After coming out of Commander Zhang’s place, I immediately found Zheng Liangqiang.／
Rather than sitting in the office and looking at those boring data and information, I prefer to listen to the pilots' comments first. After all, I am an outsider in helicopters and the like, while pilots like Zheng Liangqiang are not only experts but also use Blackhawk.
Time, I believe that they who used to use straight five and now switch to using Blackhawks have more say.
"Now it can be said that a shotgun has been exchanged for a cannon!" Zheng Liangqiang raised his head towards a Black Hawk next to him, sighed and said: "The Yankees' things are just different, this Black Hawk is 300 lighter than our straight five
It has more kilograms, but its load capacity is much higher than that of the straight five. The difference is incalculable."
The detailed data is that the maximum load weight of the straight five is 1200 kilograms, while the black hawk can reach 4080 kilograms.
"This also means that we can bring more ammunition and personnel." Zheng Liangqiang explained: "In the past, due to the limitation of the direct weight, we had to weigh the number of people and ammunition, but now we basically don't have to consider this issue.
After carrying eleven fully armed combatants, it can still carry enough ammunition for helicopters, and it is more than enough to mount a jeep. In an emergency, it can even carry 20 fully armed infantry."
I know what this means. Simply put, one Black Hawk can carry more people and equipment than two straight-5s.
"This is just one of them." Zheng Liangqiang continued: "The range and speed are almost twice that of the Z-5. The maximum range is 1,200 kilometers and the speed can reach 357 kilometers per hour."
There is no need for Zheng Liangqiang to explain this. For a thing flying in the sky, I know the significance of the range and speed. Just like the Argentine fighter planes in the Falklands War. Because of its insufficient range, when it flew over the Falklands,
There is only a few minutes of airborne combat time, which makes the entire battle very passive.
The straight five used by our army also has such shortcomings.
However, the Black Hawk helicopter can carry double the personnel and equipment, and enter the battlefield at double the range and speed... No wonder Zheng Liangqiang said that it was a shotgun exchange for a cannon.
"In addition, there are protective capabilities, armored seats, night combat capabilities, and six-barreled Gatling guns..." Zheng Liangqiang introduced this Black Hawk helicopter to me like a treasure trove, which made me feel a little dizzy.
To sum up, it is: advanced enough.
"Fifth company commander!" After listening for a while, I interrupted Zheng Liangqiang and said, "Now that we have such an advanced helicopter, you should be happy. Why do you still look worried?"
"Battal Commander!" Zheng Liangqiang sighed and replied: "If this is our country's helicopter, then I will be happy. But you see... other people's planes are light, fast, fly far, and the load is still ours.
Several times, this is too big a difference, do you think I can be happy?"
After hearing this, I understood why Zheng Liangqiang was frowning from the beginning.
What he said is right. As the saying goes, "If you don't compare, you won't know. If you compare, you will be shocked." If we didn't know how advanced the gringos' things were before, then we could use our own helicopters. But now,
When this black hawk was released in front of us, it was psychologically difficult to accept it.
In fact, what I know is that this Black Hawk helicopter is not the most advanced helicopter of the Yankees. If the data of the Yankees' Cobra or Apache helicopter gunships were shown, I am afraid that Zheng Liangqiang would not believe it. (Note:
The U.S. Apache armed helicopter made test flights in 1975 and officially entered service in 1984)
"Fifth company commander!" I handed Zheng Liangqiang a cigarette, lit it up and said, "Do you know why China failed so miserably in the Opium War?"
Zheng Liangqiang's mouth twitched: "Isn't it just...because of the Qing government's corruption?"
"The Qing government is ** on one hand." I said: "The other point is that it is closed to the outside world. Many people don't know that earth-shaking changes have taken place abroad, and they don't know what the world has developed into. That is, they are in a kind of
The state of being behind and unknown. Our previous situation was somewhat similar to this."
"Just like me." Zheng Liangqiang replied with deep sympathy: "Only now do we know how big the gap is, but not long ago we were still shouting 'catch up with the Premier League and the United States'!"
"So this is a good thing." I continued: "This can be said to be one of the benefits of reform and opening up. What we are afraid of is not falling behind. If we fall behind, we can catch up and catch up. What we are afraid of is falling behind and still dreaming.
If you know, then it is very likely that you will repeat the mistakes of the Opium War."
