Chapter 66: Air Raids

Khomeini was annoyed.

In the battle of Susangilde Marsh, although the air force did not take off under his intervention, he did not expect that such an armored division would be completely annihilated!

This is an armored division, and there are no more than ten armored divisions in the entire Iranian regular army, and this armored division is fully equipped and has the strongest combat effectiveness.

So, he did not hesitate to sign the order for the arrest of Abel Hassan, how did Abel command the army? How can it be that a decent victory has not been fought?

What he didn't expect was that Rajavi, the division commander who had fled back, would dare to attack the people of the Revolutionary Guards! The corpses all over the ground, the Revolutionary Guards, symbolizing his dignity, absolutely inviolable!

He ordered a large number of members of the Revolutionary Guards to begin a search for the whereabouts of Abel Hassan and Rajawi, who had been named traitors to the Iranian revolution.

At the same time, he also ordered the Air Force to retaliate against Iraq!

An armored division has been disabled, and if it doesn't have some decent results, how can it comfort the entire Iranian people?

Iran's eagles dispatched again, this time taking off an F-14 Panda fighter squadron, two F-4 Phantom fighter squadrons, two F-5 Tiger fighter squadrons, a total of 20 aircraft, this is already the limit of what they can dispatch, in addition to the necessary guard of the airspace, they can only dispatch these aircraft, when the two Iran just started the war, that powerful air force, has been strong in the middle.

Except for the four F-14 air superiority loads, the rest of the fighters are full of bombs, ready to carry out ground bombing, this time the target of the bombing is Baghdad!

Although the number of fighters is small, there are four pandas, and this flight formation is fearless.

Pandas, in the Middle Eastern sky, are god-like beings!

Before crossing the Iran-Iraq border, the formation encountered two MiG formations that had come to intercept it.

When the panda turned on the powerful radar, the opponent's MiG plane immediately flew away.

Under this sky, any plane that encounters a panda will have only one result, and that is, it will be shot down!

The F14 Panda fighter is a two-seat, twin-engine, variable-sweep wing supersonic carrier-based multi-role heavy fighter developed by Northrop Grumman. It is mainly used for escort of naval attack aircraft groups, fleet air defense, interdiction and close air support. Development began at the end of 1967 and was delivered in May 72. It adopts the aerodynamic layout of the single-wing in the sweep of the twin-engine and double-vertical tail variable sweep commonly used in modern heavy fighters, and the sweep angle of the wing can be automatically adjusted in the range of 20 degrees to 68 degrees.

Variable swept wing technology, is an important research direction in this era, the smaller the sweep angle of the wing, the better the maneuvering surname at low and medium altitudes, but the resistance is large when flying at high speed, and the sweep angle is large, it is just the opposite, therefore, the sweep angle of the wing can be changed, it has a good low speed and high speed surname energy, in addition to the Panda, the Soviet Union's MiG-23 is also a variable sweep wing, however, limited by the level of science and technology, especially the electronic level, the Panda's variable sweep wing is automatically controlled by the computer, can be adjusted to any angle, The MiG-23 has only a few fixed angles, which are still manually adjusted.

Panda's all-metal semi-monocoque fuselage and advanced structural types are widely made of titanium alloys and partly boron composite materials. Among the structural materials, aluminum alloy accounts for 39%, titanium alloy accounts for 24%, steel accounts for 39%, and the rest is composite. Sophisticated electronics are installed on board. The most complex is probably the powerful Hughes AN/AWG9 pulse-Doppler radar. It can intercept air targets within 120 to 315 kilometers, and can simultaneously track 24 targets from ultra-low altitude to 30,000 meters and different distances, and attack 6 of them. It is also equipped with advanced modern electronic equipment such as AN/AWG15 fire control system, AN/ASW27B data transmission system, CP1050/A central air data computer, etc. These electronic devices, relatively rudimentary MiGs, are simply perverted existences.

With the AIM54A "Immortal Bird" long-range air-to-air missile, the Iranian Air Force can take out the MiG aircraft at a long distance, and at this time, the MiG aircraft have not yet discovered the other party, this is the strength. Although now, due to the lack of immortal bird missiles, most of the Pandas only carry Sparrow medium-range air-to-air missiles and Sidewinder short-range missiles, but when it comes to close-range dogfighting, the Panda still has a complete upper hand.

After the MiG aircraft formation found that the opponent's formation had emitted that unique radar signal, they immediately chose to return, not because they didn't want to fight, but because they didn't have that capital at all.

The formation managed to break through Iraqi airspace and immediately headed north, flying directly to Baghdad.

For this route, the pilots of the formations who have carried out countless bombing missions are very familiar.

At this time, over Baghdad, an air defense siren was already sounding.

Since the start of the war, the air forces of the two countries have regularly bombed each other's capitals, and ordinary people have had a very normal reaction to such air raids. They fled into the underground bunker and waited for the sound of the explosion to be heard.

The only thing to be thankful for is that neither air force is equipped with any precision-guided bombs, only ordinary falling bombs, which are very inaccurate, and, in Baghdad, a lot of anti-aircraft fire is deployed.

Around Baghdad, there were two anti-aircraft artillery regiments and two Sam-6 missile battalions, "which are capable of inflicting heavy blows on any plane that dares to bomb Baghdad." These are the words of Air Force Commander Abid, turning a blind eye to the bombs that fell overhead. (At this time, Iraq's air force and air defense forces were not separated).

In order to prevent accidental firing, the fighters of the Air Force generally intercept the enemy at a long distance, and once the opponent breaks through the defense of the interceptor, then, what comes down, will be handed over to the ground anti-aircraft fire to deal with, which is a typical Soviet military style, which can effectively prevent accidental firing, as long as it is in the sky, just shoot down.

However, in this way, the efficiency is very low, how many aircraft can be intercepted by anti-aircraft fire? I'm afraid only God knows.

Air defense is a choice made only as a last resort, when did the Americans use anti-aircraft fire? The focus of the people is to attack! Before you could come up, they would have knocked you down, attacking with all their might, and there was no need to defend at all.

In the underground air defense command center, Saddam Hussein was blushing and giving combat orders.

"Your Excellency, why don't you send our air force out to block the entry of the opposing planes?" Zhang Feng asked cautiously.

Air force? Saddam Hussein glanced at Abid disdainfully, "When the Air Force encounters a panda, it knows to escape." ”

Abid's face suddenly turned red.

"Your Excellency the President, although our air force is not strong, it is completely possible to use appropriate tactical actions to disrupt the opponent's formation, their pandas are to escort other planes to bomb, we have transferred the pandas, other planes, we can still give it a go." Zhang Feng said.

Appropriate tactical moves? Disrupting the opponent's formation? Abid cried with a sad face, among the current Air Force pilots, who would dare to fly a plane to face the panda, it was simply suicide, except for those few unruly and very backstage pilots, however, they were all very disobedient and did not obey orders. If it weren't for the hard backstage, they would have been purged long ago.

At this moment, an astonishing piece of news reached the underground air defense command center.

At the Shuaibai Air Base, a MiG-23 fighter of the 77th Fighter Squadron resisted the order and forcibly took off to meet the invading Iranian Air Force.

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