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In the desert not far away, the tanks of the Somali Youth Army have been adjusted. A defensive formation was placed at the bottom of the valley, and the muzzles were all pointed to the camp ahead.

These tanks are one of the few heavy firepower of the Somali Youth Army. They are afraid that the mercenaries have anti-tank weapons, so they set up these tanks here as infantry support.

As soon as these mercenaries emerged from the grass, they were included in the sight of the tank commander. In fact, these tanks also received the information that the enemy had rushed out. He had been holding the telescope and watching quietly.

At this time, those Somali youths who were chasing behind also got out of the grass. When they saw that a small group of mercenaries had crossed the ditch and gradually approached the tank, they knew that the possibility of capturing him alive was gone.

Almost at the same time, these Somali youth army chasers raised their guns at the Black Mamba and others.

Just as they were about to squeeze the board, the artillery on a tank rang first. A shell flew over the heads of Black Mamba and others, and landed in front of two enemies.

These Somali youth army tanks opened fire. This instead made the Somali youth army who were pursuing them had no choice but to abandon their pursuit.

Black Mamba secretly fluke.

Although these terrorists have tanks, they have no concept of armored operations at all.

The militia is a militia, and lacks tank combat experience at all, has a few tanks in time, and lacks agile combat thinking and the ability to command coordinated operations.

Tank combat theory emphasizes breaking through enemy defenses, inserting depths, dividing and encircling, and destroying enemy supply lines or production lines.

For example, in World War II, Germany used tank lightning tactics to occupy the Czech Republic in a relatively short period of time. It broke through the French Maginot Line within a few weeks and occupied France.

Guderian's tank troops galloped across the European battlefield, invincible.

Also during World War II, the Soviet army used the theory of deep combat operations, led by the tank corps, and under the three-dimensional coordination of the air force and the army, they drove straight into Berlin and created the theory of three-dimensional coordinated operations, which enabled the tank troops to play a powerful role in the war. effect.

This kind of large corps tanks cooperated to fight, of course, terrorist armed forces such as the Somali Youth Army cannot do it.

But even so, must there be the most basic coordinated combat with tanks?

But they don't even have this.

The correct use of tanks, especially when supporting infantry operations, is like a heavy artillery in motion against a strong iron bunker. Coupled with the function of collision and track rolling, it can definitely play a role in turning things around on the battlefield.

If these terrorists use these tanks and chariots as their forerunners to cover the infantry charge, the mercenaries may not be able to hold them now.

But these terrorists have a peculiar mind. They basically use tanks as mobile artillery. The infantry rushed forward, the tank cowered and stayed behind to cover the fire.

The real step-tank coordinated tactics were completely adjusted one by one.

It may also be that they have a small number of tanks, and they are afraid that they will be killed by anti-tank rocket launchers or anti-tank missiles after they rush up. So the conservative combat method adopted.

But using the tank in this way is tantamount to turning the tank into a fixed artillery. The maneuverability of the armor is completely wiped out.

"Boom, boom" tank fire bombarded the mercenaries first.

But the mercenaries run fast, and this group of mercenaries are very experienced, and they keep changing directions while they are running.

This makes it difficult for the Somali Youth Army’s tank artillery to lock their positions. They can only be suppressed with the machine gun mounted on the tank.

These mercenaries are worthy of the battle-tested masters. When they noticed the tank attack, they quickly transferred two rocket players to aim at the tank.

Hei Mamba has sharp eyes and quick hands, and quickly points to the target.

The tank seemed to have spotted them too, but the speed of the turret turning was still a bit slower.

The black mamba and a mercenary adjusted their posture, and a rocket flew over and hit the front deck of the tank. Since the tanks are advancing head-on, they can only attack the front deck. The 30 mm thickness of the front deck of the tank is sufficient to withstand rocket attacks.

The tank is full of surprises. But the machine gun shooter exposed outside the turret was miserable. Although he was not blown up, the power of the rocket's explosion directly overturned the machine gunner.

"One more shot, try to aim at the flanking armor." Black Mamba immediately lowered his head and said to the mercenary next to him.

Immediately afterwards, the machine guns on several other tanks sounded.

"Da da da da da, da da da da", the heading machine gun fired rhythmically with a musical melody.

The mercenaries who were rushing upwards could only find cover and fell down one after another. The offensive was greatly weakened for a while.

Black Mamba crawled on the ground and shouted: "Damn, they are not getting close, take the missile."

Tanks can only look forward at close quarters, so invisible blind spots are basically formed on the left, right and rear.

If they approach the tank from these three directions, then the enemy's tank will be no different from a blind man with his eyes open, waiting for someone to open fire casually.

This is also the reason why the Black Mamba is determined to approach the enemy tanks, and this distance is still too dangerous. The machine gunner on the tank was too powerful for them.

The machine gunner on the turret turned around, and as soon as he found them close, he would shoot with his gun, so that the mercenaries who wanted to blow up the tank could not get closer.

In the fight between steel and flesh, the tank is like a rumble killing machine, occupying an absolute advantage. Through blasting and rolling, the mercenaries under this **** almost couldn't lift their heads at all.

At this distance, only individual missiles can be used. In addition to anti-tank rocket launchers, they also have several FGM-148 "Javelin" anti-tank missiles.

This is a single-soldier shoulder-launched anti-tank missile developed by the United States, which is mainly used to accurately destroy various light and heavy armored targets.

Javelin missile is a missile that locks before firing and ignores after firing. This system uses a top attack flight mode for armored vehicles. Generally speaking, it attacks thinner top armor, but it can also use direct attack mode to attack buildings or defensive positions. , This missile can also be used to engage helicopters in direct attack mode.

The flying height can reach 150 meters when attacking from the top and 50 meters when attacking directly. This weapon system is equipped with an infrared imaging searcher and uses two tandem warheads with cone-shaped charges. The first one detonates any explosive reactive armor, and the main warhead penetrates the basic armor.

Javelin missiles were used in the 2003 Iraq War and dealt a devastating blow to Iraq’s T-72 tanks and Type 69 tanks.

However, compared with the anti-tank rocket launcher, this kind of anti-tank missile has a disadvantage in addition to being expensive, that is, two people are required to launch it.

A shooter and a bomb carrier. When the shooter pinpoints and launches the missile, the bomb carrier searches for the next target and pays attention to enemy threats such as vehicles and troops.