Chapter 967: Iraq's Mi-24
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All the projects are progressing steadily, and people have become accustomed to the fact that it is becoming more and more lively, with factories being built and fighter planes taking off and landing frequently.
Therefore, when the production line of the Mi-24 was located here, it did not arouse any interest, and those that could fly into the sky were called airplanes, helicopters, and fighter jets.
Iraq has introduced a license to produce this main armed helicopter in service, and because Iraq's aviation industry has made great progress, the supporting factories for various parts and components have been completely established, and a complete production system has been established.
For the Mi-24 helicopter, in fact, it does not represent the cháo flow of the later generations of armed helicopters, especially the wide crew compartment at the back, which allows the armed helicopter to do the work of a general-purpose helicopter, resulting in a certain impact on the maneuver of the helicopter, but, in any case, this helicopter is always an excellent armed helicopter, and its acquisition has allowed Iraq to have a high level in the field of helicopters.
After the production of these 100 helicopters is completed and the troops are equipped, then a large number of helicopter engineers will be able to be brought back from the Soviet Union's Miri Design Bureau and the Kamov Design Bureau. {{}}
However, Iraq's own helicopter gunships were not produced in full accordance with Soviet standards, and after the production of twenty helicopters, Iraqi personnel began to carry out their first improvements, focusing on improving avionics.
For helicopters, the main flight altitude is the treetop height, they are flying tanks, mainly used to deal with the living forces on the ground, and in the process of flying close to the ground, flight safety is the first thing to consider, and quick eyes and hands are the basic skills of helicopter pilots.
Therefore, Iraqi technicians, by absorbing Western science and technology, began to modify the avionics system of the Mi-24, and the key improvement was to add a set of terrain avoidance radar.
The antenna of the terrain avoidance radar maintains a fixed pitch angle, scans left and right, and measures the height of the ground object above the safe flight plane, and the pilot makes a lateral maneuver according to the radar's instructions to bypass the terrain obstacles. Therefore, this set of radars can increase the safety of pilots flying at ultra-low altitudes.
Although the principle is simple, however, it is also very complex to manufacture, and the key problem is that this kind of radar requires high detection, fast calculation, minimal error, and a certain amount of redundancy.
In addition to these, Iraqi technicians, in order to increase the power of such helicopters, have added laser-guided bombs to the types of weapons mounted on the helicopters.
The main weapons of the Mi-24 are machine guns, rocket nests and anti-tank missiles, which can still deal with ordinary targets, but when dealing with large targets, they are somewhat powerless.
Therefore, Iraqi personnel have equipped the Mi-24 with laser indication pods, which can be used to drop American-made Paveway laser-guided bombs.
With the development of the satellite navigation project in cooperation with the Soviet Union, Iraq also plans to make extensive use of satellite guidance in future weapons. {{}}
Now, scientists are working on an experimental project to mount a laser-guided bomb.
The Mi-24 has three pylons on each side of the short wings, the inner pylons can carry 500 kilograms, the outer pylons can carry 250 kilograms, and the wingtip pylons only have a 100-kilogram carrying capacity, so the gemway laser-guided bombs can only be hung on the innermost pylons.
A Mi-24 helicopter can carry two laser-guided bombs, these two bombs, can blow up a building, the power is much higher than the original Mi-24, and in order to guide this bomb, it is necessary to mount a laser-guided pod on the outside pylon.
"Ready, start experimenting." With the orders of the ground personnel, the helicopter pilot piloted the Mi-24 helicopter and flew slowly, and on the pylons on both sides, the gem road laser-guided bomb showed its teeth in the sun.
After the helicopter took off, it headed east, where there was a firing range built by Iraq.
The weapon behind the Mi-24 is highly concentrated at this time, and this complex weapon is needed by him to make it. {{}}
Steady, fly to the target, cāo makes a laser pointing pod, sends a shè laser at the target, releases the bomb, swings the bomb, flies to the target, and then, the simulated building, flies into the sky.
The experiment was a success.
After flying back, there was jubilation on the ground.
At this moment, an urgent order was passed down from above.
