Chapter 257: Seven hundred miles of fire burned the company camp

The image transmitted back by the needle-eye drone refreshes the infrared image of the entire Ding 37 area at a rate of ten seconds.

Although such a picture is not coherent, no one in the front finger has any opinion on it. In fact, to be able to have such a picture backhaul is already a great achievement for this era.

Thanks to a series of successes in Hu Wenhai, the technical support he has been able to obtain has become more and more powerful. The initial realistic aircraft could only be visually taken off and landed by pilot students, and flew at close range within the visual range.

After the predecessor of the Blue Sword UAV, the technical force that he can use is greatly strengthened, and it can use the domestic computer system and the wireless transmission of analog signals, so that the UAV can realize flight outside the line-of-sight and man-in-the-loop control on the basis of high-precision gyroscope.

When it comes to the needle-eye UAV, Hu Wenhai can be said to have integrated all available aviation technologies on the basis of the full opening of the entire domestic military industrial system.

The most important of these is undoubtedly the autopilot technology derived from the YJD series of missiles.

After the transformation, the unmanned instrument applied to the needle-eye UAV has been able to autonomously complete the flight instructions issued remotely by the UAV operator hundreds of kilometers away.

Although the operation screen of the seemingly needle-eye drone is regressive compared with the Blue Sword drone, it has changed from the real-time refresh of the analog signal to the picture return mode of the digital signal. But it is undeniable that this is definitely a qualitative leap forward in technology.

Not only has it changed from an analog signal to a digital signal backhaul, but through a digital signal exchange, the needle-eye drone has finally truly become a battlefield platform.

Rely on the technology of this platform. It's not just the images that can be sent back. At the same time, it also gives the needle-eye drone the function of sending back more sensor data.

Such as infrared, wind speed, temperature, altitude, velocity, remote sensing, laser, radar......

Just replace the sensor module. The needle-eye drone can transmit all data to the console through a loop without any obstacles.

It is with this scalability that the platform of the needle-eye drone has a value beyond the drone itself.

But of course, in the eyes of the soldiers on the front line in southern Xinjiang, many people did not see these prospects. The only thing they really feel is that the form of war is changing.

"Can we really win this war?"

Of course, Ruan Van Dong did not say this. No matter which country's army asks such a thing on the battlefield. At least they will be severely punished by officers, and in serious cases, they will even be subject to battlefield discipline.

Shaking the morale of the army is not a trivial matter.

But Ruan Wentong believes that this sentence must have been asked in the hearts of many people.

Seven years have passed since the war was going on, and the war was becoming more and more incomprehensible to the people of Annam.

"Hey, did you hear anything?"

The team leader raised his hand, vigilantly stopped the team from advancing, listened intently, and asked the team members.

Ruan Wentong hurriedly adopted a vigilant and concealed posture, his movements were crisp and neat, and his reaction was definitely sensitive. It can be seen that he has excellent tactical literacy and is an extremely good soldier.

After ensuring your own safety. Only then did Ruan Van Tong carefully distinguish every bit of sound in the night. The chirping of insects, the sound of the wind sweeping through the treetops, or the occasional sound of small footsteps – that's when small animals forage for food at night.

Other than that, I don't know if it's my tinnitus or an illusion. He always felt as if there was a whining wind, like a strong wind blowing through the valley, echoing between heaven and earth.

Immediately, he also saw such a doubtful voice on the faces of his comrades around him by the moonlight.

Immediately, he suddenly seemed to think of something!

"It's a flying incendiary bomb of the Chinese!" he was shocked.

"What?"

"I've heard that Chinese has a weapon that can burn or suffocate all the people in a tunnel! This weapon may have been modified from an airplane engine, and I heard the sound of an airplane in Cam Ranh Bay, and this is the ...... far away."

Before Ruan Wentong finished speaking, he saw a flash of fire galloping in the sky. He pointed to the sky in amazement and exclaimed, "Look!"

Everyone in the team raised their heads and looked at the flash of fire that was speeding through the sky. The night light was dim, and all I could see was a cylindrical flying object with long wings.

In a flash of light, the flying object flew swiftly over the team's heads at an altitude that was "extremely low" compared to the aircraft.

It was only then that the Annan fighters of the supply squad heard the violent roar of the aircraft's engines.

"That's the direction of the base, shoot!"

The captain of the supply team was terrified, shouting, and quickly opened the safety of the AK47 in his hand, and threw the bullet in the direction of the fire.

Although his team members did not realize the problem as quickly as he did, the consciousness of obeying orders was deep-rooted, and without thinking, they followed him towards the flames violently.

