Chapter 175 175 Air-Ground Coordination

This time, Zu Xiaozhou and his teammates sat in a ZBD-03 paratrooper fighting vehicle, and followed the paratrooper armored unit of the 8th Airborne Brigade across the city of Kuala Lumpur towards their target Subang airport. They only have a few dozen paratrooper fighting vehicles in their hands, and the ammunition is not particularly large, and it is estimated that they can only fight two more battles without supplies, so the control of Subang Airport is particularly urgent for the 8th Brigade.

Compared with the war against the Soviet Union on the border of Xinjiang, it is separated from the mainland by a South China Sea, thousands of kilometers away, and the soldiers are not adequately fed and supported, which can be described as the most difficult environment to fight.

Even so, Qi Yiming was trying his best to provide all possible fire support for the airborne troops on the front line in his advance planning. The use of missiles at this distance is a medium-range ballistic missile, which is too sensitive and easy to misjudge by other countries, and the cost is also high, and the accuracy cannot be guaranteed too well. The Airborne Forces lacked large-scale armored clusters, but fortunately their enemies also lacked armor power and anti-armor weapons, and lacked the experience of such a head-on battle with the great powers, and the resistance encountered by the Airborne Forces was relatively limited.

Qi Yiming could only make the most of the air force and navy units, refuel in the air over the South China Sea, and then rush thousands of miles, dropping bombs to carry out extravagant cover operations again and again. Due to the suddenness of the incident, although the Navy has a regular patrol fleet in the South China Sea, it is mainly based on light frigates such as 056, and has limited support for airborne troops on shore. The Shangri-La was stationed in Sanya, and immediately after the incident unmoored and anchored, this amphibious assault ship of more than 30,000 tons was also the first time to carry out an actual combat mission, and she herself could complete a large-scale evacuation mission, but Qi Yiming, who had impure motives, filled the amphibious ship with J-8V Skua fighters, as long as the Shangri-La was adrift in the open sea of the Malay Peninsula, nearly 20 Skuas were enough to form an effective air deterrent force to help the ground forces lacking heavy firepower solve one problem after another.

It's just that the speed of the Shangri-La, an amphibious assault ship converted from an old aircraft carrier, is only in the early twenties, and it will take more than two days to rush from Sanya. Therefore, before the Shangri-La arrived in Malaysia, the Air Force and the Navy could only rely on the relay method to weave a protective net for friendly forces in the sky.

The aviation unit that cooperated with Zu Xiaozhou and others to attack Subang Airport was a unit from the Air Force, because long-range operations need to consider the problem of more fuel volume, so the medium-sized J-10 was not assigned to more tasks, and the newly reequipped Leopard B has a longer range and a larger bomb load, and the Air Force also transferred an aviation regiment of Leopard B to Hainan, and the F-14CN Aviation Regiment of the 9th Division of the Hainan Airlines in rotation, in addition to two Leopard A regiments of the Hainan Airlines, and a Leopard B regiment of the Air Force in Guangdong are on the second line, It can always support the operation in a difficult situation.

In fact, the core axis of the formation of this Leopard B Aviation Regiment is the Hurricane Brigade that participated in the war against the Soviet Union not long ago, and then it is composed of pilots and air crews trained by the Air Force itself.

More than a dozen Flying Cloud Leopard heavy fighters flew by at a relatively safe height, Malaysia's air defense has been almost wiped out by the Navy in the previous wave of attacks, but it is inevitable that there will be fish that slip through the net, such as anti-aircraft missiles such a rarity, there are very few in the Malaysian army, that is, there are mainly some anti-aircraft artillery, and even anti-aircraft artillery is quite thin. So be careful, the Air Force is basically in a no-man's land.

"Optimus 1-1, Optimus 1-2, according to the established coordinates allocation, destroy targets 1-6." The most central position is naturally the same Air Police-2000 that flies thousands of kilometers away, because of the use of a better platform, that is, the Y-20, the combat radius of the Air Police-2000 can almost cover the Malay Peninsula. However, in order to stay in the air for a longer time, the AWACS aircraft also did an in-flight refueling on the way.

"DynaSky 1-1 understands, DynaSky 1-2 understands!"

In addition to supporting ground troops, the air force, which is somewhat deficient in firepower, needs to make good use of every sortie and destroy as many important Malaysian facilities as possible, such as this time the main target they were assigned was to destroy communications facilities in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, and other places.

Qi Yiming came from the information age, although at this time it was far from the point where the two countries were at war one minute ago, and the whole world knew seven or eight minutes later, but controlling the input and outflow of information has a very important relationship with Qi Yiming blocking the situation in Malaysia and obscuring external public opinion. Several television stations in Kuala Lumpur have been controlled by the Airborne Corps, and some broadcasting facilities have been damaged, but there are still some telegraph, telephone, radio and other communication base stations and facilities in other areas around the area that need to be cleared.

