"Echo Formation, Echo Formation, you have approached the Singapore dock, please pay attention to air defense, and be careful of the anti-aircraft weapons hidden by the Japanese army." The voices of the staff of the amphibious landing ship combat service center were heard on the radio of the eight Chinese-standard armed helicopters.

"Received, we will disperse the formation and conduct a low-altitude search." Lin Zijun heard the voice in the headphones and replied.

"Echo Squadron, I'm No. 01, according to the prior arrangement, a horizontal line, lower the altitude, and prepare for a search." Lin Zijun shouted over the radio with seven other helicopters.

"Received on the 02nd."

"Received on the 03rd."

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Lin Zijun, the pilot of the No. 1 aircraft of the Echo Helicopter Gunship Squadron, is a young man in his early twenties, graduated from the aviation school, and was directly assigned to the front-line combat unit.

Eight helicopters, separated by five hundred meters between them, skimmed over the sea and flew forward side by side. It was followed by a massive transport helicopter, forty Nighthawk helicopters, transporting a fully reinforced battalion of marines for a vertical landing. Behind them are also transport helicopters, except that these helicopters only carry heavy weapons and ammunition, and the transport helicopters at the back are not Nighthawk helicopters.

The two pilots on the helicopter gunship kept staring at the five-kilometer-wide sea in the distance, the helicopter flew very low, and the sea surface was swept up by the helicopter's rotors.

The helicopter formation did not know that the next scene would appear. It's going to blow their minds.

It was the responsibility of the Marines to remove the shore artillery and defensive positions on the outskirts of Singapore, and by the time the Southeast Asian Theater arrived in Kuala Lumpur, the soldiers of a Marine Brigade of the Marine Corps had assembled in the South China Sea. This is the first brigade-level combat unit to be established, and it is also the latest formation. Because there is no regimental strength under the brigade unit, and it is composed of nine reinforced battalions of marines. Above this brigade-level combat unit is the Marine Corps Headquarters, which is under the direct command of the Marine Corps Command.

It was a bold attempt to reduce the size of the nine reinforced battalions, and all operational orders for the nine reinforced battalions were placed under the command of the brigade command post. There is one less regimental in the middle. Eliminate structural bloat. However, because this establishment has not yet matured, this Marine Corps brigade is still temporarily located in a divisional structure, and the Marine Corps is temporarily organized into a division.

But. Although it is temporarily established as a division. In fact, take command. There was no regimental level in the middle, but the same command of the command tentatively named division headquarters under the command of nine reinforced battalions.

A reinforced battalion with a very large establishment. Its combat personnel reached fifteen hundred, three times the size of an ordinary infantry battalion. And if this provisional division is established as a real brigade-level unit in the future, its structure will not change much.

The Echo Helicopter Gunship Squadron is actually a helicopter combat unit within the brigade level, and it belongs to the original supernumerary unit, but in order to carry out landing operations, the South China Sea Fleet has assigned two amphibious assault ships that have been installed for less than a year to this brigade.

This is what the Echo squadron is seen now, taking off from an amphibious assault ship on the sea fifty kilometers away, covering transport helicopters, landing in Singapore.

At night, the sea should have been calm, but the artillery fire in Singapore in the distance broke the tranquility. Even from a distance, you can clearly see Singapore caught in the firelight, and those with better eyesight can see the smoke rising from the firelight.

Under the fire of China, the four walls of Singapore are already in flames, and the surrounding land is like daylight under the reflection of the firelight.

On the Philippine dock, it is still dark, because it is not the key target of China's strike, or it is not within the scope of the army's strike mission.

There is a large pier in the Philippines, but where it has already been missed, and in Philippine City, there are three smaller piers. These three small piers, because their value is not very obvious, did not become the target of Chinese artillery fire. However, it became an excellent landing ground for the Marine Corps.

The road through this small pier allows Marines to quickly drive straight into the city. Respond inside and outside to break the Japanese wall's defenses.

At the beginning, these eight helicopters are the latest navy attack helicopters of the Marine Corps of the Chinese National Defense Forces. The more advanced the weaponry, the more cumbersome it is to use, the most prominent of which is in the aspect of care and maintenance. In particular, the weapons and equipment of the Navy are the most troublesome.

Helicopters of the same model, one navy and one army, even if they come out of the same production line, their performance is very different. The main point of the navy helicopter is that it must be moisture-proof and seawater salt erosion. This is particularly crucial, not that a helicopter can be placed on an amphibious assault ship or aircraft carrier.

