After coming out of Commander Zhang, I found Zheng Liangqiang as soon as possible.

Rather than sitting in the office and reading those boring numbers and materials, I prefer to listen to what the pilots have to say, after all, I am a layman for helicopters and the like, and Zheng Liangqiang, these pilots are not only experts but also use the Black Hawk for a while, I believe that they who used the Zhiwu before now use the Black Hawk have more to say.

"Now it's time to change shotguns!" Zheng Liangqiang raised his head at a black eagle beside him, sighed and said: "The Yankee thing is different, this black eagle is more than 300 kilograms lighter than our Zhiwu, but the load capacity is much higher than that of Zhiwu. ”

The maximum payload of the straight five is 1,200 kg, while the black hawk can reach 4,080 kg.

"That means we can bring more ammunition and personnel." Zheng Liangqiang explained: "In the past, we had to weigh the number of people on board and ammunition because of the five-load limit, but now we basically don't have to think about this problem, and after carrying 11 heavily armed combatants, we can also carry a full helicopter of ammunition, and it is more than enough to hang a jeep." In an emergency, it can even carry 20 heavily armed infantrymen. ”

I know what that means, but simply put, one Black Hawk can carry more people and equipment than two Straight Fives.

"And that's just one of them." Zheng Liangqiang continued: "Its range and speed are almost twice that of the Z-5, with a maximum range of 1,200 kilometers and a speed of 357 kilometers per hour. ”

This does not need to be explained by Zheng Liangqiang. For something that flies in the sky. I know what range and speed means. Like the Argentine fighters in the Falklands War. Because of its insufficient range, it only had a few minutes of airborne combat time when it flew over the Falklands, which made the whole battle very passive.

The straight five used by our army also has the disadvantage of zài.

Black Hawk helicopters, on the other hand, can take twice as many people and equipment with double the range and speed...... It's no wonder that Zheng Liangqiang said that it was a shotgun change.

"In addition, there are protective capabilities, armored seats, night combat capabilities, six-barreled Gatling machine guns...... Zheng Liangqiang introduced the Black Hawk helicopter to me like a few treasures, only to say that I was a little dizzy.

To sum it up: advanced enough.

"Fifth Company Commander!" After listening for a while, I interrupted Zheng Liangqiang's words and said, "Now that we have such an advanced helicopter, you should be happy." Why do you still look worried? ”

"Battalion commander!" Zheng Liangqiang sighed and replied: "If this is our country's helicopter, then I will be happy." But you see...... Other people's planes are light, fast, and fly far, and the load is several times that of ours, which is too big, do you think I can be happy? ”

Hearing this, I understood why Zheng Liangqiang frowned from the beginning.

He is also right, as the saying goes, "It's better than not knowing, and if you compare it, you'll be shocked", if we didn't know how advanced the gringos were, then we could use our own helicopters well. But now, the black eagle is in front of us. It's psychologically hard to accept.

Actually, what I do know is that this Black Hawk helicopter is not the most advanced helicopter of the Yankees. If you put the number of the Yankee's Cobra or the Apache helicopter gunship, I'm afraid that Zheng Liangqiang won't be able to believe it. (Note: The American Apache helicopter gunship flew in 75 years and officially entered service in 84 years)

"Fifth Company Commander!" I handed Zheng Liangqiang a cigarette, lit them with each other, and said, "Do you know why China lost the Opium War and lost so badly?" ”

Zheng Liangqiang's mouth twitched: "Isn't it...... Is it because the Qing government is corrupt? ”

"The corruption of the Qing government is one thing." I said: "Another point is that the country is closed to the country, and many people do not know that earth-shaking changes have taken place abroad, and they do not know what the world has developed into at all, that is, they are in a state of backwardness and do not know it. Our previous situation was a bit similar to this. ”

"Just like me." Zheng Liangqiang replied with deep sympathy: "I don't know how big the gap is now, and not long ago we were still shouting 'catch up with the Premier League'!" ”

"So that's a good thing." I continued: "This can be said to be one of the benefits of reform and opening up, what we are afraid of is not backwardness, but backwardness. What I'm afraid of is that if I fall behind and don't know it in my dreams, then it is very likely that I will repeat the mistakes of the Opium War. ”

"The battalion commander is right!" After thinking about it, Zheng Liangqiang replied: "Now even I, a small soldier, know the gap with the Yankees, so there is no reason for the superior leaders not to know, this is actually a kind of progress, otherwise I won't know until the day of the war...... I'm afraid it's too late. ”

"That's what I mean!" I patted Zheng Liangqiang on the shoulder and said, "That's why I said this is a good thing, we should be glad that we know this gap now and have a chance to catch up." And your task now is to master the flight and training of the Black Hawk as much as possible, and to explore the potential of the Black Hawk as much as possible and compare it with our Zhiwu, so that you can know where our helicopter needs to be improved, how to improve or in which direction! ”

"Yes!" Zheng Liangqiang nodded heavily.

