Chapter 396: The Aerial Bombardment Begins
March 6, 1983.
The weather was very good on this day, the sky was clear and cloudless, and the sea breeze blowing from the Persian Gulf caressed the land of Iraq.
The air bases in the north are extremely busy, and today they are going to conduct a large-scale military operation to bomb the bases of the Kurdish partisans entrenched in the north!
As for the Kurdish armed forces, every Iraqi soldier already knows that they are vainly trying to divide Iraq and want to establish a country, and they must ruthlessly attack this separatist force, and moreover, they dare to slander and arrest their own president, and rumors are spreading, which will plunge the country into turmoil, which is absolutely unforgivable!
The Kurdish guerrillas seem to be burned by wildfire, and the last time they carried out an encirclement and suppression, they were again everywhere like weeds.
In several northern provinces, Kurdish guerrillas are active again, they are attacking everywhere, communication lines, political axe army camps, are often harassed, for such actions, President Saddam Hussein resolutely retaliated!
In addition to the two main military bases in Kirkuk and Mosul, located in the Northern Province, even the more distant H-3 airbase, and even the Basra airbase in the Southern Military District, aircraft were dispatched.
In total, twelve flying squadrons were dispatched, including four MiG-23 squadrons, four Mirage F1 squadrons, two Su-20 squadrons, one F-20 squadron and one MiG-25 squadron.
All the planes are loads for ground attack, and the Kurdish partisans do not have planes and do not have to worry about them in an air battle with the political axe air force.
And the only thing that needs to be guarded against is the portable anti-aircraft missiles that the Kurds may use, this kind of thing, Iranians are very numerous, Iranians have it, and the Kurds will definitely have it.
Therefore, in key areas, F-20 squadrons and Mirage F1 squadrons will be deployed to use laser-guided bombs for precision bombing, and at the same time, the danger can also be reduced.
And the failure to use backward bombers is also based on this idea.
Air Force Commander Abid was very happy, he knew that the Air Force of the Southern Military Region was very important, and under Qusay's men, the Air Force of the Northern Military Region would definitely become stronger.
This air raid is a gift to His Excellency Qusay, so be fully prepared!
The first to take off were F-20 fighters and Mirage F1s from the airbase of the Southern Military District, one squadron each, with two laser-guided bombs mounted under each wing, led by Arslan and Fibil, respectively, whose mission was to bomb the positions where the leaders of the Kurdish armed forces might be located.
After the baptism of war, under the attention of His Excellency Qusay, the air force of the Southern Military District has grown into a powerful air force!
Fifteen minutes after the Air Force of the Southern Military Region took off, fighters from other bases also began to take off in formation.
Directing such a large-scale air operation required very careful planning, and the Air Force Command was suddenly very busy.
Qusay personally came to the command of the Air Force and watched them begin to coordinate the route of the fighters, the time of the attack, all using voice communication, and the scene was a little chaotic.
For the Iraqi Air Force to become finally strong, airborne AWACS aircraft are indispensable. With an airborne AWACS aircraft, with a datalink, it is easy to conduct tactical command at this level.
However, looking at the whole world, the Americans are the most technologically advanced, but it is probably impossible to get early warning aircraft from the Americans. And the Soviet AWACS aircraft were not very advanced in the first place, and if their exports shrank again, it would be even more inappropriate.
Britain also has AWACS aircraft, which can only monitor the sea surface, and the terrain in the northern mountains cannot be used at all.
A strong national defense cannot be bought, it seems that it can only be developed by itself? However, the technical threshold for developing AWACS aircraft is too high.
Reyer's MiG-25 was the last to take off, and his squadron's task was to make a final assessment, and Iraq's most advanced reconnaissance aircraft was modified from the MiG-25.
Two MiG-25 reconnaissance types, two air superiority types, they also have another mission, which is to intercept the possible invasion of aircraft from other countries.
Because, the air defense radar on the border with Iraq detected that in the sky on the Turkish side in the north, a large aircraft circling appeared, which was an AWACS aircraft of the US Air Force.
The Americans are also curiously watching the massive sorties of the Iraqi Air Force, trying to estimate how great their combat effectiveness really is.
The other party was flying above his own airspace, and although he knew that the other party was snooping, there was no other way.
Amadiyah Hill Districts, Dohuk Province.
