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Unlike Lin Chengen on the Lookout AWACS aircraft, as Air Force Commander Smith. Kai thinks more about the problem, unlike Lin Chengen, who only thinks about grasping the battlefield in front of him like this. The issue in mind by Kay was all the military operations carried out by the Air Force throughout the war.

At present, the Air Force, excluding naval aviation, has only three wings and more than 300 fighters at his disposal.

The air battle in Hargeisa was the first to break out, but he also had to do a good job of ensuring air supremacy in Djibouti and Galcayo, so as to better ensure that there was a follow-up support force and could provide support at any time. To tell the truth, these 300-odd fighters are simply not enough, and the number of US Air Force fighters stationed in Ethiopia alone has reached more than 300, and although there are a large number of support planes in them, there are only more than 100 real air supremacy fighters, but the gap in strength and quantity is also very obvious.

The US Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea did not dare to be careless in the slightest, and the radius of 2,000 kilometers is not outside the combat radius of carrier-based aircraft, and as long as the coalition forces need it, it is completely possible to take off a large number of refueling planes in Egypt or Saudi Arabia to provide air refueling for carrier-based aircraft. A whole five aircraft carriers, four nuclear-powered, one Italian conventional light aircraft carrier. The carrier-based aircraft on these aircraft carriers are a very strong combat force.

If it weren't for the Fifth Fleet of the coalition forces to search for its own dual-carrier fleet, I'm afraid that Kai wouldn't even be able to sleep well now.

However, Kai is not without a solution. Shortening the defensive circle was originally Li Lanyang's strategy of promoting his strengths and avoiding his weaknesses. The Red Guard Corps, with a combat radius of just over 400 kilometers. Has extremely strong defense after shrinking. On the other hand, the coalition forces are afraid of a sneak attack by the Somali side. Placing the airfield more than a thousand kilometers away is the opportunity of the Red Alert Air Force.

The air supremacy time is long, the support speed is fast, the rear road is guaranteed by the base defense circle, the attendance rate of taking off and entering the battlefield is also very high, and it is extremely convenient to replenish ammunition.

If it weren't for these advantages, Li Lan would not have been able to win this war at all.

Of course, in order to ensure that the war can continue. Li Lan also ordered Kai to tell the air force not to fight hard with the enemy, but to give full play to its air defense superiority when necessary, and to cooperate with air defense and air supremacy of various arms.

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On the Lookout AWACS aircraft, and Kai's troubles are different. Annihilated the Rafale fighters of one squadron of the enemy, but Air Force Brigadier General Lin Chengen was not happy, and the battle loss ratio was close to 1:0.8, except that the enemy's planes were heavy aircraft, which had air superiority. The biggest reason is that the pilots of the Red Guard Corps have not experienced actual combat, if it is an elite flying unit that has experienced actual combat, Lin Chengen dares to pat his chest and guarantee that the 0.8 behind will definitely be erased.

The blow to the enemy is clearly not over. Information from long-range ground-based radars showed that the enemy's follow-up forces had arrived, and their own fighter formations were not far behind. It seems that the two sides have really reached the point of fire.

The losses were a little greater than expected, but in the opinion of the captain. It's totally worth it from the actual combat. The troops have really learned a lot, and it's completely different from the so-called game-like training on the simulator, which is no longer a training that is immediately lost after being tracked, but a real gun.

Carefully enough to even gently stroke his "knight", the captain put on the mask again, "All fighters, rearrange the shape!" ”

The air was still filled with the smoke of gunpowder that had not yet dissipated, and the intruder fighters and Black Hawk fighters were constantly assembled, rearranged in a neat alignment, and the nose of the aircraft pointed directly in the direction where the enemy was about to appear, and quickly flew over......

On the airborne radar, as it continues to move to the designated airspace, the radar interference becomes more intense, and the communication between the aircraft and the ground begins to become difficult, which makes the colonel commanding the F-15 group feel extremely annoyed, what kind of battle is this fighting? Without the coordination and transit of AWACS, it is a joke to participate in the battle solely with the assistance of constantly jammed ground communications. I really don't know what the hell is going on with those people on the road?

The airborne radar was put into manual mode, but even so, there was still no shadow of the enemy in the expanded search range, and although they coordinated with the ground to grasp the airspace range of the enemy's activities, it was obvious that they flew very high, exceeding the upper angle of their own radar.

The nearby F-15 group and two Rafale squadrons were again coordinated, and the colonel gave the order to all his subordinates to enter the airspace of Hargeisa.

