A squadron of F15E fighters was completely wiped out, more than 10 pilots were captured, and such a heavy loss, Lieutenant General Walker, commander of the US forces in Iraq, was speechless for a long time after reading the battle report.

This loss would have been enough if there had been a war with the PLA, but against the Persian Air Force, which had barely achieved anything in the air since the beginning of the war, would be intolerable. When did the Persians also have such air power.

Thunder fighters? After studying the detailed report of the surviving Air Force Major Lennon, Air Force intelligence analysts determined that the fighter plane acquired by the Persians was a Thunder jointly developed and produced by China and Pakistan. Lieutenant General Walker was not too impressed by this fighter, because the PLA Air Force was not installed, and now only a few countries such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are using it, and the US military has never paid much attention to such a fighter comparable to the F16.

Even if the Pakistani side used this fighter and J10 fighter to shine in the Indo-Pakistani War and completely defeated the Indian army's SU30 and Rafale fighter combination, the US military did not have much interest, and only studied this as a general case, because the US military knew very well the details of the Indian army, and they could boast of a third-rate army as the third in the world.

Therefore, the U.S. military still doesn't know much about Xiaolong, and in the next battle of Diaoyutai, the U.S. military intelligence department has more important goals to figure out, and not many people pay attention to the Pakistani army. But this time, the F15E fighters of a squadron of the US military were all wiped out, so that Lieutenant General Walker began to re-examine the fighter developed by China and Pakistan.

In particular, the Persians have the same combat tactics as the Chinese, a high-intensity saturated long-range missile attack with an astonishing hit rate, and this tactic has a fatal blow to the air power in the hands of Lieutenant General Walker, because although Lieutenant General Walker controls more than a hundred fighters, most of them are improved squadrons of F15 and F16, for the Persians, the main opponent of the US military in the Gulf region, these three and a half generations of models are enough.

Most of the squadrons of fourth-generation fighters overseas are now deployed against the Chinese, close to the Persians, only the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing of the US Army in Bagram in Afghanistan deploys 1 squadron of F22 and 1 squadron F35, and the rest is 3 squadrons of F15SE Silent Eagle, the ultimate improved model of the F15.

Lieutenant General Walker weighed the hole cards in his hand, he now has 2 squadrons of F15SE in his hand, and the Silent Eagle is the most jīng sharp force, and the rest are 2 squadrons of F15EF (originally 3 squadrons, but due to the fact that the Iron Fist squadron has just been wiped out, now there are only 2 squadrons left) and 3 squadrons F16CD.

Coupled with most of the F35 squadron of the Israeli army, Walker's current strength is also very strong, compared to the Persians, still has the upper hand, according to Major Lennon's report, the Persians dispatched about 5 squadrons of fighters this time, of which 3 squadrons of Thunder Dragon fighters also lost most of their strength in the battle.

It's just that the Persians hid these fighters in the hinterland, and now the amazing combat power that suddenly broke out, and a completely new radar system for combat use, Lieutenant General Walker did not dare to send the US air pre-jǐng aircraft at the Basra base into the territory of the Persians, who knows what weapons the Persians got from the Chinese, and before the Persian air defense forces were completely destroyed, the air pre-jǐng aircraft that entered the territory of Persia from the west were simply a target for the Persians.

However, if there is no pre-aircraft in the air, the combat power of the US fighters will be greatly reduced, and the effective range of the airborne radar of the fighters in the hands of Lieutenant General Walker is about 100 kilometers, and the distance of providing radar guidance for the AIM120 missiles will be even shorter, and the fighters facing the Persians will only be more than 60 kilometers, which is really too far from the range of the pre-aircraft with a range of more than 500 kilometers and a guidance distance of at least 150 kilometers.

If personal gains and losses and military honors are put aside, the wisest thing for Lieutenant General Walker is to ask for help from the headquarters, act together with the US forces stationed in Afghanistan, and launch an attack from the east with the US troops stationed in Afghanistan as the mainstay, and the depth from the east to the Tabas line is about 400 kilometers in the air, so that the air pre-jǐng aircraft taking off from Bamram or Kandahar can provide reliable pre-command for the fighters close to the Argentine-Iranian border under the reliable ground and air dual defense.

Coupled with the F22 and F35 fighters with stronger penetration capabilities, it is more certain that the last air defense forces of the Persians will be completely defeated.

However, if Lieutenant General Walker does this, it will be tantamount to admitting his defeat and completely losing the dominance of the Persian war, which is completely unacceptable to Lieutenant General Walker, a soldier who aspires to reach the pinnacle of military personnel and is determined to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US military.