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The huge rotors stirred up the rumbling air current, and the excellent pilot of the Iraqi Navy, Cāo, flew in a helicopter towards a distant target, where the Iraqi Navy's training ship Qeshm landed, and today, for the first time, they landed on the deck of the Qeshm.
And this helicopter is a super Wasp helicopter that has always been assigned to the Iraqi Navy, which is a large carrier-based helicopter, so although it has been equipped with the Iraqi Navy for several years, there is no suitable warship to load it, it has always been used by shore-based, except for the last mission in the Persian Gulf, the use of tankers as take-off and landing platforms, there have been no other landing operations. {{}}
This time, for the first time, the Super Hornet helicopter will land on a warship of the Iraqi Navy, that is, the training ship that has just been in service for less than half a month.
It's just that being able to land on it, that's nothing, the point is, they need to land exactly on that painted circle, to land on the positive zhongyāng of the ring.
For helicopter take-off and landing on warships, it is also very particular, on the deck of large ships, can directly take off and land, such as the current Gershm, and for small warships with a displacement of several thousand tons, such as Iraq's Hedon class, it is necessary to use landing aid.
Now, they make their first autonomous landing, and then they practice landing equipment, which can help Iraqi Navy helicopter pilots quickly familiarize themselves with the ship.
Equipment is for use, and for the Iraqi army, they never hide new equipment like a treasure, and they have begun to use training ships to train their members.
On the helicopter platform of the Qeshm, four circles are drawn, which allows four helicopters to take off and land at the same time.
With the arrival of training ships, Iraq's navy is about to enter a period of rapid development.
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In Baghdad, Qusay listened carefully to Yureid's debriefing.
After half a month of reconnaissance, they carried out a total of four reconnaissances, and the reconnaissance satellites in the sky also surveyed this area in detail, but the results surprised them.
In the Pretoria region, there is indeed a massive missile base!
This base, all located in these mountainous areas, the main base is surrounded by a ring mountain range, just in a flat basin zhongyāng, they here, there are several well-hidden buildings, respectively, the missile development and production factory, and the hair shè position, and the perimeter of this base, is guarded by the South African army, but the inner layer, is guarded by Jewish soldiers.
The acquisition of this information made Yurid painstaking, they bribed two local natives, led them through the path, interspersed with those guards, walked on the cliffs, and finally entered the inner layer, that's it, did not approach the inside of the base to observe, but used telescopes and night vision devices in the distance to observe and confirm from a distance, and then, combined with satellite pictures, the target was finally determined.
The situation has been figured out, but how to solve it is a difficult problem in front of Qusay and others.
It is very dangerous to send special forces and go along the reconnaissance path, because those paths cannot allow the fighters of the special forces to carry heavy equipment, and the other party's personnel are several times their own, and they can act, even if the personnel of the special forces can succeed, their retreat will be full of hardships, and the special forces fighters sent are not superhuman, and their possibility of being martyrs will be very large.
It is better to use the Air Force for bombing, but now, the power of Iraq has not yet developed to southern Africa, there is no air base there, and it is impossible to take off directly from the base in Iraq, Iraq is not the United States, the American F-111 can fly long distances for more than ten hours, Iraq will definitely not be able to do it.
If only Iraq's aircraft carriers were good! It is a very refreshing thing to drive the aircraft carrier over and kill their base, but Qusay is just thinking about it, because the Iraqi aircraft carrier is still cutting steel plates on the slipway and preparing to build it, and it won't be long before the Americans will find out that the Soviet Union is starting construction at the same time to build two aircraft carriers, and even if Iraq has it, it can't be used now, so blatantly, it will suffer serious diplomatic problems, and when Iraq does not have the same momentum as the United States, it must not maintain such a high profile. It is better to carry out this operation without knowing it.
"President Qusay, after our training ship returned home, the Naval Academy applied several times, hoping to go on an ocean voyage." At this moment, Nasser, the commander of the Navy next to him, said. Baidu search house, house, house provides this.
The training ship is used by the Naval Academy, and in the Persian Gulf, they can use it however they want, but if it is an ocean voyage, it still needs to be approved, and the Naval Academy has long been looking forward to the return of this ship, so after returning to China, I became familiar with the Xing energy of this ship, and began to apply for an ocean-going route.