Chapter 173: Straight 5

Chapter 173: Straight 5

In this era, the helicopter equipped by our army was code-named "Tornado 25", and later it was named Helicopter 5, which is what we usually call "Zhi5". This is the first generation of helicopter equipped by our army. Like other weapons of our army, it is also imitated based on the Soviet Mi-4 helicopter.

Although I have had several years of combat experience and have seen US helicopters on the battlefield of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, I knew nothing about the helicopters equipped by our army. So in order for the next day's training to go smoothly, I had to return to the battalion headquarters while the soldiers were resting and organized a training meeting.

Lin Xue's training plan was quickly handed over to me. In fact, this plan was planned a few days ago and was shown to Political Commissar Yang. However, Lin Xue saw that I was busy with training all day and was so tired that I didn't even have the energy to eat every day, so she never had the chance to show it to me.

I have to admit that Lin Xue’s design and arrangement of the training plan is indeed outstanding. She has never seen the coordinated tactics of infantry and helicopters at all. She just heard me briefly describe the advantages and disadvantages of this tactic... But she still formulated a very detailed plan. The plan includes boarding training, landing training, parachuting training, and how infantry should cover each other to board, landing, how infantry should cover helicopters from enemy attacks, etc.

Looking at Lin Xue’s plan, I felt as if I saw the scene where the soldiers arrived at the designated location on a helicopter, and then jumped off the plane in an orderly manner and completed the task at the fastest speed before retreating. When I thought of this, I couldn’t help but feel eager to try. However, when I saw the helicopter drawings sent by Wang Yunming, I couldn’t help but frown.

The reason is very simple. Our army's "Zhi 5" is not as advanced as the American helicopters in TV and movies. The US military's helicopters have open sides, and once the helicopter stops, the infantry can easily surge down. However, the sides of the "Zhi 5" are closed, and there is only a hatch door on the left side of the plane for only one person to enter and exit.

It is obvious that the cabin gatekeeper has greatly limited the mobility of our troops. Just imagine that every minute is life and fighter planes, and our troops will have to come out of the cabin one after another... It will undoubtedly bring great uncertainty to the mission, because as long as a Vietnamese army holds a machine gun or even a submachine gun, it is enough to hold a whole aircraft soldier in the cabin, and may even bring many unknown dangers to the helicopter.

Actually, I thought about this problem a few days ago when I first took a helicopter, but I have been busy with equipment and training in all aspects, so I don’t have time to think about this. I didn’t have to find out this problem again until tomorrow when I was about to enter helicopter training.

"Captain Wang!" I raised my head and looked at Wang Yunming standing in front of me, and said, "First introduce to us the performance of your helicopter! For example... the transportation capacity, communication capacity and combat capability of this helicopter!"

"Yes!" Wang Yunming supported him and replied as he knew it: "Zhi5 can transport 1,200 kilograms of light equipment or cargo, with a maximum load of 1,550 kilograms, a flat flight speed of 210 kilometers per hour, a cruising speed of 170 kilometers per hour, and a dynamic ceiling of 6,000 meters..."

I interrupted Wang Yunming with some impatient words and said, "Tell me how many people can carry by 5!"

Wang Yunming's face was a little unhappy when I was interrupted by this. In fact, I knew in my heart that in the army of this era, even tank soldiers could walk sideways in the infantry ranks, let alone pilots... Although Wang Yunming was just the captain of the flight brigade, if our army had a military rank system, he would at least be a colonel. Now he would feel a little unhappy if he had to listen to the command of me, the battalion commander.

Actually, I don’t have this attitude in my usual manner, but I am so tired that I can’t bear it anymore and I don’t have much energy to waste my rest time listening to some details, so I am so impatient.

Wang Yunming's face darkened. After glanced at Zhengxian Yang who was standing aside, he said unwillingly: "The cargo hold of Zhi5 is 16 cubic meters. If it is carried, it can carry eleven fully armed soldiers, or eight wounded stretchers and a medical staff at a time."

"Yeah!" I nodded and then asked: "How is the communication capability of this kind of aircraft? Will it be like the communication equipment on our army's tanks..."

"Battlefield Commander Cui!" This time, Wang Yunming interrupted me. He said without hesitation as if he was replying to me: "Our plane is going to fly in the sky. If there is a malfunction or the communication is not good, it is very likely that he will even lose his life, so how dare you do it like your ground troops!"

