Chapter 898: Strangulation (Part II)
After Lieutenant Colonel Hurley, commander of the 22nd "Wild Weasel" Squadron, followed the 17th "Wild Weasel" Squadron in front of him to break into the Iraqi air defense cordon, he felt that something was wrong, because the frequency locked on by the original Iraqi radar signal suddenly increased, and its target also shifted from the original McLaughlin group to the "Wild Weasel" fleet to which he belonged.
This made Lieutenant Colonel Hurley faintly uneasy; according to common sense, under the joint jamming of four FE-111 electronic warfare planes and six F-4G aircraft with AN\ALG-119 special electronic jamming pods, even if the enemy's radar could not work, it would not be possible to gradually increase it, and it would still be a fully offensive radar lock signal. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
What do the Iraqis want? Lieutenant Colonel Hurley was a little confused, but in any case, it was definitely not a good thing, for he had already smelled the slightest hint of conspiracy from all kinds of unusualness, so he tilted his head to the side and looked at An\Alg with wide eyes. The series of data displayed by the 119 electronic jamming pod showed the signal, and after a while, he suddenly paused, and then a dripping cold sweat flowed down his cheeks, and at the same time, he quickly adjusted the communication frequency, and no longer cared about the principle of secrecy, and directly exclaimed in a clear code with unusual panic:
"Lindemann, get back, danger........ It's the Falcon, it's the Falcon, the anti-aircraft missile........."
Major Lindemann, the commander of the 17th "Wild Weasel" squadron, who was preparing for the second round of shooting at this moment, was stunned for a moment after hearing Hurley's alarm, he was the main attacker of this support cover, and he did not run out of ammunition at all, and Hurley, who used purely electronic equipment to carry out soft killing, had a lot of time, so he didn't look very carefully at the many display devices in the cabin, until he listened to Hurley's words, and then he realized that something was wrong,
You must know that in the early days when the Q Formation launched a strike on Iraq's air defense positions, the "Wild Weasel" aircraft formation, which was advancing from east to west, was still able to suppress Iraq's radar with firepower, and at least let its signal disappear for a long time, but now, the first round of six "Hamm" anti-radiation missiles had already been confirmed to hit the target, but Iraq's radar still continued to signal, as if the six "Hamm" anti-radiation missiles had just hit a different space, and they had no effect.
Before that, Major Lindeman did not take it seriously, because after the "Hamm" hit, the signal frequency of the Iraqi radar changed accordingly, and because of this, Major Lindeman felt that the missile he shot had hit the target, but the Iraqis reacted quickly and activated the backup radar in time, so he was ready to make persistent efforts to shoot out all the "Hamm" missiles, so as to knock out the Iraqi "backup radar" that was not long-sighted.
However, Lieutenant Colonel Hurley's warning made him break free from the shackles of preconceived ideas, and he carefully looked at the data of the AN\ALG-119 electronic jamming pod on the monitor.
Moreover, he also detected that the F-4G he was piloting had been targeted and locked by him, that is to say, in a few seconds, he would be attacked by an anti-aircraft missile.
However, at this moment, a dazzling light suddenly broke through the layers of cloud barriers and broke out of the sky, and immediately drew a strange and tortuous arc in the sky, and finally showed that tall and slender heroic posture under the hazy moonlight:
The smooth and slender warhead, the strong but beautiful long-sided wings, the smart and steady movable tail, and the cloud-white projectile body coating make it look like a fake "Falcon" air defense missile at a glance, and the target of this "Falcon" air defense missile is none other than Major Lindemann's landline;
At this moment, Lindemann already knew that he was locked on and attacked by the "Falcon" anti-aircraft missile, but he did not know it from the airborne warning system of the machine, but from the display data of the AN\ALG-119 electronic jamming pod, so his cabin appeared very calm, and there was no emergency scene of the alarm when attacked;
But because of this, Lindemann was even more frightened, and the rapid alarm could not be heard in the cockpit, but he could clearly hear the increasingly frantic heartbeats of him and the weapon operator behind him, because they knew that a missile that could only be detected in front of them through a special electronic warfare pod with first-class performance was terrifying beyond words;
Lindemann frantically moved the joystick, trying to get rid of the missile and escape through almost desperate maneuverability, but to his disappointment, the F-4 he was piloting was not easy to maneuver, and the F-4G, which had been improved by electronic warfare, was greatly reduced in this respect.
However, even if Lindemann had divine help and unparalleled maneuverability, the cruel reality would still make him cry and faint in the toilet, because an anti-aircraft missile capable of intercepting short-range ballistic missiles would lose out in maneuverability to any fighter plane.........
"Boom~~~"
The "Falcon" air defense missile only made a slight arc in the sky, and then plunged headlong under the right wing of Lindemann's plane, and immediately more than 10,000 fragments detonated along with the warhead, instantly penetrating the entire fuselage and lighting the fuel tank, and in an instant, the F-4G was like a lighter, burning around in the sky, and its speed was so astonishing that Lindemann was completely swallowed up by the surging flames without even having a chance to escape by ejection........
