Chapter 680: Fighter planes on the highway
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The E-2C's pre-jing time is six hours, which is not long enough, but compared to the endurance time of the fighter, it is long enough, but now, the E-2C pre-jing aircraft is also in danger of running out of fuel. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info≦≧
Due to the bombing of the air base, the Air Force temporarily lost its ability to refuel in the air, so their planes had to land.
In the face of Iraq's ballistic missile air strikes just now, the surviving fighters have been cruising in the airspace of the Sè column after taking off, and only one F-15 went over to provoke, but was killed by Saudi fighters, and the rest of the planes, carrying out their own orders, did not fly into the enemy's airspace.
However, they forgot about the problem that the few planes they have, all of them are in the air, and they should change shifts to ensure that they have fighters above their heads at all times, although the number of fighters is too small now.
Now, they finally realized the problem, most of the planes have run out of fuel, and the two F-15s that started cruising have landed twenty minutes ago.
In peacetime, due to the ground crew, the fighters could complete the preparations such as hanging bombs, refueling, and checking before taking off again within 10 minutes after landing, but now, their ground crews are gone. ≦≧
Their air base, too, is gone.
Where are they going to land? Civil airports? The answer is no.
To the west, the highway between Netanya and Haifa.
In normal times, there is a constant stream of vehicles. But now, there is hardly a car to be seen on this road.
With the strength of a battalion of the Wehrmacht, a wartime emergency plan was activated and the road was blocked.
At the entrance to the highway, several fuel trucks were waiting there, but. The necessary ground support vehicles and inspection vehicles were nowhere to be found, and the base was bombed cleanly, and. Because of the cluster warheads used by the other side, they cannot move until the unexploded warheads have been completely eliminated. Otherwise, it is easy to cause further damage.
A pilot in the sè column, already with some fatigue in his eyes, knew that landing on the highway would be orders of magnitude more difficult than landing on an airport runway. ≦≧
Because, although the current expressway is a two-way four-lane expressway, the width is still too narrow compared to the width of the airport runway. As long as you are not careful, you will rush out of the runway, causing a tragedy of plane crash and death.
Moreover, they also do not have the guidance of the tower, everything. All with their own experience.
If you change to a naval pilot, you will definitely not be afraid at this time, but the pilots of the Air Force have been trained for a long time and have reached the situation of integration of man and machine.
The pilot looks down through the wide canopy. The highway in the distance is getting clearer and clearer.
Look at the bottom line, look at the indication of the instruments in the cockpit, and at the same time, observe the highway that is getting closer and closer on both sides.
The use of highways, as temporary runways, to restore combat capability in an emergency after the destruction of wartime airfields, has been a subject that has been studied by the air force of later generations, and has now been carried out in advance by the Jews in this situation.
The pilot lowered the landing gear and familiarly got into the right glide line, while slowly correcting the effects of crosswinds. ≦≧
In the distance of the highway, the onlookers of the Jewish citizens, watching their warplanes, get closer and lower to the highway, they already know that their air bases have been occupied by Iraq, and they already know that their prime minister has issued a strong statement that if the Arab army dares to attack, they will use nuclear bombs to fight back.
At this moment, the Jews have once again burst out of a kind of cohesion at this critical juncture, and most of the Jewish civilians, who have served in the military, are now ready to take up arms and defend their homeland.
The main landing gear, touching the asphalt of the highway, rubbed with the ground, and finally stopped, and then, the nose in front was also slowly descending, and a few seconds later, the front landing gear also touched the ground, and the F-15 fighter successfully landed on the highway. The pilot did not release the parachute, so he let the plane slide, gradually decelerate, and then, applied the brakes.
Because, if the parachute is released, he is afraid that he will not use the parachute next time, and the ground staff who folded the parachute for his plane will definitely not arrive here.
The plane taxied slowly, and at the front exit, the refueling truck had already driven up. ≦≧
With superb technology, the air force used the highway as a runway and landed.
Though...... Both the F-4 and the F-4 can use the highway as a runway to take off and land, but the E-2 Hawkeye pre-aircraft cannot.
Because, the wingspan of the F-15 is only 13 meters, but the wingspan of the E-2 pre-jing aircraft has reached nearly 25 meters, that is, the pre-jing aircraft is too wide.
