Joint operations with the US Navy formations? At first glance, it seems that it will not do Pakistan any good, and it is more appropriate for Pakistan to directly dispatch air force fighters to join the joint strike.

However, this proposal of Zahar was personally instructed by Muhammad, and of course, it is of great use to do so, that is, to get acquainted with the US Navy!

At present, the Pakistan Navy is close to the US Navy and is familiar with all the combat methods of the US Navy.

Of course, the U.S. Navy did not know that Pakistan was fighting such a purpose, and now, their Pakistani counterpart, operated the old class aircraft carrier, sailing with them in formation.

Gwadar Port is still too far from Iraq, almost around the maximum combat radius of carrier-based aircraft, but if it ventures into the Persian Gulf, it is vulnerable to Iranian shore-to-ship missiles.

Although the whole world is now bombarding Iraq with its mouth, it is said that the Iranians should be happy in their hearts, and the Americans are now here to fight Iraq, and the Iranians should stand by and watch, at most applaud. However, the Iranians are even more brain-sick, and who knows if they will be bad for the US Navy? So, in this case, the risk of the US aircraft carrier formation entering the Persian Gulf is too great.

So, the aircraft carrier formation was sailing near the Gulf of Oman, and at this time, the formation was accelerating as a whole, preparing for the ejection and takeoff of carrier-based aircraft.

At the center of the formation are the US Navy's aircraft carrier USS Independence and the Pakistan Navy's Endeavour, two aircraft carriers forming a twin aircraft carrier formation, sailing in the center, and on the north side of the formation, are a Ticonderoga-class cruiser and two Aegis-class destroyers, providing perfect anti-aircraft air defense. The focus of their preparedness is a possible attack by the Iranians.

On the south side of the formation, there are two Type 42 destroyers of the Pakistan Navy, which are used for anti-aircraft protection on the other side, and since this side is Oman, the pressure on air defense is minimal.

Although by this time Pakistan's own specialized air defense destroyers were already in service. However, in order to avoid the leakage of their own electromagnetic signals to the Americans, these destroyers did not join, not even Pakistan's own modified Kidd-class, only these two regional air defense destroyers equipped with Sea Javelins, as long as the Omanis are not crazy, should not launch a shore-to-ship missile attack.

The captain of the Endeavour, Rear Admiral Haziz of the Pakistan Navy, passes through a porthole on the bridge. Look at the aircraft carrier on the other side.

The displacement of the US aircraft carrier is large, the deck is also larger, and there are three elevators on the side of the ship, which greatly accelerates the sortie efficiency of the carrier-based aircraft.

On both sides of the runway on the bow deck, two rows of fighters were piled up. This allows the deck to be more efficient, and it can be pulled to the ejection position at any time to take off. And now, in the positions of two catapults on the beveled deck, two Tomcat fighters, are ready for catapult takeoff.

In the white steam, the two Tomcat fighters took off one after the other almost every second. The catapult was reset, and the two Tomcat fighters of the second batch also began to eject.

Such deck efficiency is also envious of Haziz, and the advantage of a large aircraft carrier is here. The efficiency of the rapid sortie of carrier-based aircraft!

Although Endeavour is also an inclined deck, only the bow deck has a catapult, so the carrier-based aircraft can only take off from the bow deck, so that the position of the bow can not be occupied, and the position of the inclined deck, although it cannot take off the carrier-based aircraft, but to prepare for the landing aircraft, in case the landing does not go back to the go-around, the front must be empty, in this way, many carrier-based aircraft have to be arranged in the hangar below, and only use the elevator to transport them up when they are used.

An 80,000-ton large aircraft carrier is far more efficient than the combination of two 40,000-ton aircraft carriers!

While the American aircraft carrier began to eject, the Pakistani aircraft carrier also began to eject its own carrier-based aircraft, and two Tomcat fighters were ejected from the catapult in turn.

In one attack wave, the US aircraft carrier ejected 16 Tomcat fighters, the Endeavour ejected 12 Tomcat fighters, after 28 fighters took off, four remained in the formation to fly over the formation to protect the airspace of the formation, and the remaining 24 fighters flew north into the Persian Gulf.

Four Immortal Bird Missiles, two Sparrow Missiles, and two Sidewinder Missiles, this is the normal air superiority mount of the Tomcat fighter, if the maximum bomb load, the mount of six Immortal Birds, in case it is not used in air combat, then when returning home, two must be thrown into the sea water to ensure a safe landing.

Pakistan's Tomcat fighter only carries two Immortal Bird missiles, which are very large in size and weight, and flying is a drag, and the cost is also high, and Pakistan's inventory is not much. In addition to these two immortals, there are also four active sky flash missiles, which are medium-range guided active air-to-air missiles, which are the real magic weapons of the Pakistan Air Force.