So, to the surprise of the Persians, the U.S. strikes did not follow, but Lieutenant General Walker chose to deliberately downplay the incident, and in his report to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of Defense, Lieutenant General Walker described this unfortunate incident as a despicable ambush by the Persians, concentrating the nation's air power to outnumbered the Iron Fist Squadron and causing a tragedy.

But the Ironfist squadron still took one to ten in an extremely unfavorable situation, inflicting heavy losses on the Persians. Lieutenant General Walker said that the U.S. military in Iraq would learn a lesson and completely knock out the last cards exposed by the Persians.

The loss of a squadron of fighters in an air battle is of course a big deal for the US military, especially since this squadron is still in the extremely sensitive Gulf region, and the US president has even specially convened the National Security Council to discuss this matter, Secretary of State Burns, presidential security adviser Brant Carter, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US armed forces Pasim Sosa, and Secretary of Defense Karen Gerst, as well as the president's specially invited commander-in-chief of the Middle East Joint Task Force Command, Admiral Nikola Karen, attended the discussion.

This latest change in the war in Persia was discussed, and with the support of Admiral Nikolai Karen, Lieutenant General Walker's report convinced all the bigwigs present that they agreed with Lieutenant General Walker's statement that it was an accident and that the U.S. forces in Iraq were capable of coping with it.

It was only at the suggestion of Admiral Nikola Karen that the US military bases in several other countries in the Gulf region were temporarily under the command of Lieutenant General Walker, so that Lieutenant General Walker would have stronger naval and air forces and more attack options, and Lieutenant General Walker would be able to launch attacks on the Persians on a broad front of more than 1,000 kilometers from Basra to Muscat.

As for the US military stationed in Afghanistan, because the US military reconnaissance satellite detected that the Chinese had suddenly added a new infantry division and an air force division in the northwest border area, and there was also a mysterious Second Artillery brigade-sized convoy movement, this special action made the intelligence analysts of the US military headquarters very confused, and before they could not determine the meaning behind this movement of the PLA, the US military top brass decided not to move the US troops stationed in Afghanistan for the time being.

In this bizarre situation, the Persians were given an extremely valuable respite, giving General Hajid time to acquire the ground-to-air missiles obtained from the Chinese side, in addition to the first batch of 10 Hongqi-9A anti-aircraft missile systems, General Hajid also received 30 Hongqi-16 anti-aircraft missile systems and 30 Hongqi-17 single-vehicle automated field surface-to-air missile weapon systems.

The victory in the Tabas air battle and the great power of Chinese weapons made General Rajay trusted and highly praised by President Hashemi, so General Rajai was given greater authorization to procure.

Therefore, immediately after the victory in the Tabas air battle, General Rajay asked to meet with General Yang of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army through a liaison representative, and he put forward a new procurement request of up to tens of billions of dollars, especially focusing on more fighters, radars, and anti-aircraft missiles, and the monitoring system that can detect the US stealth unmanned reconnaissance aircraft is also highly favored by General Rajay.

In the face of this super large order issued by the Persians, the General Staff felt that it could be satisfied after careful study, and it was a win-win plan to arm the Persians to resist the control of the US military in the Gulf region and effectively offset the threat of the US troops stationed in Afghanistan to the northwest of China.

Although the Persians are not only interested in the Thunder Dragon fighters, but also the main fighters J10C and J11C of the People's Liberation Army, the PLA has never been exported with attack equipment, except for the occasional exception of the Pakistani railway, so the two fighters that General Rajay longed for were politely rejected by the General Staff.

Therefore, the Persians want to purchase fighters, and there seems to be no good choice other than the Thunder Dragon, but at the suggestion of General Yang Jianguo, General Rajay visited the 611 Institute, visited the design progress of the new Thunder Dragon and J10P fighters, and carefully studied the simulation of the energy parameters of these two fighters, General Rajay made a decision to order these two new fighters that are still in the process of development.

General Rajay hopes to be able to obtain 100 new Thunder fighters and 60 J10P fighters within 5 years, and Rajay has offered $25 million for the new Thunder fighters and $50 million for the J10P fighters.

Coupled with the new $1 billion order for surveillance systems, Duke has reaped a huge harvest of the Persians' $10 billion order and got the lion's share.

And for the rest of the money, the General Staff and the General Assembly prepared a large number of anti-aircraft missile systems for the Persians, among which the Hongqi-16 anti-aircraft missile system and the Hongqi-17 single-vehicle automated surface-to-air missile weapon system became the new killer weapon of the Persians.

Thus, in an unexpected respite, the Persians quietly re-established their new air defense system, which not only received the current extremely important anti-aircraft missile system, but also received a new squadron of Thunder fighters. By the time Lieutenant General Walker's redeployment was completed, the Persians had quietly completed their transformation and gained new strength from the hands of Lieutenant General Walker.