The government forces' old Mi-35M Hinds were bought to shoot down pickup trucks, and they are not very effective at killing mobile units such as motorcycles. For example, the twin 23mm cannons on the nose of the Mi-35M only have more than 400 rounds of ammunition.
A short burst of 30 rounds can only fire 15 times. Even if you get a double or triple kill every time, you can only eliminate less than 50 motorcycle units. Jnim gathered his elite troops, and the two of them on horseback brought over a thousand motorcycles.
This is also why Xia Yu kept saying that the firepower was insufficient. In this situation, once the motorcycle army dispersed, the 80mm dart rounds that were always effective against soft targets were no longer effective. They had to use the GUV-8700 machine gun pods designed by Su Lian to supplement the firepower of the old female Deer.
The reason why Kidal has so many in stock is, after all, it's a Cold War branch museum, and the Mi-24 is a classic that can never be ignored during the Cold War era.
The original plan was to operate a variety of aircraft, including the Mi-24A, at Xiayu Island. Tourists would be able to fire rockets or use the 13 Gatling guns Metal Storm if they wanted.
Who would have thought that the business, which was supposed to open in 2020, would be inactive until 2021? These machine gun pods, originally intended for the wealthy, were used to deal with extremist groups.
"This is the groundhog area. All units should take precautions to avoid any potential portable anti-aircraft missiles or anti-tank missiles, and conduct free hunting within their assigned areas."
Rudolf, who was in temporary command, gave the order over the radio.
Then, looking down at the densely packed motorcycles, he took a deep breath.
It's probably only Afica. There wouldn't be a drug cartel with thousands of people deployed to the battlefield at the same time in Mexico. Human life here is even cheaper than in their country.
That's why last year's rich kid who only knew how to flaunt his wealth and pick up girls online has now become a PMC company intern with hundreds of lives on his hands and is about to reach a thousand kills.
Rudolf couldn't help but think of Xia Yu. The boss had fought his way up from mountains of corpses; how much blood and sin had stained his hands?
It might cost at least five figures!
If the Longbow Crossbow is a long-range vehicle killer, then the old Deer Tiger beneath him is definitely the nemesis of soft targets. It doesn't pursue the destruction of large-caliber machine guns, but only focuses on depleting the target's manpower.
Replacing the four rocket pods on the heavy-lift rack with four machine gun pods would be like adding wings to a tiger.
"We are now within firing range. Be aware of the ammunition pods deviating to the left or right."
Andrei, standing behind Rudolf, reminded him.
The machine gun turret can be linked with the helmet for precise output to the target, but the machine gun pod cannot move up, down, left, or right, and the lead distance of each attachment point is different.
"The groundhog understands: prioritize attacking densely packed targets!"
"Let's begin!"
Andrei's plane began to dive downwards, and a line of more than ten motorcycles came into their view.
"Beep beep!"
The machine gun pods on the left and right sides of the central scaffold opened fire simultaneously. Two 12.7mm and four 7.62mm quad-barreled Gatling guns fired at the same time, and a rain of seven or eight hundred bullets was fired at the motorcycle unit that was holding an AK and trying to return fire.
They didn't even need tungsten-core armor-piercing rounds; the most ordinary conventional rounds easily penetrated the soft target and then burrowed into the Indian-made Bhagaj motorcycle beneath them, causing the two men and the motorcycle to overturn and fall to the ground.
A single long burst can take down more than a dozen motorcycles, and the ammunition capacity of a single machine gun pod, 4350 (750 + 2x1800) rounds, can withstand such consumption.
The same scene was playing out in X4. Abandoning the burden of precise ranged output, the Longbow Cross Deer also transformed into a melee berserker, focusing its fire on the melee-packed tank below who only had a few inches of armor for defense.
"Da da da"
The medium-powered rounds clattered and banged against the fuselage, but unfortunately, the weakest point after the comprehensive upgrade could even withstand 12.7mm heavy machine gun rounds, making the militants' counterattack so powerless.
Portable anti-aircraft missiles were nonexistent; Faisal only bought a few and left them in Mari without bringing them over. Anti-tank missiles were brought, but such elite units deserved a concentrated barrage of anti-tank missiles in return.
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh!"
The HOT-3 and HJ-8 missiles, which were flying erratically through the air with fiber optic cables attached, accurately hit their targets, nipping the extremist group's impending Milan and Competition in the bud.
Upon seeing this, Faisal immediately braked and stopped, throwing the motorcycle aside to make himself appear utterly worthless.
Otherwise, how could he be a leader? Knowing that the warthogs would pick on the Pikachu, he switched to a motorcycle. When he saw the doe picking on a motorcycle, he ran away on foot.
