Chapter 34: Return to the Horse Pistol
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In fact, from the very beginning it was decided to attack this helicopter base, it was a gambling battle, and even if it succeeded, it was impossible to get out of it all, after all, this was a place heavily defended by the Soviets.
Mhammad was determined to kill the hinds, and he knew that the battle would be very cruel, which was completely contrary to the tactics of guerrilla warfare, but he was bullied by the hinds in the head several times, and Mhammad really couldn't bear it.
Now that the Soviets have withdrawn, it is impossible for them to drive this armored car out again, and now they are wandering around this tarmac, and the Soviets are afraid of hitting their planes, and they are worried that if they drive out and can't enter the mountain, they will be hit by armor-piercing shells.
Even now, Mhammad is gambling and getting into the side of this hind, so that the Soviet tanks will not dare to open fire, for fear of hitting this hind by mistake.
In this field airfield, a total of twelve hinds were stayed, the size of a flying group, just now Mhammad came all the way, blew up six, half of the hinds were destroyed, the remaining few, if there is any more mistakes, the base commander here will definitely not be able to afford it, even now, the loss is big enough.
Because of this, in the process of getting close to this hind and then pedaling, the Soviets did not fire, they did not even shoot, they were afraid that the plane would be hit by mistake, until they saw the propeller of the helicopter start to turn, saw the helicopter swaying and flew up, saw the fuel pipe of the refueling truck being torn off, and they couldn't believe their eyes, the Afghan guerrillas, those illiterate people who couldn't read big words, could actually fly a helicopter?
"Quick, shoot! These guerrillas are going to flee! "Now the situation is very clear, if they are entangled in this helicopter, they will have no chance at all, and if the guerrillas are allowed to snatch the helicopter and escape, the commander of Jalalabadri will be even more angry at their failed operation.
The helicopter was swaying up and down, and sweat was running down Mhammad's forehead, and he kept operating the joystick, but the helicopter was shaking back and forth disobediently, needless to say, and it was going to fall down again at any time and smash them into meatloaf.
He simply let go of all the levers and reached out to remove the armorer's hat, and now, no longer pretending to be a Soviet, the hat can be thrown away.
Just as he released all the operating sticks, the helicopter stabilized and hovered in the air, and suddenly, Mhammad reacted, as the pilot instructor had said before, that it was called pilot-induced concussion. When you feel the plane leaning forward, you immediately pull it back, but as a result, you pull it back again, and then you push the lever forward, so that the plane gets bigger and bigger.
Be soft, be soft! Mhammad gently pushed the lever, and sure enough, this time the helicopter slowly leaned forward and flew forward.
"Hit!" All the weapons below, aimed at the sky, shot at the helicopter.
Under the hind, there is a layer of armor protection, and ordinary bullet shots are completely ineffective against it.
Mhammad operated the helicopter and flew away from the air base, and the partisans in the back cabin were still like in a dream, in the past, he had only seen the Soviets flying on their toes overhead, who would have thought that one day he would be able to sit on this iron bump and fly into the sky?
The instructor is so great, he can even open this iron bird!
There was a mountain area in front of it, and if you flew directly into it, you would be completely out of danger, but as soon as Mhammad gritted his teeth and pushed the lever, the hind turned and flew back again.
There are five more Hinds on the airfield, and they must all be killed!
On the short wings on both sides of this hind, there are rocket launchers and anti-tank missiles, but Mhammad is not able to operate at all, it should have been operated by the weapons operator in the front compartment, and now, the front compartment is empty, there is no one to operate it, and even if there are people, no one will tinker with those things.
It's a pity that those weapons, although the pylons on both sides can't be used, there are still weapons in the cockpit in the back.
The Soviets will also adapt to the situation, when the hind was stationed in Afghanistan with the Soviet army, although the official modification did not begin, the Soviet army itself installed machine guns on the side door of the hind rear cabin, so that when the soldiers in the hind cabin were too late to be put down, they could operate this machine gun to attack the guerrilla fighters on the ground from the side, and when the hind was ready to land, the machine guns on both sides could help them open up a safe landing site, after all, the rear vision of this wide helicopter was almost zero.
Hearing Mhammad's order and watching the helicopter turn, the partisans in the rear compartment followed and became excited again, they opened the sliding hatch and pushed out the machine guns on both sides.
Durranny, who was already a machine gunner, grabbed the bolt of a machine gun and prepared to fire downward.
The ground was constantly changing, and the airport was getting closer.
Several refueling trucks were rapidly refueling the remaining helicopters, and the ground crew were hanging up their bombs, their hearts filled with anger.
