Chapter 661 Armored Showdown
On the wide desert, the temperature reached more than fifty degrees. Amid the rumbling 1,200-horsepower Perkins diesel engines, the armored soldiers of the 7th Armored Brigade of the First Armored Division were sweating like rain.
When designing the Challenger tank, it was designed according to the British climate. In this desert, the original air conditioner of the tank could not provide enough refrigeration power at all. It was hot air blowing out, and the engine behind it was constantly emitting heat.
In order to quickly raid, the entire armored force was advancing at full speed.
The 7th Armored Brigade, nicknamed Desert Rats, is not as leisurely as the mice in the desert, and everyone follows in the steamer.
Finally, the brigade commander Colonel William Kelvin finally couldn't stand it and opened the turret hatch above his head.
Colonel William is a veteran. His father had participated in World War II. At that time, the tank soldiers would hardly stay inside the tank, especially the captain. Half of his body was protruding outside, visually discovering the enemy, and then commanding the tank to fire, which was the standard tactic at that time. Of course, there were also many captains who were directly broken into the upper half of their bodies.
Now, commanding the most powerful armored force in Britain, William longs to make achievements like his father. On the tank, his body kept shaking with the tank, feeling the heat flow with sand that was coming, and it felt that there was no difference from inside the tank.
The entire armored force will marching, especially in the desert, which will stir up countless yellow sand. It doesn’t matter if the tanks that start in the front are actually very uncomfortable.
William picked up the telescope and looked into the distance in the bumpy manner, hoping to encounter Iraq's armored forces and do something real.
However, this seems to be a delusion. With our own strong air power, the Iraqi Republican Guard and those powerful armored forces dare not come out to fight in the field, otherwise they would definitely be completely killed by the air strike!
Iraq has also fought hard for Kuwait, almost bringing the most elite Republican Guard to Kuwait.
While thinking, William continued to observe with a telescope. At this moment, he saw the same sand and dust appearing everywhere in the distance.
What's going on? In the high-magnification telescope, he saw black dots one by one, and the black dots kept magnifying, and finally turned into tanks!
"Note, I found the Iraqi armored forces!" William quickly retracted his body into the turret and covered the hatch.
The battle is about to begin!
They didn't know that in order to protect Kuwait City, more than ten days ago, the Hammorabi Division in the Iraqi Republic Guard buried their main battle tanks in the desert in northwestern Kuwait, and they were waiting for this opportunity!
Now that the battle has begun, the US Air Force fighter jets are mainly used to search for the most threatening Scud missiles. In the desert area near Kuwait, the United States has not found any buried tanks under the desert.
In the later Gulf War, Americans discovered the tanks under the sand. At that time, it was because they had been activated and the engine had heat, which was discovered by infrared devices.
And now, Hammorabi is hiding well.
Hundreds of main battle tanks, including T-80u and a small number of Type 90 tanks imported from Pakistan, were equipped with Hammarabhi Division, and they are no longer the monkey version of T-72 in later generations!
Especially the tanks imported from Pakistan, due to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, a large number of tanks in the later period were banned from export by Pakistan. However, dozens of tanks in the early period entered Iraq's equipment sequence and became the killer weapon of Hammorabi Division.
These tanks have excellent sight-seeing and aiming systems. On a leading Type 90 tank just over two thousand meters away, Ali Apudura Sheikhri, the brigade commander of the 8th Armored Brigade of the Hammorabi Division, calmly commanded his own army's attack with his fat belly.
Ali is 33 years old and is a talent for contact with Iraqi armored forces. He was born in poverty in his early years. After joining the army, his living standards have improved significantly. His figure has become like the wealthy Saudis, full of fat and big belly, so he is joked as "Armored Ali". However, his flaws do not conceal his merits. He has rare intuition and talent in command of armored forces. He is one of the few Iraqi armored forces commanders who entered the French Saint-Sil Military Academy and the German armored forces school systematically learned Western armored forces tactics and strategies. In the Iranian War, the armored forces led by Armored Ali once penetrated hundreds of kilometers in the inland of Iran, causing Iranians to cry and howl.
But at that time he was commanding the T-62 tank. The small space inside made Armored Ali feel very uncomfortable. Therefore, when the army equipped this batch of Pakistan-made Type 90 tanks, Armored Ali immediately liked the tank of this turret. Although there was no automatic loader, it had to be loaded manually. It was still relatively spacious inside, even more spacious than the three-person T-72 tank!
