Chapter 630: The Battle of Nullarb's Armored Conference (Part I)
PS: I fell asleep last night. Ask for tickets at the beginning of the month
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Seeing dozens of missiles flying towards them with long flame tails in a swarm, the Australian armored soldiers were frightened.
The Battle of Berkogi in Erathia last June, also known to military fans as the "Beast Wars", was a battle that could make a name for itself with anti-tank missiles. Even the German Haw Par can't carry it, let alone the thin-skinned M5, if it takes a shot, it will definitely kneel.
"Quick!Shoot jammings!Smoke bombs!Hurry!" the battalion commander yelled hoarsely into the microphone, and at the same time he himself immediately slapped a red button in front of him.
The iron boxes on both sides of the turret of the "Ping Pong Ping Pong ......" M5 suddenly shot out a series of jamming bombs, like fireworks during the Spring Festival, and at the same time, some smoke canisters were also thrown forward. Then, after doing this, the M5 suddenly turns around, or turns in place, or shifts to the left and right.
The great powers are not stupid, after the first appearance of China's missiles, they became very interested in this new weapon that can change the way of warfare, and invested a lot of energy in research. It is not too difficult for these industrial powers to figure out how missiles work. After all, whether it's infrared induction, television guidance, or radio/wired remote control, the principle is not an uncommon and incomprehensible alien technology.
Anti-tank missiles are much slower than air-to-air missiles, due to the different requirements for their use. In the later generations of the original space-time, there are only a few models that can achieve supersonic speed, and at present, there is no model that exceeds the speed of sound at all. Because the maximum speed of the tank is only sixty or seventy kilometers per hour, and it will not exceed 100 kilometers at most, it is too fast to be interesting. Anti-tank missiles do not rely on kinetic energy to pierce armor, and there are no too high requirements for speed, as long as they run faster than tanks. And there is also a problem of aiming and changing direction, if the speed is too fast, it is not easy to aim and change direction, the ground is not in the air, and there are many obstacles.
So that's what gives the Australian army time to react. The clever ones had already released jamming bombs and smoke canisters, and the slow ones hurriedly complied after hearing the orders from their superiors.
For a while, the Australian army's M5 tank group was immediately surrounded by smoke, and from time to time you could see those violently burning jamming bombs in the smoke.
Now that the principle is clear, the corresponding countermeasures can be formulated. Although they have not been able to produce a decent finished product for a while, the countermeasures are much simpler, and they have quickly achieved some results.
To deal with infrared guidance, jamming missiles are used to create a large amount of heat sources around the target, interfere with the missile's guidance system, or trick the missile into deviating from the target.
To deal with television guidance and radio/cable remote control, then use smoke grenades. Because with these guidance means, you first have to see the target, and if the target can't be seen clearly, can you still hit accurately?
Of course, something is there, but it is not known whether it will have an effect. Because they themselves have not yet created a working anti-tank missile.
I didn't even have my own rice equipped with these new things, and now I gave them to the kangaroo first, and I must have meant to make them guinea pigs. Of course, it is best to succeed, and even if it does not succeed, it is the Australians who die anyway.
Oh, by the way. The Yankees not only came up with countermeasures against tank missiles, but also air-to-air missiles, but before they could give them to kangaroos, they had already started fighting. Now that the Chinese Navy has blocked the sea and air passages, the Yankees will not be able to send them in for a while. Of course, there are still many great powers that have produced results, Britain, Germany and France, which have the strongest technology, have also made it, and the Soviet Union and Italy are slightly worse, but they have also made up something that can barely be used.
"Damn, the kangaroos actually used smoke bombs, I can't see clearly......"
"Damn, the kangaroo still has flashbangs, and you can't see ...... in the white expanse"
There was a shout of scolding on the Chinese channel.
The Red Arrow 4 anti-tank missile on this plane is roughly a copy of the original space-time Red Arrow 9, with an effective range of 100 meters ~ 5000 meters, using advanced technologies such as television angle measurement, advanced and reliable laser command transmission guidance, and digital control, and the missile has high hitting accuracy. After launching the missile, the shooter only needs to keep the aiming line at the target, and the guidance device will automatically issue a laser command to control the missile to fly to the target. The missile's hit rate against the target at medium and long distances is greater than 90%, and the hit rate against the target at close range is more than 70%.
The Red Arrow Type 4 has a strong anti-jamming ability, because it is a television guidance and laser command transmission, radio and infrared interference are useless, but it still has an inherent flaw, that is, the ability to resist rain, snow, and smoke is poor.
I have to say that this trick of the Australian army is still effective, but the smoke canister has played a role, interfering with the optical camera, and the infrared jamming bomb has not interfered with the guidance, but it has interfered with the passive infrared view mode.
However, the Red Arrow Type 4 also has a target positioning memory function, which will continue to attack according to the pre-memorized position when the guidance fails, but the hit rate will definitely be worse.
