Chapter 969: The attack aircraft group takes off

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After the storm, the ship finally stopped shaking, and at this time, the helicopter pilots behaved well, but the ground crew, who had never been to sea, were shaken by this time, and they finally knew what seasickness was. Pen%Fun%Pavilion www.biquge.info{{}}

It turned out that he was shaking vigorously, and he was able to pour out all the contents of his stomach, and while vomiting, he had to hold on to the things next to him to prevent falling, and under the power of nature, everything seemed so small.

After the hull calmed down, the first thing they did was to see if the helicopter was still firmly tied there, if it was loose, and fortunately, everything was normal.

This is the Iraqi Navy's first voyage, and they are overcoming all difficulties with tenacious perseverance, and this is an inevitable stage for them to go to the ocean and grow up.

Through the classified channels of the leased Osage communications satellites, they can keep in touch with Basra and with the Maputo regional detachments.

"One last check on the ammunition." Finally, about to reach the predetermined sea area: on the open sea, three hundred kilometers outside Maputo, Karim gave the order. {{}}

Before the operation, it is also a very important step to check the situation of weapons and ammunition, even if it was the last air attack on Libya, the US air force thought that it was very sharp, but half of the ammunition they dropped did not explode, for example, if the one in the French embassy exploded, the consequences would be even more serious, and in the Falklands naval battle a few years ago, although the Argentine air force was very fearless, but it was also because many bombs did not explode, which led to a greatly reduced effect of the attack.

They could not allow this to happen, they had to make sure that every bomb dropped would explode, and they could only do it once, and they had to destroy it completely.

At this time, the sun in the west is about to set slowly, and this operation has also entered the countdown stage.

This is the open sea, and since Mozambique on the coast has basically no regular navy and air force, and is not on the shipping lanes, their navigation will not attract attention.

The midnight attack will be more hidden, although it is very dangerous to fly at ultra-low altitude in an unfamiliar area at night, but they are fully prepared, with the help of night vision devices, there is terrain to avoid radar, they have memorized all the conditions on the route, it is like going home to visit relatives, all the roads are very familiar. {{}}

So, the attack will start at night, and everything will go undetected.

Hearing the order, all the personnel began to be nervously busy, from the weapon box, the weapon began to be opened, the last test was carried out, the insurance was released, mounted on the short wing of the Mi-24, and the Mi-24's on-board computer was cross-linked for final debugging.

This time, in the hangar, a total of six were placed, all of which were Mi-24 helicopters of the fierce army. And on the outer deck, there was also a Black Hawk helicopter.

The Black Hawk helicopter is an excellent military helicopter, and now that Iraq is maintaining good relations with the United States, Iraq has purchased this helicopter from the United States, as well as a large number of spare parts, to equip the troops, several of which are navy types.

Moreover, the dispatch of the Navy training ship will definitely attract the attention of others, on the bare deck, if there is no helicopter take-off and landing training, it will be too abnormal, the army's Mi-24 cannot appear, and during this time, it has been the Black Hawk helicopter that has been training. {{}}

Moreover, the Black Hawk helicopters were the last sortie to assess the effectiveness of the bombing during the attack, and the Iraqi personnel equipped the Black Hawk with short wings on both sides, which could carry two high-powered aerial bombs in preparation for a supplementary attack.

The Iraqi personnel began to work nervously, and at this time, the sky slowly darkened.

Black Hawk helicopter needs to be equipped with short wings on both sides, although this kind of helicopter is generally non-plugged, but, when designing, it can also be equipped with short wings, with stressed girders, but this short wing is used to install auxiliary fuel tanks, and now, it is used by Iraqi personnel to modify and hang up the bomb.

The Mi-24's cāo work was even more complicated, slowly pushing them out of the hangar and onto the flight deck, and they needed to reinstall the dismantled rotors, and they were nervously cāo.

Three Mi-24s were introduced, and the Mi-24s in the hangar had enough space, so the remaining three Mi-24s were made directly in the hangar. {{}}

The four take-off and landing positions outside, and the three positions inside that have made room for space, are all busy with the figures of Iraqi personnel, and although they have carried out repeated drills, they still feel that their hands and feet are too slow.

