Chapter 118: Nighthawk Falls

Since March 1999, when NATO began bombing the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Zhang Yi has shifted part of his energy to military and intelligence.

In his previous life, as a fart of the Celestial Empire, he was disgusted with NATO's arrogance, but he was constrained by the weakness of his own strength, so he could only be a keyboard party, laughing and scolding on the Internet, and getting over his mouth.

Now, with his own financial resources, he can't leave it alone.

At the beginning of March, Zhang Yi secretly retrieved some information in his mind, which was about NATO's air strikes on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, made a briefing report, and sent it to some Yugoslav network BBS using multiple network agents.

At first, the Yugoslavs did not believe this, but then they were surprised to find that the sites that NATO was about to bomb were all fulfilled shortly after. As a result, the Yugoslav intelligence department sent someone to contact the provider of this news, but the other party said that he did not need to be paid at all, but he was not used to NATO's hegemony, so he wanted to provide information anonymously to help Yugoslavia minimize losses.

On the morning of March 25, the intelligence commissioner received an urgent email marked by the volunteer intelligence officer, and when he opened the email, he was shocked by the contents, and in view of the excellent record of the previous intelligence officer, he did not dare to slack off, and immediately printed out the information and provided it to the higher authorities.

The intelligence content shows that on the night of 27 March, NATO will use the latest US F117A stealth tactical bomber to bomb important targets of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and list the names and addresses of the targets one by one.

The email concludes by pointing out a way to crack the stealth tactical bomber: using an old passive radar named Vera, produced by the Czech Republic after World War II, can effectively detect the F117A stealth bomber.

Since the Czech Republic was a member of the Warsaw Pact countries after World War II, a large number of light weapons and radars produced by it were equipped with Warsaw Pact countries, including the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which had excellent relations with the former Soviet Union, and even the Celestial Empire also retained a large number of radars of this type.

Many professional military personnel feel that this method is simply a fantasy, and the stealth bomber, which cannot be detected by the latest model radar, can be discovered by the old Vera radar, which is not scientific!

However, based on the accuracy of the information provided by the intelligence officers in the past, and the fact that no other country in the world can provide a way to detect stealth bombers, with the attitude of giving it a try, the air defense department pulled out several Vera radars from the warehouse, which had been dusty for a long time, and put them into the air defense system after simple repairs and maintenance.

On the night of 27 March, NATO first took off a large number of F16 fighters from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier anchored in the Adriatic Sea, carrying bombs, to bomb the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which had lost its air defense capability. Even if the operator operating the Vera radar spotted the F16, because it was so fast, the old radar could not lock on to such a high-speed target at all, so it could only remain silent and let the Americans go back and forth in style.

However, the radar operators also discovered a strange phenomenon: once the new radar is turned on, it will be hit by American anti-radiation missiles.

And the old Vera passive radar, which was not noticed by anti-radiation missiles, turned out to have zero battle losses.

After the F-16 bombing, more than two dozen targets were suddenly found on the radar screen, the radar launch area of these targets was very small, and the flight speed was very slow.

This should be what the intelligence officer said, stealth bombers.

You know, at that time, the F117A was produced by Lockheed Martin, and this type of bomber was specially treated with the tail nozzle of the engine in order not to be found by the radar, and the fuselage adopted a delta wing layout, and the material could effectively absorb radar waves.

But the consequence of this is that the stealth bomber is extremely maneuverable and has a very slow cruising speed. It can be said that there is basically no ability to fight in the air, and there is no self-defense ability, and if it is locked by the fire control radar, the pilot can only parachute.

Of course, there is no need to think about whether it is a plane on its own side at all, because from the very beginning of the war, all the airfields were bombed by Tomahawk missiles and bombers, and it was impossible to take off fighters at all.

For the F117A pilot, the bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is like a tour, and the laser-guided bomb brought in the belly of the plane is just thrown down in accordance with the laser guidance of the ground guide. It couldn't be easier!

The same is true tonight, for now, everything is going well, and I can't help but think that the coquettish dancer I just met at the bar must ask her out to spend the night after a while of completing the task.

As the saying goes, happiness begets sorrow.

When I was obscene, someone suddenly shouted angrily in the pager: "Bastard, I was hit, I was hit, which bastard said this is a stealth bomber and will never be hit, those bastard military contractors are all a bunch of liars!"

In the dark night sky, an F117 on fire, like a kite with broken wings, fell headlong to the ground.

Seeing this scene, everyone hurriedly pulled up the nose of the aircraft, intending to raise the altitude to avoid the anti-aircraft fire on the ground.

But the maneuverability of the F117 is not even as maneuverable as some old aircraft.

The SAM-2 and SAM-3 anti-aircraft missiles on the ground, like stingers, flew towards the sky, chasing the F117A stealth bombers that were as slow as a snail, coupled with the anti-aircraft guns guided by the Vera radar, the sky was very lively.

In this mission, a total of 24 F117As were dispatched, and only 4 returned to the forward base. The rest, all of which were left on Yugoslav soil, only 10 anti-aircraft missiles were shot down, and the remaining 10 were all shot down by old anti-aircraft guns.

The entire NATO and the United States fell into silence in an instant, they were completely confused, and the old-fashioned F16 and F15, and even older F18, flew freely over Yugoslavia.

And the pride of NATO, the most advanced stealth bomber, was made into dumplings by the Yugoslav Federation, which has extremely poor military strength, and it was stewed in one pot.

On the morning of March 28, when a well-informed media reporter learned the news, he carefully pinched himself, looked at the calendar again, and made sure that today was not April Fool's Day. A whole 20 F117s were shot down, and Western reporters in Yugoslavia took pictures of the downed F117s burning, while the excited Yugoslav children were showing off with the nameplate of the American double-headed Eagle Air Force logo.

There are also several pilots who were captured after parachuting, dejected, and were posed for by the local people, becoming a background wall.

The Celestial Empire and Russia, on the other hand, acted quickly to send military observers, in the name of observing the medical and health conditions in the bombed areas.

This reason is so powerful that the Americans will be extremely painful, and if they want to steal our country's military secrets, they will just say it! If you don't say it, how do I know? Actually, I won't let you see it. But now, I can't help myself.

The other side not only wants to see it, but also takes away the samples, which the United States absolutely does not agree to.

And this kind of game almost caused a disaster.