Chapter 223 The Weeping Eagle of David [4000 words debt 8/9]
According to Mubarak's pre-war deployment, after the airborne radar discovered the E-2B early warning aircraft, 210 MiG-21MFs were evenly divided into three formations at an altitude of 18,000 meters, and attacked in batches with 70 aircraft as one formation.
At the beginning, the Sky Eagle Bodyguard Group of the E-2B Early Warning Aircraft was still glad to divide the troops. Even if it was bragging, it was still very stressful to face 2.5 times the enemy plane at the same time.
Now there are 70 enemy aircraft in each batch, which is still within the affordability of the bodyguard team.
This will at least make you feel much better mentally...
However, once the two sides contact, the sky eagle will be numb.
These damn fish nests (the NATO code of MiG-21) do not play according to the rules at all. How to solve them?
Theoretically, the weapons and equipment of the Skyhawk and Fish Nest are similar, and they do not have the ability to strike head-on. The "Rattlesnake" and its replica "Atoll" are both infrared-guided and must be shot according to the butt. The cannon is only powerful when chasing the head.
Therefore, in the prediction of the Israeli pilot, the fish nest either dives from a high altitude, finds its butt, whips away, or slows down obediently, stays to participate in the dog fight, and does not leave the armor that was killed by itself...
So the 40 Skyhawk fighters arranged behind the buttocks of the E2-B early warning aircraft fearlessly pulled the nose, and the two Mk12 20mm cannons at the wings also began to rotate. The head-on attack had no shooting angle, which was better than nothing.
However, unexpectedly, the first wave of 70 fish nests was not interested in the 40 Sky Eagles that flew up and intercepted, and they were reluctant to disperse even the dense formations. They directly passed by the Sky Eagle Group that had not yet reached the interception position at a speed of Mach 1.8. The 23mm G3-23 double-barrel cannon under the belly of the aircraft was aimed at the direction of the E-2B Eagle Eye Early Warning Plane. The "dadada" shot was fired, and it didn't hit the target, and it pulled up the fuselage and left!
The 40 Skyhawk fighters were completely decorative. Their speed was already slow, and they lost a lot of kinetic energy when climbing up. Just by delaying the fish nest, they flashed!
Damn it?
The fire control radar didn't have time to lock it up and wanted to fight dogs. These Egyptian ghosts didn't even have the ambition to become dogs. Are they here to fight or tease people?
However, the Hawkeye Early Warning Plane was scared and sweated.
Several obvious bullet holes had appeared on her wings. If the cross eagles flying above were not protected by the fuselage, she might have been blown up!
In fact, when this group of fish nests approached the enemy formation, they did see a lot of plump big butts. According to the order of "Seeing the butt and putting atoll", they should have used a thousand-year killing skill. Unfortunately, the Egyptian pilots' hand speed was not enough, and they dived at a speed of Mach 1.8. When approaching and pulling up, they were already in a hurry. Where can they still have kung fu to operate the missile?
It is already the limit to being able to aim the cannon at the early warning aircraft and fire it out!
Despite this, he took advantage of the intentional and unintentional advantage. Taking advantage of the Jewish people being caught off guard, the first wave of attacks still achieved good results. Four Skyhawk fighters that sacrificed their lives to block shells on the back of the Hawkeye Early Warning Plane were blown up...
The first battle was short in less than a second, and the cold sweat of the Hawkeye Early Warning Aircraft Commander Brigadier General Oren Muffman soaked his back. He could see that although the Egyptian Air Force dispatched up to 210 fish nests, his appetite was not big, and he had only one target-
E2-B Hawkeye Early Warning Machine!
Brigadier Oren Mufman now has two options:
First, leave a small number of sky eagles to accompany the Hawkeye early warning aircraft as bait, entangle the enemy, and let most of the sky eagles run away!
Second, let the sky eagle fly up to block the shells and continue running with the early warning plane!
At this time, the entire early warning aircraft formation is only about 60 kilometers away from the air base in Tel Aviv. As long as you fly 25 kilometers further forward, you will enter the defense circle of the Hawk surface-to-air missile position located outside the air base in Tel Aviv.
Similar to the Sam-6 air defense missile company, the basic unit of the Hawke missile position also includes a pulse capture radar for target monitoring, a high-power illumination radar for target tracking, a command post with a control stand, a MKXⅡ enemy-to-me recognition question and answer system and three triple-mounted launch devices, and its high-altitude defense distance reaches 32 to 40 kilometers.
Therefore, once you fly into the defense circle, the early warning aircraft will no longer be afraid...
