Chapter 1148: B-2 Sorties
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On April 4, 2002, with the exception of sporadic gunfire, the large-scale fighting had gradually subsided, and Iraq adopted the same approach in this street fighting as last time, calling for warplanes to drop precision-guided bombs wherever there was resistance, and completely turning it into ruins. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info【High Quality Update. 】
Having cleared the enemy, they moved on.
This is completely different from the wars of the past, when Iraq and Iran suffered tens of thousands of casualties in the street fighting in Khorramshahr, causing Iraq to besiege Abadan but not dare to launch a terrible street fight.
And now, where there is resistance, it will be flattened!
In the first place, this could not be done, because in the street fighting, the enemy and the enemy were mixed, and the planes in the sky could not throw ammunition accurately at all, and it was easy to throw them on their own brothers.
Now it's different, they just need to send the direction of the target to the fighter.
However, despite the occupation of the whole of Israel, the war is not over, it is just beginning.
Because, behind Israel, is the United States.
Iraq is moving too quickly, and it will take time for the United States to build up troops, but militarily, politically, and economically, the United States has already attacked in all aspects.
The United States has announced that it has frozen all the funds of the Arab countries in the United States, and this countermeasure will cause the Arab countries to lose tens of billions of dollars.
However, when they made this choice, they had already expected this outcome, so they immediately threw out their own countermeasures.
Now they are fighting this just war, which has suffered serious interference from foreign forces, and the affairs of the Middle Easterners, the Middle Easterners themselves solve them!
As a once friendly country, it is now making such a move to hurt the Arabs. It was unacceptable to them, and they decided to sell off their dollar reserves and US Treasury bonds, and at the same time, on the international market, to start buying euros!
In other words, they are going to replace the dollar with the euro!
As soon as this news was released, the countries of the eurozone were jubilant.
There are large numbers of Jews in the United States, and they are already powerful to the point of being somewhat perverted. It can even influence the president's decision-making. However, for Europe, the influence of the Jews was not so great.
If the euro is able to replace the dollar. Become the world's circulating currency, then, the complete revival of Europe, is definitely not a dream!
Arab countries increased their holdings of the euro in place of the dollar, which is for them. It's just good news.
The United States will never allow any country to challenge the hegemony of the dollar, even Europe, which is sparing no effort to hit the economy of the eurozone, and the economic battle between the two sides is also very fierce.
Europeans, too, have their dreams. Who doesn't want to be the world's most important power? Why should Europe unite? Isn't it necessary to unite to have enough power to change the dominant role of the United States?
Then came another piece of good news. OPEC decided that from now on, it will no longer use the dollar to settle oil, and will use the euro and the Argentine dollar exclusively.
As soon as this news came out, it was tantamount to a bolt from the blue. The United States does not have a fiscal deficit now. However, the economy of the United States is strong. It is laid on the hegemony of the dollar, and now the United States has printed how many more dollars? If the dollar does not have a hegemonic status, then all countries use their own currencies to exchange goods with the Americans, then, it will not be long before the dollar becomes a waste paper that is too hard to wipe its ass.
If OPEC did not know what currency to use, now that the euro is fully enabled, it is not surprising that the use of the euro will be welcomed by the countries of the eurozone. Although their ultimate goal is to use the Argentine dollar to settle the settlement, at this time, co-opting the eurozone countries is equivalent to cutting off two arms of the Americans.
What is the most important thing about a country's foreign policy? It's definitely not about claiming justice, it's about protecting your country's economy!
Only economic development is the last word. And this time, the Arab countries are in earnest.
This is already different from when the Americans responded to the bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Secretary of State Colin Powell personally went to Europe to lobby, but except for Britain, which made it clear that it would send troops with the United States, the attitude of the rest of the countries was very ambiguous.
Germany has symbolically decided to contribute 1 million euros to provide some military support to the United States. What is this million euros enough for? It's just enough for a Tomahawk missile.
Contacting Europe is not smooth, and in the United Nations, such a clear thing cannot be passed?
The last time the United States bombed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the United States did not have the authorization of the United Nations, but they still went their own way, and the United States is now pursuing unilateralism, and if the United Nations agrees, then it will be easy to do things with the signboard of the United Nations, and if the United Nations does not agree, what should they do?
