northernbook Chapter 342 Airstrike Phase 2: Tactical Strike
Chapter 342 Airstrike Phase 2: Tactical Strike
The sixth day of war!
Tactical strike operations against the Novosibirsk front began.
On that day, the Far East Military Region and the Northwest Military Region dispatched more than 3000 fighter jets of various types, with more than sorties.
This also means that the average number of sorties for these more than 3 fighter jets reached times.
Tactical strike operations focus on striking targets such as front-line ground forces and logistical supply lines.
The goal of this stage was to weaken the resistance of the Tsarist Russian forces and clear obstacles for subsequent ground offensives.
Tsarist Russia is still using its old tactics for defense.
The core line of defense was to build fortifications along the Ob River, and two lines of defense were also built in front of the Ob River.
A million Tsarist Russian troops gathered on these three lines of defense.
The length of the defense line was more than 200 kilometers, spanning three provinces of Tsarist Russia.
The concentration of Tsarist Russian troops was actually a good thing for the ancient country's air force.
The most commonly used weapon in tactical air strikes is still ordinary low-drag bombs.
Although its accuracy is far inferior to that of precision-guided weapons, it can provide sufficient supply in large quantities.
F-14雄猫、F-15鹰、F-16隼、F-111土豚、A-10疣猪、图-22M3逆火等各型战机纷纷出动，针对沙俄地面部队展开了有序的空中打击。
The already chaotic Russian defenders were unable to mount an effective counterattack in the face of air raids.
Even if the air defense forces use anti-aircraft guns to fight back, they will soon be destroyed by laser-guided bombs or satellite-guided bombs.
The only way to deal with the jet fighters flying all over the sky of the ancient air force is to use anti-aircraft missiles.
No country has mastered this technology.
It is simply a dream to rely on anti-aircraft guns to pose a threat to the ancient country's air force.
Even a large-caliber 120mm anti-aircraft gun has a range of only about ten to twenty kilometers at most.
However, laser bombs and satellite glide-guided bombs can launch attacks beyond their range, which makes it difficult for the Tsarist Russian air defense forces to fight.
The Tsarist Russian Front Command located in the rear could only worry about it.
During the entire period, the Tsarist Russian troops were in a passive position.
They had lost a large number of combat personnel without even seeing the ancient country's ground troops.
The tactical bombing campaign did not last long, only 15 days.
The Air Force dispatched tens of thousands of fighter jets and delivered hundreds of thousands of tons of ammunition of various tonnages.
The data on the number of Tsarist Russian soldiers killed or wounded cannot be counted, but the number was at least over 10.
The ancient country's air force is still very confident about this.
In just 20 days, the resistance of the million-strong Russian army on the front line was almost destroyed.
At this time, the ground offensive also began.
The Far Eastern Military District launched a ground offensive with the Far Eastern Army as its main force, and the Ninth and Tenth Armies covering its left and right flanks.
In the rear, the 14th and 15th Group Armies of the Far East Military District were reinforced as strategic reserves.
Fighter planes and armed helicopters kept roaring past in the sky.
On the ground, a tank cluster consisting of M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks and T-72 main battle tanks was speeding across the vast plains.
The M1A1 Abrams main battle tank is also the Army's next-generation main battle tank.
The army has also begun to gradually abandon the bulky and crude Soviet-made equipment and embrace American equipment.
The three armies of the ancient country have all been Americanized.
It has to be said that before the millennium, the equipment of the U.S. Navy, Army and Air Force was overwhelming that of other countries in the world at that time.
Advanced, sci-fi, and invincible were almost synonymous with American equipment of that era.
It is for this reason that the Army, Air Force, Navy and Strategic Rocket Force have begun to replace their equipment while fighting.
It is expected that more than 5% of the troops will be equipped with new equipment within 8-80 years.
If it weren't for the Red Alert base, the troops wouldn't be able to change their equipment so frequently.
Not to mention whether there is enough money to change equipment so frequently, even soldiers cannot do it.
Because the weapons and equipment that have been replaced basically span an era.
Every change of equipment means that soldiers have to learn how to operate this advanced equipment from scratch.
The Red Alert soldiers simply skipped this process.
As soon as the equipment is in service, they can operate it skillfully as if they have been using it for a long time.
In Jiang Hua's opinion, this is the most powerful aspect of Red Alert soldiers.
As the equipment is updated and iterated, their core will also be updated and iterated. This is simply a BUG-level capability.
It is for this reason that more than 70% of the soldiers in the three armed forces are Red Alert soldiers.
Otherwise, how could Jiang Hua dare to change clothes so frequently and on such a large scale.
More than 57 M58 and T-1 main battle tanks of the 72th and th Heavy Combined Brigades of the Fifth Army were inserted into the Novosibirsk defense line like a steel knife.
Defending the two combined brigades were four infantry divisions of the Tsarist Russian army, totaling more than 30,000 troops.
Originally this army had more than 50,000 people, but over the past two days, more than 20,000 people were killed or injured in the bombing.
Before the tank troops attacked, the M109A6 self-propelled artillery and Type 40 tracked 40-barrel rocket launcher in the rear launched rounds of ground clearing.
Wherever there is a suspected enemy target, the shells will fall and blow the area upside down.
Compared with traditional artillery, the updated M109A6 self-propelled artillery fires faster and more accurately, and its efficiency is several times that of traditional towed artillery.
During this period, the Tsarist Russian defenders also launched a counter-bombardment operation.
The hidden artillery was pushed out of the bunker by them.
Directly launch artillery bombardment in the direction of possible attack by the ancient country, attempting to use artillery to block the attack of the ancient country's armored forces.
The artillery units are also prepared to face this situation.
The anti-artillery reconnaissance company located in the artillery unit does this job.
This company is equipped with 2 radars.
One is the AN/TPQ-36 mortar locating radar with a maximum range of 15 kilometers.
One is the AN/TPQ-37 gun position detection radar with a maximum range of 100 kilometers.
The positioning accuracy is less than 100 meters.
For a group of artillery, an error of 100 meters is not an error at all.
At present, these two radars have been deployed on a large scale in the army and are the artillery's anti-bombardment weapon.
As long as the enemy fires, we can calculate their target within ten seconds.
Fire artillery shells according to this coordinate or call for air support to destroy the enemy's artillery.
Even the highly flexible mortars could not escape the disaster.
After all, no matter how fast you run, can you be faster than a cannonball?
According to the coordinates, the M109A6 artillery group launched a swift and deadly counterattack against the Tsarist Russian artillery.
Before the Tsarist Russian artillery had fired a few shells, shells and rockets fell from the sky, covering the entire artillery position.
The artillery units cleared a path for the 57th and 58th Heavy Combined Armored Brigades.
The two heavy-armored combined brigades also formed a sharp knife and launched a large-scale deep penetration operation.
Their goal was to penetrate into the rear of Ob and encircle the million-strong army located around the Ob River.
However, it is difficult to achieve this with just two heavily armored combined brigades, so the Far Eastern Military Region also mobilized multiple troops to assist in the battle.