"Swallow 01 received, heading 285, area 331, blocking enemy armored troops!"

After saying that, Lian Mingyang knocked on the glass baffle in front and reminded Jiang Shanggui who was sitting in front.

Unlike the tandem two-seat fighter, on the armed helicopter, the pilot sat in the back and the weapon operator sat in the front.

This is because the armed helicopters mainly fly at low altitudes, and the vision in the rear seat is wider.

As for the call code, it was arranged by the base headquarters and had little to do with Lian Mingyang and the others, and it was just for the convenience of command and coordination.

When Jiang Shanggui started preparing for the battle, he actually called out the flight map, found the 331st area, and understood the general situation of the area, Lian Mingyang activated the data link system and sent the combat commands and battlefield information sent by "Finger-10A" to other helicopters in the formation.

In fact, the main thing is that the combat instructions must be confirmed by the captain, that is, Lian Mingyang.

As for battlefield information, other armed helicopters have data link equipment that can be obtained by themselves.

Lian Mingyang can't understand the 331st area.

This area is just north of Volgasky, opposite the river is Volgograd, and the location is just upstream of the corner of the Volga River.

Because the water flow in this section is relatively smooth and avoids crowded cities, after crossing the river, you can be besieged Volgasky and seize a crucial bridgehead to allow the large army to cross the river more smoothly, the area has always been a key defense area.

However, it is also the hardest place to defend.

The reason is very simple. There is a flat land on the east coast and hundreds of meters of impact plains, so there is no way to build solid fortifications.

Retreat the defense line for a few hundred meters, and the defense effect will be greatly reduced.

What you want to say cannot be kept at the tactical level.

After several rounds of firepower preparations, the engineering troops were able to set up pontoon bridges under firepower cover. When the defenders on the east coast reacted, the armored troops on the west had already rushed over.

What's more, the Xiluosha Army has many amphibious tanks and amphibious armored vehicles.

In the past few decades, the Xiluosha Army has always paid great attention to amphibious armor power in order to overcome the impact of the Volga River on the offense.

According to the offensive theory of the Xiluosha Army, the Volga River was not counted in the first round of assault at all, and it must be taken before the assault was launched.

To be said, no country attaches more importance to amphibious tanks than the Xiluosha Army.

It can be seen that if the Xiluosha Army first invested in amphibious armored troops, especially the assault capabilities, and had more than enough amphibious tanks to deal with bunker bunkers, then before the engineering troops began to set up pontoon bridges, they could seize the river beach positions and significantly reduce the difficulty of crossing the river.

In theory, more than an hour is enough.

This is also in line with tactical thinking.

It took two hours to take the river beach position, and when the main armored troops crossed the river, it was already dawn and it was just dawn, and it was just in time to launch an assault on the deep defense line of the Oriental Group.

It's 5:30 now, and it's only more than half an hour before dawn.

If the combat command is correct, then Xiluosha's main armored troops may have crossed the river.

What I have to face this time is likely to be the T-80U.

According to pre-war intelligence, the 1st Guards were deployed in Volgograd, including the 9th Armored Division, the Xiluosha Army.

The division was not only the first to equip the T-80B, but also the first to get the T-80U.

This tank is not only equipped with explosive reactive armor, but also has gun-fired missiles with a range of 5 kilometers and can attack armed helicopters.

This kind of gunfire missile poses a huge threat.

To a certain extent, the Imperial Army required that the range of heavy anti-tank missiles should not be less than 8 kilometers, in order to suppress such gunfire missiles with a range of 5 kilometers.

Simply put, it is to keep the armed helicopters as far as possible away from tanks that can fire guns and missiles.

However, according to the information provided by the Military Intelligence Agency, this is not the main threat.

Even the latest T-80U tanks are seriously lacking in night combat capabilities, and the matching optical aiming equipment has a very poor hit rate for long-distance combat.

The same information provided by the Military Intelligence Bureau, even under ideal conditions, the T-80U hits only 60% of the hit rate of the 5-kilometer armored target using 9M119M, while in actual combat, especially against high-speed helicopters, the hit rate may not even be 10%.

Very often, it is more like a psychological comfort, which makes tank soldiers not afraid when facing armed helicopters.

In addition, there are not many artillery missiles allocated to the troops.

Even in the 9th Armored Division, only a few commander-mounted vehicles are equipped with gunfire missiles, and the T-80U can only carry up to 4.

For nothing else, there are only four storage tubes for placing missiles in the tank.

In actual use, the 9M119 is also mainly used to deal with armored targets, especially infantry fighting vehicles equipped with heavy anti-tank missiles that can fire thousands of meters away.

To talk about threats, they are actually self-propelled anti-aircraft guns that accompany tank combat, as well as the bullet-in-cannon integrated self-propelled air defense system code-named "Tunguska".

As for the former, the ZSU-23-4 "Shileka" self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, there is nothing to introduce.

During the Boei War, the Imperial Army Air Force suffered enough of anti-aircraft guns, and thousands of helicopters were shot down by such anti-aircraft guns, which were not originally considered advanced.

