Chapter 1820 The 1st Airborne Operation 1

"No problem, our people will first target those leaders. After they are eliminated, the remaining people will have little fighting power." Morris said with a smile.

"They all cherish their lives and are under layers of protection." Caroli said.

"Hehe, let's wait and see." Morris didn't bother to explain anything.

At the same time, at an airship field in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, at least small bombers are lined up on the airport. This time, they are no longer carrying bombs to act as death reapers , but as a means of transportation, together with the selected Bavarian elite infantry to complete the actual first airborne operation.

A modified K6 bomber can carry a squad of soldiers and the equipment they need, while a modified K8 bomber can transport a platoon of soldiers or carry more than 2.5 tons of supplies to the theater.

"Brothers, we are all the best soldiers selected from the grassroots combat units. We are tactically skilled, vigilant, and resourceful. Neither the British and French troops on the Western Front nor the gray cattle of the Russians can satisfy our desire to challenge. , so here we are, marking a brand new army with winged daggers! We have been trained for at least 3 months. And now, it is time to test our achievements, our enemy, They are hiding in the depths of the city, and God told me that Budapest can no longer bear the brilliance of cannon fodder again, so this time, the kingdom needs us to take action! Find these hidden cockroaches one by one and kill them!" In the wide On the runway, Bavaria's first paratrooper unit - the elite of the Munich Special Paratrooper Battalion gathered here, doing general mobilization before departure.

So far, among the more than 800,000 troops in Bavaria, there are only 2,000 people who can wear "winged daggers" on their shoulders, which is at most the size of a regiment. There are three combat battalions under it, namely the Munich Special Parachute Battalion, the Nuremberg Parachute Battalion and the Prague Parachute Battalion. Named after the three most important cities in the territory controlled by the Wittelsbach family, all paratroop combat units were field-hardened volunteers. In addition to being proficient in various light infantry weapons within the Bavarian Legion, each of them is also proficient in blasting, soil engineering, and other engineering operations. Basically represents the peak of Bavarian infantry combat power at this stage!

After a short mobilization, the 500 paratroopers of the Munich Special Parachute Battalion who participated in the battle began to make final preparations for their dispatch. And the first thing they have to do is to check their personal umbrella.

Every soldier will be equipped with two things, one is a parachute bag on his back, and the other is an equipment bag used to store supplies needed for combat, and the latter is usually buckled on his leg when parachuting . (From top to bottom, it can basically be understood as an infantryman hanging under the top parachute, and a bag of things is hanging on the infantryman's leg...) As for what to do if you get hurt when you land? Isn't that easy? When you are about to reach the ground, you can just open the buckle on the leg. Just throw the equipment bag down first, and look for it after landing!

Originally, at the beginning of the establishment of the paratroopers, some officers of the German paratroopers hoped to realize the separation of personnel and equipment. After all, even if buckles were installed on the legs, the movement of personnel was still inconvenient. Accidents are more likely to occur when skydiving. But later experiments proved that the accuracy of paratroopers in this era is really bad... Generally speaking, the people of a company were thrown down, and then the paratroopers of this company and a large number of supplies were walking in a large area. If only the paratroopers themselves carried pistols and a few grenades,

It was too dangerous in the first moment of landing, and the survivability of the troops was worrying.

Therefore, in the end the Bavarian paratroopers decided to adopt this tactic of dropping equipment and personnel together. However, in order to reduce the soldier's load, the equipment package generally only contains paratrooper semi-automatic rifles (truncated barrels and lightweight semi-automatic rifles), submachine guns, magazines, medical kits, and a packaged emergency ration.

As for machine guns, ammunition boxes, explosives and blasting equipment, these things should be packed in special airdrop boxes. There are two types of airdrop boxes, one is a round metal box with a length of 170 cm and a diameter of 40 cm. The weight is 40 kg in the air, and the maximum weight is 140 kg. Because this box may contain more sophisticated things such as machine guns, accessory tool boxes, optical sights or sniper rifles, there will be some fillers inside the box. for buffering.

The other kind of airdrop box is made of wicker. Compared with the metal box, this kind of box is shorter and thicker, with a length of 90 cm, a width of 50 cm, a height of 40 cm, and a weight of about 20KG (including parachutes and ropes. ), can be loaded in more than 120 kg of materials. It can be air-dropped alone or two can be tied together and thrown down. It is generally used to hold various food, tools, engineering equipment and folding carts...  Yes, you read that right, sometimes, paratroopers who lack vehicles and horses have to work part-time as porters...  

The main equipment of this paratrooper unit is still paratrooper-type semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns. At the same time, it can also ensure that each squad has an MG machine gun and at least two grenade launchers. As for the artillery? If the 60MM mortar counts, then a company will have three. As for other heavy weapons? Sorry, this is really gone....

In fact, even in World War II, as the first wave of paratroopers who jumped out of the plane, they carried very little equipment. Most of them are light weapons, some powerful ones, such as the German LG40 recoilless guns, 150MM large-caliber mortars, and the British jeeps and 6-pound guns. The transport planes sent them down, or they were transported by bombers with glider. And in this era, where do you go to find all kinds of large transport aircraft? And even if the transport aircraft is barely qualified, there are not many truly large airports in the world. Civil aviation has not developed, and there are very few airports!

It’s not that the Bavarian Legion has never thought of using glider to transport a large amount of supplies. However, there is only one large airship field in Budapest, which is very far away from the target area. The paratroopers that debuted for the first time were really mediocre in terms of equipment and planning. It won't be as stunning as the famous WWII airborne operation on Crete or like City Garden. (Although the former is a huge loss, the latter is a failure, but it is indeed very exciting, um! The loss is also wonderful!)

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