Regarding the sudden death of Major Lindeman, Lieutenant Colonel Hurley was unaware, not because he was cold-blooded and didn't care about the death of his colleagues, but because Hurley was also too busy to take care of himself at this moment, because when Lindeman was attacked by the "Falcon" anti-aircraft missile, Hurley's plane was also locked by the sudden arrival of the "Falcon" anti-aircraft missile;
The same happened to Lindeman, Lieutenant Colonel Hurley didn't even have a chance to escape, but his position was a little far away, so the time to see God was only a few seconds later than Lindeman, but in any blink of an eye, the two commanders were killed one after another, which was tantamount to breaking the backbone of the "wild weasel" formation on the entire west side, and the whole formation was suddenly thrown into chaos;
What is even worse is that at some point, their communication systems, navigation systems, surveillance systems, and electronic countermeasures systems were suddenly subjected to strong electronic interference, let alone contact with the E-3 early warning planes more than 100 kilometers away, even if they were unable to communicate effectively with each other.
In addition, the mobility of the F-4G itself is not very prominent, so that the entire western "wild weasel" formation has suddenly become a lamb to be slaughtered, and where can it escape the attack of the "Falcon" air defense missiles that pounce on it.
However, all this did not end there; just after the "Falcon" air defense missiles completed their first round of attacks, more than 10 Sam-3 missiles followed closely behind and pounced on the remaining "wild weasel" attack formation on the west side; under the suppression of strong electronic interference, the F-4G and EF-111 electronic warfare planes, which had been forcibly stripped of their electronic protective coats, suddenly became a delicacy in the mouths of the old Sam-3.........
"Oh my God........ This........ This......... This .........."
The strangulation of the "wild weasel" formation on the west side by the Iraqi "Falcon" ground-to-air missile unit naturally could not conceal the McLaughlin group that was desperately breaking through to the west, but they did not detect it from the airborne radar, nor did they get the situation from the radio, but they saw that the cunning and ferocious "wild weasel" was entangled, strangled, and finally bitten to death by countless even more brutal pythons.
Because the distance between the two formations is less than 15 kilometers, in the dark night, whether it is the dazzling tail flame of the missile or the fire of the fighter plane volley, it is outrageously clear, and because of this, the pilots in McLaughlin's group are all shocked, so frightened that their brains are a little short-circuited, so that their electronic equipment has been interfered with and failed without knowing it.
Colonel McLaughlin was the same, his mouth was wide, and he only spat out the syllables of "this ......", but he couldn't say a complete word at all, knowing that this was a real strangulation, and a strangulation that he had witnessed, and those who heard and saw it on the radio or in briefings and videos were more immersive, and at the same time more terrifying, at this moment he finally understood the true meaning of Lieutenant Colonel Stark's previous sentence "God is standing behind us":
God did stand behind them, but God did not bless them, but took them away.........
"You can't go west anymore, turn to the north ........"
Colonel McLaughlin, who came back to his senses, finally understood how difficult his situation was, and immediately shouted into the radio, but in response to his almost hoarse scream of horror was only a noisy and long "Zla~~" sound, but McLaughlin was unconscious, and still roared desperately, until he shouted a little out of strength, and then he was slightly aware of the danger, so he immediately turned his head to the side, only this look, the brown pupils suddenly shrank,
I saw that an old-fashioned SAM-3 missile had broken into the group at some point, and then slammed into an F-16C on the right flank, only to hear a "boom~~" explosion, and the F-- that was still intact just now 16c turned into a ball of fireworks in an instant, Colonel McLaughlin looked at this scene, his frightened face had already been washed by the cold sweat of fear, he finally understood that this place was the layers of traps laid by Iraq, no matter how he struggled, he could not change the predestined result, so he gritted his teeth, clenched the pull ring under him, and shouted to the back:
"Skydive!"
Ben Hao didn't hesitate to pull, only to hear a bang, McLaughlin was ejected into the cabin, and the equipment operator behind him had not yet reacted, and by the time he understood what was going on, the plane had lost control and crashed to the ground.........
McLaughlin was smart, and the others were not stupid, and they all followed suit, and for a while the catapult started and the plane was hit, and the glowing parachutes and beams of flying fireworks rendered the night magnificent........
"These American pilots are really good........"
Listening to the news that the American pilot had fled from the command intercom, Lu Jiadong's face flashed with a meaningful smile, and Major General Mohammed on the side frowned, a little puzzled:
"I don't dare to fight to the death, but I am thinking about how to escape, I really don't see what they have to do with excellence!"
"That's relative to the U.S. military, but if you look at it from our point of view, they are really good!" Looking at Muhammad with a puzzled face, Lu Jiadong said quite playfully:
"Because, they have allowed us to save a lot of missile ......... solidly" (to be continued. )