Chapter 656: The Maverick Dispatches

The two sides met suddenly, this tank force, after taking Gevash, originally wanted to sneak attack Tatwan, but did not expect that the two sides would meet on this rugged mountain road!

In fact, if the Turkish army is a little more resolute, it can be found that the Kurds they want to deal with are just a group of novice hands, and their operation is quite unskilled, and the combat effectiveness of the tanks cannot be brought into full play. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

For example, they only need to set up barricades, and a little simpler, set several cars side by side and set them on fire, and they will be able to stop the Kurds from advancing! Although they used the tank as a bumper car, they would never dare to hit a car that was on fire. As long as the roads here are blocked, the mountain roads are rough, and the Kurds will definitely not find a second way to go!

As long as the Kurds are blocked here, and follow-up reinforcements arrive, the Kurds can be completely wiped out!

It's a pity that they were frightened, and after being knocked off the cliff by a Kurdish tank, the Turks behind lost the courage to resist, they only cared about their own escape, collapsed, and were brutally cleaned up by the Kurdish tank troops!

The Kurds didn't all push the cars off the cliff, since the Turks in the cars fled, then these cars are their property! The tank units are just the forwards, and there are infantry behind! The Kurds are very poor, the infantry is on two legs, it would be nice to have a motorcycle, and now, having got these cars for nothing, of course, have to be used!

The rear team changed to the front team, and the Kurdish infantry, passing through their tank units, climbed into the car, and the mountain road was too narrow to let the tank troops pass first, so the infantry driving the car went ahead.

All the way, the mighty army, along the mountain road to Tatwan!

An infantry brigade was routed by the Kurds! Heavy casualties! The Kurds actually have tanks! This amazing news soon reached Ankara in the rear.

The Kurds must not be allowed to take Tatwan! Compared to Van City, Tatwan has a larger population! If the Kurds unrest there, it will most likely make the situation even more erosive! There will be more Kurds responding!

Efron also held a meeting and coordinated with the heads of state at NATO headquarters, and the chief of the general staff of the three armed services sitting in Ankara, knowing that the stakes was high, immediately mobilized more troops and went to Tatwan!

At the same time, the air force units also quickly dispatched, and the bombing formation of four F-4 fighters quickly flew in the direction of Van Lake.

The army unit is a bunch of idiots, and they can't even beat a bunch of mountain Turks! Turan, the pilot of the long plane flying at high altitude, couldn't help but be full of contempt.

Now, under the orders of the superiors, the air force has to support the troops in the fight, and the confrontation with the Soviets on the border line is very tense, and the air force is on the lookout for when the Soviets and the Iranians will suddenly launch a large-scale attack. Therefore, every fighter is an air-to-air mount, and Sparrow missiles and Sidewinder missiles are ready to strike at the enemy at any time.

And now? They were supposed to be eagles in the sky, but they were going to attack the ground! Each fighter has AGM-65 "Maverick" air-to-surface missiles mounted on its pylons, and only two Sidewinders for self-defense on the wingtips, they need to find the Kurdish tank troops and launch an attack!

This is a difficult task to accomplish because the terrain here is quite difficult, the mountains are high below, and the jet fighters are very fast, in this case, it is not easy to detect it visually when you fly by.

At the same time, the AN/APQ-120 fire control radar is an early model of radar, which does not have a synthetic aperture mode at all, nor a pulse-Doppler mode, and cannot filter ground clutter, so this kind of radar cannot be used at all for this kind of attack mission.

Fortunately, although the carrier aircraft is lagging behind, the Maverick air-to-ground missile carried is not backward, it is a good hand at striking armored targets!

In this Cold War period, the tank forces of the Soviets will advance at any time, drowning the West in a sea of steel, and the West's choice is to use quality to overcome quantitative superiority, and it is very necessary to launch a ground attack missile with a fighter, and the Maverick missile was developed in this situation, as a small tactical missile, it can be mounted on an F-4 fighter to attack six ground targets, and the tank is one of the important targets.

Turkey is the first line of NATO's confrontation with the Soviet Union, and all kinds of advanced weapons will be equipped to Turkey on a priority basis, and the same is true for this Maverick missile!

There is no need to use backward radars, Maverick missiles can be television-guided, infrared imaging guidance and semi-active laser guidance, and now, Turan's fighters are equipped with TV-guided Maverick missiles.

The on-board AN/ASX-1 optical/electrical target recognition system is already working, displaying the scanned images to the IP-1094/APQ-120E display in front of the radar operator in the back seat of the F-4 and synced to the IP-1093/APQ-120E display in front.

In order to observe the target more clearly, the F-4 fleet flew towards the target at high altitude, and when it saw the wide Van Lake, it reduced its altitude and speed so that the target could be better spotted.

The weather was clear, the picture from the TV cameras was quite clear, and the radar operator in the aft cabin was constantly adjusting his C-8909/APQ-120E display controls to make the target clearer.

There were mountains in front, then valleys, and just as they flashed, the shadow of a convoy appeared below!

"Target found!" The radar operator in the aft compartment shouted: "Right in the valley we just flew." ”

"Target spotted, go-around, ready to attack!" Turan shouted over the radio, ordering his formation to prepare to attack.

Two turns, flying through the valley on one side, at this time, a huge convoy appeared on the monitor, the radar operator in the rear cabin, carefully adjusted the controls, and finally, the convoy below saw clearly, sure enough, it was a tank!

"Target, Soviet-made tanks, attack immediately." The radar operator in the rear cabin said, while using the aiming device to turn into a continuous tracking state, in four seconds, the target was intercepted, the control stick moved a few times, the target was in the center of the aiming reticle, and quickly selected a Maverick missile, the gyroscope unlocked, and the hood was thrown off, and the camera of the Maverick missile transmitted the image to the display in the cockpit of the aircraft, which coincided with the target indicated by the AN/ASX-1 optical/electrical target recognition system, and then, with the sound of fire, under the wing, the fire flashed. (To be continued.) )