Chapter Sixty-Eight: Aim, Panda!

Resisting orders? It's not the first time for Arslan, he's not afraid at all, pilots, they should have this kind of domineering, they can become the masters of the sky, what's so scary? Especially this time, he was going to challenge the authority of the panda, and he felt even more enthusiastic.

The Air Force should be like the Israeli Air Force, with a spicy and bold style, use me in the first battle, and use me to win! The Air Force is the sharp knife among all national defense forces.

In order to quickly reach the war zone, the sweep angle of the wing was adjusted to the maximum, 74 degrees, which is very conducive to rapid impact, just now briefly turned on the afterburner, so that he had a low altitude and large speed addiction, but then it was stopped, although Arslan wanted to reach the war zone quickly, but he also knew that supersonic flight at low altitude was simply a terrifying thing for people on the ground, and the shock wave generated by breaking through the sound barrier would lift the roof. So, supersonic flights are strictly forbidden at low altitudes. It's just that Arslan likes that feeling, and the speed and passion go hand in hand.

Arslan looked down at the rudimentary navigation equipment, hoping to be guided by ground-based radar in a moment. He had warmed up the missiles, ready to turn on the flogger's rudimentary radar and prepare to guide the missiles.

"Flying Tiger, the Iranian plane has entered the airspace of No. 4, and there are still one hundred and fifty kilometers away from you, please turn eighty degrees to the right, heading 1-8-7, and pay attention to the visual detection of the other party." On the radio, the voice of the tower was heard.

"Understood, Blue Sky." Arslan immediately adjusted course and prepared for battle.

A distance of one hundred and fifty kilometers is a matter of ten minutes for a fast-flying aircraft.

The most exciting battle is about to begin!

The MiG-23, which was the first to enter the Iraqi Air Force, had very backward electronic equipment, including only a simple VOR (Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Beacon)/ILS (Instrument Landing System) navigation equipment, UHF (Ultra High Frequency) radios, and SRO-3IFF (Identification of Friend or Foe) transponders compatible with similar aircraft in Egypt and Libya. This set of equipment is exactly the same as that of the MiG-21MF, which is more serious than the shrinkage of the Soviet army for its own use. The only useful thing for the Iraqi Air Force is this set of friend or foe identifiers, so that it can prevent accidental hits. Most of the planes Iraq lost in the 1973 war with Israel were not shot down by Israel, but by Syrian SAM missiles.

It was not until later, under the strong reaction of the Iraqi Air Force, that the second batch of more advanced MiG-23bns was equipped with a simplified version of the "high-altitude lark" J-band radar, with a search range of 85 km and a tracking range of 54 km. A laser rangefinder, a "Siren" 3 radar warning system, and Doppler navigation equipment are installed under the nose.

Arslan flew such a MiG-23, in fact, he was very dissatisfied with this kind of aircraft, two years ago, he once went to France with a delegation to investigate, and was full of praise for the sophisticated avionics equipment of the French aircraft, but the Mirage F1 that Iraq had just imported from France was not equipped with his squadron.

Although he was not satisfied, Arslan never gave up, and it was his greatest wish to give full play to the potential of the weapon in his hand.

Arslan knew that he had only one chance, and he missed one hit, and he had to take advantage of the MiG-23's outstanding acceleration ability to run away quickly and maneuver with the panda, obviously looking for death.

Although the Iranian attack formation is still swaggering at an altitude of 9,000 meters, although it has entered Iraq, as the Panda four-plane formation in front turns on the radar, all the Iraqi planes around it have fled, and the airspace has been cleared, and the only thing they need to face is the attack of ground air defense artillery. Especially Baghdad to be attacked, where headache-inducing SAM anti-aircraft missiles await them.

So, when there were still 200 kilometers from Baghdad, the formation descended to an altitude of 4,000 meters, and was ready to reduce the altitude again and penetrate at a low altitude.

The pandas, on the other hand, began to climb to an altitude of 10,000 meters, ready to shoot down Iraqi planes that dared to take off at any time, and the sky here was their back garden!

If they turn back after half a week of defense, the radar will find an Iraqi plane coming from a low altitude, and all the radars are installed in the big nose in front of the plane, that is, any fighter can only find targets in a 150-degree sector area in front of them. (Limited by the rotation of the mechanical radar, it is not possible to make the radar antenna at right angles to the fuselage). Therefore, the Panda, which is on the task of air defense, has not found any suspicious targets in the air for the time being.

They were careful not to approach the SAM defense range in Baghdad.

"Flying Tiger, pay attention, the enemy aircraft are divided into two groups, four Pandas that are climbing, and more than a dozen ground attack planes that are lowering altitude. At a distance of twenty kilometers, in the direction of one o'clock, ready to accelerate, turn on the radar. The voices of the ground personnel were heard in the headset again, providing Arslan with the most information.

Now is the time to wait! Arslan knew that although he could not see the plane in the distance with his naked eyes, the enemy plane was in front of him, and the moment to shoot down the enemy plane was now!

Arslan turned on the afterburner and began to impact at full speed, and was not allowed to fly at supersonic speed at low altitude? To hell with it!

Before launching a missile, the carrier aircraft should try to reach the maximum speed, so that the missile can obtain the speed of the carrier aircraft before it happens, and increase the range.

Arslan didn't want to turn on the radar, once he turned it on, he would expose his target, he had to wait until the speed accelerated to the maximum, in the shortest time, turn on the radar, lock on the target, and launch the missile!

Combat object, choose a high-altitude panda, or a low-altitude aircraft? Arslan did not hesitate to choose the panda.

First of all, the purpose of his resistance to the order to take off is to shoot down a panda and get credit, those other planes, he still can't look down on them, and secondly, the radar of the MiG-23 is too simple, and those low-flying attack planes have entered the clutter on the ground, and they can't be filtered out at all, he just wants to lock on, and there is no way.

Sneak attack on the panda is his wish!

The body began to shake, and Arslan glanced down, and the speed was close to the limit of low-altitude flight.

He pulled up the nose of the plane, and then, turned on the radar.

Suddenly, four bright spots flashed on the radar screen, which were the four pandas flying at high altitude. At this time, the distance between them, which was only twelve kilometers, was exactly within the range of the P-23.

Two P-23s, salvo! Arslan chose his own attack mode.

There can only be one chance for a sneak attack, and if two missiles are aimed at one target, they will not be able to believe that they will not be hit. How many rubles a missile is worth is not his concern, since it is hung on his plane, it is for him.

Under the belly of the plane, two missiles emitted thick smoke, one after the other, left the launcher and pounced on the panda in the sky.

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