Red Alert Somalia

From the beginning of the war, there seemed to be no intention to stop.

The area where the ground battle first started was not Hargeisa or Galkayo, but it broke out in a very humble town, a seaside town called Zela located on the border between Somalia and Gibb.

This small town with a population of only a few thousand people, after the Somali reunification war, because the residents of the town belonged to the former Somaliland president Kahin's line, after the reunification, the Somalis in the town followed eastward. migrate.

The Red Police Corps did not abandon this small town, because thousands of houses in this seaside town are their perfect battlefield.By the way, it was the location of the US Army's Delta Special Forces. This 2,000-man special force was the protagonist of the United States' muscle display in East Africa.

As the war approaches, in order to ensure security on the line of defense, the Red Police Force, which originally had only one infantry company, has now been strengthened to the size of an Army Reinforced Battalion, with a number of nearly 1,000.In order to assist the troops, there was even a tank with six apocalypse tanks and six armored vehicles stationed in the town.

The engineering unit also carried out a lot of rectification and reform in this small town. After one or two months of repairs, this small town has become a good frontier for the war between Somalia and Djibouti.

To the south of Zela Town is Jidi Town. The two towns are about 40 kilometers apart. Unlike Zela, Jidi Town is an inland town with a population of thousands of people. Now it is the same as Zela. It has also become a military frontier.They agreed to stay on the border between Somalia and Djibouti.

Djibouti has always been a subordinate country in the eyes of France, and it is also one of France's very important African interest circles.Although this former French colony has gained independence, France has always had a strong influence here.

The Djibouti Armed Forces was established on June 6, 1977, with a total strength of 3,030 personnel, including 160 troops, organized into an artillery regiment, a border force and an armored company.The Navy has 60 people.The air force has 100 people and has an air base.There are also 1,200 military police and 1,400 national security forces.Djibouti has a voluntary military service system.The President is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.

Djibouti is an important French military base in the Red Sea region of the Indian Ocean. It has been stationed with about 4,500 French troops. This is stipulated by a temporary military protocol signed between the government of Djibouti and the French government on June 27, 1977.The French army stationed in Kyrgyzstan has two combat regiments and one paratrooper regiment; the navy has a naval force to reinforce the Indian Ocean fleet, a commando and a communications monitoring station; the air force has a fighter fleet and a helicopter transport group.France provides logistical assistance to the Djibouti army and dispatches military cooperation personnel to help Djibouti maintain national security and train military personnel.

Despite pursuing a foreign policy of neutrality, non-alignment and good-neighborliness.It pays attention to maintaining traditional relations with France, but Djibouti is also actively cooperating with the US military deployment in the Horn of Africa in many places, and relations with Japan are gradually warming up. France, the United States, and Japan have established military bases in Kyrgyzstan.

When the war approached, Djibouti also agreed to the coalition to train combat troops in Djibouti, and the coalition garrison agreement increased from a few thousand to the upper limit of 20,000.The French Sixth Armored Division (Sixth Heavy Cavalry Battle Group) with a reputation for bravery entered Djibouti, cooperating with the US special forces and Italian forces, as well as the Ethiopian Eighth Infantry Division mobilized from Ethiopia, as well as part of the Djibouti army. , Forming part of the Second Allied Expeditionary Force.

When Li Lan received the news, the war had been ignited in the two small towns, and the fire from the m270 rocket launcher turned the two small towns into a sea of ​​flames.When the air battle in Hargeisa was fierce, the artillery fire here reached its peak.

The French field artillery force and the Djibouti artillery regiment also entered a coordinated attack when the artillery strikes were the most intense.The heavy artillery shells crossed the boundary line and smashed into two small towns that were already under fire.

The torrential rain that came suddenly in the sky evaporated in the rumbling explosion, and the moist air began to emit invisible smoke.

The piles of shells made almost the entire outer line of Zera burn, and the ground was muddy in the wind and rain.There was a shout of killing everywhere, the roar of machine guns and artillery almost overwhelmed the heavy rain, the wind was howling strangely, and the blood was burning.

With the cooperation of the 4th Light Cavalry Group of the French Army, the Ethiopian Eighth Infantry Division launched a fiercely fierce attack. The cover artillery fire and the marine suppressed artillery fire made a bright track in the sky. , The soaring pillar of fire rushed straight into the rain curtain.Everywhere was the scene of the scorching battle.

Two amx-10p tracked infantry fighting vehicles roared over the mud all over the ground. Just as they rushed into the periphery of the Marine Corps defensive position, a group of hot fire rushed out, and fiercely penetrated the thin skin of the headed amx-10p. Within the armored car body.Accompanied by the sudden rise of a fire, this amx-10p infantry fighting vehicle could no longer move.

