It’s not that the Iraqi troops don’t want to blow down the huge “balloon” in the sky that monitors all their actions, but the Kirov airship itself is a monitoring tool. Any changes on the Iraqi side will be visible. A few days ago,

The Iraqi army dispatched 6 missiles to shoot down the Kirov airship, but before 6 missile vehicles could enter

Within the range, it was discovered by the reconnaissance personnel on the Kirov airship. The crew called for artillery support. The Red Alert Independent Artillery Regiment accompanying the -10 Infantry Division used pL6 (the original version was pL05) 6-fold caliber 15m

The artillery fired bottom row extended-range projectiles, destroying half of the missile vehicles and radar vehicles of the missile company, paralyzing their attack capabilities.

The Iraqi army thought of many ways, but none of them came to fruition, including sending fighter planes to shoot them down. However, soon after their fighters took off, they were blocked by Chinese aviation fighters and B14s, and only the ones that were shot down were

End; they wanted to drag the anti-aircraft gun closer

Shooting, the fate was not much different from the previous 6; the Iraqi army also wanted to send special forces to sneak in quietly and carry needle-type portable anti-aircraft missiles to shoot down the Kirov airship, but these special forces who were good at camouflaging in the desert were encountered halfway.

A big dog from nowhere attacked and the entire army was wiped out.

Then the Iraqis understood a truth: they had nothing to do against this huge airship in the sky.

In fact, there are only two airships in service in the PLA Army. One is the reconnaissance-type Army "Huoshaoyun-class", and the Qingyun-class is its fourth airship; the other is the "Cumulonimbus-class" serving the Air Force. This

The volume of this airship is much larger than that of the Huoshaoyun class, and the load capacity is also much larger. In fact, the earliest design of this airship came from the design of Academician Zhao of the Black Technology Research Center. Later, it integrated the technology of Kirov airships and evolved into

Cumulonimbus level.

The Cumulonimbus class is actually divided into two subtypes. One is the cargo version, with a maximum speed of 6 knots. Although it is much slower than the large transport aircraft such as the An-22, it has a larger payload and its carrying capacity is as high as 450 payloads.

tons, and has a longer stay in the air, and can fly for dozens of hours. In some places where time is not critical, there is no airport, or the conditions are harsh, large cargo airships can provide powerful transportation capabilities for pL.

The other is an important strategic weapon that the Air Force is still reluctant to show off to people, a gas station-type airship. The Cumulonimbus class has a load capacity of up to 450 tons, allowing such an airship to easily carry two to three hundred tons of fuel into the sky.

It stayed in relatively safe airspace for more than 360 hours, providing the required fuel for forty to fifty fighter aircraft. Now the largest tanker in the world only provides less than one hundred tons of fuel, and the Cumulonimbus-class aerial refueling station,

But it is far stronger than these tankers.

Originally, the Gulf War Air Force dispatched a large number of fighter aircraft, especially many B14s stationed in Gwadar, and the bombers also needed to refuel near the Arabian Sea. Therefore, some people hoped to deploy two or three Cumulonimbus-class air refueling ships in Gwadar, but

In the end, this tendency was rejected, and the secret of the Cumulonimbus class must still be retained.

However, despite this, the emergence of the Huoshaoyun-class reconnaissance airship has really surprised some military powers, including the United States, Britain, France and other countries. It seems that the development of large airships will be an important goal in a certain period of time.

With extremely strong battlefield control, the Huoshaoyun reconnaissance airship has strengthened the Army's response capabilities and intelligence acquisition capabilities. Although it is not an offensive weapon in itself, it has increased the Army's combat efficiency.

An alarm suddenly sounded from the forward reconnaissance post. Li Chen hurriedly checked their dedicated data link terminal, and then shouted: "The reconnaissance airship has sent news. There seems to be a relatively large-scale mobilization of the Iraqi army on the other side of the border. Look,

We are about to launch an offensive, and the direction should be our side."

The platoon leader of the reconnaissance platoon raised his eyebrows and said: "Are these Iraqi bearded men crazy? They are facing more than 20,000 troops of our 10th Division. They are obviously a tough nut, and they shouldn't chew it.

Choose us to eat."

Li Chen rolled his eyes a few times and guessed: "We are very careful in attacking the Iraqi spies on the border. I am afraid that the Iraqi side has limited knowledge of our intelligence. And when it comes to hard bones, there are actually hard bones everywhere, Huff

The defense line between Abateen and King Khalid Military City is formed by American and Western forces.

The square force consists of tens of thousands of mechanized infantry, and the depth is greater that way. It is difficult for the Iraqis to ensure their logistics in such a deep place under our air superiority, so they should not choose that direction.

Keep going deeper. And on our side, I’m afraid that’s not what they really want.”

The platoon leader laughed, patted Li Chen on the shoulder, and said: "You are really resourceful, not bad. Then tell me, where is the real target of the Iraqis?"