I'm already in this state, you can't keep chasing and hitting me, can you?
That's not necessarily true, because as this group of people fled towards Mali, three "handsome guys" surrounded them in a fan-shaped attack.
"Knock knock knock"
Two kilometers apart, programmable airburst bombs, costing several hundred euros each, were launched by the mole, rat, and kangaroo vehicle crews as if they were free, flying over these motorcycle units and exploding.
Extremist groups, after all, don't wear helmets, only turbans. Countless pre-made tungsten balls pierced through the sweat-soaked turbans and then easily penetrated their skulls.
The motorcycle fuel tank, made of thin cold-rolled steel sheet, was also powerless against the explosion. After the motorcycle overturned, crude gasoline gurgled out from seven or eight holes without any risk of explosion.
"Put-put-put"
After close combat, the three-barreled coaxial machine guns of the KF-31, KF-41, and Marder S30 began to roar. Faisal, who was at the back of the group on foot, was stunned when he saw the miserable state of his men.
Besides fighter jets and attack helicopters, infantry fighting vehicles have also arrived, right?
They don't want to give them even the slightest chance of survival!
Most importantly, these three infantry fighting vehicles, like those attack helicopters, are not American equipment at all.
As far as he knew, the US military had only deployed some light armored vehicles in Afica, while Faisal vaguely remembered this heavy infantry fighting vehicle, which looked to be more than twice as heavy as a BMP…
Damn it, it's concentrated fire defense!
He had only been bombed by fighter jets from the concentrated fire defense unit back then, and with the preconceived notion of Warthog, he never connected his opponent with that god-like PMC company.
We haven't heard from them for over a year, so how come they suddenly appeared in Kinabalu Faso today? And how did they move so fast?
Of course, they anticipated that things would get chaotic in Kinabalu. As for why they moved so quickly, it can only be said that today's concentrated firepower defense and intercontinental deployment cannot be fast, but this intracontinental deployment and mobile forces can be in place within 24 hours.
If all three An-124s were available, all of the company's tanks could be brought over.
Unfortunately, business was so good that Xia Yu could only transfer one aircraft.
Perhaps we should consider expanding the company's Ruslan fleet. The more tense the international situation becomes, the better the business for strategic transport aircraft will be.
However, buying it with money was out of the question. In his view, exchanging old Boeing and Airbus aircraft for old An-124s was a good deal.
The Volga-Dnepr Air Transport Company is doing just as well as the Jihuo Air Transport Company right now, and they won't agree to that. But once that belated war officially begins, they will agree.
"Dula"
After firing the last short burst, Xia Yu emptied the A-10B's ammunition, leaving only half the fuel.
It's time to return. The warthogs with engines on their backs can take off and land on unpaved dirt runways at field airfields, but their tanker aircraft still have fuel left, so they might as well refuel and fly directly back to Kidal.
"Calling Groundhog, this is Weasel, B3 and B4, withdraw from the battlefield, good luck."
Xia Yu said over the radio.
Hundreds of pickup trucks on the ground were wiped out, and the number of motorcycles dropped drastically from four digits to three digits. Rudolf and his men still had half of their ammunition left.
"Groundhog understands, we guarantee to complete the mission."
Having emptied two machine gun pods, Rudolf, who was precisely controlling the machine gun turret to drive the targets that were converging together, replied.
"Clang!" The next second, more than 20 motorcycles were forced to huddle together, and two fully loaded machine gun pods opened fire at the same time, instantly causing people and motorcycles to fall over.
Fear spread through the militants' minds. The bullets from these armed helicopters seemed inexhaustible; they didn't even last that long in the movies.
Well, to put it simply, the 30mm cannon of the Heath in the movie is just as powerful as a 7.62mm general-purpose machine gun. No matter how much they are hit, the main characters will never die. If you believe the movie, you're doomed.
"Knock knock knock"
On the left, an upgraded Mi-24P emptied its four machine gun pods of over ten thousand rounds of ammunition, and its twin 30mm cannons followed suit.
Because the muzzle direction is fixed, the accuracy is a bit poor when it first fires. But it doesn't even need to hit the target precisely. A shell grazing an arm can kill you, or it can graz a motorcycle's fuel tank...
"boom"
After the high-explosive bomb ignited the gasoline, the car and its occupants exploded into a fireball.
This is the true power of a 30mm cannon shell. If you want to survive with a whole body, you can only hope that you've encountered a programmable airburst shell.
Although I felt a bit numb after being shot, thankfully most of the larger parts were still there.
