Since the red side lost the support of reconnaissance satellites, the white side chose an area where the red side was not covered by anti-aircraft missiles to conduct a raid. The white side achieved partial results in its first sneak attack. Two small radars on the red side were blown up, causing two casualties.
More than ten people were injured or killed.
The news quickly spread back to the Red Side Joint Staff Headquarters.
White had previously announced its participation in the war, but had not taken action in the past day or so.
Now it’s officially started.
It is consistent with Li Zheng’s judgment.
White's troops and supplies are estimated to have been fully mobilized.
Finally I couldn't help but took action.
Li Zheng originally thought that White would re-evaluate its own strength after seeing the results of the space confrontation between red and blue in the past two days.
After all, the Galileo system was also destroyed by Purple, and White's current navigation and positioning may also be greatly affected. According to White's past operating habits, it is not impossible to temporarily stop the operation.
Now it seems that after so many years, Bai Fang's temperament of taking advantage of others' dangers has not changed at all, and he couldn't help it after all.
Therefore, Li Lizheng ordered the Red Army's troops in the northeast section not to be soft-hearted and to counterattack immediately.
Moreover, he asked his staff to convey his order, to make White think that Red planned to fight White in the northeast section, and to cover up Red's move to enter Iron Side in the northwest section and join forces with the opponent.
It's just that the Red Army in the northwest section will still need some time. After all, it will take some time to mobilize troops, weapons, supplies, personnel organization, etc. to coordinate.
According to the current situation, it is estimated that it will take at least 24 hours.
During these 24 hours, the troops in the central and northeastern sections had only one goal, which was to hold the front.
Wait until the attack in the northwest section is fully launched, then consider whether to make an attack based on the actual situation and White's reaction.
Although the Red side currently does not have reconnaissance satellites and can only rely on border radars and drones to conduct aerial surveillance of the middle and northeastern frontiers, it is impossible to determine from which airport the White fighter jets that attacked the border radar station took off.
But it doesn't matter if you don't know.
It is not the first day that the red and white parties have faced off on the border. In fact, the deployment of troops and the location of the airport are clear to each other. It can be said that the artillery units and rocket troops of all parties have already packed up the shooting elements, loaded them and ran away.
You can hit it with a bullet.
"Inform the far-range fire troops in the northeast section and ask them to use the previously calculated units to attack all the Belarus' airports within 70 kilometers of the border. Don't be stingy with artillery shells. Hit me hard to ensure that none of their border airports are good.
land!"
Li Zheng's order was quickly conveyed to the frontline troops.
The Red Army artillery force immediately used PCL-181 truck-mounted howitzers to bombard all airports of all sizes within 70 kilometers of the border.
The PCL-181 vehicle-mounted howitzer has an attack range of 40 kilometers using ordinary grenades, and a maximum range of 70 kilometers using extended-range ammunition, a maximum rate of fire of 8 rounds/minute, and a burst rate of fire of 3 rounds/15 seconds.
When firing precision-guided bombs, you can almost hit the target accurately. Even if you use ordinary non-precision-guided artillery shells, the time deviation is only about 200 meters. This accuracy is not particularly accurate, but fortunately, the artillery shells are cheap and the accuracy is not enough to make up the quantity.
, in short, it is a large amount of food, and the main focus is full coverage.
The artillery bombardment organized by the artillery unit on the northeast section of the front line lasted for two full hours, blowing all the white front-line airports into rubble. Under the intensive artillery bombardment, almost all facilities and personnel in the airport were physically overwhelmed.
The White airports near the border areas are not large airports, they are just small airports. Because these small airports are too close to the front line, they are only used for transition, so the shelling actually only increases the number of White air forces.
The difficulty of the attack is just that, and it does not greatly affect White's strategy.
Some people on the staff team couldn't understand Li Zheng's decision.
"Deputy Commander-in-Chief, why don't you directly attack their large airport farther away?"
"There is no need to waste ammunition." Li Zheng gave his own explanation: "The satellite positioning system has not yet been fully restored. If ballistic missiles are now used to attack a large long-distance Belarusian airport and ensure serious damage, the amount of ammunition used is estimated to be
A little more than usual. Good steel should be used on the blade. When our positioning system recovers and our troops in the northwest launch an attack, their troops on the front line will provide us with drone guidance. At that time, we can use ballistics.
Only missiles can hit accurately."
In fact, Li Zheng also has his own difficulties when considering this.
Although the red side has developed industry, it has already consumed a large amount of ballistic missiles in the battle with the blue and yellow sides on the eastern front. Although there is still some inventory, it must be reserved for the blue side, which is the most important opponent.
As for White, it's really not worth wasting so many ballistic missiles on them. If you can use something cheap and good like long-range fire, use it as much as possible.
Waiting until ground guidance or satellite positioning is available before launching a missile attack will achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Fighting is also about calculating the cost.
Troops, ammunition, supplies.
These are the cards in your hand and cannot be thrown around.
Killing a chicken with a bull's-eye is simply a waste.
What's more, the large-scale shelling will also have some psychological impact on the White side - first of all, they will think that the Red side has deployed heavy troops here, obviously intending to have a decisive battle with themselves here, and secondly, the Red side only uses PAL-
The 181 truck gun attacked itself, which shows that the damage to the red side's current Beidou system has a great impact on them, and they are no longer able to use precision-guided missiles.
Once they think this way, Li Zheng's goal will be achieved.
