In the Iraq H-3 air force base, two aircraft slowly slid onto the runway, and under their wings, each carrying two huge missiles.

These two aircraft are the MiG-25 fighter jets that have gradually fallen out of favor in the Iraqi Air Force.

Although the MiG-25 has the advantage of double-three, in reality, it does not have much use. Most of the battles actually occur in the transonic range. The backward aerodynamic layout of the MiG-25 and the gradual aging of the weapon system seem to have caused this fighter to fall into a gradual retirement like other Soviet aircraft.

However, Iraq did not do this. In the process of eliminating fighter jets such as MiG-21 and MiG-23 in large quantities, they carried out a mid-term life extension and improvement plan.

The key to improvement is its fire control system.

Although the MiG-25's radar is very powerful, it is just a last resort. Because the Soviet electronic technology lags behind, it has to use the method of increasing the power to obtain a larger range, but its performance has not been essentially improved.

With the gradual development of Iraq's electronic technology, Iraq has developed several advanced radars for flat-panel gap radar antennas, and key solid circuits can be produced independently.

Because the MiG-25 nose has a large diameter, the radar antenna equipped by Iraq is also the largest. In this way, the improved MiG-25 fighter radar has the ability to discover targets 200 kilometers away and lock in attacks.

In this way, the MiG-25 was reborn in Iraq, and its performance partially reached the performance of the Soviet Union's improved MiG-31. Although the MiG-31 uses phased array radar, it is not much advanced than Iraq's radar, and the cost is quite high.

Moreover, Iraq purchased a batch of R-33 missiles for the MiG-25 through secret channels at an extremely low price. This missile is a long-range air-to-air missile specially produced by the Soviet Union for the MiG-31. When it was put into service in 1982, its range was 120 kilometers. In the past decade, the Soviet Union was also improving this missile. Now, its range has reached 200 kilometers! It is simply tailor-made for high-value targets such as early warning aircraft.

Although Kusai values ​​the KS-172 missile with a range of more than 400 kilometers, it is still in the research and development stage and does not have troops. Even if Kusai wants to get it, he may be helpless. He can empty the Soviet arsenal, but he has not developed it yet, so he can do nothing, right?

However, the acquisition of this missile has already made Kusai very satisfied, which means that the Iraqi Air Force has the ability to attack enemy early warning aircraft.

Last time, they only used soft killing to their air defense system, but this time, they will have to kill hard!

Faced with the invasion of the Israeli Air Force, the Iraqi country's war machine was at its peak. Their preparations for several years were all on the stage tonight.

After taking off, the MiG-25 did not fly directly towards Israel. Through Syrian airspace, they flew towards the Mediterranean.

This place is outside the detection area of ​​Israel's radar, so Israel will not find that they have taken off two heavy fighter jets.

The MiG-25 turned on the afterburner and flew to a height of 25,000 meters. They didn't have much time left for them. The earlier they knocked off the opponent's early warning plane, the sooner they would help their air force win a complete victory.

The Israelis wanted to get rid of Iraq's early warning aircraft and did not hesitate to steal themselves under the passenger plane. Iraq also flew over the Mediterranean and entered another passenger plane route.

The altitude dropped to 12,000, and the speed also dropped to the speed of sound.

This route leads to Tel Aviv.

The two MiG-25s also used intensive formations, so that even if they were discovered by the other party's radar, they would only be considered a large passenger plane.

When Israel's E-3 early warning aircraft was accurately located at a distance of 400 kilometers, it was discovered that the passenger plane was not concerned at first.

Although the E-3 early warning aircraft can accommodate more operators due to its large space, in this fierce air battle, they are busy commanding the battle of their own air force, and their work efficiency will directly affect the victory of the front-line air force soldiers.

In order to avoid being attacked by the Iraqi Air Force, the E-3 early warning aircraft was almost bound to face the Mediterranean Sea when flying over the western part of Israel.

The air combat of our own fighters has consumed all the energy of the early warning aircraft, and they did not pay much attention to their backs. A passenger plane 400 kilometers away does not threaten them, even if the other party flew within 200 kilometers of their own, it would not be too late to mobilize the fighter jets that escort them to intercept them.

