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Another tank of the Somali Youth Army was destroyed. A mercenary hit the tank with two anti-tank rocket launchers.

The earth-shattering explosion shocked everyone.

The T-80 main battle tank of the Somali Youth Army is actually relatively old. It can be regarded as a third-generation tank with a relatively mature technology. The characteristics of advanced control system and relatively low purchase price make it easy to equip a large number of troops.

However, compared with the same type of tanks mainly in service in Western countries, or even the domestic T-90 tanks, there is still a big gap.

As an export-type T-80U tank, the fuel consumption is relatively large. Although the mass and volume are about the same as the T-90 tank, the fuel consumption is 4 times higher. The consequence is that the maximum stroke is higher than that of the T-90. The tank is about 30% lower, making it the tank with the largest and shortest stroke in the world's modern tanks.

In order to make up for this shortcoming, the T-80U tank was designed to increase the volume of the fuel tank by 1/3, but this made the side area of ​​the fuel tank that needs to be protected 1.4 times larger than that of the T-90 tank, and increased accordingly. The probability of the fuel system being hit is prone to explosions after hitting fuel gas and ammunition.

Just now the mercenary fired two rockets in a row, and it is estimated that it hit the position of the fuel tank. It triggered the explosion of oil and gas with great power.

This made the Somali Youth Army start to panic. Originally they believed that they had tanks, and didn't pay attention to these infantrymen at all.

But these infantrymen actually destroyed two of their tanks in succession. In particular, these infantry soldiers are likely to carry individual missiles.

The tanks of the Somali Youth Army began to panic. They finally tasted the bitterness of tanks without the protection of infantry.

The distance is too close for the tank gun to play a big role. Most tanks are beginning to use machine guns.

But these mercenaries are very experienced. After dispersing, protect each other. And use this cover to shoot and kill the machine gun shooter on the tank.

Huge tanks are very easy targets for rocket attacks. Even if sometimes one or two rockets fail to penetrate, the flanks of these tanks have become one of their dead spots.

The Black Mamba is still working with another mercenary, their Javelin missiles. The efficiency is much higher than the anti-tank rocket launcher.

Basically, as long as the launch can be locked, the tank on the opposite side has only the fate of being destroyed.

"It's locked." The Black Mamba controlled the Javelin missile and knocked back.

Another Javelin missile lifted off, wearing hot light and heat. Fly into the air, and then fall in a parabola. It hit the top of one of the tanks, and the tank instantly turned into a fire.

The tanks of the Somali Youth Army were destroyed one after another.

Hei Mamba and others also paid a considerable price, and many mercenaries were injured. Moreover, more than half of the mercenaries he brought over were killed by tank machine guns.

The Black Mamba himself was overwhelmed by the explosion of a tank shell and almost fainted on the spot.

The other mercenaries dragged him behind a shelter that could barely be covered.

These mercenaries are very experienced. They know that the depression angle of the tank's muzzle is not very large, so try to choose low-lying terrain as a cover to avoid.

In this way, it is difficult for tank shells to hit them and easily fly over their heads. Falling far behind.

The Somali Youth Army's tanks did not dare to get too close, fearing the anti-tank weapons of these mercenaries.

Therefore, we can only rely on the machine gunners on the tanks to suppress these mercenaries with machine guns.

There are three machine guns on the traditional tank, namely the car body heading machine gun, the turret parallel machine gun, and the roof anti-aircraft machine gun.

The heading machine gun is mainly used by the front driver or co-pilot. It is parallel to the direction of the car body and can be adjusted in a small range. Modern tanks are generally rare. This kind of machine gun.

The small-caliber machine guns installed next to the tank artillery are also called "synchronous machine guns" or "coaxial machine guns."

The tank of the model named because it rotates synchronously with the main gun is also called "parallel machine gun" in some places because its machine gun is installed at the same height as the artillery.

It is installed near the gun barrel of the tank and is placed with the tank gun mount, so how does the gun move, how does it move. This machine gun is operated by the gunner. In addition to sweeping the turret, it also has the functions of shooting ranging and calibrating. It is a very useful machine gun.

The roof anti-aircraft machine gun is generally the heaviest weapon on the tank except for the tank gun. It has a large caliber and can be shot through even against a concrete brick wall. It is used by tanks to suppress firepower and deal with lightly armored targets and low-altitude targets. Important weapon.

To deal with these mercenaries, the Somali youth army must control the anti-aircraft machine gun on the top of the tank.

But this trick is not very effective. On the battlefield, the main gun is the main offensive firepower of the tanks of various countries, supplemented by machine guns. The tank commander's ability to control the machine gun mounted on top of the tank is not offensive firepower. It is mainly used for short-range defense, such as fighting enemy infantry close to the tank body, such as fighting light armored vehicles unexpectedly in street fighting.

Because the volume is generally relatively large, it is not convenient, especially the 12.7 mm heavy machine gun is mostly. It is mainly used for fire support, but also for infantry.

But standing on it is too exposed, and the mercenaries are very scattered, so the machine gun shooters on the tank are often shot by the mercenaries.

Tanks present a disadvantage to infantry, which is almost impossible. But nothing is absolute. Under different future conditions, there will be different changes.

The current situation is that these mercenaries are scattered and flexible. And they have quite lethal anti-tank weapons.

These tanks of the Somali Youth Army are usually used as facades, and sometimes they are also used as fixed artillery.

These Somali youths are a little dumbfounded for the infantry who are really used to deal with guerrilla operations. They are all guerrillas themselves. Now controlling such a powerful armor, it has become very inflexible.

Five tanks, four of which were destroyed by serial aircraft, the Somali Youth Army, to see if the situation was not right, discarded the last tank and ran away.

The last remaining tank was shot dead because the captain climbed out of the turret to control the machine gun, and the others had no intention of fighting.

Coupled with the destruction of several surrounding tanks, these Somali Youth Army terrorists simply abandoned their vehicles and fled.

A mercenary helped up the black mamba, "Sir, we succeeded. They ran away."

"What's gone?" Hei Mamba hasn't recovered from the effects of the concussion, his mind is still a little confused.