Chapter 66 Air Raid
Khomeini was very annoyed.
Although the Air Force did not take off with his intervention in the Battle of Susangild's Swamp, he did not expect that such an armored division would be wiped out!
This is an armored division. There are no more than ten armored divisions in the entire Iranian regular army, and this armored division is full of people and has the strongest combat power.
So, he signed the order to arrest Abel Hassan without hesitation. How could Abel command the army? He had never fought a decent victory, how could this be possible?
What he didn't expect was that the escaped division commander Rajavi actually dared to attack the people from the Revolutionary Guard! The corpses all over the ground and the Revolutionary Guard symbolize his dignity and are absolutely not to be violated!
He ordered a large number of members of the Revolutionary Guards to start searching the whereabouts of Aberhasan and Rajavi, who had been characterized as traitors of the Iranian revolution.
At the same time, he also ordered the Air Force to retaliate against Iraq!
An armored division was crippled. If he didn't have some decent results, how could he comfort the entire Iranian people?
Iran's eagle dispatched again, and this time it took off an F-14 Panda Fighter Squadron, two F-4 Ghost Fighter Squadrons, and two F-5 Tiger Fighter Squadrons, totaling 20 aircraft. This is already the limit for them to be able to dispatch. In addition to the necessary guard airspace, they can only dispatch these aircraft. When the two Iranians first started the war, the powerful air force was already strong from the outside and the inside.
Except for the four F-14 air-optimized installations, the rest of the fighter jets were all covered with bombs and were ready to carry out ground bombing. The target of this bombing was Baghdad!
Although there are not many fighter jets, there are four pandas, and this flight formation is fearless.
Pandas are godlike in the sky in the Middle East!
Before crossing the border between Iran, the formation encountered two MiG aircraft formations that came to block.
When the Panda turned on the powerful radar, the opponent's MiG immediately flew away in shame.
Under this sky, any plane encounters a panda, there is only one result, that is, it is shot down!
The f14 Panda fighter is a two-seat, twin-engine, swept-wing supersonic multi-purpose heavy fighter developed by Northrop Grumman. It is mainly used to escort the naval attack aircraft group, fleet air defense, occlusion and close-range air support. It began development at the end of 1967 and was delivered and used in May 1972. It adopts the aerodynamic layout of the twin-engine, double-vertical tail swept mid-wing, commonly used by modern heavy fighters, and the sweep angle of the wing can be automatically adjusted within the range of 20 degrees to 68 degrees.
Variable sweep wing technology is an important research direction in this era. The smaller the sweep angle of the wing, the better the maneuverability at medium and low altitudes. However, when flying at high speed, the greater the drag and sweep angle are the opposite. Therefore, the sweep angle of the wing can be changed, which has good low-speed and high-speed performance. In addition to the Panda, the MiG 23 of the Soviet Union is also variable sweep wing. However, due to the technological level, especially the electronic level, the variable sweep wing of the Panda is automatically controlled by a computer and can be at any angle within the adjustment range. The MiG-23 only has a few fixed angles, and is manually adjusted.
Panda's all-metal semi-hard shell fuselage and advanced structural types widely use titanium alloys, and some boron composite materials are used. Among the structural materials, aluminum alloy accounts for 39%, titanium alloy accounts for 24%, steel accounts for 39%, and the rest are composite materials. The aircraft is equipped with complex electronic equipment. The most complex one is probably the powerful Hughes company's an/awww.jtxsk.com/awww.jtxsk.com/aswww.jtxsk.com/aswww.jtxsk.com54a "Immortal" long-range air-to-air missile. The Iranian Air Force can kill MiG aircraft at a long distance. At this time, the MiG aircraft has not yet discovered the other side. This is strength. Although now, due to the lack of Immortal missiles, most pandas only carry Sparrow medium-range air-to-air missiles and Rattlesnake short-range missiles, Panda still has a complete advantage when fighting in close range.
After the MiG aircraft formation found that the unique radar signal was fired in the other party's formation, they immediately chose to return. It was not that they didn't want to fight, but that they had no capital at all.
The formation successfully broke into Iraq's airspace and immediately headed north and flew directly to Baghdad.
The pilots of the formation who have performed countless bombing missions are very familiar with this route.
At this time, an air defense alarm had sounded over Baghdad.
Since the war started, the air forces of the two countries have often bombed each other's capitals. Ordinary people have already had a normal reaction to such air strikes. They fled into underground bunkers and then waited for the explosion to come.
The only thing that is to be thankful is that neither air force of both countries is equipped with any precisely guided bombs. They rely solely on ordinary fall bombs, with poor accuracy, and in Baghdad, a large amount of air defense firepower was deployed.
Around Baghdad, there are two anti-aircraft artillery regiments and two Sam-6 missile battalions. "These firepower can make any aircraft that dares to bomb Baghdad suffer a violent blow." This is the words of Air Force Commander Abid, who turned a blind eye to the bombs falling above his head. (At this time, the Iraqi Air Force and the Air Defense Force were not separated yet).
In order to prevent misfire, Air Force fighters generally intercept the enemy at long distances. Once the opponent breaks through the defense of the interceptor, then the air defense firepower on the ground will be handed over to the ground for air defense. This is a typical Soviet style and can effectively prevent misfire. As long as it is in the sky, it will be enough to kill it.
However, this method is very efficient. How many aircraft can be intercepted by air defense firepower? I'm afraid only God knows.
Air defense is a choice that is unsuccessful. When did the Americans use air defense firepower? The focus of them is on offense! Before you can come up, you have already beaten you down. Attack with all your strength, there is no need to defend at all.
In the underground air defense command center, Saddam was ashamed and issued a combat order.
"His Excellency President, why don't we let our air force dispatch to block the other party's planes from entering?" Zhang Feng asked cautiously.
Air Force? Saddam looked at Abid disdainfully, "The Air Force will know to escape when it encounters a panda."
Abid's face suddenly turned red.
"His Excellency President, although our Air Force is not strong enough, we can use appropriate tactical actions to disrupt the opponent's formation. Their pandas are bombarded by other aircraft. We have transferred the pandas, and other aircraft can still give it a try." Zhang Feng said.
Appropriate tactical actions? Disrupt the opponent's formation? Abid was sad. Among the current Air Force pilots, who dared to fly a plane to fight the Panda? That was simply suicide. Except for those rebellious and backstage pilots, they were all very disobedient and did not obey orders. If the backstage had not been hard, they would have been cleaned off long ago.
At this moment, an amazing news spread to the underground air defense command center.
In Shuaibai Air Force Base, a MiG-23 fighter jet from the 77th Fighter Squadron took off forcibly to face the invading Iranian Air Force. The person who flew the plane was Lieutenant Arslan.
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Chapter completed!