Is it the sharp tooth "v-1ft" anti-tank missile of the Red Police Corps Army?The answer is no. The Red Police soldiers have not been extravagant enough to lose out. The violent storms have greatly affected the joint logistics supply of the troops. The base number of anti-tank missiles deployed is reserved for those French heavy tanks. For these thin skins The'canned food' is not enough to use v-1ft.

So besides the v-1ft anti-tank missile, who else can form such a large destruction effect at such a long distance?The answer is an anti-tank weapon system similar to the Chinese pf98 anti-tank rocket launcher, to the 120 mm anti-tank system of the base individual weapon series.This type of anti-tank rocket, which is divided into camp and continuous use, has always been an indispensable weapon for the Red Police Corps Army, Navy Red Police soldiers, and airborne troops.Not to mention the amx-10p infantry fighting vehicles, even those French light tanks, and even some main battle tanks, cannot withstand the fierce blow of this large-caliber anti-tank rocket.

In addition to the launch tube, rockets, and percussion machine, the 120mm anti-tank anti-tank rocket system for the anti-tank system also includes a simple fire control system, a low-light scope for the camp, and a tripod for the camp.The combined use system consists of a combined scope, a low-light scope and a tripod.The launching tube is the same, it is made of glass fiber reinforced plastic, weighs less than 10 kg, and can be reused.

In addition to the front and rear protective caps installed on the front and rear of the launch barrel to protect the shooter from burns, the 120mm anti-tank system also installs a locking bolt on the locking device to prevent rockets from shooting at a large angle of fire. Snap out.In addition, a quadrant mount is installed on the inside and upper part of the launch tube to facilitate the shooter to check whether the barrel is level.Although these are all details, they are enough to show good intentions.The maximum range is 1800 meters, the effective range of the camp type is 800 meters, and the continuous type is 400 meters. The launch speed is 15 seconds and the response time is less than 10 seconds.Behind these data is the record of the lethal effect of the 120mm anti-tank system and its pride in its peers with similar weapons.

This amx-10p infantry fighting vehicle is just one of several hunting products of the 120mm anti-tank system.

At this moment, the destroyed amx-10p tracked infantry fighting vehicle is still burning, but at least it should be fortunate. Fortunately, it is only a 120mm anti-tank system anti-tank rocket, if it hits a v-1ft. A ruthless character, you can directly return it to the part state, where will it give it a chance to burn.Moreover, it was just a multi-purpose rocket that hit it.

Among the rockets used in the 120mm anti-tank system, there are mainly two types: armor-piercing rockets and multi-purpose rockets.The bullet diameters are all 120 mm.

The former is mainly used to deal with armored targets such as tanks, because this type of ammunition has a strong ability to destroy reactive armor, main armor, and lethal force.But sometimes, the soldiers of the Red Police Corps also liked the firepower that it used to bombard the enemy.

It adopts a tandem armor-breaking warhead structure, a copper medicine-shaped cover with a 60-degree cone angle of equal wall thickness, and a polyhei-2 precision pressing medicine column.The armor-piercing rocket at the beginning of the design accurately defined its design purpose-anti-armor.

The multi-purpose rocket is because it has the functions of destroying armor, killing and burning, and it mainly destroys infantry fighting vehicles, light armored vehicles, firearms, and equipment, and kills and exposes the active force.It can also be used to destroy simple field fortifications and tunnels.

The warhead using self-forging fragmentation technology is also packed with Black-2 explosives, but the cone angle of the uniform wall thickness of the charge type cover has been expanded to 140 degrees.The initial velocity after launch can reach 205 seconds/meter.If the angle is 55 degrees, the thickness of the armor can even reach 400 mm.With this thickness, how can the amx-10p infantry fighting vehicle be blocked.

Another rocket that followed directly hit the amx-10p chariot that was reversing.What frightened those Ethiopian soldiers was that in such a storm, Somalis’ rockets could still maintain such an accurate hit rate.The weak armored body was torn apart, and more than 120 steel balls with a diameter of 5.5 mm and combustible metal zirconium as the armor-piercing warhead entered the body instantly turned the entire cabin into a purgatory.Prefabricated fragments with a burning effect and a intensive killing radius of 25 meters made this amx-10p infantry fighting vehicle burn all over the eye.A variety of damage effects such as armor piercing, killing, burning, etc. are the pursuit goals of the 120mm anti-tank system and anti-tank system multi-purpose rocket.

As if realizing that the situation here is not very good, two Panhard wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicles, under the cover of a Leclerc main battle tank, rushed towards the battlefield where the wreckage of 6 armored vehicles was already burning. Come here.

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In the base, the response to this battle was Li Lan's unquestionable order: "Order the first infantry brigade to reinforce Zella Town and Jidi Town at the fastest speed."