Chapter 690 Infrared-guided medium-range bombs
In over-visual air combat, electronic systems are very important. The party with electronic advantages will have the advantage, especially the party with active guidance air-to-air missiles.
In later generations, the Chinese army equipped the Su-27 and introduced the R-27 missile, which gained the ability to attack beyond the visual range for the first time. However, at the same time, the United States already had the Aim-120 missile guided by active radar. At that time, the Chinese Air Force was studying various tactics and wanted to use semi-active radar missiles to deal with active radar missiles. The final result of the study was only one, that is, to fight against active radar missiles, and then it also had to have the same active radar missile!
This is the advantage of generation difference. Relying on this generation difference and technological advantages, American gangsters can show off their power everywhere.
Now, when their advantage is cracked, the plug-in is blocked, and both sides return to the same starting line again.
And when close combat begins, the advantages of Soviet fighter jets will be exerted!
Although the operation is very cumbersome and it takes a lot of buttons to launch a missile, the performance of the close-range combat r-73 missile mounted by the Su-27 fighter is far greater than that of the US Aim-9m. The entire flight envelope is much wider than that of the Diamondback. For example, the off-axis combat capability, the basic R-73 missile reaches 40 degrees, and the improved model is as high as 60! The off-axis launch capability of the Diamondback does not exceed 30 degrees!
Even the difference of ten degrees will make American pilots slacken. When the r-73 appears, Americans will continue to increase their research and development efforts. Only when they successfully created the aim-9x is considered relieved.
Now, Alex led the Su-27 fleet to pounce from the sky. At a distance of ten kilometers, Alex turned his head and put the enemy plane on his helmet sight. When a familiar sound came from the headphones, he pressed the red button on the operating rod.
An R-73 missile escaped from under the wings and just drove out with thick smoke, it immediately made a high overload steering, and the thrust vector controlled the bullet body. It instantly pointed at the target.
In addition to having large off-axis launch capabilities, it also requires high maneuverability! This maneuverability is controlled by thrust vectors, especially in the early stage of launch, when the bullet body speed is small and the control torque on the aerodynamic rudder surface is small, the effect of thrust vectors is even more obvious.
At this time, Torrett was still waiting for the other party to break into the flight envelope of his Rattlesnake missile. Seeing that the other party launched a missile attack in an impossible direction, Torrett was shocked. He opened the extra force and climbed upwards, hoping to consume the energy of the other party's missile.
Unfortunately, the power range of the r-73 missile exceeded ten kilometers. After Ptoletra was lifted, the hot tail flame gave the r-73 a better guide. After a few seconds, Ptoletra's chrysanthemum was exploded.
Pulling the ejection handle, Torret's body accelerated sharply. He came out of the cockpit and saw his fighter plane have caught fire. He felt very uncomfortable. At the same time, his mind was also thinking quickly that the territory of Iraq is all underneath! His side threw bombs every day, and the Iraqis had a deep hatred for themselves. If they were caught by the Iraqis, his greatest luxury was that he would die one minute earlier.
What greeted him was a severe survival test.
He simply killed two American fighter jets, and Alex shook the wings to regroup his formation. Then he rushed to the next target with murderous intent.
In the past, they refused to fight in the air, not because they were not brave. Instead, they knew that Iraq's combat system could not compete with the United States, and taking off would mean death. Now, this situation is beneficial to them. If they want to fight bravely, they will get a reward of one million US dollars if they shoot down an enemy plane.
On this day, fierce battles broke out everywhere in the sky. In the later stage, not only the MiG-29 and Su-27, but also the J-7, which came from China, was launched and achieved several results. The Americans were surprised to find that this fighter similar to the MiG-21 had close combat capabilities that almost caught up with the products of the F-16's energy maneuver theory.
Faced with such losses, the United States can only temporarily admit its failure and no longer sends fighter jets over Iraq to avoid greater losses.
The sky in Iraq is quiet, but everyone knows that this is just a precursor to large-scale military operations.
Iraq's Saddam is a stubborn guy and will definitely not admit defeat directly. This sudden Iraq's air counterattack is the beginning!
On June 27th, at 2:00 a.m., everything was silent.
There are only some insects and reptiles in the desert taking advantage of the night to get out of the desert, taking advantage of the temperature dropping at night to find food. There is silence everywhere, with only the occasional sound of wind blowing the yellow sand and making the unique whistle and whistle in the desert.
