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"The French refused us the use of their airspace. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info{{}}/"In the White House, the senior American leaders who were in a meeting heard this depressing news.

The last attack was just a test attack, and they not only succeeded in testing the serious loopholes in the Libyan air defense system, the aging of the fighters, the lack of modern fighters, the weak air defense missile system, the lack of electronic countermeasures capabilities, the uneven distribution of radars everywhere, and the inability to effectively protect the long coastline of Libya, but more importantly, they tested the attitude of the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union had no other reaction to this incident except to protest, which made the self-confidence of the top level of the United States extremely inflated, and the Soviet Union was no longer the powerful country it once was, and they have not completely solved the problem of nuclear reactor leakage until now.

Therefore, the most important attack plan in the entire Grassland Tempest operation has finally begun to be intensively planned.

Physiologically, completely eliminate Gaddafi!

The attack focused on two large Libyan cities, Tripoli and Benghazi. These two cities are both famous big cities in Libya.

Among them, there are three targets in Tripoli, the Aziziye barracks, which is Gaddafi's headquarters and Gaddafi's residence; Sidi Bilal Port Barracks, a training center for Libyan commandos and Gaddafi's most loyal unit; The military area of Tripoli airport, where nine Il-76 transport planes are parked, is the main strategic transport force in Libya.

And in Benghazi, there are two main ones. the Jamahiriya barracks, which served as Gaddafi's backup command post; The Benina military airport, the main military airport in Libya, is home to a large number of MiG-23 and MiG-25 aircraft.

There would have been two other targets: Abinidal's office in Libya, since Abinidal is also a terrorist state they identify, and the Libyan Intelligence Service headquarters building, however. These two places are too close to residential areas, so they are not completely sure.

Five important objectives. If the navy is completely used to strike, it is still not enough, at most it is a dragonfly in the water. Therefore, after intensive planning, they decided that the main force of this attack would be to use the most powerful F111 bombers in the Air Force to complete it. (.)

The F111 is the world's first variable-swept wing fighter, which was the mainstream design style at the beginning, but this fashionable technology did not bring more advantages, on the contrary. The resulting structure is overweight, which is a headache for designers.

At the beginning of its development, the F-111 was designed to be a general-purpose fighter that could meet both the tactical ground attack of the Air Force and the air defense and escort requirements of the naval fleet. This simply did not play the role of a fighter, it turned into a pure bomber, the Navy withdrew from R&D, fully equipped with the Air Force, after that, this fighter. It was used as a high-powered bomber, except for the M61 6-barreled cannon, which was hardly used, with a fuselage bomb bay of 5 meters and a bomb weighing 1,360 kilograms; There are a total of 8 external mounts under the wings, which can carry up to 50 bombs of 340 kg or 26 bombs of 454 kg at a sweep angle of 26 degrees, and its bomb load can reach a staggering 37 tons!

Compared with the Navy's A-6 attack aircraft, which can only carry 13 454-kilogram aerial bombs and 20 340-kilogram aerial bombs at a time, the F-111's bombing capacity is more than twice that of the A-6. Therefore, after careful consideration, the military finally decided: use the F-111F fighter-bombers of the United States at the United Kingdom's Lakenheath Air Force Base as the main bombing force, and the Navy's A-6 attack aircraft as the auxiliary attack force, and completely bomb these targets to the ground with one strike!

The 24 F111 bombers there are ready, however, another problem has not been solved, that is, the route.

American fighters departed from Britain and needed to go south through Europe to reach North Africa, and the most suitable option was to go south directly from France via France, a distance of only 2,200 kilometers, but the Gauls did not agree to the American request.

When the United States launched its first air strike on Libya, Western countries reacted differently, some believed that the United States was fighting terrorism, others believed that the United States was violating a sovereign country, and in international affairs, France was often in opposition to the United States, and this time was no exception.

Of course, the deeper reason, Reagan also knows, that is, France is also an important oil exporter of Libya, France needs Libyan oil to meet its own domestic needs, if France agrees to the United States to use their airspace to attack Libya, with Gaddafi's personal xing, it will definitely terminate oil exports to France, in this case, where will the vacancy of French oil imports be filled?

