Chapter 9 The MiG-25 Volley
Two brilliant flames flashed like meteors, and then, Raymond felt a lightness on his body, the ejection seat had been separated from his body, and because it was at a low altitude, the parachute was opened directly without delay.
A dazzling umbrella flower slowly descended in the sky, but Raymond was not in the mood to enjoy the beautiful scene on the earth, he knew that he was about to encounter the biggest trouble of his life.
Compared to those who have already died, he is still lucky, because he is still alive. However, only God knows how long he will live.
It is in the heart of Iraq, near the heavily defended nuclear reactor, and although the helicopters of the search and rescue team are always on standby, it is absolutely impossible for him to come from the border between Israel and Jordan and rescue himself.
If you are unfortunate enough to be caught, the best way is to end yourself in advance, because with the hatred of the Arabs for you, you may be worse off than dead.
Raymond, in a conflicted mood, fell to the ground. Fortunately, due to the wind, he was already a few kilometers away from the nuclear reactor.
According to the movements during training, he put his legs together, and when he landed on the ground, his legs were bent, cushioned, and then rolled on the ground, completing the steps of landing.
Skydiving is not as simple as it seems, and if you don't land well, you can break your leg or die. Although Raymond is not afraid of death, he wants to preserve his useful body and fight for the establishment of a great Jewish state.
After landing, Raymond cut the parachute with his parachute knife, and immediately ran quickly to the west, to the west was a forest, and after the woods, there was a small river, and then across the river, there was a village, and when it was dark, he thought that he could get a car out of it, and he could quickly get out of the danger zone here.
"Operation Babylon was terminated, and all planes returned immediately."
Enraged, Bahari dived and bombarded the hidden anti-aircraft guns with machine guns, breaking several hapless anti-aircraft gunners into several pieces, and then calmed down.
On the radar screen, more than a dozen points of light flashed, and the fighter planes that had taken off from the Iraqi air base had already rushed here.
With advanced fighters and powerful air-to-air missiles, Bahari is not afraid of those backward MiGs, but there is no need to fight again, he already knows that this bombing operation is a complete failure, and the next thing is to bring the rest of the people back completely, at this time, the plane's fuel is not much, if it is entangled here, when the fuel is exhausted, his fighter squadron, I am afraid that it will also stay here.
Bahari calmed down and ordered to return.
Iftachi's eyes gradually brightened, remembering the experience just now, he was really afraid, as long as he pulled the longitudinal pole for another second, it would be a crash and death, he glanced to the side, but found that a white umbrella flower appeared in the sky.
Ramon! Iftaci knew that the umbrella flower must be Raymond, who had crashed!
Looking down, smoke was already rising from the nuclear reactor.
"Operation Babylon was terminated, and all planes returned immediately." Hearing the sound coming from the headset, Iftaci did not fly over again to assess the bombing results, and immediately turned west, preparing to follow the F-15 back.
The MiGs have already chased after them, and although their fighter surnames are outstanding, there are only two life-saving Sidewinder missiles left, and if they are surrounded by MiGs, I am afraid that they will only be slaughtered.
As for Raymond on the ground, one can only wish him good luck.
"Attention to the formation, break away from the high altitude, azimuth 270, and quickly break away at low altitude." Bahari commanded calmly.
Almost within a few minutes, at least three or four radar beams had swept over Bahari's landline, and in order to avoid being attacked by the enemy's anti-aircraft missiles, Bahari immediately ordered to disengage at a low altitude.
Since the earth is curved, after flying to a low altitude, it can effectively avoid being locked by the opponent's radar, and as long as it is out of the vicinity of Baghdad, the anti-aircraft fire in other parts of Iraq will be greatly weakened. However, flying at low altitude, the air resistance is very large, which leads to the intensification of fuel combustion, and there is not much fuel left, so after entering the territory of Saudi Arabia, it can only return by flying at high altitude, however, after entering Saudi Arabia, it will be protected by other fighters of the Air Force, and the danger will be greatly reduced.
Despite the drastic changes, those who were able to fly the fighters were the elite of the army, and they quickly eased up, lined up in formation, and quickly penetrated the defense at low altitude to the west.
Iftachi drove the F-16 at a distance of more than a dozen kilometers from the F-15 formations in front.
Iftachi turned on the afterburner switch, and suddenly, the powerful engine burst out with greater thrust, and a white mist-like sharp wave appeared in front of the plane, and the plane broke through the sound barrier and flew at supersonic speed.
The F-16 is a single-engine aircraft, and the acceleration surname is not as good as the twin-engine F-15, and in the dangerous Iraqi airspace, there are only two short-range Sidewinder missiles, which will be very dangerous, so Iftachi chose to turn on the afterburner and catch up with the formation in front as soon as possible.
Supersonic flight at low altitudes is strictly forbidden, and a powerful sonic boom will form on the ground, and people on the ground will be strongly affected, but Iftachi can't control so much, not to mention the Iraqis below.
With the afterburner turned on, aviation fuel began to be consumed at an alarming rate, and Iftachi, looking at the F-15 formation that was close at hand, turned off the afterburner.
"Report, Chisel No. 4 is not enough oil, Chisel No. 4 is not enough oil." Iftachi glanced at the instrument on the dashboard, and calculated that if he didn't return to Israel, he would have to fall in Saudi Arabia or Jordan.
