"The concentrated fire defense team really doesn't follow the usual path. Every member who joins is an elite. Even in our army aviation unit, only the top ten pilots can do this."
Watching Andrei skillfully maneuver the little antelope to dodge the missile, the commissioner couldn't help but remark.
He didn't know that the other party was actually avoiding his own home, but this is quite normal in the secondary arms market.
If we don't dispose of weapons and equipment nearing their expiration date, who are we going to package them up and give them as aid? Selling them secondhand to recoup funds is the most practical approach.
As for the live stream footage, it's fair to say that Andrei's operation was indeed professional.
The most skilled pilots in the Army Aviation Corps who flew the Gazelle were actually those who flew the Tiger.
Just like François, the Tiger pilot Xia Yu rescued, Andrei's skill level was comparable to his.
Don't think he was shot down because of poor skills. Being selected for the blue helmet unit already proves his professional competence.
François evaded three Needle-S shots while maneuvering the Tiger, but his skill was so poor that he couldn't dodge even one.
It was shot down because there was nowhere to hide from the fourth and fifth shots.
This is a saturation attack; even the best pilots can't withstand it, and the Phar National Salvation Army is ultimately just a local armed group.
Although they made their first fortune through war, the division in the middle was too damaging, and they couldn't afford to launch a saturation attack.
Even the relatively inexpensive Flying Crossbow 6 costs nearly 30,000 per shot, and that's the wholesale price. Retailers would probably charge at least 50,000 dollars.
Left with no other option, SIG Sauer ultimately opted for the more expensive Mistral-2, which had a heavier warhead and more explosive charge.
He thought, "If the price is high, so be it. We'll strike decisively and accurately."
As it turned out, he wasn't executed!
"Faria, have you arrived?"
Standing up, he kicked over the useless missile launcher, and, suppressing his emotions, picked up the radio to call his cousin.
Jihuo Defense wasn't playing any games with them; the other side's goal was to wipe them out in one fell swoop.
The convoy was lured out and was in grave danger. The helicopter destroyed the heavy firepower on their ship in order to clear the way for ground troops.
He desperately needs his cousin's support.
"It's on its way, it should be there in five minutes at most."
Farea replied in the channel.
It's more than ten kilometers away, and it still takes time to get there by boat.
Driving is faster, but half of the branch's convoy is deployed at the mine, leaving only a few vehicles in the village. There aren't enough people, and by the time they arrive from the other side, it will be too late.
In that case, we might as well just set sail.
The ship is heavily armed, including its most powerful gunboats.
"Did you bring your anti-aircraft missiles? Mine was dodged by the enemy. Although their helicopters are out of ammunition, they might come back again."
"I asked," Siya asked.
My cousin has one more shot; he can't afford to miss this time.
"Oh no, I forgot to bring it. I'll have someone bring it right away."
Farea slapped his forehead and quickly tried to cover it up.
In the rush of leaving, it's easy to forget things, not to mention that when my cousin called for backup, the other side's helicopter didn't even arrive.
Fortunately, his men could still drive it over.
"No rush, we still have..."
"Knock knock knock"
The sound of machine gun fire suddenly rang out, interrupting Šate's words halfway through.
They're here! Their ground troops are here!
Weasel S30 burst out of the rainforest where it was hiding, and the bicycle team stormed into the village through the gate that Mariano and his team had broken open.
Meanwhile, programmable airburst munitions were being rained down on the militants as if they were free.
Hans, sitting in the commander's seat, didn't have time to manually input data shot by shot; he just needed to give a rough estimate of the direction.
"Splash!"
Outside the village, on the river, the high-speed SOC-R combat ship drifted in with an overwhelming momentum, entering the dock.
"Buzzing"
Gatling guns, heavy machine guns, and grenade launchers opened fire simultaneously.
As for the possibility of accidental injury, there is absolutely no need to worry.
With the old village chief's intelligence support, the villagers no longer live in this direction, and this good area has been occupied by Šate and his group.
As for the armed militants who lived among the villagers, making it easier to monitor them.
"Bang bang da da da"
From the direction where the shacks were densely packed, the faint sound of rifle bursts could be heard.
Sergei, who had disembarked earlier, had already broken in with 04 and 06 in a CQB formation.
Although there were only three of them, they had infantry fighting vehicles and riverboats to draw fire, so the pressure wasn't too great.
The real pressure came from the echidna squad that had already infiltrated the branch village, and the fennec fox squad hiding outside the village.
Xia Yu's battle plan involved deploying a total of 12 combat personnel in the direction of the Por National Salvation Armed Forces branch.
This is because the branch has limited intelligence and must proceed layer by layer to reduce the probability of friendly fire, unlike the headquarters which can directly cover the area with firepower.
