Chapter 956: On the eve of the bombing

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"Our combat mission will be the farthest flight we have ever hauled, and as for our specific operations, they have already been arranged, do you still have any questions?" Inside the Lackenheath Air Force Base, the base commander asked loudly to the athletes who were about to be dispatched. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info{{}}

At this time, the lights were first released, and the sky outside was already dark.

Seeing these determined young people, the commander was very satisfied, this is the solid backing of the powerful US Air Force that can be stationed all over the world, they have a firm and brave team!

"So, I'll give you one last mission." The commander said.

Temporary out of the last task? The pilots felt a little strange, and they all stood upright and listened attentively to the commander's orders.

"Now, everybody goes to the toilet for fifteen minutes and then each gets a piece of our new gear." The commander said very seriously.

Below, they couldn't help but laugh as they watched what a ground crew handed them out: it was a big diaper!

"Remember, it's an order!" After the commander finished speaking, he strode back. {{}}

It takes more than ten hours to go back and forth, this is the first time, although the F-111 is big enough, but it is not big enough to have a small toilet behind the cockpit, and it is okay to design the seat directly as a toilet, anyway, the F-111 is the way of the whole cockpit bomb, however, when the fighter performs a large overload maneuver, it will suck the pilot's ass into the toilet seat.

Therefore, the only solution is to let them get rid of the impurities in their bodies in advance. Then, put on the diaper and don't poop for more than ten hours, but if you don't pee, it will definitely suffocate these unlucky guys.

Pad diapers, which is also a stopgap measure. At the beginning, the first astronaut to go to space used diapers to solve the problem.

While they were still whistling in the toilet. At the time of final preparations for the operation, 28 KC-10 and KC-135 tanker aircraft were being made at Fairford and Mildenhall airbases near London. Departure half an hour earlier has begun.

At 19:36, 24 F-111F fighter-bombers carrying more than 20,000 pounds of bombs each finally slid onto the runway. {{}}

A total of 24 aircraft. Every 6 aircraft formed a formation, and at the same time, 5 EF-111 electronic warfare aircraft also took off from Upper Hayford Air Force Base, followed by the F-111F, to take on the task of electronic jamming.

The EF-111 is an electronic warfare aircraft modified on the basis of the F-111. Like the Navy's EA-6B, they are responsible for the main electronic jamming mission, they fly with their own bombing formations, and after encountering ground threats, the jammers work at full speed to ensure the safety of their own formations.

9,100 meters above the English Channel. 57 aircraft, assembled into a huge group, this is the largest air raid group assembled over Britain since the end of World War II.

This time, we chose to assemble at more than seven o'clock in the evening, and when we arrived at the target area, it was about one or two o'clock in the morning, which was the time when ordinary people slept most soundly, and it was also the time when Libya's defense was the weakest. {{}}

They didn't know that even as soon as they took off, Libya was already on full battle.

It is absolutely impossible for people not to know about such a large-scale take-off and landing of warplanes, so before that, the United States only announced that it was conducting an exercise here, but Iraq had already begun to observe near the air base under the eyes of Britain.

So many fighter exercises, how is that possible? All of them took off were F-111 fighter-bombers, which were clearly on bombing missions, and more than 20 tankers took off at once, so it was definitely a long-distance bombing mission.

In Gharyan, Gaddafi listened with great interest to the news that over Britain, the largest group of attack aircraft in decades, had taken off, full of respect for President Qusay's command.

If it weren't for the Iraqi side, then he would still be in Tripoli now, resting as usual, where like now, like an outsider, watching the war unfold and waiting for the next good show, as if he was not the main target of this American bombing. {{}}

Gairyan is in Tripolina, there is no seafront, here, it is much safer, and, knowing that the bombing of the Americans is about to begin, it is definitely not Gaddafi's style to continue to stay in Tripoli.

Marwan's main mission here is to protect the safety of Iraqi personnel, and the specific person in charge of command is the rising star of the Iraqi Air Force, Arslan.