At the border of Ico, a long convoy of vehicles, without turning on the headlights, heading towards the border in the dark. In the desert, they are moving forward.
The dark night covered their whereabouts.
The existence of large-scale blocking and interference has caused the coalition forces to bomb at night. Before they came up with a way to crack Iraq's self-harm and hurt the enemy, they were more likely to park on the airport runway and in the hangar. At this time, the busiest person should be the American military workers, and they need to find ways to restrain this interference.
The motor roared, and the huge off-road tires kept rotating in the desert, stirring up yellow sand and leaving deep ruts.
In the car, there was an Iraqi general, Lieutenant General Nuha Mohamed Sheikhri, the bearded Iraqi general, holding a luminous magnificent degree in his hand to judge their position.
"Stop!" He raised his hand and stopped the vehicle.
Nuha compared the map, looked at the degrees, and said, "Use starlight navigation to determine our location. This should be our preset position!"
Electromagnetic interference blocks the GPS signal at the same time. If you want to accurately locate it in the desert, you have to use the original means. Their positioning must be accurate, which is related to their strike accuracy.
The stars in the sky are shining with cold light. Using the starlight to locate it is the method adopted in the ancient Age of Navigation.
After confirming the location, the vehicles in the convoy began to gradually set off a launching position.
Through the dark night, it can be seen that these vehicles are all Iraqi missile launchers. On the four-axle off-road chassis, the round missiles showed a hideous appearance. The number of these missiles is large, almost occupying several square kilometers of land around them.
If it were the past, Iraq's missile forces would never dare to mobilize such a large area, then it would definitely make the US early warning aircraft discover it, and then call a large number of air strike forces to destroy Iraq's killer weapon.
Now, relying on the electromagnetic interference that was successfully implemented again and the unremitting efforts of the air force, the attack of the US-led air force has finally been curbed. Only when they have no annoying flies on their heads can they launch this large-scale operation!
In this operation, Saddam not only drove out all the remaining 150 Scud missile vehicles (with 300 missiles left), but also the most advanced 20 SS-21 "Dound" ground-to-surface missiles (with 40 missiles) and 10 SS-Spider" ground-to-surface missiles (with 20 missiles) purchased from Xiao.
At this time, if the Soviets were still saying that they did not participate in the secret arms sales to Iraq, no one would believe it. After all, only the Soviets had these two new types of ground-to-ground missiles!
In particular, these missiles are solid ballistic missiles, which can be fired and run away without the need for time to refuel fuel, and the strike accuracy is very high.
Moreover, it can be seen that when the United States and the Soviet Union reached an INF Treaty, completely destroying the medium- and short-range missiles of both sides, both sides had a backup plan. Otherwise, missiles like SS- should have been completely destroyed long ago. How could they flow into Iraq through Xiao's channel?
Thinking of the Soviet Union behind him, Saddam was not alone at all.
Including this offensive plan, it was all combat plans provided by Xiao. This plan was too clever. It was definitely not planned by an arms dealer like Xiao. Behind it is definitely a huge team, that is, the guys from Moscow did it.
Saddam never knew that it was actually not the Soviet Union behind it. Some of the help provided by the Soviet Union was just Saddam's request. The real craftsman of these plans was the young man far away in South Asia. These ballistic trajectories that had long disappeared from the Soviet equipment sequence were not pulled out from a confidential warehouse in the Soviet Union, but were imitated by Pakistan.
Now, with a huge attack force, one hundred and eighty missile launchers, like giant beasts that are ready to choose people, are ready to reveal its hideous face and launch a death attack at any time.
A small team of Iraqi Republic guards scattered, and more than ten minutes later, they came over with a scout covered in sand wearing desert camouflage uniforms.
Nuha asked him some questions, the movements of the coalition forces in Kuwait, etc. Then he took out a laptop from the cab, followed the soldier and walked towards the sand pile in the distance.
Under a pile of sand, there is an Iraqi hidden outpost. Through this outpost, Iraq can know the movements of the US military at the first time.
There are many hidden outposts like this, in the southeast, facing the front of Kuwait’s battlefield, in the south and southwest. There are also many hidden outposts facing Saudi borders.
Chapter completed!