"Calling the boss, calling the boss, this is the Echidna Squad, the branch fleet has left the port."
After giving Hans the formal order to attack, Xia Yu also received a call from Tom.
Everything is going according to his plan.
As long as the branch's most threatening armed fleet leaves the village, he can place the main battlefield outside.
Even without the cover of infantry fighting vehicles and combat boats, the two squads can still deal maximum damage.
Combat requires using your brain.
Only by standing on the fifth level can you trap your enemies in the third level's trap, causing them to fall into the abyss as you envision.
"Calling Echidna and Fennec Fox, this is Weasel. We'll begin operations once I arrive."
Xia Yu called out to two employees while simultaneously controlling the helicopter to take off.
"Splash splash"
The thirsty Mi-24V sped toward its target, only to be met by a returning antelope.
"Good luck, boss!"
"Two helicopters passed each other," Andrei said over the radio.
Xia Yu didn't reply, but simply raised his right hand behind the hatch to make an "OK" sign.
"A laugh from the martial world, and the waves surge on; all worldly affairs are forgotten, gone and not worth mentioning; the heavens laugh, and their laughter never grows old..."
At that moment, he seemed to hear background music playing in his ears.
Hmph, as long as Xia Yu is still in the vehicle, no one can defeat him.
Now, let them unite their thoughts and, like a weasel rushing into a chicken coop, squawk and kill indiscriminately.
Farea sat aboard her beloved gunboat, the fleet's flagship speeding through the middle of the river.
He remotely directed his men to load the rifled guns into the T-55 turret.
When he arrived at his cousin's place, Farea was going to fire a single shot and send the infantry fighting vehicles of the concentrated fire defense team into the fire.
I heard they have tanks, but don't underestimate those two brothers if they don't bring them. They'll never regret it.
Xia Yu had no regrets. Without even a T-72, who was going to fight you tanks head-on?
"Report, one BM-8 is loaded."
A report came over the radio from the T-55 gun crew.
The BM-8 is a 100mm caliber tracer high-speed discarding sabot armor-piercing projectile, which is very suitable for nighttime use.
With an infantry fighting vehicle blocking the front of a large-caliber machine gun and a small-caliber autocannon, he could easily penetrate it from both front and back with a single shot from the BM-8.
The weasel doesn't know, but BMP-1 and BMP-2 are indeed effective. However, they are from the same family, so why are they fighting each other so fiercely?
"Splash splash"
The faint hum of propellers echoed through the dark night sky, momentarily halting Farea's surging emotions.
Damn it, weren't the attack helicopters in the concentrated fire defense position driven away by my cousin?
The one that was driven away was another one; Xia Yu's plane was specifically waiting for your fleet.
"Quick, fire a flare!"
Farea picked up the radio and yelled at the artillery crew.
The later versions of the T-55 used the L-2 infrared headlight and the TPK-1-22-11 gunner's night vision sight.
Compared to the original night vision equipment of the T-64B1M, it can see 200 meters further and hear sounds from an opponent who is clearly four or five kilometers away.
At a visible distance of one kilometer, they couldn't see each other at all, and since they had left the village, they would have to use flares to find each other.
"Bang"
The four-tube illumination launcher on the left side of the turret fired a red illumination flare, which also vaguely illuminated the outline of the Mi-24V.
"All anti-aircraft guns, fire at it!"
"call out"
The moment Farea issued the combat order, Xia Yu pressed the launch button and fired the first HOT-3.
"The Hind can also hit the HOT3, the concentrated fire defense modification is pretty good."
The radar detected the Mi-24V's signal and lost interest in the almost one-sided battle on the ground. The crew immediately changed course and began filming Xia Yu instead of the Snowy Owl drone.
They couldn't recognize their own air defense missiles, but this slow-moving airborne anti-tank missile was obviously their HOT-3.
But these people are making a mountain out of a molehill. Even the black guys in Afica can hit a young antelope with a Red Arrow 8, so what's wrong with him using an old doe to shoot a Hot-3?
Besides, it doesn't matter if the missile flies slowly, the target can't move fast either!
"boom"
After flying for more than ten seconds, the HOT-3 crashed into an armed fishing boat that was leading the way.
Compared to the lightweight Milan, the heavy-duty multipurpose HOT charge has twice the amount of explosive.
There's not much difference when fighting tanks; the penetration data only differs by a few hundred. But the difference becomes apparent when fighting ships.
Xia Yu didn't aim at the anti-aircraft machine gun on the ship, but the first stage of the tandem hollow charge warhead, which was also the auxiliary warhead for detonating the tank's reactive armor, directly penetrated the fishing boat's upper deck.
