Chapter 1151: Aircraft Carrier Attack
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"The Arabs have shot down ten of our planes, and this is a challenge for us, we are going to take off more warplanes, to bomb Arab installations, our four aircraft carriers, there are more than three hundred warplanes, plus our warplanes from our air bases in Turkey, from our bases in Europe, we are going to continue to bomb the Arab countries, especially those Arab armies that have now occupied the Israelis. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info," Rumsfeld said.
This loss also shocked Powell, no matter from what angle it is said, the United States must fight back, otherwise, how will the United States point fingers in the future and use its own force to deter others?
However, none of them thought that it would be Iraq that took the initiative to attack!
Intercepting cruise missiles, if you are not prepared, it is really easy to be attacked by the other side, but for the situation that already has all-round reconnaissance capabilities, and there are pre-aircraft monitoring in the sky from time to time, the cruise missiles issued by the Americans are mostly discovered by the air defense system of the Arabs.
Surface-to-air missiles, high guns, high machine guns, and even attack aircraft used aerial guns to intercept them, and only five of the more than 200 missiles fired by the United States finally succeeded in reaching their targets, and several buildings in Saudi Arabia and Iraq were damaged.
The United States took the initiative to attack the Arab countries, which caused a strong reaction in the Arab world, and on the very building hit by the American cruise missile, strong demonstrations broke out among the Arabs.
Iraq's Foreign Minister, Tariq Aziz, made a harshly worded speech, and the Americans, in doing so, are a challenge to the entire Arab world. The United States must immediately and unconditionally withdraw from the Arabian Sea and the Mediterranean "East", otherwise. That means, war.
Arabian Sea. At this time, the wind and waves are a little strong.
Since the war broke out mainly in the west, they are here, in fact, a little far away, Iraq is separated by nearly a thousand kilometers of the Persian Gulf, and their target is not Iraq itself and the first battlefield of the Israeli column, but Saudi Arabia's Riyadh and Iran's naval bases and other targets.
For the United States, if it wants to fight, it must completely deprive the Arabs of room for resistance. The fact that the Iraqis are able to be so arrogant now has a lot to do with their two aircraft carrier formations, which is also the most important task on board the Kitty Hawk and the Washington.
As long as these two formations of the Iraqis are killed, then they will lose their capital, and the US aircraft carrier can get close to the entrance to the Persian Gulf, and it will be able to deter the surrounding Arab countries.
For the application of aircraft carriers, the Americans have a history of almost a hundred years. They're already familiar with it. How efficient can Iraq's two aircraft carriers, which work together? That's just a joke.
In this weather, they left the port though. But whether the fighter can take off, after takeoff. Can it land? It's all a question mark, an aircraft carrier that can't take off and land fighters. Then it's a live target.
Since entering the Arabian Sea, they have been on the highest alert. Both carrier battle groups kept at least one aircraft in the skies, and at the same time, several new reconnaissance satellites were also in orbit to reconnoiter the situation in the Arabian Sea.
In this formation, there are three Ticonderoga-class cruisers, four Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, three Perry-class frigates, and four Los Angeles-class nuclear submarines underwater.
In space, the satellites of both sides are constantly scanning this sea area, although the aircraft carrier formation is large, but the ocean is even more vast, so if you want to attack each other, the first thing you need to do is to find the location of the other party.
Where is the other party?
Over the years, Iraq has made marked progress in space science and technology, and more than 20 reconnaissance satellites have carefully scanned this sea area several times, and finally, 300 nautical miles northeast of Soktra Island, the American aircraft carrier group is sailing north there.
Discovery, that means, will be attacked!
In this aircraft carrier formation, those cruisers fired shè missiles and attacked targets in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, which is completely an act of war! Iraq will not wait for the aircraft carrier to arrive at its doorstep and do it to itself before it will return fire, and since the war has already started, then completely kill the American aircraft carrier on the sea!
After receiving the news, Saudi Arabia first took off a land-based pre-jing aircraft, and the E3 was in the air, so it could monitor the movement there.
At the same time, Iraq's two-aircraft carrier group has moved to the sea area only a thousand kilometers away from the American aircraft carrier.
The Basra and the Baghdad began to make the final preparations before the war, and the fighters in the parking area on the deck, the "Babylon Empire Chapter 1151 Aircraft Carrier Attack", were constantly being maintained and preparing for takeoff, and the types of fighters of Iraq's aircraft carriers were relatively small, and the main tasks were all carried out by the Su-27K.
Twenty Su-27Ks, each carrying two KH41 anti-ship missiles, this supersonic anti-ship missile, is the main anti-aircraft carrier missile of the Iraqi Navy, and is an air-based anti-ship missile improved on the SSN22 missile, after the introduction of the Soviet Union's modern-class aircraft carrier in Iraq, it is equipped with an anti-ship missile for the army.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Iraq acquired a production line of such missiles and improved them, and the range of such missiles has reached 300 kilometers, so that the carrier aircraft does not have to face the missile threat of the air defense ships escorted by the United States, but still have to face the American escort fighters.
Therefore, there are also twenty Su-27Ks, all of which are air-superiority payloads, six advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles and two close-range combat missiles, so that they can have enough ammunition to fight with the American fighters, so that they cannot free up their hands to fight their own attack aircraft group.
However, even the Su-27K, which undertook the attack mission, was equipped with two advanced medium-range missiles and two close-range combat missiles, and as long as the missiles were fired, they would immediately be able to free up their hands and jointly conduct air supremacy combat.
Forty Su-27K fighters on each of the two aircraft carriers carried out this sortie mission, while the remaining Su-27K fighters were responsible for guarding their own aircraft carrier formations and protecting their safety.
Of course, it was not these 80 fighters that attacked, at the Chakhbahar base in the rear, Iraq's 40 J-7 fighters and 16 Tu-22M bombers were also equipped with anti-ship missiles. They were all long-range aircraft that could carry out this long-range attack mission, and forty land-based Su-27 "Babylonian Empire" fighters participated in the mission to escort them.
In the process of constantly ordering Su-27K, Iraq also ordered a batch of Su-27 land-based fighters to equip naval aviation units.
In order to meet the task of this attack, they also specially installed auxiliary fuel tanks, which can have a combat radius of 2,000 kilometers, and the Arabian Sea, after all, is the doorstep of the Arabs, and the Americans are absolutely not allowed to show off their might!
Isn't the Aegis system of the United States advertised that it has a good ability to deal with saturation attacks? Then use actual combat to test whether their air defense system is really as it is said.
Dealing with aircraft carriers is definitely not a matter of one or two weapons, but a joint strike by multiple arms.
In the desert area of southern Saudi Arabia, Iraq's No. 3 unit also began preparations before the launch. Their big guy is an anti-ship ballistic missile.
At the beginning, this kind of missile was only used to scare people, but now, it is no longer the kind of thing that can only be used for demonstration, it has the ability to maneuver at the end of the stage, and it is used to adjust its final direction, and it is definitely not a dream to use it to hit aircraft carriers.