Chapter 549: Victory in the First Battle
"BP destroyed!"
"Replace the proximity!"
The three BP infantry fighting vehicles stopped on the side of the road at the moment, which really startled the infantry in the rear, and all this happened so quickly that the infantry only heard a few sharp metal grinding sounds, and then their own infantry vehicles were all in the sky.
The worst thing is that the first three infantry tanks are loaded not only with infantry, but also with their commander and several lieutenants, the commander of this Libyan company is completely wiped out, and now among the remaining infantry, the highest rank is only the second lieutenant who does not want to sit because the BP is too crowded.
"Get off, get off!"
The second lieutenant didn't care about decency, jumped out of the truck in embarrassment, and then shouted for the others to get out of the car quickly.
It's just that their movements are still a step slower.
In addition to X885 armor-piercing shells, HSL can also fire X884 proximity grenades, which can explode before touching the target by setting a fuse, releasing a large number of fragments to kill the target, and can be used with the fire control of the HSL to strike at air targets such as helicopters.
It's just that there are no helicopters now, but grenades can also be used to shoot infantry.
All you need to do is set the fuse of the shell and let the grenade explode over the target.
The ratio of HSL shells is twelve to fourteen, that is, twelve armor-piercing shells and fourteen grenades, in fact, in reality, the armor-piercing shells carried by the tank are actually not much, generally about one-third of their own ammunition load, because in order to perform various tasks, the tank also needs to carry a certain number of armor-piercing shells and grenades, and those tanks that can launch artillery missiles will even carry a certain number of artillery missiles, because in the face of different targets, it is necessary to switch different ammunition.
For example, in the face of a group of infantry, the lethal effect of tail stabilized shelling armor-piercing shells is definitely not comparable to that of high-explosive grenades or anti-personnel blasting grenades.
The HSL is not equipped with armor-piercing shells, so it carries some more armor-piercing shells, but the grenades still need to be brought a little more, which is very useful for soft targets!
Now, two of the Echo Squad's tanks have removed the armor-piercing shells from their breeches, allowing the second-stage nest loader to feed the stored proximity grenades into the guns.
Subsequently, the two guns, which had corrected the fire control data again, began to deal a devastating blow to the Libyan infantry.
Although the X884 grenade is only 75 mm caliber, it is still a piece of artillery, and the fragments from the explosion can still cause fatal damage to unprotected targets within a few tens of meters, and at this moment the Libyan soldiers are still in the truck, so those grenades that explode above their heads explode a large area.
This time Yander did not fire with extreme speed, but fired rhythmically to observe and correct it before firing, the Libyan infantry was on the plain, there was nowhere to escape, even if they jumped out of the car and hid in the desert on both sides, they were still within the killing range of the grenade, and the Libyan lieutenant who commanded the evacuation shouted for his men to disperse, and at the same time climbed the dunes with a few soldiers around him, trying to find the target who attacked them.
But the lieutenant forgot where he was at the moment, and the reflection of his telescope in the sunlight immediately indicated a new strike position for Yandel.
Two grenades then exploded on both sides of the lieutenant's head, one on the left and one on the right, and the fragments instantly shattered the Libyans on the dunes.
A Libyan soldier saw the smoke and dust when the tank fired, and immediately tried to shoot back, and by the way, he pointed out the target to the friendly troops who were still alive next to him, the latter carried an RPG7 rocket launcher, but the rocket shooter seemed to forget that he was two kilometers away, and the rocket flew out a few hundred meters after a little offset, and finally the rocket hit the sand dune, separated from the target by 108,000 miles!
In less than five minutes, the Echo squad fired a full 20 rounds of proximity grenades, almost blowing up one-third of the personnel of the Libyan company, counting the wounded, the entire company has basically lost more than half, plus all the commanders killed, it can be said that this company has lost its combat effectiveness.
And Jander also accepted it when he saw it, and informed Echo II to withdraw from the battle.
The Echo Squad had a limited number of infantry, and it was already difficult to use it to guard and defend, let alone take the initiative to attack, and Yander had fought Charlie in Vietnam
's tank commander is very aware of the principle of accepting it when he sees it, because his boss doesn't understand this, so he was blown up by Charlie, and the whole person was burned to char and stayed in Vietnam.
Following the direction they came, the Echo team quickly withdrew from the battlefield and then joined up with the infantry and reconnaissance vehicles that had remained in place, and then Yandell and another team immediately conducted a simple survey of the vehicles.
It can be said that both HSL tanks performed well and did not have any major problems, but the desert operation still inevitably put the tanks in the sand, but it only needs to be cleaned up.
The group then evacuated to a safe place under the guidance of the guide, where the team refueled the tank with fuel and ammunition, and reported the results to Shepard.
The results of the tank destruction were also captured by Yander on camera as proof of his future dealings to the congressional veterans.
Afterwards, the team happily set up a campfire in the cache and ate barbecue, and Shepard also sent a bird helicopter to bring the team a box of Coke in a foam freezer to reward the crew's performance, and of course, there are other rewards that will be settled later and sent to everyone's bank account in turn.
The general engineers were also extremely excited about the victory of the tank team, but Shepard underestimated the destructiveness of these guys, because they felt that it was really not challenging for the group to attack infantry fighting vehicles, and Dr. Smith even directly asked Shepard to find a more convincing opponent, preferably directly to fight with the Libyans' T55 tanks!
And Shepard can only express his admiration for the other party's brain hole, the tank forces of the Libyans are now in a group, and there are more than a dozen dozens of them together, and he has two precious test vehicles, so that they can take the initiative to attack, or think a little too much!
However, for this victory, Shepard is still quite happy, after all, this project was the least favored time, but he smashed it with money in one go, that is to say, this project is equivalent to the fruit tree he has cultivated for many years, and after all kinds of wind and rain, it finally bears fruit.
As long as everything goes well after that, he can rest assured that he will be able to cut, ah no, go and sell it to the generals of the Marine Corps, and at that time, it will be tens of billions of large orders, and in time, it will be okay to surpass Loma and punch Boeing!