mtlumby2d Chapter 341 Airstrike Phase 1: Strategic Bombing
Chapter 341 Airstrike Phase 1: Strategic Bombing
The camp of a tank brigade of the Tsarist Russia on the Ob front.
More than a hundred tanks were neatly arranged on the playground. All the tank commanders were half-sticking out of the tank hatches, their eyes fixed on the temporary rostrum in front of them.
The tank's engine roared softly, and a thin plume of black smoke was still billowing from the rear.
On the rostrum was the commander of the 81st Mechanized Army of the Novosibirsk Front.
Just as the army commander was reviewing his troops, eight Changkong-8 missiles roared down from the sky.
The Changkong-8 tactical missile exploded when it was still hundreds of meters away from the ground.
Then we saw several small cylinders being ejected. Soon the parachutes opened and the cylinders began to slow down.
At this time, the cylinder with the parachute was only about 100 meters above the ground.
At this height, the cylinder also exploded from the inside, the projectile broke away, and the true appearance of the inside of the cylinder was revealed.
I saw circles of small bombs surrounding the cylinder.
The sensor in the cylinder began to scan the target for the second time. After confirming the target again, small bombs were thrown out one by one.
These small bombs are armor-piercing projectiles.
And this cylinder is the first generation of terminal-sensitive bullets equipped by the ancient country.
The terminal-sensitive warheads whizzed down from the sky like raindrops, launching a top-down attack on the tank.
In an instant, the entire tank field turned into a Shura field.
The terminal-sensitive projectile mainly relies on high speed to penetrate armor, and can penetrate more than 80 mm of armor within a range of meters.
The top of a tank is often the weakest point in its armor.
Even the third-generation main battle tanks in modern times have top armor less than 20 mm thick.
For a terminal-sensitive projectile with a penetration depth of at least 80 mm, 20 mm is like paper.
When dense terminal-sensitive bombs fell from the sky, the fate of these tanks could be imagined.
Under the penetration of high-speed armor-piercing shells, a large amount of metal jets splashed inside the tank.
These metal jets were like bullets, directly strangling the Tsarist Russian tank soldiers inside the tanks.
Under this sudden attack, the Tsarist Russian tank brigade didn't even have time to react.
Of the nearly 70 tanks, only less than remained.
All that was left were the wreckage of tanks covered in smoke and flames.
The commander of the mechanized army on the rostrum stared at the scene in amazement, his eyes filled with fear of the unknown.
The largest thermal power plant and railway station in Ob's urban area were both hit by Changkong-8 tactical missiles during the same period.
The thermobaric bomb weighing 1 ton caused an extremely violent explosion directly in the power plant.
The high temperature generated by the explosion almost destroyed the entire power plant.
Thermobaric bombs have a large explosion range and have a good destructive effect on power plants.
Of course, the main reason is that the Changkong-8 tactical missile has a slightly low strike accuracy, so it can only use a warhead with a large explosion range and obvious destructive effect.
For train stations, a kinetic armor-piercing and high-explosive combined warhead is used.
Under the attack of dozens of Changkong-8 tactical ballistic missiles, some of Ob's core facilities suffered devastating blows.
In particular, the power plant was destroyed, causing the entire city to lose electricity.
But this is only the first round.
When Tsarist Russia just realized that it was under attack, a second round of 72 Changkong-8 tactical missiles attacked again.
After the second round, there will be a third round, a fourth round, and so on until all valuable targets found are destroyed.
At the same time, the Tomahawk cruise missile also cooperates with the Changkong-8 tactical missile to carry out more precise strikes.
The Far East Military District Air Force dispatched an entire aviation brigade consisting of four squadrons of B-4 strategic bombers to launch air-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles.
The railway station, power plant, water plant, broadcasting center, police station, command center, arsenal, airport, troop assembly area, etc. on the Ob front were all hit to varying degrees.
On the first day, more than two hundred targets were confirmed to be destroyed.
Among them, the destruction rate of front-line airports reached over 80 percent.
Thousands of propeller fighters and even FC-15 jet fighters that had not yet taken off were destroyed on the airport apron and runway.
This day also caused great chaos to the entire Novosibirsk defense line.
The command posts of many troops were destroyed, and the lower-level officers and soldiers were panicked like headless flies, and even small-scale routs occurred.
The next day the blow began.
On that day, the Air Force had already discovered the front-line headquarters in Ob.
This command center is located deep underground. The exact depth is still unknown, but a relatively precise location has been detected through multiple radio positioning.
The Air Force decided to launch a precision strike against this underground command center as soon as possible.
A squadron of 12 F-111 Aardvark fighter-bombers carried out a precision strike on the target under the cover of four F-4 fighter jets.
The airspace of Tsarist Russia was unilaterally opened to the ancient country's air force.
In fact, even if there is no need to send F-15 fighters to escort, the performance of the F-111 Aardvark fighter-bomber can easily shake off the pursuing target or ground air defense firepower.
The ammunition carried by the F-111 Aardvark fighter-bomber on this attack was the GBU-28 laser-guided bunker-buster bomb, which is specially used to attack underground targets.
It weighs 2.3 tons and can penetrate 30 meters of soil or 6 meters of reinforced concrete, and can strike deep into underground targets.
The weather was very good that day. Under the guidance of the laser launcher, 2.3-ton laser-guided bombs flew over ten kilometers and penetrated into the ground.
Twelve Aardvark fighter-bombers launched a total of 12 GBU-24 laser-guided bunker-buster bombs, and the attack density covered the entire area.
Soon, black smoke was seen coming out of the hole made by the bomb.
It is not yet known whether the target was destroyed.
However, no radio signals were detected in the area afterwards, and the target was most likely destroyed.
In the next three days, the ancient country launched more than 200 Tomahawk cruise missiles, nearly 300 Changkong-8 tactical ballistic missiles, and more than 1800 precision-guided bombs of various types.
It includes KD series laser-guided bombs, satellite-guided bombs, infrared-guided bombs, TV-guided bombs, etc.
Not only the Strategic Rocket Force is using this war to clear out its inventory, but the Air Force is doing the same, even the White Eye Star TV-guided bombs have been taken out of the inventory.
A large number of high-value targets on the front line were destroyed in just a few days.
Among the more than 900 targets marked, more than 700 were confirmed to have been destroyed.
Various strategic targets were bombed in succession.
The Novosibirsk defense line, defended by a million-strong army, is already in danger.
Although there were not many casualties among them during these five days, the number did not even exceed 20,000.
But the damage was devastating.
In particular, the paralysis of the command system caused many troops to be leaderless and at a loss.
There is no possibility of restoring the command system in a short period of time.