616 Helicopter gunships
The result of "this ......" made it completely impossible for the Iranians who had made meritorious contributions to imagine these situations, and even the few yellow people in tawny desert camouflage uniforms who were watching this war like children on a hill not far from the battlefield were dumbfounded.
They didn't think at all that the M1, which has a strong defense, is not easy to impress in other places, and the back of the butt is easy to be pierced, and the bigger flaw is on the wheel, and they don't know if it is the latest domestic research of depleted uranium armor-piercing shells.
"Boss, record this, this time the Black Arrow is performing very well, and it's no joke that this thing is called a Burst Chrysanthemum Missile. And although the armor-piercing bullet cannot penetrate the opponent's main armor, it can completely hit the opponent's wheels, which is unexpected, and it is estimated that the people of the US imperialist do not know! ”
A middle-aged man said to the emaciated middle-aged man beside him with a surprised face.
Not far away, the tank battle continued, and the extent of the war suddenly entered a white heat.
Even if the Ryonbo II tank has more than ten layers of defensive armor, it cannot withstand the blow of several armor-piercing high-explosive shells at a time, and in less than five minutes of engagement, several Ryonwei II vehicles were crippled, although most of them were blown off tracks, and one of the turrets was blown away.
With the design of the Soviets' magazine and the automatic reloading mechanism, even with a very strong defense, it is impossible to go without the slightest damage under a fierce siege.
The number of Ronmes tanks damaged was far greater than that of Ronmese II, and more than twenty tanks had already been destroyed.
However, these tanks were destroyed. There were no explosions, many of them were lying on their stomachs, and the soldiers inside were still frantically manipulating the turret. Pour those tungsten tail shell-out armor-piercing shells at the M1 and T64 besieging them.
The Dragon Guard tank suffered a lot of losses.
However, the M1 tank was more damaged, but it was the old Maozi's T64, perhaps because there were American tanks in front of it to resist, and the losses were not much.
Of course, these losses. In fact, it is not as unacceptable as the T72.
Because most of the tanks are incapacitated because the tracks are blown off by high-explosive shells.
The only one that was most seriously injured was the M1 tank facing the anti-armor module on top of the Rymevi, four of which had been burned to the shelves so far......
"That's it. Even if we fight it out, we don't lose as much as each other! Ansar's face became heavy, but the other side outnumbered them, and Rao Hazari was excited. He didn't feel the slightest sense of ease either.
Now the two sides are entangled. It simply can't be easily separated.
In the face of such a result, whether it was Qasim, the commander of the Tikrit Division, or Mubashar and others of the First Regiment, they were all angry.
"Fighter, call for fighter to come and support!" Gidohab gritted his teeth and roared, their honor, trampled on again and again, this time if it failed. There is simply no way that the president will not be angry!
No one can keep the Tikritan division!
"The division commander has already said that our Air Force is entangled by Iran's Air Force. The other side has a large number of anti-aircraft missiles, and it is simply not able to support us! Mubashar's eyes were red like a mad beast.
"Then call the helicopter to come and support us. Our helicopter gunships have not shown themselves for so long, and they have to be allowed to come. Didn't those bastards of the Army Airlines boast all day long that we are not their opponents? Let them come and take out these tanks! Ihaji said in a deep voice.
Helicopter gunships were developed mainly to support armored forces and to combat enemy armored groups.
Iraq has imported a large number of Mi-24 helicopters from the Soviet Union, although they are not specialized helicopter gunships, but these helicopters have a powerful air strike capability, and the rockets and anti-armor tanks on them are used to combat armored vehicles and tanks.
In the face of the precision strikes of helicopters in the air, it is simply impossible for these Iranian tanks to withstand wave after wave of intensive strikes.
When the request was sent, Qasim called the headquarters in Basra and asked them to send a helicopter to support them as soon as possible.
The distance between the two places is not short, the arrival of helicopters requires constant time, in order not to let the Iranian tanks run away, the double anti-reverse began the encirclement-counter-encirclement-encirclement entanglement. The area of the battlefield is constantly being dispersed.
"No, the other party must be waiting for air support!" Ansar continued to receive intelligence from the front line, and the strength of the opponent's offensive was obviously weakened a lot, and even the armored vehicles of both sides were entangled together.
"Call in air support now! The air defense forces brought me up! The more Ansar thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and his order was carried out by Mullah Hazari without hesitation.
