A German "armed helicopter" patrolled the plains. Compared with the patrol vehicles and infantry patrols on the ground, this newly born weapon seems to have a unique advantage in ruling a large area. ︽, it can patrol the entire area at a very high speed and use the weapons it carries to quickly suppress guerrillas attacking rails or roads.

Compared with modern armed helicopters, although this Odin helicopter is already the second-generation German helicopter, it still seems too simple. This aircraft only has armored steel plate protection in some important parts, and can only protect ordinary rifles and small-caliber machine gun bullets. As for its windshield glass and other places, it is still vulnerable.

Of course, the comparator is a convertible-like crusader helicopter. This Odin helicopter has been greatly improved. At least in terms of defense, the two pilots inside are no longer close to the level of running naked. The biggest improvement is that its weapon system has been greatly improved.

First of all, this aircraft is equipped with two sets of eight-unit rockets. Although the accuracy is not very good, it can still cover a large area by illuminating it in one go. At least for mountain troops that lack artillery support and reconnaissance patrol and warding troops, this kind of firepower support is already very "powerful".

Moreover, this helicopter has two 20mm caliber cannons, which was not very successful in the experiment because on the basis of aviation cannons, this weapon weakened the initial velocity of some artillery (in order to reduce recoil). Therefore, the results of these two cannons in anti-tank combat are not ideal, but they are used to support infantry to sweep firepower points, which is a major artifact.

In addition, it is the 7.92mm caliber g42 machine gun on the side of the helicopter. This weapon is very useful when hovering and covering troops, and can effectively use the height to suppress various enemy firepower points.

In general, the combat effectiveness of this so-called "armed helicopter" is not much stronger than that of attack aircraft like Stuka 2, and in some places it is even far inferior. For example, when facing enemy attack aircraft or fighter aircraft, the self-protection methods are very limited and they are easily shot down by various enemy firepower.

However, with some benefits, this aircraft still received a large number of orders from the German side. Users include the SS, the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force. Almost everyone has a share of the orders for this aircraft.

This type of aircraft does not require huge airport facilities, and does not have high terrain requirements for takeoff. It can provide troops with the ability to drag equipment vertically, and can hover in designated positions instead of just skipping by one sweep... In short, there are many characteristics that everyone can't let go, so everyone is happy to equip some of these aircraft.

Among the many military units, the German Army Defense Force is the most equipped with this kind of aircraft. These army generals are keen on establishing a three-dimensional rapid response force and using helicopters to strengthen the troops' firepower, so as to realize the army's super-strengthening version of the blitzkrieg combat concept at some time in the future.

For those who understand, the above are just excuses. In fact, to put it bluntly, the Army intends to get a share of the Air Force's support function and use this emerging means to increase its own bargaining chips. The subtext is very simple, which is "the Army must also have an army that can fly."

Sometimes this idea is very naive, but it has to be admitted that at least under the current circumstances, this is how the German Odin helicopter developed. With the market and room for development, German engineers also have a more relaxed environment to develop better helicopters.

The truth is actually very cruel. Even today, 70 years later, armed helicopters do not have much advantage over real tank killer attack aircraft. Compared with relatively mature A10 attack aircraft, Su25 attack aircraft and AH-64 Apache, they also have their own advantages, not that armed helicopters have overwhelming combat advantages in anti-tanks.

As for why you have to endure it even when gritting your teeth, the reason is the competition between the troops. This may be very ruthless for soldiers fighting on the front line, but for the entire troops, you can take the first step of three-dimensional combat in such blind persistence.

If this competition is suppressed to a limited extent, it is a virtuous cycle of tactical baking powder, which can allow the troops to explore new tactical fields endlessly; of course, if this competition is not ashamed, the vicious cycle will continue to be the source of funny things for the Japanese army and navy, and the embarrassing cycle of mutual dismantling.

"This is Clever Eye 3, and this is Clever Eye 3. I am patrolling the area with number K! Everything is normal." The captain in charge of flying the plane used radio to contact the nearby Army Aviation Command. For the services, this new army has simplified the army's steps to contact the Air Force for support, which is also an improvement on the other hand.

