In just 10 minutes, the six "Zhi-10A" of the squadron led by Lian Mingyang used up all the rockets they carried.

In the enemy's armored group, not only tanks, but also a large number of infantry fighting vehicles and other armored vehicles.

Because they were worried about being attacked by anti-aircraft guns and air defense missiles, Lian Mingyang and the others were wandering around the periphery and did not get close to the armored cluster.

However, this situation did not last long.

"Head, ten o'clock direction!"

"See it!"

While Jiang Shanggui shouted loudly, Lian Mingyang had already operated the helicopter to avoid it to the right, and released the interference bomb installed on the tail beam.

Those were two missiles fired from the left.

Judging from the flight route, it is very likely that the missile launcher was a helicopter, not an infantryman on the ground.

But the helicopter is several thousand meters away.

Lian Mingyang's judgment was immediately confirmed that it was indeed an armed helicopter that was attacking, with more than one aircraft, more than ten aircraft came, almost half a brigade.

MI-24 "Female Deer".

Judging from the tandem cockpit, it is still a later model with better performance.

Fortunately, enemy planes launched anti-tank missiles, not air-to-air missiles!

When Lian Mingyang controlled the "Zhi-10A" to complete the steering, the "female deer" had entered the field of vision, and several other "Zhi-10A" in the squadron had also completed the steering.

"Boss, brothers are all here." Jiang Shanggui is not only observing the enemy situation, but also paying attention to the movements of friends.

"There are all, take the team as a unit and kill those 'female deer'. Swallow 02, follow me!"

"Swallow 02 received, behind you."

Lian Mingyang quickly turned around and looked back, and at the same time pushed the accelerator lever to the bottom.

In the front, Jiang Shanggui had adjusted the fire control channel and also operated the machine gun to rotate up and down, left and right to confirm that the weapon system could work.

Of course, the key is to choose ammunition.

The "Zhi-10A" 30mm lightweight machine gun uses a two-way ammunition supply system, which mainly uses armor-piercing bombs against armored targets and high-explosive bombs against non-armored targets. Therefore, before firing, the weapon operator needs to select ammunition based on the target.

The armed helicopter that came was only considered non-armored targets.

The size of the "female deer" is much larger than the "Sign-10A". For example, the length is close to 19 meters and the rotor diameter exceeds 17 meters. However, the take-off weight is not much different from the "Sign-10A". Both are 10-ton heavy armed helicopters. Because of the large size, the protection area is larger, so when the take-off weight is not much different, the "female deer" is actually not as good as the "Sign-10A" in armor protection.

In fact, the "female deer" itself is designed as a multi-purpose helicopter.

In addition to its attack ability, the "female deer" also has a crew cabin that can carry several infantrymen.

That's why it has a size comparable to a general-purpose helicopter.

As for performance, it is actually similar to the "Zhi-7" series.

In the Iraqi War, Iraq's "female deer" fought with the "Cobra" of Bo Yi's "Cobra" dozens of times. Although the record is better than the "Cobra", it is not much stronger. It is basically at the same level. The "Cobra" and the "Zhi-7" are both the first generation of light armed helicopters.

The "Zhi-7" was not until the later stage that the Army's "Zhi-7W" and the Marine Corps' "Zhi-7T" were comprehensively improved, such as installing two engines, using four-leaf main rotors, replacing them with a 30mm machine gun, and strengthening the protection of key parts, becoming a heavy armed helicopter with a take-off weight of nearly 10 tons.

Unfortunately, because of the low cost performance, neither the "Zhi-7W" nor the "Zhi-7T" are equipped on a large scale.

Compared with "Zhi-10A", the gap between "female deer" is quite obvious.

For example, the MI-24V that came, installed under the nose is a 4-tube 12.7mm Gatling machine gun!

This configuration was only 15 years ago, at the early stage of the "Zhi-7".

"Jiang Shanggui, open the fire!"

The distance of several thousand meters is actually only about ten seconds for the two teams of helicopters flying towards each other.

Of course, you must not wait until you get closer to fire.

Interestingly, the "female deer" fired first.

When we were about 2 kilometers away, the "female deer" flying in the front used a Gatling machine gun and also used rockets hanging under the short wings.

However, when rockets fire in air, they basically have no accuracy.

As for machine gun bullets, except for the "crackling" sounds that hit the fuselage, it will not cause any other serious consequences.

However, the sound of being hit by a bullet is indeed quite scary, especially a few bullets hit the bulletproof glass on the front of the cockpit.

