Chapter five hundred and forty fourth air battle in progress
The Phantom 4000 took advantage of the early warning aircraft and quietly approached the other side in a position that was not discovered by Iranian fighter jets. Then, using medium-range bombs, the two aircraft were killed.
After receiving the battle report from the front, the commander of the Tehran Air Force Base was very angry. The second batch of F-4 fighters and F-5 fighters flying from Ghazwin were about to enter the war zone, but the situation was no longer optimistic.
Even the powerful F-14 fighter jets were killed without any fighting power. Do these fighter jets with a different generation have a chance to win?
However, in order to defend the sky in Tehran, they had no choice but to fight bravely!
The Phantom 4000 fleet and the Phantom F1 fleet, under the command of the early warning aircraft, leaned forward towards the second Iranian fleet.
Among them, the Phantom 4000 Squadron was flying towards the subsequent Iranian F-4 Squadron, while the Phantom F1 Squadron began to fly towards the fighter planes flying towards Gazwin in the northwest.
During the flight, they deliberately lowered the altitude and avoided the monitoring of the other party's radar.
In addition to the radar of the F-14 fighter jets, the radars of other fighter jets equipped by Iran lack reliable identification of low-altitude targets. Therefore, in order to avoid being discovered too early by the opponent and entering medium-range air combat, they chose to advance at low altitude.
At this time, the Scud missiles in the rear had completed all the launch preparations. With the commander's order, thick smoke rose from the entire launch position.
The Scud missile dragged the tongue of fire and flew into the sky and flew towards a predetermined target three hundred kilometers away.
After the launch, the launch vehicle immediately began to close down and drove away from the launch position nervously and orderly, and soon disappeared.
Only those Scud missiles flying through the sky showed that they had been here.
As soon as Rafsanjani finished attending the military parade in the square, he returned to the Ministry of Defense and received a report that the Iraqi air force dispatched fighter planes to attack Tehran!
At the same time, Tehran's air defense alarm began to sound throughout the city. Just after Iran showed its force, Iraq was so disrespectful.
When Rafsanjani heard this news, he was shocked. He originally thought that Iraq would not have a large-scale operation before next spring. Is Iraq's attack on Tehran a small-scale harassment or a prelude to a large-scale attack?
The military parade in the square is almost all the stationed troops in Tehran. Can these troops withstand Iraq's attack?
However, intuitively, Rafsanjani felt that the possibility of Iraq's attack was not high, and it was very likely that it was just harassment from the other party.
The Air Force had taken off the fighter planes and went to intercept them. Rafsanjani was waiting for news ahead in the underground bunker of the Ministry of Defense.
Before he could wait for a long time, he was rewarded. Two F-14 Tomcat fighters, before they could approach the air combat range, were hit by missiles flying from the side, and both fighters were shot down!
These two fighter jets are among the only remaining Tomcats that can be fought carefully by Iranian ground crews, and the pilot is also the most elite pilot in the Iranian Air Force, so it is impossible for the pilot to make mistakes. This only means that the combat effectiveness of the Iraqi Air Force has reached a very high altitude!
Rafsanjani began to feel something was wrong.
Now in the war with Iraq, Iran has almost completely fallen at a disadvantage, because Iran has lost oil fields, its economic income has plummeted, Iran has made enemies on all sides and lost its source of weapons and equipment. Iran has no other advantage except for its large population.
The final contest still has to be resolved on the ground! Thinking of the fanatical people in the square during the daytime military parade, Rafsanjani became confident and ordered to strengthen defense. In addition to dispatching fighter jets, air defense missiles and anti-aircraft artillery near Tehran were also ready to launch a fierce counterattack on Iraqi aircraft that invaded Tehran's airspace at any time!
Tehran is not a casual Iraqi plane to come and go!
The F-4 formation in the sky was searching for the sky that had just been fighting, but found nothing.
The f-4 fighter is equipped with an/apq-120. It is the last model of the radar sequence developed by Westinghouse Electric for various types of F-4 aircraft in the late 1960s. It adopts a pulse continuous wave system. Due to the large number of transistor circuits and solid circuits, the radar has relatively high stability and has also made some progress in phase-received reception and Doppler technology application. However, this kind of radar is inevitably lagging behind. It is found that the distance of fighter jets in low-altitude complex echoes will not exceed ten kilometers.
And now, they did not notice the fleet of Iraq that was approaching them at a low altitude.
