Chapter 394: The Iran-Iraq War Breaks Out
"Boom, boom. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info "The roar of the engine of the desert camouflage tank echoed across the field.
The characteristic V-shaped anti-wave plate at the front, the high barrel and the cast turret all mean that this is the newest Soviet export tank, the T-72M! The Iraqi army was the first user of such tanks! Gear it all up to Iraq's most powerful Republican Guard!
This is the Republican Guard's Hammurabi Division! As the first unit to be reequipped with T-72s, the combat effectiveness of the Hammurabi Division is second to none in the entire Iraqi army! And now, their task is to cross the border and occupy the southern regions of Iran! Capture the Iranian towns of Khoram Shahr and Bakdan!
Such a huge armored force, when it was charged, was very spectacular!
A commanding T-72 tank stopped, and a fat commander, leaning out of the T-72's turret, picked up a telescope and looked at the terrain in the distance.
The commander of the 8th Armored Brigade of the Hamorabi Division of Iraq, Lieutenant Colonel Ali Apdullah Shehri, his eyes were full of excitement, he had crossed the border and entered the territory of Iran! These lands will be Iraqi lands!
Ali was born in a poor family in Tikrit, thin and small, after entering the army, was assigned to the armored forces, and then the standard of living improved significantly, from the sprouts to a fat body full of fat, jokingly called "armored Ali", but the flaws are not hidden, this person is extremely talented, especially in the command of armored forces has a rare intuition and talent, and is one of the few Iraqi armored commanders to enter the military academy of Saint-Cyr in France, The German Armored Forces School systematically studied the tactics and strategies of the Western Armored Forces.
And after Saddam became president, soldiers from Tikrit were selected to join the Republican Guard, and Ali also became the commander of the 8th Armored Brigade, the most effective among them!
Ten minutes earlier, when they had crossed the border with the Iranians, the Iranian border guards had only symbolically resisted and retreated. No one could stop the offensive of the T-72 tanks!
Thinking about the time just now, a 125mm grenade easily destroyed the Iranians' fortifications, Ali is extremely excited, the Iranians are not the opponent of the Iraqi armored forces at all!
"Attention, the Iranian Sheikh tank was spotted ahead!" In Ali's binoculars, he observed the smoke and dust billowing in front of him, and soon, he judged the other party's tank model, the old Chief tank!
In some ways, the 57-ton combat weight, the 120 mm tank gun, the Chieftain tank seems to be an advanced tank made in the sixties, but the backward sighting system, the engine is only 650 horsepower, so that the mobility of this bulky tank is very poor, just like the heavy tanks of the World War II era, if it is all added to the armor, the problem is that in the era of the birth of the Chieftain tank, there is no concept of composite armor, this bulky tank, is because of the use of cast armor, The thickness of the hull armor of the Chieftain tank is generally 80-90mm, and the thickest part of the armor is the front of the turret, which is only 150mm. And in this era, such thin armor is simply an appetizer for the T-72, and in Hokkaido, the special armor-piercing shells of the T-72 can penetrate homogeneous armor one meter thick!
Excited to discover the armored forces of the Iranians, Ali retracted into the turret and commanded his armored forces to attack!
Charge, charge! Black smoke rose from the tail of the T-72 tank, the high-horsepower engine roared, the barrel was high, and at a distance of fifteen hundred meters, the tank gun fired.
"Boom, boom!" With the opening of the tank gun, the Iranian tank on the opposite side was destroyed in an instant, and the cast tank turret was lifted away, and the scene was extremely spectacular.
"Go around behind the Iranians and annihilate the Iranians!" Ali kept giving orders on the radio.
The charge of dozens of Iranian tanks did not play any role, and the T-72 tanks of the 8th Panzer Brigade destroyed all the chieftain tanks of the Iranians, and it took less than five minutes!
Onward, keep going! The battle just now made Ali quite satisfied in his heart, Iran is already too weak to be vulnerable! In two more hours, you will be able to rush to Khorramshahr! Tomorrow you will be able to rush to Abadan, and in half a month, you will be able to hit Tehran, the capital of Iran!
Following the T-72 tank, is the BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle, which is an advanced infantry fighting vehicle introduced at the same time as the T-72 tank, the body is made of steel plate welded structure, which can resist gun shells and shell fragments, the front arc area is resistant to 12.7mm armor-piercing shells and armor-piercing incendiary shells, and the front upper armor is aluminum armor with stiffeners. It adopts a 6-cylinder 300 horsepower diesel engine with torsion bar suspension, driving wheels in front, inducing wheels in the rear, and 6 load-bearing wheels and 3 carrier pulleys on each side. It is very maneuverable and can fully keep up with the forward speed of the main battle tank.
At the same time, there is also a 73mm 2A28 low-pressure smoothbore gun on the infantry fighting vehicle, and a SEG anti-tank missile single-track launcher, equipped with 4 missiles, which completely inherits the characteristics of Soviet weapons and has powerful firepower! Even if you are against a tank, you can give it a go.
Inside the infantry fighting vehicle are the soldiers of the 15th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, and in their hearts, they are silently cheering themselves up, exterminate the Iranians, and regain our own land!
This is just one of the entire army attacking Iran, and this military operation against Iran, Iraq can be regarded as doing its best, and the three-way army will advance from the north, the middle and the south at the same time!
Due to the terrain, the attacking armies in the north and center are only feints, and only the armies on the southern route are focused!
At the same time as the march, Saddam Hussein made an inspiring speech on television, Iraq has no choice in the face of Iran's export revolution, Iraq is already a modern country with enlightened popular elections, and will definitely not go down the path of a ******** barbaric country! HMN is doing even more desperate things under the slogan of exporting revolution, and even openly challenges basic international norms by detaining and even killing diplomats, which is condemned by the whole world! Iraq will uphold justice for the entire Middle East world and get back the truth!
Almost immediately after Saddam's speech, the White House press secretary also began to speak, in view of Iran's stubbornness, so far unrepentant, and continue to kill innocent hostages in the United States, the United States could not bear it anymore and decided to carry out the second phase of the combat mission of the Persian hell, and the ground offensive began! Moreover, if Iran continues to kill hostages, then the United States will consider using nuclear weapons against major cities in Iran, including Tehran! (To be continued.) )