I have to say that the efficiency of the US military is quite high.
H6O helicopters took off with teams of Longyun, Gege and Delta Special Forces heading northwest towards Bagram airfield near Kabul.
As early as the Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan in the 8o years of the last century, Bagram Air Force Airport was a major base for Soviet aviation to station aircraft, built a runway about 3ooo meters long, which can be used for large transport aircraft and bombers to take off and land, played an important role in the former Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, is a transit point for many ground troops and materials, and also provides air fire support for the military operations of the former Soviet Union.
Now that the US military has invaded Afghanistan, this air base is an important strategic base and a fortress that must be captured.
As long as the Bagram airfield is captured, a forward base can be established, and war materials will continue to arrive here directly from the US air bases in Pakistan and even Europe, greatly improving the efficiency of logistics support.
Peshawar Air Base is near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, and the helicopter flew over the Khyber Pass and entered the airspace of Afghanistan, but this weak country that has been ravaged by war for many years has long had no air supremacy at all, and the Taliban's air force is pitifully weak, so the pilots of the 16O Air Regiment are very relieved, and H6O swaggered and chose the nearest path to cross the border and fly directly to Bagram Air Base near Kabul.
Sitting on the helicopter, Long Yun stretched out his neck and looked at the ground, and soon entered the volley of Afghanistan, which was different from the Pakistani side, where the lights were blind and blind, and occasionally some fires could be seen below, which were left behind after the bombing, and even sporadic firefights could be seen in some areas.
Long Yun didn't have much feeling in his heart about this war, he had seen too many dirty things in his mercenary career over the years.
In many cases, behind the war is always only interests, and the banners under which they are flaunted are indeed varied and varied, but one thing is that it is always the innocent and weak people who suffer.
Soon, the plane entered the vicinity of Jalalabad, and at this time, the pilot began to get nervous.
In the aftermath of the war, Jalalabad was the site of heavy fighting, a key city in the northeast, where Taliban resistance was particularly fierce.
The Northern Alliance forces and the 1O1 Airborne Division, which had infiltrated the area, converged and took it in a short time, but intelligence indicated that the Taliban had dispersed out of the city and engaged in guerrilla warfare on the outskirts.
Long Yun knew that Afghanistan was actually a quagmire, a country that was difficult to conquer by foreign invaders, since 329 BC, Alexander the Great began to wave his army, even if the iron hooves trampled all over Afghanistan, in the end it was still inevitable to return home.
The most recent was the Soviet invasion of '79, which successfully propped up a puppet government, but unfortunately fell into the whirlpool of guerrilla warfare, and the former Soviet leader with a scar on his forehead said that Afghanistan was a wound that bleed day and night on the Soviet Union.
This disgraceful invasion eventually led to the tearing apart of the already fat body of the Soviet Union, and finally collapsed.
Drip drip, drip The red light on the bridge flashed, and the alarm screamed.
A thought immediately flashed through Long Yun's mind, this helicopter was locked.
"Unlucky" He leaned over and hoisted himself out of the cabin, only to see a surface-to-air missile dragging a red tail flame in an arc in the air and flying towards the helicopter on the dark ground.
"Missile attack," Jon yelled, and everyone clung to the safety ring in the cabin.
The H6O helicopter is like a bird flying in the sky, and someone below shoots it with a bow and arrow, and when it hits, it is over.
Long Yun could see from the missile's tail flame that this was not a large anti-aircraft missile, but a shoulder-fired missile.
"It's shoulder-mounted," Long Yun shouted, "The Taliban seem to be well equipped" Jon's face turned cold, and he immediately remembered something, gritted his teeth and said, "Damn the CIA" Long Yun was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood the meaning of Jon's words.
The Taliban's air defense weapons are actually very weak, except for some anti-aircraft machine guns, that is, some "needle" portable air defense missiles seized from the Soviet army that year, however, because there was basically no air power in Afghanistan at that time to attack the Soviet army, so the Soviet army was equipped with basically not many "needle" type, because the Taliban did not capture much, some intelligence showed that there were only twenty, and they had long been consumed in the civil war.
The largest stock was another batch of FI92 "Stinger" shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles supported by the CIA at that time to help the anti-Soviet forces.
This batch of things was originally intended to allow guerrilla soldiers to deal with the Mi-24 "Hind" helicopter gunships that frightened them, and it was the most advanced shoulder-fired missile equipped by the US military at that time, with very advanced performance, using infrared-guided thermal tracking and ultraviolet object tracking, which belonged to the kind of intelligent air defense missile that could be fired and ignored.
Lieutenant Jon, a member of the Delta Special Forces of the 92 Stinger missile, could tell with his toes who made it.
When the "Stinger" missile approached the plane, infrared jamming bombs began to be ejected on both sides of the helicopter, and countless flashes of light spread out in the dark night sky like huge wings.
I have to admit that the pilot technology of the 16O Special Aviation Regiment is indeed first-class, and helicopters are different from fighter planes, and if they are not careful, they will cause loss of control, or even loss, and eventually lead to the destruction of the plane.
H6O actually kept rolling in the air and made a 90-degree climb, and he was still able to fly steadily.
The cabin was as silent as death except for the roar of motives, no one spoke, and everyone knew that their lives were hanging by a thread.
Long Yun felt that his palms holding the safety ring were full of sweat, and his body was under pressure of nearly 4 g due to the helicopter maneuvering at a high level.
Damn it, you won't die before you get out of the school, and you will be blown into meat sauce before you fly into Afghanistan, and you have to go back alive to form a ghost team, and the old fish's revenge has not been avenged rumble The hot decoy bomb worked, exploding a huge fireworks flame on the right side of the plane.
The crisis disappeared, and the evasion was successful Before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, there was a sudden thud, as if something had hit.
The alarm that had just been lifted sounded again, and Long Yun glanced back into the cab.
On the instrument panel, the luminous pointers on several instruments were spinning like crazy, and the plane seemed to be out of order.
"What's going on," Jon shouted into the cab.
"Something hit our motives, damn it," the pilot yelled in annoyance, "we've hit the jackpot" Although the armor of the H6O does not reach the hardness of the Apache, many parts of the fuselage are made of high-strength composite materials, and some places are even equipped with armor plates.
However, the helicopter motive is usually shot on the roof of the cabin, where it is indeed the most vulnerable, if a sniper wants to shoot a helicopter with a gun, he only has two ways to either shoot through the glass to kill the pilot, or to accurately shoot the position of the junction between the propeller and the motor, as long as the oil pipe is hit, the oil pressure of the aircraft can drop instantaneously, resulting in a crash.
"Good things have happened to us, damn it," Long Yun couldn't help but squirt a national curse
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