However, under the strafing of more than a dozen AK47s, this fire was as if unconscious, and almost in the blink of an eye, it had already flown away.

"No!"

The supply team hadn't traveled far, at least visually, and could still see the hill where the supply base was located. Vaguely, I can also remember where I drilled the mouth of the tunnel.

That's right, the flying object seemed to have eyes, and flew through the mouth of the pit they had drilled.

That's more than ten seconds.

Nguyen Van Dong first observed a small explosion in the direction of the mouth of the tunnel - about the level of an ordinary grenade.

This made him breathe a sigh of relief, the Chinese are not so powerful, this explosion has no effect on the tunnel with three defense capabilities.

However, immediately after, in the next moment, a fire dragon suddenly erupted violently from the tunnel!

Not only the mouth of the pit where they set off, but also several hidden exits around it, there were fires of different sizes shining through!

"It's ......"

It's not just Nguyen Van Dong. All of the team members couldn't help but recall something they had heard. Rumors were made at the beginning of the year. There was once a front-line hiding hole that was hit by a Chinese incendiary bomb. The people inside were either burned to death or suffocated to death by running out of oxygen.

Although it is impossible to explain why the Chinese incendiary bombs can hit so accurately, anything can happen on the battlefield, and eventually this news has become a battlefield legend.

But apparently, this is by no means a legend, the Chinese really have the ability to put an incendiary bomb on the engine of an aircraft, and then fly into the tunnel and explode!

"It's fine. Our pit is huge!"

The leader of the supply team seemed to be comforting himself and his teammates: "You see, it's only the vents and entrances of an area that are burning. Except for this one, there is no fire coming out of most of the caves!"

His words gave the team a little comfort, the war has been fought for so many years, and the people of Annam have long been accustomed to seeing death. As long as it is not served by someone, there is no hope at all, and there is nothing to lose some lives.

However, before the captain's words fell, the whirring wind in the sky suddenly came again. Immediately after that, the other one removed the redundant functions of the Blue Sword drone. The Green Arrow Cruise Thermobaric Bomb, which only had the ability to cruise attack, also crossed the sky above the supply team again.

This time there was no need for the captain to order. Everyone in the entire squad desperately pulled the trigger on their hands.

The roar of the Kalashnikov even suppressed the deafening sound of the aircraft engine.

However, they only demonstrated once again how unreliable it is to use small arms against jet-powered flying objects.

The second cruise thermobaric bomb did not stop its pace at all, as if it had eyes, and drilled headlong into another tunnel mouth exposed by the combustion explosion.

Immediately, under Ruan Van Tong's terrified gaze, more tunnel openings and ventilation openings erupted like pillars of fire like volcanic eruptions......

And immediately after, the third, fourth, and fifth, this huge supply base pit group, enough to eat the bombardment of five cruise thermobaric bombs. The whole mountain seemed to be on fire.

Ruan Wentong suddenly heard a pop, and when he looked back, the captain of the supply team knelt on the ground with a dull gaze at this time, staring at the torch-like burning peaks in the night.

By the light of the fire, Ruan Van Dong saw that many people in the team were either kneeling on the ground or muttering and collapsing at this time. Unlike him, the rest of the squad, their comrades, and even their loved ones were in that mountain. These fires are likely to take away all their relatives and friends......

But as the so-called physical injury is like this, Ruan Van Dong couldn't help but think about what would happen if his company's pit was fed with such an incendiary bomb.

The front-line tunnel he is in is not as big as the tunnel in this mountain, and perhaps as long as there is a single shot, there will be no living person in the entire tunnel.

To be honest, he does not know why the Chinese do not use such weapons until today. But he knew that the balance of war was completely tilted in favor of the Chinese this time.

......

"Company commander, the front commander ordered us to climb to the top of the hill and observe the effect of the attack on Area 37. ”

The signal soldier of the Heng Jianyun Company of the Synthetic Regiment touched it and whispered to him the order of his superiors.

Heng Jianyun nodded, waved his hand to let Bi Dagang's people follow him, and cautiously climbed to the top of the mountain. At this time, although it is already night, no one knows if there are snipers lurking on the opposite side, so they can't be careless.

Heng Jianyun lay behind a boulder on the top of the mountain, took out his telescope from the box, distinguished the direction, and then looked in the direction of Ding 37 from the telescope.

This look made him hiss, and he took a deep breath!

Chapter 258: Mistakes

In the distance in District 37, a mountain is burning like a torch at night.

He had seen a similar scene before. The weapon called thermobaric bomb left an indelible memory in the hearts of Heng Jianyun and Bi Dagang.