Although the pre-jing aircraft is a propeller aircraft, in this case, its speed is slow, and the advantage of easy landing cannot be brought into play, so it has to find another landing site.
This location is the Ufuda airbase.
This base, the southernmost air base in the Esil, is located in the Negev Desert, about 60 kilometers north of the southern port of Eilat, and this base was not visited by a single missile during the devastation of Iraq, which is not to say that Iraq has forgotten about it, nor that Iraq does not have enough missiles, but because this base, up to now, has not had a single aircraft, because this base has not yet been completed. ≦≧
Uvda Air Base is a high-level military base built by the United States at the expense of the United States. During the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel seized control of the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt and stationed troops there, but in 1979, Israel signed the Camp David Peace Treaty with Egypt, returning the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt on the principle of "land for peace". The United States could not but encourage the use of the Sère to save face, so as to compensate for ensuring the safety of the southern part of the Sère, the United States funded the construction of the Uvda Air Base in the Negev Desert.
This base has not yet been built, so it is not yet in the eyes of Qusay.
However, its main runway has been completed, so it is still possible for the E-2 Hawkeye to land there.
Originally, I thought that when the Israeli announced that they would use nuclear bombs against the Arab countries in retaliation, they could calm down and stop clamoring for an attack, and they would also have to think about what the price of the attack would be.
Moreover, the planes now need to land to refuel, so they have to fall back to the ground, and at the same time, their radars are starting to turn on to protect their skies.
However, they did not know that the Iraqi planes, waiting for this opportunity!
The F-20 attack squadron, which had been waiting for a long time, received the news from the pre-jing plane, and immediately turned on the afterburner and took off quickly.
The pre-plane had already observed that there were now two planes left in the sky, and the rest of the planes, most of which had landed on the highway to the west of the city, and one plane, had landed in the desert in the south.
The Hunter Pre-Jing aircraft, through the C3I system, transmitted the position of the target to the F-20 fleet through the data link.
Arslan looked at the information that had been passed on and immediately gave orders to his group: 115 Squadron, attack the plane in the desert to the south, and 122 Squadron and 123 Squadron, attack the plane landing on the highway in the west!
Did I really think that if I landed my fighter plane in the west, it would be over? The entire territory of the Israeli column is within the strike range of the Iraqi Air Force! Arslan thought to himself.
With the gradual weakening of the Iranian Air Force until its demise, Arslan thought that they were driving fighter planes, fighting with each other in the sky, and bombarding each other's sons with the missiles they carried, which was over, at most in training, making a show, but I didn't expect that the sky in the Middle East would never be stable, and it also gave them the opportunity to show themselves again!
All kinds of weapons have their own conditions for use, for example, the use of cruise missiles for covert attacks on fixed targets, and the high-power attack makes it impossible for the opponent to intercept and use ballistic missiles, and now if you want to attack the opponent's plane landing on the highway, you have to use your own fighter plane to carry ground-attack missiles to strike.
This time, the F-20 fighter carried two Sidewinder missiles for self-defense on the outside of the wings, Maverick air-to-surface missiles on the inside of the wings, and a fuel tank under the belly.
Arslan commanded Squadrons 122 and 123 and continued to fly north, where they needed to cross the area of Isè to strike at the fighters on the highway.
While they admired the bold and constructive behavior of these colleagues, they were also making up their minds that since they were going to fight, they would completely solve these problems and kill the remaining fighters again!
It seems a bit despicable to do this, when the other party is in the sky, they do not violate the airspace, and they do not start to attack until the other party lands, but such a danger is minimal.
Under the command of the pre-aircraft, they maintained radio silence and relied on the information transmitted by the pre-aircraft through the data link to enter the airspace of the aircraft at an ultra-low altitude from the blind spot of the air defense radar of the E-column.
The Maverick missile, which can be fired at a distance of more than a dozen kilometers, will greatly reduce the risk of exposure of the carrier aircraft.
The F-20 fighters flew at an ultra-low altitude in the sky of the Sè column, they chose the location of the Arabic gathering area, the pilots deliberately lowered the altitude, flying at a low altitude of only 30 meters above the ground, although the radar of the Sè column had been turned on, but because there was no pre-jing, and there was no advanced F-15 and F-16 airborne radar patrol, these invading planes were not found. (To be continued) RQ