Until the passenger plane deviated from the route and flew towards their direction, the early warning plane still thought that the passenger plane had deviated in the first two minutes.

But later, they discovered that the passenger plane suddenly became two!

At this time, the distance between the two sides was less than three hundred kilometers.

Two Iraqi MiG-25 fighter jets turned on their afterburners and quickly climbed up.

The power of the twin-three fighter jets was exerted again. The nose in front of them cut through the night sky. They were climbing up quickly, ready to reach the edge of the earth.

The speed is constantly increasing, and the height is constantly increasing.

The greater the speed of the carrier, the greater the initial speed of the missile, allowing it to obtain a longer range. The thin air at high altitude and the smaller the resistance can also allow the missile to reach a greater range.

Therefore, during the design stage, the R-33 missile was prepared for the MiG-31 interceptor, climbing to an altitude of 28,000 meters and accelerating to three times the speed of sound, so this missile can obtain the farthest range of 200 kilometers!

Israel's early warning aircraft have predicted danger. The two flying in were Iraq's MiG-25 fighter jets! Because, only that type of aircraft can fly at such a fast speed and altitude, now its speed has exceeded Mach two!

The two F-15s escorted next to the early warning aircraft immediately met.

Although the MiG-25 looks aggressive, the missiles it carries will not exceed forty kilometers at most, and its maneuverability is not high, so the F-15 is fully capable of killing them at a distance of 100 kilometers from early warning aircraft.

But they didn't know that they miscalculated this time.

The two MiG-25 aircraft climbed to an altitude of 28,000 meters, and at the same time, their speed had accelerated to Mach 3. At this time, they had reached 200 kilometers from the other early warning aircraft, while the Israeli F-15 escort fighter was still 140 kilometers away from them.

The F-15 also opened up and arrived quickly.

The weapon operator in the back seat has already begun to prepare and use the radar in front to lock in the target of his attack.

It's fun to hit the other person's butt! If you go from the front, you may be intercepted two hundred kilometers away.

A series of launch steps were completed, and two missiles were launched in sequence from under the wings.

At a distance of 180 kilometers, two Iraqi MiG-25s launched four long-range air-to-air missiles and aimed at the early warning aircraft in the distance.

Israel regards early warning aircraft to attack Iraq as its top priority, and Iraq also regards early warning aircraft to attack Israel as its top priority.

Last time, it was soft killing, this time, it was hard killing!

The R-33 missile has a similar appearance to the Immortal Missile. It also uses four ordinary bullet wings, but there are four tail wings. These four bullet wings can provide a certain lift when flying. It uses ordinary rocket engines, but does not use the ramjet engines commonly used by the Soviets.

However, the United States cannot adopt the same tactics because their carriers cannot accelerate to such high speeds. There is no outstanding indicator of interception and the ability to quickly reach the airspace.

After the four missiles flew out, the two MiG-25 fighter jets did not return immediately. Although this missile was an active radar seeker missile, its effect range was only forty kilometers. In the initial stage, they still needed to use carrier aircraft to guide them.

However, unlike other medium-range missiles, this missile uses inertia flight within a few seconds in the early stage, while in the middle process, it uses radio command guidance.

Therefore, the MiG-25 only needs to roughly aim the nose at the target so that the target of the opponent's early warning aircraft will not disappear from its own field of view. At the same time, the on-board computer constantly solves the problem and sends the target data to the flying missiles.

After superimposing the speed of the carrier, the missile finally accelerated to Mach 6. It only took more than one minute for them to reach the active guidance range.

In more than a minute, even if the F-15 has the speed of the MiG-23, it will not fly within the range of their Sparrow missiles.

In an instant, Israel's early warning aircraft realized this danger. They were constantly releasing interference, hoping to get rid of this missile.

However, like the experience of Iraq, they simply did not have enough maneuverability to avoid the four flying missiles.

They did not expect that Iraq actually had missiles with a range of nearly 200 kilometers!

In war, such mistakes mean death.

When the pilot of the F-15 saw this, one of them gave up interception and returned to the airspace where the early warning aircraft was located. Then, its route was between Iraqi fighter jets and early warning aircraft. He hoped to use his body to help the early warning aircraft block the missiles and let the flying missiles treat themselves as early warning aircraft. (To be continued. Please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!)
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