The height is not high, about a hundred meters above the ground.
But the speed is very fast.
Wu Bin was originally the pilot with the best driving skills in the helicopter squadron. At this time, he was completely following the wartime requirements. Moreover, this guy wanted to show off his driving skills in front of Chen Fei and Anna, so he went very fast and flew as close to the ground as possible.
Avoid being detected by enemy reconnaissance.
After flying for more than 20 minutes, we arrived at Area 13.
Wu Bin turned on the reconnaissance equipment and quickly conducted a reconnaissance of the area ahead.
The 101st Battalion does not have a dedicated reconnaissance helicopter. They only have one model, the Mi-171, so they can only slightly modify this helicopter and add some reconnaissance equipment. Fortunately, the 101st Battalion does not need too sophisticated reconnaissance equipment and can simply modify it.
It's all right at once. Higher-level reconnaissance is usually handed over to the brigade headquarters. They only do a little tactical reconnaissance, so it's not too difficult.
Wu Bin turned on the reconnaissance equipment and conducted some reconnaissance, but found nothing. Then he used the radio to ask Chen Fei, who was sitting in the back cabin, for instructions: "Instructor, it's safe, is it pulled up?"
Chen Fei focused his attention and used his intuition on the battlefield to sense it. He had no bad feelings in his heart, so he nodded: "Pull up!"
Wu Bin pulled the joystick and the helicopter quickly took off.
Of course, the height was not very high, and he did not dare to go higher than the mountains. Instead, he kept flying forward under the cover of the mountains. However, he had been flying on the ground before, and now he was more than two hundred meters above the ground.
There are two tasks next. One is to find a suitable place and drop a few scouts on it, and the other is to continue the reconnaissance.
These scouts will ambush here and conduct timely reconnaissance of the situation here and further afield.
If the 101st Battalion wants to protect this section of the supply line, it must enlarge its field of view, so an observation post must be deployed here.
At this time, the helicopter flew high to find a suitable commanding height.
Chen Fei was sitting in the back cabin, searching with a telescope. After watching for a while, he asked on the radio: "Wu Bin, go to the eleven o'clock direction on your left and look."
There is a commanding height there.
The mountain peaks there are about fifty meters higher than elsewhere. If you can hide there, you only need to station a few scouts there, and you can bring the entire situation within a radius of dozens of kilometers into your observation field of view.
But the terrain there is steep. I wonder if I can hide?
"Understood!" Wu Bin heard Chen Fei's instructions and agreed. After a while, the helicopter turned and flew towards the eleven o'clock direction.
Because the distance between the two was not too far, they arrived in a short time. Wu Bin was very skilled and understood Chen Fei's thoughts very well. With a slight turn, he adjusted the helicopter to a horizontal posture. Chen Fei could do anything.
He can see what he wants to see without having to do anything.
After watching for a while, Chen Fei put down the telescope, turned around and asked the scouts beside him: "How is it? Is this place OK? I feel like it is a little more conspicuous, what do you think?"
The leader of the reconnaissance team also looked at it with the reconnaissance device, and then he said: "Instructor, why don't you go over there!"
Another soldier said: "Instructor, it's still sore there. I think the terrain there is quite special and it's difficult for the helicopter to hover. Even if we want to rappel, it's not convenient."
Chen Fei picked up the telescope and looked at it for a while, then asked Wu Bin: "Wu Bin, are you okay with what I just mentioned?"
"No problem, unicycle hovering can solve it!" Wu Bin replied with a grin.
"Hovering?" Anna was surprised.
But no one paid much attention to her. When Chen Fei heard Wu Bin's reply that it was okay, he immediately ordered Wu Bin to fly the helicopter there.
In order to show off his helicopter driving skills to Anna, and also to make it easier for the scouts to jump out of the cabin, Wu Bin played a trick of hovering on a unicycle.
Sure enough, when Anna saw Wu Bin's operation, she immediately covered her mouth and was so shocked that she didn't react for a long time.
By the time he came to his senses, several scouts had already jumped out of the helicopter cabin and disappeared from sight.
Chen Fei was about to close the cabin door.
"Chen Fei, wait!" Anna stopped her, then she looked out carefully, and then she exclaimed: "God——"
You know, even the flamboyant pilots who claim to be fearless and dare to do anything, few can do such a fancy job.
However, this kind of one-wheel hovering trick is not only beautiful to look at, it is also very useful in actual combat.
The "one-wheel hovering" technique demonstrated by Wu Bin this time is actually "NOE flying", a branch of ultra-low-altitude flying.
This technique was perfected by the US military during the Vietnam-South War, and was mainly used to quickly deliver troops to enemy-occupied areas and avoid attacks from ground-based anti-aircraft weapons.
However, although it seems easy for pilots to do it in various movies, in fact, it is extremely difficult to fly and hover at ultra-low altitudes.
American helicopter flight instructor Tom Harris pointed out that making a helicopter appear motionless may seem simple, but in fact it requires a huge amount of flying experience and skills.
First, the pilot needs to stop moving in any direction and keep the aircraft at a characteristic point;
Secondly, pilots need to detect small changes in the attitude of the aircraft in time and make corrections, which are generally caused by airflow;
Finally, the pilot needs to control the direction and height of the aircraft, otherwise once it hits an obstacle, the result may be a crash and death...
Because this technique is very suitable for allowing helicopters to enter various situations where it is difficult to land normally, it is widely used in disaster relief activities.
Of course, in actual combat, it is of great use. In order to avoid being detected by radar, in many special raids, helicopters enter "unfriendly areas" by flying at ultra-low altitudes of 100 feet or even 50 feet below, and
Deliver troops directly to the target.
Wu Bin did not have the ability to hover in a single wheel before. He had wanted to try it for a long time, but was rejected by his superiors. The superiors felt that he was trying to do some fancy things and refused firmly, but Chen Fei knew that this thing was actually very useful after he was practiced.
, so he boldly encouraged and asked Wu Bin to write the relevant techniques into a teaching material, and other soldiers in the third squadron should also try their best to learn and figure out, so at this moment, this guy was able to perform this unique skill.
After a while, the helicopter took off and flew away from the mountains, then dropped in altitude and flew towards the canyon.
They flew around Area 13 in a helicopter and took photos of the geographical terrain of the entire area. With these photos, the staff department can make corresponding sand tables. After that, 101's command can be more accurate.
, for example, if a strike unit of the opponent comes here to hide, and the 101st Battalion wants to kill them all, then you will know where each strike unit will start, and the time connection between each other can be coordinated more accurately and seamlessly.
docking.
After going around for a while, just when Wu Bin was about to contact the command post and plan to return, the previously launched reconnaissance team suddenly sent an urgent report: "Gou Liang calls Eagle No. 1, please answer if you hear it!"
"I'm Eagle One!"
"Eagle 1, urgent information, there are five helicopters flying in my direction at 11 o'clock, ten kilometers away. They cannot be identified. They are suspected to be targets of the Blue Army. They may want to launch an attack on our 101 camp."