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Southern tip of Africa, Mozambique.

Lush trees, meandering rivers, endless wilderness, this is a beautiful place, but also a poor and backward country.

It has always been a colony of Portugal. It was not declared dúlì until 75. However, years of civil wars and natural disasters have made this agricultural country difficult. It is the world's least developed country and an important country declared by the United Nations. indebted poor countries.

Such a country that still has a primitive tribal system in remote areas has almost no modern national defense. With Ak47 as a weapon, it is already very good equipment.

However, Mozambique's air force has only one fighter squadron, and the outdated MiG-21 fighter jets are their facade. Therefore, this backward country is almost defenseless.

Moreover, due to the sparse population, most areas are deserted.

No one noticed that in the Maputo area, several oil trucks of a foreign transportation company drove out of the urban area, along the highway, and drove to the distance.

Inside the car, Tad, an intelligence officer from the Messiah Bureau, was sitting in the co-pilot's seat with a serious face. The people in the car were all sent from China recently. They entered the transportation company and began to carry out this task. a special task.

Now, the operation is finally about to start. Their task is also very heavy. They need to provide their own helicopters with two fuel supplies on time. In other ways, send back to China.

Mozambique is in the northeast of South Africa, and the Maputo region in the south is only more than 200 kilometers away from the Pretoria region. After the decision of the superior, if the Mi-24 is used for raids, in order not to expose your target, then, It requires a long-distance entry. Then, due to the limited range of the Mi-24, refueling must be carried out. This location was chosen in Mozambique.

The missile base listed above was chosen in the inland Pretoria area, probably out of fear of being attacked, but that does not mean that Qusay will let them go, in order to conceal himself, and at the same time, for a better To combat them well, Iraq boldly planned a refueling operation in Mozambique.

Mozambique is almost a country without air defense. When entering South Africa from Mozambique, South Africa will not be prepared. Afterwards, South Africa does not know who did it, and will not expose Iraq. At this time, the Iraqi training ship is far away from Mozambique. More than 300 kilometers on the high seas!Besides, in the vast sea, the Iraqi training ship may not be known to them at all.

Chapter 969 Attack Fleet Takes Off

After the storm, the ship finally stopped shaking. At this time, the helicopter pilots performed well. However, the ground crew who had never been out to sea had been shaken to the point where they finally knew what seasickness is. .

It turns out that by shaking hard, I can pour out all the contents in my stomach. While vomiting, I have to hold on to the things next to me to prevent falls. Under the power of nature, everything seems so small.

After the hull calmed down, the first thing they did was to check whether the helicopter was still firmly tied there and whether there was any looseness. Fortunately, everything was normal.

This is the first voyage of the Iraqi Navy. They are overcoming all difficulties with tenacious perseverance. This is an inevitable stage for them to go to the ocean and grow up.

Through the confidential channel of the leased Ousheng company's communication satellite, they can keep in touch with Basra and the Maputo regional team.

"Check the ammunition for the last time." Finally, about to arrive at the scheduled sea area: [-] kilometers away from Maputo, Karim gave the order.

Before combat, checking the condition of weapons and ammunition is also a very important step. Even in the last air strike on Libya, the U.S. aviation soldiers thought they were very elite, but half of the ammunition they dropped did not explode. For example, if the bomb at the French embassy was blown up, the consequences would be even more serious. In the Falklands naval battle a few years ago, although the Argentine air force was very fearless, it was also because many bombs did not explode that led to the attack effect is greatly reduced.

They absolutely cannot allow this to happen. They must ensure that every bomb they drop can explode. They can only carry out one operation, and they must completely destroy it.

At this time, the sun in the west was about to set slowly, and this operation also entered the countdown stage.

This area belongs to the high seas. Moreover, since Mozambique is on the coast, there is basically no regular navy and air force, and they are not on the waterway. Their navigation will not attract attention.

Attacks at midnight will be more concealed. Although it is very dangerous to fly at ultra-low altitude in unfamiliar areas at night, they have made full preparations, with the help of night vision goggles and terrain avoidance radar. They have memorized the route It's like going home to visit relatives, and all the roads are very familiar.

Therefore, the attack will start at night, and everything will not be discovered.

After hearing the order, all the personnel started to work nervously. From the weapon packing box, the weapon began to be opened, the last inspection was carried out, the safety was released, and it was mounted on the short wing of the Mi-24. 24's on-board computer for cross-linking and final debugging.

This time in the hangar, there are a total of six helicopters, all of which are fierce army Mi-24 helicopters.And on the outer deck, there is also a Black Hawk helicopter.

The Black Hawk helicopter is an excellent military helicopter. Now that Iraq has maintained a good relationship with the United States, Iraq has purchased this helicopter from the United States, as well as a large number of accessories, to equip the troops. Several of them are naval models. .

Moreover, the dispatch of the naval training ship will definitely attract the attention of others. If there is no helicopter take-off and landing training on the bare deck, it will be too abnormal. The army's Mi-24 cannot appear. During this period Since then, Black Hawk helicopters have been conducting training.

Moreover, in this attack, the Black Hawk helicopter was used as the last sortie to evaluate the bombing effect. Moreover, the Iraqi personnel equipped the Black Hawk with short wings on both sides, which can carry two powerful aerial bombs, ready to carry out Complementary attack.

