Chapter 544: The air battle is underway
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The Mirage 4000 took advantage of the AWACS aircraft and quietly approached the other side in a position that was not detected by Iranian fighters, and then, using medium-range bombs, the two aircraft were killed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info≦≧
After receiving the battle report from the front, the commander of the Tehran airbase was very angry, the second batch of F-4 fighters and F-5 fighters flying from Qazvin were about to enter the war zone, but the situation was no longer optimistic.
Even the powerful F-14 fighters didn't have any power to fight back, so they fell off, do these fighters that are a generation apart have a chance to win?
However, in order to defend the skies of Tehran, they had no choice but to fight bravely!
The Mirage 4000 and Mirage F1 fleets, under the command of AWACS, moved towards the second group of Iranian fleets.
Among them, the Mirage 4000 squadron was flying towards the subsequent Iranian F-4 squadron, while the Mirage F1 squadron began to fly towards the northwest in the direction of Qazvin.
During the flight, they deliberately lowered their altitude to avoid the monitoring of the other party's radar.
In addition to the radar of the F-14 fighter, the radar of other fighters equipped by Iran lacks reliable recognition of low-altitude targets, so in order to avoid being detected prematurely by the other side and entering medium-range air combat, they chose to advance at low altitude. ≦≧
At this time, the Scud missiles in the rear had already completed all preparations for launch, and with the order of the commander, puffs of smoke rose from the entire launch position.
The Scud missile, dragging a tongue of fire, flew into the sky and flew towards the intended target three hundred kilometers away.
After the launch, the launch vehicle immediately began to be retracted, and it drove away from the launch position in a nervous and orderly manner, and soon there was no one to be seen.
Only those Scud missiles that flew in the sky. Shows that they have been here before.
As soon as Rafsanjani returned to the Ministry of Defense after participating in the military parade in the square, he received a report that the Iraqi Air Force had dispatched warplanes to attack Tehran!
At the same time, Tehran's air defense sirens began to sound throughout the city, just after Iran had finished its show of force. Iraq has lost face.
When Rafsanjani heard the news, he was shocked, and originally thought that before next spring, there would be no large-scale action in Iraq, and this Iraqi attack on Tehran was a small-scale harassment or a prelude to a large-scale offensive.
Military parade on the square. ≦≧ is already almost all the troops stationed in Tehran, can these troops withstand the Iraqi attack?
However, intuitively, Rafsanjani felt that an Iraqi attack was unlikely, and it was very likely that it was just harassment from the other side.
The Air Force has already taken off fighter jets to intercept them, and Rafsanjani is in the underground bunker of the Ministry of Defense, waiting for news ahead.
Didn't make him wait long. He was rewarded, two F-14 Tomcat fighters, before they could get close to the range of air combat, were hit by missiles flying from the side, and both fighters were all shot down!
These two fighters are the only few remaining Tomcats that can be operated by Iranian ground crews, and the pilots are also the most elite pilots in the Iranian Air Force, so. It is simply impossible to make a mistake on the part of the pilot, then, it can only be said that the combat effectiveness of the Iraqi Air Force has reached a very high height!
Rafsanjani is starting to feel a little bad. ≦≧
Now in the war with Iraq, Iran has almost completely fallen behind, because. Iran has lost its oil fields, its economic income has plummeted, and Iran has made enemies on all sides. Having lost the source of weapons and equipment, Iran no longer has any other advantages except for its large number of people.
The final battle has to be solved on the ground! Thinking of the fanatical crowd in the square during the military parade during the day, Rafsanjani plucked up his confidence again and ordered to strengthen the defense, in addition to dispatching warplanes, anti-aircraft missiles and anti-aircraft artillery near Tehran were also on standby, ready to launch a fierce counterattack on Iraqi planes invading Tehran's airspace!
Tehran, not just by Iraqi planes come and go freely!
The F-4 formation in the sky was searching the sky where the battle had just begun, but found nothing.
The F-4 fighter is equipped with ...... It is the last model in the radar sequence developed by Westinghouse Electric Company for the F-4 aircraft in the late sixties, using a pulsed continuous wave system, due to the large number of transistor circuits and solid-state circuits, the stability of the radar is relatively high, and some progress has been made in the application of coherent reception and Doppler technology. However, this radar inevitably lagged behind, and it was found that the distance at which the fighter in the complex echo at low altitude was detected would not exceed ten kilometers.
And now, they did not notice at all the fleet of Iraqi planes that were already approaching them at low altitudes. ≦≧
"Note that the enemy aircraft is at a distance of thirty kilometers, ready to pull up, make pre-launch preparations." Having received the report from the AWACS, Reyes began to give orders to his squadron for the second time.