As a result, it was the commander Ale. Teddell replied that all the air defense forces were used to defend Ahvaz and the port of Mahshahr, and that most of their air force was defending the capital and the northern towns, and that the fighters in the south could not compete with the advanced Iraqi fighters.
There are not many anti-aircraft missiles on this side.
"Isn't there a large number of Houyi anti-aircraft missiles on your battalion Longwei II? Let these tanks fight back against each other! This is Liu Suxue's suggestion.
This gave Ansar and the others a little confidence in their hearts.
"Let the second and third battalions that assaulted to the front withdraw, don't be besieged by the other side!" Hazari suggested.
Those tanks are the hope of the whole South.
The second batch of Chinese tanks will not be supplied to them until the production of the Chinese's own orders is completed and equipped with Pakistan. Otherwise, they can only wait for China to buy it from Pakistan at a high price after the equipment is completed.
Those tanks of the Chinese, they are not willing to wait any longer, this is clear to everyone, they are just for combat tests.
"There is no way to withdraw. The two sides are entangled too deeply...... "Hazari has long found out.
He couldn't pull out the tanks in front of him.
The war, over time, did not come out of anything.
The tanks on both sides were densely scattered in a small area, and the command of the two sides was very chaotic, with several M1 tanks chasing a Ronpeda tank, and some Ronbo tanks chasing the M1 or T64 tanks, or stopping there one-on-one to fight, most of the tanks were scarred, but not much scrapped.
Tanks began to grow more and more numerous.
The Longwei II tank has always been on the edge of the battlefield, and the armored vehicle units that cooperate with them in the fight do not dare to rush here at all, and until now, almost an hour has passed, and only the Longwei II tank and the opposite M1 and dozens of T64 still barely maintain the combat formation, and in the face of the opponent's dense firepower, the Longwei II is not durable, especially the tracks.
Once the tracks are blown up, they will soon be hit by several tanks of the opposing side combined!
Eventually, it turned into a meal of burning scrap metal.
The explosions rang out continuously, but they became thinner than before.
These tanks on the Iranian side, because they are small tanks carrying large artillery, have not much ammunition in reserve, more than 20 rounds less than the heavy tanks of the Americans and Lao Maozi's heavy tanks.
When the No. 111 car finally discovered this problem and reminded them, there were only a few high-explosive shells and armor-piercing shells left in many tank magazines.
"Boom, boom, boom......, boom" gradually became louder with a roar, and more than a dozen small black dots appeared in the sky in the southwest of the area where a large amount of dust was constantly rising due to the continuous entanglement of the two sides and the chase and anti-chase.
Helicopter!
And it's the other side's helicopter gunship.
"The first battalion, anti-aircraft missile preparation, kill these guys!" Ansar's fears have finally become a reality.
Iraq is equipped with a significant number of helicopter gunships, which Iran does not have.
From the very beginning, Iran was only equipped with transport helicopters imported from the United States, which had good transport capacity, but they were not armed helicopters.
Helicopters are not comparable to fighter jets, have a low flight speed, and have a very strong ground attack capability.
Of course, the threat of helicopters to armored clusters is not very clear to the whole world at the moment.
The roar grew louder and louder, and the twelve helicopters formed a straight formation, gradually changing from the original small black dots to the size of thumbs.
Due to the long entanglement between the two sides, the originally small battlefield area has been expanded countless times, whether it is the Iraqi side or the Iranian side, the two farthest tanks are separated by more than five kilometers.
The furthest from the helicopter formation was the 1st Iranian battalion......
"Yes, except for the anti-aircraft machine gun, the Longwei 1 does not have air defense capabilities at all, and the Longwei-2 is too far away from there......" A few people who were originally observing on the hill saw the appearance of the helicopter in the telescope, and immediately became worried.
The range of the Houyi anti-aircraft missile, mounted on the Longwei tank, is not too far.
In the southwest direction, in the direction where the helicopter group was flying, three Longwei tanks were chasing the two M1s, and when they saw the helicopters getting bigger and bigger in the sky, they turned around and prepared to escape, but before they could turn around, they were drowned by the tongues of fire from the rocket launchers on both sides of the helicopter.
After the tongue of fire flashed, dense explosion points began to appear on the ground, countless dirt and shrapnel flew up, and puffs of white smoke quickly rose into the sky with the explosion.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Three violent explosions in a row, and the three Rywo tanks pursuing the M1 tank were completely overwhelmed by the flames...... (To be continued.) )