Chapter 310: Thunderbolt
The Leopard tank of the Seventh Armored Brigade finally used the wreckage of more than 200 T34/85 tanks of the Tianzhu people to complete its amazing appearance.
None of them were damaged.
At a distance of one thousand meters, the Tianzhu people fired nearly 100 armor-piercing shells at the Leopard tank, of which one-tenth hit, but none of them could penetrate the 110-millimeter-thick composite armor on the front of the Leopard tank.
Of course, in terms of external publicity, this will not be the result.
"Our armor is relatively strong."
Yang said modestly.
In fact, he just scolded the commander of the armored 7th brigade through a special communication system, that is, a satellite phone, the latter has shortened the combat distance to 1,000 meters is very brainless, and the 105 mm tank gun has long been proven on the centurion, even at a distance of two thousand meters, it can easily penetrate the front of the T34, and the centurion in the Assam theater has always relied on this long-range sniper-like tactic!
Otherwise, the tragic mobility of the centurion could easily be kicked by the T34.
So in this battle, his tank would not even scratch the skin.
"It's just that the internal space is a little smaller, which has a great impact on the soldiers' continuous operations."
In front of him, four white men in civilian clothes were getting out of a Leopard tank, and the older man said with a frown, obviously not feeling well inside.
"There are two solutions, first, you try to pick shorter soldiers, and second, you can enlarge the tank. But if you zoom in on the same scale. Then the tonnage will go up. If the power and drivetrain remain the same, then the maneuverability will definitely be greatly reduced. Of course, it will definitely not be reduced to the Centurion level, it is estimated that it should not be worse than Sherman, if it is enlarged in different proportions, then the armor protection must be reduced, with a tonnage of more than forty tons, it is estimated that the main armor will be reduced to 90 mm. ”
Yang Feng said with a smile.
The one in front of him was a great god, and this was Guderian. Although he had drawn a bunch of Prussian officers before, Guderian was not recruited to his command.
"Maybe it's good to zoom in, anyway, whether it's a hundred millimeters or ninety millimeters, it's impossible to block the attack of bazooka armor-piercing shells, I'm afraid it's impossible to increase it to two hundred millimeters."
Guderian said with a shrug.
"It's true."
Yang Feng said with a smile.
"Since this is the case, then let them sign the contract, as for how to enlarge, Yingtian Heavy Industry really has a design plan, and the Henschel company was also involved at the beginning, just let them follow this plan."
Then he added.
The West German government was finally determined. The West German Wehrmacht, which was about to begin its formation, would use Leopard tanks as their main armoured force. Previously, they had already introduced the Type 46 gun family, which was produced by the West German company HK.
In fact, they don't have a better choice at present, although the United States people are bent on grabbing this huge order that may get a total of 2,000 units, but the best they can provide is the M48, which not only lags behind the Leopard tank in terms of performance, but also has not even come out with a prototype yet. As for the remaining Centurions, in addition to their protective performance, they are far from the Leopard, and even the Britons themselves are upgrading the Centurions with the same tank guns, so what else can you buy without buying the Leopard?
Coupled with this amazing battle, there was no need to hesitate, Guderian was invited by Adenauer to take full responsibility for the introduction of this tank, and the two sides immediately signed an agreement to authorize Henschel to produce Leopard tanks. As for whether they will produce the original or an enlarged version, they will determine for themselves, but the improved tank is still a Leopard tank, and Henschel does not have the right to export unless it is allowed to do so by Yingtian Heavy Industries.
And Yingtian Heavy Industry, of course, has the right to export this enlarged version.
In fact, after enlargement, it is the original Luo Ben Leopard, but the protection is still slightly stronger, so the tonnage is slightly higher than Luo Ben Leopard, weighing forty-four tons, although the original history of this tank has poor protective performance, but it is very popular, not only Western European countries buy in large quantities, and even sold to Canada, Australia, local chickens and other countries, this good business must of course be controlled in hand.
Although it is authorized to produce by Henschel, and there are a large number of accessories that major companies in West Germany can provide, many key parts must be provided by Yingtian Heavy Industries, such as engines, transmission systems, artillery, etc., Maybach, ZF, Mauser can indeed be produced, but they can not produce all, and the technological leap ten years ahead of schedule is not so simple to achieve.
Just when Führer Yang was happily an arms dealer by virtue of the advertising effect of actual combat, Nehru still had bad news.
At the same time that the 7th Panzer Division of the counterattack on Amoudaba was completely annihilated, under the protection of the Ming fleet, a large number of transport ships, including landing ships, appeared in the coastal ports of the Katiawa Peninsula, and then docked at these ports that no longer had any army defense, and not only unloaded a division of soldiers, but also unloaded a large amount of ammunition and fuel, loaded all the trains that could be collected as quickly as possible, and transported them directly to Amoudaba by rail.