Turning on the afterburner, Reyer pulled the lever back.
The two F404 engines spewed out a blazing tail flame, the canard wings in front of it tilted upward, and the rudder surface of the tail followed suit, and the Mirage 4000 began to climb high rapidly, seizing the launch position!
In the process of climbing high, Reyer turned on his radar, and suddenly, the light points of the four fighters in front of him were clearly displayed on his radar screen.
Distance, twenty-five kilometers, azimuth 1-3-2, height four thousand, can be launched!
This time it was a head-on attack, and Reyer, who had already prepared for launch, turned on the radar, quickly locked on to the pre-assigned target, and pressed the launch button.
A medium-range semi-active radar-guided Matra 530 missile, detached from the missile pylons under the wing of the Mirage 4000, flew towards the target under the guidance of the radar beam. ≦≧
Although the maximum range of this missile is 25 kilometers, this time it is a head-on attack, and the distance between the two sides is gradually approaching, and coupled with the speed of the carrier aircraft itself, the missile will not have much possibility of missing the target.
Moreover, in a battle, the side that launched the missile first is always advantageous, because, if you make your own move, the other side will have to take it, and they will not be able to launch their own medium-range missile.
At the same time, the other fighters in the Mirage 4000 formation also each launched a Matra 530 missile and fired it at their own target.
In today's air combat, it is still the most common form for a fighter plane to attack one of the opponent's targets, but it is the first time that such a rapid attack has been made.
Iran's F-4 squadron, at first there was nothing on the radar screen, they could not detect low-altitude targets, and then, four points of light suddenly appeared on the radar screen, and they were overjoyed, and finally found each other's traces.
But then, I saw that there were four more points of light in the middle of the four points of light, and they actually fired missiles at themselves!
The other party's action is really fast! The pilots of the Iranians, could not believe the speed of the other side.
"Pay attention, the opponent has launched a missile, dodge to the left, release platinum bar interference, and get rid of the opponent's attack." Said the pilot of the long plane of the F-4 fighter.
The entire formation immediately began to turn to the left, and at the same time, it sprinkled bright platinum stripes in the sky, hoping to cause a snowflake on the opponent's radar screen.
However, these actions of theirs, on the radar of the Mirage 4000, are simply useless, and the Matra 530 missiles are still flying towards them.
The squadron of F-4 fighters was still struggling to die, with four planes split into two twin formations, two of which climbed upwards and the other two dived downwards.
With their movements, the four Matra 530 missiles, also divided into two groups, climbed up and dived down.
At this time, Reyes found that he had made a mistake and launched the missile at the maximum range, although it was a head-on attack, although this made the Iranian fighter very passive, but the defect of insufficient missile power was immediately manifested.
The rocket engine of the missile can only work for more than ten seconds, and after that, it is all unpowered flight, and now, the two fighters of the other side have climbed, resulting in the kinetic energy of the missile being consumed sharply, and the missile has climbed several hundred meters with the other side, and the speed has been unable to keep up with the speed of the opponent's fighter, and the distance between the two sides has become farther.
The other two dive fighters, on the other hand, did not escape their doom and were hit by the missiles that followed, one was shot down, the other was damaged, and the pilots in the final stage leveled the planes and withdrew from the battle.
Climb high, climb higher, and finally, the radar operator in the rear compartment saw that the missile that followed him had fallen, and the Iranian pilot breathed a sigh of relief, pushed the control stick, and leveled the plane.
Iraqis, come on! The Iranian pilot remembered the embarrassment just now, and his heart was full of anger, although the two F-14 fighters had been shot down, and although their own squadron had lost two more fighters, the Iranian pilots did not have any fear, and now, the distance between the two sides was close to the line of sight.
Looking at the planes that flew quickly, the Iranian pilots did not hesitate to compete in close combat!
Pushing the lever, the Iranian pilots saw a look that was different from the previous Iraqi fighters, with wide delta wings and no tail, but with an extra winglet in the front and two engines in the back.
The warplanes of both sides, in the roar, passed by.
Fight, Eagle! The Iranian pilot began to pull the control stick, ready to turn around and bite the other party's tail in a large maneuver!
However, the Iranian pilots had no chance at all.
Just after the two sides passed by, Reyer had already ordered his own formation to split into two two-plane formations and take out the opponent's planes separately.
Reye and his wingman, skillfully pushing the lever to the right while pedaling the rudder on the right, the giant Mirage 4000, began to maneuver horizontally with the smallest radius.