Chapter 72: MiG-23 takes off
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"This is the place where warriors were born since ancient times." "Armor is an essential piece of equipment for a knight. ”
In the face of modern machine-gun fire, the tactics of large-scale cavalry charge have long disappeared, and only in the mountains of Afghanistan can mechanized forces be unleashed, which gives the cavalry room to re-exert its power.
And although Mhammad said it very strictly, James also knew that ninety percent of Mhammad was joking. This Mhammad is becoming more and more incomprehensible.
"James, what else are you doing when you come to the guerrillas this time?" Mhammad asked James.
"For the better extermination of the Soviets." James said: "We, the United States, are willing to support some advanced weapons, in addition to the Stinger and Tao, we also have some special warheads, which can be supported to you." ”
Special warheads? Hearing James's words, Mhammad stood up, and by this time, Lilith had already begun to make the two cut pieces there, ready to make the vest.
Mhammad took James outside to a no-man's corner and said to James: "What warhead? ”
"For example, when it explodes, it can release a special gas." James said to Mhammad: "Just one can destroy a base of the Soviets." ”
Hearing James's words, Mhammad immediately shook his head: "No, this will make the war rise to an uncontrollable situation." ”
The Americans provide conventional weapons, which are most needed by the Afghan guerrillas, but it is another matter to supply this special gas, which is actually a weapon of poison gas, which will escalate the war.
The Americans are not well-intentioned, they must have invented new chemical weapons and want to test their power, and Mhammad will not agree to such an approach.
"It's just one of my mentions." James said: "Since His Excellency Mhammad is unwilling, then treat it as if I did not say it." ”
James laughed dryly twice and said nothing more.
"Why don't you have Stinger missiles for the weapons you sent this time?" Mhammad asked James, Mhammad has seen all those weapons, the 107 rocket launcher is the highlight of this time, and there are a lot of shells, bullets, mines, grenades, and rifles are good, but there is no Stinger missile that Mhammad needs most.
Last time, a total of ten were shipped, and after a few battles, there was not much left.
"Tong guò you have found a lot of problems in your use on the battlefield." "Now, the engineers at General Motors are trying to improve the missile so that it has excellent target interception capabilities, and the problem of chasing the sun is no longer there," James said. ”
Improved missiles so quickly? This is completely different from the historical one, Mhammad thought to himself, he still doesn't know the truth of James's words, and it is inconvenient to refute it.
"Then when will the next batch of missiles arrive?" "Without the stinger, it will be difficult for us to effectively fight the hind of the Soviets," Muhammad asked. ”
"When the snow melts, the second batch of missiles will arrive." "We are most concerned about the fight against the Soviet warriors, and we will not delay," James said. ”
Anyway, it's a bitterly cold winter, and the battle won't be fought on a large scale, and there aren't many opportunities to use the Stinger.
Mhammad stretched out his right hand to James: "Thank you very much for the help of our American friends, the liberation of Afghanistan will be a long and arduous process, no matter what difficulties we encounter, we will overcome them, and we firmly believe that victory will definitely belong to Afghanistan." ”
James also extended his right hand: "We will stand firmly behind our friends, and it is a great honor to be united with the Afghan people." ”
The two hands were shaken together, but in each other's hearts, each with their own thoughts.
Mhammad suddenly remembered one thing, what James told him just now was confidential, but James didn't shy away from Lilith just now!
The snow has completely closed the mountain, and no one will walk around at this time, and it is warmest to huddle at home and bake on the fire at this time.
On the mountain road, a group of people walked, they drove the donkey, and on the back of the donkey, carried two bags, which contained the food that the Afghan villagers had been looking forward to for a long time.
"Your Excellency Instructor, you don't need it, I can go back with this food myself." At the front of the procession, two people were walking in the snow, one was Lamal and the other was Mhammad.
It was freezing and no one wanted to come out, so when the grain arrived, Lamal brought a dozen young men from the village and brought them back with these livestock.
And Mhammad came with them.
Lamal was very grateful that with this food, the village no longer had to be afraid of how this winter would survive, and that Mhammad was still with him, which filled him with excitement.
At this time, Lamal already knew the identity of Mhammad, who was not a Pashtun, but an instructor from that country to the east!
No wonder he is so capable of fighting, and besides, he is so good to the Tajiks and can give so much food, and the Tajiks are grateful to him from the bottom of their hearts.
