Chapter 569 Cruise E-3
It's still night now, and attacking at night is always a very difficult task, especially the most advantageous air attack power on our side, which cannot be exerted at night.
Instead of launching attacks at night, it is better to wait for it and wait until dawn before taking action! At that time, the armed helicopters of the air assault division will bring death strikes to the Iraqi Army, as well as the A-10 attack aircraft, and special anti-tank weapons!
After a night of running, the Soviet tank troops were also in a state of exhaustion. Their oil volume was limited and they must be refueled in the desert. By this time, the attack aircraft group of our side would appear, bringing the other side rain of death! Moreover, the Iraqi Air Force was out of reach and could not take into account the depths of the Saudi desert. Yesterday's battle had shown that the strength of our side's air force was still suppressing the other side!
After hearing Powell's words, William frowned and nodded: "Okay, then we will arrange according to this tactic. However, our ground forces must also be prepared to set up a line of defense in the eastern desert of Riyadh. If the Iraqi armored clusters raid over, we must destroy them in the desert and protect the safety of our allies' capitals!
Saudi Arabia has no danger to defend, with deserts everywhere. Tanks that are soaring in the desert can easily cross the defense line and attack Riyadh. When the troops were sent, the United States was patting its chest to protect Saudi Arabia's security!
"Report that our F-117a Nighthawk formation has returned and is refueling in the scheduled airspace. All the bombs they threw hit the target. President Saddam, who is suspected of being a national speech in the Baghdad TV building, has also been killed and is now being confirmed." At this moment, another good news was received, which made William Little was extremely excited.
The effect of stealth aircraft is quite good! During the day, so many planes were dispatched, but Baghdad did not explode. Now, a few stealth aircraft have solved the problem!
"Yes, let them return and continue to prepare for the bombing tomorrow night." William said: "If you adjust the time, they should be able to go out twice in one night."
Today was just an experimental bombing, which confirmed the combat capability of this aircraft. If it was launched at dark, it would definitely be bombed twice in one night!
Time passes by little by little, and the sky in the east slowly turns white.
In the Prince Sudan Air Force Base, a large number of aircraft groups have begun to prepare for takeoff. The attack effect of the Nighthawk attack aircraft last night gave them great encouragement. Moreover, the Nighthawk destroyed Iraq's air defense hub last night, and today's bombing will be even smoother!
In northern Riyadh, an e-3 early warning aircraft was flying at a cruise altitude of 300 kilometers. Next to it, four Saudi Air Force F-15 fighter jets were escorting.
The plane took off from yesterday afternoon and has been on duty for more than ten hours. The entire crew was in extreme fatigue. The next early warning plane will take off in half an hour and undertake the command task of attacking again.
Although half an hour was left, the crew cheered up and carefully observed their radar screen. For them, they could not relax at this moment!
In the middle of the night yesterday, Iraq's armored battle groups crossed the border and came all the way to Riyadh. Although warning messages came one by one, the Middle East Command did not mobilize troops to intercept them.
The Iraqi army marched about three hundred kilometers and then disappeared.
Yes, it just disappeared! The an/apy-1 S-band pulse Doppler radar used by the e-3 early warning aircraft was originally designed to detect air targets. It uses flat-panel gap radar, which can eliminate the influence of ground clutter, detect ultra-low-altitude aircraft, and also detect moving vehicles on the ground.
Yes, it is a moving vehicle! The inherent disadvantage of radar detected according to Doppler principle is that it will remove aircraft without radial speed as clutter filtering, which is also a way to unlock locks in air combat. Now, once vehicles on the ground stop, they will be removed as clutter filtering on the ground and cannot be displayed!
This is also very simple, which means that this Iraqi army is stopping to refuel! The target coordinates are sent to the Prince of Sultan Air Force Base in the rear, allowing the air force there to launch a strike!
Because the e-3 early warning aircraft has this defect, in later generations, after the Americans entered service in the e-3, they intensively developed the e-8 "Joint Star" joint surveillance target attack radar system aircraft. The fuselage of this aircraft is equipped with a 12-meter-long radar compartment with a powerful an/apy-3 multi-mode side-view phased array i-band electronic scanning synthetic aperture radar. Using the synthetic aperture function, it can locate ground stationary or active targets around the clock, detect and track combat management, command and control. In the later Gulf War, this e-8 aircraft played a good effect.
The Iraqi Air Force obviously has no night combat capability. It was calm last night and nothing happened. Only its side dispatched the Nighthawk attack aircraft, but it did not disturb Iraq's air defense system at all.
Now, it is getting dark, will the fighter jets in Iraq's air base be dispatched?
On the radar screen, the airspace was clear and there was nothing.
The radar antenna was still spinning at a speed of 6 revolutions per minute. In this boredom, a radar operator suddenly swept to a corner of the screen and four targets appeared!
High-altitude high-speed! The speed of these four targets exceeds Mach 2, and the altitude exceeds 20,000 meters!
"Discover the MiG-25 in Iraq, with a distance of 400 and a direction of 030, and intercept it immediately!" The radar operator's order quickly underground and reached the escort Saudi Air Force fighter formation.
"Blue Shark Squadron received." Flying the F-15 fighter plane, the squadron leader Mohamed Scheid pushed the operating pole and flew towards the east with his wingman!
The Iraqis own MiG-25 fighter jets imported from the Soviet Union! If this fighter jet flies to a high altitude, there will be no solution for it. However, as an escort fighter jet, our side must move forward.
Moreover, the Iraqis are still four hundred kilometers away, and their biggest goal is to expel them in the past!
"Distance to climb up to 400 kilometers, keep the right direction, prepare the missile launch procedure." And here, the MiG-25 fighter is also preparing for the final attack! (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!