The Iraqi personnel began to operate intensely. At this time, the sky slowly darkened.

The Black Hawk helicopter needs to be equipped with short wings on both sides. Although this kind of helicopter generally has no external attachments, it can also be equipped with short wings when designing. The ones that were used to add auxiliary fuel tanks are now being used by Iraqi personnel to modify and attach aerial bombs.

The operation of the Mi-24 is even more complicated. They are slowly pushed out of the hangar and pushed to the position of the flight deck. They also need to install the dismantled rotors again. They are operating nervously.

Three Mi-24s have been launched, and there is enough space for the Mi-24s in the hangar. Therefore, the remaining three Mi-24s are operated directly in the hangar.

The four take-off and landing positions on the outside and the three positions inside that have been vacated are all busy with Iraqi personnel. Although they have conducted repeated drills, they still feel that their hands and feet are too slow.

Six Mi-24s, all of which have the same mounts. The weapon rack on the inside has the most outstanding carrying capacity. It is used to mount two Paveway laser-guided bombs. This is their big killer and is used for precise bombing. Important targets, correspondingly, need to mount a laser pointer pod on the wingtip pylon on one side, while four anti-tank missiles are mounted on the wingtip pylon on the other side.On the middle pylons on both sides, UV-32-57 rocket launchers are mounted respectively, and each rocket launcher can hold 32 57mm rockets.

Laser-guided bombs are used to hit key targets, rockets are used to cover areas, and anti-tank missiles are used to finish off. In fact, only four of them can turn the place into a sea of ​​flames. Six of them are used to eliminate all the targets. .

In the case of all suspensions, the range of the Mi-24 is only 24 kilometers. In order to ensure the smooth progress of this operation, Iraqi technicians modified the Mi-24. In the crew compartment, two sets of auxiliary fuel tanks have been added.

There are 24 bulletproof fuel tanks in the Mi-5, which can hold 2130 liters of fuel. When it was designed, two 1630 liter auxiliary fuel tanks could be installed in the machine. Now, Iraqi technicians have manufactured two larger fuel tanks , can load nearly 24 liters of fuel, so that it is enough to allow the Mi-[-] to fly to the refueling point, and still have some remaining fuel.

Then, after refueling, fly to the Pretoria area, return, refuel for the second time, and return to the training ship before dawn.

After several hours of intense assembly, at ten o'clock in the evening, the preparations before take-off were finally completed.

Aziz stepped into the cockpit, feeling a little excited. He sailed for half a month just to wait for this day!

"The action has begun, let's go, my child." The commander-in-chief Karim said.After the operation started, the specific battle of the formation was handed over to the commander of the army aviation brigade, Hurd.

Hurd also stepped into his cockpit, started the engine, pushed the accelerator and pulled the total torque as the propeller turned. The Mi-24 left the deck below with a rumbling sound, and got into the night sky.The weapons under the short wings have always been imprinted in the minds of the crew on board.

After the first batch of Mi-24s were released, the second batch of Mi-24s was also pulled out of the hangar, came to the parking stand, started, and lifted off. They will meet again at the refueling point.

After take-off, the aircraft group lowered the altitude and flew towards the Maputo area at an economical cruising speed of 50 kilometers per hour at a distance of only 220 meters from the sea.

Aziz looked outside, wearing night vision goggles, the outside world is green, the sea is endless, with slight waves, as an army aviation unit, they rarely fly to the sea, there is no reference to compare with , the only thing she could trust was the appearances in front of her.

The Mi-24 helicopter produced by Iraq itself has improved electronic equipment, such as the navigation system, and adopted Western equipment, which greatly improves the precision. This is also a necessary condition for them to carry out this long-distance attack.

"Attention, we are about to enter the air above the land, and the altitude will be reduced to 40 meters." Heard's voice came from the earphone.

Although Mozambique is basically in the category of no air defense, in order to play a concealed role, they still chose to continue to lower their altitude to maintain their suddenness.

Although it is said that the Israeli base was bombed this time, we cannot let the other party know that Iraq did it, because that would cause serious political problems. Although Iraq is not afraid, this kind of trouble should be minimized Yes, the choice to enter from Mozambique is also considered, that is, to put the attack on Mozambique in the end, and let the two countries argue over this matter.

It has been flying for an hour and a half, and the fuel in the additional fuel tank has already been consumed, and the main fuel tank has also consumed half of the fuel. What they need to do now is to find the refueling team that they have arranged here in advance, otherwise, They had little choice but to blow up the helicopter which had run out of fuel.

Maputo is located at the southern tip of Mozambique, facing the Maputo Bay of the Indian Ocean. After dúlì, it was designated as the capital of Mozambique, but outside Maputo, it was still very empty.

At this time, [-] kilometers northwest of Manisa, some people were waiting calmly.

They had already driven off the road. On a deserted road, a car broke down and blocked the entire road. None of them could pass. In order to save time, they took this small road. It turned out that it was a mistake.

During the day, people who occasionally pass by expressed great sympathy for them. Unfortunately, there is no solution and they have to wait for the arrival of rescue vehicles.

Not far from this road is a flat open space.

9 Chapter seventy surprise attack

Omar stood in the clearing, an area they had checked out during the day, big enough for their own helicopter fleet to land.