The two Leopard B heavy multi-role fighters marked their targets in the downward-looking radar and quickly released the 250-kilogram LT-3 bombs on the pylons, which combined with the LT-2 with laser guidance alone, and the LT-3 composite satellite positioning guidance components, with a more liberal attack mode and higher accuracy.

The bomb, which had no power but could adjust its attitude on its own, accurately hit the communication facilities on the ground, and it was believed that before they finished dealing with the airborne troops, it was impossible for them to have the spare time to repair these things, and half of Malaysia was already in a state of blockade with the outside world, which was exactly what Qi Yiming wanted to see.

In addition to striking communications facilities, the few remaining radars of the Malaysian army also faced complete destruction by the Chinese Air Force. The Leopard B, armed with several YJ-91 anti-radiation missiles, fired the missiles at the enemy after confirming the target location, but to the surprise of the Air Force, this time the strike was not effective, and the reason was quite absurd. At this juncture, the Malaysian army has not yet fully turned on its own radar to defend against air, land and sea, and the anti-radiation missiles are guided entirely by electromagnetic signals, and the anti-radiation missiles are not accurate if they cannot be turned on by lightning, and except for the destruction of two radar stations, the remaining few hard-point targets have still not been eliminated, and of course they are not working.

While the air force pilots were lamenting this, the armored unit of the Airborne Forces on the ground sent a message: "We have discovered that the enemy's mechanized troops are being assembled in Sungai Buloh, which is on the way for us to attack the Subang airfield, please help us solve this problem." ”

"Got it, let's watch our show!"

The Malaysian army has three main corps, the Royal Malay Corps, the Royal Ranger Regiment, and the Royal Armored Corps, and their corps (Combat-Group) is roughly equivalent to divisional troops, some large and some small, for example, the Malay Legion has 25 battalions, which is equivalent to a reinforced division, or even a corps, and the Ranger Regiment and the Armored Corps only have 9 battalions and 5 battalions. The Malay Corps is composed of all Malays and is stationed in East Malaysia, which is North Borneo. The Ranger Regiment and the Panzer Corps, with a small number of other ethnic groups, were stationed in West Malaysia, the Malay Peninsula.

As a tropical jungle country, Malaysia's troops have relatively strong characteristics of light mechanization and heavy jungle guerrilla warfare, even if it is a so-called mechanized armored corps, there is not a single main battle tank in the whole corps, and the introduction of Polish PT-91 tanks is a matter of more than ten years in the future. Now the armored corps can be called a tank, that is, the British-made Scorpion 90 light tank.

This main gun has been upgraded from the original 76mm to the 90mm Kirkril MK111, but the defense is just as anxious, 12. The 7mm all-aluminum structural armor could not provide this tank with the ability to resist tank guns above 105mm, and even to a certain extent it was less defensive than the ZBD-03 paratrooper fighting vehicle, which also used aluminum armor. Both weigh more than 8 tons, thin skin and big stuffing, the Scorpion 90 can blast through the frontal armor of the ZBD-03 with a 90mm gun, and the Red Arrow-73 of the ZBD-03 can also hit the Scorpion 90 from a distance of four kilometers and blow it up.

After getting 26 tanks of this kind in the early eighties, the Royal Armored Corps still felt like a treasure, but these monkeys, who did not understand the frontier of the development of war equipment at all, could not understand that such equipment could not even enter the regular establishment sequence of the PLA, and even the armed police did not have to do this.

In addition to these Scorpion 90 light tanks, the Royal Malaysian Armored Corps is at most a variety of armored personnel carriers from European and American countries, which are the main force that makes up their so-called mechanized army.

In order to "give the Chinese a good look", the garrison of the Royal Armoured Corps in Sungai Buloh was almost overwhelming, and they were not stupid, understanding that the Chinese would definitely be interested in their airfield, and hitting it halfway was the best means. It's just that before the Royal Armored Corps waited for the armored unit of the 8th Brigade of the Airborne Forces, the leopard Bs in the sky swooped down like falcons that had found their prey.

This operation also carried a lot of anti-armor missiles such as AR-2, which was tested by the Sino-Soviet War and was considered to be able to hit armored targets, hard point targets such as pillboxes and fortifications, and even a cluster of soldiers. At present, the Air Force's ground attack is basically a guided bomb and half of the AR-2 mount.

One by one, the AR-2s were knocked down from the sky by the fighters, and the monkey army, which had no chance to react, suffered a huge blow. However, it is because the sparse buildings have a certain cushioning effect on explosion and damage, and some armored vehicles that are not disciplined at all directly crash through other people's houses and hide in the buildings, hoping to escape the pecking of birds of prey in the sky. There are also those who are unlucky, and the whole house collapses to the car body after a collision, which leads to the inability to move and cannot advance or retreat.

"Adjust the thermal imaging attack mode, we have to clear these blinders as much as possible before the Eighth Brigade arrives!"