Chapter 683: The lackluster Saudi Air Force

When the future technology group air show began, Saudi Arabia finally couldn't help but take action against Yemen.

The reason is very simple, Saudi Arabia wants to take advantage of the fact that the Houthis are not firmly on the ground, and take a thunderous blow to the Houthis.

As for the purchase of fifth-generation aircraft, no matter which country buys the fifth-generation aircraft of the Future Technology Group, it will take a period of time to train and run in if it wants to truly form combat effectiveness.

Therefore, from the very beginning, the purchase of fifth-generation aircraft was a little out of time to catch up with the blow to the Houthis.

Saudi Arabia, which had already been ready, pulled ten of its good friends and sharpened their knives to aim at the Houthis.

In the early morning of the second day of the Future Technology Group Air Show, the Saudi-led Arab coalition began a "decisive storm" air raid.

During the air strikes that night, the Saudi-led coalition dispatched dozens of fighter jets to carry out air strikes on the Houthis in Yemen.

Large numbers of Yemenis were awakened from their slumber, and many of the targets of the airstrikes were within the city, and in the airstrikes, a Houthi weapons depot was blown up, triggering even more massive explosions that cracked the windows of houses around the city.

The airstrikes lasted almost one. During the night, the Houthis also suffered considerable losses.

However, such air raids will inevitably bring accidental injuries, whether it is an air force like Saudi Arabia that is only piled up with petrodollars, or even the United States, in such a large-scale urban air raid, accidental injuries are inevitable.

It's just that at least the accidental injuries inflicted on civilians by the Americans, within a certain range of control and allowability, will not be as many as those accidentally injured in the Saudi air strikes.

One. After the air raids at night, the combined air forces of Saudi Arabia and other countries, although it did bring some losses to the Houthis, but they caused more accidental injuries to civilians, and many bombs and missiles for ground attacks fell on ordinary houses, or they were attacked by intelligence errors.

It is not surprising that such mistakes occur frequently in the midst of air raids.

A strong national defense cannot be bought with money, even for Saudi Arabia.

On the morning of the same day, many international media reported the news that the Saudi Air Force had accidentally bombed civilians.

At the same time, the Houthis continued to operate, not only completely capturing Sana'a, capturing the presidential palace, but also taking further control of the surrounding cities.

Saudi airstrikes seem to have no effect at all.

The Saudi Air Force, which is piled up with petrodollars, exudes the atmosphere of a tyrant from top to bottom, and the military strength of the Saudi Air Force is much stronger than that of the air forces of most European countries, whether it is the technical level of weapons and equipment or the number of equipment.

The Saudi Air Force has nearly 300 advanced third-generation fighters, hundreds of Apache helicopter gunships, and five watchtower early warning aircraft.

However, this powerful air force is still somewhat lackluster.

Modern air warfare is a very complex form of warfare, and its prototype is the air campaign in the German blitzkrieg during World War II.

At that time, thousands of planes swarmed at the same time, swept away important facilities, especially airfields, within hundreds of kilometers of the border, and then, with close ground-air coordination, acted as flying heavy artillery, uprooting targets in the path of ground force advancement.

At the same time, it is also necessary to use tactical bombers to attack the logistics facilities, communication facilities, and transportation hubs in the enemy's rear areas...... Disruptive bombing.

In the face of such a highly coordinated air campaign, even France, a large country with thousands of fighters, was inevitably defeated, and the Soviet Air Force, which had few radios, was even more difficult to confront.

This is not simply a problem of German aircraft, but Germany at that time had already created the concept of "air offensive campaign", and all aircraft were coordinated under unified command, which was far from being able to resist the French air defense combat organization at the level of World War I.

Of course, during the well-known Battle of Britain, Britain finally used its radar and radio superiority for the first time, coupled with its unique geographical advantage, to organize an air defense campaign that could compete with offensive air battles.

With the development of the times, in modern times, air battles have become far more complex than in those days, but the basic concept is still the same as in those days, and the key issue is coordination.

The battlefield information obtained from various channels should be gathered to the command headquarters in a certain way, and through the commander's analysis and judgment, combined with the situation of the flying units in his hands, their location, the situation of weapons and equipment, the situation of logistics and supplies, and so on, they should form a campaign determination, and then the general staff department should refine it into an operational plan, and finally draw up a combat plan for each fighter plane participating in the air raid.

The "force multipliers" of modern air campaigns are all kinds of special-purpose aircraft, which bear the heavy responsibility of air command and intelligence gathering.

When the flames of war have not yet burned, in fact, the war has already begun, and all kinds of multi-purpose aircraft have collected all the intelligence information of the target, and directed the combat aircraft to enter the battlefield to strike at high-value targets, so as to make the enemy lose as many combat forces as possible in the first place.

Saudi Arabia does not have such capabilities, although the fighters of the Saudi Air Force are hung with "sniper" aiming pods, which can clearly identify landmarks and find so-called suspicious targets, but there is no way to further identify suspicious targets, and there is no perfect intelligence support, so it can only be a shell.

Compared with the air strikes taken by the United States at the outbreak of the Iraq war, every air attack on the Iraqi army was precise and deadly.

That's because when the U.S. Air Force is operating, there are satellites and drones in the sky, and there are a large number of reconnaissance squads on the ground, so the air attack is naturally accurate and deadly.

In fact, Saudi Arabia also wants to get intelligence support and practical action support from the Americans, whether it is drones, satellites and tankers, but the United States has an ambiguous attitude towards this. Dark.

The United States has just experienced a game with the Future Technology Group because of Saudi Arabia, which made the United States cautious all of a sudden, and Saudi Arabia hurriedly went to the Future Technology Group to buy fifth-generation aircraft, which led to an imbalance in the Middle East.

Therefore, the current United States wants to see that Saudi Arabia is better dragged into the quagmire of war in Yemen, and at the same time, the final result of such Saudi air strikes is useless consumption of ammunition, and these ammunition needs to be replenished from the United States.

To put it simply, the United States wants you Saudi Arabia to find more things to do in Yemen, preferably for several years, to reduce the pressure on Israel.