The Hargeisa Air Force is simply vulnerable, at least in the eyes of the coalition forces, Fransk did not raise any objections to the bomber group that crossed the Hargeisa airspace and directly attacked the enemy's rear aircraft, the dexterous F-15 against those intruder fighters was no different from a vacation, and entering the Hargeisa airspace could obviously neutralize the advantage of the Somali army's AWACS aircraft.

But Fransk apparently overlooked the fact that Somalia had sent not a missile battalion to Hargeisa, but a brigade, a separate anti-aircraft missile brigade attached to the Air Force Command of the Red Guard. The brigade is composed of three regiments with a total of nine battalions, and the regional air defense capability is very strong.

When the fire control radar shone on the first F-15, the pilot apparently did not realize anything, and in his opinion, there was no weapon capable of hitting such heights, including anti-aircraft artillery, until the first V-1DK anti-aircraft missile dragged his long, slightly stout body behind him, and all the F-15s, including him, realized that they were ambushed at the same time.

A massacre began, and it was a ground-to-air massacre, and the air superiority fighters who came for air combat obviously had no way to take the anti-aircraft missile positions on the ground, and the only thing they could do was to constantly dodge.

On the ground, the command vehicles are evenly dispersed around the launch vehicle, and the launcher constantly repeats the fire control radar to identify the six to eight most favorable targets from dozens of targets, and transmit them to the launch vehicle at the fastest speed.

At the launch site, the launch barrel was raised high again, and from time to time, missiles broke through the barrel and shot into the sky......

The phantom group in the sky was completely in chaos at this time.

The performance of the V-1DK anti-aircraft missile was completely demonstrated in this anti-aircraft attack, and this kind of Patriot, which is called the Patriot of Somalia by foreign military experts, is obviously not exaggerated.

The airspace within a radius of 50 kilometers has become a graveyard for the coalition fleet, and in the sky, like a pre-Christmas turkey contest, the V-1DK with a long tail of flames happily chases the nimble F-15 around.

The "Boom ......" exploded, and countless prefabricated fragments divided the airspace into pieces of death zone, although it was only a few seconds, but as long as the unfortunate fighter crossed it, then the only result waiting for him was disintegration.

The Somali army staged an excellent surface-to-air ambush with great tactics, and all the soldiers from both sides were spectators.

The only thing that the commander of the Air Force of the Second Expeditionary Force, Fransk, had to do now was to get the F-15s and Rafale fighters who had not yet reached the air combat zone to return to the Ethiopian airfield immediately, and everything about the Somalis was too unexpected for him, and the ambush in Hargeisa was obviously not a battalion of missile units, but at least a brigade, or even a division.

And what annoyed him the most was that these things that he should have noticed before the start of the war, the Somali air defense forces had been fully proven at the beginning of the war, and 2,000 cruise missiles could not completely destroy the opponent's defensive fire network, and this kind of defensive strength was difficult to achieve even with the anti-missile devices of the United States.

But what makes Fransk wonder is when the Somalis sent air defense units into the vicinity of Hargeisa? Before the war, it was impossible, Hargeisa was too close to the border, and no activity could escape the eyes of the coalition forces, that is, during the war, but if this was really the case, then the only thing Fransk had to do was to remind all his colleagues to be wary of the Somali generals, if all this was his plan, then it was obvious that they were too clever.

The coalition air force finally retreated, looking at the radar screen, the signal of the coalition fighter that gradually disappeared from the edge, Lin Chengen secretly sighed, the performance of the Somali Air Force in the first battle was obviously not satisfactory, it is difficult to imagine what the battle would be like if there was no support from the ground forces, although the coalition forces were once strategically despised, but their air force can definitely be called sophisticated or elite, at least compared to the air force of other countries that have not participated in any actual combat.

This battle has taught the Somali Air Force a lot of things, its own aircraft, its own missiles, and hardware, there is no insurmountable generation gap with the enemy, but the corresponding software, technology and tactics, and other skills that want to cooperate with the new equipment are obviously not forged and mature. In the new modern war, other armies, whether enemies, friends, or defeated generals, are all standing in front of the same starting line, compared with them, the honor of the past does not become an advantage today, sometimes it is a burden.

Dempsey knew all this at the first moment of the air battle, and it seemed that the Somalis had finally put away their stinginess at such a critical moment, and opened the door for a period of convenient communication between Fransk and the General Command, and the news he brought to the General Command and the other expeditionary force headquarters was the result of the battle for air supremacy.

The coalition air force, gathered such a powerful force, actually took the first step, shamefully lost, every year the military spending occupies more than half of the expensive elite service, but in the end ended up like this, everyone seems to forget a point, no matter how powerful the air force, how advanced, but the final decision is always the army, even if only the military expenditure originally allocated to the air force to the army to buy artillery, Dempsey believes that the current situation will definitely not be so grim. (To be continued......)