Chapter 51: The Air Force Arrives
After a night of preparation, the Air Force's attack aircraft group finally took to the stage in the Susangil marshes.
At the front, flying were two MiG-25 interceptors.
As an interceptor, the MiG-25 is the most outstanding, with two turbojet engines with afterburner thrust of 110 kN, the MiG-25 can fly at a limit speed of 3 times the speed of sound, but this state can only last for three minutes, even so, with an excellent aerodynamic layout, the MiG-25 is faster than the MiG-21 when cruising.
When the MiG-25 arrives on the battlefield, its main task is to reconnoiter the battlefield situation and compete for air supremacy with the most troublesome F-14.
The MiG-25 was piloted by the "Falcon Reyer", and this was his 40th combat lift-off.
Is the F-14 scary? Every time they encounter a panda, Iraq's air force throws away its armor and flees in disarray, and Reyer is determined to change the situation and regain confidence in the Iraqi air force. Because, Reyer knew from the Soviet army instructor that the pulse Doppler radar was relatively good, but there was also a major flaw, he practiced a hard action to make his aircraft signal unlock on the opponent's radar.
Next, there is a four-plane formation of MiG-21, they are also carrying air-to-air missiles, and their task is to protect the Su-20 attack aircraft behind them.
The Su-20 attack aircraft is an export model of the Su-17 assembler, which is a variable-swept wing single-seat fighter-bomber developed by the Sukhoi Design Bureau, developed from the fixed-wing fighter-bomber Su-7.
Due to the nose air intake, it looks somewhat similar to the MiG-21, but the center cone is enlarged, and fire control electronics such as rangefinders and omnidirectional warning radars can be installed inside, and two pitot tubes are installed above the nose. The back of the fuselage has a tall ridge compartment to accommodate more fuel and equipment. In this era, the most popular is the variable sweep wing, and the Su-20's characteristic outer wing segment variable sweep wing is a medium single wing shape, and the outer wing sweep range is 28-62 degrees. There are a total of 8 weapon pylons, of which 2 are dedicated to hanging auxiliary fuel tanks, and the remaining 6 can be hung with a total of 4,000 kg of various ground attack weapons (such as rocket launch nests, 240 mm large-diameter rockets, deceleration bombs, AS-7 Black Bull air-to-ground missiles, etc.), and the wing root is equipped with 2 30mm HP-30 cannons, each with 70 rounds of ammunition, and the appearance of the whole aircraft is quite vigorous and mighty.
Due to the backward engine, the thrust-to-weight ratio when unloaded was less than 1, and the Su-20 attack aircraft dragged the ammunition and crawled over slowly.
The slower Mi-24 Hind will arrive at the battlefield in half an hour.
At this time, the MiG-25 had already swept the entire airspace and found no activity of opposing fighters.
They know that the air force of the Iranians is not as good as it was at the beginning of the war, and many pandas cannot take off due to the shortage of parts, and since the Iranian air force did not come, then here is their own sky!
At this moment, the Iranian armored forces on the ground have already panicked.
Rajavi did not expect that he had forgotten the most important part: although there were few fighter jets in normal times, if the slow-moving Iraqi air force could get here after he was discovered, it would definitely be a different outcome.
Armored forces against the Air Force, that is a dead end, dead to the point that there is not even scum left.
He immediately asked for help from the rear, and no matter what, he had to send fighter jets to drive these guys away from his head, even if the F-14 Panda couldn't come, even if the old F-5 Tiger fighter came.
Hurry up, time is of the essence, and after spotting the two MiG-25s overhead, Rajavi immediately asked Ahvaz for help.
The second order, that is, the whole armored division attacked!
If you want to evade the opponent's air attack before your own air power arrives, there is only one way: mix with the opponent!
As long as the two sides exchange fire, the formation between each other is chaotic, and there are chariots of both sides everywhere, in this case, those attack planes in the sky will not be able to effectively strike at their own side at all, and it will be a very troublesome matter to distinguish between friend and foe.
Moreover, both sides are now lacking in precision attack ammunition, and it is somewhat difficult to rely on rockets to avoid accidental injuries.
Therefore, Rajavi asked all his armored vehicles to attack at full speed and mix with the other side.
It's a pity that it's a second slower.
All the tanks of the other side are retreating, and the armored vehicles are retreating happily, although the opponent is directly hanging in reverse gear and retreating, resulting in the speed of the vehicle not being too fast, but this is a swamp, and the speed of their own tanks is not fast, so there has always been a clear distance between the two armies.
This distance is the distance between life and death. After a while, the opponent's rockets covering the surname from the air will come down, if on the ground, the rockets are not to be feared, but in the sky, the rockets falling from the sky, for the weak armor at the top, the chieftain can't stand it, not to mention, the rockets that can be mounted on the attack aircraft are all large-caliber, and they are all large-caliber rockets, and they are all 240 mm large rockets all at once, as long as they are not front armor, they can't stand anywhere.
Rajavi's third order was to let the M113 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, which was converted from the M163 armored car, immediately turn into combat condition.
This is a 6-tube 20 mm caliber anti-aircraft fire, which is used to accompany armored forces and conduct field air defense, but for fighters overhead, how effective it can be, I'm afraid only Allah knows.
Rajawi did not know that at this moment, General Sharaf and Commander-in-Chief Abel Hassan were in big trouble.
Upon learning of the presence of the Iraqi Air Force, Abor immediately ordered two squadrons of F-5 fighters to take off from the air base east of Ahvaz to drive away the Iraqi planes over the swamps.
As for the powerful pandas, they need to take on the responsibility of defending the airspace of important places, and Abel is not capable of mobilizing them.
Who knows, the airbase actually refused to carry out the order of the chairman of the Supreme Defense Council, Aberr, on the grounds that the Supreme Spiritual Leader Khomeini gave the order, and the Air Force directly carried out his order.
Abel knew that there was a big problem.
In the revolution that overthrew the Baviel dynasty, Abel and Khomeini were close, but, as time went on, the differences between the two grew larger.
Abor was the first president elected by the Iranians themselves, and Khomeini was the spiritual leader of the Iranians.
Abel has always advocated that a spiritual leader is a spiritual leader, and the president is the president, but now, the president is just a fig leaf, and the spiritual leader is the supreme ruler of the country.
He immediately called Khomeini, but he was never able to find the president, he did not know that Khomeini was presiding over parliament at this moment, and the specific content was to impeach him under his circumstances.
This attack, which was already the last time Abel commanded the army, failed and lost to one man's ** on power.
At this time, Abel was still trying to get in touch and make a last-ditch effort, hoping to save the raid that had been hoped for.
When the MiG-25 flew over the Panzer Division for the third time, Rajavi did not wait for his own fighters, but only saw attack planes flying in the distance with weapons on their feet.
This attack is over.
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