I was sitting on a bed. It was a bed in a military camp. This was a bed in a French military camp. To be precise, it was a bed from the French Foreign Corps. The doctor took me to this barracks and pointed to the bed and said, "This is your new training camp. You have to receive some basic training here. I will pick you up after the training."
"What to train? Those people are soldiers of the French Foreign Legion"? I pointed to the heavily armed soldiers outside, and I looked out all of the Humvees passing by, the helicopter gunship hovering in the distance, and the wounded on the stretcher who had just been lifted from the plane.
"Yes, they are all soldiers outside the law,"
"These soldiers are people from all over the world who have signed up for the foreign legion. There are soldiers, businessmen, criminals, oil workers, and even billionaire sons. No matter what they are doing, they are trained here and eliminated most of them. Then, they are qualified. You may not have a mission, you may be transferred to various places to fight terrorism and serve as bodyguards, and the best will stay and be sent on missions.” The doctor explained the problem in a comprehensive manner.
"Since there are them, what do we need to do?" Since there are so many mercenary troops, how can wolves still exist
"He is just a mercenary, we are professional mercenaries!" Andre said from the side.
"What's the difference?" To be honest, I still don't know anything about mercenaries. .
"They are the kind...you know...they have watched a lot of movies, and some of them are trained to enter the military system. Some of them want to use service in exchange for French immigrants. Wait. Most of them give up or die after playing for two days. Now, all the difficult tasks are done by professional mercenaries like ours. They are just furnishings! Amateurs!" The doctor explained to me further.
"Then let me train with them?" Since I am an amateur, I don't understand.
"But you are not as good as them, at least now!" The doctor said, "In addition to Chinese, you can speak French? The worst soldiers here can also speak three languages. Can you drive? Can you drive a tank? A helicopter? A fighter plane? Boats? Submarines? Have you seen all the guns? But do you know how to use them? Can you blast underwater? Can you tell the difference between C4 and C3 with your eyes closed? Rookie, you need to learn a lot!"
"Study hard! If you want to live on the battlefield," Andre concluded, and then they left.
I looked around the room. Although everyone in the room spoke a different accent, they all spoke French. Looking at the people in the room, I remembered feeling frightened, but if it was just physical fitness, I wouldn't be afraid. I had accumulated enough confidence in the doctor's devil training.
Looking at the people in the house, I was too lazy to communicate with them. After all, I only stayed here for more than a month. I'm just a passerby in their lives. Maybe I'll see this once in my life.
In the early morning of the next day, starting at 5:30, running for 6 kilometers in full gear, 50 push-ups in 1 minute and 50 sit-ups in 1 minute. After the training, the people in the room were surprised to see my results. Maybe they didn’t expect this yellow-skinned monkey from Asia to have such a good physical fitness. They all came to say hello to me. Only the strong here can receive respect, and I It's also greeted with smiles, and get to know as many people as possible.
Dinner starts at 7 o’clock, and live ammunition practice after the meal. This is my second official target training. The French FAMAS 5.56mm rifle is the world’s first non-supported small-caliber rifle. Rifle. The gun can fire both American M193 type 5.56mm bullets and NATO SS109 type 5.56mm bullets. After the target shooting, the results were fair, but it was still very poor compared to others. It seems that the doctor was right, and there is still a lot to learn.
It is lunch time at 12 noon, and the food is not bad. I am used to Z national food, and occasionally eat other countries’ food.
At 13:00, the equipment operation practice, at 17:00, return to the station; at 17:30, the weapons will be stored; 18:00 is dinner time; at 18:30, the squad leader will comment on the performance of the recruits on the day; at 19:00, conduct ideological education like every A recruit instills the ideological qualities and values that a qualified soldier must possess. 20 o'clock, free time, 21 o'clock is the light-off time.
It is said that the recruits must pass the following tests before the end of the nine-week training exercise. He completed 17 pull-ups at one time, 35 sit-ups in 1 minute, and a 2-mile run in 16 minutes and 36 seconds.
Although it only took one day of training, it made me feel a lot.
1: Their physical training is quite easy, maybe the doctor's devil training has improved me a lot.
2: French still needs to be strengthened, it is often wrong and very embarrassing.