After the main warhead, which entered the ship's compartment without damage, made contact with the ground, it directly delivered an equivalent penetration depth of 1250mm in homogeneous steel, creating a hole in the ship's bottom.
River water gushed into the cabin through the breach, effectively opening the "sea valve".
Today, an armed helicopter in Xiayu is about to sink an entire armed fleet.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh"
Xia Yu fired three anti-tank missiles in one minute, while the fleet below launched a fierce counterattack.
"Knock knock knock"
"Da la da"
Even beyond the effective range, the 12.7mm and 14.5mm anti-aircraft machine guns, along with the 23mm twin anti-aircraft cannons, fired in turn, weaving a dense barrage of bullets towards the rapidly approaching Mi-24V.
Tracer rounds greatly enhance the visibility of anti-aircraft firepower, putting immense pressure on the attacked side.
But Xia Yu was no ordinary man. Facing the barrage of bullets, he remained fearless, adjusted his aircraft's attitude, concealed the vulnerable tail rotor, and then executed an Immelmann maneuver to dive away.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh"
The B-8V20 rocket pods on both flanks opened fire simultaneously, alternately firing high-explosive fragmentation rounds and arrow-shaped shot at the convoy.
They destroyed the hull and weapons, killed personnel and soft targets, each performing its own function to damage the enemy before them.
Of course, the Mi-24V, which was strewn across the fuselage by bullets and shells, made a constant clanging noise, but not a single bullet could penetrate the titanium alloy "bathtub" and give Xia Yu in the cockpit a mere scratch.
This scene filled Faria with rage; things shouldn't be like this.
The Gabon Air Force drone crew members stared in shock at the monitors; it was the first time they had ever seen such a combat method.
"That's too brutal. How much have they actually changed?"
One of the crew members couldn't help but ask.
We made some minor changes, because every war vehicle is the company's most important asset, and it would be such a waste if they were destroyed just because of combat.
"Boom boom boom crackle crackle"
The two rocket pods fired only half of their 40 S-8 rockets, leaving the upper deck of the 8-ship convoy looking as if it had been plowed through.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh"
After the first four fishing boats, which had been "opened up like sardine cans" by missiles, had their draft increased, the Mi-24V pulled up to a high point, turned, and then dove again, firing three more HOT-3 missiles in succession, targeting the three fishing boats from the back to the front in turn.
"Boom boom boom"
Amidst the violent explosions of the three ships, only the flagship gunboat in the center suffered the least damage.
Xia Yu was on guard against the sudden appearance of a shoulder-mounted anti-aircraft missile on its deck.
After two rounds of attacks, it didn't utter a single "fart" except for the 23mm twin anti-aircraft gun that was silenced in the middle.
Especially the T-55 turret on the bow, he couldn't think of any other word to describe it except "ridiculous". The 100mm water pipe hadn't fired a single shot, and Xia Yu couldn't bear to open the can of it.
That's how natural counters work; the role of tanks is being gradually weakened.
It remains an important component in three-dimensional warfare, but the survivability of a single vehicle crew is questionable.
Xia Yu was able to make a living in Afica with just a T-64B1M, but if he moved to the Middle East war zone, he might not be as successful as someone with a pickup truck.
This is also why he keeps synthesizing new vehicles and exploring three-dimensional warfare.
If you want to grow bigger and stronger, you can't just keep dominating newbies in the beginner zone; you have to increase your strength.
Xia Yu activated three more anti-tank missiles on the weapon control panel and aimed at the area below the waterline on the starboard side of the gunboat.
This flagship has an extra deck compared to other fishing boats. He was worried that a top attack wouldn't penetrate the bottom, so he figured it would be better to attack the side of the ship directly.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh"
"Boom!"
Three more HOT-3 missiles were fired, and the gunboat tilted to one side amidst a violent explosion. The stunned Farea was thrown out and plunged headfirst into the river, where it drowned.
Tonight, the crocodiles in the river will probably have a good meal, though some shrapnel might get stuck in their teeth.
Meanwhile, six or seven kilometers away, Šatet, suppressed by the firepower and unable to raise his head, probably would never receive support from his cousin.
If they had known that the concentrated fire defense was so ruthless, they shouldn't have been greedy for tax revenue; they should have run away sooner.
Unfortunately, it was too late, and the two brothers were separated by death.
Eight armed fishing boats on the river either capsized or burned.
A strange silence fell below as the arrow-shaped shrapnel proved lethal to unarmored personnel.
Nearly 100 people were wiped out, and the branch's KPI was reduced to just over 200.
This is modern warfare: incredibly efficient, but also extremely expensive.
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