1514 Mass Fall of Nighthawks(1/2)
After experiencing the attack on Fallujah the night before, Lieutenant Colonel Ross Mike, who was the first to drop a bomb, felt a hang in his heart.
With rich experience, suppressed anxiety and aimed calmly at the target.
Reduce speed and reduce height.
Open the bullet bay and press the bomb drop button.
Closed bomb bay.
The whole action was completed in one go.
“Woo~”
Sure enough, just as the bullet bay was opened, a shrill air defense alarm sounded in the factory area with a dark ground.
"Didi..."
The situation was similar to yesterday. The locked alarm sound soon sounded again in the radar of the f-117 fighter jet.
"Shoot!"
Lieutenant Colonel Ross Mike cursed.
Damn it!
Why are you so lucky?
The 415 squadron that bombed Baghdad city last night encountered nothing. Although the ground air defense firepower in the whole city was rapid, there was no record of the F-117 being locked, and there was no warning of missiles approaching.
During the day yesterday, various data from the fighter recorder were copied and studied by technicians. The fighter of the 415th Squadron did not have any alarm records, and the people of the 416th Squadron also knew about this.
But now, Baghdad suburbs have the ability to lock in f-117.
"withdraw!"
Neither did the bomb drop, nor did Lieutenant Colonel Ross Mike keep the radio silent, nor did he care about Colonel Studel, who seriously told him before departure that the factory below had an important role in the combat effectiveness of the entire Iraqi army, and decisively issued a retreat order.
While ordering, the fighter's flight altitude began to be raised and accelerated.
Lieutenant Colonel Ross Mike ordered the next few f-117 pilots who had already entered the attack position and were about to drop bombs instantly cancelled the decision to open the bullet cabin.
The air defense firepower on the ground found that there was only one fighter in the air, and there were no other fighter jets, so I couldn't help but feel a little confused.
What should I do?
Could this one be used to attract firepower?
The f-117 bomb cabin door driven by Colonel Ross has not been closed yet and is still displayed by the radar.
"Col. What should I do? There is only one plane on it."
The man under his command looked at the radar display with only one target and asked the commander anxiously.
The commander looked at the fighter plane on the screen before even dropping the bomb, and began to evacuate in the opposite direction, and was a little hesitant.
It is impossible for Americans to have only one stealth aircraft. The radar does not show it, which does not mean it has not come.
It is very likely that the ground air defense firepower was discovered, and the bomb was not even dropped, so they were ready to evacuate.
They evacuated like this, but they prepared for a long time.
"We only have 6 special warhead missiles, and we must save ammunition... Launch one to attack this target first, and then look at the others..."
The commander quickly made a decision and issued a decisive order.
The radar of the Flying Shield-359 has been locking in the F-117 driven by Lieutenant Colonel Ross Mike.
Everyone knows that once the f-117 bomb bay is locked up, it will eventually disappear soon.
After the commander issued the order, Feidun-359 did not launch avant-garde air defense missiles, and directly transmitted the target parameters of the launch through the data link to the Sam-2 missile launch vehicle, which was only more than ten meters away from Feidun-359.
"Boom~"
The missile was ready to go. After obtaining the target parameters, the rear engine of the Sam-2 air defense missile, which was equipped with a special warhead, ignited instantly and rushed towards the f-117 driven by Lieutenant Colonel Ross Mike, who was still tracked by radar in the sky.
"Fake!"
Lieutenant Colonel Ross saw that the indicator light of the fighter jet's cockpit flashed more violently, and the alarm sound of "Di~Di~" was even more rapid, so he knew that a missile was approaching.
This is not a small air defense missile.
Large air defense missiles appeared on the flame detection display of fighter missiles.
Sam-2!
Or Sam-3!
If you cannot get out quickly, these old air defense missiles may shoot down the world's most advanced fighter jet, the F-117.
The speed of f-117 is too slow.
Sam-2 air defense missile approached at high speed and flew towards the F-117 that gave up the bomb and was ready to evacuate.
At Sam-2's flight speed, it only takes 2 or 3 seconds to reach the bomb drop height of the f-117.
The time is very short.
When the missile was less than 300 meters away from the fighter jet, the fighter cabin door driven by Colonel Ross finally closed, and the target trace was lost on the radar of the Feidun-359...
When he saw the missile approaching its original vanishing point, Iraq's air defense commander issued an order: "Detonate the missile immediately!"
The Sam-2 air defense missile, which was approaching Lieutenant Colonel Ross Mike at high speed, suddenly exploded in the air when it was nearly 100 meters away from the F-117.
The Iraqi missile is too trash and it explodes as soon as it was launched!
Colonel Ross turned his head and looked behind him. It was still so far away from him that the missile actually exploded, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
Although the bomb bay has been closed, who knows whether the missile can detect the infrared characteristics of the f-117 tail flame?
Even though there are many technical processing to suppress infrared features in the design, no one can handle all infrared features completely.
It is much better to deal with than Fallujah.
However, the smile on Lieutenant Colonel Ross's face just emerged and his whole body suddenly became frightened.
The fighter jet is losing control!
"What's going on? Damn it! It's actually a malfunction now."
The moment after the missile exploded, many electronic devices of the F-117 driven by Colonel Ross stopped working instantly. The display screen, which was originally fluorescent, also went black, and the alarm sound disappeared...
In the cockpit, it was dark!
The engine is turned off!
Colonel Ross was really frightened.
At this moment, it is not only the reason for the engine failure of the fighter jet, but it is not even possible to maintain communication with the fighter jet next to it. No matter how hard it is, it is impossible to reignite the fighter jet.
"What's going on? What's going on?"
Although I can't see it, I know the position of each switch and button with my eyes closed.
Colonel Ross typing on various buttons frantically, pressing the ignition button with his fingers constantly, ready to restart.
All operations have no effect at all.
f-117 has lost control.
In this way, he fell vertically from thousands of meters of the sky to the ground...
Not only Lieutenant Colonel Ross's f-117 was treated like this, but one f-117 was at least a hundred meters away from his side, and he also lost control and fell to the ground.
"Lieutenant Colonel, what's wrong with you?"
When several pilots of the F-117 next to him saw this scene, they asked in horror on the communication channel, wanting to know what was going on.
The two f-117s fell silently downwards.
I have never encountered such a strange scene before.
f-117 At this time, the risk of failure broke out?
This is what all pilots think.
They do not believe that the two F-117s were shot down.
After the ground commander discovered that the missile exploded, two targets fell from the air, and the target was detected by radar during the fall.
I was immediately overjoyed.
"In that area, all 5 left are launched!"
The commander made a quick decision.
Regardless of whether there are other stealth aircraft in that area, launching 6 Sam-2 air defense missiles equipped with special warheads, shooting down these two stealth aircraft is already a great achievement. If more can be shot down...
After a rush to operate, the remaining five Sam-2 air defense missiles rose from three launch vehicles at the same time.
Dragging the long tail flames into the dark night sky.
The remaining four pilots were still calling on the communication channel for the crashed Lieutenant Colonel Rose and another F-117 fighter pilot.
They wanted to know what happened, not too far from this area, and were circling all the time.
To be continued...