Chapter 698: Strike (7)
PS: I went to a relative's house today, and the first update is now delivered.
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"Damn, this terrain is a!"
An air-ground coordinated command aircraft hovers at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and this kind of command aircraft is served by the Air Police-4 battlefield surveillance aircraft (prototype E-8), because it is the foundation of the passenger aircraft, the fuselage is spacious, the habitability is excellent, the noise is very small, and it is very comfortable to command on it. But at this moment, Colonel Long Ruofei, who was sitting on it, looked at the target image from the data link, and felt very speechless and painful.
The Hindu made those gun emplacements too perverted, many of them were anti-slopes, and some of them were placed in caves or recesses, and the positions were very tricky. Without the guidance of the ground personnel, even ten times as many planes would not have been able to bomb those targets, and even missiles would have been difficult to hit. The IQ gap between the two individuals may be very large, but the IQ gap between the two groups of people is very small, since the missiles and guided munitions of the plane came out in advance, all forces are studying how to deal with this new thing, and the three are not primitive people who have never seen the world, but they have also been trained by the British for so long, and then they have received the "selfless" help of the Yankees, so they naturally have a whole set of defense methods.
Colonel Long Ruofei was the commander of the 23rd Army Aviation Attack Aircraft Regiment, served as the commander of the Army Aviation Attack Group, and was born in attack aircraft. In Europe and the United States, this type of aircraft is called a dive bomber, but in China it is different, and all those who undertake this kind of point-to-point target strike mission, attack the enemy's ground (surface) small and medium-sized targets from low and ultra-low altitudes, and provide direct fire support to their own troops are counted as attack aircraft.
Well, in fact, the definitions of attack aircraft and bombers are not very uniform, generally speaking, attack aircraft emphasize attacks on dynamic targets, such as tank clusters or warships, while bombers mainly attack static targets on the ground, such as factories, cities and other buildings. So now China's classification is very simple, the air force is bombers, and the army and navy are attack aircraft.
Long Ruofei likes this kind of attack plane with a thrilling scream and swoops down from a high altitude and a large angle, he feels that this has a kind of pleasure of "a good attacker moves above the nine heavens", and a kind of excitement of "watching the earth rush towards him". However, it is a pity that by 1930, China had fully retired the "Forest Owl" dive attack aircraft, although the later Qiang-5 "Yuan Owl" attack aircraft also had the ability to dive bombing, but China has gradually canceled this tactic. Because the Chinese air force has already begun to be equipped with guided munitions, there is no need for pilots to directly face more and more crazy and fierce anti-aircraft fire.
And now it is even more excessive, as long as there is a ground guidance group, the attack planes only need to drop missiles or gliding bombs from a distance of several tens of kilometers, not to mention braving anti-aircraft fire to shuttle, and they don't even need to see what the target looks like, and the hit rate is still amazingly high.
"Hey, the current war is really getting more and more boring! Lao Tzu's dive bombing skills that he worked so hard to practice back then are all in vain......" Colonel Long Ruofei couldn't help but sigh. The current mode of war makes him feel a kind of regret that he has the skill of slaying dragons but has no dragons to slaughter.
"Big Bird No. 1, Big Bird No. 1, Cold Eye No. 3 call! Cold Eye No. 3 call!" The No. 3 guidance group at Stronghold C issued a call to the air-ground coordination command plane.
"I'm Big Bird 1, please indicate the target. Long Ruofei replied.
"Target No. 1, 103-123 squares, 1 250-kilogram semi-armor-piercing high-explosive shell. "The command plane sent the command, and at the same time sent the target parameters to Colonel Xin through the data link.
Colonel Long immediately gave an order to one of his subordinates' toucan attack aircraft: "Target No. 19, No. 19, No. 1. 250 kg armor-piercing incendiary bomb...... "He simultaneously transmitted the target parameters.
No. 19 is a J-6 "Tucano" attack aircraft, which is a twin-engine, two-seater, light and multi-purpose tactical reconnaissance attack aircraft, modeled after the OV-10 "Mustang" attack aircraft (not the P-51 Mustang). Its original version is a pretty good light attack aircraft, but its disadvantage is that the engine power is too small, a single engine is only 533 kilowatts, so that the external weight is only 1100 kilograms, and the maximum speed is only 452 kilometers per hour. There is no way, they were originally just reconnaissance planes, and the attack mission could only make a cameo.
The "Tucano" on this plane has undergone a series of improvements on the basis of the original "Mustang", first of all, it has strengthened the armor protection, modified the model, strengthened the aerodynamic performance, and replaced it with two turboprop-3D engines, and the power of each unit has been increased to 2000 kW (2682 hp). Because of the use of various new space materials, although the armor after the magic change has been enhanced, the empty weight has dropped to 3200 kg, but the bomb load has increased to 4500 kg, and the defense has increased significantly, the maximum speed has increased to 750 kilometers per hour, becoming a very good front-line light attack aircraft, of course, its bomb load has reached the standard of medium bombers.
