It is a pity that in a war, although the main factor that determines the outcome of a war is still people, the generation gap in equipment sometimes cannot be made up by people.

Just like now, although Iraq has introduced Soviet T-80U tanks, the backwardness of night vision devices has made them not notice the incoming American troops at all, and they are still patrolling around with infrared headlights.

Tanker Rost drove his tank, and continued to rush forward, and when the distance reached two kilometers, he could already vaguely see the outline of the tank opposite, the low round turret, the long barrel, and the hull of six pairs of load wheels, which should be the T-72 tank equipped by the Iraqis, right?

Although the T-72 and T-80 are somewhat different in appearance, such as the V-shaped wave shield on the front, such as the reactive armor on the hanging, such as the attachment on the turret, however, in the night vision goggles, these are not clearly visible for the time being.

"Target, 1,900 meters, one armor-piercing projectile." The captain's voice was clearly heard through the headphones.

The report said that the Iraqis did not have armored troops stationed in Baghdad at all, and a few tanks that were obviously patrolling appeared in front of them, which made the strikers of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division a little puzzled, but now they can't care so much, the battle has begun!

"Boom!" As the 120mm tank gun roared, the entire hull trembled, and a depleted uranium armor-piercing shell flew out of the gun.

The wings of the bullet are deployed, and the tail is stable to deshell and armor-piercing, and it begins to launch its own fatal blow!

Relying on the advanced technology of the United States, the M1 main battle tank also has a high starting hit rate at a distance of 2,000 meters, and the pointed body of the depleted uranium armor-piercing projectile successfully hit the turret of the T-80U.

"Boom!" Reactive armor faithfully carried out its mission, and found out that it had been hit by armor-piercing shells. Reactive armor begins to explode, hoping to counteract the force of the armor-piercing projectile.

It's a pity that it was depleted uranium armor-piercing shells that arrived!

When the reactive armor exploded, the temperature generated immediately caused the front end of the depleted uranium armor-piercing projectile to quickly burn and turn into a metal heat stream. Pierced the main armor of the turret of the T-80U and, while continuing to burn, pierced into the turret interior.

When they heard the explosion outside, the tanker reacted and was attacked! Then, a blazing heat flow entered, and the fighters inside the car body were instantly hit by the heat flow, except for the driver in front. The commander and gun commander in the back were killed instantly.

The fire extinguishing and explosion suppression system was automatically activated, and the driver's head was a little dizzy, and he struggled to climb out of front and escaped.

The T-80U, as a tank for the Soviet Union's own use, with advanced systems of all kinds, was not martyred. It's the protection of the driver.

He stood outside, looking at his tanks. They have all been hit and caught on fire, and their hearts are full of anger, Americans, from what direction?

Inside the city of Baghdad, underground fortifications.

"Report to the President, there's news ahead. One of our small detachments, twenty kilometers to the west, spotted the armored units of the Americans, they exchanged fire, but they were all hit by the Americans. ”

Twenty kilometers to the west? How did the Americans get over? Saddam Hussein's face was still calm. But I began to panic a little in my heart, after all, the Iran-Iraq war has been fought for ten years, but it has always been fought on the border, and it has not threatened its own capital, and this time, the other party is coming straight to its own capital!

"Order the full force of Hammuraby's division to stop the Americans outside the city!" Saddam Hussein gave the order.

The Americans can't be allowed in, they can't be allowed to defile their own capital!

Ibrahim on the side suddenly frowned, what's wrong with the president? According to Mr. Xiao at that time, his troops had to stay in the city and engage in street battles with the Americans, so as to neutralize the air superiority of the Americans, and if the troops were pulled out of the city, they would become the target of the Americans' air strikes.

"President, that's going to be an air strike from the Americans." Rashid, commander of the Republican Guard, said from the sidelines.

"We must not allow Americans to enter the city and turn our thousand-year-old city into ruins!" Saddam Hussein said: "We want to keep them out of the city, and this is also the mission of our Republican Guard!" ”

Saddam's eyes widened and he looked at Rashid: "What, is the Republican Guard afraid of casualties?" ”

To say this, it is simply questioning the loyalty of the Republican Guard, Rashid knows that he can no longer say anything else, he just wants to preserve his strength and fight the enemy better, and not to consume the strength of points plainly, but now, the president is angry, and the consequences are serious!

"No, we will faithfully carry out the president's orders, and the Republican Guard Hammurabi Division will certainly be able to stop the Americans near the Euphrates!"

"Be brave and fight!" Saddam said: "Let's continue to deal heavy blows to the Americans!" ”

It was a sleepless night, and it was discovered that the American army suddenly appeared on the outskirts of Baghdad, and the Hammurabi Division of Iraq, which had just returned, engaged in a fierce battle with the American army, but unfortunately, due to the disadvantage of the fire control system, many of them were destroyed without spotting the Americans.

