Chapter 370: The Last Thing Both Sides Want to See
Lin Chengen felt that the shackles around his neck suddenly disappeared in an instant, and the whole person was completely relaxed, and the destruction of the watchtower early warning aircraft made all kinds of restrictions originally imposed on him disappear in an instant, and the positions of hunting and being hunted were instantly reversed.
"The enemy's inter-aircraft communication frequency has been captured!" A belated piece of good news finally came out of the operator's mouth.
"Block the other party's communication!" Lin Chengen finally returned to his command state, and calmly ordered, "At the same time, coordinate all squadrons to annihilate the enemy's pilot aircraft group with the optimal attack plan, and send a request to the base, requesting that the ground bombing squadron take off immediately, and I want these boys to come, don't go back." ”
On the gust of wind, the colonel in command of the flying squadron suddenly felt that he was in a terrifying loneliness, and the loss of the watchtower early warning aircraft obviously leveled the advantage that he had with the Somali army, and even the enemy could already influence the situation of the battle in a sense.
On the screen, there can't be more radars, within dozens of kilometers around him, a huge number of aircraft seem to be drowning themselves, and the cursor of the fire control radar is constantly flashing red on several of the most threatening targets, as if there are countless discounted goods on the supermarket, waiting for his purchase, but unfortunately, his only feeling now is that he is holding a gun in his hand, but facing a large group of wolves.
The enemy's communication has been temporarily disrupted, which is definitely good news for the captain of the Silver Knight Brigade, the AWACS aircraft has assigned the right No. 1 enemy aircraft to himself and his wingman, although the intruder fighter and Rafale are much inferior to some extent, but the captain still did not hesitate to turn on the afterburner switch, lightning rushed towards the other party.
Inter-machine communication was cut off. The Rafale that allowed the entire squadron to be split into several units, without coordination with each other. Ground-based radar can't guide you, and the only thing you can do now is to fight on your own.
on the head-up display. The two Intruder fighters picked up speed noticeably and quickly pounced on themselves, and it seemed that if they were not mistaken, they had clearly come to annihilate themselves. Although the colonel felt very defeated by the raid he had just encountered, he did not pay attention to the Somali medium plane, which was much worse than his own tonnage. As the best version of the French fighter at present, the Colonel knows that the Rafale is incomparable to the medium aircraft in both mid-range and aerial combat, not to mention the so-called Intruder fighter made by the Somalis.
Thinking of this, the colonel quickly raised the nose of the aircraft to adjust to the attack perspective. Placing the two scattered Intruder fighters into the heads-up display at the same time, on the display, the green fire control cursor quickly moved towards the target, and the only thing the colonel had to do was wait patiently for a few seconds.
On the intruder fighter, the captain skillfully tapped on the microphone a few times, and the wingman immediately tacitly pulled the joystick and dived down to a low altitude in an instant, while at the same time, the captain's fighter plane climbed quickly with the nose held high.
On the head-up display of the gust, the enemy's signal instantly moves to both ends of the screen, one high and one low. The two fighters were almost simultaneously flooded with the extreme field of view of the pulsed Doppler radar, and in desperation, the colonel lowered the joystick and made a small radius turn before pounced on the enemy below.
The position of the captain seemed to be a little awkward at the moment, the position was too high and the enemy's course was adjusted. Apparently allowing the target to quickly disappear from the radar, after exchanging data with the AWACS, the captain pulled the nose down again and circled the Rafale back to his own heads-up display.
"Smack." With a slight thud. The seeker radar of the V-1KK was activated in advance, and the seeker was taken over by the airborne radar at the first time. On the heads-up display, the green aperture is constantly swirling around the gusts of wind. And finally the salvage set in the center, the radar controls the seeker seeker to quickly lock on to the target, in the closed circuit, the control signal is quickly sent to the missile, and in the first time back, the missile control circuit after receiving the signal and confirmation, quickly send the pulse back to the fire control system and the pilot's headset at the same time, the team leader's headset in the shooting buzzer, immediately press the launch button. Two V-1KKs with white tail smoke pointed one after the other at the gust.
In the end, the colonel did not include the other party in his radar search range again, without the cooperation of the AWACS aircraft, it was obvious that he could not achieve this goal by relying only on the airborne radar, and just as he was about to turn around, the cabin was accompanied by the flashing of red lights, and a piercing warning suddenly sounded, "LOCKON, LOCKON......
