Volume VII Chapter 936 The Struggle for Air Supremacy

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In the calm Persian Gulf, where the once busy sea transport had withered, there was not a single moving object to be seen, except for the occasional hailing of seabirds on the surface. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

"Buzzing ......" A low roar came from afar, and a dense black spot suddenly appeared in the place where the sea and the sky intersected in the north.

When the black dot got closer, it turned out to be a group of fighter jets.

Each of these fighters is only about 100 meters above the sea surface, flying at supersonic speed, and after flying 30 kilometers from the continental shelf, each of these aircraft is only 60 meters high.

"'Cobra'...... Report on the enemy's movements, done. "On a MiG-29 fighter, the commander of the Joint Air Force, Colonel Yazdani, broke the radio silence.

In the stratosphere 42 kilometers above the Persian Gulf, four Condor fighter jets are flying at low speeds. Karim is now the squad leader of the 'Ghost' group in the Joint Air Force, also known as the leader of the 'Condor' fighter group. In today's attack, their group was codenamed 'Cobra'.

The Cobra group now has four Condor fighters, and as a result of today's operation, the Condor squadron in Somalia is also approaching this side, and they have entered the airspace of the battle almost as the two sides are fighting.

At present, the task of the "Cobra" group is to monitor the US Air Force across the Persian Gulf, and it is also responsible for guiding the attacking coalition air force. Although it is not an early warning aircraft, the use of the 'Condor' fighter to do this task can be regarded as a good use.

Karim turned on the onboard phased array radar and immediately spotted the red dot of light displayed on the radar screen. In the area of engagement, except for your own aircraft, which share the identification of friend or foe, the signals of all other flying objects are red. And at this moment, it can only be American fighter jets that appear in this airspace.

"Report 'Pit Viper', four eaglets...... Two little bees, coordinates xxx.yyy, not good, an AWACS aircraft...... They found you. Karim suddenly saw the AWACS aircraft hidden in the rear, and hurriedly warned.

Compared with the airborne radar, the radar on the AWACS aircraft has more power and the search distance is longer, so the AWACS aircraft even in the rear of the fighter jet can find more distance than the airborne radar of the fighter in front.

"Just four eaglets and two little bees? Brothers, let's play with them. Yazdani was overjoyed when he heard Karim's report, if there were only these six enemy planes, with their wave of air power, they would really be able to eat each other, of course, there might be losses, but where was there no loss in air combat? Even if it is advanced, it is possible to be shot down by ground artillery fire, let alone air combat.

Moreover, since the establishment of the Joint Air Force, only the Somali Air Force has achieved results, which makes the political axes of other member countries a little dissatisfied, and they must have ordered in private to win glory for the country.

9 Su-27SS, 18 MiG-29, four enemy Eagle, two Super Hornet.

27:6怂 Even if the enemy's aircraft can be better, they can still be killed in numbers.

"'Cobra', immediately expel the opponent's AWACS aircraft, it's better to kill it." Fortunately, Yazdani has not taken it for granted, knowing that the opponent with the support of early warning aircraft, although the number is several times different, but with the support of early warning aircraft, the opponent's comprehensive combat power will not increase several times, so if you want to have a beautiful record, you must kill the opponent's early warning aircraft.

Karim nodded secretly and gave the order to the wingman next to him to expel the AWACS. The fuselage of the 'Divine Eagle' fighter next to him deflected away from the formation and accelerated towards the US early warning plane.

At this moment, Karim suddenly saw the red light spot on the dense radar screen, his face suddenly changed greatly, and he hurriedly shouted, "'Pit Viper' please pay attention...... A large number of enemy aircraft were spotted, and the coordinates were ...... It is preliminarily inferred that there are more than 15 Kitty Hawks...... Repeat, a large number of enemy aircraft were found, the coordinates ......"

At this time, Yazdani led the first wave of attack formations close to the blockade line set up by the US Air Force in the Persian Gulf, and the distance between the two sides was only 60 kilometers, close to the farthest attack distance of the other side.

Colonel Yazdani's face changed drastically, and he scolded angrily, "It turned out to be a trap...... These damn Yankees, they're so cunning. ā€

"Ah...... Captain, I'm locked. "The pilot of a MiG-29 made an emergency call in wireless communication.

"Captain, I'm locked in too...... Allah above, they fired missiles ......"

Yazdani's head swelled with the noise of the various cacophonies coming from the wireless communication. At this moment, the aircraft formation is already rising to an altitude of 4,000 meters in the air, and it is still 55 kilometers away from the enemy aircraft.

Sixteen AIM-120 air-to-air missiles dragged their tails out of the f-15 fighter pylons and headed for the coalition air force group 55 kilometers away.

With the application of active phased array radar, today's fighter jets have gradually possessed some of the capabilities of the original early warning aircraft, such as tracking multiple targets at the same time and attacking many of them.