Since then, during the Iran-Iraq War, both sides' "Shilekha" achieved good results.

Even now, there are still a large number of such anti-aircraft guns in the Iraqi army, and several coalition combat aircraft have been shot down in the previous month.

The protective design of "Zhi-10A" is aimed at "Shileka"'s 23mm machine gun.

Don’t forget that the key parts of the “Zhi-10A” can withstand the direct attack of the 23mm high-explosion bomb, and the secondary parts can work normally for more than half an hour after being shot.

The key is that "Shileka" is indeed behind.

The main reason is that the lack of advanced fire control systems is not high when dealing with ultra-low-altitude targets because of their slow response.

In addition, the effective range of the 23mm machine gun is less than 3,000 meters.

Not to mention the "Zhi-10A" with a "cross crossbow" KD-28 heavy anti-tank missile with a range of up to 8 kilometers, the cheap 80mm rocket also has a range of 3,000 meters.

Relatively speaking, the 2S6 "Tunguska" self-propelled air defense system is the real threat.

As a self-propelled air defense system used to replace "Shileka", "Tunguska" not only replaced 4 23mm machine guns with two longer ranges and greater power, greatly improving the firepower intensity against low-altitude targets, and having the ability to destroy armed helicopters. It also integrated two sets of 8 short-range air defense missiles in total, solving the problem that the range is not as good as that of anti-tank missiles.

If you want to say, "Tunguska" was born for "Zhi-10A".

Faced with light armed helicopters like the "Zhi-7", even if the "Shileka" is not advanced, it is barely enough, at least it has enough threats.

Only when facing heavy armed helicopters like the "Z-10A" can more advanced air defense systems be needed.

According to the information provided by the Military Intelligence Bureau, "Tunguska" is actually a new air defense system developed by the Xiluosha Army to deal with the "Zhi-10A".

This system allows the Army to obtain effective field air defense capabilities for the first time!

Of course, the 9M311 can deal with not only armed helicopters, but also air force attack aircraft, as well as fighter aircraft with a flight altitude of less than 5,000 meters.

This was also the ground target that the base headquarters focused on before the war.

This order was not only issued to the Land Airlines, but also to the Air Force's front-line aviation force.

As long as "Tunguska" is discovered, not only should we report immediately, but we must also launch an attack immediately.

Even Lian Mingyang is not sure whether he can be "Tunguska".

In fact, the Imperial Army also has a similar self-propelled air defense system with ammunition and artillery, and its performance is not worse than the "Tunguska", and it can even be said to be even better.

During last year's "Forward to the West" exercise, Lian Mingyang and the others suffered losses.

According to the conclusions drawn from the confrontation exercise, when the combat systems of the two sides are not much different, the exchange ratio between the armed helicopter and the advanced self-defense system is between 3 and 5.

What is this concept?

The purchase price of a set of "Tunguska" is no more than 10 million yuan, and a missile launcher is about 1 million yuan.

The 5 vehicles are only 5 million yuan, while the military procurement price of "Zhi-10A" exceeds 10 million yuan.

The key is that the exchange ratio between "Zhi-10A" and the main battle tank is above 20!

Lian Mingyang didn't want to meet "Tunguska", but if he really wanted to meet, there was nothing he could do.

"Captain, look at the above!"

After receiving the reminder from the wingman pilot, Lian Mingyang looked up at the sky.

The sky is already white, but the sun has not yet shone on the ground.

The wingman pilot did not call him to watch the sunrise, but to watch the combat aircraft flying at high altitudes.

They are all heavy fighters flying westward.

However, there are only a few in total, which look like tactical reconnaissance aircraft.

It should be the "War-8FC" that performs reconnaissance missions.

Although both "War-10" and "War-11" have been in large quantities, because there are too many equipment, there are still a large number of "War-8" in service.

Including the reserve troops, there are about 2,000 aircraft in total.

In addition to some of the training, most of these fighters have been transformed into multi-purpose fighters and act as attack aircraft in large-scale warfare.

However, the most valuable thing is actually the dedicated reconnaissance type, and the "War-8FC" is the latest tactical reconnaissance type.

Although the performance is not advanced, it is still more than enough to perform tactical reconnaissance tasks.

When hanging two reconnaissance pods and three secondary fuel tanks, the combat radius exceeds 1,200 kilometers. After throwing off the secondary fuel tank, the high-altitude flight speed can reach Mach 2 and Mach 1.1 at low altitude, which is not much worse than the current third-generation fighter jets.

Of course, the key is to detect the pod.

Relying on the reconnaissance pod, the "War-8FC" can obtain clear battlefield images at a distance of 60 kilometers. Even when flying at low altitude, it can make the shooting distance reach 20 kilometers. 60 kilometers exceed the range of most theater-level air defense missiles, while 20 kilometers is outside the range of most short-range missiles.

As for the value of tactical reconnaissance aircraft, there is no need to say much.
To be continued...