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At this time, on the other side of the world, it was already early in the morning. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The white mansion is still lit up in the central institution of the most powerful country on earth. A homeless man wandered here and was immediately evicted by the security guards.

The president's office, the black president who claims to re-lead the United States as a world leader, is still working, but it can be seen that he is not very focused, always subconsciously looking at his watch.

"Watson, doesn't the Ministry of Defense have an updated report on the Persian Gulf yet?" The president suddenly asked the senior assistant, who was dozing off a little next to him.

In normal times, even the president would not work overtime in a country that symbolizes 'open cooking and freedom,' but now it is different, and now is the time when the United States is at war with a regional organization.

"Yes President, there is no new report from the Department of Defense." Watson reflexively stood up and replied.

It is also true that there is no new information from the Ministry of Defense.

"Call Secretary Gates to see if he's resting, and if not, let him come over." The president rubbed his cheeks to relieve the sore muscles before commanding.

The assistant answered, first changed a cup of coffee for the president, and then walked out.

Half an hour later, Secretary of Defense Robert ? Gates felt the White House, and with it the latest report on the air war in the Persian Gulf.

"God, damn it, is this the air force that the United States claims to be the number one in the world?" After reading the report, the black president threw it on his desk in anger and cursed.

Robert? Gates felt that his face was hot, although he understood that the president was not talking about him, but as the secretary of defense, the Air Force's 'achievements' were also closely related to him.

He rushed over after receiving a report from the commander of the Al Udeid airbase, General Bolton, and he received all the calls from the president's assistant in the car. After seeing this report, Gates knew that there was a big problem.

Up to now, the carrier-based aircraft of the US Air Force and Navy have been at a disadvantage in the fight for air supremacy in the Persian Gulf with the Joint Air Force of the Third OECD.

Although General Burton's 'Snake Catching Program' has achieved certain successes, even the US Air Force has underestimated the surname of the 'Condor' fighter.

At the beginning, the US Air Force's 'decoy' formation and ambush group merged into more than 20 fighters and engaged in a fierce air battle over the Persian Gulf with more than 50 fighters of the Third Economic Cooperation and Cooperation Combined Air Force. The scene at that time can only be seen from World War II movies.

How many of you have seen nearly 80 advanced fighter jets fighting together in the air since the jet age began?

On the sea surface of nearly 40,000 square kilometers, which is 200 kilometers long and 200 kilometers wide, from an ultra-low altitude of several tens of meters to an altitude of 10,000 meters, the fighters of the two sides were completely strangled together.

The U.S. Air Force is in a weak position in quantity, but it surpasses the United Air Force in quality, and the two sides have an advantage in air combat, from the beginning of the over-the-horizon attack The U.S. Air Force has an advantage, shooting down at least four United Air Force fighters, and in close combat combat, the benefits of numerical superiority are gradually reflected, and the Soviet-made fighters are in the same generation, because they lag behind the West in terms of electronic equipment, so the aerodynamic layout design of the aircraft is also more important than that of the West, that is, in the general contemporaries, Soviet-made fighters are more mobile than American-made fighters.

In hand-to-hand combat, it is important to have excellent maneuverability.

The US Air Force, which has long had a clear picture of the number and model of the Joint Air Force's conventional fighters, will certainly not play the trick of winning by quality; in the Persian Gulf, the United States has nearly 200 advanced fighters, so how could it send only 20 or so to take part in the crucial battle for air supremacy in the Persian Gulf?

When the '100-plane air battle' was about 20 minutes underway, the losses of both sides were also very staggering, the joint air force lost 11 MiG-29 fighters and 4 Su-27SS fighters, and the US Air Force also lost 9 F-15s, including a Hornet in front, a total of 10 fighters.

At this time, a problem must not arise, and that is the problem of the short combat radius of the MiG-29 fighters of the Joint Air Force. More than 40 minutes have passed since take-off and engagement, and the fuel supply of the aircraft that did not have auxiliary fuel tanks completely for air combat has run out, and the MiG-29 fighters have to face the problem of having to return home.

Just after Yazdani gave the order for the remaining 14 MiG-29s in the first wave of the attack formation to return to its ground-to-air missile air defense zone for aerial refueling, the "Cobra" group, which had been expelling local electronic warfare aircraft and early warning planes around the fighting, sent an alarm.

In the two directions to the south and southwest of the airspace of the engagement, a large number of aircraft groups were discovered, and it was initially estimated that more than 36 F-16 fighters and F-18 carrier-based fighters were preliminarily expected.

The sudden warning caused a kind of silence among the remaining pilots of the entire United Air Force. After all, in order to maintain the aircraft's air superiority combat capability, even the fuel cannot be fully loaded, and the missiles of most aircraft are basically exhausted.