Compared with the monkey version of the T-72, one of the advantages of the T-80 is that even if it is hit by the opponent, the tank crew has a chance to escape, and there will be no direct explosion like the T-72.

There was even a T-80U tank, the frontal armor was hit by an armor-piercing projectile, but it was not penetrated, the reactive armor offset part of the kinetic energy of the armor-piercing projectile, and the composite armor was repeatedly cut, and finally the depleted uranium armor-piercing projectile stopped before it penetrated.

For the Americans, their disadvantage is that the number of tanks delivered in the first batch is still insufficient, while the disadvantage of the Iraqis is that the fire control system is not advanced enough to detect American tanks from a distance.

The Americans were temporarily hampered, they were waiting for the arrival of the second army, and as soon as the second group of equipment came, they would have enough strength to make a counter-charge and crush the Iraqis in front. Moreover, after daybreak, having the advantage of air supremacy will make it easier to crush the Iraqi army.

And one of their big problems is oil! Although it was full of fuel when it came, a series of high-intensity battles caused the gas turbines that drank oil to soon fall into the predicament of lack of fuel.

The fierce battle between the two sides is still going on.

"Boom!" The commander of an M1 tank, who was looking around with a periscope, had just fired an armor-piercing projectile, and he didn't have time to observe the results of the battle, so he continued to search around.

In the darkness of the night, he broke up with the other tanks, followed by two identical M1 tanks and two M2 infantry fighting vehicles, who continued to prepare for the blockade of Baghdad as planned.

Just as he turned, he saw a dark green effect, like a smoke ring.

That's the other side firing! The screen in front of him shows that the other party is at least 1,800 meters away from him! At such a distance, you still want to hit your own side? It must have been blind fire!

These Iraqis, who have never seen a real elite army, armed with advanced weapons, fighting positional warfare in the First World War era, are just these people, and they still want to confront their own side?

As soon as the thought fell, I felt the steel fortress tremble violently, and the huge impact sound resonated inside the tank, and the sound was so terrifying.

Hit?

When the terrifying sound had passed, and no metal heat streamed into the tank, the four members breathed a sigh of relief, it was good to be alive!

On the turret on the front, there is already an extra tail of tungsten alloy armor-piercing shell, which is only a few centimeters away from penetrating the turret!

It has to be said that the Americans' depleted uranium armor is the world's first armor, and the Americans' own tanks fell into the ditch and could not be dragged out, so they could only fire their own guns and destroy their own tanks, as a result, several identical M1 tanks fired, and their own depleted uranium armor-piercing shells still did not tear apart the main armor of that tank.

Now, Iraqi tanks, again, cannot penetrate from the front.

How did the Iraqis fight so accurately at such a distance? When the commander looked at the commander's perimeter again, he couldn't see anything.

The impact just now, although it did not penetrate the main armor, caused the observation equipment above to be deformed and unable to work effectively.

"Hang up the reverse gear, back up!" The captain shouted.

He finally remembered that the tank he had just encountered did not have infrared headlights! This is certainly the newest Iraqi tank, not a Soviet one! Of course, there may be another possibility, on the opposite side is their own people, the same M1 tank! If that's the case, it's the most depressing.

If you advance in this darkness, you may get lost and encounter your allies in a narrow way, and as a result, you will mistake them for enemies. This is also the reason why although the army on the ground is fighting hard, there are no fighters in the sky to support it.

The identification of friend and foe of tanks is a very challenging technical problem, although the fighter has long realized the IFF identification of friend or foe transponder, but this thing is often picky, there are cases of Patriots destroying their own fighters, and the tank on the one hand is a huge number, on the other hand, the use of the environment is more bad, resulting in the electronic equipment often fails.

In the past, the tank accurately hit the target at a distance of several hundred meters, and the eyes could see clearly without the need to identify friend or foe, but now, with the advancement of fire control technology, two thousand meters can also have a good starting hit rate, plus at night, it is necessary to identify friend or foe.

However, there is no such equipment now, for example, in China, the red and blue flags are used during exercises, which are hung on the turret of the tank to determine whether the opponent is friend or foe. Later, the United States launched an improved version of the M1A2 tank, adding an advanced inter-vehicle information system and a battlefield management system, so as to know where friendly forces are.

In this case, retreat is the most correct choice.

He didn't know that the opposite side was actually Iraq's armored forces, and these were a small number of Pakistani-made Type 8 tanks equipped with the Iraqi 90th Armored Brigade! (To be continued.) )