I believe that the reason why the superiors handed over these Black Hawks to us also has this purpose, that is, they hope to imitate the Black Hawks.

But I knew it couldn't be...... This is determined by the current weak industrial base of our country, and some things, such as the turboshaft engine with an output of up to 1510 horsepower on the Black Hawk, are beyond the scope of what we can imitate.

Then came the intense flight training.

In other words, this is not easy for Zheng Liangqiang and other pilots.

On the one hand, this is because the helicopters that our army has always used, such as the Z-5, are all Soviet-style, and the Soviet-style equipment is very different from the American equipment in terms of style, and the same is true for helicopters. As a result, Zheng Liangqiang and others, who were accustomed to operating Soviet-style helicopters, had to completely overturn their previous operating habits and start over.

On the other hand, due to the generation difference between the straight five and the black eagle, the cockpit of the straight five still has various instruments, and the black eagle has basically been digitalized, which is a new challenge for Zheng Liangqiang and others.

However, there is a saying called a hundred passes, although there are considerable differences between the Black Hawk and the Zhiwu in all aspects, but the flight principle is the same, and Zheng Liangqiang These pilots are experienced pilots, so they quickly mastered the operation of the Black Hawk.

I don't have to worry about that...... I don't know anything about the operation of helicopters, and I can't manage it if I want to, so I can only let Zheng Liangqiang organize and learn by himself.

What I have to take care of is the coordination of the open space and the formation.

In the past, our air-ground coordination and formation were formulated according to the load and performance of the Zhi-5, and now with the Black Hawk, if we still follow the previous coordination method, it will undoubtedly be a waste of the Black Hawk.

But the problem in this area is not very big...... The Black Hawk is the Yankee's plane, and since the Yankees are willing to give us such advanced helicopters, they will naturally not be stingy enough to keep the tactics used by the Black Hawk secret.

This is not to say that our synthetic battalion cannot find a combat method suitable for itself through guò training, but it is a question of whether it is necessary, after all, the Yankees have rich experience in using helicopters in combat, and they invested a large number of helicopters in the battlefield between the United States and Vietnam back then.

Of course, these experiences were not suitable for us when we were still using the Z-5, after all, the performance of the Z-5 was much worse than the Yankee's helicopters, so the tactics could not be transplanted.

But now we're using the Yankees' Black Hawk, so these tactics can be used by me or appropriately.

So soon a complete set of information was sent to me by Li Li, from which I also knew about the two-plane, three-plane, multi-plane formations, offensive, defensive, and support formations, as well as dense formations, evacuation formations, and so on.

One of the things that I find very practical is the rules for formatting.

As mentioned before, although the battlefield is ever-changing, fighting on the battlefield often requires some formatted rules.

For example, what to do when being tracked by enemy aircraft, what to do when under enemy ground anti-aircraft fire, or even when you run out of ammunition or are wounded.

On the one hand, it is to make every soldier aware of what to do when he or she encounters an emergency on the battlefield, so as to reduce the occurrence of nervousness and helplessness in a large way.

On the other hand, it's a form of synergy. Because every pilot or infantryman knows what other people will do in an emergency, they will be fully prepared to cooperate with their actions.

Of course, fighting a war is not just talk on paper, and it is not enough to have these theories, what is important is to put them into practice. And for us, this practice is first and foremost training, training over and over again.

However, training like this is not very difficult for us, the main reason is that the content of our previous training with Zhiwu is not much different, if there is any difference, it is that the Black Hawk allows us infantry to carry more equipment, can give us more cover and take us into battle at a faster speed.

But I don't think that's enough, because I'm clear about one thing: Black Hawk's training is mainly used to deal with crises on the Sino-Indian border on the Tibetan Plateau, and operations on the plateau are very different from operations on ordinary terrain.

In other words, the best training should be on a plateau or a place with similar terrain. (To be continued......)