Chapter 583: Everyone is panicking!
The four blades of the hind gunship spun rapidly, and the wind blew the bushes below the valley and swayed.
Rambo and his other air defense group hid in the shadows under the bushes, listening to the sound of the paddles splitting the air as they drew closer.
Rambo looked up and saw two hinds suddenly jump out of the ridge in front of him on his left, and they crossed the ridgeline and began to fire rockets at the rocket artillery position.
The dense rain of bullets roared down on the rocket artillery positions of the guerrillas, and in an instant, the explosion swallowed everything up, but fortunately, the artillery that fired the rockets fled the scene without looking back after the rockets, so the rocket attack did not cause any casualties.
But the Soviet Union did not know that the attack of the Mi-24 helicopter was so rapid that the smoke and dust were billowing and the pilots could not see whether there was any personnel activity at all, but in line with the principle that they would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let go of one, they threw away everything they could throw away.
"Those guys should be dead, right?"
"Not sure, add fuel to them!"
The weaponist fixed his eyes on the fire control sight, his fingers already pressed on the bomb delivery button, and waited for the hind to enter the bomb delivery range and drop the two incendiary bombs he was carrying.
Because the bomb should be delivered steadily, the pilot straightened the course of the helicopter and flew straight over the launch position that had become a sea of fire.
And behind them, Rambo is also ready!
"Ready to launch!"
Rambo picked up the Stinger missile, unfolded the IFF antenna on the right front of the missile launcher, turned on the sight and connected the signal interrogator, and then the bone conduction device next to the scope was automatically attached to Rambo's cheekbones, and then Rambo pressed the IFF switch on the launch handle.
The indicator next to the sight then beeps sharply, indicating that the target's IFF, i.e., friend or foe identification, is not responding, so that is, fire control confirms that it is an enemy target.
Rambo then aligns the target in the sighting ring of the scope, aligned with the groove in the center, because the enemy aircraft is facing him, and then he turns on the weapon safety, and the missile's seeker begins to capture the hind's infrared thermal signature, and after the seeker captures the target, the indicator beeps again to alert the shooter.
Rambo then pressed the unlocker with his right thumb to activate the missile, then continued to track the target and pressed the trigger.
At this moment, the battery inside the missile begins to operate, and after 0.5 seconds after starting, the missile detaches from the launch tube, the tail and control wings are immediately deployed, the launch motor is disengaged, and after reaching a safe distance, the missile engine ignites and begins to accelerate the missile.
Rambo and the team on the side locked on at the same time and fired at the same time, but in order to ensure a hit, both teams aimed at the same Hind helicopter.
The two Stingers were quickly propelled to Mach 2 speeds and flew towards their targets.
At this moment, the Soviet Union had not installed infrared warning and missile warning devices for the hind, so the locked helicopter did not know that a missile was flying towards it, until another hind helicopter pilot who was parallel to him saw an unknown object approaching, and did he loudly warn him on the radio channel.
"Sergey, missiles!"
It's just that his reminder was a little late, and as soon as the pilot's voice fell, the first Stinger was mounted on the rear fuselage of the hind, although it exploded, releasing countless fragments.
After the Hind helicopter was hit, the fuselage immediately shook violently, and the instruments and operating system began to alarm wildly, and the pilot held on to the joystick, trying to stabilize the plane as hard as possible.
Then, a second whistling stinger struck again, this time the missile exploded at the tail rotor, and the hind's tail rotor was damaged by the fragments and stopped working.
The tail rotor is a device for the helicopter to control the course, after being destroyed, the Hind helicopter randomly began to fall into the spin, and continued to fall in height, but fortunately, the pilot's skills are excellent, and the helicopter is controlled to rotate a little bit and fall to the gentle place of the distant valley, which can slow down the impact of the helicopter when it is forced to land as much as possible.
And the Stinger missiles are fired and left alone, therefore, after launching the missiles, they decisively began to reload.
While the Hind helicopter was still looking for a ground target, Rambo had already finished loading, and then aimed at the second Hind helicopter again to launch the missile.
The pilot of the helicopter was already prepared for incoming fire from the ground, so after seeing the smoke and dust, he immediately operated the helicopter to quickly descend in altitude.
However, because of the close distance, his maneuver had no effect, and the first Stinger still hit it, but because the helicopter was rolling half a barrel to the left, the missile hit the fuselage position, and it did not cause much damage except for tearing some gaps in the hind, but the helicopter still sounded the alarm.
The second missile had a somewhat large swing amplitude of the shooter when it was launched, and after the missile was launched, it failed to complete all the steering in the power section due to overload problems, so the missile exploded after the hind flew a distance of almost three kilometers.
Seeing the two hinds fall in black smoke and the other fleeing in embarrassment, the Afghan villagers who were hiding immediately began to cheer excitedly.
The voices of Allahu Akbar were heard endlessly, but soon the cheers were silenced by the commander.
"Stop shouting, get ready to attack!"
When Rambo fired the missiles, the Pakistani scouts had basically confirmed the location of the Afghan army in the valley, and then, the rocket artillery that had already been loaded began to roar again, this time not two or three, but a full dozen rocket launchers fired together, and the rockets fired instantly killed one-fifth of what the guerrillas carried.
It may seem wasteful, but it's actually a good deal, and with the help of Pakistanis and mercenaries, more than a third of these rockets hit the Afghan army, blowing them up in disgrace and disgrace.
Even the two pilots who escaped from the helicopter were taken aback, and without saying a word, they fled into the bushes with AKS74 rifles and radios for self-defense.
They weren't far from their own people, but they were even closer to the enemy, and the weapon operator was injured when he landed, so he didn't dare to make any more small moves, and he could wait until the support arrived!
As soon as they took cover, they felt the ground tremble, followed by the sound of horses' hooves hitting the ground like thunder.
The pilot cautiously raised his head in the bushes, and then buried his head again in fright, because less than a few dozen meters away from him, a cavalry front was rushing towards the valley with an indomitable momentum.