Chapter 909: A Hurricane Heading South
These ALSA pilots, how did they become so powerful all of a sudden!
Witnessing the fall of the fighter planes, the commander now suddenly felt a strong panic, if he did not order the planes to immediately leave the battle and flee, maybe the fighter formation under his command would be completely wiped out in front of the ALSA.
With the explosions and falls, the fierce battle in the sky southeast of Syria seems to be about to settle and decide the winner for a while.
In such a country where civil war is in full swing, the pace of war never stops, and near the dusty eastern border of the country, a tug-of-war between the Iraqi New Party and the Syrian rebels is still going on; Under the influence of the sandstorm, the atmospheric visibility was quite bad, and the overwhelming FSA fighters could only roar back and forth in the clear sky, throwing bombs one after another on the fiercely contested field positions on both sides without accuracy.
Compared with the fighting that broke out on the front line of Deir ez-Zor, the ground war on the eastern border has taken on a completely different appearance.
Unlike the dry desert of the Syrian hinterland, the northwestern region of Iraq, which is located in the northern part of the Middle East and has barely reached the humid standard of precipitation, has more complex terrain and vegetation than the desert Gobi, and is not suitable for a large-scale armored confrontation.
Fighting in such an environment, the Syrian rebels, who are bent on "liberalizing" northern Iraq, are still pressing down on heavy forces and advancing on an open front of hundreds of kilometers, but at the spearhead of their attack, the weak Iraqi New Party does not have a steel division under the command of the Damascus regime, and they can only disperse a few tanks and armored vehicles to cooperate with the penetration and harassment of ground troops. The Liberal Party, which had been overwhelmed by the soldiers, could not break through lightly for a while.
Facing the well-equipped and well-armed Syrian Freedom Party. The new party armed forces, which were struggling to support, adopted a kind of movement warfare that was akin to guerrilla. This kind of piecemeal tactics can naturally be used to harass the enemy, but it is inevitably unrealistic to defend the territory by constantly harassing small forces.
The fighting on the northern border has been stalemate for some time, and the reason why the New Party, which is obviously weak, has been able to withstand the attack of the rebels is largely due to the fact that they have a tactical air force with decent combat effectiveness.
NATA - New Arab Tactical Air Force, a new force in the Middle East that was created by the new party and has a rather generous name. Today, it also appeared in the sky over the war zone, facing the FSA fleet with superior numbers, the two sides unceremoniously collided head-on at once, and fought endlessly in the vast sky paved with sand and dust.
In the face of a group of strong enemies from the West, the NATA_10th_ITFS (10th_Independent_Tactical_Fighter_Squadron, the 10th Independent Tactical Fighter Squadron) from the air base in the suburbs of Mosul, and the J-10A/AS fighters painted in desert yellow formed a sparse fighter interception line, while trying their best to intercept the attacking Liberal fighters, and on the other hand, beware of the European Community coalition forces from the north. Provide a minimum of air shelter for the armed forces of the New Party, which are fighting bloodily on the ground.
Since the outbreak of the civil war in Syria. The expansion-addicted Liberal Party has been attacking from all sides, except for Turkey, which is a raccoon dog in the north. In addition to not launching an offensive, the rebels not only attacked the Syrian government-controlled areas in the west and the Jordan and Saudi Arabia in the south, but also crossed the border from the east and directly attacked the liberated areas of Iraq, where the ruling philosophy is consistent with that of the Damascus regime.
Under such a grim situation, the new Iraqi party could only cope with threats from two directions at the same time, not only mobilizing most of the available reservists and building a front in northwestern Iraq, where Kurds are populated, but also specifically ordering the 10th_ITFS stationed in Mosul to change their operational plans and shift the focus of defense from the city of Mosul to the western front -- such an arrangement was tantamount to opening the door of the capital wide, and the newly formed fighter squadron had not yet formed a combat capacity. For this reason, the New Party administration urgently sent a secret channel to the Alliance of Eastern States to ask for help, handing over the latest S400 surface-to-air missile systems to Soviet Russian "volunteers" who had entered the country in a low-key manner, and deploying them around the capital, and also reaching a tacit agreement with the UNSA stationed in Iran to allow it to enter Iraqi airspace to carry out its mission without saying hello.
As a result of such a temporary deployment of "tearing down the eastern wall and making up for the western wall," the situation on the western front has temporarily stabilized, while the Baghdad regime in the south is sharpening its knives and preparing for a new offensive, and the situation is already extremely bad, and the new party can only pin its hopes on the aircraft carriers "Tbilisi" and "Zhejiang" cruising in the Persian Gulf, in addition to resisting with all its might.