After the Australian M5 released the interference, they did not dare to slack off, and they hurriedly desperately carried out evasive maneuvers in accordance with the instructions. However, the speed of the Red Arrow 4 also reached 280 meters per second, and the distance between the two sides at the moment was nearly five kilometers, and it could fly to the target in 17 seconds. For a tracked armored combat vehicle, how far it can maneuver in 17 seconds can only depend on technology and character.
Just when the M5s were desperately trying to evade, the Red Arrow 4 missiles had already arrived. One of the M5s moved a little slower, failed to avoid it, and took a shot directly. A Red Arrow 4 missile was crashing into the turret of the M5, immediately showing its great power. The tandem warhead exploded suddenly, and in the flash of the explosion, the precharge exploded first, detonating the explosives inside the reactive armor.
"Boom...... After the reactive armor of the ...... was detonated, the base armor of the M5 was exposed. Immediately afterward, the main charge exploded again, and the scorching metal jet pierced through the armor at several times the speed of sound, as easily as hot soup pouring snow. Supersonic jets of scorching metal dripped through the interior of this tank, burning the equipment inside, killing the personnel inside, and causing the ammunition to detonate. In an instant, the M5 set off fireworks, and flames and smoke burst out of every opening.
Almost at the same time, more missiles hit their respective targets. In the blink of an eye, four M5 tanks, which could not be evaded, were turned into burning wreckage by anti-tank missiles.
However, the interference of the Australian army still played a role, and only five of the 44 Red Arrow 4 anti-tank missiles in this round hit the target, with a hit rate of only 11%, far below expectations.
"Damn kangaroos, if we change into Red Arrow-6......" Lieutenant Colonel Chen Sihua, who led the team, scolded and scolded, his car had just missed. He regretted that he underestimated the enemy, if the other party was an old bird, as long as the tank did not drop the chain, more than ten seconds would be enough time for them to leave their original position. Just now, you shouldn't have been greedy for two shots at once, you should have hit them one by one.
Chen Sihua shouted in the channel: "Hurry up and reload! Be careful, shoot closer! Hit one by one! His grandmother's bear! Immediately reload, three kilometers and another round! Lao Tzu doesn't believe it, they have so many jamming bombs!"
Brigadier General Bridgeford, the brigade commander who led the team, also recognized the Chinese "Red Fox", and he knew that this armored vehicle had only one 30-mm tube, which could not hit the frontal armor of the M5. Although the skin of the M5 is not too thick, it is compared to a heavy medium tank, and it is also a tank. As for the thickness of the armor of the "Red Fox", he does not know, but he is also an old armored soldier, and when he looks at this wheeled armored vehicle of amphibious structure, he knows that this kind of thing cannot be thick, unless it wants to be a submarine.
"Rush up and fight them close to each other! I don't believe armored vehicles can beat tanks!" Bridgeford ordered the reconnaissance battalion to rush forward immediately.
"Brigade commander, they only used two missiles...... "The battalion commander, Major Greenham, wanted to turn in. Most of them dodged just now, but those jamming bombs and smoke canisters were almost used, and the old birds were better, and as soon as the rookies were nervous, they shot out all the jamming bombs and smoke canisters...... Well, it is precisely because of this that the interference effect is so good.
"Fool, can you outrun them? Running away now is a dead end, rushing up and killing them has a chance!" said Bridgeford viciously.
"Yes, Your Excellency!" said Major Greenham.
Anyway, the opponent's missiles have already hit half of them, and according to this hit rate, at most half of the loss will be able to rush to the range of the 76 gun, and then you can counterattack, and the armor of the red fox will definitely not be able to carry the 76 gun.
But what they don't know is that these Red Fox missiles are not the 4 as stated in the public information, in addition to the four in the launcher next to the turret, there are 4 in the car, a total of 8. Yes, China's open information has cut the real data in half, of course, the statement of 4 is not nonsense, the standard configuration is indeed only 4, but that is the usual state, and the state of war is 8......
"Gentlemen, now the invaders are ahead, we are going to destroy them! I order you, charge!" Major Greenham immediately ordered the M5, who had escaped the disaster, to rush forward, hoping to close the distance and kill the opponent with the main gun.
"For the Federation, for the homeland!"
With the encouragement of the commander, the Australian officers and men launched a charge against the opposite invader with full enthusiasm with bitter hatred for the invaders. They pushed the speed of the M5 to the limit and rushed over it at 70 km/h.
As soon as they rushed out of the smoke area, the turret of the invader's chariot on the opposite side flashed again, and 22 red arrows dragged white smoke towards them.
"Shoot the jamming bomb!"
The Australian tanks hurriedly concocted the same method, but this time the effect was much worse, because many tanks had already used up the jamming devices just now. This time 8 tanks were destroyed.
However, by this time, they had already rushed to a distance of 3500 meters and had already entered the effective range of 76 guns. It's definitely not enough to hit a tank at this distance, but the other party is just an armored vehicle, so what's there to be afraid of a bunch of thin-skinned dumplings.
However, the M5 only has a vertical stabilization system, no horizontal stabilization system, and no ability to shoot on the move, only the ability to shoot at short stops. All tanks immediately made a short stop to complete their aiming and opened fire quickly.