The four blades of the Hind gunship rotated rapidly, and the wind pressure caused the bushes below the valley to sway.
Rambo and his other anti-aircraft team were hiding in the shadows under the bushes, listening to the sound of blades cutting the air getting closer and closer.
Rambo raised his head and saw two Hinds suddenly jumping out of the ridge to his left. They crossed the ridge line and began to fire rockets at the rocket launcher.
The dense rain of bullets howled and fell on the guerrilla rocket launcher position. In an instant, the explosion swallowed up everything. Fortunately, the artilleryman who fired the rockets fled the scene without looking back after firing the rockets. Therefore, the rocket attack did not cause any casualties.
But the Soviet Union did not know that the attack of the Mi-24 helicopter was so fast that the smoke and dust were billowing, and the pilot could not see whether there was any personnel movement. However, in line with the principle of preferring to kill a thousand by mistake rather than letting one go, they all All the things that could be thrown were thrown away.
"Those guys should be dead, right?"
"Not sure, add more fire to them!"
The weapons officer kept his eyes fixed on the fire control sight, his finger was already pressed on the bomb release button, and he was waiting for the deer to drop the two incendiary bombs after it entered the bomb release distance.
Because the bomb delivery must be kept steady, the pilot corrected the helicopter's course and flew straight past the launch site that had turned into a sea of fire.
And behind them, Rambo was also ready!
"Ready to launch!"
Rambo picked up the Stinger missile, unfolded the iff antenna on the right front of the missile launcher, turned on the sight and connected the signal interrogator. Then the bone conduction device next to the sight automatically attached to Rambo's cheekbone, and then Rambo pressed iff switch on the launch handle.
The indicator next to the sight immediately emits a rapid beep, which indicates that the target's iff, that is, the identification of friend or foe, is not responding. Therefore, it means that the fire control confirms that this is an enemy target.
Then, Rambo aimed the target in the aiming ring of the scope, aligning it with the groove in the center, because the enemy plane was facing him. Then he turned on the weapon safety, and the missile's seeker began to capture the infrared of the hind. Thermal signature, after the seeker captures the target, the indicator beeps again to alert the shooter.
Rambo then pressed the unlocker with his right thumb to activate the missile, then continued to track the target and held down the trigger.
At this moment, the battery inside the missile begins to operate. 0.5 seconds after startup, the missile detaches from the launch tube, the tail and control wings immediately unfold, and the launch motor detaches. After reaching a safe distance, the missile engine ignites immediately and begins to accelerate the missile.
Rambo and the team beside him locked on and fired at the same time, but to ensure a hit, both teams aimed at the same Hind helicopter.
The two stingers were quickly propelled to a speed of Mach 2 and flew towards their target.
At this moment, the Soviet Union had not installed infrared warning and missile warning devices on the Hind. Therefore, the locked helicopter had no idea that a missile was flying towards it. It was not until the pilot of another Hind helicopter parallel to him saw an unknown object approaching that he A loud warning sounded on the radio channel.
"Sergey, missile!"
But his reminder was a little late. As soon as the pilot finished speaking, the first stinger was installed on the rear fuselage of the Hind. Although it exploded, releasing countless fragments.
After the Hind helicopter was hit, the fuselage began to tremble violently, and the instruments and operating system began to warn wildly. The pilot held on to the control stick and tried to stabilize the aircraft.
Then, the second roaring Stinger struck again. This time the missile exploded at the tail rotor. The Hind's tail rotor was damaged by fragments and stopped working.
The tail rotor is a device that controls the helicopter's heading. After being destroyed, the Hind helicopter randomly began to spin and continued to fall in altitude. Fortunately, the pilot was very skilled and controlled the helicopter to spin little by little and fall towards the distant valley. A flat place, which can reduce the impact of the helicopter's emergency landing as much as possible. ..
The Stinger missile was fire-and-forget, so after launching the missile, they decisively started reloading.
While the Hind helicopter was still looking for ground targets, Rambo and the others had completed loading, and then aimed at the second Hind helicopter again and launched the missile.
The pilot of the helicopter was already prepared for the incoming firepower from the ground, so after seeing the smoke and dust, he immediately operated the helicopter to quickly descend in altitude.
However, because the distance was very close, his maneuver had no effect. The first stinger still hit it, but because the helicopter was doing a half-barrel roll to the left, the missile hit the fuselage. In addition to tearing out the doe, Except for some gaps, there was not much damage, but the helicopter still sounded the alarm.
When the second missile was launched, the shooter's swing range was a bit large. After the missile was launched, it failed to complete all turns in the power section due to overload problems. Therefore, after the hind flew a distance of almost three kilometers, the missile self-destructed.
Seeing one of the two Hinds crashing down with black smoke and the other escaping in a panic, the fellow Afghans who were hiding immediately started cheering excitedly.
The shouts of Allahu Akbar could not be heard, but soon the cheers were suppressed by the commander.
"Stop shouting and prepare to attack!"
While Rambo and the others were firing missiles, the Pakistani scouts had basically confirmed the location of the Afghan army in the valley. Then, the rocket launchers that had been loaded long ago began to roar again. This time it was not two or three guns, but A dozen rocket launchers opened fire at the same time, and the rockets fired instantly destroyed one-fifth of the guerrillas.
Although it seems wasteful, it is actually very cost-effective. With the help of Pakistan and mercenaries, more than one-third of these rockets hit the Afghan army, blowing them to dust and disorientation.
Even the two pilots who escaped from the helicopter were shocked. Without saying a word, they fled into the bushes with their AKS74 rifles and radios for self-defense.
They were not far away from their own people, but they were even closer to the enemy. The weapon operator was injured when he landed, so he didn't dare to make any small moves at all. He could just wait for the support to arrive safely!
As soon as they took cover, they felt the ground shaking, and then there was the sound of horse hooves hitting the ground like thunder.
The pilot raised his head cautiously in the bushes, and then buried his head again in fear, because less than a few dozen meters away from him, a front line of cavalry was rushing towards the valley with indomitable momentum.
