First of all, the roar of Harrier fighter jets and helicopters sounded in the night sky, and Port Stanley also sounded the air defense alarm...
This point shows at least two problems. One is that the coordination of the British army is relatively in place, because the flight speed of this helicopter and fighter jet is very different. The cruising speed of the helicopter is 248 kilometers per hour and the Harrier is 1,180 kilometers per hour.
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It was not easy for two aircraft with such a big difference to reach over Stanley Port at the same time in the dark, but the British army easily did it.
The other is that the Armenian army at Port Stanley did not do a good job in air defense early warning.
The reason is very simple. They did not sound the air defense alarm until the British army fleet flew over Stanley Port... This was almost unimaginable for Stanley Port, which had several radar stations.
Later I realized that there was a reason for this.
First of all, the British army has never dispatched fighter jets to carry out air strikes on the Horse Island at night. As mentioned earlier, the British army has only two aircraft carriers in total, with only a dozen Harrier each, which makes the Harrier pilots in the daytime.
We must deal with the bombing of Argentine fighter jets that may arrive in a high spirit of mental tension, so we seem a little helpless to the night... Although the Harrier has the ability to fight at night, the pilot must rest, and the fighter jets also need some maintenance and repairs.
This directly made the Argentine army lose its vigilance in air defense in the dark, and a considerable number of Argentine army even believed that the sky in the dark belonged to them... It is understandable to have this idea, because Argentine transport planes at night
Only bombers have room for movement.
Secondly, it was because our battle on the Wireless Ridge attracted the attention of the Argentine army.
You should know that in this battle we wanted to deliberately create an illusion that the British army broke through the third layer of the Argentine defense line.
In this regard, we arranged the direction of Wireless Ridge. For the Argentine Special Forces, which are still stationed in Heights 1 and 2, we adopted a signal interference method, which means that these two special forces cannot match the UK in Port Stanley.
The army made contact. Then concentrated artillery fire to bomb the four high grounds on the third layer of defense.
Of course, British artillery still has a difference in bombing of the Wireless Ridge Highlands. Because at this position it is the breakthrough point between SAS and our army, the artillery at this position must work closely with us.
In this way, the Armenians in Port Stanley face this problem:
The special forces in the No. 1 and No. 2 positions, which are the first defense line, naturally they will think that the first defense line has been lost. The second defense line is in the hands of sas again, and the third defense line is encountered.
The British artillery bombardment, and even the Wireless Ridge and the Coarse Diamond Highlands were lost one after another. There were gunfire everywhere in the dark outside Stanley Port... These gunfires were actually caused by the Argentina deserters falling into melee.
After comparing these factors, the Argentine commander had every reason to believe that the British had unknowingly captured the first layer of defense stationed by the Argentine special forces. They met with the sas troops on the second layer of defense and directly killed them.
Going towards the third level of defense, at this time, he even broke through the Wireless Ridge and approached Stanley Port...
As a result, the entire Afghan army in Port Stanley were panic and focused all their attention on the direction of the Wireless Ridge and worked hard to organize defense lines to deal with the upcoming powerful British offensive.
If these also made the Argentines doubt whether the British troops were in the forefront, then the emergence of a large number of Harrier and helicopter groups in the air would make their idea even more determined.
But the first thing to do was not the Air Force. With the whistling of a shell, the shells soon burst into flames in the Argent artillery positions on Port Stanley and its two wings...
The naval gun has taken action.
Clap used a total of five warships during this operation.
This is already the number of warships that Clap tried his best to call for us. You should know that the British fleet was not easy at this time. The total number of warships was thirty-seven, which had been sunk and injured by twelve ships.
.There are only fifteen ships with combat capabilities. In order to protect aircraft carriers and supply ships in the fleet and troop transport ships, Krapp could only transfer five warships to participate in this battle.
However, even so, the aircraft carrier formation at this time can be said to be insufficient defense. After all, even the Harrier fighter jets were sent out at this time. However, considering that the Argentine Air Force has suffered heavy losses and does not have much night combat capabilities.
That's why he dared to organize such a surprise attack.
This is actually the reason why we have to set the raid time at 2:30 in the morning... All units participating in these battles, such as helicopters, warships, etc., must return to the fleet before dawn to prevent the bombing of the Afghan Air Force after dawn.
