Chapter 701: Speed
Within two days, the soldiers became familiar with this kind of rope landing relying on the wall, then changed to the rope landing with equipment on their backs, and then switched to the volley landing without relying on the wall.
Zip landing is a shelf between two buildings tens of meters high to simulate a hovering helicopter cabin...... To make the soldier feel better, the size and shape of the shelves are made in a one-to-one ratio of the Junkers cabin, and there are even two rows of seats and the pilot's cockpit.
Then hang a rope on the top, dig a hatch in the middle of the bottom of the shelf, and make it almost the same as the real thing.
If anything, this kind of simulation cabin is safer...... It doesn't shake in the air, and there's no shmelel or bullets flying around.
The difficulty of the parade is all about speed.
Needless to say, the most dangerous time for such a rappelling operation is the period when the helicopter hovers over the target...... As mentioned earlier, any bit of fire from the ground at this point poses a significant threat to the helicopter and its crew.
Therefore, this kind of rope descent is impossible to descend one after another after the rope is lowered to determine the safety, it must be lowered one after another, that is, several people are hanging on the rope at the same time and sliding down to the ground at high speed at the same time.
This creates a number of problems:
For example, some people are fast and some people are slow, and the result will inevitably bump into each other.
Another example is that the distance is too close, and the person who landed on the ground did not have time to unlock the lock, and another person fell from the sky.
Of course, these problems are not unsolvable, but it takes training again and again to make everyone proficient enough to master their descent speed with their eyes closed, and to leave the landing site as quickly as possible after landing to provide landing space for teammates.
On the other hand, Alexander took a group of instructors to time the ...... There were more than 700 men in the first battalion, and every 20 people were divided into small groups for training.
What they had to do was to select the 10 groups with the fastest speed and the most stable results from the more than 300 groups of more than 700 people to fight.
"2 minutes and 10 seconds!" Alexander said to Qin Chuan: "This is the best result!" ”
"No, it's not good enough!" Qin Chuan said: "You should try to control the time within one and a half minutes!" ”
The reason is simple: even a second more could pose a risk of total annihilation for the entire crew, as a downed helicopter would also pose a threat to the landed members.
"But it's almost impossible to increase the speed!" Alexander said.
Qin Chuan understood what Alexander meant, distance, speed, and number of people determined that it had to take such a long time, which had been calculated before.
"If we can't decide the distance and the number of people, then speed up!" Qin Chuan said.
"We can't speed up, Major!" "They have equipment and supplies on their backs, and if they speed up faster, they will get hurt when they land!" ”
After thinking about it, Qin Chuan said: "We can speed up the first half, and gradually reduce it to normal speed in the second half!" ”
Hearing this, Alexander couldn't help but look at Qin Chuan in a daze.
This is indeed possible, and obviously it can also increase the landing speed, the problem is that the coordination of the soldiers is higher, which means that it is more difficult to do this, and several soldiers will collide with each other if they are not careful.
"They can!" Qin Chuan said.
Qin Chuan had confidence in his soldiers, or it could be said that it was worth ...... Even if a soldier is injured because of this, it is not known how many times better than dying on the battlefield.
Later, some soldiers were indeed injured as a result, the most serious case was that a sergeant of the third company was hit by a soldier who was chasing closely because he was slowing down, and then fell from a height of more than ten meters and hit his spine heavily on his backpack...... At this point, he lost sensation in the lower half of his body.
When he was carried away by the paramedics, the soldiers didn't know what to say.
"He's a veteran who fought with us in Africa!" Kuhn said, "I remember him, because he was originally my subordinate!" ”
After a pause, Kuhn continued: "I didn't expect so many battles to come over, but I fell during training!" ”
So, fate is sometimes weird, and no one knows when it's going to come back to you out of nowhere.
"I'm sorry, sir!" Kuhn then added: "I'm not saying the training is wrong......"
"I understand!" Qin Chuan interrupted Kuhn's words: "You don't have to explain so much, I know it's correct, and we have to continue!" ”
At least one thing Konrad's estimate was wrong, and that was the timing of the helicopter's modification...... Conrad had estimated that it would only take a week, but it actually took two weeks for the helicopter to land on Vicchino.
"I'm sorry, Major!" Conrad explained to Qin Chuan: "Originally, we thought that you were only using it to transport it in the Caucasus Mountains, so the requirements for it were relatively low, and since we knew that you were using it to fight, then we made some necessary modifications to it!" ”
"Really?" Qin Chuan asked, "Which modifications?" ”
"Our thickened armor in key areas!" "FOR EXAMPLE, THE CAB, THE ENGINE, AND THE BOTTOM OF THE CABIN IS ALSO A 10MM STEEL PLATE!" ”
"Very good, Colonel!" Qin Chuan said.
THE 10MM STEEL PLATE IS JUST ENOUGH TO BLOCK THE SOVIET RIFLE BULLETS, WHICH MEANS THAT THE SOVIETS' SUBMACHINE GUNS, RIFLES, LIGHT MACHINE GUNS AND OTHER BOTTOM-UP THREATS TO HELICOPTERS ARE DIFFICULT TO POSE.
"As it should be!" CONRAD REPLIED: "BUT YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL, ITS DEFENSE IS NOTHING MORE THAN THAT, IF THE SOVIETS USE 12.7MM HEAVY MACHINE GUNS ......"
"I know, Colonel!" Qin Chuan replied.
AT THIS TIME, EVEN THE INFANTRY WAS GENERALLY EQUIPPED WITH A DSHK 12.7MM CALIBER MACHINE GUN, WHICH IS OFTEN SEEN IN MODERN FILM AND TELEVISION WORKS...... Equipped with a baffle and wheeled shooting mounts at the front, the Germans often referred to it as the "Russian Reaper" because it was so effective against German infantry charges, often knocking down German troops in rows as if they were harvesting rice. The Germans, on the other hand, were often helpless because of the presence of a baffle in front of them.
THIS GUY CAN EASILY PENETRATE 15MM STEEL PLATE AT A DISTANCE OF 500 METERS, AND IT IS BASICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO PREVENT IT.
Then, Qin Chuan glanced at the helicopter landing in the open space on the other side in a daze, and said, "Okay, let's get to know this plane, let's call it a helicopter, to be exact...... It's a 'Dragon' helicopter! Any questions? ”
"Sir!" One soldier asked, "Are we going to take this guy to fight the Soviets?" ”
"There is no doubt about it!" Qin Chuan replied: "Otherwise, what do you think we have been doing all this time?" ”