Li Chen pointed to the east and said with a smile: "Haifuji."

"How can we see it?"

"The geographical importance of Khafji is self-evident. It is located in the middle of the coastal highway, and it can continue to threaten other countries in the Gulf to the southeast. It is because of this that Saudi Arabia wants to protect it by itself, but does not trust the multinational force.

We and the US military are stronger. However, although Khafji has a lot of troops from Saudi Arabia and the Arab coalition, its actual combat strength is not high. The Iraqi army has been fighting for so many years. Compared with these Arab forces,

The Arab coalition is much braver. If we can break through their defense and occupy Khafji, it will be very helpful to the morale of the Iraqi army and subsequent strategic progress. In this direction, what we are facing is probably a feint attack by the Iraqi army.

They want to draw our attention, especially the air power, to us, and then launch a surprise attack on Khafji to gain victory." Li Chen spoke eloquently and eloquently.

The platoon leader admired him very much and said: "You have been in the army for several years. You have studied military theory and so on. Haha, your service period is coming soon. It's a pity that you are the only non-commissioned officer with such a brain. I will recommend it to my superiors."

You, just mention it to me." Although the country's military officer training is now more

In order to improve the situation, the national defense academies will provide a large number of outstanding young officers to the army, but the army still has a certain quota for soldiers to recruit. After the atmosphere has been rectified, the back-door relationship-building method has become extremely rare, basically ensuring that outstanding and potential officers are

Soldiers can be promoted from soldier to officer.

Li Chen nodded gratefully. He was actually in his second term of service. Before that, he was in the Construction Corps. The border war in 1986 changed him. He deeply hated his cowardice and chose to join the real army.

The field force also transformed into a more qualified soldier. While in the -10th Division, he seized the time to enrich himself, took advantage of various resources within the -10th Division, became self-taught, mastered a large number of advanced military theories, and also sublimated

Developed his own military thinking.

Qi Yiming brought a lot of better learning materials to the army, and ordinary soldiers have the opportunity to come into contact with these things, so as long as they work hard and make progress, there will naturally be a way out.

While they were talking, the scouts in the forward reconnaissance outpost had already packed their gear. They took away everything they could and destroyed anything they couldn't take away and were afraid of leaking. They didn't have many confidential things.

The platoon leader pressed the button on his helmet, turned on the communication device, and reported to the battalion headquarters: "Flash Bl is preparing to withdraw. Repeat, Flash Bl is preparing to withdraw."

"Flash BI's established evacuation route is safe. Please meet up with your headquarters within the designated time. We will soon have a large-scale land battle with the enemy. You don't want to be alone between the two armies." Contact.

The official said half-jokingly that because the Blue Army Division imitated American imperialism in every aspect, the word order and logic of speaking Chinese now seemed a bit like speaking English.

"Understood, we won't let the Iraqis catch up."

Li Chen was carrying a large marching bag and said to the platoon leader: "It seems that the scale of the Iraqi army's mobilization is not small. In this open terrain, it is probably a head-to-head confrontation between the armored forces of both sides."

The platoon leader snorted and said rather disdainfully: "The Iraqi army on the opposite side is equipped with some T2s and the Type 6 tanks we produced in the past, but we have NHT26s. When armored warfare breaks out, these Iraqi armored units will not last long.

of."

Another soldier also echoed: "And we also have stronger air power. The Air Force's AR2 will cause the Iraqis to suffer a lot."

After the reconnaissance airship sent out information about the Iraqi army's unusual movements, the camp of the -10th Division immediately became busy. Soldiers began to gather and climb into their main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles. The earliest tank equipped by the -10th Division was the Type 3

The light Grizzly tank, but later it was considered that this tank of more than 30 tons was too weak when facing the heavy main battle tanks of 50 or 60 tons, so the tank soldiers of the -10th Division replaced it with a tank more similar to the NATO standard the year before last.

NHT26 main battle tank.

The main difference between the Blue Army version of the NHT26 and the ordinary export version of the NHT26 tank is the weapon. In order to match the NATO standard, the Blue Army version of the NHT26 uses a 2Umm caliber artillery, which can fire the NR2AI sabot armor-piercing projectiles used by NlAI to ensure that it matches NATO standards.

When the army cooperates, it can use universal logistics. For this operation, the -10th Division actually obtained ammunition directly from the US military, including their small arms CP26 using 3mmNat shells, mortars, rocket launchers and other weapons also obtained from the US military.

.Of course this is free of charge.

At first, some people felt that many American weapons were simply not as good as PLA's own weapons. For example, the NHT26's main gun was far behind the Type 99's 2m main gun. But Qi Yiming believed that since the Blue Army would make a complete set, the difference in weapons would give soldiers

Different experiences and consciousness, so the Blue Army uniformly uses NATO standard weapons.
Chapter completed!