Chapter 74: The Wonderful Use of HUD

As one of the top ten armed helicopters in the world and the leader of the "anti-tank" helicopters, the CSH-2 "Shicha Falcon" has strong firepower, and naturally there is no need to say more.

That is, there are many weapons and equipment, and the amount of ammunition that needs to be configured has become a "huge" project.

Especially in the current situation like Xingfeng, a single person operating alone and blinding the fire with a black light is simply life-threatening.

Aviation fuel was delivered, 1,200 rounds of high-explosive semi-armor-piercing artillery shells, 36 68mm rockets, 8 ZT-3 laser-guided anti-tank missiles, and two V3B "Short Knife" infrared homing air-to-air missiles were installed.

With the help of various auxiliary equipment such as flatbed trailers and lifts, Xingfeng was busy for nearly 2 hours, and his body was basically soaked with sweat.

This physical consumption is no less than 20 kilometers of off-road in full gear!

"It's 5:10, it's almost dawn, I have to speed up."

Looking at the time through the gap of wiping sweat, Xing Feng didn't care about resting, walked quickly to the door, and slowly pushed the door open on both sides.

The movement of the torture wind was very light, and although the large iron gate was heavy, it did not make a very loud noise.

After the gates were all opened, Xing Feng looked at the building complex a few hundred meters away, and seeing that there was no abnormality, he turned around and ran towards a small tractor.

Helicopters do not have the ability to travel on land like fighter jets, and they can only be moved to the take-off and landing platform by manual push and pull, or by special tractors.

When the "Shicha Falcon" helicopter gunship entered the landing pad, Xingfeng got out of the car and released the traction arm, and got into the cockpit with the help of the "protrusion" extending from the bottom of the nose.

The method of entering the cabin of a gunship, unlike other types of left and right opening, is the same as that of modern fighters, with the glass hatch opening upwards.

Due to the high ground clearance, it is usually necessary to use a ladder to avoid climbing into it in embarrassment.

There is no ladder, but it can be easily entered, and the reason for this is the unique body structure of the "Stone Tea Falcon".

The turret of the "Ishcha Falcon" is installed in front of the nose of the fuselage, not directly under the fuselage, and the range of the cannon in this position, which is not obstructed by the nose, is conducive to shooting in air combat.

In addition, the ammunition supply method adopted by the aircraft gun is supplied without bullet chains, which limits its ammunition box to the vicinity of the nose.

The bulge used by the torture wind to cushion the feet is actually the ammunition box of the "Stone Tea Falcon".

Although it is an external close-range ammunition box, it has built-in heat insulation and ceramic ballistic layers, which will not be too much of a problem in terms of defense.

"Rub!"

The glass hatch was closed, and Xingfeng immediately put all the spears on his body into the system space.

Next, put the flight helmet equipped with sights on your head, lock the strap of the driver's seat, and skillfully control the instrument panel quickly with both hands.

Click, click, click......

With the control of Xingfeng, all instruments in the cabin began to start, and the display screen, buttons, etc., also entered the night flight mode at the same time.

"Hum ~, Huh, Huh, Huh......"

After the cockpit is ready for takeoff, the turboshaft engine, which is up to 1,400 kilowatts, begins to rotate slowly.

A minute later!

The speed of the rotors gradually increased, and a strong wing wind blew out, raising a thick layer of dust on the platform.

Maybe it's this group of red turban soldiers, I didn't expect anyone to be so bold, or maybe it's five or six o'clock in the morning, which is the time when the pajamas are thick.

Now the helicopter has started, but nothing out of the ordinary has happened!

Xingfeng retracted his gaze from a distance, extracted the topographic map in the onboard storage, and at the same time, transferred the route of the Chinese-funded factory to the "HUD" directly ahead.

In addition to the display of the instrument cluster, the "Stone Tea Falcon" also has a transparent HUD on two sides, that is, a head-up display.

This is a display device that uses the principle of optical reflection to project important flight-related information onto a piece of glass.

The first aircraft to adopt HUD was the MD-80 series produced by the McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Company in the United States in the late 1970s.

In terms of appearance, it is basically no different from the "light curtain" that comes with the military sub-plane summoning system.

It sounds tall and sci-fi, but the principle of its operation is very popular, which is image projection!

After the data is processed and converted by a computer, the required data is transmitted to the display unit of the HUD, and the image is projected onto the transparent glass in front of it.

The glass is located at the front of the cockpit at a height roughly at the level of the pilot's eyes, ensuring that the text and images projected are adjusted to the focal distance infinitely.

When the pilot observes the HUD screen, the transparent HUD can also be used to bring the outside world into view.

Jet fighters for over-the-horizon attack may not be very useful, but for armed helicopters performing line-of-sight missions, the application of HUD will greatly improve their combat capabilities and survivability on the battlefield.

The HUD of the "Stone Tea Falcon" not only displays flight safety-related data, such as flight altitude, flight speed, heading, vertical rate change, aircraft inclination angle, etc.

Once in a combat environment, it also cooperates with optoelectronic equipment and the "TDATS turret" at the front of the fuselage, which is a system of automatic detection, interception and tracking.

Automatically calculates target data, weapon and launch-related data to form a "crosshair" that is expected to hit and assist the pilot in combat fire.

Control TDATS turret search, lock with helmet sights, head-up display crosshairs.

The combination of these three types of work together makes the "Stone Tea Falcon" a powerful ability to aim and fire!

After debugging all the instruments, Xingfeng saw that the take-off indicator had turned green, so he immediately grabbed the main joystick with his right hand, pulled the throttle with his left hand, and started the take-off action.

"Tuk Tuk ......"

With the increase of the throttle, the noise instantly became several times louder, and the speed of the rotor also accelerated, bringing a violent air flow.

Driven by the updraft, the fuselage of the Stone Tea Falcon began to slowly leave the ground.

When the sentry in the main building, more than 300 meters away, heard the strange noise outside and walked out slowly, the helicopter had already risen to a height of seven or eight meters.

"Bastard, this is stealing planes? When did he come in? ”

Looking at the "Stone Tea Falcon" gunship flying higher and higher in the dark, the red turban sentry's eyes suddenly widened, and his face was incredulous.

However, although he couldn't understand it, he knew the seriousness of the matter.

"Bang~"

The sentry slammed the butt of his rifle into the alarm, then pulled up the bolt and fired at the helicopter.

"Da Da Da ......"

"Woo-woo-woo......"

The intense sound of rifle fire, mixed with the screeching of sirens, suddenly broke the calm of the airbase.

"Woo Woo ......"

"When! While! ”

7.62 Bullets whizzed, except for two blind cats that ran into dead mice, and the other bullets missed.

It's a pity that even if two shots hit the fuselage, it looks so weak.

The strongest defensive armor of the gunship is at the bottom of the fuselage, and ordinary rifle cartridges are almost like tickling it.

"Dada...... Click! ”

"Damn, what the hell is going on?"

"Bastard, helicopter, our helicopter is gone, it flies away."

When the sentry finished firing a magazine, and the other red-turbaned soldiers ran out in disheveled clothes and scolding, the "Stone Tea Falcon" had already flown out seven or eight hundred meters under the control of Xingfeng and disappeared into the dark night sky.