Therefore, France did not open its airspace to the United States, which was also expected by them. {{

"So, what about Spain?" Bush asked.

France is not open, and if you use Spanish airspace, although it will go farther, however, it will not be too far.

"Spain also rejected our request."

Hearing this, everyone present frowned a little, in this case, they would have to make a detour through the Strait of Broda and fly from the western Mediterranean to Libya, which would reach 5,188 kilometers each way, and the plane would need to refuel in the air four times before it could reach the target.

This is probably the most arduous mission carried out by the F-111 since it became an army, and it takes more than ten hours to go back and forth, not to mention the bombing operation, even if it flies for so long, it will be a test of the pilot's endurance. {{}}

"I believe that our Air Force will be able to carry out this battle plan well." Weinberg said, "How about a detour?" What about multiple in-flight refueling? None of them compare to their determination to destroy Gaddafi!

Just when the United States was intensively planning a new and fierce attack, the Bedouins in the desert also began to make their own arrangements.

No one noticed that a military transport plane, taking off from the base in Basra in Iraq, secretly flew to Sudan, and then, from the Soviet Union, they entered Libya by car, and in Libya they took a helicopter and after several twists and turns, they came to Tripoli.

The African sky is exceptionally blue, free from any air pollution, and in the southern suburbs of Tripoli, the capital of Libya, lies a city-like building that is the Aziziye Barracks.

It was dotted with high walls and fortified bunkers, and each outpost was guarded by commandos and plainclothes men wearing black berets. In Zhengzhongyāng, there is Gaddafi's official residence, which covers an area of about 4 hectares and is surrounded by watchtowers and concrete fortifications. Inside, in a vacant lot, a rudimentary Bedouin tent was erected, which is where Gaddafi often lived and worked.

"Crunch!" The car stopped, and a group of people got out of it, technicians from Iraq, and the leader was one of President Qusay's right-hand men, Marwan.

Seeing these people coming down, the tall and straight figure, dressed in an Arab robe and an Arab hat, with a smile on his lips, said Gaddafi: "Welcome to the support of my closest Arab brothers!" ”

"Colonel, we are running out of time, we must speed up the arrangement, and, moreover, our technicians, we need to quickly modify the anti-aircraft missiles equipped with your side." "From now on, your air force and air defense forces need to be in combat readiness, and they need to be trained to deal with an attack by an American anti-spoke missile," Marwan said. ”

Hearing that Marwan had come down, he did not talk about it, but urged him to immediately enter the fighting state, and Gaddafi was very happy and said: "So, what do you need?" We can provide them all. ”

At this time, Gaddafi was very sincere, but the words he heard later made him hesitate.

"Power, I need power." "We need full command of your air force and air defense forces, and we can't believe the quality of your command staff," Marwan said. ”

If they come, they will want power, and what they want is the command of the air force and air defense forces, so in this case, if the other side has any plans, as long as they mobilize fighters and bomb them, he Gaddafi's life will be explained here.

It was that he completely fell to the Soviet Union, and even in Libya, he hired a huge Soviet military adviser, and the other party did not ask for full power.

Therefore, Gaddafi hesitated, although he usually seems to be a little out of tune, always making all kinds of very low-level mistakes, whether it is diplomacy or handling government affairs, but he has always attached great importance to military power, although his military rank is colonel, but even if he is a general, he has full authority to obey his command.

Gaddafi's obvious pause let Marwan know that this kind of request is indeed very difficult for the other party to accept. However, if you want to command the backward Libyan air force and air defense forces and complete this mission, then you must do so.

This time, in addition to the technical personnel, some of them were transferred from the Iraqi air force and air defense forces, and their mission this time was relatively dangerous, and they were absolutely not allowed to be messed up by the Libyans. Of course, another purpose is to deepen military exchanges between the two sides.

Looking at the white clouds in the sky, Gaddafi said, "I need to know all your plans. ”

"No problem at all." Marwan said. If this request does not meet the other party, then they are too domineering. rq