"Note that the enemy plane is 30 kilometers away, prepare to raise it and prepare before launch." After receiving the report from the early warning plane, Reyer began to issue orders to his squadron for the second time.
Turning on the afterburner, Reyer pulled the lever backwards.
The two f404 engines sprayed out hot tail flames, and the canard in front was raised, and the rudder surface of the tail responded. The Phantom 4000 began to climb high quickly to seize the launch position!
While climbing high, Reyer turned on his radar. Suddenly, the light spots of the four fighter jets in front were clearly displayed on his radar screen.
Distance, twenty-five kilometers, azimuth 1-3-2, altitude of 4,000, can be launched!
This time it was a head-on attack. Reyer, who had already been ready for launch, turned on the radar, quickly locked the pre-allocated target, and pressed the launch button.
A medium-range semi-active radar-guided Matra 530 missile escaped from the missile mount under the wing of the Phantom 4000 and flew towards the target under the guidance of the radar beam.
Although the maximum range of this missile is twenty-five kilometers, this time it is a head-on attack, and the distance between the two sides is gradually approaching, and coupled with the speed of the carrier itself, the missile will not have much possibility of off-target off-target.
Moreover, in battle, it is always beneficial for the party who fires the missile first, because if they make their own moves, the other party has to take action, and they cannot launch their own medium-range missiles.
At the same time, other fighter jets in the Phantom 4000 formation also launched a Matra 530 missile to their own targets.
In current air combat, it is still the most common form of attacking a target on the other side. However, such a fast attack is the first time.
Iran's F-4 squadron began to have nothing on the radar screen, and they could not monitor the target at low altitude. Then, four light spots suddenly appeared on the radar screen. They were delighted and finally found the traces of each other.
But next, we saw four more light spots appearing in the middle of the four light spots, and they actually fired missiles at our side!
The other party's actions are so fast! The Iranian pilot couldn't believe the other party's speed.
"Note that the opponent has launched a missile, dodged to the left, released platinum bar interference, and got rid of the opponent's attack." said the pilot of the F-4 fighter's chief aircraft.
The entire formation immediately began to turn left, and at the same time, shiny platinum strips were sprinkled in the sky, hoping to create a snowflake on the other party's radar screen.
However, their actions were useless on the radar of Phantom 4000, and the Matra 530 missile was still flying towards them.
The f-4 fighter squadron was still struggling before his death, with four aircraft splitting into two twin aircraft formations, two of which climbed upwards and the other two dived downwards.
With their actions, the four Matra 530 missiles were also divided into two groups, climbing up and diving down.
At this time, Reyer found that he had made a mistake and launched a missile at its maximum range. Although it was a head-on attack and although this made Iranian fighter jets very passive, the defect of insufficient missile power was immediately reflected.
The missile's rocket engine can only work for more than ten seconds, and then it will fly without power. Now, the two opponent's fighter jets climb, causing the missile's kinetic energy to be consumed sharply. The missile climbed up by hundreds of meters with the opponent's climb, and the speed could no longer keep up with the speed of the opponent's fighter jets, and the distance between the two sides became farther.
The other two dive fighters did not escape the bad luck and were hit by the missiles that followed. One was shot down and the other was injured. The pilot leveled the plane in the final stage and withdrew from the battle.
Climbing higher, climbing higher, finally, the radar operator in the rear cabin saw the missile following him fall down, and the Iranian pilot breathed a sigh of relief, pushed the operating rod, and leveled the plane.
Iraqis, come on! The Iranian pilot remembered the embarrassment just now, and his heart was full of anger. Although the two F-14 fighter jets had been shot down and his squadron lost two more fighter jets, the Iranian pilot was not afraid at all. Now, the distance between the two sides has reached the distance of sight.
Looking at the planes flying quickly, the Iranian pilot did not hesitate and competed in close combat!
Pushing the operating rod, the Iranian pilot saw those styles that were never different from those of the previous Iraqi fighter jets. The wide delta wings and no tail wings, but there was a small wing at the front and two engines behind.
The fighter jets of both sides passed by in a whistling manner.
Fight, eagle! The Iranian pilot began to pull the operating lever, ready to turn around and bite the other party's tail in a large maneuver!
However, Iranian pilots had no chance at all.
Just after both sides passed by, Reyer had ordered his formation to divide into two dual-plane formations to kill each other's planes.
Reyer and his wingman skillfully pushed the operating rod to the right, and at the same time, he pushed the rudder on the right, and the huge Phantom 4000 began to maneuver horizontally with the minimum radius.
Chapter completed!