It can instantly consume all the oxygen in a space, can burn an inextinguishable fire, and can release a lethal poisonous gas, which is the killing method of thermobaric bombs.

Especially in a cramped, enclosed space, the power of this weapon is simply terrifying.

He had already seen the five flames in the sky before. As a company commander of the reconnaissance company of the composite regiment. Of course he knew. That's either the Blue Sword drone or the Green Arrow cruise missile.

Now it seems. There is no need to guess, it must be the Green Arrow cruise missile.

At this moment, the communicator crawled to his side and handed him the microphone: "Company commander, the front finger calls." ”

"Eagle's Nest, this is a cheetah, please answer when you hear it. Heng Jianyun pressed the call button and called in a low voice.

He just let go of the call button. A voice immediately came from the headset: "Zila-cheetah, this is the eagle's nest, please confirm the effect of the attack in Ding 37." ”

"Five Green Arrow cruise missiles passed by, visually hitting the target. The fire in Area 37 was fierce, and it can be seen that there were explosions one after another. ”

In Heng Jianyun's telescope, new mountains were constantly being suddenly exploded. Needless to say, it was the second detonation caused by the flames of the thermobaric bomb that ignited the ammunition stored in the tunnel.

However, this is nothing, the most terrifying thing for Heng Jianyun is that no matter how violent the explosion is. On the mountain in District 37, there are hardly any Annan soldiers who rushed out of the tunnel.

No need to ask. At this time, everyone in the entire tunnel is probably more than lucky.

Although Heng Jianyun has long memorized the killing principle and various performance data of the Green Arrow cruise missile, this is the first time that he has so clearly realized the horror of this weapon from the perspective of a bystander.

"Cheetah, continue to observe the movements around Area 37. If vicious dogs and rats are approaching, be ready to guide the arrival of a blizzard. ”

"Cheetah understands. ”

Heng Jianyun knew that the vicious dog was the scout of the Annamite people, and the rat was the militia of the Annamite people. The meaning of the front finger is very clear, if the Annan people have any move to get close to the Ding 37 area to fight the fire, they can directly use the laser irradiator in his hand to guide the long-range artillery and rocket artillery in the rear to cover the fire.

......

Chuncheng pointed forward, looking at the infrared image transmitted back by the needle-eye drone, and listening to the strike effect described by Heng Jianyun from the radio, many young staff officers even jumped up excitedly!

Five rounds! Five rounds of cruising thermobaric bombs easily reimbursed a large supply base for the Annamite people!

Although there is a relationship that the Annanites did not take precautions in this regard, it also shows how amazing the effect of the thermobaric bomb is on whack-a-mole!

The cost of a Green Arrow cruise thermobaric bomb is about 300,000 yuan. After all, this weapon is a short-range weapon deployed on the front line, with a range of no more than 20 kilometers, and the guidance is guided by man-in-the-loop television/infrared guidance, which is probably equivalent to the price of a "frog" tactical missile. Of course, the size of the Green Arrow cruise thermobaric bomb is smaller than that of the frog, but the internal control technology is at least two generations higher than that of the frog.

With such a balance, the cost is about the same.

In other words, five Green Arrow cruising thermobaric bombs, costing 1.5 million yuan, wiped out a large supply base for the Annamite people.

And if the shells of long-range howitzers are replaced, not to mention that they will not be able to destroy the tunnels in the mountains at all. Even if you "wash" this mountain again, I'm afraid 1.5 million is not enough!

Don't look at the increase in unit costs, but the overall cost of the entire war with precision-guided weapons does show a downward trend.

This is not counting the reduction of logistical pressure on precision-guided weapons, and the advantages of technical weapons in terms of concealment, rapid transfer, and casualties, which are not at all standards that can be measured in money on the battlefield.

Based on the experience of fighting in southern Xinjiang in the past, if the PLA wants to break through the defensive nodes in a defense zone, it will be a systematic project.

First of all, it was necessary to engage in a fierce infantry confrontation with the Annam army on the commanding heights of a defensive area, occupy the commanding heights at a certain cost, and then guide the heavy artillery units to attack the surrounding hilltop defenses.

Occupy the surface of the mountain, and desperately clear the enemy from the tunnel. After uprooting these front-line strongholds, the PLA must also be mentally prepared to pay a heavy price in casualties and fight to the death with the enemy at important defense points such as headquarters and supply bases.

After such a set, it is said that the winner of the Yinshan Battle, the commander of the 31st Division at that time, had prepared 200 coffins.

Of course, due to General Liao's wonderful command and meticulous preparation, our army fought quite beautifully in the first battle of Zheyinshan, and the martyrs who died did not reach the triple digits.

