Chapter 845 Artillery and Chariots

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"Go and take away the branches on it and remove the tarpaulin that covers it!"

As soon as Liu Dong's words fell, the guards special forces who had already been unable to bear the curiosity in their hearts had already rushed forward, and in less than five minutes, the things under the oilcloth had already appeared in front of everyone.

"M109A6" Paladin "for 155-mm self-propelled guns!"

"M2" Bradley "infantry fighting vehicle!"

Looking at the two rows of steel monsters that appeared in front of them, a group of guards special forces shouted in surprise.

The M109A6 "Paladin" is a 155-mm self-propelled gun, which is the main gun of the US artillery and the latest modification of the American M109 self-propelled gun.

Compared with the prototype, the body tube has been lengthened, the firing range has been increased, and a semi-automatic loading mechanism has been adopted to increase the amount of ammunition carried. Equipped with an automatic fire control computer and a vehicle positioning and orientation device, it is possible to independently carry out firing. The system has a significant increase in responsiveness, survivability, system reliability and the endpoint effect of ammunition compared with the prototype, and has the characteristics of a new autonomous artillery.

The maximum muzzle velocity is 827 m / s, the projectile weighs 43.5 kg, the maximum rate of fire is 8 rounds, the maximum range is 24,000 meters (grenade), 30,000 meters (rocket range extender), the total combat weight is 28.350 tons, the maximum travel speed is 55 km / h, and the maximum range is 283 km.

The M2 "Bradley" infantry fighting vehicle, also an infantry fighting vehicle developed by the United States, named after the American five-star general Bradley, is a tracked, medium combat armored vehicle, is an armored combat vehicle that accompanies infantry mobile operations. Can fight independently. It can also be used in conjunction with tanks. In 1980, it was finalized and put into production. Equipped with the US Army in 1983.

The main armament of the vehicle is a 25M242 "Viper" 25 mm chain cannon with a rate of fire of 100, 200 and 500 rounds per minute, a total of four types, which can be selected by the shooter. The types of ammunition include tracer armor-piercing shells, tracer incendiary grenades and tracer training bullets. Ammunition base: 300 rounds of ammunition to be fired, 600 rounds of ammunition to spare.

There is also a 7.62 mm "M240C" side-by-side machine gun in the turret of the combat vehicle. Rate of fire 600 rounds / min. Ammunition base: 800 rounds of ammunition to be fired, 2340 rounds of spare ammunition.

The hull is welded with explosive reactive armor to resist armor-piercing and artillery shells, and the front of the vehicle is equipped with lower-mounted additional armor to protect against mine attacks, and there are side skirts on the sides. Therefore, the "Bradley" infantry fighting vehicle has better protection capabilities.

The engine is a V8 Cummins VTA-903T diesel engine. The power is 500 horsepower, automatic transmission. The maximum road speed is 65 km/h, the maximum road travel is 483 km, and the unit power is 26 hp/ton.

The Bradley infantry fighting vehicle has twice appeared on the battlefield in Iraq. In the 1991 Gulf War, 2,000 "Bradley" infantry fighting vehicles of the U.S. military, accompanied by the M1A2 main battle tank, drove in the desert like a lightning speed, becoming a sharp sword in the "desert sabre" military operation, inflicting heavy damage on the Iraqi Republican Guard.

And such a sharp weapon is naturally also the star of the international arms market, and it is these two weapons that are mainly equipped in Muñoz's army, plus the T-72 main battle tank from the Soviet Union. It constituted the entirety of the armorization of Muñoz's troops.

Because the main battle tank is inconvenient to move in the rainforest, Liu Dong mainly brought this kind of more than 20 tons or so this time. Powerful self-propelled guns and infantry fighting vehicles.

Because the number of guards special forces is not too large, the "Paladin" brought by Liu Dong is a total of 12 155-mm self-propelled guns. A total of 24 "Bradley" infantry fighting vehicles!

The crew of each 'Paladin' 155mm self-propelled howitzer is 5 people, and each 'Bradley' infantry fighting vehicle can carry 6 heavily armed infantrymen in addition to the driver!

Therefore, the 12 'Paladin' and 24 'Bradley' infantry fighting vehicles brought by Liu Dong are just right for the soldiers he brought this time!

"Everyone listen to my orders, now get in the car immediately, let's go kick the ass of the Cobra mercenary group and the Alfonso family, let's go!!"

"Yes!"

After everyone agreed, and then according to the squad they belonged to, they rushed to their own armored vehicles with excited faces.

For these weapons, after a long period of training, they have long been familiar with it, so they will soon be launched, all kinds of weapons are loaded, and the muzzle of the thick 155mm howitzer is also quickly raised, and quickly pointed at the blue sky, these big monsters with a range of 24,000 meters will not be driven to the battlefield, because the troops of the Cobra and Alfonso families, no more than 5 kilometers away from them, are completely within the range of their artillery, they just need to find the target to shoot!

