Dominate South Asia

In the vast desert, the temperature reached over 50 degrees. Amidst the rumbling sound of the 1,200-horsepower Perkins diesel engine, the armored soldiers of the 7th Armored Brigade of the 1st Armored Division were sweating like rain.

When the Challenger tank was originally designed, it was designed according to the British climate. In this desert, the tank's original air conditioner could not provide enough cooling power at all. It blew out hot air, and the engine behind it was constantly Heat is coming.

In order to attack quickly, the entire armored force was advancing at full speed.

The 7th Armored Brigade, nicknamed the Desert Rats. Now, they are not as leisurely as the rats in the desert. Everyone is following them like a steamer.

Finally, the brigade commander, Colonel William Kelvin, couldn't stand it anymore and opened the turret hatch above his head.

Colonel William is a veteran. His father once participated in World War II. Tank soldiers at that time almost never stayed inside the tank. Especially the commander, half of his body leaned outside to visually detect the enemy, and then Commanding tanks to fire was a standard tactic at the time. Of course, there were also many captains whose upper half of their bodies were directly broken in this way.

Now, commanding the most powerful armored force in Britain, William is eager to make achievements like his father. He is on the tank, his body keeps bumping with the tank, feeling the heat with gravel coming towards his face, feeling It’s no different than being inside a tank.

The movement of the entire armored force, especially in the desert, will stir up countless yellow sands. It doesn't matter which tank is at the front, but the tanks at the back are actually very uncomfortable.

William picked up the telescope and looked into the distance during the bumps, hoping to encounter the Iraqi armored forces and have a real fight with them.

but. This seems to be a delusion. With our own powerful air power, the Iraqi Republican Guard, those powerful armored forces, simply do not dare to go out to fight in the field, otherwise they will definitely be completely killed by air strikes!

For the sake of Kuwait, Iraq went to great lengths and almost brought all the most elite Republican Guards to Kuwait.

While thinking. William continued to observe with the telescope, and at this moment, he saw the same dust appearing everywhere in the distance.

What's going on? In the high-magnification telescope, he saw black spots one after another. The black spots continued to enlarge, and finally turned into tanks!

"Attention, Iraqi armored troops have been discovered!" William quickly retracted his body into the turret and closed the hatch.

The battle is about to begin!

They don't know. In order to protect Kuwait City, more than ten days ago, the Hammurabi Division of the Iraqi Republican Guard. They buried all their main battle tanks in the desert of northwest Kuwait. They have been waiting for this opportunity!

Now, the battle has begun. The U.S. Air Force's fighter planes are mainly used to search for the Scud missiles that pose the greatest threat. In the desert area near Kuwait, the United States has not found any tanks buried under the desert.

in the later Gulf War. The Americans have discovered those tanks under the sand. At that time, they were discovered by infrared devices because they had been started and the engines had heat.

And now, Hammurabi's division is well hidden.

Hundreds of main battle tanks, including T-80U and a small number of Type 90 tanks imported from Pakistan, are equipped with the Hammurabi Division. They are no longer the monkey version of the T-72 of later generations!

Especially tanks imported from Pakistan. Because of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, a large number of later tanks were banned from export by Pakistan. However, these early dozens of tanks entered the equipment sequence of Iraq and became the trump card of the Hammurabi Division.

These tanks have excellent sighting systems. At a distance of more than 2,000 meters, a Type 90 tank was in the lead. The brigade commander of the 8th Armored Brigade of the Hammurabi Division, Ali Abdullah Shehri, with a fat belly, calmly directed his own army's attack.

Ali is now 33 years old. He is a contact talent of the Iraqi Armored Forces. He was born into poverty in his early years. After joining the army, his living standards have improved significantly. His figure has become like that of the wealthy Saudis, full of fat and potbellied, so he is jokingly called "Armored Ali", But his flaws are not concealed. He has rare intuition and talent in the command of armored forces. He is also one of the few Iraqi armored commanders who has entered the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in France and the German Armored Forces School to systematically study the tactics and strategies of Western armored forces. Talent. During the Iran-Iraq War, the armored troops led by Armor Ali once penetrated hundreds of kilometers into the interior of Iran, beating the Iranians to the point of crying like ghosts.

It was just that he was commanding a T-62 tank at the time. The small space inside made Armored Ali feel very uncomfortable. Therefore, when the army was equipped with these Pakistani-made Type 90 tanks, Armored Ali immediately liked the big turret. Although the tank lacks an automatic loader and has to be loaded manually, it is still relatively spacious inside, more spacious than a three-person T-72 tank!

