Babylonian Empire

When it was about to reach Qom, Phoebe began to order the strike squadron to prepare to power on the cruise missiles and activate the two missiles below.

... Khomeini was just about to walk into his mud room when he suddenly heard a thunderous sound in the distance. Could it be raining?

He raised his head, and saw in the dark night sky, among the faintly twinkling stars, there were a few yellow spots of light that were constantly moving.

meteor?

Ayatollah's expression tightened: "Teacher, I'm afraid it's a fighter jet of Night Flight!"

Due to the shortage of spare parts, Iran has very few fighter jets to take off before the time of combat. What kind of night flight training is it doing?Khomeini also understood immediately.

"Immediately order the air force to scramble to intercept these Iraqi planes!"

Chapter 3 Red Bird II, launch

With the sound of the air raid alarm, the air force base near Tehran, Iran, immediately became tense.

Although it was late at night, they did not relax their combat readiness at all, because what they guarded was the sky of the capital of Iran!

Following the sound of the police report, Karatbari and Noroz ran out of the preparation room, followed by their radar operator, and ran towards the two Tomcats ready to take off at the end of the runway. .

The huge tomcat stopped there quietly, with its wings spread out, like an eagle, ready to fly at any time.

The runway lights of the airport have been turned on, and the T-shaped runway is a little dazzling.

As the four of them ran, they zipped up the flight suits, and the hands holding the helmets were bumping non-stop.

This time it was scrambled, and Iraqi planes came to bomb at night!

Where did the Iraqi plane come from?Why didn't other radars detect it?These are not important, as long as the Tomcat can take off and scan with its powerful radar, it can see the surrounding airspace clearly.

Several people stepped into the cockpit, although they were still panting, they were already sitting on the seats, put on their helmets, and were preparing for an emergency departure.

The power supply vehicle did not drive over. They used the precious power supply of the aircraft to start the engine.

Left and right, when the ground crew removed the escalator, both engines had already started successfully.

"Report, the eagle requests to take off."

"Report, Vulture requests takeoff."

"Can take off."

The two fighters turned on the rear afterburners, and suddenly, in the dark night, the lavender flames were very dazzling. Their tenacious style was fully displayed at this time. In this kind of night, they actually took off in a formation of two fighters!

Two planes, four flames, began to run faster and faster against the lights on both sides of the runway. Finally, they left the runway and climbed rapidly.

Two Tomcats each carried two precious Phoenix long-range missiles, two Sparrow medium-range air-to-air missiles and two Sidewinder short-range missiles.

After they took off, two F-4 fighter jets scrambled.

At present, there are only a dozen Tomcat fighter jets that can take off in the Iranian Air Force, and the two that are on duty are the two in the best condition. The rest are still in the hangar for maintenance. Not as an organ donation, but for other fighters. If there are enough spare parts, Iran's Tomcats can at least maintain a scale of more than 40 aircraft!

Now, the once most powerful air force in the Middle East is already at its weakest moment.

However, although there are few fighters, they will never allow their airspace to be invaded by the Iraqi Air Force, especially in important places like Tehran!

Phoebe had no idea that the operation they had carefully prepared was discovered by the old man on the ground. This was simply an insult to modern technology.

Designing a unique route, sailing at low altitude, or at night, avoiding the opponent's radar, they have tried their best.

However, it was precisely because of the low altitude flight, precisely because of avoiding the opponent's radar, that they flew over the vicinity of Qom as a result.

Originally, it was already three o'clock in the morning, and it was the time when ordinary people were fast asleep. Yes, the highest spiritual leader in Iran, a god-like figure, actually suffered from insomnia and stayed up late at night. The sky is in a daze, which is also called thinking.

As a result, it was discovered visually by others.

The plane flying at night is flying at low altitude and fast. The sound of passing through the air and the tail flame behind it are still very obvious if people deliberately observe it.

Since there is no early warning aircraft support, they don't know that the other side has already discovered that they have taken off fighter jets in an emergency and come to intercept them. You must know that they are not carrying 530 missiles for air superiority mounts, but for ground mounts, and , without the escort of heavy fighter jets.

However, the danger did not happen, because the two missiles under their wings were enough for them to launch outside the defense zone!

At this time, there are still 120 kilometers away from the target.

"Attention the pilots of the squadron, we have already entered the launch range, the final inspection, ready to launch!" Phoebe shouted on the radio.

This bombing is actually very easy. To put it bluntly, they seem to be truck drivers, and they only need to transport the missiles, because the range of the missiles is not enough, and the preparations before the launch are all for the sake of safety, because the launch It has nothing to do with them to shoot the cruise missile where it hits.

Before the launch, the technicians had already entered all the information into the onboard computer of the Phantom F1, and the brain of the Red Bird II cruise missile also pre-stored the geographical information of the target during the flight for the terrain Matching system used.

After the Phantom F1 takes off, through the data bus, the inertial platform of each Red Bird II missile is automatically aligned with the inertial navigation system of the carrier aircraft to jointly determine the data in flight.After entering the launch area, the onboard computer injects the data before launch into the missile, calculates the flight trajectory, and then launches.

The most difficult thing to obtain is the data map of the terrain matching system. In later generations, most of the methods are to scan the earth in an all-round way through remote sensing satellites in space to obtain all information. However, in Iraq at this time, there is definitely no this strength.

Zhang Feng had no choice but to use his connections, especially Liang Lao, who was still in Iraq, to ​​buy back remote sensing images around Tehran from China at a high price in the name of experimenting with cruise missiles.

Because of the relationship with Mr. Liang and the images of Tehran, which would not pose any threat to China, these images were obtained without too much trouble.

In 1966, China's FSW series of returnable satellites began to be developed. The first FSW-1 satellite was successfully launched and recovered in 1975. After several launches, China's highest resolution satellite photos were obtained at that time. Although the large amount of image data of the target area is not as advanced as that of Europe and the United States, it is still enough for Red Bird II to use.

The onboard computer completed a series of tasks, and the pilots pressed the launch button one by one.

Due to the heavy weight of the missile, the engine was not ignited directly on the wing. The missile broke away from the pylon and fell a few meters down before the engine would start to ignite.

In the dark night sky, it seemed that fireworks were suddenly set off. The bright flames made the pilot feel a little uncomfortable.

The eight Red Bird IIs were ignited one by one, and started its attack of great significance!

Red Bird No. [-], launch!

Now, the distance to the target is 120 kilometers, and the Red Bird II has a range of [-] kilometers. Although its legs are short, it is definitely enough!

The eight missiles were divided into two directions, two batches, and flew towards the predetermined target in the distance.

After the engine was ignited, the missile accelerated to Mach 0.8, the altitude was reduced to 80 meters, and it entered the first stage of flight.

After launching the missiles, the formation returned immediately.

At this moment, two F-14 fighter planes had already left the airport and entered the vast night.

Where is the enemy?Although there is darkness everywhere, I will find you out!

The lead plane, Karatbari, quickly climbed to an altitude of 5000 meters. The radar officer in the back cabin turned on the radar and began to search the surrounding airspace. The west is the closest place to Iraq. They searched the western airspace first, but found nothing.

Then Kalatbari turned left and headed south, when he heard the radar officer in the back seat yelling: "Found the target, four planes, direction of six o'clock, distance of [-], altitude of [-], they have returned!"

The powerful AWG-9 radar on the Tomcat fighter jet can detect a fighter-sized target at a distance of 160 kilometers, and finally found the opponent's fighter plane. Although I don't understand why the opponent returned without bombing, but Karat Barry did not Don't plan to let the other party go.