Chapter 685: Shoot down a Saudi fighter
On the day Yemen's Houthis seized the capital, Sana'a, the Houthis declared control over 60 percent of the country's territory.
At the same time, the Houthis also declared to the whole of Yemen that there are only two enemies of the Houthis, one is Saudi Arabia, which has brutally invaded Yemen's national sovereignty, and the other is an extremist group in Yemen.
The Houthis demanded that the few Yemeni government forces still resisting lay down their arms, and were willing to hold peace talks with neutral government forces and provincial government agencies to jointly elect a new Yemeni government and leader.
These news quickly spread throughout Yemen, and a large number of Yemeni people also kept calling for an end to the civil war as soon as possible, because the war has seriously affected the normal life of all Yemenis.
At the same time, the strong accusation against Saudi Arabia by the Houthis has also been supported by many Yemenis, and a large number of Yemenis have also regarded Saudi Arabia's behavior as an act of aggression when Saudi Arabia launched air strikes against the Houthis.
This behavior of the Houthis has further irritated Saudi Arabia.
On the same day, the Arab League coalition launched a more fierce air raid on Yemen, and the main area of the air raid was concentrated in Sana'a, and even the Yemeni presidential palace in Sana'a was destroyed by Saudi Arabia's precision-guided bombs, and at the same time, the air raid also brought a lot of casualties to the civilians in Sana'a.
An hour later, the Houthis issued another stern statement, releasing images of the destruction of defenses by the Saudi Air Force and a large number of Yemeni civilian casualties under air strikes.
In the statement, the Houthis said very strongly that the Houthis will launch a comprehensive counterattack against Saudi airstrikes.
What a full-scale counterattack, in just five words, will bring, no one knows at the time of this statement by the Houthis.
At the same time, no one knows that in Yemen, anti-aircraft missile positions are being activated.
The Red Guard Corps, which is familiar with the development of the incident, has already deployed a lot of means to deal with it in Yemen.
Among them, the anti-aircraft missile system is one of the means of response.
At this moment, the fighters of the Arab League Air Force are still coming and going freely over Yemen without any scruples, and they don't know that on the ground, there have been longbows that have been undisguised, revealing long arrows with cold light.
In particular, in the capital city of Sana'a, there are several inconspicuous warehouses in the middle of the city, and in each warehouse, there is a complete set of mobile anti-aircraft missile launchers.
The huge mobile device on the roof of the warehouse slowly pulled away, and inside the warehouse, the erected quadruple anti-aircraft missile launchers were aimed vertically at the sky.
At the same time, in several commanding heights around Sana'a, the prepared passive radar systems have also been turned on, and in the sky, the Saudi Air Force fighters who are looking for targets have not yet realized that their radar signals and infrared signals have been accurately captured.
A Saudi fighter plane in the sky of Sana'a, visible to the naked eye, was still searching for ground targets, and the pilot was also engrossed in looking at the pod radar screen in front of him.
As he skimmed Sana'a again, he saw a familiar image on the screen, which was a standard radar, and the radar antenna array was clearly displayed on the monitor.
This made him think that he was dazzled for a while, but just as he was about to confirm further, the early warning system in the F-15 fighter he was flying was urgent. On the alert, his fighter was locked by a missile.
Quickly taking his eyes off the monitor, he immediately saw that in the city in front of the fuselage, a missile was rushing towards him.
He didn't have time to think about it, and he was an old pilot, and he knew that he had to leave immediately, because he was almost in the inescapable zone.
However, he was still a beat slower, the missile arrived accurately, when the F-15 fighter hurriedly evaded and released the decoy bomb, the missile had rapidly approached the edge of the fighter, and ignored the decoy bomb, the missile was directly detonated five meters in front of the fighter who was ready to avoid, and the huge explosion power and dense shrapnel instantly made the F-15 fighter full of holes, and the F-15 fighter with high mobility and overload was suddenly disintegrated in the sky.
At the moment of the explosion, the pilot was killed by shrapnel, and the F-15 fighter jet was torn into several pieces, emitting red light and black smoke, and fell towards the outside of Sana'a. Fall.
This picture made countless Yemeni people in Sanaan suddenly cheer.
And this was just the beginning, another Saudi fighter jet, also located in the sky over the city of Sana'a, saw the whole process of his comrade being shot down, hurriedly sent a warning of a missile attack to the country, and also tried to leave the airspace immediately.
"Call headquarters, aircraft number three was shot down by an enemy anti-aircraft missile, repeat, aircraft number three was shot down by an enemy anti-aircraft missile, request to return home, request to return ......"
However, no matter how much he called, there was no response from HQ to his call.
In fact, at this moment, the Saudi air command has already become a mess, and the air command center placed on the watchtower early warning aircraft has lost contact with the eight fighters under its command, and at first thought it was just an equipment failure.
After all, the watchtower early warning aircraft is one of the most advanced early warning aircraft models in Europe, and the Saudi Air Force has great trust in this early warning command aircraft.
However, after losing contact with the fighters, several checks were carried out on the preparations, and it was completely determined that this was not a malfunction of the equipment, and at the same time that the radar on the AWACS aircraft also lost the whereabouts of eight fighters.
"It's not a problem with the equipment, it's that our fighters are really gone." A major of the Saudi Air Force on the watchtower early warning aircraft said very seriously.
"Tell me, then, what the hell is going on?" The one in command is the confidant of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed, a prince of the Saudi royal family, and the commander-in-chief of the Saudi Air Force, who has just been promoted, and said with some annoyance at the moment.
"Report to the commander, this kind of result can only say that they have been shot down. I propose to return immediately, we have lost the protection of fighter jets and are still in the airspace over Yemen. Again, the major who had just answered, replied very seriously.
"You're telling me that the Houthis destroyed eight of our advanced fighter jets in one fell swoop with those mud legs, and you tell me, is that possible?"
Although he was asking, when he asked, the prince of the air force, who relied on Mohammed to promote to the top position, did not believe it, if the Houthis had such a powerful air defense means, why didn't they use the air strikes in the previous days?