Shocked into a cold sweat, Timaiya hurriedly ordered the 41st Infantry Division, which was on the Kutch Heights, to move south quickly.
But unfortunately, before this division turned its head, the Ninth Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Ming Army rode an infantry fighting vehicle to kill, and the Tianzhu people, who were already panicked, quickly herded sheep under the impact of hundreds of infantry fighting vehicles, and most of them simply threw away their weapons and knelt on the side with their hands raised and surrendered.
An infantry division reinforced on the southern front was also beaten back, and before this division entered the battlefield, it lost nearly a quarter of its soldiers in the incessant bombardment of the Pakistan Air Force, and the rest reached the periphery of Amudaba, and then collided head-on with the 10th Mechanized Infantry Brigade head-on, which was also a duck-like attack, and was soon ruthlessly crushed.
At the same time, the Pakistani army was still arriving from Karachi 400 kilometers away by sea, especially after the arrival of the reinforced Ming landing fleet, the transport capacity was even more sharply increased, and in just three days, they sent three infantry divisions over, and the first to land had even entered Amudaba.
However, they did not take over the defense of the Fifth Army of the Ming Army, but directly loaded onto the train heading south.
At this point, the goal of the Mingba coalition army's sudden attack this time has been clearly revealed.
Bombay.
The air defense siren sounded suddenly, and on the military airfield on the outskirts, a large number of Tianzhu pilots rushed to their fighters, and in order to protect the most important port in Tianzhu, fifty MiG-15s were deployed here, which was the maximum protection that Nehru could give it.
Because the pressure of air combat on the battlefield in Goryeo is increasing, Stalin must use as many MiG-15s as possible there, so so far, the Tianzhu Air Force has only obtained 300 MiG-15s, and it is good to be able to divide 50 to protect Mumbai.
Fortunately, they don't have many enemies.
This is already outside the combat radius of the land-based Sabre in Pakistan, so it is not the Pakistan Air Force that came, but the wind chasing that took off from the Kunlun aircraft carrier, and the number is only twenty-four, although the wind chasing performance has an absolute advantage over the Sabre, but it is not big enough to be able to fight two, so for this battle, Tianzhu people are still full of confidence.
However, this time they were wrong again.
In the sky seventy kilometers away from Mumbai, when twenty-four Chasing Wind appeared in the field of vision of the MiG-15 pilots, they suddenly noticed that these Chasing Wind was a little strange, because there was a strange thing hanging under the wings on each side of these fighters.
Rocket?
Drop tanks?
All the Tianzhu pilots asked each other blankly.
Of course, they don't know that it's called the Thunderbolt-1 infrared-guided air-to-air missile, or its real identity, the Sidewinder L.
For the oil fields of Mumbai, Yang Fuhrer also let out this time, and the new weapons that had just been put into production and were still in the secrecy stage were taken out, anyway, it is now about to enter the fifty-second year, and his Tiger Shark fighter is scheduled to be put into service at the beginning of five or three years, and there is still a little more than a year to go, and it is time for the pilots to practice their hands with the Tianzhu people, although this thing is good, but it is not just training that can be used well, this war will end in half a year at most, and this half year is just used for actual combat training.
The fighters of the two sides quickly entered the combat distance, and the chasing wind in flight dispersed in groups of two and two, turning on the afterburner to seize the altitude advantage at the fastest speed, although it did not break through the speed of sound, but it was still much faster than the MiG-15, the latter's original excellent climbing ability, in the face of this super version of the Sabre is completely insufficient.
Twenty-four high-occupying Wind Chasers turned over and dived to attack, and the MiG-15s below them hurriedly dispersed, preparing to besiege with numerical superiority.
"I hope this thing is as good as they say, or else this time it might not be good."
On a wind-chasing fighter, Yan Yuan, a pilot of the Ming Army, muttered to himself, in front of him was a MiG-15 that was evading, and in his distance, the other two MiG-15s were turning and flying, and his wingman was entangled by two MiG-15s, and he had no time to help him, and the only thing that could help him was the two latest Thunderbolt air-to-air missiles hanging on his wings.
"Okay, it should be fine!"
Yan Yuan, who was staring at the MiG-15 in front, got from the radar rangefinder that the two sides were less than two kilometers apart, and after the light on which the missile on the right side had completed the preparation, he glanced at the tail nozzle that was almost facing him again, and without hesitation, he was the first to press the button for missile launch, and a Thunderbolt air-to-air missile under the right wing instantly flew out with a striking trail.
At this time, the MiG-15 in front of it was pulling upwards, and the missile was pulled up at the same angle amid the exclamations of countless pilots on both sides, and hit its tail headlong in a very short time. (To be continued.) )