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It seems that this time, Israel will not make any big moves.
Only Sutter glanced at the radar screen, and there was an obvious bright spot on the edge.
"What's that?" Sutter asked.
"It's an international airway, it's an Egyptian passenger plane bound for Syria, we've confirmed its identity five minutes ago.
Now, it is already nine fifty.
Looking at that bright spot, it was getting closer and closer to our side, and the routes of the two sides formed an acute angle.
Suddenly, Sutter remembered something vigilantly, immediately dialed the intercom switch on the headset, and said eagerly: "Captain, please turn around immediately and fly south!"
As an experienced early warning officer, Sutter has been wondering what the two planes were going to do just now. Even if it was flight training, they should return to the flight, and take a detour to attack Saudi Arabia?It was too far to go to the Sinai Peninsula, and the value was not high enough. When he saw the passenger plane again, Sutter suddenly remembered that the routes of the two fighter planes flying west should overlap with this passenger plane. Later, he Just thought of that possibility.
Now, they are more than 130 kilometers away from the passenger plane, which is a dangerous distance.
After receiving the news from Sutter, the captain immediately operated the joystick in his hand and twisted it to the right.
A mushroom plate is installed on the top of the head, which will cause damage to the aerodynamic layout, and it is originally a transport aircraft, so the maneuverability of this aircraft is very low.
As long as they flew another [-] kilometers, they would be able to leave the passenger plane and go to attack. Jon felt a little sweat on his back. This kind of flight was indeed a challenge to test the pilot's will and courage.
Fortunately, they all did it, and a few more minutes would be enough.
At this moment, the ground guide broke the radio silence and said, "The AWACS turned around ahead of time. Immediately, according to the original plan, get out of the passenger plane and launch an attack quickly!"
Hearing this sound, Edley immediately pressed down on the control lever and left the airliner. At the same time, he began to make various preparations before the attack, activated the two Sparrow air-to-air missiles under the wings, and turned on the radar at the same time, preparing to guide his own missiles.
One light spot suddenly turned into two, and Sartre knew that his judgment was correct.
The radar guide immediately notified the escort formation, ready to intercept the incoming fighter.
At the same time, multiple signals appeared on the radar screen of the early warning aircraft. It was the Israeli Air Force, which took off in large quantities.
The Israeli Air Force must adapt to the situation. Shooting down an early warning aircraft of the opponent does not mean that the mission is completed, because another early warning aircraft will follow and take over to take over. Therefore, they must act quickly. While shooting down the opponent, their own The air force fighter planes are about to reach the opponent's air force base and blow up those fighter planes on the runway.
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The first thousand and 110 chapters and seven multi-target attacks
The sharp sound of the siren resounded throughout the air force base. After the news from the early warning aircraft in front, the air force immediately began to make full preparations for take-off operations.
Originally, Israel believed that the best time to take off was when one's own fighter planes started to attack the opponent's early warning aircraft, because even if the early warning planes found their own fighter planes, it would take a certain amount of time for the opponent's fighter planes to take off to meet the enemy .
Because it is impossible for the opponent to be on duty 24 hours a day, and it is even more impossible for a fighter plane to have two groups of pilots. Even if it is the most skilled Israeli Air Force, these actions must be completed in about 5 minutes. As for the Arab Air Force, generally speaking, there is no Even if it is the Iraqi Air Force, it will take 10 minutes at the fastest, and within this time, it is enough for them to start operations, just to blow up those planes that have been dragged out of the hangar and are about to take off on the runway. For an instant, it was a very pleasing thing to do.
It's a pity that this kind of situation has not happened now. The Iraqi Air Force was already on high alert. Their fighter planes are always in a state of taking off with full fuel and missiles.Moreover, they are all air superiority mounts and ground attack, which is a matter of ballistic missiles and Su-25s. Iraq has mobilized a large number of Mirage 4000 fighters, which are used to compete with the opponent for air supremacy.And just now, after receiving the news from the early warning aircraft, the pilots in the entire air force base had already gotten up, put on their flight suits, and just put on their flight helmets on their heads and took off.
There can be a difference of 10 minutes in the middle of the time.
And just after the signal from the early warning aircraft came, the fighter planes of the two squadrons that were waiting first had already taken off from the air force bases in Usseli and Amman, preparing to meet the enemy.
In the later period, a large number of fighter planes will also take off one after another.