And for the Guards special forces, who have been fighting here for more than two months and are extremely familiar with the terrain within dozens of kilometers around, it is not too difficult to accurately locate the target of the shelling, not to mention the assistance of electronic equipment on the artillery.

After taking Eder onto an armored command car, Liu Dong was very self-aware and gave up the command position to the other party.

Although he had read a few books on war command, it was more on paper, far from Eder's professional military training and training in military command.

"Attention everyone, 15 minutes ...... artillery fire!"

By the time Eder gave the order in an orderly manner, the 'Paladin' 155mm howitzers numbered 01, 02 and 03 had raised their long barrels and pointed into the distance!

"Three rapid fires!"

After the clear order was given, after three successive roars, I saw that the Paladin self-propelled howitzer weighing more than 20 tons shook violently, and three lightning flames rushed out of the muzzle, and in less than ten seconds, a violent explosion was heard across the river in the distance.

The 155mm howitzer has been regarded as a heavy artillery in the world's artillery sequence, with more than 10 kg of high-energy explosives, and the fragments of the shells are enough to clear all the standing enemies within 100 meters.

Soon the Guards special forces on the front line had already fed back the observed impact points via the guò radio, and after a quick calculation by the on-board computer to get a new shelling coordinates, the second test launch soon exploded again!

However, the originally quiet night sky has been completely awakened by the sudden explosion of heavy shells!

At this moment, in a small valley three kilometers away from Liu Dong and them, almost all the soldiers at the Cobra special forces station, whether on duty or resting, had all looked at the sky in the north.

Especially a tall and strong man, but his left eye is covered by a black blindfold, and the expression on his face is extremely strict.

"Regiment commander, it was a large-caliber heavy artillery just now!" next to the one-eyed strong man, a shirtless white strong man wore fingerless gloves and held a three-edged military thorn in his hand, and said with a solemn expression.

As mercenaries who are often on the verge of death, they know more about the various weapons than the regular army of an ordinary country, and they can tell which weapon it is just by listening to their voices.

After nodding silently, the one-eyed strong man still stood up to the distant sky, and said in a solemn tone: "It's a 155mm heavy howitzer, damn it, it's such a dilapidated place, and it's a rainforest with no road, how can there be a heavy artillery, damn it, it's troublesome this time!"

The strong men with military thorns in their hands also understood that although they veterans were more afraid of machine guns, artillery was the courage of the infantry, and without the support of artillery fire, they would not want to win this battle at all.

"Hal, tell the brothers immediately, pack up your things at once, and we'll get out of here!" After a moment of thought, the one-eyed man immediately commanded.

"Leaving the Alfonso family?"

"We can't manage so much for the time being, we can't stay here and use the enemy's artillery as a target!"

As soon as the words fell, a sudden piercing scream quickly came from far to near, and this familiar voice made the one-eyed strong man's face change greatly, "Get down!"

Obviously, the strong man with the military thorn in his hand is also an experienced veteran, so at the moment when the one-eyed man just spoke, he already had a standard lying down action and lay on the ground.

"Boom......!"

The cannonball flew thirty meters above the heads of the two men and blew up the tent behind them, and at the same time blew up the two mercenaries who remained there into flesh and blood!

In an instant, the tyrannical and powerful power of the 155mm large-caliber heavy cannon was clearly revealed before the two of them.

"Poof, ......!" After spitting out the soil in his mouth and shaking the soil on his head, the one-eyed man ignored the still residual buzzing sound in his ears, and hurriedly shook his comrade next to him, "Hal, hurry up, are you okay?"

"It's fine!"

Shaking the dirt off his body, Hal stood up.

"It's okay!" the one-eyed man breathed a sigh of relief, his face became solemn, "We must retreat immediately, just now they were testing the projectile point, marking the trajectory, I'm afraid that the next thing will be a large-scale shelling! For the safety of our brothers, we must leave immediately!"

"I'll give the order!" As a veteran of a hundred battles, Hal also knows what to expect.

In fact, it's not just them, even the people of the Alfonso family know that after the three test firings, it will be the beginning of large-scale shelling, but their team is too large, and it will take a long time for the order to be transmitted and organized, so by the end of the second test firing, their orders have not yet been communicated to every battalion!

And at this time, there was already a scalp-numbing scream from the sky!

It's not a three-shot this time!

The rate of fire of the 'Paladin' 155mm caliber self-propelled howitzer is 8 rounds per minute, and almost all of the Guards special forces who have undergone rigorous training and are very familiar with the equipment on the opponent have scored 8 rounds per minute, plus this time Liu Dong prepared two base 500 rounds of large-caliber shells for each self-propelled gun. It is enough to make the soldiers on the 12 'Paladin' self-propelled howitzers unscrupulous and presumptuous!

………………………………………………………………………………………………… (To be continued......)