"The battalion commander is right!" After thinking about it, Zheng Liangqiang replied: "Now even a small soldier like me knows the gap with the Yankees, so there is no reason for the superior leaders not to know. This is actually an improvement. Otherwise, when the war starts
I won’t find out until the day of the battle... I’m afraid it’s already too late.”
"That's what I mean!" I patted Zheng Liangqiang's shoulder and said, "That's why I said this is a good thing. We should be glad that we know this gap now and still have a chance to catch up. And your task now is
Master the flight and training of the Black Hawk as soon as possible, do everything possible to explore the potential of the Black Hawk and compare it with our Z-5, so that we can know where our helicopter still needs improvement, how to improve it or in which direction!"
"Yes!" Zheng Liangqiang nodded heavily.
I believe that the superiors also had this purpose in handing over these Black Hawks to us, that is, they hope to imitate the Black Hawks.
But I know it's impossible... This is determined by our country's current weak industrial base. Some things, such as the 1510-horsepower turboshaft engine on the Black Hawk, are beyond the scope of what we can copy.
Then came the intense flight training.
It is said that this is not easy for pilots such as Zheng Liangqiang.
On the one hand, this is because the helicopters our army has been using, such as the Z-5, are all Soviet-style. Soviet-style equipment is very different from American equipment in style, and the same is true for helicopters. So Zheng Liangqiang, who is used to operating Soviet-style helicopters
Others will have to completely overturn their previous operating habits and start over.
On the other hand, due to the generation difference between the straight-5 and the Blackhawk, the cockpit of the straight-5 still has various instruments, while the Blackhawk has basically been digitalized, which is a new challenge for Zheng Liangqiang and others.
However, there is a saying that one knows everything, and although there are considerable differences between the Black Hawk and the Z-5 in all aspects, the flying principles are the same, and pilots like Zheng Liangqiang are experienced pilots, so they mastered them quickly.
Blackhawk operations.
I don't need to worry about these issues... I know nothing about the operation of helicopters, and I can't control them even if I want to, so I can only let Zheng Liangqiang organize his own studies.
What I want to take care of is air-ground coordination and formation issues.
Our previous air-ground coordination and formations were based on the load capacity and performance of the straight five. Now that we have the Black Hawk, if we still follow the previous coordination method, it will undoubtedly be a waste of the Black Hawk.
But the problem in this regard is not that big... The Black Hawk is a Yankee aircraft. Since the Yankees are willing to give us such advanced helicopters, they will naturally not be so stingy as to keep the tactics used by the Black Hawk secret.
This is not to say that our combined battalion cannot find a suitable combat method through training, but there is a question of whether it is necessary. After all, the Americans have rich experience in using helicopters to fight. They invested a large number of helicopters in the US-Vietnam battlefield.
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Of course, these experiences were not suitable when we were still using the Z-5. After all, the performance of the Z-5 was much worse than that of the Yankee helicopters, so the tactics could not be transplanted.
But now we are using the Yankees' Blackhawks, so these tactics can be used by me or appropriately learned.
So soon a complete information was sent to me by Li Li. From this, I also learned about two-plane, three-plane, multi-plane formations, attack, defense, support formations, as well as dense formations and sparse formations.
shape etc.
What makes me feel very practical are some formatting rules.
As mentioned before, although the battlefield is ever-changing, fighting on the battlefield often requires some formatted rules.
For example, what should you do when being tracked by enemy aircraft, what should you do when encountering enemy ground anti-aircraft fire, or even what should you do when you run out of ammunition or are injured.
On the one hand, this allows every soldier to know exactly how he should react when encountering an emergency on the battlefield, thereby greatly reducing the occurrence of being at a loss due to nervousness.
On the other hand, this is actually a kind of coordination. Because every pilot or infantryman knows what others will do when encountering an emergency, so they will be fully mentally prepared to cooperate with their actions.
Of course, fighting a war is not just about talking on paper. It is not enough to have these theories. The important thing is to put these theories into practice. For us, this practice first means training, training over and over again.
However, training like this is not very difficult for us. The main reason is that the content of our previous training with the straight five is not much different. If there is any difference, it is that the Black Hawk allows us infantrymen to
Carrying more equipment can provide us with more cover and take us to the battlefield faster.
But I think all of this is not enough, because I know one thing very well: Black Hawk training is mainly used to deal with the crisis on the Sino-Indian border on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and there is a big difference between plateau operations and operations on ordinary terrain.
the difference.
In other words, the best training should be to go to a plateau or a place with similar terrain. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!