Six Mi-24s, all of which have the same load, the inner weapon pylons have the most prominent carrying capacity, which are used to mount two Paveway laser-guided bombs, which are their big killers, used to bomb important targets, correspondingly, on the wingtip pylons on one side, mounted laser indication pods, and on the other side of the wingtip pylons, mounted with four anti-tank missiles. The central pylons on both sides are each mounted with UV-32-57 rocket launchers, each of which can hold 32 57mm rockets.

Laser-guided bombs are used to hit key targets, rockets are used to cover surfaces, and anti-tank missiles are used to finish, but in fact, only four of them can be used to turn it into a sea of fire, and six of them are used to destroy all targets.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of this operation, Iraqi technicians modified the Mi-24, first of all, in the huge crew compartment behind the Mi-24, two sets of auxiliary fuel tanks were added. {{}}

The Mi-24 has a total of five bulletproof fuel tanks, which can carry 2,130 liters of fuel, and when designed, two 1,630-liter auxiliary fuel tanks can be installed in the aircraft.

Then, after refueling, fly to the Pretoria area, return again, refuel a second time, and before dawn, return to the training ship.

After several hours of intense assembly, at 10 o'clock in the evening, the preparations for take-off were finally completed.

Aziz stepped into the cockpit, feeling a little excited, and sailed for half a month, just to wait for this day!

"Let's get started, let's go, my boy." Commander-in-Chief Karim said. After the operation began, the specific battle of the formation was handed over to the commander of the Army Aviation Brigade, Hurd, under the command of him.

Hurd had already stepped into his cockpit, started the engine, and with the rotation of the propeller, pushed the throttle, pulled the total moment, and the Mi-24 left the deck below and burrowed into the night sky with a rumbling sound. The weapons under the short wings have always been imprinted in the minds of the ship's personnel.

After the first batch of Mi-24s was released, the second batch of Mi-24s was also pulled out of the hangar, came to the parking stand, started, lifted off, and they will meet again at the refueling site.

After takeoff, the group lowered its altitude and flew towards the Maputo area at an economic cruising speed of 220 km/h at a distance of only 50 meters above the sea.

Aziz looked outside, wearing night vision devices, outside was a green world, endless seawater, with slight waves, as army aviation, they rarely flew to the sea, there was no reference here to compare, the only thing that could be believed was those instruments in front of him.

Iraq's own Mi-24 helicopters, with improved electronic equipment, such as navigation systems, and the use of Western equipment, have greatly improved their proficiency, which is also a necessary condition for them to carry out this long-range attack.

"Attention, we are about to enter the sky over land, and the height is reduced to forty meters." Hurd's voice came through the headphones.

Although Mozambique basically belongs to the category of no air defense, in order to play the role of concealment, they still choose to continue to reduce the altitude to maintain their sudden xing.

Although Iraq is not afraid, this kind of trouble should be minimized, and the choice to enter from Mozambique is also considered, that is, to blame Mozambique for this attack, and let the two countries argue about this matter.

It has been an hour and a half of flight, the fuel in the additional fuel tank has already been consumed, and the main fuel tank has already consumed half of the fuel, what they need to do now is to find their own pre-arranged refueling fleet here, otherwise, they have almost no other way than to blow up the helicopter that has run out of fuel.

Maputo is located at the southern tip of Mozambique, bordering the Gulf of Maputo in the Indian Ocean. After Duli, it was designated as the capital of Mozambique, but outside Maputo, it was still very empty.

At this time, twenty kilometers northwest of Manissa, some people were calmly waiting.

They had already left the road, and on a deserted road, a car broke down and blocked the entire road, and none of them could get through, so in order to save time, they took this path, and it turned out that it was a mistake.

During the day, people who occasionally pass by express great sympathy for them, but unfortunately, there is no solution, and they have to wait for the arrival of rescue vehicles. Baidu search house, house hand hit, house provides this book.

Just a short distance from this road is a flat clearing.