Of course I know portable air defense missiles... This era has entered the missile era, and various missiles such as surface-to-air, air-to-air, air-to-ship and other missiles are developing vigorously.
Portable surface-to-air missiles are one of them... The advantage of this missile is that it greatly enhances the air defense capabilities of infantry... What kind of anti-aircraft machine guns, small-caliber anti-aircraft guns, etc., are they used to flat-fire infantry?
The power is indeed very great... The Vietnamese army and our army did this on the Vietnam battlefield. But it should be used to fight fighter jets flying at high speed in the air... The chance of shooting down the target can be said to be too small.
In fact, let alone high-altitude and high-speed fighter jets... Even relatively low-speed helicopters are difficult to shoot down, just like the Afghan war in history... Most helicopters shot down by Afghanistan with anti-aircraft machine guns and small-caliber air defense cannons were in the Soviet Union.
Near the military airport, those Afghan guerrillas secretly brought anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns to the Soviet airport to lurk near the Soviet airport. When the helicopter just flew up and had not accelerated...
"A slammed it down with a fierce blow.
Of course, it is a big question whether the hero who shot down the helicopter can come back alive... After all, it is in the Soviet defense zone, and it is in a sensitive area near the airport.
But this is not what the Afghans care about... Because of the hatred for the invaders and the fanaticism of faith, the Afghan guerrillas rushed into the Soviet station with explosives and died with the enemy. What's more, they did not hesitate to do so, even if they rushed into the Soviet station with explosives, they died with the enemy.
Fight for a worthy armed helicopter.
In addition...Anti-aircraft machine guns and small-caliber anti-aircraft guns are difficult to maneuver and recharge in mountainous areas, so they are actually not suitable for mountainous air defense.
At this time, the portable air defense missile was born in pregnancy... Its hit rate is much higher than that of anti-aircraft weapons such as anti-aircraft machine guns. It is also convenient to maneuver... A missile can only be more than a dozen or twenty kilograms, and an infantry can
Walk with your back. Even if it is an advanced missile, it can be said that it does not occupy the organization... The missile is one-time. After the shooting, you throw the launcher and grab the assault rifle and become an infantryman.
But sadly... in this regard, our country is still blank. Our anti-tank missiles have just been equipped and are the first generation, let alone this portable air defense missile.
That's why I talked about a lot of difficulties in front of Smith and his group... The purpose is to let them contribute air defense missiles... Now China and the United States are a community of interests, right? Our difficulties are their difficulties, so they provide
Some weapons and equipment are also taken for granted.
But… I was quite disappointed when the batch of portable air defense missiles Smith said were transported to our base…
"Which country's missile is this?" I frowned and asked Smith after watching a US soldier test-firing a missile.
Smith couldn't help but look at me unexpectedly and replied: "This is... from Britain!"
I know he is wondering what... British missiles and American missile instructions are both in English. How could ordinary people tell at a glance that this is not from the United States.
But I am not an ordinary person... I know very well that the missiles in the United States cannot be like this, which is also manually guided.
“What model?”
“Blow-tube style!”
"Why not use the American one directly?" I asked, "Col. Smith... Do you think this manual guidance is suitable for Afghan guerrillas? Can Afghan guerrillas use it to attack Soviet helicopters?"
Because we have used the Red Arrow Anti-tank missile that is both manual guidance, we are very clear about the disadvantages of manual guidance... The operation is quite complicated, and we must calculate the trajectory of the target and quickly calculate the position that the target may reach after turning or changing direction or position.
Therefore, manual guidance anti-tank missiles are difficult to hit the running tank, not to mention that they are helicopters that are moving in a three-dimensional manner in the air.
Smith cleared his throat and replied awkwardly: "That's right... According to our information, the Su-Shi Mi24 has strong interference capabilities. The manual guided missile is almost uninterrupted by targets, and we don't
If you know what the battlefield is like, maybe this missile will be suitable?"
I just smiled and didn't say anything.
Of course this is nonsense, what is not disturbed by the target... This is the truth, but the problem is that this missile cannot hit the flying target at all... Do people still need to interfere? I don't know the situation on the battlefield... I don't know the battlefield anymore
It should be known that the Afghan guerrillas are not very educated, so it is difficult for them to learn to operate such air defense missiles!
Later I learned that the US government has left a hand... They do have advanced portable air defense missiles. This is the famous "Stinger" (Note: The original name of the Stinger missile, Red Eyes, and the improved version of Red
Eyes were renamed "Stinger" in 1972), but this portable missile is quite advanced for the United States, and even the United States' own helicopters or some fixed-wing fighter jets cannot be prevented... So the United States
Just worried: What if this portable missile is flooded and falls into the hands of the enemy?
