"The Arabs took down our cross aircraft, which is a challenge for us. We want to take off more fighter jets and bomb Arab facilities. Our four aircraft carriers have more than 300 fighters, plus our fighter jets on Turkish air bases and fighter jets taking off from European bases. We want to continue bombing Arab countries, especially those Arab troops that have now occupied Israel." Rumsfeld said.

This loss shocked Powell. No matter from any perspective, the United States must fight back. Otherwise, how can the United States point fingers in the future and how can it use its own force to deter others?

However, none of them expected that it was Iraq that took the initiative to launch the attack!

If you are not prepared for intercepting cruise missiles, it is easy to be successful by the opponent. However, most of the cruise missiles launched by the Americans were discovered by the Arab air defense system when they already had all-round reconnaissance capabilities and were monitored by early warning aircraft from time to time in the sky.

Surface-to-air missiles, anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, and even attack aircraft used aviation guns to intercept. Only five of the more than 200 missiles fired by the United States successfully reached the target, and several buildings in Saudi Arabia and Iraq were damaged.

The United States took the initiative to attack the Arab countries, which aroused a strong reaction from the Arab world. The Arabs broke out on the buildings hit by the US cruise missiles.

Iraq's foreign minister, Tarik Aziz, made a stern speech. The Americans did this to challenge the entire Arab world. The United States must immediately and unconditionally withdraw from the Arab Sea and the eastern Mediterranean, otherwise, that means war.

The wind and waves on the Arabian Sea are a bit heavy at this time.

Since the war broke out mainly in Israel in the west, they were actually a bit far away here. Iraq was separated by nearly a thousand kilometers of Persian Gulf. Their targets were not Iraq's mainland and Israel's first battlefield, but Saudi Arabia's Riyadh and Iran's naval bases.

For the United States, if they want to fight, they must completely lose room for resistance. The current Iraqis are so arrogant, which has a lot to do with their two aircraft carrier formations. This is also the most important mission on the Kitty Hawk and Washington.

As long as these two Iraqis formations are killed, they will lose their capital. The US aircraft carrier can approach the entrance to the Persian Gulf and deter the surrounding Arab countries.

The Americans have been using aircraft carriers for nearly a hundred years, and they are already familiar with them. How efficient can the two aircraft carriers in Iraq, which act as a combination of ski jump and catapults? That's just a joke.

In this weather, although they left the port, can the fighter take off and after taking off? It is a question mark. An aircraft carrier that cannot take off and land fighter jets is completely a living target.

Since entering the Arabian Sea, they have been on the highest alert state. Both aircraft carrier battle groups have maintained at least one early warning aircraft in the sky. At the same time, several newly launched reconnaissance satellites have also entered orbit, constantly reconnaissance in the Arabian Sea.

In their formation, there are three Ticonderoga-class cruisers, four Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, three Perry-class frigates, and four Los Angeles-class nuclear submarines underwater. This configuration is already very powerful. Even if the opponent conducts saturated air strikes, they are definitely capable of defending the enemy outside the formation protection circle.

In space, satellites from both sides are constantly scanning the sea area. Although the aircraft carrier formation is large, the ocean is even wider. Therefore, if you want to attack the other party, the first thing you need to do is to find the other party’s location.

Where is the other party?

Iraq has made significant progress in space technology over the years. More than 20 reconnaissance satellites carefully scanned the sea several times. Finally, three hundred nautical miles northeast of Soktra Island, the American aircraft carrier formation was sailing north there.

If you discover it, it means you will be attacked!

In this aircraft carrier formation, those cruisers launched missiles and attacked Iraq and Saudi Arabia's targets. This is a completely war act! Iraq will not wait until the aircraft carrier is opened at its doorstep and will fight back after it attacks itself. Since the war has begun, it will completely kill the American aircraft carrier on the sea!

After receiving the news, Saudi Arabia first took off a land-based early warning aircraft, and the E-3 was in the air and could monitor the movement there.

At the same time, Iraq's dual aircraft carrier formation has moved to a sea area only one thousand kilometers away from the US aircraft carrier.

The Basra and Baghdad began to make final preparations before the war. The fighter jets in the shutdown area on the deck were constantly being maintained and were preparing for takeoff. Iraq's aircraft carriers had relatively few types of fighter jets, and the main tasks were all carried out by the Su-27K.