Now, what determines the victory of the battle is the defense and struggle of the early warning aircraft in the air.
Seeing that bright spot, Sartre on the AWACS knew that he was indeed being missed. He didn't need to go down the mission. The four fighter jets escorted saw the data transmitted from the data link, so they were ready to rush up and kill the plane. Abominable plane crashed.
However, Sutter immediately stopped this behavior. He only let two fighter jets go to intercept, and continued to leave two planes to protect himself.
This time, it was beyond Jon's expectations.
The Iraqi air force always maintains a dense formation when flying. For example, the fighter planes escorting the early warning aircraft are two double-aircraft dense formations. In this way, in the eyes of the opponent's radar, they think it is just two planes.Therefore, Jon's original tactic was to use one of the planes to distract the opponent's escort fighter jets first, and then he would have enough time to kill the AWACS aircraft without fighter escort.At the same time, their attack fleet has already reached a critical position.
However, the situation has changed now. First, the early warning plane did not continue to fly north according to the original course, but turned south ahead of time, which caused their attack to be launched earlier. Second, the fighter escorted by the opponent was Four, but now, only two are chasing the decoy of their own side, and two are protecting it there.
It would be great if we had three fighter jets. Unfortunately, no matter how skilled they are, it is impossible to hide three fighter jets under one passenger plane.
This is a last resort.
After Jon continued to fly with the passenger plane for more than ten seconds, he finally decided that it was time for him to attack!
Even if he was shot down by the escorting fighter jets, he would kill that early warning plane!
Gritting his teeth, Jon pushed down the joystick, and the hidden F-15 fighter jet revealed its true colors.
Now, the distance between him and the early warning aircraft is 150 kilometers. He only needs to fly for 3 minutes to reach the attack position [-] kilometers away, and then launch his own missiles to attack!
Under his wings, there are four AIM-120 missiles mounted, which are four of the first batch of ten missiles that were urgently transported from the United States.
After learning that Iraq has active radar-guided medium-range missiles, facing the current situation in Israel, the United States finally began to export such missiles to Israel in advance. Also began to replace the missile.
The mission of this attack is the most important. As the main attacker, Jon, his fighter plane is equipped with this kind of missile.
Seeing the light spot separated from the passenger plane again, Sartre knew that the most cunning opponent had finally appeared.
Following the transmission of the command on the data link, the other two escorting fighter planes greeted them, and they would never give the Israeli plane a chance to attack.
After Jon left the passenger plane, he turned on his airborne radar, used the radar to scan the surrounding airspace, and immediately found his target and the Iraqi fighter that rushed forward.
For him, the problem he faced was that if he wanted to attack the early warning aircraft, he had to destroy the two planes in front of him, and the time left for him was very short.
And destroying the two planes flying in front, in a one-to-two situation, it is not cost-effective for Jon.
However, Jon is not afraid, because his fighter, after being equipped with AIM-120 missiles, will have a new capability: multi-target engagement capability.
Although the F-15 fighter Jon is now driving is equipped with the most advanced APG-70 radar, but at the beginning, they did not have this capability.
It is not easy to let the airborne radar control multiple missiles at the same time and hit multiple targets in the air. Although the F-14 fighter plane has the ability to attack six targets at the same time after carrying the Phoenix missile, but, It's just a product of measurements on the range.In actual complex electromagnetic countermeasures and complex maneuvers of enemy aircraft, hitting multiple targets at the same time is just a propaganda benefit.
For the F-15 fighter, if you want to achieve multi-target attack, you need to use TWS (tracking and scanning mode), but pilots cannot use this mode when guiding missiles, because it cannot guide semi-active radar The AIM-7 missile can only use the RWS (ranging while searching) mode, which has a narrow field of view and cannot provide more information.
However, AIM-120 can use this mode to attack.
Advanced weapons are not only available in Iraq, even if you look at the world, the weapons of the United States are always the most advanced!
After Jon adjusted the radar to this mode, he began to use the aperture to cover the two light spots on the display below. As long as they are caught, it means that they will lock on each other.
Give each of them a missile first, and after killing them, the early warning aircraft will be my supper!
Jon kept shouting in his heart, comeon, comeon!
Finally, Lockon's signal was displayed on the panel, and he has successfully locked!
Then, the flames flickered under the wings, illuminating the dark sky, and two AIM-120 missiles were launched.
At this time, the distance between the two sides is 50 kilometers.