Chapter 382 Counter-Battery Radar
On the battlefield between the Red Police and the Soviet Union, what really caused trouble for the Red Police Corps was the huge artillery apparatus of the Soviets.
A wide variety of artillery pieces with a larger number give full play to the artillery national conditions of the Soviets as a super-land power, and the Soviets inherited the artillery doctrine of Tsarist Russia, and in terms of artillery, they were often able to play an artillery support that was not inferior to that of the Third Theater.
The artillery of the Soviets is of all types, and the mortars that the Soviet infantry is generally equipped with on a large scale, and the support is very close.
Although the Red Guard Corps had sufficient air support and medium, long, and near artillery support, and had also eliminated the Soviets' artillery fire in a structured manner, in fact, air support alone could not completely eliminate ground forces, and the same was true for artillery.
In particular, the Soviet artillery has a super-large scale, although every air raid can bring a lot of losses to the Soviet artillery, but in fact, the Soviet artillery has never really been eliminated.
Moreover, the Soviets, who began to learn to be smart, would build a large amount of anti-aircraft fire at each artillery position, and although these anti-aircraft firepower could hardly threaten the bombers at ultra-high altitudes, the fighter-bombers that had to reduce their altitude during the guided attack still posed a certain threat when the firepower was intensive.
On one occasion, two Intruder fighter-bombers were surrounded by Soviet ground artillery fire when they flew over Soviet artillery positions to drop bombs, although the two Intruder fighter-bombers returned after being hit by hundreds of shrapnel due to their sturdy fuselage structure.
But that time the two fighter-bombers did not complete the bombing mission, resulting in the artillery of the Soviets, which brought a lot of trouble to the attacking troops.
And the huge air defense forces of the Soviets, especially after the strengthened air defense capabilities of medium and high altitudes, also fully protected against the helicopter gunships of the Red Guard Corps.
The Soviet Army, which was growing up, learned and adapted to the tactics of the Red Guard Regiment at an astonishing rate.
Taking artillery against infantry as an example, every time the Soviet artillery wanted to support the front line, a large number of anti-aircraft fires were prioritized, and these anti-aircraft fires were very scattered, did not gather together, were hidden in the woods, and were carefully camouflaged each time.
At the same time, it will also arrange fake artillery targets in many nearby areas, real and false.
Moreover, it has completely captured the combat mode of the air force of the Red Guard Corps, and it is no secret that the jet fighters have long been known, which the Soviets know very well, and they are fundamentally qualified to compete with the Red Guard Corps for air supremacy.
However, the ground attack of jet fighters also has to reduce the altitude, which is extremely destructive and has the ability to strike accurately.
However, this kind of attack can still be blocked with anti-aircraft guns, and it is not completely impossible to defend.
There is a time lag between the high-altitude bombers of the Red Guard Corps and this place, and as long as they are transferred or hidden in time, they can reduce their losses by a lot.
As for helicopter gunships and transport helicopters, anti-aircraft firepower is also very crucial, and the Soviet army, which has experienced the baptism of the battlefield on the Western Front, has a lot of experience in air defense operations, and all this has caused a lot of trouble to the Red Guard Corps.
However, this kind of trouble can actually be regarded as a minor trouble, although the Soviet artillery is sharp, but it has not yet reached the point where it can create big trouble for the Red Guard Corps.
It's like a fly annoying to death, but it's just to the point of disgusting, and it can't turn the situation around.
In order to deal with the omnipresent artillery of the Soviets, the Third Theater of Operations was also covered with artillery reconnaissance and positioning radars around the battlefield, and a large number of artillery reconnaissance drones and reconnaissance aircraft were used to locate and lock the artillery positions of the Soviets.
Compared with artillery and anti-artillery tactics, although the means of air support are effective, in terms of efficiency, they are still not as practical as artillery that can be fired at any time, not to mention the problem of being intercepted.
The so-called artillery radar, also known as artillery reconnaissance and positioning radar, simply put, uses radar technology to track the shells fired by the enemy's artillery, and then pushes out the position of its firing position according to the trajectory of the enemy's artillery, so as to provide accurate fixed-point coordinate data of the enemy's target for one's own firepower counterattack.
In order to cope with the artillery fire of the Soviets, the Third Theater of Operations deployed 16 artillery positioning radars around the battlefields of Boli and Komsomolsk.
This radar is capable of detecting artillery shells, rockets, mortar shells at medium and short ranges.
And it can logically identify the target, and the caliber of the shell can be distinguished according to the flight resistance coefficient of the shell.
The reaction time from measurement to radar data to the reaction time of self-propelled howitzers or field howitzers, multiple rocket launchers, and long-range tactical rockets to carry out counterattacks is between six and eighteen seconds.
The slowest response is the field howitzer, this kind of non-self-propelled artillery, many coordinates and calibration, are done by manpower, so the reaction time is slow.
The fastest response is the self-propelled howitzer under the data link, when performing the anti-artillery mission, the detection data of the artillery positioning radar is connected with the self-propelled howitzer data, as long as the results are detected, it can respond at the first time, quickly lock the detected enemy artillery coordinates, and then quickly suppress the fire.
In dealing with Soviet artillery, the Red Guard Corps did not use the most advanced integrated counterattack guidance system for the battlefield.
The system is an upgraded version of the artillery positioning radar, which has a powerful reconnaissance radar capability, and has its own guided missile launch vehicle, which can search for radar signals on the battlefield, directly launch guided missiles to destroy the enemy's radar, and can also perform counter-battery tasks.
The active and passive radar can capture the enemy's radar signal, as well as the radar signal of artillery shells, and then react at the first time to destroy the enemy's radar and artillery positions.
And to be able to carry out an autonomous counterattack of intelligent logic, depending on the number of radars and the detection of shells in the USSR.
Normally, this kind of equipment can completely realize unmanned deployment on the battlefield and fully automatic operations.
It's just that at present, this equipment is expensive, and whether it is the advanced degree of missiles or equipment, the Soviet artillery is simply not enough to use weapons of this level.
In modern ground battlefields, counter-battery positioning radar is almost indispensable equipment.
And in World War II, the appearance of such equipment will inevitably become a nightmare for enemy artillery.
The situation on the battlefield soon took on a one-sided turn.
The cautious Soviet artillerymen held back for a long time, and finally wanted to secretly fire a cannon, but they were immediately caught, and they didn't even have a chance for a second shot, and they would be destroyed by the incoming artillery fire.
At first, the Soviet artillerymen thought it was a coincidence, but in just one day, this coincidence appeared dozens of times, resulting in the loss of more than 800 guns of various calibers in one day, which made the Soviet artillerymen all frightened.