Twenty Su-27Ks each carry two KH-41 anti-ship missiles. This supersonic anti-ship missile is the main anti-aircraft carrier missile of the Iraqi Navy. It is also an air-launched anti-ship missile that has been improved by the SS-N-22 missile. After Iraq introduced the modern-class aircraft carrier of the Soviet Union, it was equipped with an anti-ship missile of the army.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Iraq obtained the production line of this missile and improved it at the same time. The range of this missile has reached 300 kilometers, so that the carrier aircraft does not have to face the missile threat of the air defense ships guarded by the United States, but it still has to face the US escort fighter jets.

Therefore, there are twenty Su-27Ks, all of which are air-optimized, six advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles and two close-range combat missiles, allowing them to have enough ammunition to fight with American fighter jets, so that they cannot free up their own attack aircraft group.

However, even the Su-27K, which is responsible for the attack mission, has carried two advanced medium-range missiles and two close-range combat missiles. As long as the missile is launched, they will be able to free up their hands immediately to jointly engage in air control combat.

Forty Su-27K fighters on each of the two aircraft carriers were carried out this attack mission, while the remaining Su-27K fighters were responsible for protecting their aircraft carrier formations and protecting their safety.

Of course, it was not these eighty fighter jets that were attacking. At the Chahbahar base in the rear, the forty J-H-7 fighters in Iraq and sixteen Tu-22M bombers were also equipped with anti-ship missiles. They were all long-range aircraft that could perform this long-range attack mission, and forty land-based Su-27 fighters participated in the mission of escorting them.

While Iraq is constantly ordering Su-27K, it also ordered a batch of Su-27 land-based fighter jets to be equipped with Naval Aviation Forces.

In order to meet this attack mission, they also specially installed a secondary fuel tank, which can have a combat radius of 2,000 kilometers. The Arabian Sea, after all, is the doorstep of the Arabs, and Americans are absolutely not allowed to show off their power!

Doesn’t the American Aegis system promote the ability to deal with saturation attacks? Then use actual combat to test whether their air defense systems are really as they say.

Dealing with an aircraft carrier is definitely not a matter of one or two weapons, but a joint strike of multiple arms.

In the desert area in southern Saudi Arabia, Iraq's No. 3 troops also began to prepare for launch. Their big guy is anti-ship ballistic missiles.

At the beginning, this kind of missile was just used to scare people, but now it is no longer the kind of thing that can only be used for demonstration. It has the ability to maneuver the final stage, and receive the final signal, and is used to adjust its final direction. Using it to hit an aircraft carrier is definitely not a dream.

In recent years, the Aegis system has been conducting continuous tests on intercepting ballistic missiles. However, it is still unknown how many ballistic missiles it can intercept. In particular, what is the probability of intercepting ballistic missiles that can reach the end-stage maneuver?

After several hours of preparation, the deck of the Baghdad gradually calmed down. Today, they will attack the American aircraft carrier!

It was already afternoon...it was more than a minute.

There are still great winds and waves on the sea, but the Iraqi navy has decided to attack.

Just half an hour ago, the J-H2 from the shore base had already started to set off, and now it is their turn.

On the catapult, the Su-27K, which was full of oil and bullets, was ready to take off. The pilot raised his thumb in the cockpit, and then looked at the gestures of the deck personnel, the Su-27K accelerated suddenly and soared from the narrow deck. The anti-ship missile mounted under the wings and the titanium alloy shell gleamed.

The catapult kept ejecting the Su-27K fighter jet with a total weight of 33 tons on the anti-ship. At the same time, on the jump deck of the bow of the ship, the Su-27K, which was loaded in the air, was constantly relying on its own power to take off. Since they did not need to carry heavy anti-ship missiles, their takeoff weight was several tons lighter, and they could completely use the ski jump takeoff method.

Aboard another nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the carrier-based aircraft is also taking off continuously.

On the bridge, the formation commander Abdul looked solemn. He knew that this was their biggest test. Can all the fleets set out return safely?

The search and rescue helicopter is also ready to rescue the pilot who fell into the water at any time.

The two warships also took off an early warning aircraft to protect their sky.

The Basra nuclear-powered aircraft carrier carries more carriers, so in addition to the fighter jets, they also have twenty Su-27K fighters, responsible for the fleet's air defense.

All the planes flew away from the deck one after another, and the Iraqi Navy's fatal blow entered the countdown stage. (To be continued. Please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!)
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