Bahari heard Iftachi's voice in the headphones, the Chisel No. 4 was his landline, although he was the commander of the formation, but the rank of Iftachi was higher than his own, and besides, he was the only one left of the eight F-16s on the expedition, and Bahari didn't want to crash again due to lack of fuel.
Anyway, these F-15s are just to protect the bombing formation, and now there is only one left, and they have to bring it back if they say anything, and now they have flown to Karbala Province, where the air defense is very weak, and if they fly for more than ten minutes, they will go out of the borders of Iraq. And those planes that had just taken off and were ready to intercept were probably still 100 kilometers away at the moment, and by the time they caught up, they had already flown out of Iraq.
Bahari made up his mind, "Attention to the formation, the height is ten thousand, the speed is 400, and the direction is 270." ”
Iftachi watched the F-15 in front of him fly out of his sight, and he immediately pulled the longitudinal rod back, raised the nose of the plane, and began to climb upwards.
As soon as he entered the low altitude, the red light of the radar warning receiver flashed on the dashboard of Iftachi, and the eager voice of the on-board computer came from the headset: "You have been locked, you have been locked." ”
Bahari's voice came from the headset: "The radar jamming pod is immediately turned on, and the formation as a whole turns right, and the release is locked." ”
The four MiG-25s were the praying mantis catching cicadas, and the yellow finches were behind, and they were already following behind the formation, and the long plane was Iraq's genius pilot, "Sky Falcon" Reyer.
The MiG-25 was imported from the Soviet Union in the spring of 1980 and was an important interceptor for the territorial air defense of the Soviet Union. It is a high-altitude and high-speed interceptor fighter developed by the Mikoyan Design Bureau of the Soviet Union. It was the first fighter in the world to reach speeds of more than Mach 3. The nickname given by NATO is "Flying Bat".
In order to overcome the thermal effects due to the enormous speed, the MiG-25 did not use the usual aluminum alloy structure, but used a lot of stainless steel. With the advantage of speed, the MiG-25 had a very good advantage when conducting volley operations, and at this time, the MiG-21 and MiG-23 were still coming slowly behind.
However, the avionics system of the MiG-25 is very backward, the large-scale use of electron tubes, but the effect is very poor, the most obvious, is the lack of high-power radar and the ability to look down and shoot down, the power of the MiG-25 is so large, it is said that a rabbit can be roasted 300 meters away, and the search distance is also 100 kilometers, however, the resolution is not very high, especially if the other party is at a low altitude, and the echo on the ground will turn the radar screen into snowflakes, but the target cannot be found.
Therefore, Reyer has been following the other side, and due to the lack of AWACS support, Bahari did not notice, and in just a few minutes, a group of uninvited guests followed.
When Reyer saw the other party pulled up from a low altitude, he was immediately overjoyed, and ordered the formation: "The radar is turned on, lock it immediately." ”
The MiG-25 carried 2 R-40R semi-active radar-guided medium-range air-to-air missiles and 2 R-40T infrared-guided medium-range air-to-air missiles and 2 R-60 process infrared air-to-air missiles.
At this time, Bahari is facing a very troublesome situation, the opponent's plane appears behind him, and he has locked his own formation, then, the next moment, there will definitely be missiles shooting, if his own formation turns to fight, then, regardless of whether these planes can be repulsed, his formation will be bombarded to pieces by other fighters who rushed in, if there is no fighting, then, his own formation will be beaten, only beaten, not fought back, but it is not the style of the Israeli Air Force.
Suddenly, there was a rapid alarm sound in the headset, and the other party had already launched a missile!
"The radar jamming pod was immediately opened, and the formation as a whole turned to the right and was released from locking." Bahari didn't have time to say anything else, get rid of this attack first.
The formation immediately changed direction and at the same time released electromagnetic interference, especially the two two-seater F-15s, with an additional weapons crew, and immediately activated the jamming pods mounted under the wings.
As long as the course of the aircraft is consistent with the direction of the opponent's radar beam, the opponent's radar will lose its target, and the missile that has already been launched will not find the target because it is unlocked, and finally self-destruct.
It's useless, the missiles are still approaching at a rapid pace.
The jamming pod mounted under the wing had less than half the power of the MiG-25 radar, and it could not interfere with the opponent's radar at all, and the steering just now was not successful.
In an emergency, Bahari had a whim, and it seemed that he could only return to the low altitude.
"All formations, dive at once."
The electronic technology of the USSR is not good, it is famous, otherwise, when it was at a low altitude just now, why didn't the other side lock its own formation? As soon as it was pulled up, it was attacked, and now, it can only return to the low altitude.
This is also very dangerous, if this trick does not work, fly to a low altitude, lose the altitude advantage, and the MiG aircraft that came after it are very disadvantaged in low-altitude fighting, especially the MiG-21, low-altitude dogfight is very good.
The point of light on the radar screen disappeared, and he couldn't wait to smash the radar screen with his gloved hands, this kind of radar is really too powerful, and if you hold on for two more seconds, the missile will enter the autonomous flight process, and you will not need the help of the airborne radar.
Medium-range air-to-air missiles are not left alone after launch, they have to use the radar of the carrier aircraft to illuminate the target and provide the missile with data on the other side in two-thirds of the distance.
The first salvo was fired, and no results were taken down.
The other party must have entered a low altitude, the MiG-25 is an excellent high-altitude high-speed interceptor, and it is not suitable for a low-altitude grappling with the opponent, Reyer had to order the formation to slow down and wait for the other party to appear again, otherwise, it can only be solved by those slow MiG-21 and MiG-23.
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