At a distance of 25 kilometers, it takes 85 seconds for the Skyhawk fighter to fly at an extremely fast speed, and the E-2B Hawkeye Early Warning Plane takes at least 140 seconds. This is just an ideal state, assuming that the 210 fish nests do not intercept and harass!
But the cruel reality is that the other party has already intercepted it.
In order to obtain a better shooting angle, the first wave of 70 fish nests did launch an attack from behind, but before that, the entire fish nest aircraft group had crossed the early warning aircraft formation at a high altitude, flew to the direction of Tel Aviv, and then began to attack in formation.
The remaining two waves of fish nests were standing in the direction of Tel Aviv!
In this case, if the early warning aircraft formation wants to continue flying to Tel Aviv, it will have to turn around. Otherwise, the fish nest will whip after wave, and before Tel Aviv can be reached, the early warning aircraft will be sieve...
Protect early warning aircraft or Tianying?
This was originally a question that didn't require choice. As the only air brain deployed by Israel in the direction of the Sinai Peninsula, its strategic value is higher than anything else and it must survive at all costs. The 80 Sky Eagles were originally bodyguards and had long been conscious of sacrifice.
However, Brigadier General Oren Muffman was not sure to escape into the defense circle of the Hawke missile position within 140 seconds. In fact, when the rear-end shooting of 70 fish nests just now, he had ordered the turn to avoid it!
The 140-second journey of death is enough for those three batches of fish nests to dive attacks 10 times!
Unexpectedly, this surprise bombing that seemed to be a hellish trap, has been lost at present, and 72 "ghost monsters" have been lost. Do you have to catch the only 80 remaining Sky Eagles?
Commodore Oren Muffman was not a soft boy. He was also a glorious ace pilot. The Egyptian pilot who died under his crotch in the first three Middle East wars could not count both hands, but at this time he was scared.
Continue to fly straight lines is a dead end. If you don’t fly straight lines, you will die for a lifetime...
Various thoughts came out in his mind, but none of them were realistic. Brigadier General Oren Muffman could only transfer the cross eagles from behind his butt with tears in his eyes and flew up and covered the eagle-eye warning aircraft, blocking the gun hole—
No matter what, I have to withstand the second wave of attacks!
With the protection above his head, Brigadier General Oren Muffman gritted his teeth and transferred the channel to the Air Force Command:
"Call the base, the early warning aircraft formation was intercepted by the fish nest aircraft group and had begun to exchange fire. The Skyhawk fighter was fighting to the death to protect the early warning aircraft, but was not sure to fly back to Tel Aviv... The formation requested to scatter the breakthrough, and use the early warning aircraft as bait to let more Skyhawk fighters fly back as much as possible!"
At the critical moment of life and death, the former ace "David Eagle" chose to sacrifice himself!
After a few seconds of silence, the headphones rang again:
"Brother General Oren Muffman, your bravery is admirable, but General Weizmann is already fighting for rescue, and the fighter jets near the Golan Heights are ready to take off. Please be sure to stay calm before this. The Air Force needs you to bring back early warning aircraft and as many Skyhawks as possible!"
The Air Force Command was in a very embarrassment. This was a kind lie. The General Staff was still quarreling, but the information brought by the intelligence officer was not optimistic, and the rescue was still stuck in the mouth...
Brigadier General Oren Muffman bit his lip, and replied in pain:
"Yes, execute the orders firmly!"
"Good luck!"
The rescue plane had not taken off yet, so it was up to itself, but the Skyhawk had no choice but to do with these fast and slippery fish nests...
However, the headquarters disagreed with giving up the early warning aircraft. Brigadier General Oren Muffman could only passively continue to protect the big baby and continue to let the Sky Eagle die. This feeling of a dead fellow Taoist who is not dead is really uncomfortable!
While speaking, the second wave of 70 fish nests came again, and the same style of play was still the same. The dense formation dived down, aimed at the direction of the early warning aircraft with the machine gun, fired thousands of shells, and left...
Three more sky eagles turned into fireworks, and I went to see God!
Brigadier Oren Muffman muttered quietly, trembling with his lips:
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
If the opponent uses air-to-air missiles to attack, the early warning aircraft can also turn on electronic interference, but the fish nest does not use electronic equipment at all, just fire with machine cannons. What's the use of interference?
In desperation, Brigadier General Oren Muffman had to harden his heart and once again adjusted five Skyhawks from behind his butt to replenish them above the early warning aircraft.
The pilot of the Skyhawk was so aggrieved that we were David Eagles, the famous Middle East. Are we not those anti-air balloons that were motionless waiting to be beaten?