The same is true for any aircraft on board the ship, and any aircraft must be not afraid of seawater, moisture, and salt on the combat platform at sea.

It is equipped with China's most advanced amphibious assault ship, of course, it is China's most advanced helicopter, not only its own production of helicopters, but also the unique Nighthawk helicopter and Hind attack helicopter of the Red Alert base.

Although China still has the strength to produce helicopters, compared to the original weapons of the Red Alert base, the helicopters produced by China are simply weak. In particular, the avionics system is very different from the original weapon of the Red Alert.

Of course, these two helicopters are not as strong as the Longbow Apache, but they are no worse than the later Super Cobra.

The helicopter that Lin Zijun sat on was the Hind attack helicopter. This time, in order to be able to successfully land at the small pier of Singapore, one of the two state-of-the-art amphibious assault ships was dispatched in full force, and eight Hind attack helicopters opened the way, followed by all Nighthawk helicopters. The Nighthawk helicopter also has weapons systems, but its main task is to project troops, not a combat helicopter in the true sense of the word. It mainly relies on its powerful force projection capability to carry out landing operations or rapid mobile strikes on the battlefield.

It is not that China does not have its own helicopters, except for transport helicopters, which have achieved good results, and there has been no big breakthrough in the area of armed helicopters. Judging from past examples, in order to meet the actual needs on the battlefield, it is urgent to quickly provide a high-speed heavily armored and heavy firepower helicopter gunship to provide escort for troop carriers along the route or to provide aerial suppression firepower for infantry in advance. Because the fire support helicopter of the Chinese ordinary transport helicopter with a temporary machine gun modification is not only slow, but also has no armor protection and is not very powerful.

It simply did not meet the requirements of the military, and both the design and production were very unsatisfactory. As a result, Chen Shao could not do so, so he could only produce a large number of Hind attack helicopters and equip them with some troops that carried out more difficult tasks. The Marine Corps is undoubtedly the toughest force in the Wehrmacht system. In order to meet the needs of three-dimensional landing, a large part of the Hind helicopter gunships are equipped with marines.

The Hind helicopter gunship, with twin engines, a maximum take-off weight of six tons, a practical ceiling of 3,500 meters, two pilots, a dedicated pilot and a co-pilot and gunner, and a tandem layout of the cockpit. Armament: A three-barreled Gatling 20mm cannon with 7,500 rounds in reserve, mounted in a rotating turret in the nose. Capable of striking ground targets under the fuselage, at three hundred and sixty degrees. The pylons on both sides can carry two sets of nine-hole 70-millimeter rocket launchers, and can also carry eight ground-attack missiles or anti-tank missiles.

The Nighthawk is a three-engine, heavy-duty multi-role helicopter that, like the Hind gunship, has a rotating turret in the nose and uses a 20mm three-barreled Gatling gun. And the bulky airframe, albeit poor in terms of battlefield production, lacks flexibility. But its powerful take-off weight of thirty-three tons is capable of transporting a platoon of 37 heavily armed marines at once. And under the fuselage, it is still necessary to carry the ammunition supply of the soldiers. It is also possible to pull up a fully armed Humvee armed off-road vehicle, or a 155mm howitzer at once. Its transportation radius can also reach more than 300 kilometers, the one-way transportation distance is 700 kilometers, and the maximum transfer range is 2,000 kilometers (no carrying state). In the carrying state, it can hover at an altitude of 2,500 meters, and practically rise by 5,000 meters.

These two helicopters have their own wonderful uses, and it is basically impossible to tell who wins and who loses, and the tasks performed are fundamentally different, and it is impossible to distinguish between them.

The rotors rotated rapidly, and the sound came out from afar, although it was in the dark, but the Japanese military police, who were attracted by the sound, quickly found the source of the sound, and on the sea in the distance, the flickering lights like stars attracted everyone's attention.

"Taijun, what is it?" The second devil shrunk his neck, stood beside the Shinobu with some fear, and asked cautiously.

"Helicopter!" In the mind of Shinobu of Ibu, when he heard the sound of the rotor spinning, he immediately understood that it was the sound of a helicopter flight. Although there are no real helicopters in Japan, I have never eaten pork and seen pigs running. Not to mention that now all countries have their own helicopters, and Germany has begun to use helicopters on the battlefield, even today, he has heard such a sound more than once.

"Baga, this is China's helicopter approaching here, hurry up and notify the headquarters." My Shinobu didn't pay attention to the two devils around him, listening to the spinning sound that was getting closer and closer, he couldn't care about anything else. "Assemble and prepare for battle." (To be continued......)