In the face of the prince's questioning, the major of the Saudi Air Force on the watchtower early warning plane was not frightened at all, because the current problem is quite serious.

If the eight fighters in front of them were shot down by the Houthis, it means that the position of the AWACS aircraft is also quite dangerous, and they must return to their own country's airspace as soon as possible.

"Commander, before the eight fighter jets disappeared from the radar, our communication system had a brief failure, this is definitely not accidental, the airspace we are in now, our current position is in Yemen, if the Houthis have anti-aircraft weapons to destroy our fighters, it means that the AWACS aircraft are also within the strike range of the other side." Major Saud said solemnly again.

The prince of the Saudi Air Force, although he was very reluctant to believe it from the bottom of his heart, but when he heard his subordinates repeatedly emphasizing, he was inevitably a little uneasy in his heart, after all, this was related to his own life, no matter what the result was, go to a safe place first.

"Immediately order the captain to return to the ship as soon as possible."

After giving the order to return, the prince confronted the young major and said, "I hope your analysis is correct, otherwise you will be court-martialed for it." ”

When the Major heard this, his face remained unchanged, and he did not defend anything, for he trusted his own judgment very much.

In the eyes of Saudi Arabia, the Houthis are indeed a mud leg, but Iran, which the Houthis support behind them, is not a mud leg.

Iran is a country with its own defense industry, capable of producing short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.

There has been information that three Iranian ships loaded with large quantities of weapons and equipment are docked at Houthi-controlled ports, and at least 1,000 tons of weapons and equipment have been received by the Houthis.

At present, the Saudi military intelligence department has not yet figured out the details of this batch of weapons and equipment, but it cannot be ruled out that there are a large number of missiles in this batch of weapons and equipment.

It is also completely impossible to rule out that there are a large number of anti-aircraft missiles in this batch of weapons and equipment.

Because it is necessary to carry out precision strikes on the ground, the air force fighters generally fly at an altitude of only a few thousand meters, unlike early warning aircraft, which are all above 10,000 meters.

The altitude above 10,000 meters is completely outside the strike range of individual anti-aircraft missiles, but fighters do not count.

Yemen has individual anti-aircraft missiles capable of shooting down low- and medium-altitude fighters, as the major also admitted.

But shooting down eight fighters in one go, this is difficult to do by relying on the use of individual anti-aircraft missiles by the Houthis alone, and the most likely is that advanced regional anti-aircraft missiles, even medium- and short-range anti-aircraft missiles, can shoot down AWACS aircraft.

When the watchtower early warning plane turned around and was about to leave, on the ground, an air defense missile system had already locked on the Saudi early warning plane that had entered Yemen's airspace.

The watchtower early warning aircraft is an advanced early warning command aircraft in Europe, and it is quite difficult to shoot down such an early warning aircraft.

In particular, it is very difficult to have such an opportunity to shoot down an early warning aircraft with an anti-aircraft missile in actual combat.

If the Saudi side had known that the Houthis had a large number of anti-aircraft missiles, they would not have dared to let AWACS aircraft enter.

At this moment, the radar system on the ground has already been secretly turned on, and the radar signal and communication signal released from the watchtower early warning aircraft are like fireflies in the night sky, so bright and outstanding.

Silently, two anti-aircraft missiles ejected from camouflaged launchers, ignited in the air, and flew towards the AWACS aircraft in the middle of the air.

At the same time that the anti-aircraft missile was lifted into the air and the radar locked on the guidance, the early warning radar on the early warning aircraft discovered the incoming missile at the first time.

There was no need to explain anything at this moment, and the commander of the Saudi Air Force in the AWACS plane turned pale in an instant.

How could the AWACS plane be able to dodge the anti-aircraft missiles, and the warning lights in the aircraft flashed rapidly.

The missile approached rapidly, and the early warning aircraft could not be as flexible as the early warning aircraft, and the captain released a large number of decoy bombs at the first time, but the signal locked by the missile guidance radar never stopped.

"Accept Allah's arrangement!" The Major slowly closed his eyes.

The prince's face was as white as snow, and he seemed to want to open his mouth to say something, but he couldn't say a word, and the others in the airport were no better.

The AWACS aircraft is locked by missiles, and the decoy bombs do not work, and the result will not be much better than that of a civilian airliner locked by an anti-aircraft missile.

It seems that the process is very long, but in fact it is only a few seconds, the anti-aircraft missile approached at more than seven times the speed of sound, ignoring the interference of the decoy bomb, and the two anti-aircraft missiles directly collided with the early warning aircraft, and the instantaneous explosion almost blew the early warning aircraft to pieces.

A strong flash of fire flickered in the sky, and a large number of debris fell to the ground as if descending, and a large number of wreckage of the fuselage burned and fell. Fall.

This is not accidental, in the face of the advanced anti-aircraft missiles of the Red Guard Corps, let alone the watchtower early warning aircraft, even if it is the world's most advanced early warning aircraft, it will not escape the doom.

This day is also destined to be a disaster day for the Saudi Air Force, in response to the air raid in Yemen, a third of the dozens of fighter jets dispatched could not return, including a very precious watchtower early warning aircraft, and also buried a powerful prince of Saudi Arabia, and is also Salman's right-hand man-like figure.

And this is destined to be a news that cannot be hidden, and many international media in Yemen have even personally filmed the downing of the Saudi Air Force fighter jet.

Among them, near Sana'a, three F-15 fighters of the Saudi Air Force were shot down, and some reporters rushed to the wreckage as soon as possible. The place where it fell, a lot of photos were taken.

More than a dozen Saudi fighter jets were destroyed in Yemen, and this is still because the Houthis have not really carried out a full-scale counterattack, otherwise it is estimated that few Saudi fighters entering Yemen will be able to recover from home.

It was a well-prepared counterattack, based on the fact that no one knew that the Houthis had such a powerful anti-aircraft firepower, otherwise the cautious Saudis would not have suffered such huge losses.

The international media have also published relevant news reports, almost all of which use the words "Halberd and Sand Sinking Sand" to describe Saudi Arabia's air raid in Yemen today.

It also made the Houthis begin to enter the eyes of the international community, and while the international community was surprised by the fighting strength of the Houthis, it also looked at Iran.

It seems that everyone knows that this must be the credit of Iran, otherwise with the capabilities of the Houthis, it is simply impossible to have so many anti-aircraft missiles.

In response, Iranian officials also issued another statement, condemning the Saudi airstrikes on Yemen, but also calling for peace and calm treatment and not allowing the war to escalate further.