Dominate South Asia

An airborne tank must sacrifice weight, which means sacrificing protection level and maneuverability, and its firepower is extremely powerful. The M551 tank uses a 152mm cannon. This cannon can fire ordinary artillery shells, such as multi-purpose munitions. Armor bombs, grenades, yellow phosphorus smoke bombs and tracer training bombs, etc. can also launch oak stick anti-tank missiles.

To deal with advanced tanks, its M409E5 multi-purpose armor-piercing projectile has an effective range of about 1,500m, a maximum vertical armor-piercing thickness of 500mm, and can play a fragmentation role. The MGM-51A Oak Stick anti-tank missile has a range of 3000m and a maximum vertical armor penetration thickness of 500mm. No matter which method is used, the monkey moderator armor of the T-72 can be torn apart.

When the tank fell, driven by the parachute, it swayed down. Then, the soldiers of Unit A also began to line up one by one to walk out of the cabin and jump off calmly.

I'm a damn paratrooper! We show up in the most dangerous places! They looked at the Indus River flowing in the distance and the land around them. This is Pakistan's territory and must not be occupied by Indians!

20 C-130 transport aircraft dropped 20 tanks and nearly 300 soldiers.

As they landed in the air, they simultaneously controlled the parachute ropes and searched for their tanks.

"Boom." The tank landed on the ground. The honeycomb-shaped aluminum alloy chassis blocked the main force of the fall. The remaining force was then buffered by the suspension of the road wheels, and the tank landed steadily on the ground.

"Boom." With their legs curled up, the paratroopers landed steadily due to the cushioning force. Throwing aside their parachutes, they ran towards the tank.

Untie the rope and jump into the cockpit. Start the engine, and with a rumbling sound, the tank is quickly started.

Soldiers without tanks jumped on the top of the tank, holding on to the outer handrails, and landed on the airfield. With the tank as the center, Troop A quickly gathered and headed towards the Indus River.

It only took an hour in total!

When they reached the river bank. On the opposite side, the Indian vanguard has not come over yet.

camouflage! Using the reeds on the river bank and the surrounding grass, they quickly hid themselves.

The river is not wide, less than two thousand meters, but the upper reaches is dozens of kilometers wide. This narrow river bed also causes the river to flow rapidly.

Along the road. Above the river, there is a bridge, at this time. The bridge has been planted with explosives by the engineers of Troop A, just waiting for the arrival of the Indians.

The commander of Unit A, Hassan Zada, stood on top of the tank, holding a telescope and observing the other side.

Amidst the billowing smoke and dust, armored troops were moving in quickly. The leading one is the T-72 tank, which the Indians are most proud of!

The tall, long barrel and the V-shaped body armor are the most obvious symbols of the T-72.

On the rugged road, the tanks kept bumping and their speed continued unabated. They came straight towards the highway bridge here.

After passing this highway bridge, there will be a vast plain on the opposite side. Directly to Karachi!

This highway bridge was built more than ten years ago and has a load-bearing capacity of only 20 tons. Now, the T-72 has a load-bearing capacity of more than 40 tons. There was no fear that the tanks would crush the bridge here and rumbled up.

The tracks pressed against it. There was a creaking sound, getting closer and closer to the shore here.

The second, the third... five or six tanks were pressed up on this highway bridge at the same time.

Hassan was about to give the order to detonate explosives and blow up the bridge, but he saw concrete blocks falling from the bridge in front of him.

The bridge cannot hold up.

In later generations, heavy trucks of more than 100 tons pressed on highway bridges, and it was usually fine. However, if several trucks pressed to the side at the same time, the bridge would be crushed.

The same is true now. The weight limit of the bridge is twenty tons. If one tank weighs forty tons, there will be no problem. Two tanks, eighty tons, will be fine in a short time. However, these are not two tanks, but six. The vehicle, more than 200 tons, was directly pressed on a bridge with a weight limit of 20 tons. In this way, the bridge was crushed.

"Boom." The bridge could not bear the weight, and finally collapsed completely.

As the bridge collapsed, the tank above fell into the water. The tank crew screamed inside, not knowing what happened. He only felt that the ground in his field of vision suddenly turned into river water.

The collapsed bridge sank into the river, and the fast-flowing river continued to wash away the remaining debris. The tanks fell into the water, the hatches opened, and the tank crews climbed out.

It’s terrible to be uneducated. It clearly says on the bridge that the weight limit is 20! Hassan here couldn't help but think.

