Chapter 193: Shocking Air Battle

The U.S. military and the fighter jets of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates locked onto the Hydra fighter group and launched infrared missiles such as the Sidewinder.

The Hydra Thunderbolt-class fighter jets also attacked with air-to-air missiles on board.

For a time, hundreds of air-to-air missiles flew in the sky with tail flames. The tracked fighters nervously dodged and dodged the attack. Fighters on both sides released jamming bombs to avoid being hit.

A violent explosion sounded, and many fighters were still hit and turned into flames and dragged down with black smoke. Most of them are on the side of the Saudi and US forces, although there are also fighters on the Hydra side that have been hit, but there are far fewer of them.

Suddenly, the whistling of missiles and the explosion of warplanes resounded over the city of Dubai and in the nearby airspace. Fighter planes continued to fall with thick black smoke in tow.

In air combat, Hydra's Thunderbolt-class fighters showed excellent ground and air combat capabilities, both attacking and dodging were perfect.

Of course, the performance of the fighters of the US military and Saudi Arabia is also quite good, but more importantly, the quality of personnel in air combat is the most important. Although the 200 F-15s, Rafale and F-16s of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman are excellent, the skills of the fighter pilots and the coordination ability of the fighter squadrons are very mediocre, and they are very lackluster in the air battle with the Hydra forces.

Although Saudi Arabia and other countries have spent a lot of money to purchase advanced equipment and build a number of well-equipped local tyrant air forces, the military quality of the pilots is too mediocre, resulting in an almost completely passive situation in fighting against a strong force like Hydra.

However, the 70 F-18 carrier-based aircraft of the US military have played a mainstay role. These fighter pilots, who are also considered top fighters in the U.S. military, really put a certain amount of pressure on Hydra. Moreover, although the local tyrant air forces of Saudi Arabia and other countries have acted as cannon fodder, they have also created opportunities for these US fighters to obtain fighters.

A Hydra Thunderbolt-class fighter rolled and dodged rapidly, but was finally hit by the fuselage, and the fighter exploded violently and ignited a raging fire, and then fell like a fireball dragging black smoke down.

In this way, the U.S. F-18 carrier-based aircraft unit shot down one Hydra fighter after another. The Hydra fighters are also aware of the threat posed by the U.S. military, and these militants are targeting the U.S. military as their main target.

The Hydra took part in this operation with a total of 500 aircraft, of which 100 were core armed gunboat aircraft, 300 were Thunderbolt-class air supremacy and ground support fighters, and the remaining 100 were auxiliary aircraft.

Hydra has 300 air combat fighters in this battle. The Saudi Arabian and other coalition forces have 200 fighters, but they can basically only be used as diversion and cannon fodder, and the soldiers who can fight are the 70 carrier-based aircraft of the US military. That is to say, in terms of strength and quality, Hydra has an absolute advantage, and after Hydra locks its main target on the US carrier-based aircraft unit, the battle situation is becoming more and more one-sided.

U.S. fighter planes were shot down one after another, and the air forces of Saudi Arabia and other countries are still struggling to fight against Hydra's fighter units.

But Hydra still relied on its powerful combat power to gradually crush its opponent. The downed fighters dragged black smoke down into the city of Dubai below or into the waters of the Persian Gulf in the north.

The pilots of Saudi Arabia and other countries were already panicked, and they had already confused their formations in the air battle and began to flee in a hurry. But it could only be shot down by the Hydra pilots.

The remaining carrier-based aircraft of the U.S. military found that they had now found that there was no way to escape at all, and with the powerful strength of the Hydra fighter group, even if they escaped, they could only be tracked down one by one.

Seeing that the commander of the US carrier-based aircraft wing could only be broken by a fish, he issued a combat order to the remaining US carrier-based planes: "Concentrate fire on the opponent's large armed gunboats." ”

There were still more than 20 US F-18 fighters left to attack the two Hydra Dreadnought-class armed gunboats.

The pilots of the fighters fired all the air-to-air missiles on board, and the Sidewinder missiles dragged their tails at the two armed gunboats.

Armed gunboats fired a large number of ground-jamming bombs, and many missiles lost their direction one after another. But there were still a few that hit the gunboat, and with a violent explosion for a while, the fuselage of the Hydra's gunboat was heavily armored, and the missile only damaged the gunboat, and the gunboat remained flying.

Seeing the sturdiness of this armed gunboat, the captain of the US fighter wing directly drove the carrier-based plane towards the gunboat plane, and with a loud bang, the F-18 fighter plane crashed into the fuselage of the gunboat plane, and after a violent explosion, the fuselage armor of the gunboat plane was finally torn apart, and the gunboat plane was immediately hit hard and staggered and almost fell down.

The remaining US pilots also felt that there was nowhere to escape, and the missiles had been fired. Several more warplanes crashed into the wings of the Hydra gunboat, the wing material of the Hydra gunboat was far less heavy than the fuselage, and the gunboat finally lost its balance and fell.

The nearby Hydra Thunder-class fighters hurried to intercept the remaining US fighters, and the pilots of the remaining US F-18 fighters also rushed towards the wing of another armed gunboat with full power. The armed gunboat also lost its balance and fell.

At this point, the US carrier-based aircraft force has been completely exhausted, and Saudi Arabia and other countries still have some residual fighter units, but Hydra will continue to destroy the remaining Saudi fighter units.

The air war with the U.S. military, Saudi Arabia and others finally ended, and 200 warplanes from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman were shot down. The 70 carrier-based planes that the USS Roosevelt came to support were also all lost.

And Hydra also paid a certain price, with nearly 40 Thunder-class fighters shot down, and two armed gunboats crashed.

Straker, who was in the plane, was even a little surprised when he heard the battle report from his subordinates, because in his opinion, it would indeed take a loss to take out this air force, but it was still much greater than he expected.

At this time, the ships of the US aircraft carrier battle group and the UAE Navy also arrived here, and they attacked the Hydra Air Force from the sea with anti-aircraft missiles and other weapons.

The Hydra forces began to attack the U.S. and Emirati naval forces

The shocking attack in Dubai naturally shocked the world, and the Avengers also received the message.

The Avengers and the X-Men attacked together, and Fury sent S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarrier with a large number of warplanes to fight against Hydra's forces due to the crisis of the campaign.

On the Helicarrier that is speeding up to the battlefield, Fang Leng, Rogers and other Avengers, as well as the X-Men who participated in the operation, are urgently discussing the terrifying crisis that Dubai is facing based on satellites and intelligence. (To be continued.) )