This may be quite large. You should know that the Afghan guerrillas are not a fuel-efficient lamp... The new things equipped in their hands are likely to be sold. It is precisely because of this reason that the Afghan War in history...
...The United States did not equip the "Sthorn" to the hands of the Afghan guerrillas until 1986.
The facts also prove that the US's concerns make sense... When the Soviet Union withdrew its troops, the United States regretted it. Instead, it tried to reclaim the "stinger" equipped in Afghanistan at a high price, but at that time the Afghan army had already had quite a bit of it.
The scale of the "stinger" also knows the importance of "stinger", so naturally I will not do the kind of thing that costs money and refuses life... Without "stinger", it means that they are only abused in front of the enemy's air power!
"Okay! Thank you for your supply!" I still expressed my gratitude to Smith. No matter how many shortcomings this air defense missile has... but having is better than not. At least the next time the Soviet Union has a helicopter hit us ambush, we also
It’s not like a mess of guns that you have to rely on luck to shoot down one!
"Don't you need to teach you how to do it?" Smith asked.
"No need!" I said: "Most of my troops have fired manually guided anti-tank missiles, and I also saw you operated them again... This should not be a problem!"
Smith couldn't help but look surprised when he heard this... He thought that our Chinese soldiers were all uneducated rural bullies!
So this "blown tube" air defense missile was quickly equipped to our army... As I thought, many of the soldiers in the Agent Company have been trained to use anti-tank missiles, so they mastered the use in a few strokes.
The skills of air defense missiles... but just as I thought... It is easy for our army to master, but it is difficult to teach Afghan guerrillas.
Of course, the guerrillas we want to equip are Hassan's team... The main reason is that the US military does not provide us with many missiles, there are only one hundred of them in this batch, and we don't know what the next batch will be in.
Time is here...
This is how Smith is so powerful... it is impossible for us to equip guerrillas in large quantities, so the guerrillas that originally flocked to Chinese bases to train and saw the situation... There are training air defense missiles at US bases, but not at Chinese bases?
They will start to lean towards the US military base again. After all, there is a rule that they consider to be strict in Chinese bases... either joining Hassan's guerrillas or only getting a basic training for one and a half months.
However, I can understand this very well... it is very likely to be a life-saving thing at critical moments. Although it operates in a complex and low-precision manner, it will at least make the enemy helicopters jealous.
And this is what I hope... Training ordinary Afghan guerrillas is actually just spending money and distributing equipment... If there is no US military base, then we will naturally have the responsibility for national interests, but now since there is a US military base, why just let us do it.
live?!
We encountered many idle risks when equipping Afghan guerrillas with air defense missiles...
First of all, this "blown tube" air defense missile is a useless person... If you don't have equipment, you don't even have the equipment to launch a helicopter. Sometimes even if the helicopter is parked in front of you or overhead, you can't do it. If you install it... it's very difficult.
It is a threat to helicopter institutions.
Secondly, the training of guerrillas is also a waste of money... If you don't train, it means that the guerrillas have poor independent combat capabilities because they basically have no air defense capabilities. Training... It also makes the instructors in charge of training very difficult... Language
Not only does it require translation, but when it comes to manual operation to track the trajectory of a helicopter, it involves calculation issues... This is a big problem for the Afghan guerrillas who don't even know a lot of big words.
In the end, there is no way, so I only ask the Afghan guerrillas to launch it... As for whether they can track the helicopter after launching it... it depends on their own feelings and luck. Anyway, even if they learn it, there is not much chance.
The key to being able to hit is to scare the Soviet helicopters... let them know that the guerrillas still have air defense missiles in their hands.
"Battleman Yang!" At this time, Hassan walked up to me and said, "I just received the news from Kabul... The Soviet army may have to start a new round of sweeps!"
"Oh! So fast?" I couldn't help but be surprised when I heard this... The second sweep was two months away from the first sweep, which means that the Soviet army's logistics should have accumulated two months of accumulation to organize a sweep, but
It's less than a month before this time... Has the Soviet army strengthened their defenses on the supply line?
Later I found out... In fact, it was because we had such a fuss in Kabul that the first sweep of the Soviet army was not completed as planned, so the ammunition was not consumed much, and it was also possible to be anxious to save face.
It was said to stabilize the morale of the army... so I couldn't wait to launch another sweep.