The other six Mi-24s were much cleaner under the short wings on both sides of the fuselage, and there was a round thing on one side, which at first glance I thought was hanging two auxiliary fuel tanks.

If someone who knows knows it sees it, it won't think so: this is not a drop fuel tank at all, but two ОДАБ-500ПМ aviation cloud explosive bombs, 500 kg!

One on each side, a ton in total!

Helicopter gunships as bombers?

Yes, the Mi-24 can be used as a bomber, and because the flight speed is not fast and the bomb drop altitude is not high, even if the bomb is not guided, the hit accuracy can be very good.

When they were in Afghanistan, Soviet pilots often did this, and the effect was very good, and the bombing caused heavy losses to the Afghan guerrillas!

Of course, this can only be used to deal with guerrilla targets that lack anti-aircraft firepower, and if the other side is a regular army equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft missiles, the risk of the Mi-24 daring to do so is too great!

This raid was a decapitation operation, but because Menungai was a large city, it was not possible to send a small detachment to raid it: the target was easy to hide, and the assault detachment was easy to get under siege.

"Black Hawk Down" has not yet been staged in Somalia, but the "United Forces" is not arrogant, and knows how many pounds and taels this person has.

If they engage in bombing, they lack the ability to guide bombs and drop them, and they don't expect the planes of the Angolan government army, even if they are equipped with Su-24 "bomb trucks", they can throw bombs hundreds of meters away from the target!

Unable to fight the Angolans in planes, the Mi-24 pilots thought they could get the job done: the target was hiding in the provincial capital of Menungai, protected by UNITA garrisons.

The boss said that it was okay to ignore civilian casualties, and no matter how much additional damage it would cause there, no mainstream media would have any footage that shouldn't have appeared.

Let's do it!

Pilots don't have to worry too much about their death if they are shot down, and the advantage of this civil war is that there will be intelligence agents from the other side in the larger cities.

The location of the target person's residence is clear, and the outskirts of Menungai are wilderness terraces, and the response personnel have entered in advance.

There are also Mi-8 helicopters to evacuate, and as long as the damaged Mi-24 helicopter can make a forced landing in the suburbs, these other Mi-24s can take away friendly pilots.

The Mi-24 has a crew cabin that can fit 8 infantrymen, but this is for maximum military load, and it does not carry those cumbersome airborne infantry at all.

……

In the early hours of the morning, half an hour before dawn, eight Mi-24s took off one after another on an asphalt road in an abandoned farm, and a gust of wind blew!

These Mi-24s do not have the ability to fight at night, in the early 90s, well, normal.

There was no heavy rain, and there were more rainstorms in the afternoon and the first half of the night in the rainy season, but for safety, the pilots pulled up the goggles of their helmets and pointed their eyes directly at the low-light night vision devices.

Attached, American, lightweight, directly fixed to the helmet with a super plastic bag, just turn it over when not in use.

The pilot of the lead plane is named Sasha, who is in his 40s, has flown helicopters for 17 years, and has flown the Feimi 24 for more than 11 years, and has been in Afghanistan for nearly 5 years, with rich combat experience.

The weapon operator in front of him sat in the seat and felt a little cramped, this guy was here to play soy sauce: it was Alyosha, who had only been in contact with the Mi-24 for three days, and had only learned to operate the 12.7mm Gatling gun in the nose.

That's right, it's Zhang Nan's personal bodyguard Alyosha, this trip is actually not his turn to operate the machine gun, this Mi-24 pilot can also use the machine gun, but most of the time this job is the operator's business.

The captain carried two fuel-air bombs, which he dropped and left, without the need for the weapon operator to use rockets or anti-tank missiles.

The six Mi-24s carrying the bombs did not have weapons operators, because they were not needed, and the pilots were all real elites, so they stuffed the liaison officer Alyosha into the front compartment of the pilot's plane.

It was not his turn to lead the way, less than 150 kilometers, and when he arrived, it was already dawn, and the target building was very conspicuous in the northern part of the city: according to intelligence last night, the target did not leave at all.

The bomb went down just ten minutes after dawn, and Savimbi probably hadn't gotten up at that time!

Sasha and Alyosha are quite fateful, and Sasha is still talking nonsense to Alyosha through the intercom in the plane.

"Alyosha, are you really from Huaxia?"

"I've told you eight hundred times, I'm a Chinese, Russian, what's so strange!"

"It's just weird, how can there be Russians in China?"

"Thanks to Lenin, my grandfather's people arrived in China at that time. I told you about this, why can't you remember it. ”

"Forget it, don't talk about this, the Baltic side has pulled down a lot of Lenin statues, and there are bastards in many places in Russia who are doing this.

A gang of traitors!

By the way, there will be no outsiders here, you just tell the truth, how about following the boss?"

"You don't have to worry about this, as long as..."

These two guys are really related, Sasha is also from Leningrad, and as I said a few days ago, the place where I live is actually on the same street as Alyosha's hometown, and they can be regarded as neighbors.

And Sasha is an ancestral home in Leningrad, his grandfather's generation lived on that street, and later he chose the place where he was used to living when he was a child, a new apartment on the same street, and his family still lives there.

Now that the troops have been downsized and cancelled, the money is almost waste, and the retired Sasha doesn't know what to do.

The old boss made a phone call, and he felt that he couldn't make his three children live with his wife and parents if he couldn't fight it, so he came.

Neither his parents' pensions were enough for a meal, the black market was rampant, and he didn't want to think about the current Leningrad.

“… As long as you are an honest pilot, thanks to your profession, there are definitely $100,000 after annual salary and tax, and housing is also provided.

If you are a family man, except for the money to buy alcohol and cigarettes, you have no place to spend money, just like in the army, that is, a maximum of one month of family leave a year.

However, if your immediate family members come to see you, no matter how many people there are, every two years, the round-trip ticket around the world will be fully reimbursed!

How's that, the benefits are good!

By the way, all the company's camps, base restaurants, and clubs also have free vodka, that is, there is a maximum amount of vodka every day, and you can't let go of it. ”

Sasha's group of pilots are elites, and Alyosha also hopes that these people will stay, which will not forget to boast about the company's benefits.

"How much do you earn a year?"

Sasha couldn't help but ask: He heard that this guy is the bodyguard of the big boss.

"You can't do this job of mine, the profession is different. ”

Don't give up, "300,000?"

"Forget it, I'm not afraid to tell you, anyway, as long as you stay in the company, you will know that there will always be millions of dollars a year.

If you can become the boss's private business jet pilot, there is also a chance to engage in hundreds of thousands of a year. ”

How many people can be personal bodyguards?

Sasha was a little envious, but not jealous, just like the treatment of this pilot cannot be compared with that of an astronaut.

"I can only fly Soviet helicopters, I can't fly American airliners, and I can't do it at this age. ”

Speaking of this, Sasha paused and said, "The boss's bodyguards won't all be Huaxia, right?"

"It's not a secret, there are personal bodyguards for both the Chinese and the Americans, and as for the periphery, there are people from several countries. ”

"I said Alyosha, I don't want an annual salary of one million, but my brother definitely has your ability, or even stronger, he has the ability to take your annual salary. ”

"Your brother?

What for?"

"The colonel officer of the Improved Officer Establishment Training Team of the Special Operations Division of the KGB, well, just forced to retire, and last month their unit was disbanded, damn Brother Map!

Dog-!"

This is in the plane, as soon as he heard this, Alyosha couldn't help but turn his head, looked at Alyosha high behind him obliquely, and said, "Red devil?"

"What Red Devil?"

Sasha was a little scratched his head.