However, the treatment they received at the United Nations this time still made them feel the urge to eat. Most of the countries of the third world voted against it, so why should they do anything about the Middle East? That's their own business.
It was supposed to be an invasion, but as a result, it was said to be the Middle East's own business? If the UN can't even do that, what can they do?
And at the Security Council, China once again disappointed the United States to vote against it. vetoed the decision of the United States to propose the use of force against the Arabs.
What is China trying to do? With this negative vote, then, the United States cannot be authorized in the UN Security Council.
However, the Americans will not admit defeat like this, even if they do it alone, they can complete this combat mission!
They airlifted several ace units, including the 101st Air Assault Division, to Turkey, which was already the closest base they could find since there were no bases in the Middle East.
On April 12, the aircraft carrier formation finally drove to the predetermined position.
Since the Arabs are disobedient, use their fists to let them know who is the real boss!
With the abundant US treasury and the full approval of Congress, this is the time for Bush Jr. to make a big move.
In these years, the progress of the United States military has also been very fast, especially against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, only using air strikes, this kind of non-contact strike, making them bow their heads and admit their mistakes, and the United States uses the air force to beat the Arabs to admit defeat!
Whiteman Air Force Base, Johnson County, Missouri, USA.
Brigadier General Thomas Gosling, commander of the 509th Bomber Wing, was in good spirits, and today, for the first time since the establishment of his Bomber Wing, was fully dispatched to carry out an important military operation.
They are armed with all strategic bombers.
The bomber moves very slowly, so when the enemy's air defense system is perfect, it is already an act of seeking death, and only under absolute air superiority can the bomber use a large number of bombs carried by itself to carry out sufficient attacks, and when the United States bombed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, it still used the B-52, and the amount of bombs it carried at one time was equivalent to more than ten times that of ordinary fighters.
The bombers equipped by the 509th Wing are not the old and strong B-52 bombers, they use the latest B-2 bombers.
B-2 bomber, is a degree of secrecy much higher than F117 aircraft, both are sharp weapons to tear apart the opponent's air defense system, however, the difference is that F117 can only mount two laser-guided bombs, throw it away, so, F117 can only be called an attack aircraft, and B-2, can carry 16 joint attack ammunition at a time, in this way, it can completely carry out saturation attacks, it can drop all these sixteen ammunition at a time, attack 16 targets.
For the US side, if non-stealth combat aircraft are used to carry out the mission completed by two B-2 bombers, 32 F-16 fighters, 16 F-15s to escort them, and several EF-1C-135 tankers to suppress the opponent's air defense system are needed.
Therefore, the B-2 is already their weapon system with a high efficiency ratio, because of the excellent stealth performance of the B-2, they can go it alone, and they don't need to accompany those nannies, if it is not too expensive, the Americans really want to equip a large number of them, but unfortunately, together with the development cost of 2.2 billion US dollars of a fighter, and 132 hours of maintenance per flight hour, they have to take into account the dollars in their pockets.
In the end, the B-2 was armed with only 21 aircraft, and now, almost all of them are in sorties.
From the thermostatic hangar, one ghost after another was slowly pulled out, and the maintenance personnel were very careful, the skin of the B-2 was very delicate and must not be touched.
This kind of aircraft, from the outside, simply does not look like a guy who can fly, the wing-body fusion, can not distinguish where is the fuselage, where is the wing, and the tail does not have a vertical tail, this is a flying wing configuration, the leading edge of the wing is connected to the nose, and the trailing edge of the wing is zigzag. The vents of the engines were placed above the wings.
Pilots are relaxed, for them, flying this kind of fighter to fight, there is no difference from going out on a trip.
For such a large aircraft, the B-52 needs five crew members, the B1-B needs four, and the B-2 only needs two, and most of the tasks are already shared by electronics.
"Our mission this time is to punish the Arabs, who have destroyed the peace in the Middle East, who have occupied the entire area of Israel, where Qusay is the dictatorial ruler, and we are going to overthrow his rule! Bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East! Thomas said to the assembled pilots on the runway before takeoff.
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