Otherwise, Lian Mingyang would not have reminded Jiang Shanggui to open the fire.

Jiang Shanggui only delayed less than 2 seconds.

In fact, he did not deliberately delay time, but the fire control system needed time to lock the target and control the machine gun to aim at the target.

The 30mm machine gun is installed on the turret, and its aiming method is different from that of the fighter jet's aviation gun.

"Bangbangbang--"

When the 30mm machine gun fired, the entire "Zhi-10A" was trembling.

In order to be used in armed helicopters, the 30mm machine gun not only adopts a lightweight design, but also reduces the rate of fire from 600 rounds per minute to 450 rounds per minute in order to reduce the recoil. But even so, the recoil of this machine gun is still astonishingly large.

In just a blink of an eye, the "female deer" flying in the front was knocked into a fireball.

In this world, no helicopter can withstand direct attacks from 30mm shells.

In order to avoid hitting the helicopter that was approaching and was still falling, Lian Mingyang controlled the "Zhi-10A" to make an emergency turn.

As a result, I missed the opportunity to fire again.

Later, the wingman calling the code-name "Swallow 02" also opened fire, knocked down another "female deer", and then turned to avoid the aircraft.

Lian Mingyang did not fly a helicopter to climb, but stayed at an ultra-low altitude.

Now, they have flew above the enemy's armor cluster.

What needs to be worried about is not only the armed helicopters that have not been shot down, but also the anti-aircraft guns on the ground and the air defense missiles in the hands of infantrymen.

Climbing is equivalent to targeting anti-aircraft guns and air defense missiles.

As for the light weapons in the hands of infantry, there is nothing to worry about. At least there is no possibility of directly shooting down the "Zhi-10A".

After going around, Lian Mingyang found that there was one more wingman following behind, and there were two "Zhi-10A" several thousand meters away.

A "Zhi-10A" was shot down by the enemy.

In the southwest direction, those "female deer" have not completed their turn.

Obviously, the "female deer" has much less flexibility and therefore has a much larger steering radius.

"Come on the back, and return for another round!"

"Swallow 02 received."

"Swallow 04 received."

Sure enough, the team leader aircraft called "Swallow 03" was shot down.

The three "Zhi-10A" are arranged according to the shape of the product, expanding the distance between them to more than 500 meters, and both wingmen are located on the back of the long aircraft.

This is the air formation used when facing a large number of enemy aircraft.

The distance is to avoid being surrounded by enemy planes.

In addition, for a 30mm machine gun with an effective range of more than 3,000 meters, the distance of 500 meters has no effect at all.

Opposite, there are 8 "female deer" and 4 more in the distance.

Lian Mingyang began to say that he was not scared by the large number of enemy planes, but because he didn’t have enough fuel!

The Zhangara base is more than 300 kilometers east of the east, and according to the original plan, you must return immediately after completing the ground strike mission. If an accident occurs in a combat operation and consumes more fuel, you can also fly to Akhtubinsk to replenish fuel and ammunition at the field airport there.

Of course, now I have encountered an accident.

The key is that after more than ten minutes of battle, especially the huge air combat, the remaining fuel is only enough to fly to the field airport.

If you continue to waste, you can't even go to the field airport.

Being shot down during a battle means not having good luck. If non-combat losses are caused by love fighting, the leader will bear all the responsibility.

I went back to replenish my fuel and ammunition, and it was not too late to fight again!

When the three "Zhi-10A" were lined up, the "female deer" had also completed the turn and divided into two formations to fight towards this side.

Four of one formation flew towards the "Zhi-10A" formation, and the other four detoured westward.

Obviously, these "female deer" pilots have also discovered that their main air combat weapon, the 12.7mm machine gun, cannot deal with the "Zhi-10A", and the chance of winning the frontal fire exchange is almost zero, so they choose to detour from the side and try to disperse the "Zhi-10A" fleet.

The key is that the two "Zhi-10A" engines are installed on the side of the fuselage.

The frontal projection of the engine is only one tenth of the side projection!

In addition, the armor plates that protect the engine are actually installed under the engine compartment, mainly used to deal with anti-aircraft artillery fire from the ground.

That is to say, the 12.7mm machine gun bullet can penetrate the engine bay from the side and destroy the engine.

The key is that the side projection area of ​​the helicopter is definitely much larger than the front, and the probability of being shot is greater.

In this way, the rockets carried by the "female deer" have a place to work.
To be continued...