Chapter 176: The Air Raid Begins

Basra Airport.

Four Mirage F1s, divided into two two-plane formations, are taking off one after another.

The sun shone over the airport, the cockpit canopy glistened in the sunlight, a huge fuel tank under the fuselage, and four Matra 530 missiles and two short-range Magic air-to-air missiles were mounted under the wings.

I saw a Phantom F1 numbered 4019 at the front, the front wheels had been lifted, and then the rear wheels also left the ground, the plane left the ground, and the two-wheeled landing gear began to slowly retract into the belly, only the side of the air intake with the air intake adjustment cone, the sharp shock cone, revealing a fierce face.

Hamad, wearing an oxygen mask, is methodically taking off his plane, preparing to carry out another skilled cruise over Abadan.

Due to the special situation recently, the patrol has also changed from a two-plane formation to a four-plane formation, and their task is to ensure the safety of Abadan and prevent a sneak attack by the Persians.

As a result of his two attempts to defeat enemy aircraft, Hamad was promoted to lieutenant and became the captain of a four-plane formation.

With the start of the Abadan refinery, President Saddam Hussein has also begun to care about the safety here, and now in Basra, there are already three flying squadrons of Mirage F1 fighters, with the end of the modification training, they can already take on combat missions.

However, in recent times, they have never encountered the powerful Tomcat of the Iranians, which dominates the skies of the Middle East, and once forced Iraqi pilots to slip away as soon as they appear.

Now, they also have a way to restrain the Tomcat: the Mirage F1 is equipped with the "Celaeno" IV fire control radar and the Matra 530 missile from the Moxun-CSF company, which is here to teach the invincible Tomcat a lesson!

After completing the four-plane formation, the fighters flew over the Shatt al-Arab and soon came to the skies over Abadan.

The long-term aircraft Hamad turned on the fire control radar, and the three Mirage F1s behind him received the data of the long-term radar synchronously through the data link.

Over Abadan, there was silence, nothing.

The huge chimney of the refinery below is emitting thick black smoke, and it can no longer be concealed that the Abadan refinery is constantly refining crude oil.

The Iranians must know about this, so if they see this place as a thorn in the side, then it will definitely come and bomb it.

But up to now, the other side still has not responded, which makes the Iraqi pilots on the cruise always feel a little uneasy.

Suddenly, on the screen of Hamad's fire control radar, several bright spots appeared, which were already detected by electronic equipment, and it was the signal emitted by the powerful AWG-9 radar of the Iranian Tomcat fighter.

There are enemy planes!

Hamad immediately came to the spirit, waited for so many days, and finally waited for the Tomcat of the Iranians.

"Attention formations, throw in auxiliary fuel tanks, and prepare for engagement." Hamad said.

At this time, the fighter had already flown over Abadan, and four bright auxiliary fuel tanks fell from the belly of the aircraft.

"Power up the missile, activate the seeker, and prepare for the launch of a medium-range projectile." Hamad's calm and calm order calmed down the last wingman pilot, Amy, who fought for the first time.

There are four bright spots on the radar screen, which means that the opponent has four fighters, at least one of which is a Tomcat, and there are also four fighters, so each fighter only needs to aim at one target, which is completely assigned by the long plane, and the wingman of his own side does not need to turn on the radar at all, but only needs to launch the Matra 530 missile mounted under the wing.

Because of the experience of the last time, Hamad did not order two salvos, although each plane carried four medium-range missiles, but those are all money.

The distance between the two sides is gradually approaching, and even the battle-hardened Hamad feels his heartbeat a little faster, that's a tomcat!

Hamad also knows that the Tomcat is a powerful fighter, especially the immortal bird missiles equipped by the other party, which can kill all these fighters of his own at a long distance, but now that he has been in contact, he can't escape, because behind him is Abadan!

Suddenly, Hamad felt that something was wrong, if it was a Tomcat, then the other party must have found himself, why didn't they do a maneuver flight, why didn't they launch an air-to-air missile that was farther away than the medium-range missile they mounted, even if there was no immortal bird, the Sparrow missile was about to enter the range, why was there no sound of the radar lock of the other party's unique high-frequency pulse wave on their radar warning receiver?

The other party must be more than these four, they are flying in a dense formation!

Since they were confused by the opponent's tactics last time, fortunately, Adnan made the right choice immediately and reassigned them targets.

This kind of trick will not work if it is played again, Hamad said on the radio: "Attention, the other side is in a dense formation, there must be more than these four, everyone pay attention." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the four bright spots on the radar screen, as if there was a doppelganger technique, suddenly became eight.

Boss, what a cow! Amy's heart was full of admiration, although she was one against two, but just a few switches and a few medium-range bullets should not be too different.

However, the next moment, he was completely stunned, only to see that the eight bright spots that had just become suddenly split into two again and became sixteen!

On the radar screen, there are already bright spots almost everywhere.

The Persians are in a dense formation, but this formation is a dense formation of four machines!

Or Lieutenant General Hashmian has courage! The commander-in-chief of this air raid, the commander of the F-14 Tomcat fighter squadron, Lieutenant Ziaz, led this air raid formation, which was getting closer and closer to Abbadam.

In front is the F-14 four-plane formation, which is to take away air supremacy with the Iraqi fighters, as long as the Iraqi planes are driven away, the air attack squadron behind can carry out bombing missions.

They were followed by two squadrons of F-4 fighters and one squadron of F-5 fighters, all of whom flew in dense formation, under the wings, hung with bombs.

Dense formation, thirty meters in front and behind, ten meters to the left and right, and only five meters up and down, in this case, the opponent's fighters could not find a formation at all, but a bright spot.

This is also dancing with the Grim Reaper, as long as you are not careful, for a fast-flying fighter, as long as you are not careful, it is a tragedy of aircraft destruction and death, and the fighter behind is full of bombs, and the surname can be even worse.

However, Iran's air force is trained by the United States, and they have long developed a fierce style, and even have a fight with the Israeli air force.

It's not just dense formations, in order to conceal their whereabouts, they fly at ultra-low altitudes, and in this case, it is strange that they can be detected by the Iraqis, because they know that there are only a few radars in Abadan in total, and the search range is less than a hundred kilometers.

The only thing that worries them is the fighter jets cruising over Abadan, but it is strange that Soviet-made fighters lack the ability to look down and fire down, and can spot aircraft flying at ultra-low altitudes.

It's a pity that he didn't know that the Iraqi Mirage F1, which is fully capable of accomplishing such a task, is fully capable of detecting them from the echoes of the ground with the pulse-Doppler function of the Sinora IV radar.

On Ziaz's radar screen, several bright spots appeared, which were Iraqi planes, and he was very strange that these Iraqi planes, after receiving their own radar signals, did not make the slightest maneuver and were still flying towards them.

Iraqis, who are not afraid of death, wait for your blood to be splashed in the sky! Ziaz immediately ordered the formation to disperse, ready to launch the Sparrow air-to-air missiles it carried.

It was already less than 50 kilometers away from Abadan, and the bombing group behind began to make final adjustments to the bombing route.

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