Just two days ago, a serious scandal broke out in the Security Council, and perhaps the Americans who sold "ghosts" privately were the behind-the-scenes manipulators of the dispute, but the Eastern League of Nations should still be trustworthy, shouldn't it?
Looking at the entire Middle East, the contest and competition between the international situation are sometimes so unpredictable.
However, unlike the complex and mysterious national schemes, the battle that broke out in the sky requires every participant to put aside distractions and concentrate mentally, otherwise it will be difficult to survive on the battlefield.
The sky is clear, the sun is shining, and above a large desert-like dust storm, there are desert painted fighters fighting desperately; Just above this chaos, under the sky at a height of nearly 10,000 meters, several fighters with light white bodies and blue star paint were flying calmly, leaving only white tracks of condensation of water vapor where the orange tail flame swept by.
Sarah Lopez, a major in the Combined Forces Air Force, is looking around through dark grey goggles, trying to discern the warplane's silhouette from the vast expanse of earthy yellow.
Piloting the 22+07 landline all the way straight away, the silent girl held the joystick with one hand and put the other hand on her thigh, and Peugeot's face was a little indifferent; Unlike his usual temperament, which was high-spirited and could not rub sand in his eyes, Major Lopez at this time seemed to be indifferent to the fierce battle that broke out thousands of meters below, but in fact, a trace of boredom appeared on his face under the breathing mask.
Hmph, seeing that you have to delay the attack under the pressure of public opinion and perform a routine mission in the no-fly zone, do you still have to pretend to be deaf and dumb so hypocritical?
"Attention to each aircraft, confirm that the electronic interference tuning is normal, and launch a group of signal flares at predetermined intervals and arrangements; Don't act when you're not threatened.
Repeat, don't act when you're not threatened, and you're done. β
"Oh, got it. - Over. β
Under the integrated cockpit canopy of the light white "Hurricane" fighter and feeling the unobstructed sunshine, the beautiful blue-eyed girl was really in a bad mood at this time, and she also looked like she was ignoring Lieutenant Colonel Raul Alvarez, who has always been respected.
Hearing the major's weak answer on the radio, almost all the pilots in the "Hurricane" formation shrugged their shoulders in their seats with a wry smile on their faces, quite helplessly, they knew that this hot-tempered daughter was making a fuss, and they could probably guess what was making her feel bad -- according to the latest instructions issued to the ECJA air wings yesterday, the nature of the activities of the coalition air force in the "Syrian no-fly zone" was about to change. will temporarily suspend the mission to intervene in the Middle East; As for the next plan of action, it depends on the development of the situation, and Lieutenant Colonel Raul Alvarez, who strictly enforces this order, naturally orders all aircraft not to move without permission, in short, it is better to complete this cruise mission in peace and stability, and it is better not to go wrong.
Seeing a battle breaking out at a low altitude, but receiving instructions not to act on his own, having been resting in shifts from the day before yesterday to this morning, and learning about the notorious behavior of the Liberal Party through the Internet, Sarah Lopez was naturally very annoyed and a little absent-minded about the patrol mission.
If in the previous operations, she was confused and only had some doubts about her identity and mission, then today's major is really angry, she originally planned to attack alone after taking off, looking for Liberal fighters everywhere in the sky to fight a hearty air battle, but now she heard Lieutenant Colonel Alvarez's instructions to "keep flying in formation", telling the pilots to ignore the scuffling NATA and FSA, and continue south to intercept the ALSA army that entered the "Syrian no-fly zone".
Obviously, the commanders of the coalition forces decided that the fighting that broke out in eastern Syria had no intervening value, or that these arrogant and conceited guys were still determined to compete with the ALSA, even if it was a sensitive time and weapons such as assault planes could not be dispatched, they still had to order the fighter wing to take to the air as always.
After a recent period of battlefield observations, coupled with the words of the lieutenant colonel, Sarah Lopez is deeply disgusted with the Liberal Party entrenched in the Middle East, and at the same time has a strict sense of rejection of her duties.
I may not have thought it before, but now that I think about it, what is the purpose of coming to Turkey far away from my homeland......
Thinking about it, the consciousness is confused, and Sara Lopez's love xΓΉ naturally can't be good.
Unlike the middle-aged and experienced Raul Alvarez, the young and vigorous Major Lopez could not separate his personal feelings from the execution of the mission, or he was so tired of this hypocritical "peaceful intervention" that if she was not on a mission with her comrades, but went out on a safari alone like a World War II ace, maybe she would have rushed straight down to fight the FSA fighters. (To be continued......)