Alyosha stopped talking, and focused on the large-caliber Gatling gun under the nose of the manipulator.

After only two or three days of learning how to use it, and firing with live ammunition only once, this is still not a big problem: after a while, Sasha, who is in the back seat pilot, will focus all his attention on bomb throwing, and will not have time to use the machine gun.

The two covering helicopters will first use rocket fire to cover the target area to kill and damage the air defense forces, but if someone shoots at the air when the helicopter enters the attack line in a straight line, the machine gun will be of great use!

They are all high-priced munitions, such as anti-explosive bombs, which will explode when hitting targets with a hardness of more than semi-hardness such as dirt, and small shrapnel will kill and injure nearby people.

As for how badly it was directly hit by a bullet from a 12.7mm large-caliber machine gun, it is needless to say that even if it is not critical, this broken arm and missing leg are certain.

According to these helicopter gunship pilots who participated in the war in Afghanistan, those who dared to shoot at the air in the face of the Mi-24's machine gun fire were either fools or pure legends.

Well, the Americans' "First Blood" is a movie, Rambo is Stallone, and in reality the ending of manipulating an anti-aircraft machine gun and the Mi-24 pair is definitely not good, the name of the flying tank is not blown out, and it is unlucky to be hit by a rocket when you are unlucky against an anti-aircraft missile and unlucky.

Does UNITA have Stinger missiles?

Yes!

The Stinger missile is an important tool of the "proxy war" that the United States likes, and the CIA has successively provided nearly 500 "Stinger" missile systems to the "Mujahideen" in Afghanistan since the spring of 1986.

At that time, the Afghan guerrillas used the "Stinger" to shoot down a large number of Mi-24 helicopter gunships and Mi-8 transport helicopters, which weakened the Soviet army's air firepower to a certain extent.

But that was basically the result of the Afghans preparing in advance to ambush the Soviet helicopters, and in the face of the Mi-24 raid, individual anti-aircraft missiles had very few chances to work: not because the preparation time was too long, but because the Mi-24 was too fierce!

Once a surprise attack, the first wave of attacks will blow people up, in that case, the target of the bomb or there happens to be a "stinger" nearby, and there are too few supermen who dare to carry the "stinger" to launch, and brave the explosion in the sky without panic and still lock on to the target!

There are a lot of "Stinger" missiles in Afghanistan, this Angola ...

Two or three years ago, the United States also provided Stinger missiles to the proxy it supported, the "National Alliance for the Complete Independence of Angola," that is, UNITA, but not as many as in Afghanistan.

The eight Mi-24s purchased by the "United Forces" are not only for the planes and pilots, but also for a large number of supporting weapons, spare parts, auxiliary equipment, and maintenance personnel.

This sortie has long been guarded against those "Stinger" missiles of UNITA, and all helicopters have been equipped with infrared decoy bombs just in case!

Getting closer and deeper from Menungai, Sasha broke the radio silence and said into the intercom: "I'm No. 1, the wind direction and speed in the target area are favorable, No. 7 and No. 8 planes are ready for fire cover, and the other planes are in a dense formation in two layers!"

Alyosha could also hear the pilots' conversations, focusing on the scope.

Two rocket-carrying Mi-24s began to accelerate, while the other six pulled up to 300 meters, also increasing their horsepower, and the helicopters increased to almost maximum attack speed.

300 meters, which is already lower than the minimum altitude stipulated in the flight manual for the Mi-24 to drop heavy bombs, but Sasha and these pilots have done this in violation of the law in Afghanistan, for the sake of the suddenness of the bombing and the accuracy of the bombing.

Soviet pilots, fierce!

Even the astronauts dared to take vodka to the space station and drink two large balls, and this Ivan likes to do this.

According to the information provided by SPLM's undercover intelligence officers, the best capital complex in the city is in the new city on the north side of the city, and the main building is a three-story reinforced concrete building surrounded by a courtyard wall.

There should be a small number of anti-aircraft antiaircraft machine guns on the roof and around the building, because UNITA is equipped with "Stinger" missiles, the more than 10 Su-25K attack planes that the Soviet Union provided to the Angolan government army three years ago and do not have the ability to use precision-guided weapons do not dare to fly at an altitude below 5,000 meters.

The Angolan pilots are too bad in technology and too timid, and every time they fight, they throw ordinary aerial bombs at a "safe altitude" of more than 5,000 meters, and the accuracy of this hit can be imagined!

Weapons are important, but it also depends on who uses them!

If it had been known that the Soviet pilots with old qualifications had arrived in Angola, it is estimated that Savimbi would not have dared to live in a big house.

It's going to be blown up!

It is because of the bad skills and rat gall of the Angolan pilots that Savin is now brave enough to sleep at night in the official residence of the capital of Menungai, which is in good condition.

At the age of 57 or 8, he is no longer the idealistic anti-colonialist fighter he was more than 20 years ago, nor does he have the strength to fight guerrilla warfare and struggle hard in the grasslands and mountains more than a decade ago.

Power, enjoyment, these habits have gradually replaced the previous habits of hard and austerity.

Power, it's easy to change.

......

Menungai is a typical Angolan city, like Shorim and Lucapa in the northeast, there is almost no rural-urban interface, semi-barren grasslands and terraces directly connected to the city, and there are no villages and settlements dotted around the central city as in China or the United States.

Settlements in Angola are basically built along rivers, and as long as they avoid rivers, it is difficult to detect Mi-24 fleets.

Just as the group was flying over a plateau and Menungay was three or four kilometers away, Sasha's headset heard a clear and fluent voice in Russian: "Attention eagles, I am Hawkeye, I am Hawkeye, the westerly wind in the target area is 0.5 meters per second, and the westerly wind in the target area is 0.5 meters per second......"

Repeated two briefings, which I received once ten minutes ago, were in the same direction at the time: only the last call was not by radio, but by satellite phone!

Just under a forest of weeds and shrubs above the terrace, 16 "United Forces" scouts dressed in grassland camouflage and simple gilly uniforms were hidden, led by Guan Xingquan.

They landed in the wasteland after dark yesterday, and after 10 kilometers on foot, they arrived at the perimeter of Menungai to reconnoiter and monitor.

With state-of-the-art long-range reconnaissance equipment, the wind speed in the target area at the last few kilometres is simply visible with a 30-fold observation telescope: UNITA likes to plant flags on houses and clothes to dry, and snipers can judge the change in wind speed from these details.

The wind speed is very important when using fuel air bombs: 0.5 meters per second is almost negligible!

After listening to it twice, Sasha replied directly: "I'm an eagle, understand!"

You'll watch the show, and I'll pick you up later. ”

There is also a mind to add a gossip.

Guan Xingquan was half-lying in a large thatched pile and used his binoculars to watch the group approaching the target.

The Angolans would have spotted the rapidly approaching helicopter, but it would have been more than 5 kilometers in a minute, and by the time the people in the two anti-aircraft machine gun emplacements on the roof of the target building figured out the situation and were going to operate the machine guns, the two helicopters at the head had already approached a point of more than a kilometer.

Guan Xingquan looked very carefully through the binoculars, and he didn't know which one around him made a soft "oh"!

Spectacular!

32-tube rockets launched a salvo, each Mi-24 hung four, a total of 256 rockets began to fire a salvo at a distance of 1.2 kilometers from the target, and the dense rain swept towards the target area.

It is possible that someone carried out the Stinger missile at this time, but it was too late for the target!