209 F-14 Tomcat falls (2)
"A missile like this may not necessarily work if it hits the opponent's helicopter. How much range can it have? Where is the radar?" Qasim's face that he originally hoped became ugly.
What role can small individual air defense missiles use for those fighters?
It’s not that they were not equipped, but they hit hundreds of shots, which was useless at all.
The individual air defense missiles from the Soviet Union performed extremely badly in this war. The Soviets boasted at the beginning that nothing could not be taken down by their air defense missiles. As a result, so many air defense missiles did not capture several Iranian fighter jets.
The number of Iranian fighter jets appeared is because they lacked repair supplies.
Now with the fighter jets sold to them by the Soviets, it is beginning to pose a greater threat to Iraq.
When the Iranians launched a counterattack, rescued Horamshahr, and counterattacked Iraq's territory, it was because the air defense missiles from the Soviet Union were not strong. The opponent's F-14 Tomcat fighter jets drove away the MiG-23s that were not good at performance in Iraq, the MiG-25s that were as good as iron, and the old-fashioned backward Su-22 and other fighters began to bomb ground artillery positions and armored clusters...
Kalam was the third front commander after the first commander of the Central and Southern Front of the Iran-Iraq War was removed from office.
Air defense is their most important task.
The number of super military flags and Phantom F.1 has not been introduced, and a large number of them are arranged around the airports to defend the capital Baghdad.
The front south of Basra is not large.
The enemy invaded on a large scale and needed to request support from the northern air force. They left before they could even arrive.
The positions of Sam-2 air defense missiles are all arranged around the capital. Who would have thought that the Iranian Air Force after Khomeini cleaned up the Pahlavi dynasty is still so fierce?
Kalam applied for air defense weapons for more than a year, and the president provided him with a lot of air defense equipment, but it was useless at all.
Now Ibrahim is using such missiles to fool him.
It is completely not to take the lives of frontline soldiers seriously.
"General, this missile launch device is a small radar in front of it, and it comes with an infrared guidance device inside..." Harry Mosan explained awkwardly in the face of the angry General Qasim.
Qasim applied to the president for medium- and long-range air defense missiles. As long as the radar detects Iranian fighter jets and enters the range, they will be beaten down.
Only in this way can oil extraction in the southern oil fields be restored.
"This kind of missile escaped before launching other people's fighter planes!" Qasim sneered, "We don't need such missiles here."
"General, we are just looking for opportunities here for practical inspections. If the results are good, we will purchase on a large scale." Ibrahim reminded.
Now there are only two samples, and they are not equipped for combat troops at all.
Just two, how to equip?
When Qasim heard this, he could not refute it. He could only make an angry moan and ask someone to arrange Ibrahim and his group.
Ibrahim was unwilling to stay behind and asked to go to the front line to the key strategic target areas where Iranian fighter jets might appear.
The avant-garde air defense missile has excellent performance, but its range is too close, and the maximum inclined firing distance is only a few kilometers. It will only be prepared to launch when the enemy aircraft can be seen with the naked eye.
It was useless for Qasim to persuade him, so he could only ask one of his major staff officers to personally send Ibrahim and his group to the front line where Iranian fighter jets appeared every day.
"Remember the instructions carefully and don't know how to operate it then!" Ibrahim said to his subordinates at a small logistics transfer station more than ten kilometers away from the battlefield.
These people followed him to China, and everyone understood what the consequences would have been for these two missiles to be useless.
Ibrahim is still a relative of the president.
Therefore, the group began to carefully follow the handwritten instructions provided by China and again understand the structure and operation steps of the entire individual air defense missile system.
Abadan, Iran's Southern Front Command.
After recapturing Horamshahr and resolving Abadan, commander General Al Teedel pushed his front line command to Abadan near the border.
The great leader Khomeini said that the asshole Saddam should pay the price for his aggression and that Iraq should be included in Iran's territorial sovereignty.
So, from that time on, they were attacking wildly.
It once captured Iraqi territory and almost surrounded Basra, Iraq's second largest city, and was eventually driven back.
The two sides confront each other across the boundary river.
"General, the Iraqis did not make any noise." The intelligence officer once again reported the information to commander Al Taidel. "But they had a lot of noise on the front line."
"What's the movement?" Alleteel became energetic.
It's so unbearable that you shoot a few shots and fire a few shots every day across the river.
Khomeini was very dissatisfied with their delay in making progress.
"The Iraqis are adding heavy equipment to this side."