At this time, his eyes were fixed on the commander's peripheral vision device in front of him. On the other side, the yellow sand filled the sky, and he knew it was a tank of the invading coalition forces!

Kill the Americans! Armored Ali was full of fighting spirit at this time.

"Attention, the third regiment is outflanking from the left, the second regiment is outflanking from the right, and the first regiment is rushing up with me!" Ali shouted on the radio: "For the honor of our Iraqi armored forces, fight bravely!"

fighting! The Iraqi armored forces are invincible and marching forward indomitably!

The regiment was equipped with Pakistani Type 90 tanks. In the bumps, the two-way stable turret ensured that the muzzle was always facing the enemy. Even if a cup of water was placed on the muzzle, it would never fall off!

Ali stared at the periscope and locked onto the first target, the tank that rushed up! At this time, Ali, who was familiar with various Western tanks and saw the outline of the opponent, knew that he was not facing the American M1A1 armored forces, but the British Challenger tank!

"One armor-piercing shell, distance 2,200, wind speed 3!" Ali shouted loudly.

As a commander, he should command the battle from behind, but Ali always likes to rush to the front line, and he is the first to rush! He is very confident in the tank he is driving!

The tracks stirred up yellow sand, and the dust rolled behind. Ali's sight in front was very good. Just as the tank was moving rapidly, there was a loud bang, and a cloud of black smoke appeared at the muzzle of the gun, and a tail-stabilized armor-piercing shell flew out!

Colonel William on the opposite side couldn't help but sneer when he saw that the other side actually fired shells at such a long distance. Those monkey-version T-72s were lucky to be able to hit within a thousand meters!

But at this moment, he saw a tank on the left side in front of him suddenly shook, and then stopped.

Hit!

At a distance of 2,200 meters, the armor-piercing shell flew over and hit the main armor in front of the main turret of the Challenger tank. The pride of the British, the world's best Chobham armor, blocked the armor-piercing shell abruptly. It was only a few millimeters away from penetrating, and the hot metal heat flow was shot into the interior of the tank, killing all the tank members. The armor-piercing shell did not penetrate.

However, it is not as the outside world claims that if the armor-piercing projectile can be blocked, the crew can survive completely. Although the mass of the armor-piercing projectile is not large, the huge speed brings huge energy. After colliding with the front armor of the tank, the entire tank was shaken, and the tank crew inside were all shocked, just like being hit by the shock wave of the large-caliber grenade explosion.

The people inside all fainted.

"034,034!" Colonel William shouted on the radio, and there was no response from the other side. Looking at the Iraqi armored torrent rolling in front, Colonel William felt something was wrong.

Those tanks are not old Soviet tanks at all! Look at the shape of the turret, it is very similar to the German Type 90 tank! In an instant, he remembered that Iraq had imported a batch of such tanks from Pakistan!

Damn! The fire control system of this type of tank produced in Pakistan is as sophisticated as that of the Germans, and the tank gun is as fierce as the original one, except for the backward armor system!

"Go up and fire!" Colonel William shouted on the radio.

Originally, how to deal with Iraq's armored forces was planned before the operation. Because Iraq's main tank, the T-72 imported from the Soviet Union, had a backward fire control system and could hardly hit the target at a distance of one thousand meters, the plan formulated by the coalition forces was to retreat at full speed after encountering Iraqi armored soldiers.

Retreat can ensure that the main armor of the party always faces the greatest threat, and at the same time, take advantage of the advantage of the party's range to continuously eliminate the opponent at a long distance!

But now, the tanks equipped by the Iraqis have a more advanced fire control system than their own. At a distance of two kilometers, a single shot hit a tank, which made Colonel William alert immediately. It is no longer possible to use the original tactics. Now the only way is to rush up! The Leopard 2 tank is thin-skinned and large-stuffed. The armor uses the monkey version of Chobham exported by Britain at sea. The performance is not at the same level as the Challenger. The armor-piercing shells fired by the 120mm rifled gun of the party can easily penetrate the opponent's tanks!

With this idea in mind, the proud British 1st Armored Division, 7th Armored Brigade, launched a tank attack, and the opponent was the Pakistani-made Type 90 tank equipped by Iraq!

Thick smoke came out of the tail exhaust pipe, the 1200 horsepower engine roared, the distance between the two sides was rapidly closing, and at the same time, the tank guns of both sides were also aiming at each other.

"Fire!" A tank commander shouted, and after setting all the firing data, an armor-piercing shell flew out of the L30 tank gun. (To be continued ~^~)