It's better this way. The Indians themselves collapsed the bridge and let's see how they cross the river!

Now, Troop A is still in a secretive state. The Indians who cannot cross the river have not noticed that a force has been ambushed on the other side to snipe them. They are worrying about how to cross the river.

An Indian jumped off the tank, stepped on the debris below, and slowly entered the water.

The collapsed bridge raised the bottom of the river, and the deepest part of the river only reached his waist.

He began to wave back, and the driver of a T-72 tank showed his head and slowly drove the tank, actually trying to drive over along the ruins below.

People with high skills are bold. The driving skills of the three men are very superb. Just watch their motorcycle performance during the military parade. It is almost like acrobatics.

Now, the tank was moving slowly, and Hassan took a breath. If the enemy could really move over, then they would have to be ready to shoot.

All the M551 tanks' M81 tank guns were stuffed with Oak Stick anti-tank missiles. The width of the river was just enough to give full play to the range of this missile, and the enemy's tank guns would have a much lower accuracy at this distance.

"Crack, boom." Just when the T-72 tank had passed more than half of the way, suddenly, one side of the track was spinning, and then the tank turned over to this side.

It was empty!

The tank turned over 90 degrees and fell to the side. The tank soldiers inside climbed out and were very angry.

It was about to pass, but it fell here!

The tanks behind did not dare to take the risk of passing again. Now, they were fighting for time! If the Pakistani Army reacted quickly, they would not be able to pass again.

The commander of the 33rd Tank Division stood on a T-72 tank at the back, watching the river blocking their way. If they wanted to take a detour, they would have to find a new bridge dozens of kilometers upstream.

Moreover, the Pakistani bridge was too fragile to allow tanks to pass through! Taking a detour would waste time and was not in line with their own strategy.

Originally, tanks could also swim across the river, but they needed to install ventilators and apply sealing oil, which wasted more time.

"Where are the bridge-building tanks?" the commander shouted, "Why haven't they come up yet?"

Because they had to cross several rivers, they brought bridge-building tanks when they came, but they hadn't caught up yet.

Ten minutes later, the special iron lump started to move up.

The bottom is the chassis of the tank. From the track structure, it is the same as the T-55, but the round turret on the top has been removed and replaced with a flat, retractable steel bridge.

It's finally here!

This bridge-building tank drove to the river bank, then started the hydraulic cylinder to lift one end of the folded steel bridge, and then slowly released the folded steel bridge section by section, with the front end directly entering the water and becoming a bridge. A floating bridge several dozen meters long was built on the river bank. This tank retreated, and the second bridge-building tank drove up and drove onto the floating bridge. When it reached the front, it continued to stretch its bridge and connected to the section of the floating bridge that had just been built. It extended forward for more than a dozen meters, and in this way, one after another, the floating bridge was soon built in the middle.

What a fast speed! Hassan looked at the floating bridge, which was getting longer and longer, and even crossed the middle of the river, and would soon be built over.

Can't wait any longer!

"Attention, aim at the T-72 tanks on the opposite bank, let them know how powerful we are!" Hassan said on the radio: "Shoot!"

"Boom, boom!" Twenty tanks, twenty 152mm guns, fired twenty anti-tank missiles.

The most famous cannon-launched missile in later generations is the Soviet Union's 125mm cannon-launched missile. In fact, the Americans studied it earlier.

Using tank guns to shoot missiles can give the missiles a greater initial velocity and fly farther. At the same time, unlike artillery shells, they are not out of control once they go out. They can continue to control the course and accurately hit the enemy.

After launching, the shooter continues to aim at the target tank with the aiming device. The fire control system of this missile uses visual aiming and infrared automatic tracking technology. It does not require an operating handle. You only need to aim the infrared at the target tank to hit the opponent.

There was a huge roar on the river bank here, and the Indian army on the other side was suddenly surprised.

What's going on? Why is there a fire on the opposite side, and something is flying over?

"Attention, there are Pakistani troops hiding on the opposite side!" The tank driver in the front saw it clearly, but it was too late.

The cylindrical missile flew straight over. When the missile collided with the main armor of the tank, everyone heard the sound from hell.

The protection level was no more than 400 mm of homogeneous armor, while the missile flying from the opposite side had an armor-piercing capability of more than 500 mm. Therefore, this missile easily penetrated and detonated the sub-packaged ammunition inside the T-72.

"Boom!" A loud noise came from the inside of the tank, and the turret flew out. (To be continued ~^~)