As for the reason why single-engine aircraft are not used, it is that in the era of World War II, the anti-aircraft firepower of all countries has been greatly enhanced, and in the face of dense leek-like antiaircraft artillery, the survivability of single-engine aircraft is really worrisome, especially for attack aircraft that often need to attack at low altitude or ultra-low altitude. This is also the reason why the Z-10 "Tiger Armor" is now very little equipped in the Chinese Army, and the survival rate of the Wuzhi is too touching in the face of dense anti-aircraft artillery.
So now the attack aircraft of the Army Aviation are twin-engined. The J-5 "Primordial Owl" attack aircraft that HNA still retains is a single-engine aircraft, but it is no longer involved in ship-to-ship or ground-to-ground missions, but is dedicated to anti-submarine aircraft, for anti-submarine aircraft, this kind of problem does not exist, and there is no such terrifying anti-aircraft fire on submarines.
The "Toucan" and "Thunderbird" form a light and heavy combination, constituting the main attack force of the current Chinese Army Aviation.
The No. 19 "Tucano" used an anti-fortress mount this time, with two "Spring Thunder" ground-to-ground missiles on the inside of the wings, four 500-kilogram "Thunderstone" gliding bombs on the outside, two semi-armor-piercing incendiary bombs and two semi-armor-piercing blasting bombs. This time the target was a howitzer hidden in a fortified fortification, at a very tricky angle, and it would be difficult to hit without ground guidance.
The bomber immediately transmitted the target parameters to the controller of a "thunderstone", activated the disengagement device, and after the bomb was lowered, it immediately ejected the folding wings and began to dive towards the target.
At the same time, the "toucan" reported to Long Ruofei and the No. 3 guidance group: "The No. 1 target has been successfully launched, and the control code is 1002 ......." At the same time, a string of control codes used to manipulate this "thunder stone" was sent to the command plane, and in an instant, the codes were transmitted to the corresponding guides through the battlefield data link.
The guide got the information, and at the same time saw the "Thunderstone" gliding bomb rushing on the screen in front of him, and soon there was a "da, da, da......" sound in the earphones, and he activated the laser irradiator in his hand, and a laser beam with coded pulses shone on the muzzle of a howitzer in a fortification.
"Boom ......"
In an instant, 500 kilograms of semi-armor-piercing high-explosive shells followed this laser beam, accurately drilling into the fortifications from the firing port, and then an orange-red fireball rose into the air, and the huge explosion sound was earth-shattering, and countless concrete blocks and steel wreckage flew all over the sky with the horizontal level of the human body, and the howitzer and artillery were all wiped out and blown into slag.
Xiong Jiafeng, who was directing the attack, saw this spectacular scene and shouted loudly: "Well done Lu Hang!"
"Target 1 was destroyed. Thank you to the brothers of the Army Airlines. ”
The information quickly returned to Long Ruofei, and the target requests of the ground guidance group were delivered one after another, and he and the command team were immediately busy.
"Commander, you can let the toucans attack first, because they have a much shorter range, and they can return first. An air traffic controller suggested.
"Okay, that's okay, let's arrange for the toucans to attack first, and let the ptarmigans wait first......"
"Target No. 27, a spring thunder, squares 211-095, fast, fast! It's an anti-aircraft missile ......" The ground guidance group's call was very urgent.
Three seconds later, a "Spring Thunder" ground-to-ground missile was thrown from under the wing of a "toucan", and was quickly accelerated to supersonic speed in a sharp decline, and the ramjet engine ignited at an altitude of 8,000 meters.
With a loud "boom," the "......spring thunder" accurately hit this strangely hidden anti-aircraft missile position under the guidance of the laser irradiator of the ground guide. This American-made "Bronze Horseman" anti-aircraft missile, along with the surrounding facilities and personnel, was reduced to ashes along with a 300-kilogram high-explosive warhead.
This Yankee anti-aircraft missile was developed during the Nanyang War, and it was too late to give it to Australia and New Zealand, so it was given to several forces in the subcontinent. This missile has also been put into practical use in the US military, and according to feedback from the battlefields in Africa and Britain, its performance is quite good, and hundreds of aircraft of the Soviet-German camp have been shot down.
This kind of missile is more than a bunker, at the same time with radar and infrared two guidance methods, although the conspicuous radar station was knocked out by the ground artillery at the first time, but it can also use infrared guidance mode to launch alone, although the hit rate of this way is touchingly low, but it is also a threat after all. You must know that its launch altitude is 15,000 meters, which has exceeded the maximum ceiling of the army aviation attack aircraft group. Just now, the guide team found that this position was preparing for launch, so they quickly called Lu Hang to kill this guy.
This time China's air raid can be said to be completely unexpected by the Indian army, neither the "toucan" nor the "thunderbird" used their familiar dive bombing or ultra-low-altitude strikes, well, with the complex geographical environment of the place, it is difficult to carry out these two attack modes.
The "toucans" and "thunderbirds" flew far away and dropped gliding bombs and missiles, and the closest distance was more than 10 kilometers. The "Bronze Horseman" anti-aircraft missiles and supporting radars, which were barely able to reach Chinese planes, were also destroyed one after another, and they were completely blinded.
And at this time, the attack on the ground also began.