The coalition air force fleet is already a little chaotic with two planes, especially some of the pilots who have not experienced actual combat, and they are always a little panicked in the face of such missile attacks.

At present, the medium-range air-to-air missile used by the Joint Air Force is the AA-10, and its maximum range is only 50 kilometers, which is slightly farther than the US 'Sparrow' missile, but it is far inferior to the AIM-120 advanced medium-range missile, and its range is only two-thirds of that of the other side, and the missile's surname is also slightly inferior. The only advantage is that the AA-10 missile's warhead is heavier and the missile is more powerful, which is more in line with the characteristics of Soviet-made weapons.

The more dangerous the situation, the more Colonel Yazdani as the commander must not panic, if he also panics, then this joint air force attack formation may really suffer a big loss.

While ordering the planes locked by the missiles to reduce altitude to evade and release jamming bombs in wireless communications, he also instructed other planes to get close to the 'decoy' of the US Air Force, that is, the four F-15s and two F-18 formations. They had to eat the bait before the enemy planes arrived.

"Bang......" Colonel Yazdani's MiG-29 fighter had just approached the US Air Force's 'decoy' 50 kilometers, and before it could launch the missile, it heard a piercing explosion in wireless communications.

He jerked his head back through the cockpit and saw that above the right side of the fuselage, a MiG-29 fighter was hit by a missile and exploded in the air, and even the pilot did not have time to parachute to escape.

Although the other United Air Force fighters all thrillingly avoided the tracking and locking of the missiles, they were sad to see their companions who had just been talking together to see Allah like this.

"It's 096 Hammerway......," one pilot said after a long silence over the radio.

Colonel Yazdani immediately thought of the tall young Syrian pilot in his mind, gritted his teeth and said, "Don't be sad, everyone, we avenge Hammerway, long live the United Air Force!" ā€

Turning grief into motivation, the remaining 26 fighters of the United Air Force reorganized into two formations at medium and low altitudes and crossed the sea, and after entering the missile range, the Su-27SS at an altitude of 9,000 meters simultaneously launched an AA-10 missile.

At an altitude of 40 kilometers, several pilots of the 'Cobra' group had just been listening to the speeches of the pilots of the 'Viper' group. When he heard that a MiG-29 had been shot down, Karim's face sank.

They didn't go down to help the Pit Viper, because it was impossible for them to meddle in the battle below, either during the combat mission or for the sake of the emotions of the pilots of the Viper.

Karim believes that the Pit Viper team has dealt with the US Air Force 'decoy' enough, and their more important task now is to stall for time and wait for their own reinforcements to arrive.

Because the fleet of the U.S. Air Force is already approaching at high speed.

The "Condor" fighter that had been ordered to expel the US early warning plane soon returned to the formation, and he did not shoot down the US early warning plane, mainly because there was no chance, because there were eight F-16 fighters escorting behind the early warning plane, and the other side had already retreated to the US ground-based missile air defense zone.

It is too dangerous to use a 'Condor' fighter to break through this layer of defense line and attack the early warning plane.

"Brothers, the Pit Viper team is at war, it's time for us Cobra to work. Now for the second set of standby scenarios. ā€

With Karim's order, the four 'Condor' fighters began to lower their altitude and meet the main group of the US Air Force.

Four Condor fighters vs 15 F-15 fighters?

According to the second set of backup plans, when there is a huge disparity between the strength of the enemy and us, the 'Divine Eagle' fighters should make full use of the superior capabilities of the aircraft to launch an air 'guerrilla warfare' with the other side.

The four 'Divine Eagle' fighters gave full play to their advantages of ultra-high speed, ultra-high altitude, super-mobility, and super-stealth, and practiced the method of firing one shot at a time to change places, gradually encroaching on the opponent's air defense circle, and once they found the opponent's defense gap, they broke into it and launched missiles, but they broke away at a super high speed.

…… At an altitude of 35 kilometers in Hormuz, a group of 18 'Condor' fighters crossed the strait like ghosts.

This is the squadron of 'Condor' fighters from Somalia, and it is also the main force in seizing air supremacy in the Persian Gulf. The commander of this aircraft formation was Colonel Jababa, commander of the Somali Strategic Air Force. Originally, his mission was to be in charge of the strategic duty of another two-seater 'Divine Eagle' formation, that is, a mission similar to that of a strategic bomber in Somalia's strategic nuclear deterrence, but this time, in order to facilitate his command, Li Mo personally sent Colonel Jababa to be responsible for the unified management and command of the 'Divine Eagle' fighter formation.

On the south side of the Abruville Islands, 100 kilometers west of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, another formation of 22 fighters is also quietly approaching the airspace where the two sides are fighting, this fighter formation is the US F-22 fighter squadron that has just taken off from Zafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates, and the commander is Colonel Jack.

(To be continued)