On the helicopter, the pilot was already sitting there, just waiting to be equipped and ready to take off in pursuit.
This is the joke of the entire Jalalabad base, the joke of the entire Soviet army, the base of helicopter gunships, patronized by the partisans, killed six helicopters and robbed one!
The maintenance of the Mi-24 Hind is very complicated, every flight sortie, it takes several hours of maintenance, these helicopters, were returned from a mission yesterday, it was already dark at that time, there was no maintenance, and there was no refueling and bombing, as a result, watching the helicopter was snatched away, they could only stare dryly.
The pilots of the helicopters did not participate in the battle just now, they hid in the tower until the helicopter was snatched away, and then they came out and ran quickly to their plane. Every pilot is trained by the state, and they spend countless money, and their stage is in the sky.
As long as the refueling and bombing are finished, when they take off, go and shoot down the stolen helicopter!
Just before the refueling was finished, there was another roar in the sky, and the helicopter flew back again!
Looking at the panicked Soviet soldiers below, watching those vehicles start, and looking at the helicopters on the tarmac ready to take off, Mhammad knew that he had come at the right time!
"Hit!" Durranny shouted and pulled the firing button for his machine gun.
"Da-la-da." The chain of bullets slid from the chamber of the machine gun, and countless bullets, flying out of the muzzle, shot to the ground.
A Soviet soldier was immediately swept down by a machine gun and fell screaming, Durrani continued to push the gun forward, and the bullets flew to the front tarmac.
The armor of the hind is the lower part, when it flies on the battlefield, it is mainly to prevent the shooting of the anti-aircraft fire below, if the armor protection is installed all over the body of the hind, it will be very heavy, so from the upper part of the attack, the hind's resistance is very weak.
On the other side, Aga operated another machine gun, firing at the same time on both sides, and the Soviet soldiers below could not resist the tongues of fire on both sides at all.
"Boom." The fuel truck next to a helicopter was blown up, and suddenly, along with the helicopter next to it, it burst into flames in the explosion.
"Soviets, let you taste the power of the Afghan guerrillas!" The rest of the partisans were not idle, they pulled the ring of the grenade and threw it from the sky.
"Boom, boom!" There were explosions everywhere, machine gun fire everywhere, and the Soviets got a taste of being hit from the air.
The east began to turn white, and the sky slowly brightened.
Several helicopters on the tarmac were destroyed, and Mhammad pressed the lever to fly over the top again, and then flew away after another round, but when his eyes looked at the earth from the side porthole, his eyes suddenly stopped.
Several armored vehicles, which are moving quickly, looking at the direction, are coming from the Kabul area, the chassis of these armored vehicles is very similar to the ordinary tracked chassis, but on it, there is a huge turret, in front of the turret are four barrels that are not thick, and behind the turret, there is also a mushroom plate-like thing.
Grandma's, this thing is the real big killer, the nightmare of the Afghan guerrillas!
Shile 23-mm four-barreled self-propelled anti-aircraft gun!
Shile River was the first all-weather, fully automatic multi-barreled self-propelled anti-aircraft gun equipped in the Soviet Union, and the whole system consisted of an improved A3П 23mm 4-barreled automatic gun, a closed turret, a Гm575 chassis and a radar fire control system. It was the first self-propelled anti-aircraft gun in the Soviet Union and the first in the world, with fierce firepower and advanced technology.
On the Palestinian-Israeli battlefield, in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, according to the statistics of the Arab coalition forces, one-third of the more than 300 fighters lost by the Israeli Air Force were fired down by the Schle River anti-aircraft artillery.
In later records, in the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Shile River played the role of an all-rounder, and the guerrillas did not have airplanes, they were not used to fight planes, but to fight guerrillas in the mountains.
Due to its large range of high and low fire, when it is ambushed by guerrillas located in high mountains, it can quickly open fire and counterattack, covering the guerrillas' positions with a heavy rain of bullets. At this time, the bulky T-62 tank was still looking for a suitable firing position to overcome the embarrassment of not being able to fire due to the limitation of the firing angle.
If Mhammad could fully operate this helicopter gunship, he could take out those self-propelled guns with missiles on both sides, but for now, he can only have one choice, run, run as far as he wants! The 23mm anti-aircraft gun could easily tear through the Hind's armor and turn the Hind into a volley explosion.
Just when Mhammad just pushed the operating lever, the Shilehe self-propelled anti-aircraft guns had already stopped, the turret turned, the muzzle of the gun rose, and the four 23 mm barrels shot out a dense barrage of bullets, countless bullets, whistling and flying towards the hind in the sky.