But if there had been a needle-eye drone and a Green Arrow cruising thermobaric bomb at that time, there should have been more martyrs who would have been able to walk off the battlefield alive, right?

For example. It's the same now.

There are needle-eye drones for theater surveillance. Cut off the enemy's front-line supply base. It is conceivable that the deployment of the Annamite in this area will soon collapse.

The supply in the rear cannot come up, and the actions of the large supply team cannot hide the surveillance of the needle-eye drone, let alone the attack of long-range artillery fire. The operation of a small supply force, without a front-line supply base, cannot even meet its own consumption with the supplies it carries.

So next, the Annanites will be faced with two choices. One is to do another 7.12 counterattack like an egg hitting a stone, or simply give up this defense area.

No matter how the Annan people choose, it is wrong.

And to achieve such a tactical effect, our army did not even have a single wounded soldier.

The People's Liberation Army that Chuncheng pointed to in front of him. It felt as if the door to a new world had been opened.

No one can say that if this continues, as long as you have money and willfulness, will you be able to fight a war with zero casualties?

"Let the needle-eye drone return. ”

"Yes, the needle-eye drone is back!"

Realizing the power of network-centric warfare, the value of the needle-eye drone suddenly became extremely important in the eyes of the commander of the former commander of Spring City. How and by whom such equipment will be used still needs to be discussed, but it must not be lost on the southern Xinjiang front. In order not to let the Annan people realize that there is a pair of eyes in the sky that can keep an eye on them, the needle-eye drone that carried out the actual combat drill task immediately returned home.

The distance from Chuncheng to the front line in southern Xinjiang is only more than 300 kilometers in a straight line, and the needle-eye drone can return to the alternate landing airport from the front line in half an hour.

During this half-hour, the former commander was not idle, and the former commander collected the actual combat exercise data of the entire set of battlefield information networks one by one.

The Annanites did send a rescue force, but in the Ding 37 district, which was burned like a torch. It was easily discovered by Heng Jianyun's company. Immediately, the group of long-range howitzers did not wait for their formation to disperse. He quickly let out a roar.

After two volleys, there was no longer a single Annam standing near the 37th district of Ding.

And the operational data of the battlefield network, the former finger has also collected almost everything.

In less than half an hour, the operator of the needle-eye drone stood up and suddenly reported to the commander of the front finger.

"The needle-eye drone is about to arrive in Spring City, please ask the airport air traffic controller to guide you!"

"Connect to Spring City Air Force Base. The commander immediately responded, and soon, the air force's base in Spring City was connected.

For the time being, the army does not yet have its own airfield, so the needle-eye drone is deployed at the airfield of the Air Force. The command structures of the southern Xinjiang front, the army and the air force, belong to two systems.

There is no way, the return of the needle-eye drone can only be called through the communication line of the airport by the commander himself.

"Spring City Air Force Base, I am the Spring City Front Command Center. The commander said in a deep voice: "Please guide our army aircraft to land, numbered Pro 001." ”

"Spring City Air Base understands, huh?"

A puzzled voice came from the communication line, and the air controller asked eagerly: "Command center, my air base has not found a radar signal of Pro 001, please confirm whether Pro 001 has returned!"

The air traffic controller's words startled the commander, after all, this drone is not a manned aircraft, and it is indeed flying back to someone who can see it with their own eyes. Who knows if something went wrong with the system and the plane flew somewhere else?

"What's going on, drone operator! Hurry up and check why there is no signal for Pro 001 on the radar of the air base!"

The eyes of almost all the staff officers and staff in the command center were focused on the drone operator at this moment.

The operator was a flight instructor of the simulated aircraft from the Xiucheng Aviation School, and he took up his post after a short period of training. So many people suddenly stared at him, which suddenly made him sweat all over his face.

I saw that he hurriedly carried out a series of operation checks on the operating table, his face was flushed, and then he was suddenly stunned.

"Report, the problem has been identified. The operator lowered his voice and hung his head: "The needle-eye drone did not emit a corner reflector, which caused the radar to be unable to observe the signal echo of the aircraft. ”

"What?"

Not only the commander, but also the air base in the connection could hear obvious surprise.

"You're saying our radar didn't detect your plane?

yes, it can't be, right?

This was the doubt in the minds of almost everyone present at this time.

Even if the dilapidated air defense radar network of the Annam people can't detect the needle-eye drones, is there really an aircraft that can't even be detected by the air defense radar network deployed by our army in the combat area?

The drone operator quickly made up for his mistake by pressing a few switches and lowering the corner reflector hidden in the fuselage by the eye of the needle.

Immediately, there was a gasp in the communication lines of the air base. (To be continued.) )