Of course, Mhammad did not just go to the village of Lamal, but mainly wanted to see the young men in the prime of life there, and if there were qualified soldiers, he drew them into his ranks.
In the course of the fighting, deep friendships have been formed, and ethnic prejudices will naturally gradually dissolve, and the integration of these ethnic groups in Afghanistan will eventually coalesce into a whole, and only then will Afghanistan be stable and strong.
"It's okay in winter, I go out for a walk, just to see the scenery." Mhammad said.
There is a proverb in the ancient East called Ruixue Trillion Year, and now this heavy snowfall is a good indication of a good harvest next year?
Bagram.
A fighter-bomber, slid from the tarmac to the runway, with a long fuselage, a wide tail, the root of the main engine wing, it was seen that there was special equipment, this is an aircraft with a variable sweep wing that can change the sweep angle of the wing.
In the equipment sequence of the Soviet Army, there is only one type of aircraft with variable sweep wing, MiG-23, and the aircraft on the runway at this time is the MiG-23BN, a fighter-bomber developed from the MiG-23, which is mainly used to carry out bombing missions.
The variable sweep wing is a unique product of this era, the sweep angle of the wing affects the performance of the aircraft, the sweep angle is small, which is convenient for hovering at low altitude, and the sweep angle is large, which is convenient for fast sprinting, so if the sweep angle can be changed, this fighter should be perfect.
The Soviets created the MiG-23, the Americans made the F-14, there is a gap between facts and theory, and the change in sweep angle requires additional devices, increased weight and complexity, which counteracts this advantage.
Now, the plane is ready to go, and under the wings, four eye-catching bombs are hung with special black skull markings.
A ground crew, waving a small flag, guided the fighter-bomber and slowly came to the main runway, aiming at the runway, and the pilot stepped on the two rudders under his feet.
Stepping on one side alone is steering in the air, and stepping on both rudders at the same time is the brake wheel.
When he stepped on it, the nose of the plane paused forward, and he said calmly, "Bagram, the black bear asks to take off." ”
The sound was transmitted over the radio to the tower, and Belgrade glanced at Kulikov, who nodded expressionlessly.
As a result, Belgrade knew that there was no room for turning back in this matter, and the division commander had already made up his mind.
"It can take off and bomb as originally planned." There was an echo from the tower in the headphones.
The black bear let go of its feet, softly increased the throttle with its left hand, and the huge fighter-bomber, with its tail spewing blazing flames, accelerated rapidly.
The horizon on both sides was passing quickly, and the black bear did not look at the gauge in front of him, he felt that the speed had reached the take-off speed, and he gently pulled the lever back, and the MiG-23bn took off into the air.
As soon as he took off, he began to steer and fly towards the airspace to the east, and then he adjusted the sweep angle of his wings to 47 degrees, ready to enter the high-altitude cruising state.
Compared to the F-14's computer-controlled automatic change of sweep angle, the MiG-23's is still very primitive and requires manual adjustment by the pilot.
While flying, the black bear used the corner of his eye to sweep the image tied to his knees, which was taken by satellites in the sky, and a few of the circles were the targets he was going to bomb this time, several Afghan villages! The people in these villages are all people who support the Afghan guerrillas, and to strike at them is to punish the Afghan guerrillas!
The sky over Afghanistan was already Soviet, and the black bear did not have any psychological burden on this bombing, and he even began to hum a small tune softly.
He didn't know that on the ground, several people who knew the inside story were all nervous.
Use chemical weapons! How much trouble would it cause for the USSR once the news leaked out? Belgrade knew that this was not something he could afford, and neither could the division commander, and although those chemical weapons were transported to this base for storage, they had to be nods from the bigwigs in Moscow to really use them.
Hang up the wrong bullet? This reason is too lame, when this plane took off, Belgrade finally couldn't calm down, he had to go over the division commander and report directly to the top!
When the fighter plane took off, Kulikov left the tower and waited for the plane to return and then inform him.
Belgrade stood in front of the satellite communication machine and said to the signal corpsman there: "Passage 3, pick me up from Moscow." ”
The Afghan sky in winter is very clear, and you can see the blue sky, and flying in this weather is pleasant.
It didn't take long for the black bear to fly over the target, and he began to enter the preparation stage before the final attack.
There are mountains everywhere, and only by finding a predetermined landmark can you find the target in preparation and prevent accidental bombing.