"If there is no situation, fly back on the pre-set route... There are two ground patrols in the area K. Do you want to say hello to them?" Next to the radio equipment in the ground command center, the German officer on duty was stirring coffee mixed with sugar with his spoon. The treatment of the Army Air Force is based on the air force, and it is even much better than that of the armored troops, so even near the front line, most people can occasionally drink luxury coffee.

"Okay, you can tell me their channel..." The captain smiled and adjusted the flight altitude of the plane and locked his altitude at a relatively high position. At this position, the ground weapons pose a smaller threat to the helicopter, and they can fly the entire range in a relatively safer way.

"Hey! Look over there! There is something on the ground!" On the co-pilot, the weapon operator called his partner loudly on the throat telephone, hoping to attract the captain's attention. Obviously, he saw some situations and needed the captain to readjust the flight trajectory to confirm.

"Where?" The captain adjusted the two joysticks above his head, slowing down the helicopter's flight speed. Then he adjusted the joystick in his hand and aimed the nose at the place where the co-pilot said there was something wrong.

Soon, he saw what was going on on the ground. Some German soldiers were firing, and opposite them were gunmen in civilian clothes. The two groups were shooting at each other in their respective bunkers. Tracers drew dazzling but very short straight lines on the ground.

"Command! Please answer when you hear it! Command! Please answer when you hear it!" The captain contacted his ground command while operating the plane to slowly descend. He heard the officer on duty in the headphones answered, and then he continued: "I saw troops on the ground exchanging fire. Please verify whether there is any situation nearby! Please verify which troops are fighting nearby."

The sound from the headphones almost made the officer on duty swallow his spoon into his stomach. He hurriedly stood up from his radio, called me to verify, then pulled off the headphones and ran quickly to the patrol team commanding the radio station in the room not far away.

Then he ran back in a panic, grabbed the microphone, shouting loudly, "A team in Area K has been attacked, and those stupid people forgot to inform us... and then we can fire! Open fire!"

"Classic Eye No. 3 understands!" After answering, the captain issued an attack order to his co-pilot: "I lower the height, you can find an opportunity to open fire! Kill all those who are not wearing German-style uniforms! Pay attention to the surrounding environment! Be careful to ambush."

"Okay! Let the people behind you pay attention to safety! I'm going to use rockets!" The weapon operator in the co-pilot shouted loudly. There was a partition behind him, and behind the door were two machine gunners wearing seat belts. They were also responsible for searching and reconnaissance, and operated machine guns to fire and attack during combat.

Without any hesitation, the German helicopter aimed its nose at the target on the ground and slightly adjusted the direction of the nose. The weapon operator on the co-pilot pressed the rocket launch button, and the entire winning classifier's fuselage began to tremble. With this tremor, rockets rushed to the target area about hundreds of meters away.

The accurate head of this rocket is not particularly good, so in order to increase the hit probability of this rocket and control the spread range, German helicopters generally compress the launch distance within one kilometer, and in most cases they fire within a range of hundreds of meters to pursue the accuracy they want.

As the dazzling light shone in the air, a German soldier retreated back to the stone and held his helmet and watched the fire emitted from the helicopter fly towards the enemy. His eyes drifted across the sky with the rockets, and then poked his head out to look at the opposite side. There was an instant shrouded by a sea of ​​fire formed by an explosion, and the machine gun position that was extremely ferocious just now had no sound.

"I'm going to go sideways, they need to keep suppressing firepower." The captain looked at the open area of ​​the explosion. This single-handed target exposed in the wilderness was a rare target. It was not difficult for the helicopter to deal with such targets. He adjusted the head of the plane, and the machine gun on the side got the shooting angle, so the machine gun began to spray out flames, and tracer bullets sprinkled on the ground like raindrops.

On the ground, the German soldiers who were watching the helicopter show their power immediately came to fight. They were so depressed by these damn Soviet guerrillas that they had just been extremely depressed, and now they finally have the chance to take revenge.
Chapter completed!