Commander Yazdani was also stunned for a moment, then he opened his throat and shouted hoarsely in the wireless communication, "All the planes that still have fuel and ammunition are left, and the other planes will return immediately to refuel and reload...... the 'Cobra' team will go all out to block the two groups of enemy reinforcements, and try to delay the time, I have reported the situation here to the command, and our reinforcements are already on the way......"

Although Yazdani's words were somewhat intermittent due to enemy interference, all the pilots still heard them clearly.

At this time, everyone understood that the remaining planes were likely to be shot down, but those fuel and ammunition and the combined air force fighters all gathered together to regroup into an attack formation, watching the other planes of their own side fly north.

The 'Cobra' group, which has been 'playing games' with the US early warning planes and other auxiliary aircraft at high altitude, also heard Yazdani's voice, and the slightest trace of determination and courage in fighting against the odds made Karim and the other four "Condor" fighter pilots very admired; although there were also many Somali planes in the formation left below, at this time, if there was no backbone like Yazdani, even if there were more planes left, it would be impossible to complete the task of blocking and delaying.

It seems that knowing the arrival of their own aircraft group, the remaining fighters of the US Air Force and the United Air Force have also left the airspace of the battle and returned to Udeid Air Force Base, for them, the American pilots, today's battle has made them understand that the US Air Force is not invincible, and there are still many opponents worthy of their attention and admiration.

"Buzz...... two groups of US fighter jets roared past at high subsonic speeds and rushed to the combat area. Sixty kilometers away from the place of engagement, the two groups converged, one on the left and one on the right, and then some of the F-18 fighters broke away from the group and pursued the United Air Force returning from the north.

By this time, General Burton's 'snake catcher' had been gradually revealed. From the beginning of the four F-15 and two F-18s, it was a 'decoy', and even the later ambush group was a larger 'decoy', in a way similar to the tactics of adding fuel, the United Air Force was introduced into traps and traps step by step, and then the main force of the United Air Force was destroyed in one fell swoop with a thunderous force.

In the eyes of the United States, the main force of the joint air force is these Su-27 and MiG-29 and a small number of F-14 fighters of the Iranian Air Force, and other MiG-23 and even MiG-21 and the like, which are equivalent to target aircraft, which cannot play a role at all in such air combat.

Compared with the joint air force, the United States can afford to spend it completely, and the tactic of adding fuel is a tactic of attrition and a kind of safe tactic, and the two sides are gradually throwing all their main forces into the air battle in the Persian Gulf, and whoever cannot afford it first will lose.

As for why such a costly tactic was chosen, it was because General Bolton and the staff were wary of the Somali Condor fighters. Before the true combat effectiveness of the Somali 'Condor' fighters is fully understood, it is impossible for the US Air Force to send out all its planes, but to defeat the United Air Force step by step by gradually encroaching on the attrition.

In this way, even if the United Air Force is reluctant to send 'Condor' fighters, at most it will cause some losses to the US military, and it will not be broken all at once.

However, neither the commander of the US side, General Burton, nor the command of the Joint Air Force, did not expect that an accident arose in the plan.

It was this accident that caused what should have been a decisive battle between the two sides for air supremacy, and deviated from the original direction.

The accident was an unexpected encounter between the F-22 fighter squadron of the 27th Fighter Wing of the US Air Force and the 'Condor' fighter squadron that had arrived from Somalia 140 kilometers south of the combat airspace.

In order to prevent the operation from being leaked, the commander of the F-22 fighter squadron, Colonel Jack, led the group to fly at low altitude on those relatively remote routes in the southern part of the Persian Gulf, because in the southern part of the Persian Gulf, there are few camouflaged OECD spy ships of the Third OECD, and in the southern Persian Gulf, the group is assisted by its own early warning aircraft and ground radars, which can ensure that the group can effectively shoot down the enemy in the event of an encounter.

Under the leadership of Colonel Jababa, the 'Condor' fighter squadron has been flying at an ultra-high altitude of 40 kilometers, but after crossing the Strait of Hormuz, the planes gradually lowered their altitude and skimmed the sea at an altitude of several hundred meters above sea level. This has the advantage of being able to effectively avoid the opponent's radar, and although the stealth surname of the 'Condor' fighter can be excellent, it is still possible to be detected. By borrowing some radar 'blind spots' such as the curve of the earth's surface at low altitudes, they can appear on the battlefield by surprise.

Both sides wanted to quietly enter the village to shoot, but no one expected to meet unexpectedly, because both sides were very good at stealth, and when they found each other, the other party had already entered the effective attack range of the missile......

(To be continued)