At this time, his eyes were fixed on the circumference of the captain Zhou Weituo in front, and the yellow sand was everywhere on the sky, and he knew it was the invading coalition tank!
Kill the Americans! Armored Ali's heart was full of fighting spirit at this time.
"Note that the third regiment is surrounded from the left, the second regiment is surrounded from the right, and the first regiment is rushed up with me!" Ali shouted in the radio: "Fight bravely for the honor of our Iraqi armored soldiers!"
Fight! Iraq's armored soldiers are invincible and move forward!
A group of Pakistani Type 90 tanks were equipped with. During the bumps, the two-way stable turret ensured that the muzzle was always towards the enemy. Even if a glass of water was placed on the nozzle of the gun barrel, it would definitely not fall!
Ali stared at Zhou Shiyi and locked the first target, the tank that rushed up! At this time, Ali, who looked at the outline of the other party and knew all kinds of Western tanks, knew that what he had encountered was not the American m1a1 armored force, but the British Challenger tank!
"One armor-piercing bomb, with a distance of 2,220 and a wind speed of 3!" Ali shouted loudly.
As a commander, he should command the battle behind him, but Ali always likes to rush to the front line and to the first one! He is very confident in the tank he is driving!
The tracks stirred up yellow sand, and dust rolled behind them. Ali's vision in front was very good. Just as the tank was moving rapidly, there was a loud bang, and a ball of black smoke appeared at the mouth of the gun barrel. A tail wing stably unshelled armor-piercing bomb flew out!
Colonel William on the opposite side saw that the other party fired shells at such a long distance, and couldn't help but laugh at him. It would be nice to hit those monkey versions of T-72s within a thousand meters!
But at this moment, he saw a tank on the left side of his front, which shook violently, and then stopped.
I've hit it!
At a distance of 2,200 meters, the armor-piercing missile flew over and hit the main armor in the front of the main turret of the Challenger Tank. The British pride, the world's most powerful Chobam armor, blocked the armor-piercing missile, which could penetrate only a few millimeters away, and shot the hot metal heat flow into the inside of the tank, so that all the armor-piercing missiles that were killed by the tank members did not drill in.
However, it is not as claimed by the outside world that the crew can completely survive. Although the mass of the armor-piercing bomb is not large, the huge speed brings huge energy. After the front armor of the tank hit, the entire tank was shaken, and the tank crew inside were shocked, just like being slapped by the shock wave of the large-caliber grenade explosion.
Everyone inside fainted.
"034,034!" Colonel William shouted in the radio, and the other party did not respond. Looking at the torrent of Iraqi rolling in front of him, Colonel William felt something was wrong.
Those tanks were not old Soviet tanks at all! Looking at the shape of the turret, it looked very much like the German Type 90 tank! In an instant, he remembered that Iraq had imported a batch of such tanks from Pakistan!
Damn it! The fire control system of this kind of tank produced in Pakistan is as good as that of the Germans, and the tank guns are as fierce as the original ones, except for the backward armor system!
"Roar up and fire!" Colonel William shouted in the radio.
Originally, the plan was made before the operation. Since Iraq's main tank, the T-72 fire control system introduced from the Soviet Union, was behind, it was almost impossible to hit the target a thousand meters away. The plan formulated by the coalition forces was to retreat at full speed after encountering Iraqi armored troops.
Retreat can ensure that your main armor always faces the greatest threat, and at the same time, take advantage of your range advantage to continuously eliminate the opponent at long distances!
But now, the fire control system of the Iraqi tanks are even more advanced than that of ours. At a distance of two thousand meters, Colonel William immediately became alert. It was impossible to use the original tactics. Now the only way is to rush up! The Leopard 2 tank is thin-skinned and large-filled. The monkey version of Chobam was output from the British sea from the British. The performance was not on the same level as the challenger. The armor-piercing projectile fired by his 120mm rifled cannon can easily penetrate the opponent's tank!
With this idea, the proud British First Armored Brigade launched a tank attack, and the attack was against the Type 90 tanks made by Iraq-equipped Pakistani!
Smoke came out of the exhaust pipe at the rear, and the 1200-horsepower engine roared. The distance between both sides was quickly getting closer. At the same time, the tank guns of both sides were also aiming at each other.
Chapter completed!