However, the third wave of fish nests is coming again!
After the third wave of fish nests flew away, the first wave of fish nests came back from a distance and continued to join the sequence of dive shooting...
One round, one round, another round, repeating itself, and the descendants are endless!
The technology is not strong, but the Egyptian Air Force gradually mastered the simple and crude "dive, approach, shoot, and pull up". Relying on its numerical advantage, it used the 23mm G3-23 double-barrel cannon to fire a rather terrifying firepower suppression...
The second-generation fighter jet is used as the first-generation fighter jet, and the "dada" whip is whipped down—
The effect is pretty good?
After the nine-wheel dive shooting, the Skyhawk fighter jets that were blocking each other have lost 27. The E-2B Eagle Eye Warning Flight was also covered with scars by dense bomb rain, and it was almost impossible to hold on...
Brigadier Oren Muffman struggled. After being the fourth time he was in his turn, he could no longer bear the torture and aggrievance in his heart. He drew 20 Skyhawks from the flanks and asked them to rush up to intercept the damn fish nests in advance!
It’s better to die in the clouds of charge than to get beaten with your butt sticking out!
Unfortunately, the 70 fish nests that were swooping down looked at the sky eagles that were hitting the tip of their noses without even taking a look, as if they were just phantoms, and they were still swooping down in dense formations, with their flight trajectory exactly the same as the previous few times...
Damn, I was so angry that I started to fight, and I just started to hit me?
The Israeli pilot was very timid and relied on his excellent flight skills to avoid this group of desperate fish nests at the last moment of the collision!
Originally, it was just a fight against more people with less, and one life was exchanged for one. Isn’t it just the Egyptian ghost’s wish?
The Jewish guy is so smart!
The 20 Skyhawks retracted in disgrace. Oren Muffman did not accuse them. He would have to dodge them. The plane was driven into a bumper car. Who can withstand this?
The Skyhawk pilots were all puzzled. Aren’t Egyptian ghosts always afraid of death? What happened this time? They came together to get medicine?
They didn't know that Mubarak gave the death order before the mission began:
Who dares to break away from the formation by stepping on the horse? Cannon will be executed on the spot!
Either a collision or a gun strike.
Which one should I choose?
Of course, you have chosen a collision machine. At least the collision machine has the opportunity to eject and parachutize. If the gun is decided, the entire formation will open fire together and turn into plasma every second...
The situation is becoming increasingly unfavorable to the Israeli early warning aircraft formation, because waves of fish nests circling around them like shepherds, and they use this rogue method to force the entire early warning aircraft formation to avert!
The early warning aircraft formation that originally flew to Tel Aviv is now facing Cairo and is far away from the coastline of Israel...
This can't continue like this!
Oren Muffman burst into tears. If this continues, not only will the early warning aircraft not be able to be saved, but these 80 Skyhawks... Oh no, none of these 53 Skyhawk fighters can go back!
However, before he could change his mind, the four red "Flashers" of the 101 Flying Squadron finally arrived at the battlefield after a rapid pursuit at high altitude!
The radar of the early warning aircraft was always monitoring the "damn 101". Every time they approached a kilometer, the radar operator became nervous. Now, when they saw them merging into the tenth wave of fish nest formation, everyone clenched their fists.
Four red "Flashers" followed behind the 70 fish nests that carried out the tenth wave of attacks and dived down together, but instead of using the cannon, they controlled the fire control radar and aimed at the four Skyhawks behind the early warning fuselage.
Kill the early warning aircraft?
No, no, that's just the final task.
Once the early warning aircraft is killed, the remaining 53 Skyhawk fighters will flee in all directions. With the strength of the Egyptian Air Force, even if they are four times the enemy, they will not be able to defeat them all in one go.
But as long as the early warning plane is still flying, these eagles will spread their wings like old hens and protect her tightly. They will be whipped to death by the fish nest with little whips without regrets...
Therefore, the red "fighter" is actually here to harvest the eagle!
The E-2B is a propeller aircraft and does not have a tail flame, but the circular antenna on her back and the engine under her wings are both good infrared heat sources, which is very beneficial for the locking of infrared-guided "atolls".
Modern early warning aircraft have extremely strong survivability. After all, they rely on radar to make a living. Its own electronic suppression and interference ability is very strong. It can interfere with radar-guided air-to-air missiles, and can also release foil jamming bombs and infrared jamming bombs, causing the pursuit missile to lose control and fall...
Unfortunately, so many ways to save lives are still on the drawings of Boeing's E-3 early warning aircraft project.
The simple E-2B has no other way except electronic interference.
Chapter completed!