"We should show all our armed forces, we should mobilize our people in the major cities, we will rise up against the political axe of Iraq, we will declare war on the political axe, we will send our forces, we will cause all kinds of bombings for them, and we will drive out all the Arabs in the north, this is our country!" said the leader of the Kurdish Patriotic Union.
What he meant was very obvious, anyway, now that the Kurds and the Iraqi political axe are on the same page, then simply pick out and declare war on the political axe, this is the Kurds' own country! Take over the provincial capitals of Mosul and Erbil and openly establish your own state!
Barzani of the Kurdish Minchu Party looked at the other party who was a little excited, but he was very disapproving. In the current situation, although his armed forces here have reached a certain level, they still can't compete with the political axe, hiding here, and they can still save their strength, but if they go out of the mountains and attack those big cities, it is purely looking for death, he thinks that by carrying out a few bombing attacks in those big cities, he can take the big cities over?
Iraq is there, but there are armored troops stationed there, can these people, with only the firepower in their hands, the most powerful is a few anti-tank missiles, be able to take down the big cities?
Did they encourage the Kurdish population to revolt en masse, and then massacre en massacre? You must know that Saddam Hussein has never been afraid of being infamous on his back, and besides, Saddam Hussein was arrested once and then released, will Saddam let them go?
It's difficult to protect yourself, and you're still thinking about how to take those cities, and the person in front of you is a little out of his mind, right?
And the leader of the UPC looked at Barzani, and although he was fanatical in his eyes, he did not lose his mind, and he knew that although there would be great difficulties in moving forward, if he only stood still like this, the consequences would be even more dangerous.
Instead of waiting to be eaten by the other party, it is better to take the initiative to attack! The power of the people is endless!
The leaders of the Patriotic Union have secretly sent some of their men into the big cities to carry out propaganda, demagoguery, and prepare for riots.
Unbeknownst to them, at this moment, on another hill a few kilometers away from where they had been negotiating, another group of people were watching.
They adjusted their gear and aimed it at the mountain in front of them.
It must have been an important base for the Kurdish guerrillas, as can be seen from the guards outside. Members of the Crescent special forces have fought many times with the Kurds, and they have a clear idea of their bases.
However, it is not easy to destroy the opponent's base, the opponent is condescending, with the help of the mountain, arranges several firepower points, and attacks hard, it will suffer great casualties, and it may not be effective.
It can only be at night, and a sneak attack may be successful.
But now, they don't need to fight in person, they just form multiple teams with the Sidewinder special forces to carry out a special mission: laser irradiation to indicate targets for fighters in the sky.
The Crescent Special Forces have a lot of experience in the mountains, and the Rattlesnake Special Forces are very skilled in the use of these equipment, so, combined, they formed a squad with each other to carry out this mission.
According to the bases that the intelligence agencies had identified first, they each found the location they needed to irradiate, confirmed it again, and it was completely correct, and they began to work on the target with a laser device.
This work is sometimes not easy to complete, limited by the power of laser irradiation, they can't be too far away, but if they are close, it is easy to be detected by the other party. Moreover, it is necessary to allow the laser to reflect into the sky and not be blocked by other mountain peaks.
This task can only be accomplished by the fighters of the Sidewinder special forces.
The fighters of the Crescent Special Forces looked at each other nervously debugging, and asked very curiously: "Is this thing really that godly?" ”
"Of course, see that cave? A moment, our Air Force, will drop bombs exactly into that cave. Abed said.
The fighters of the Crescent Special Forces shook their heads, impossible, how could that be! Even if you throw a stone from here, you can't just throw it right into the cave.
In fact, Abed's statement is indeed a bit exaggerated, the laser-guided bombs imported by Iraq do not have such high accuracy, but it is still possible.
The scheduled time had arrived, and Abed turned on the radio, ready to contact the fighters in the sky.
"Raven, crow, the target has completed the instructions, the target has completed the instructions." Abed shouted. The Raven was the code name for the pilot of an F-20, who was responsible for bombing this target.
The soldiers of the Crescent Special Forces looked at this attack process and were full of envy, they are all special forces, they are all Iraqi troops, why is there such a big difference? If his superiors had given him such a task, he would have had little better way than to fill it with human lives.
Call for the bombing of the Iraqi Air Force? That's fine, but you have to stay at least ten miles away from here, otherwise, a dozen bombs will come down, and the other party will still be unharmed, and you will be in danger of being blown up by mistake.
After a long time, I heard a reply from the radio, and the crow received it!