Chapter 579: Complete Victory

The first batch of gun-launched missiles had a hit rate of only about 50%, but they still destroyed more than 30 M1 tanks in an instant. During this process, the two sides were still approaching each other rapidly!

"Armor-piercing shells!" Seeing the battalion commander's tank exploded, the deputy battalion commander took over the command and continued to issue orders. Now, the distance is 2,500 meters, but the American tank soldiers can't help it! Although within 2,000 meters is the most suitable, in theory, they can even bind data and fire shells at a distance of 3,000 meters!

"Boom!" With the roar of the gun barrel, the 120mm tank shell flew towards the Iraqi armored forces in the distance.

"Brake!" Ali gave the same order.

This method is useless against artillery-launched missiles, because artillery-launched missiles can adjust their course at any time! As long as the operator adjusts the laser beam in time and allows it to continuously illuminate the target tank, it can achieve the ability to accurately hit.

The flight trajectory of tank shells is fixed once they are fired! At such a long distance, the fire control system of the US tanks is pre-set with a certain amount of advance, and the trajectory is calculated in advance according to the uniform movement of the target tank. Now, the sudden braking of the T-72 tank has caused most of the shells fired by the US tanks to miss!

Yellow sand splashed in front of the tank. The Americans' attack was also very accurate. If they continued to move forward, they would definitely be hit! Ali twisted his fat body and ordered to continue moving!

The collision of steel and steel requires tactics!

As this round of artillery shells ran out, the Americans became more anxious. They continued to rush forward, and soon, the second round of artillery shells began to fire!

"Boom!" With the roar of the tank gun, the 120mm armor-piercing discarding sabot shell threw away its own sabot, spread its wings, and flew forward!

Soon, its tip hit the turret of the T-72. Fortunately, it did not hit the reactive armor, but rubbed the edges of two angled reactive armors and hit the main armor directly!

Break through the outer steel armor, melt the quartz sand, and continue drilling inside!

"Boom!" The T-72 exploded violently, and the turret flew high into the air.

The battle of blood and fire continues!

"Fire!" Ali shouted loudly, and with his order, a 3BM42 armor-piercing shell flew out!

Unlike in history, the 3BM32 armor-piercing projectile used by the Soviet Union still has a tungsten alloy core, an improved structure, and a increased aspect ratio, which greatly increases the penetration depth to 600 mm. The 3BM42 armor-piercing projectile has adopted a new material, namely depleted uranium!

When he was trying to fool the Americans, Andre conducted a target penetration experiment in Hokkaido. He achieved a penetration depth of 1,000 millimeters, which shocked the whole world and made the Americans completely afraid to move.

At that time, it was pretending to be a depleted uranium bomb. However, after that incident, the Soviet Union also began to make great efforts to study depleted uranium bombs, and now, the 3BM42 exported to Iraq is a depleted uranium bomb!

The core of the bullet accurately hit the main armor of an M1 tank, and then began to drill into it. The imitation Chobham structure armor held it tightly! It was destroyed by anti-tank missiles, there was nothing we could do, but if it was hit by a tank shell, then the American M1 tank would be doomed!

This was a battle between spear and shield. As the armor-piercing projectile began to enter, it produced violent friction with the armor. At the same time, the kinetic energy of the armor-piercing projectile was constantly converted into heat energy. Finally, the armor-piercing projectile could not bear it anymore, and the outer layer of depleted uranium began to burn!

The burning depleted uranium, as if cutting with gas, increased its armor-piercing performance, and just like that, the armor-piercing bullet continued to drill inside, and suddenly, its head loosened and it drilled through!

"Boom!" The M1 tank was destroyed just like that!

Ali breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the latest armor-piercing shells exported by the Soviet Union were still effective! What he feared most was that he would not be able to destroy the enemy's tanks. In that case, he would have to retreat temporarily!

And now, our new armor-piercing projectile has finally fulfilled its mission and destroyed the enemy's tank!

In the new round of attack, Ali's armored forces swept away the remaining American tanks with an absolute sweeping gesture. Although they paid the price of five tanks being destroyed, not a single American tank escaped!

In fact, the performance of this 3BM42 depleted uranium armor-piercing projectile is similar to that of the 3BM32 armor-piercing projectile, except that the depleted uranium can burn during the armor-piercing process, which objectively increases the armor-piercing depth! Therefore, this armor-piercing projectile also reaches a penetration depth of more than 700 mm, and the American M1 tank can't stand it at all!

In history, the scene of Iraqi troops being beaten by the Europeans in the Gulf War will never happen again! The Soviet Union gave almost all of its most advanced equipment to Iraq! The monkey version of the T-72 in history has greatly damaged the reputation of Soviet weapons! Now, the Soviet Union is quite generous. For example, the Soviet Union did not have any armor-piercing shells of this kind in the country, but exported them to Iraq!

After killing the American armored forces, Ali's tank group continued to charge. However, after advancing less than five kilometers in the yellow sand, Ali frowned.

What we just encountered was just the American forward, but now we encounter the main force of the Americans!

The 1st Cavalry Division, 3 cavalry brigades, 6 heavy tank battalions and 3 mechanized infantry battalions, are mainly equipped with 348 M1A1 main battle tanks, 218 M2 infantry fighting vehicles, 308 fully tracked armored personnel carriers, 167 tracked command post carriers...

Just now, Ali had only come into contact with the vanguard of the 1st Cavalry Division. Now, the two heavy armored divisions finally faced off!

Such a battle made Ali's blood boil. He firmly believed that his tank troops would be able to inflict heavy damage on the opponent! After all, in the first contact just now, the exchange ratio was almost 10 to 1!

But later, he saw the scene he least wanted to see through his sight.

In addition to the enemy's tank troops on the ground, there are also helicopters in the air!

The 1st Cavalry Division has undergone several reconstructions. Although it does not have as strong an armed helicopter force as the Airborne Assault Division, they still have wings to fly after all!

When fully staffed, the 1st Cavalry Division has 44 AH-1 attack helicopters, 24 UH-60A multi-purpose helicopters, 44 OH-58D observation helicopters, and 3 EH-60 electronic warfare helicopters. Since the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army has been equipped with a large number of helicopter units!

And now, even though it is not fully staffed, there are nearly thirty AH-1 Cobra helicopters flying over!

When dealing with ground tank forces, armed helicopters are the biggest killer!