Chapter 201: Aerial Combat

As soon as the US bombers were wreaking havoc over the heads of the Iraqis, more than a dozen red dots of light suddenly appeared on the screen of the US Air Force Command, and the soldiers of the US military console looked at the radar screen with their eyes grown.

"Shet, God, am I blind? Enemy aircraft appeared in the skies over Iraq? Colonel White, come and have a look! ”

Hearing the console soldier shouting, the officer immediately came over: "Joseson, what's the matter?" ”

"Sir, the radar shows that sixteen enemy planes have appeared about thirty kilometers north of Tikrit, and now they are only twenty-eight kilometers!"

After White heard this, he immediately stared at the radar screen and looked over, and sure enough, more than a dozen red dots appeared at the top of the screen, the friendly troops on the US radar screen are green, and the enemy troops are red, since the US military attacked Iraq the next day, there has been no red sign on the radar screen, and today is the first time.

"It can't be a problem with the identification system of friend or foe, right? Inform the formation of escort fighters over Tikrit, ready to meet the enemy! Nearly 30 kilometers away, is our radar all decoration? ”

White frowned and thought about it, and immediately gave the order, now whether it is a problem with his own system or not, the most important thing is to destroy the enemy that appears in front of him, and not let them get close to his bomber formation.

"Roger! But sir, our escort fighters only dispatched one escort formation, four F22s! ”

"Immediately let all the fighter squadrons of the nearest air base take off and prepare to meet the enemy, damn it, don't let the tragedy in Kosovo repeat itself!" After White finished speaking, he immediately began to pick up the communicator and give orders.

In the sky over Tikrit, four American F22 fighters immediately broke away from the bomber formation and began to move quickly towards the north after receiving the order.

"Number One finds the target, lock on to the target!"

"Number Two finds the target, lock on to the target!"

“……”

"Four finds the target, lock on to the target!"

"Launch!"

Four air-to-air combat missiles fell from under the F22's wing, and then orange flames erupted from their tails and flew towards a group of Iraqi fighters in the distance.

As soon as the four Iraqi fighter planes uttered the word "locked", they were instantly destroyed, and four fighters were immediately lost before they could see the US fighters.

However, the Iraqis are not without the slightest combat capability, the distance of more than 30 kilometers is fleeting, and Iraqi fighters have also begun to launch air-to-air combat missiles, but the gap between their planes and the number of missiles is somewhat large compared with the Americans, and the four missiles did not hit a single US fighter plane, and two more fighters were shot down by the US military at the same time.

"These Iraqi fighters are really vulnerable, I shot two, wow, it looks like my record is going to improve to thirteen!" The pilot of the No. 2 fighter immediately shouted excitedly when he saw that the two fighters he had locked on were destroyed, and these Americans did not pay attention to these Iraqi fighters at all.

"Luckily, I only shot a small turkey! And ten little turkeys, come on! After Air Force No. 3 finished speaking, he once again locked on to an Iraqi fighter and pressed the launch button.

Just as the U.S. military was about to shoot down all the Iraqi planes, four U.S. fighter jets issued a warning at the same time: "Warning, locked, warning, locked!" ”

"We're locked on, ready to fire decoy bombs!" Fighter No. 1, the commander of the US escort formation, immediately shouted loudly, and after hearing the order, the other three US fighters began to fire decoy bombs one after another, and more than a dozen Iraqi surface-to-air missiles emerged from the clouds and hit the decoy bombs issued by the US fighters.

"Alarm, alarm, damaged wing, damaged wing! Alert, alert! ……”

"Damn, there's a little bit of a problem with my wing, request to return, request to return!" Although the US fighter No. 2 was not directly hit, the Iraqi surface-to-air missile hit the decoy bomb, and the fragments after the explosion hit the wing of the No. 2 fighter, and the fighter had problems with the wing and began to lose control somewhat.

"Received, agree to request to withdraw from the battle, No. 4, you escort No. 2, and the two of us will get rid of these Iraqis!" After saying that, the second fighter broke away from the fighter group, and the fourth fighter followed behind and began to escort the enemy.

Qusay has been observing the battle situation in the air with a telescope, and US and Iraqi fighter jets have appeared in the sky over Tikrit, and the fighting situation of the air forces on both sides can be clearly seen from the ground.

"Damn, almost!" Qusay smashed his fist on the armored car next to him, he carefully planned this air raid, he didn't care about the loss of 16 fighters at all, what he cared about was whether he could shoot down American fighters, as long as he could knock down one American fighter plane, as long as he could shoot down an F22 fighter, it would be a big victory for the Iraqis.

"Hehe, but it's not over yet, these damn Americans, I'm going to give you a taste of failure!" After Cusayi finished speaking, Leng Shang showed a cold smile, and Okamoto Sakata and Marcelo behind him couldn't help but shudder when they looked at it.

The final result of the air battle was that the US military shot down all the Iraqi fighters and ended, the two remaining US fighters also used up all the air-to-air combat missiles and began to return home, the US bombers also began to retreat, lacking the cover of the fighters, and the bombers did not dare to hover in the air unscrupulously, and 12 Iraqi fighters appeared in the distance again.

The second group of American escort formations had not yet arrived on the battlefield, and there was a three-minute interval in between, and the battlefield began to be taken over by the Iraqis during the three minutes, and eleven of the twelve Iraqi fighters were escort fighters, and one carried four air-to-surface missiles.

"Boom ......"

A series of explosions rang out, this time it was not the positions of the Iraqi army that exploded, but the positions of the Americans, and all four air-to-surface missiles were thrown into the positions of the US troops, one of which was directly inserted into the north tower of the U-shaped building, and after a dull explosion in the north building, the fire soared into the sky, and the surviving American soldiers escaped from the building, and more American troops were killed on the spot.

"Damn, what about our Air Force, why are there bombers from the Iraqis here?" John stood inside the headquarters, watching the skyrocketing fire from the north building, and froze in place, there was a brief ceasefire on the battlefield of the Americans, and the Americans never dreamed that they would be bombed by the Iraqis.

"Sir, our fighter jets are here!"

At this time, more than a dozen US fighter planes appeared in the southern sky, and the reinforcements were either late or on the way to be late.