Chapter Eighty-Three: The Air Force Arrives
Taki was on an M48 tank, and despite the fierceness of the battlefield, he opened the hatch on top and leaned out of his upper body.
On the battlefield at this moment, it is a one-sided battle.
It would be great if the Air Force could come and intercept the Iraqi forces in front!
Taki was the commander of this tank company, and in Abadan his company had been besieged for a whole year, and they really didn't know how it would have been if it hadn't been for the ships that docked at night from the port to transport supplies.
Now, the Iraqi who surrounded him had fallen into a rout, and it was when they beat the water dogs, but the Iraqi ran too fast, and his driver, who had already maximized the speed of the M48 tank, still couldn't catch up.
Next to him were the tanks of their own company, which rushed to the front line.
Behind him, there were bulky chieftain tanks, and even some infantry fighting vehicles, which ran in front of the chieftain, and the commander of the chieftain shouted several times, and no one listened to his orders, now is the time for military exploits, what if it gets in your way?
Behind them, there were the Iranian GIs, some in cars, some on two legs, who were going to rush to the Karon River, build a defensive line, block the Iraqis, and destroy them all when they crossed the river.
Even in the command, Hassan is full of confidence, the defeat in Iraq is already in sight, and even the spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini can no longer hide his smile.
The Iraqis have withdrawn from the outskirts of Abadan, and their own troops are chasing the deserters of the other side, and the next target is Khoram Shahr.
On a Mercedes-Benz tank, driving at the highest off-road speed on the field, it is not a happy thing, although there is a hydraulic shock absorption system, although there are spring seats, the tankman is still turned upside down.
The loud roar of the engine, the small space, and the hot air all tested their endurance.
Taki took two breaths of fresh air, feeling much more comfortable, and he was about to go inside again, when suddenly, a whistling sound caught his attention.
Shells, it was the Iraqi artillery that fired, oops, where did they come from?
The base of the tower quickly retracted into the turret of the tank, closed the hatch, and with the periscope, began to look around.
On the banks of the Karon River, D-20 152 mm cannon howitzers deployed here are shelling non-stop.
This towed cannon howitzer is a 152 mm towed gun developed and formulated by the Soviet Union in the early 50s, which was equipped with troops in 1955 and widely exported to various Warsaw Pact countries to equip artillery units at all levels of motorized rifle divisions and above.
The 152 mm caliber is a typical cannon howitzer caliber with a range of up to 19 km when firing an ordinary grenade and up to 22 km when firing a rocket extended-range projectile, with 10 people per artillery squad. These artillery pieces are all the treasures of the Southern Military Region, and they have all been put into the battlefield by Zhang Feng.
Coming back from the initial excitement, the Iranian soldiers on the battlefield vaguely felt that something was wrong.
A 152-mm grenade with an impressive explosion. The grenade, also called the flowering shell, is the "patriarch" of the shells. It uses the fragments and shock waves generated after the projectile explosion to kill or blast, and the "belly" of the grenade is filled with explosives, which explode at the moment of landing, and can form a large number of fragments to kill and injure the enemy. The power of the 152 mm grenade can produce about 2,800 effective fragments, and there is nothing to resist at a distance of several hundred square meters around it.
Fortunately, now the opponent's grenades are not aimed at the infantry in the rear, otherwise, the flesh and blood of the infantry, and there is no suitable cover, will not be able to resist at all.
However, even a tank can only withstand the fragments of a grenade, and if it is directly hit by a grenade, although it is not an armor-piercing projectile, the huge energy is enough to kill all the members inside the tank, and all the sighting equipment will be damaged.
Of course, the possible surname of a direct hit by a grenade is not very large.
After being shelled by the enemy, Taki immediately looked through the periscope and observed the direction where the shells were flying.
Now, the order to retreat has not been given, so they have to rush forward, find the opponent's artillery position, and completely kill the opponent's artillery.
There was a black fog from the explosion of artillery shells everywhere, and the battlefield was hazy, and the remnants of the Iraqi soldiers who were pursuing in front were nowhere to be found at this moment.
Taki is trying to find that if there is an artillery radar, he can immediately know the position of the opponent's artillery by measuring the trajectory of the opponent's artillery, but now, he can only observe with the naked eye and deduce with experience.
Taji's periscope turned around twice, and before he could find the trajectory of the opponent's shell, he saw a scene that he would never forget.
MiG! A large number of MiGs are coming! He could even see the heavy bombs and terrifying rocket launchers mounted under the wings.
The first attack formation, which finally flew over the theater of operations.
Arslan flew his own MiG-23, the lever flew to a high altitude and began to take on important air defense tasks.
The four MiG-23s, turned into two twin formations, pulled to an altitude of 8,000 meters, turned on their not very reliable radar, and began to monitor the surrounding airspace.
Four MiG-21s, hovering in the air at 5,000 meters, are ready to meet the Iranian Air Force that may appear.
At this time, the sky above the Karon River is the world of the Iraqi Air Force!
With the covering fighters of the two squadrons, the fighters with bombing missions in the rear, finally came to the top of the Iranians.
The Iraqi army, which had been pursuing the Iraqi army, which had been accompanied by the anti-aircraft fire of the armored forces, remained in the command headquarters, and the air force, to meet the Iraqi air force bombing Tehran, at this moment, they became lambs to the slaughter.
The first to fly was the MiG-23.
At the time of design, the definition of the MiG-23 was a fighter aircraft, which was used to compete with the enemy for air supremacy, but from the actual use point of view, the MiG-23 originally designed a classic variable sweep wing, which did not bring much change in maneuverability, but increased the weight of the structure, resulting in its maneuverability not even as good as the lightweight MiG-21.
On the contrary, due to the use of a twin-engine design and a large carrying capacity, it was modified into a bomber, which was more suitable, which gave rise to the later MiG-27, which is the bomber version of the MiG-23bn.
At this time, the MiG-23 of the two squadrons, in addition to carrying two infrared combat bombs, were carrying ordinary 250kg low-resistance bombs under the wings and in the abdomen, with 6 on each side.
The Su-20 in the back is a special ground attack aircraft, in addition to the 20 mm cannon at the root of the left and right wings, there are 3 pylons under the wings, 4 pylons under the fuselage, and a total of 10 pylons outside. Except for the middle pylons under the wings, which are special pylons for defensive weapons, which can only be hung with infrared-guided air-to-air missiles, the inner and outer wing pylons and the under-fuselage pylons all use ПД3-57mt or MTA type pylons for ground attack.
In this attack, the Su-20 was optimally configured, the pylons on the outside of the wings were mounted with B-8 launchers, each equipped with 20 80mmC-8 rockets, the middle was mounted with infrared air-to-air missiles, and on the inside were two 500kg ЗБ-500 free-falling and deceleration napalm bombs, with four pylons on the abdomen, the front was the aПУ-68Уm2 rocket launch rail and the С-24 240mm rocket, and the back was the РВС-250 cluster bomb.
The Iraqi Air Force lacks ground-to-ground precision-guided weapons, so it is equipped with ordinary ground-to-ground bombs, but these bombs are definitely Iran's nightmare!
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