3: The operation of the equipment suits my appetite. I will be more interested in introducing equipment and weapons from many countries, as well as some special police and spies.
4: The bathroom is shared by men and women, mixed bathing for men and women! (There are no female soldiers in the French Foreign Legion, but other troops come here for training...) ILoveFrance! ! !
The doctor came to me the next day. Because of my excellent physical performance yesterday, I spent my time learning to drive except for shooting live ammunition and operating equipment.
Cars and motorcycles are relatively simple. I have to mention one thing. I saw a three-wheeled motorcycle from Country Z in France, but it became a very fashionable term "class assault vehicle" in the French army. Because I have driven a tractor, the tank is relatively easy to learn, but the above fire control system is very unfamiliar. Fortunately, I am also a college student, so I can’t find it hard to study hard.
The Leclerc tank has a total combat weight of 53 tons and a crew of 3 people. The "Leclerc" tank uses the French self-developed CN-120-26 120mm smoothbore gun. Its barrel length is 52 times the caliber, which is longer than the German standard L44 The 120mm smoothbore gun (44 times the caliber) is long, but the gun chamber is the same, and the shell can also be used universally. Its body is equipped with an aluminum alloy thermal sheath, which can prevent the barrel from being deformed when it is hot in contact with the outside cold air and maintain shooting accuracy. Compared with the ammunition used by the German L44 120mm smoothbore gun, the range, speed and accuracy of the shells equipped with the Leclerc tank are better. Its grenade can kill people, destroy buildings and light armored vehicles, and has the leading power. A lot. The 12.7 mm parallel machine gun installed at the bottom left of the artillery shield is more powerful than the general main battle tank parallel machine gun, which is sufficient to deal with ordinary vehicles or light weapons, saving the consumption of shells, and the base number of ammunition is 950. The commander and gunner’s hatch can be equipped with 7.62 mm anti-aircraft machine guns, but usually only one is installed, mainly to assist the parallel machine guns to suppress enemy infantry and other small and medium-sized targets.
The fire control system of the "Leclerc" tank is a commander/fighter fire control system, including a thermal imager, a laser rangefinder, a commander and gunner sight, artillery stabilizer, sensors and 3 computers, of which the computer There are more than 30 central processors. Therefore, the French refer to the "Leclerc" tank as a "computer tank." The main body is the "Sagem" HL60 sight and the artillery trunnion mechanical linkage. The HL60 sight is composed of a two-way stabilized lens holder, an image capture system and a power supply. The lens holder is composed of a low-error gyroscope and an acceleration sensor to maintain bidirectional stability. , The other 1 gyroscope and 2 acceleration sensors are responsible for vertical plane stabilization and provide inertial navigation parameters.
The image capture system is installed on the lens holder. The right side is the optical lens and laser rangefinder, and the left side is the thermal imager. There are 6 operating modes. The daytime optical sight has two magnifications of 3.3 times and 10 times. The daytime TV display is 10 times magnification, and the night thermal imaging TV is 3.3 times magnification. The effective distance of laser ranging is 10,000 meters, and the error is ±5 meters. There are also two modes for aperture imaging and emergency mirror adjustment. The aperture imaging adjusts the optical lens to be parallel to the center line of the artillery, and only relies on the internal scale of the mirror to estimate the aiming point. Skilled gunners using the HL60 scope can usually spot targets within 5000 meters, identify targets within 2500 meters, and confirm targets within 2000 meters. Each modular unit transmits all the data to the computer. The computer calculates the firepower based on the target distance, angular velocity of displacement, type of bomb, artillery parameters, atmospheric parameters, car body parameters, etc., and calibrates the advance and the aiming point in the scope. 0.1 milliradian, making the tank's first shot hit rate of 95% while on the move...
The squad leader kept talking on the top, while I was listening below, but I was wondering if it is possible for mercenaries to open tanks to fight
After a week, the happy and short ground driving was over. With excitement, I started the learning course of aerial weapons. The doctor said: "If you want to learn to fly an airplane, learn to fly first."
I happily waited for the Rafale-B fighter, but ignored the doctor's smirk. When the plane flew into the sky doing various stunts, I finally understood. Because the food in my stomach squirted out of my nose and filled the entire pilot helmet. That's sour...
I think I am in love with the army.
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