Upon hearing this, my face turned cold and I stared at Wang Yunming fiercely and replied: "Our ground troops are in chaos? It is very likely that they will even lose their lives?"

"Captain Wang!" I sneered and said to Wang Yunming: "Then I want to ask you, how many enemies have you killed on the battlefield? Have you shot a few shots or occupied a few high ground? Do you think 'may lose your life' is amazing, right? Why don't you go and see how many people in our ground troops have lost their lives!"

I became more and more angry as I spoke. I slapped the table and pointed at Wang Yunming's nose and cursed: "Go and ask the soldiers under me, which one did not come from the rain of bullets? Which one did not come from the pile of dead people? We didn't think we were great, but you felt that we were great..."

"Captain Cui! Captain Cui..." Seeing that I was really angry, Political Commissar Yang hurried forward to persuade him: "It's all my comrades, so I can say it well if you have something to do! Captain Wang didn't mean that..."

At this time, I looked like an unreasonable soldier, but in fact I understood in my heart: If a proud pilot like Wang Yunming doesn’t kill him now, their aura will make them step on our heads. How can we cooperate with them in the future and go to the battlefield to fight!

So I ignored the dissuasion of Political Commissar Yang and continued to say to Wang Yunming: "I tell you very clearly now. I don't care whether you are a pilot or not, or who you are in the army. I only know that you are a flight unit of my special reconnaissance brigade. If I am the captain, you must obey my orders unconditionally! If you don't do it, you can leave immediately. Pilots across the country are waiting for me to pick them!"

Political Commissar Yang seemed to understand what I meant at this time, so he turned around and said to Wang Yunming: "Comrade Wang Yunming! Battalion Commander Cui is right. You should reflect on yourself. There is a problem with treating your superiors with that attitude just now. You must be clear that we are a special force, let alone the commander of the Flying Brigade, even if the division commander joins this force, you must unconditionally obey Commander Cui's orders! Do you understand?"

"I understand! Unconditionally obey Captain Cui's orders!" Wang Yunming dared not refute, so he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted me and apologized.

"Yeah!" At this time, my attitude was a little relieved. In fact, using the "obey orders" to suppress subordinates is the method I don't like to use the method I like to use the most. If it is on the battlefield... I prefer to use bayonets or pistols. From this point of view, Wang Yunming is still lucky.

"Tell me about the communication system of Zhi5!" I asked angrily.

"Report to the battalion commander!" Wang Yunming replied loudly: "The communication system of Zhi5 mainly includes ct-1 radio stations and jt-5a in-machine telephones, which can ensure good communication between the inside and outside the machine!"

"Where is the ability to fly at night?" Actually, I am not very good at all about the radio, but since I know that I can maintain good communication.

"Zhi5 has a set of navigation instruments and power plant monitoring instruments! It can ensure flights at night and under complex weather conditions!"

Actually, I know this. The last time we came on a helicopter was at night. This is also the basis for us to use helicopters to carry out special operations. After all, we still have to operate at night most of the time. The reason is very simple. The Z5's flight speed is relatively slow and the protection ability is too poor. We are not bulletproof like the modern US "Apache". If we fly over Vietnam during the day, it will undoubtedly give the Vietnamese machine gun or anti-aircraft gun a very perfect target.

"So..." After understanding these, I finally turned the topic to the question I was most concerned about. I pointed to the hatch door of the drawing and asked, "Is this the only entrance for the personnel?"

"No! There is another one!" Lin Xue replied at this time, "Battor Cui was worried that the troops would not be able to retreat quickly or unleash their troops during boarding and landing! This issue is also a problem I have always been worried about. I have investigated. There is also an entrance at the rear of the fuselage. Two hatch doors are fixed on both sides of the fuselage. After closing, they form the rear of the fuselage. When opened, it is enough for two people to enter and exit at the same time. I think... this entrance will be more suitable for our army's combat!"

"That's right!" Wang Yunming also nodded and said: "There is indeed this entrance, which is used to load technical equipment or large-scale cargo into the machine. It can even be transported to Beijing 212a jeep. It is indeed very convenient for personnel to enter and exit through this hatch. But..."

"It's just something?" I asked.

"It's too dangerous to open the rear cabin door on the battlefield!" Wang Yunming replied: "As soon as the rear cabin door is opened, it means that everyone in the cabin is exposed to the enemy. The enemy only needs to shoot a shuttle bullet into the cabin door... I'm afraid that everyone will not be spared, including the pilot!"
Chapter completed!