Khamis-Mushay Air Base, southwestern Saudi Arabia. At an altitude www.biquge.info of 2,073 meters, 1,202 kilometers from the Saudi border and 1,665 kilometers from Baghdad, it can be said that it is the rear of Saudi Arabia.

It was already dark, and in the constant temperature hangar, the warplanes that had been maintained slowly slid out of the hangar.

This plane, the shape is extremely special, and the sleek shape of the previous aircraft is completely different, there are edges and corners, and the entire fuselage can be said to be composed of countless polyhedral shapes, and you can see the sawtooth structure at the seams, as well as the black color of the whole body.

No one can call out what kind of plane this is, and if the engineers of the Sukhoi Design Bureau were here, they would have been surprised, isn't this a model of a stealth aircraft that General Andrei once pinched?

Yes, it's a stealth plane! Now, in this air base, it is the unit of the stealth aircraft F-117A put into service by the United States, the 37th Tactical Fighter Wing! Although until now, this wing has only been in service with five fighters, and they are about to go into battle!

F-117, when later generations decrypted it, countless military fans were surprised by its appearance design, which is simply science fiction, making people can't imagine that this thing can be an airplane!

With the continuous tightening of the air defense system, how to penetrate the enemy's air defense system to attack, this is a difficult problem to solve, the emergence of radar makes high-altitude bombing more and more difficult, so more aircraft began to try ultra-low-altitude penetration, and early warning aircraft make ultra-low-altitude penetration nowhere to hide, all the key, is radar!

As long as you don't get caught by the radar, you can hide your whereabouts! The pursuit of stealth in front of the radar aircraft, is the United States Air Force has been committed to the choice, the former SR71, the black skin, was considered to be a stealth coating, but unfortunately this huge aircraft in flight movement, doomed it can not become a real stealth aircraft.

The first stealth aircraft that can really be put into service is the F-117! This kind of plane came from Lockheed's Skunk Works, and the original source turned out to be their sworn enemy, the Soviet Union!

Advanced science and technology are inseparable from mathematical calculations, and the atomic bomb can explode, and there is also a mathematical model, and how to solve the mathematical model of radar reflection is the key to the development of stealth aircraft! In 64, Pyotr Ufimsev, chief scientist of the Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering, published an academic paper entitled "Modes of Diffraction of Marginal Electromagnetic Waves in Physical Theory". Based on Maxwell's equations, modified by the German electromagnetist Somerfeld, he derived a set of equations that can be used to estimate the scattering of electromagnetic waves at the edges of a given geometry. In his dissertation, he demonstrated how to calculate the radar scattering cross section for a given shape of an arbitrary two-dimensional object, including the lines of the face and edge of the object; At the same time, it is explained how to use a computer program to parse this set of equations.

Because of this thesis, he was called the father of stealth technology, which is extremely ironic, because his thesis did not attract any attention in the Soviet Union. For a very simple reason, he can only make a radar reflection cross section of a two-dimensional object, but the plane is three-dimensional! As a result, his paper was considered of no practical value and was published as a theoretical article.

After the Americans found out, they made a change, and they just looked at the plane as a two-dimensional plane! Although the shape of the aircraft created by this scheme is peculiar, the radar reflection cross section is incomparably small! When the prototype of the Highflex was built, the unique shape of this aircraft attracted protests, a good-looking aircraft is a good aircraft, this aircraft is too ugly!

Due to the computer's computing capabilities, they were unable to shrink these planes, and despite the strange shape, its performance goals were met!

During the tests of the prototype, such an aircraft could not be detected by any ground-based radars, only the E-3 AWACS aircraft was able to detect at close range! They finally managed a fighter that was stealthy in front of radar! At this time, it was already 76 years, and the results of the experiment made the US Air Force very happy, this plane with such a unique appearance can really fly! And it can be invisible!

In '77, before the prototype had completed its test flight, the U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed a contract to build 20 F-117A stealth fighters, and then worked out the relevant contract details for the first five YF-117A in mid-1978.

Historically, the F-117A was delivered in production only in 82, and now, under pressure from the Soviet Union, the progress of this aircraft has also been greatly advanced. Historically, it has been delayed for 11 months simply because of the rotation of Democrats and Republicans.

And now, the Soviet Union's offensive posture is aggressive, the United States may face a head-on war with the Soviet Union at any time, World War III may also break out because of the expansion of the Soviet Union, the production of F-117A is proceeding at a rapid pace, even because of the reduction of military spending after Reagan took office, the funding of the F-117A project has been maintained!

Last year, the production version of the F-117A began to be delivered, and this year, the first batch of five F-117A deliveries completed all the training! Initial combat capability!

However, the deployment of this state-of-the-art aircraft to Saudi Arabia caused some controversy on the part of the United States, and it was not until the day before yesterday that Defense Secretary Weinberg finally persuaded the president.

Now Iraq is all equipped with Soviet equipment, not to mention those S-200 missiles, just SAM-11 missiles, which is enough for their own work! Moreover, in order to save lives, the tight air defense system of Iraq's Baghdad can even be compared with Moscow! So, the daytime fighting, there was no bombing of Baghdad at all. Flying a conventional combat aircraft into Baghdad is tantamount to suicide.

But now, if you want to win the war against Iraq, you must blow up Baghdad's command and control center, as well as its communication network, and only by paralyzing Baghdad's air defense system and making it impossible for Baghdad to command the outside army, can they be left leaderless!

Iraq's chain of command, still a typical tree-like structure, blew up the top node, and the bottom was a cloud of loose sand.

And only the F-117A can complete this task!

The United States has no choice but to win this war! The consequences of defeat are unacceptable to the United States!

Sitting in the cockpit, the radio was already on, and Wheatley, the commander of the 37th Tactical Fighter Wing, heard the muttering of his subordinates: "God, I swear, may this stealth guy work." (To be continued.) )