It can not only cover up their intention to unite with the Iron side to use troops in the northwest section, but also give them the illusion that they cannot use missiles, so they are afraid and resort to artillery attacks in order to frighten the White side.
In fact, the red side has not completely lost the ability to accurately guide. After all, there is no satellite guidance, starlight guidance and inertial guidance, but the accuracy is not as good as that of satellite guidance.
Although these small airports on the White side did not have any important strategic significance, they were still incredulous that the Red side could assemble so many artillery forces on the hundreds of kilometers long border in just a few hours.
After analyzing the range and power of the White side's intelligence and reconnaissance department, the Red side should have used the 09-type 122mm vehicle-mounted howitzer and the PCL-181 155mm vehicle-mounted howitzer to use their developed road system in the rear to maneuver near the border.
Combined bombardment.
Being able to fire back with so many artillery pieces at once shows that the Red Army has already deployed a lot of troops in the northeast section, otherwise it would be impossible to complete the artillery deployment and preparation in such a short time.
Although White does not have a dense road network and truck guns, they do have their own highland killer weapon - the M777 ultra-light howitzer.
Just before the red side's artillery bombardment was over, Bai Convenient activated the self-developed Swati MK2 mountain anti-artillery radar to detect the red side's artillery, and quickly gave the coordinates of the red side's artillery group.
Therefore, White quickly used Chinook helicopters and deployed 15 M777 ultra-light 155 howitzers and deployed them behind the mountains in the area.
Due to the maneuverability of helicopters, these howitzers are deployed behind high-vertical cliffs on the mountain. The opponent can strike freely, but it is not easy for the opponent to accurately land on these deployment points through parabolic trajectories.
According to the coordinate information fed back by the Swati MK2 mountain anti-artillery radar, White's 777 howitzers opened fire in unison, instantly covering the Red's howitzer group.
The red side was caught off guard by this sudden blow, and in less than 5 minutes, 8 truck guns were destroyed.
Fortunately, the truck cannons retracted and deployed very quickly. The remaining truck cannons quickly put away their combat status and used the high mobility of the trucks to quickly move their positions. Only then did they escape the disaster.
China also used its own SLC-2 gun position reconnaissance and calibration radar to carry out detection, and finally used phased array radar technology for gun positions. The radar was obviously much more advanced than White, and it quickly obtained the opponent's firing position.
However, the detection results surprised the red side. The white side's artillery positions were actually deployed on the cliffs halfway up the mountain. In the end, the positions could only be lifted in by helicopters. It was easy to hit the impeachment through parabolic ballistics, so the red side still carried out the attack.
A round of shelling, but the artillery position set up by White's M777 artillery was very tricky, so the red's shelling did not achieve any results.
In order to prevent White's counterattack, after a round of rapid fire, all artillery quickly maneuvered away from their positions.
After running less than a kilometer, the opponent's artillery shells covered the original position. The red side's artillery commander broke into a cold sweat and quickly reported the situation here and asked for support.
As the red artillery retreated from their positions, the bombardment ceased.
For the next half hour, both sides of the border were quiet, as each seemed to be waiting for the other to take action.
Just when the White artillerymen were feeling proud and felt that the tactics they had designed long ago were a great success, someone suddenly heard a strange whistling sound in the air.
As the sharp sound of "whoosh" broke through the air, a huge spark bloomed on the M777 howitzer emplacement hidden on the cliff behind the vertical mountain. Several White artillerymen were lifted up by the air waves and torn into pieces in the air.
After the fragments fell into the cliff, the whole cannon tilted and fell to the ground.
Seeing this situation, White's artillery commander was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat.
He had already thought that this must be caused by a ground-attack missile attack launched by the red side's high-altitude surveillance and attack drone.
"Don't they have satellite navigation?"
The artillery commander on the front line didn't have time to think too much, and quickly called his own Chinook helicopter to pick up the M777 howitzers placed on various hills.
Just as he was calling, another cannon lost contact.
Obviously, the red side sent not just one drone, but many.
The white artillery commander's scalp went numb when he thought about the red's drone technology and the amount of equipment.
After the Chinooks recovered all the dispatched M777 howitzers, it was discovered that 8 had been lost.
This cannon was very expensive to buy back then, and White's commander suddenly felt heartache.
The red team's drone can be touched. This news is a big blow to the white team.
In order to deal with the red side's drones, the white side deployed two sets of S-400 and two sets of "Akash" medium-range air defense systems to the front line to provide air defense resistance capabilities for its own troops.
Using the S-400 to deal with drones is inherently funny because of cost issues, and the "Akash" is a copy of the backward Soviet-made "Sam-6", and its ramjet engine is a very high technical difficulty for White.
This kind of engine requires a large amount of air intake. The problem is that the anti-aircraft missile is intercepted from the ground/sea level to high altitude. The air becomes thinner as it goes up, and the lack of air combustion causes the thrust of the ramjet engine to drop significantly, and the flight becomes slower and slower.
It may be lower than the speed of the aircraft to be intercepted. Therefore, the performance of this system on plateaus is not very good.
As for individual shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles, most of them used by White are the outdated Soviet-made "Arrow" series. Most of them have a defense distance of no more than 5 kilometers and a low shooting height. Therefore, for high-altitude UAVs
I can only look at the ocean and sigh.
Deploying the S-400 here is really a helpless move.
Unable to take advantage of the bombardment, White began to think about ground attacks again.
Just two hours after the shelling between the two sides stopped, the tank group that the White side had prepared suddenly crossed the border and rushed towards the Red side's fixed position.