This 12.7mm four-barreled Gatling heavy machine gun is not fixed on the ship or on the ground. It can "fly" and strike from a high position. Who the hell can withstand it?
It is no exaggeration to say that even if the Hind did not use air-to-ground missiles or rockets, just the Yak-B 12.7mm four-barrel Gatling heavy machine gun would be enough to sink all those small gunboats.
This was indeed the case. When the roar of the helicopter engine was heard in the distance, the battlefield, which had been extremely lively, suddenly became strangely silent for a while. Both the government troops and the warehouse security guards stopped shooting at each other at this moment, and quietly turned their heads to look for the helicopter in the sky.
However, how could the Gazelle helicopter be easily spotted with all lighting turned off? Even if two shadows could be vaguely seen under the illumination of the flares, they would disappear without a trace in a flash.
The maximum flying speed of a female deer is also 90 meters per second...
The pilots of the two Hinds had turned on their active infrared detection equipment and were also wearing night vision goggles, which was enough to ensure that they could clearly see the situation on the ground.
After circling in the air, the two Hinds suddenly separated, flying towards the Wulu River from the east and west. Obviously, the pilots of the two Hinds realized that the more than ten gunboats parked on the river bank posed the greatest threat to them.
There were still a long way to go when two blinding streaks of fire lit up in the sky. After two 9M17-Phalanga air-to-ground missiles detached from the weapon racks of the two Hinds, they immediately crossed a two-kilometer space in just five seconds at a speed of 400 meters per second and accurately hit the two largest gunboats - the two 37mm dual-purpose anti-aircraft and anti-flag guns installed on these two gunboats were so eye-catching that it would be a shame to use the precious air-to-ground missiles if they were not attacked.
Although the 9M17-Phalanga air-to-ground missile is not as powerful as the famous "Hellfire" missile in later generations, it is still at the level of "using anti-aircraft guns to kill mosquitoes" when used to deal with this kind of small inland gunboat.
When the two air-to-ground missiles accurately hit the gunboat with a whistling sound, two groups of brilliant fireworks suddenly bloomed on the Wulu River. The high-energy explosives in the warhead of the 9M17-Phalanga air-to-ground missile not only destroyed the gunboat in an instant, but also caused the explosion of the stored ammunition in the gunboat.
On the battlefield, chain explosions have always been the most spectacular scenes. The chain explosion of a gunboat on the river naturally has a great effect.
Even in the warehouse area several kilometers away, one could see the two brilliant fireworks and the thunder-like explosions that followed.
The two missiles completely announced which side the two sudden armed helicopters were on. This made the mine owners headed by Yang Jing cheer loudly, and also made Chiron look deathly pale.
It is estimated that no one on this battlefield understands the importance of air superiority better than Chiron. He has been a soldier for 17 years and has experienced hundreds of battles of all sizes. Naturally, he knows the importance of air superiority to a battle.
That is a decisive advantage!
If the two armed helicopters had not appeared, Chiron was confident that he could take over the entire Damukan mining area before dawn. However, when the two helicopters showed hostility towards him, Chiron realized that this western front offensive plan was a complete failure.
In this low-intensity battlefield, the sudden appearance of a powerful weapon like an armed helicopter is simply cheating!
Damn it, which bastard summoned this killer weapon? Isn't this bullying?
The subsequent course of the battle verified Chiron's guess. When two armed helicopters hovered leisurely in the air, continuously using S-24 rockets in the rocket pod to launch targeted attacks on the gunboat that was struggling to turn on the river and trying to escape, Chiron was completely desperate.
The gunboats that usually run fast and nimble on the inland river were clumsy in front of the armed helicopters, just like an elephant that had a stroke. It was so clumsy that it was unbearable to watch. In just one minute, the fourteen gunboats that followed Chiron's main battalion upstream were completely transformed into fourteen huge fireworks. Almost none of the soldiers on the gunboats could escape. Even if some clever soldiers jumped off the boat to escape, they would be killed on the spot by the shock wave generated by the violent explosion.
After completely eliminating the most threatening gunboat, the two helicopters began to maneuver in the air, and then used the remaining rockets in the rocket pod and the Yak-B 12.7mm four-barrel Gatling heavy machine gun at the front of the nose to wreak havoc on the government forces on the ground.
Given the altitude and speed of the two helicopters, it is impossible for the RPG, which can only fire in a straight line, to hit the two helicopters in such dark conditions. On the contrary, without the flares fired by the gunboat, the armed helicopter with infrared device can easily distinguish between the enemy and us below.
For a moment, the battlefield was in chaos, and the situation immediately became one-sided...
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