The distance of 10 kilometers only takes a few seconds for the Mach 4 speed V-1KK, and the colonel suddenly found himself at the point of being in a hurry, releasing the infrared drag light bomb, turning on the jammer, releasing the aluminum foil strips, and at the same time pulling the bottom lever again and quickly rushing towards the low altitude......
In the guidance head of the V-1KK, the radar suddenly found that there were many other targets near the target, and after a simple IQ judgment by the computer, the first V-1KK plunged headlong into the center of the target and detonated itself, and the warhead of the missile of more than ten kilograms instantly blew away all the aluminum strips in the airspace, and the gusts of wind were also hit by the burning fragments at the same time, and pink oil gushed out violently from the breach.
The colonel felt the fuselage shake violently, and the joystick instantly became extremely heavy, and he steered the increasingly disobedient plane, trying to force it to calm down, and at this moment, the second V-1KK appeared not far behind him......
Explosion, rapid explosion, gusts of wind instantly exploded into a huge fireball at low altitude, and the fuel in the plane tore the body into tens of thousands of small pieces of several square centimeters, and then accompanied by the still burning nose like a heavy stone, straight down from the sky.
Looking at the first coalition fighter shot down by himself in this air battle, the team leader controlled his plane to simply circle at the explosion, and then quickly pounced on another target.
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Inside the Air Force Command of the Second Expeditionary Force in the southern Ethiopian city of Kre.
French Air Force Lieutenant General Fransk now has a difficult choice in front of him, that is, whether to let the supporting air force continue to reinforce, especially after the AWACS aircraft was shot down, one of the leading Rafale squadrons has been completely wiped out, and the current airspace over Hargeisa is full of enemy aircraft.
The ambush of the AWACS aircraft was a complete accident, but how much of the predictable thing was contained in this accident? The danger in the airspace of Hargeisa has been a fact for a long time, but in fact, until the news of the downing of the watchtower early warning plane was heard, everyone still did not expect this.
Somalia is indeed smart enough, clever to the point of cunning, sending a platoon of ground-based anti-aircraft missiles across the border line to break through the territory of the coalition forces, which at first glance sounds like an unruly fight, but it contains a mysterious Chinese art of war.
Yes, no one in the war stipulated that the troops serving as air defense could not be used as front-line troops, and this shackle was nothing more than self-belief and assumption. The so-called precision of modern warfare and the clear role of weapons have deprived coalition generals of their proper judgment, which ultimately led to defeat.
According to the opinion of the staff officers, at present, the reinforcement planes that took off from several nearby airfields should be immediately returned, and there are no tanker planes in the enemy's fleet, that is, the enemy cannot stay in the air for a long time, and after they return, they can completely return the AWACS aircraft on the border of Djibouti and deal a devastating blow to the enemy again.
On the Somali side, several formations of warplanes took off from the airport, and the clear goal was to tell Fransk that they wanted to destroy the returning planes directly on the airport.
The coalition air force is not a showman, in the absence of early warning aircraft for a long time, they are relying on themselves to stubbornly strike at the enemy, Fransk believes that the early warning aircraft will not spoil their own soldiers, on the contrary, only in such a bad situation, can really give full play to the potential of soldiers.
"Inform all squadrons that are rushing to the predetermined airspace that the mission remains the same!" Fransk gritted his teeth and ordered.
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Sixty kilometers west of Bagua City, at the Red Guard Air Force Base, Smith. Lieutenant General Kay was pacing back and forth at the headquarters.
In this war, the Air Force had too many tasks, not only to guard the thousands of kilometers of coastline in the Gulf of Aden in the north, but also to support at least three fronts of the battlefield. The enemy also has an advantage in the number of fighters, and when it comes to the technical combat level of the pilots, although the pilots of the Red Guard Regiment can all be called proud of the air, they have never experienced actual combat and do not have an advantage at all in combat. In terms of aircraft, whether it is the fourth-generation fighter F-15/F-16 of the United States or the Rafale of France, it is not a dry meal. The pilots of the two countries already knew the operation and engagement of these fighters for a long time.
Therefore, from the very beginning of the war, this commander of the Air Force can be called a heavy burden on his shoulders.
This battle of Hargeisa air supremacy is the most direct factor that has a direct bearing on the success or failure of the ground war. The coalition forces will definitely seize air supremacy alive and dead, otherwise it will be impossible for the ground forces to attack. And they must also ensure air supremacy in their hands, otherwise a ground war will be too dangerous for the army.
Of course, there is also a result, the air force and the air force are inseparable, and the ground war is fought to the death by the land forces of both sides. And this kind of result, whether it is the coalition forces or the Red Guard Corps, is the last thing you want to see. (To be continued......)