"Where are their fighter planes?" the general asked with a frown.
"Every day our Air Force is conducting reconnaissance and has not discovered the existence of their fighter jets. If our Air Force is dispatched in large numbers, their fighter jets will take off and land..." The staff member replied.
"This won't work. They know that our air force is now increasingly lacking fighter jets, and the fighter jets provided to us by the Soviet Union are all on the northern front." Aller Tedel frowned even more.
The southern front is the most important, and the superior forces of both sides are here.
However, the battle between fighter jets and others is on the northern front.
"Our Air Force only has 9 F-14s to take off and work."
"What? Didn't there be 11 aircraft yesterday?"
"The spare parts are broken and cannot be replenished... There are two fighter jets with minor faults, and the spare parts on them are removed to ensure the combat duty of other fighters." The staff officer said in a low voice.
"Call Mahshaheer and ask them to start tomorrow. Each team will send 3 F-14s and lead other fighter planes to me once! Continue to drag it down, it will not be a good thing for us." After thinking for a while, General Al Teedel made up his mind. "Order all troops to prepare and start shelling at 5:30 tomorrow morning, find out their artillery positions and blow them up, and see if there is a chance to break through their defense..."
The Iraqis are obviously consuming fighter jets here.
The lack of spare parts and maintenance makes the most powerful F-14 fighter jet unable to take off due to its own parts loss and failures.
Once the F-14 fighter jets are not taken as the main force, a large number of Iraqi fighter jets will become a nightmare for the Iranian army.
The command of the front line commander was soon issued to the hands of the Iranian Air Force stationed at Mahshahr Airport.
The entire base is busy with it, which will take off and land more frequently than before, and the task is performed more densely.
No one wants to watch more and more fighter planes unable to fly.
This is the most advanced heavy fighter in the entire Middle East region.
“Woo~”
The next morning, just as dawned, all the soldiers on the Iraqi defense line were awakened by the shrill air defense sirens.
Iraqi soldiers hiding in the trenches and various strongholds looked up at the sky outside, turned around, and then continued to sleep.
This happens almost every day.
The more Iranians use bombs, they will not waste them on soldiers on the defense line.
"Swisher~"
With the first shrill sound of shells breaking through the air, the Iraqi soldiers who were about to continue sleeping suddenly shivered, turned over quickly, grabbed their guns and rushed into the nearby anti-aircraft fortifications.
Damn Iranians, they don't let people sleep well.
"What are the Iranians doing? Are their shells replenished?" After receiving the news from the front, Qasim jumped up.
His front-line troops are being bombarded by Iranian artillery units!
The Iranians have long been short of ammunition and can actually organize effective attacks today.
"Call me air support, prepare the air defense forces, their fighter jets are coming in!" Soon, Qasim understood.
The Iranians probably went crazy in the end.
Their fighter jets are getting smaller and smaller. In the past, they could take off hundreds of times a day, but now they only send three or five fighter jets to stroll around a day, throw a few bombs and go back.
"General, our logistics supply base, just transported a batch of ammunition last night..." The intelligence consultant reminded the general. "This time, the Iranians dispatched 14 fighter jets."
"Aren't there air defense forces over there?" Qasim was stunned.
At the logistics supply transfer stations at the border, there are only a small number of anti-aircraft anti-aircraft artillery.
Iran has never been able to organize large-scale air bombings, which makes Iraq less concerned about air defense. When it comes to an opponent's plane, it will fire a few shots, and the opponent will find a place to drop the bomb and go back.
"There are no shells, and the supply will not arrive at 10 a.m.." The words of the intelligence consultant made Qasim freeze.
Although the supply transfer station does not have much ammunition reserved, it was transported to the transit station just last night. If it is blown up, a long section of defense will not be able to receive sufficient ammunition for three days. Once discovered by the Iranians, the consequences will be unimaginable.
"Click anti-aircraft shells from the nearby positions right away! I hope they won't be discovered."
"The anti-aircraft artillery next to it is not enough... I mobilized two hundred rounds last night..." Two hundred rounds of anti-aircraft artillery shells were not enough at all.
For a moment, General Qasim didn't know what to do.
"Be prepared for combat, don't let them lower! Reduce the rate of fire, don't let them find that we are insufficient ammunition, transfer the ammunition immediately!" The commander issued an order as soon as he received the radar soldier report.
"Is their fighter plane coming?" Ibrahim became a little excited when he heard the air defense alarm.
But now in the sky, there is no sign of the other party.
Chapter completed!