"Knock knock knock"
The Longbow Crossbow also emptied its four machine gun pods and began firing with the Giatm 781 cannon in its nose.
The machine gunners and rocket launcher gunners were picked off one by one by the machine gunners in short bursts, while the ordinary units that were deliberately left out were covered by the three ground vehicle crews.
"Everyone in the digital team, get off the bus!"
Seeing that half of the ammunition had been used up, the Third Generation Fukuro Itachi, acting as the temporary commander of the armored vehicle convoy, issued an order.
All the hydraulic ramps of the infantry fighting vehicles were lowered, and 20 combat personnel disembarked one by one, using the vehicles as cover and aiming their guns at the target.
"Put-put-put"
"Bang bang"
The lightweight MG3, equipped with the KWS tactical kit, fired first, followed by the marksmen who took turns firing until a stray soldier managed to get close enough to bypass the infantry fighting vehicle's gun. Only then did the assault team fire as the third line of defense.
"call out"
"Boom!"
The Marder S30 turret returns to center with a single Kornet missile, as it has no anti-tank requirement. Before deployment, all four externally mounted missiles were replaced with 9M133F-1 multi-purpose warheads.
A deafening roar followed the impact, and a massive fireball rose into the air.
Seven or eight motorcycle units were damaged by the thermal shock of the explosion, even though it was in the open air, not in a semi-enclosed space like a bunker.
"call out"
"boom"
The spikes on the other two vehicles had limited visual impact due to the weight of the warhead, not to mention their small number.
Sure enough, in Afica, having plenty of supplies is more important than precision strikes; carrying only two missiles is simply not enough.
After the Marder S30 fired two rounds on one side, the rocket launcher gunner of the digital team immediately took out a spare horn from the troop transport compartment and reloaded it to ensure continuous firepower.
Thus, the three infantry fighting vehicles, together with the three mechanized infantry squads, formed a solid line of defense, while four low-flying armed helicopters drove the fleeing militants toward them.
Under their combined attack, JNIM's manpower was greatly depleted, from the initial few hundred to over a thousand, and now it has broken through two thousand and is heading towards three thousand.
Having emptied all his ammunition except for heat decoys, Rudolf felt as if he were attacking defenseless sheep rather than militants.
Is this what it means for a modern army to deliver a devastating blow to a backward armed force?
No, the same equipment can have different combat effects depending on who wields it.
In addition to weapons, it is also necessary to improve the combat skills of users and enhance the tactical level of commanders.
Otherwise, no matter how advanced their equipment is, they will just be a bunch of useless rabble.
Rudolph is growing rapidly, and when he returns to Mexico, he will face a drug cartel of such a rabble.
Money can buy good equipment and entice some retired special forces soldiers to serve them. However, as illegal armed groups, they have an inherent disadvantage of not being able to be formalized and can at most achieve a quasi-military level like cjnj.
However, as a legitimate PMC company, they do not have this restriction.
As long as they become standardized and elite, they can achieve the kind of crushing dominance that Jihuo Defense has over JNIM today.
The only thing to guard against is being ambushed. The boss taught him his experience: combining consumer-grade drones with military reconnaissance drones.
Even for daily travel, routes must be planned carefully, and all threats must be eliminated through aerial reconnaissance.
In addition, upgrading anti-drone measures is also very important. If CJNJ has adopted them, other drug cartels will follow suit.
Therefore, we need to buy jammers and also ask the boss to add more self-propelled anti-aircraft guns.
As for military reconnaissance drones, there is no need to pursue ship-based models like the ScanEagle. In addition to a host of long-endurance high-altitude reconnaissance and strike drones, our home country has also launched a number of small and medium-sized reconnaissance drones.
With the same budget, you can buy more aircraft and deploy them more frequently every day.
The later-stage concentrated fire defense phased out the Sparrowhawk B and will replace it with a model that also has a certain strike capability.
If that doesn't work, as long as there's still some load capacity, Xia Yu can modify and upgrade it himself. After all, the current Sparrowhawk B is just borrowing a shell, this platform that can be deployed in the field.
He replaced all the replaceable subsystems.
"Calling Groundhog, this is Flying Squirrel. Two aerial targets have been spotted. You are in charge of making contact."
Old Han shouted over the radio.
Their ammunition was almost gone, and instead of JNIM's reinforcements, government troops arrived to deliver the fatal blow.
"Buzzing"
Two toucan attack aircraft soon appeared on the horizon.
The Somali Air Force has a total of three of these, but only two are operational. Now that they've all been sent over, they're perfect for finishing off the remaining aircraft.
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