Before he came, Qusay had already explained the main direction and principles of this operation to Arslan, and the specific way to do it still needs to be planned by Arslan, and Qusay has great trust in Arslan.

Outwardly, the arrangement of the air defense forces in Libya is still the same as before, nothing has changed, however, these are fake models.

The American SR-71 reconnaissance plane has already reconnoitred the skies over Libya many times, but, from the sky, it can only be approximate, so when the reconnaissance plane and reconnaissance satellite did not fly over the sky, they replaced the real target with a false target, and the real anti-aircraft missile has already begun to shift its position. {{}}

Only when it appears most suddenly, can it exert the most sudden power!

Moreover, between these positions, the latest frequency-hopping radio brought by Iraq has been equipped with missile units, and the anti-jamming capability of this radio station is much stronger, but unfortunately due to the limited conditions, if it can be installed with Iraq's C3I system, it can uniformly dispatch those anti-aircraft firepower and share information, which can play a greater role.

The US Air Force and Naval Aviation at this time, not knowing that Libya below, has turned from a sheep into a hedgehog! If you want to touch it, you will still prick yourself!

Over the English Channel, at this time, it was dark outside, and only the navigation lights on the plane were flashing and flashing.

A huge F-111, under the KC-10 tanker that slowly approached the front, he needed to do and that's it.

"Attention, our child is going to eat nǎi." On the KC-10 tanker, the refueler said teasingly, and at the same time, his hands began to concentrate on cāo.

Refueling in the air has always been a very challenging action, which requires two planes to have close contact at a short distance, even in the daytime, it is very dangerous to refuel in the air, let alone at night.

However, for the U.S. Air Force, the difficulty is greatly reduced, because they use a hard tube refueling method. As long as the pilot follows the cāo protocol and aligns a certain object in the cockpit with the navigation lights in front of him, he is considered to have completed the task.

The rest is to rely on the skillful skill of the refueler to plug the telescopic fuel hose into the oil port of the F-111.

"Okay, done!" The refueler skillfully and accurately plugged in the refueling pipe, and the boiling fuel began to flow quickly into the fighters behind.

After the completion of refueling in the air, 6 spare F-111s, 2 EF-111s and several already empty tankers returned to base. Another 2 F-111s suffered mechanical failures, and the remaining 16 F-111s, 3 EF-111s and two dozen tankers, began the long journey.

The next refueling point is over the sea west of Portugal, and when they continue to refuel over the sea north of Algeria and the sea north of Tunisia, they will enter the war zone.

At the same time, the two aircraft carrier formations "Coral Sea" and "America", which were wandering in the Mediterranean, immediately sailed to the coast of Libya and entered battle positions. The "Coral Sea" entered Benghazi and to the north, and the USS America aircraft carrier Tripoli to the north was in waters of 500 kilometers.

The decks of the two aircraft carriers were full of all kinds of aircraft, and they began to work nervously, and they needed to lift about 50 carrier-based aircraft into the air with high intensity, which was also a test for them.

In the early hours of the morning, as the air force formation was about to arrive, the carrier-based aircraft of the two aircraft carriers also began to make rapid sorties.

On the deck at this time, the personnel were the busiest, and the four bombs were already at full power, and every few tens of seconds, an aircraft was lifted into the air by high-speed bombs.

This operation was a unified action of a large group of air forces of the Air Force and Navy, with about 150 attack planes, fighter planes, fighter-bombers, electronic warfare planes, pre-aircraft planes, reconnaissance planes, antisubmarine planes, tanker planes, search and ambulance helicopters, and other support planes.

Everything is already on the bow.

"Is this kind of missile of ours good?" At a hidden surface-to-air missile position in Tripoli, a Libyan missile worker asked cautiously.

"Of course you can, this time, we will definitely be able to shoot down the American plane!" Said a technician from Iraq.

After arriving here, Iraqi technicians acted urgently and disassembled several V-880E/5V28E missiles, that is, the bodies of Sam-5 missiles, and installed new seekers.

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