The fierce fighting in the sky could not be seen on the ground, and the observers of the exercise sent by various countries only felt the tension in the sky from the reports they received continuously. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

William Taft, the U.S. deputy secretary of defense, was dissatisfied with Iraq's behavior, but he had some admiration for the performance of the Iraqi Air Force in this aerial confrontation. Tactically bold and skillful, this is an air force that is gradually getting stronger!

Observers from other countries, especially the air force personnel sent in, also opened their eyes to this air battle between the two sides.

In particular, the big countries in the East have been practicing the strategy of territorial air defense for a long time, using interceptors to intercept the opponent's planes, focusing only on high altitudes and high speeds, and for air battles outside the visual range and for fighting with excellent performance, they are all blank, especially early warning aircraft, they can be regarded as eye-opening.

After the completion of the air confrontation, the second phase of the exercise began: an air-to-ground attack and a surprise attack by ground forces.

The air attack was carried out mainly by the F-20 group of the Iraqi Air Force and the A-4 attack aircraft of the Kuwaiti Air Force during the exercise.

At this time, Prince Sultan, the person in charge of planning and directing the exercise, suddenly announced that he had changed the plan of the exercise, and the target was set in the Gellandbelt area in Jordan!

As soon as Prince Sultan finished speaking, all the military attachés who were observing the exercise changed their faces.

This is not just a matter of expanding the territory of the exercise to Jordan, which is the area next to Jordan and Israel, so what do the Arabs want to do this time?

"Your Excellency, how can you change the exercise area without permission? This will lead to confusion among the participating troops! The Deputy Secretary of Defense from the United States said first.

"On the battlefield, there is no plan, we just change the target now to test their ability to improvise. I hope that our troops can come up with their actual level and complete the tasks given by the command, and I believe in our Arab army! Prince Sultan said calmly.

"Your Excellency, I mean, this will lead to friction with Israel, lead to the aggravation of the situation in the Middle East, and it is very inappropriate for the stability of this region, and I hope you will cancel this exercise." William's attitude began to be a little tougher.

"We are maneuvering on our own soil, how can there be friction with Israel? How can it lead to the aggravation of the situation here? We have done nothing to hinder Israel! We're in the exercise right now! Of course, if we find out that some other country's planes have invaded our airspace, we will shoot them down without mercy! "Prince Sultan has never spoken to the Deputy Secretary of Defense of the United States in such a tone, and he is very happy to push William back so coldly!

Observers from other countries began to turn a little pale, and they were already asking in their hearts, this time, is the Arab countries really determined to start a war with Israel? Is it because of Israel's nuclear program? Remembering the navy of the Soviets who are now in the Mediterranean, could it be that all these Arab countries were connected with the USSR? This time it was a joint operation of theirs.

More sad people think, it can't be the fuse of the Third World War, right? The Arabs took the initiative to attack Israel, the Soviet Union mixed in again, and the Americans are also arriving, the world is going to be in chaos!

There was the roar of airplanes overhead, they picked up the binoculars in their hands and looked at the sky, it was an Iraqi F-20 fighter plane that took off from an air base near Saudi Arabia, under the wings, each with a bomb, although it looked very similar to an ordinary low-drag aerial bomb from the outside, but they knew that it was a gemway laser-guided bomb, and the attack accuracy was an order of magnitude higher.

"Our air force is about to be dispatched, and what you see now are the F-20 fighters of the Iraqi Air Force and the A-4 attack planes of the Kuwaiti Air Force, and they will first attack the intended targets, hoping that they can reach the airspace over the new exercise area on time and complete the task of precision bombing at the same time." Said the person in charge of explaining to the observers.

William's face turned pale, their new target, far away from here, couldn't be seen at all, who knew where they were going to bomb? Whether it crossed Israel's borders or whether it flew to Dimona in a lost flight, who can guarantee that?

"Report," at this time, William's secretary in charge of domestic liaison came over and whispered to him: "Just an hour ago, Soviet naval aviation took off four Tu-22M bombers. is passing through the Black Sea, preparing to enter the skies over the Mediterranean. ”

Tu-22M, the supersonic bomber of the USSR!

The Tu-22M is a variable-sweep wing supersonic bomber developed by the Soviet Tupolev Design Bureau, codenamed "Backfire" by NATO.

Although the name of the Tu-22 is also hung, as if it was an improvement from the Tu-22, in fact, it is completely different from the Tu-22.

Tu-22, also equipped in Iraq, this aircraft as the first supersonic bomber of the Soviet Union, the performance is not very reliable, the range is not satisfactory, although theoretically it can carry out supersonic penetration, but after the aircraft is filled with fuel and missiles, it is simply unable to fly at supersonic speed, even if it reaches Mach 1.5 when it reaches the vicinity of the target, it cannot effectively evade the interception of NATO fighters and anti-aircraft missiles.

So, the USSR carried out the development of a new bomber program, and after a contest between the two design bureaus of Tupolev and Sukhoi, the current version finally appeared.

The most distinctive feature of the Tu-22M is undoubtedly the variable-swept wing design similar to that of the F-111. The sweep angle of the outer section of the low wing can vary from 20 to 55 degrees, and there is a long ridge in front of the vertical tail. Two HK-25 turbofan engines are used, and the afterburner thrust of a single unit is 245.15 kN, which is greater than the thrust-to-weight ratio of the F-111. 12 tons of conventional bombs can be hung in the belly bomb bay or one AS-4 "Galley" air-to-surface missile, or two AS-4 or AS-6 "Kingfish" air-to-surface missiles can be hung under the wings.

The Tu-22M "Backfire" has only the same nose landing gear and bomb bay doors as the Tu-22 "Eye Shield", and the rest, all of which are completely new.

The Tu-22M is hugely powerful, and can carry out both strategic nuclear bombing and tactical bombing, especially carrying high-power anti-ship missiles, long-distance and rapid attacks, attacking US aircraft carrier formations, and its ability to penetrate defense at low-altitude supersonic speed has always been a nightmare for NATO! AS-4 anti-ship missiles, and even a nuclear warhead!

Now, this kind of plane, flying into the Mediterranean, what are they coming for?

"Our Turkish air base has urgently taken off four F-15 fighters to prepare for tracking, however, now the situation of the two sides is unknown."

William's face is very bad, this series of emergencies is definitely not accidental! (To be continued.) )