Chapter 1336: Red Flag Meritorious Service
In the sky, eight Super Tucano warplanes are flying from Mexico to Cuba in broad daylight. Lieutenant Colonel Ixiu, the leader of the www.biquge.info of the pen, stared at the navigation information displayed on the onboard avionics equipment in silence, and although there was no satellite navigation, the inertial navigation was still powerful.
Lieutenant Colonel Ishih served in the U.S. Army and has more than 10 years of experience piloting F-16 fighters. Now in his fifties, he had been retired for many years before the cataclysm, opened an aviation club in his hometown, and is still a master of air combat.
After the Enclave decided to interfere with the expansion of the Aurora Legion, Lieutenant Colonel Ishi, who had rejoined the army, joined the military system of the Diego regime in Mexico as an air force advisor. He was responsible for rebuilding and training Mexican pilots on how to fight.
The Air Force is a very expensive service, and modern fighters consume several tons of fuel last day. It's just that all the armies in the world have disappeared, the Mexican army is already weak, the civilian aviation talent is even less, and there is no qualified pilot at all after the cataclysm.
In order to consume as few resources as possible, the air forces of various forces now only fly propeller fighters. Because whether it is fuel consumption or ground handling, propeller aircraft are much simpler than jets. For this reason, the Enclave even gifted a batch of propeller 'super toucans' to President Diego.
The previous night air raid on Havana was the work of Lieutenant Colonel Ishi, which proved to have destroyed most of the capacity of the Havana refinery, and this result encouraged Lieutenant Colonel Ishi to continue to carry out more air raids on Havana.
However, under the repeated air raids, Lieutenant Colonel Ixiu's fleet losses were also very huge. In the first night raid, five of the twelve 'Super Tucano' were lost, and such a high battle damage rate almost caused the entire air raid plan to be completely canceled, and even caused a large number of losses to the Mexican pilots who had been trained with great difficulty.
In order for the air raid to continue, Lieutenant Colonel Ixiu had to completely replace the Mexican rookie with a veteran flight from the Enclave. Only by improving the technical and tactical level did we curb the high rate of war losses.
And with the increase in the number of battles, Lieutenant Colonel Yi Xiu also found some ways - a large number of pilots on the side of the Aurora Legion are actually rookies, but the pilot of one of them can't help but be particularly spicy. Almost all of the losses on the Ishu side were caused by it.
Lieutenant Colonel Ishu decisively canceled night raids with limited visibility, as visual combat can sometimes give full play to the strength of the 'Super Tucano', whose radar is not very powerful.
This was also verified in many subsequent battles - the powerful pilots of the Aurora Legion were also limited by the performance of the fighters, and could not use their tricky and strange combat skills in daytime battles, and it was always difficult to make a difference.
In recent days, Lieutenant Colonel Isho has been leading a team to Havana every day. His goal today is clear: "We have to blow up the airport in Havana, which is supposed to be the air defense command center of the Aurora Corps." Destroying it should be very helpful for our future operations. ”
Judging by the results of the previous operations, Lieutenant Colonel Ixiu was still very confident in his operation. There are quite a few pilots in the Aurora Legion, and there are quite a few aircraft. But their airspace is full of holes, the air force is weak, and the most equipped is an outdated biplane transport aircraft.
"The Aurora Legion doesn't have any effective airborne warning force, and we are intercepted five minutes before we reach Havana. Their air defense network is estimated to not be able to cover even the entire city.
The enemy has too few pilots capable of stopping us, there should be only one group of instructors, and the rest are very poor. We don't have to worry about it at all. "Before the mission began, Lieutenant Colonel Ishi repeatedly instilled his own tactics in his crew.
In a nutshell, staring at that perverted opponent, everything else is easy to do.
Just like that, flying and flying, the Ixiu fleet flew from Cancun airport to Havana, and flew to Batanova Bay just into land. It stands to reason that at this time, it is almost about to alarm the air defense network of the Aurora Legion, and it will ...... in a few minutes.
Don't wait a few minutes.
Suddenly, a ball of flame flew from the sky, swooping down at three times the speed of sound, and in the blink of an eye, it reached Lieutenant Colonel Ishi. Before the lieutenant colonel could figure out what was going on, countless fragments suddenly exploded in his fleet, like a dark cloud exploding, like a thunderbolt in the day.
With a loud bang, Lieutenant Colonel Ixiu's wingman was blown up, and the body disintegrated in the air and fell downward. The two pilots in the fighter plane did not have the slightest chance of escaping, and they were finished without humming.
This sudden death frightened the experienced Lieutenant Colonel Ixiu half to death, and he hurriedly lowered the flight altitude of the fighter, recalling the scene just now before shouting on the radio: "There are anti-aircraft missiles, evade." ”
The entire fleet was suddenly in chaos, and the 'Super Tucano' was designed to deal with low-intensity combat. The enemies it usually has to face are drug dealers, guerrillas, and rebels, but it does not include the regular army with professional anti-aircraft missiles.
The 'Super Tucano' is relatively easy to evade a single air defense missile with a narrow attack window by relying on its speed, but the missile that just hit it looked thick and large, and it was a radar-guided medium-range air defense missile, which was not something that propeller fighters could deal with.
"Damn it!" Lieutenant Colonel Ixiu regretted that he didn't bring an electronic warfare pod for Mao, at least he could jam the opponent's radar - well, not that he didn't want to. However, the propeller fighter does not have enough power generation capacity to carry a power-hungry electronic warfare pod.
What now? Run!
The anxious Lieutenant Colonel Ixiu could only let the fleet turn around and flee separately. He really couldn't figure out where the Aurora Legion came out of anti-aircraft missiles - this must have anti-aircraft missiles, you should have taken them out earlier! The refinery was blown up before it was arranged, which in turn was tantamount to pitting Lieutenant Colonel Ixiu.
Lieutenant Colonel Yi Xiu didn't know that in order to guard against his fleet, Zhou Qingfeng had spent a lot of money to improve the 'Hongqi-2' anti-aircraft missile he had gotten.
In order to solve the defect that the 'Hongqi-2' cannot attack low-altitude targets, the military industry of Rabbit specially upgraded the centimeter-wave radar of the missile battalion guidance station, hung it on the large reconnaissance and combat integrated UAV in the form of a pod, and then used the data link to carry out radio command guidance.
In the face of drones flying at an altitude of 8,000 meters, the Yixiu fleet flying close to the sea was discovered 200 kilometers away. The people at the remote control station of the ground drone waited for the opponent to throw themselves into the net, and immediately launched the missile when they saw the enemy plane entering the 35-kilometer air defense circle of the 'Hongqi-2'.
One shot is a success, followed by another shot.
Liu Meng's missile brigade training battalion is not very proficient in equipment, and can only control one missile to fly in the sky at a time. But just like this, the missiles were shot into the sky one after another, and it was enough to make the fighter pilots of the Ishu fleet collapse.
Seeing that the rumbling missile appeared in the sky again, the pilots who felt that they could not escape simply parachuted -- this kind of large air defense missile had a maximum overload of more than ten or twenty Gs at every turn, and the pilots could not fly out of its killing range even if they were desperate!
When downed fighter planes and fluttering umbrella flowers continued to appear in the sky, Lieutenant Colonel Ixiu, who was still desperately fleeing, did not look back and fled for his life. He was puzzled in his heart, "Why does the Aurora Legion have medium-range anti-aircraft missiles?" ”