missile was pushed out of the launch tube by the booster, and the booster burned out before the missile could be discharged.
After the missile flew out to a safe distance, the main engine ignited, and the missile suddenly accelerated to the target 3 kilometers away in a straight line!