However, looking at the fireballs bursting everywhere in Port Stanley, I really can't believe that there are only five warships supporting us... Each warship only has one gun, right? Those five warships only have five ships
gun.
Judging from my combat experience, the bombing scene in front of me should require at least twenty artillery guns to produce the effect.
At first I thought it was my illusion, or the Harrier or Bobcat helicopter also used cluster bombs and rockets to participate in the bombing. Later I realized that these were actually fired by naval guns, which made me think this
There are more than twenty artillery guns... That's because the British army's naval guns that can automatically load ammunition are much faster than ordinary artillery guns, and their rate of fire reaches 25 rounds per minute, which is exactly the speed of ordinary artillery guns.
Three to four times the
Then the Harrier launched a strike against some important military targets in Stanley Harbour, such as airports, arsenals, barracks, etc., while several Bobcat helicopters focused the strike on the Argent army artillery positions we were about to break through.
As the tail of rockets passed through the air, a bright red fire wall rose into the air in the Afghan artillery position.
The reason for this is obvious, on the one hand, it clears obstacles for us and puts the enemy into chaos, and on the other hand, it also shows us the way forward in the darkness.
So we dared not be negligent, so we held our guns and leaped towards the Afghan artillery position.
We ran forward without stopping... At this time, we all know one thing, what we lack most at this time is time. You must know that the load capacity of the Harrier is not large, and it is at most mountable when attacking the ground.
Six free fall bombs, and once these bombs were dropped, it completed the mission and returned.
It only takes a few minutes to drop these bombs, and at the same time, the ammunition of helicopters and warships is probably almost the same.
That is, we must try our best to pass through the Afghan artillery position within these ten minutes, otherwise the Afghan army will likely react and be detrimental to us.
A few minutes later we entered the artillery position of Ajun. What we saw was the earth full of bastards, and the cannons and corpses that were ignited by rockets were everywhere. The air was filled with burnt smell and smell of gunpowder.
In the direction facing us, there is a row of simple fortifications piled up by sandbags that are extremely blown...
Obviously, this was temporarily built by the Afghan artillery when the battle at Wireless Ridge started, but before they could use it, they were already blown up by the helicopter.
At this time, we had to slow down... because it was obvious that there were not many corpses on the ground and there were not many messy footprints on the snow, which meant that the Ah Jun artillery did not escape, they must have been hiding somewhere waiting.
Let us.
Sure enough, when we stepped over the bombed fortifications and advanced dozens of meters, we were blocked by Ah Jun.
First, two flares were fired at us from two hundred meters away.
As soon as I saw the flares rising into the sky, I couldn't help but frown, because this at least shows that the Argent army's artillery was already prepared, although this preparation was not very sufficient.
But at this time, I didn't think much, but shouted "Let's go down" and pushed Lin Xia, who was following me, to the ground.
The dense gunfire sounded quickly, and the bullets swept over our heads with a whistle, like locusts flying through our ears, and we could even feel them flying by.
The heat brought up. Occasionally, a bullet hits the snow in front of us, and the splashed snowflakes hit the face and make it painful.
At this time, I realized that I was wrong. I thought that the Afghan artillery was only good at firing artillery and did not have much field combat ability, but I didn't expect that the fact was not the case.
Later I realized that in fact, only artillery soldiers on the Afghan Island are experienced veterans.
The army organized by Argentina to station on the Cambridge Island was not actually a veteran who had fought guerrilla warfare as the British army imagined, but a young man who had just joined the army.
As for why Argentina did this, their government has two considerations:
One is worried that Chile will take advantage of this time to launch an attack on Argentina. You should know whether Chile and Argentina have a long border and there are long-term territorial disputes. If you come to Ahmad at this time, then the Argentina will not only not be able to take it.
If you go to the Malay Island, you may be destroyed.
So at this time, only a small number of more than 10,000 people used by Argentina on the island of Cavaliers were veterans who had participated in guerrilla warfare, while the rest were young people and some were young people who were even newly grown children.
On the other hand, it is because young people are more likely to incite, so they immediately get up with a gun when they get hot, regardless of what the situation will be like after they arrive at this island.
Therefore, if we consider this aspect, it would not be surprising that these Afghan troops on the Cavaliers would have the same performance as before.
And the reason why this artillery is all veterans... is that this artillery is not something that requires simple training like a rifle.
So the situation we encountered was that the success of the army was hindered when fighting artillery. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!