Following behind the Tomcat fighters, the carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carrier Independence continued to eject, and two EA-6B electronic warfare aircraft ejected into the air, which will provide sufficient electromagnetic cover for the formation to carry out electromagnetic suppression of Iraq.

Next, there are four F/A-18 carrier-based aircraft, in addition to two close-range Sidewinder missiles, which are six anti-radiation missiles, which are specially designed to deal with ground-based anti-aircraft weapons.

Originally, F/A-18 is a combat attack aircraft, as you can see from the name, the number of the US military aircraft, F stands for combat, A stands for attack, but, I don't know what the top management thinks, bent on replacing the Tomcat fighter with such a medium aircraft, although the Hornet has multi-purpose capabilities, but it is not as good as the air combat interception ability of the dedicated Tomcat fighter, the only disadvantage of the Tomcat is that it is too expensive, expensive to procure, and expensive to maintain, I am afraid that this is the reason, and it is also a reason for the killer under Congress, right?

An E-2C AWACS aircraft, which had already taken off in advance, flew over the Persian Gulf and monitored the situation of the Iraqi Air Force, especially from an air base in Kuwait.

Compared with the US Navy, Pakistan's aircraft carriers are equipped with very few types of carrier-based aircraft, except for Tomcats, which are A-7, plus E-2 AWACS aircraft, and the rest are helicopters.

On the aircraft carriers of the US Navy, all kinds of military aircraft are very complete, F-14 is used for air combat, F-18 and A-7 are used for attack, EA-6B "Prowler" electronic warfare aircraft is used for electromagnetic suppression, E-2C "Hawkeye" early warning aircraft is used for early warning, S-3 "Corsair" anti-submarine aircraft is used for anti-submarine, there are a complete range, and there are even special equipment that can be used to accompany the flight and refuel, etc.

Just two days ago, the United States issued a statement that the airspace over Kuwait and southern Iraq belong to the no-fly zone demarcated by the United States, and as long as they fly over here, they are illegal and will be shot down at any time!

Two days have passed, and the United States has finally begun to fly over the no-fly zone!

The first to carry out this task, not the US Air Force, but the US Navy, is a powerful Tomcat fighter!

For this kind of fighter vetoed by Congress, it will eventually be eliminated, and the US Navy is also very disgusted, but for the United States, the army will definitely not interfere in politics, and can only passively accept, perhaps, this is the last battle before the US Navy's Tomcat fighter is decommissioned, and it must be majestic!

"Note that Iraqi warplanes were spotted taking off, twelve of them, at the Tamuz base air base near Basra in southern Iraq." An early warning came from the Hawkeye AWACS aircraft.

The formation was flying over the Persian Gulf, still 300 kilometers away from Iraq's southern border, and because it was a high-altitude cruise flight, it had already been spotted by Iraq's long-range radar network.

At present, Iraq also has a complete air defense system, and Iraq has introduced various radar systems from the West and the Soviet Union, and this menacing air strike force has been detected from a long distance.

Twelve! The air power of these Iraqis can just be used as a target for their own Tomcats!

"Attention, climb to fifteen thousand, accelerate to one point six, and prepare to launch the immortal bird!" The voice of the commander of the 5th Carrier-based Aircraft Wing of the United States came from the headset: "The target is assigned through the data link, and the Pakistani fighter is responsible for sweeping the tail." ”

The U.S. Tomcat fighter has been equipped with a new data link system, which can assign targets to each aircraft through a long plane to prevent omissions, while Pakistan's Tomcat fighter is not equipped with the U.S. data link system, so it serves as the second round of sweeping tasks.

The engines in the tail section emitted a stream of heat, the wings swept back, and the huge Tomcat fleet began to accelerate, and at the same time, the undead bird missiles at the lower end were energized and entered a self-test state.

Although this mission was the establishment of a no-fly zone, it would be quite unwise to enter too much into the hinterland of Iraq when Iraq's air force and air defense equipment were intact, so the expectation of this mission was only to strike Iraqi warplanes over Kuwait, and at the same time to predict that the exchange of fire over the air might be in the waters south of Kuwait.

After all, the Iraqis will definitely take off to meet the U.S. Navy's attack, and they will want to engage the Iranian Air Force before they are beaten up.

The powerful American aviation force is definitely not something that Iraq can compete with, and this is a start!

"The target is speeding up, it has already exceeded Mach 2, judging that it is a MiG-25, pay attention, the target speed is very fast!" Again, a hint from the AWACS aircraft came.

MiG-25! Now in the equipment sequence of the Iraqi Air Force, the MiG-25, which can fly up to 3 times the speed of sound, is definitely a powerful heavy aircraft! Hearing this prompt, all the pilots were excited, and the aerial confrontation was about to begin!

It is Iraq's ace 96 fighter squadron that comes, this squadron is the most desirable elite squadron of all Iraqi air forces, and the fighter used is the most high-end MiG-25 fighter in Iraq! (To be continued.) )