Babylonian Empire

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Hades envied his days in the Rattlesnake Special Forces.

At the same time, the sound of fighter jets whizzing past in the sky was the air force rushing to reinforce.

The Maverick is an air-to-surface weapon. In addition to being commonly used to attack tanks, armored vehicles, missile launch sites, artillery positions, etc., it can also attack surface targets such as ships at sea.

Due to the short range and weak power of the Mavericks, it is a bit laborious to strike targets above the frigates, but it is just right to strike targets such as speedboats.

The only downside is that Maverick missiles are too expensive. Using this kind of precision-guided weapon to attack the speedboat that is not very valuable at all is a bit like killing a chicken with a sledgehammer.

If those speedboats sank a tanker, though, it would be costly.

Therefore, the biggest "advantage" of war is that it can quickly devour human wealth. For both sides, war is a war of attrition for wealth.

Hamad turned on the TV aiming head of the Maverick missile, aimed at a speedboat that was about to flee, and then pressed the launch button.

A few seconds later, a picture of being hit and on fire appeared on the multi-function display under the cockpit.

mission accomplished!Hamad felt relieved for a while.

And the formation of Phoebe's Phantom F1 in the back is not so easy. What they carry are all Iraqi-made C801 anti-ship missiles!

Moreover, they are on this trip with a special mission.

In the southeast of Iran, there is also a large port, Chah Bahar Port, which is also an important naval base in Iran, where several Iranian ships, including two Babur-class and a Babur-class Yando class, and a large supply ship.

When the ship attack battle was in full swing here, and when Saudi Arabia and other countries had sent naval escorts, these large Iranian warships did not dispatch.

I don’t know if it’s because those ships couldn’t start due to lack of parts, or because the Iranian navy knows that if they sail like this without air supremacy, they will be easily destroyed by Iraqi fighter planes. I don’t know if it’s because the Iranian navy knows that this kind of It is better to carry out attacks on civilian ships in a more concealed manner. In the narrow Strait of Hormuz, small boats are enough, and large warships are not needed.

In short, these warships are still parked at the port of Chah Bahar. Since they are parked, Qusay will never let them go!

Get rid of these Iranian warships!

Therefore, although this vigorous exercise is training the cooperative combat capabilities of the two sides, when the Iranians attack again, they can have a quick response. !

Because, if the fighter plane flies to such a long distance in normal times, it will definitely arouse the alert of the Iranians, and those two Babur-class ships that do not know whether they can continue to sail have standard SM-1MR ship-to-air missiles. As long as the opponent is warned and the radar is turned on in advance, it can launch missiles and shoot down the anti-ship missiles launched by its own side.

Therefore, it must be done in secret.

Knowing the true mission of the anti-ship missiles mounted on the Phantom F1, only Major General Talal was the only one in the entire exercise force. When he received this notification, Talal was so impressed by His Majesty Qusai's strategy that he fell in love with him every time. Every event will strive for the greatest benefit. Your Excellency Qu Sai is the one who never wants to suffer.

After passing over the exercise formation, Phoebe's 11th Fighter Squadron continued to fly eastward, getting closer and closer to the target of this attack.

Phoebe felt that the two anti-ship missiles under the wings seemed to have vitality, waiting for the final firing moment.

Although the C801 missile was advertised to the outside world, Phoebe knew that it was not a C801 missile, but a modified anti-ship missile using the Red Bird II missile body.

This kind of missile has the same firing range as the Red Bird II, but instead of 120 kilometers, it is [-] kilometers. It uses a small turbojet engine imported from China instead of an engine imported from Europe.

Because the Phantom F1's radar cannot guide this kind of anti-ship missile at such a long distance. If it is a cruise missile, it uses terrain matching guidance, and the aircraft just launches, regardless of the guidance data provided.

For air-to-ship missiles, the radar of the fighter plane needs to provide all the data required for launch.

The Phantom F1 descended. Although there was no Iranian warning radar along the coast, they still flew towards the target carefully.

As long as it flies to a distance of [-] kilometers, it can launch missiles!

Chapter 465 Solving the Large Warship of the Iranians

Outside the Gulf of Oman, an E-2 Hawkeye early warning aircraft of the U.S. Navy is conducting remote monitoring.

For this formation that is undergoing exercises, the US Navy is full of disdain and jealousy.

The roar of the plane reverberates on the sea surface. The plane flies so low and the noise is so loud that the fish under the sea surface are also startled. Missiles feel fear.

Although according to intelligence, the Iranians did not deploy police radars on the coastline, the Iranians will definitely monitor this exercise of the peninsula defense forces in the Gulf of Oman, because this exercise was originally for the Iranians Look, the Iranians are likely to find these yaw fighters, so after flying out of the exercise area, Phoebe's formation descended to an ultra-low altitude of 50 meters.

After the tempering of the Iran-Iraq War, the combat effectiveness of the Iraqi Air Force has reached a level, or even a few steps. It is not difficult to perform this ultra-low-altitude flight mission. Compared with the low-altitude flight in the Iranian mountains, this It's nothing at all.

Flying at ultra-low altitude and using the curve of the earth to avoid radar detection is a common air attack method, but it is completely ineffective for the early warning aircraft in the sky.

The early warning plane is condescending, overlooking the ground. Those ultra-low-altitude fighters cannot hide from the sharp eyes of the early warning plane. As long as the interference of ground clutter is resolved, this is a very effective way to deal with ultra-low-altitude fighters.

The E-2 pre-alarm machine has been developed to the present, and it is already a relatively mature pre-alarm machine.

Now, on the early warning plane, three operators are monitoring the exercise.

Due to the last incident, the U.S. Navy made a retreat. Moreover, last time it was only Iraqi fighter planes, but now there are troops from various countries. Therefore, the U.S. Navy did not take off fighter jets to monitor closely. If there is another mistaken attack, I don’t know if there will be Good luck last time.

The radar operator stared at the large screen on the console in front of him, and several bright spots caught his attention.

Several fighter planes for the exercise left the area of ​​the exercise and began to fly eastward.

He couldn't help laughing and said: "This peninsula defense force is really powerful. It took off a few fighter planes to form an air-ground joint, but now it's actually lost. I don't know if it's the Saudi Air Force's fighter plane or the Iraqi Air Force."

They are all from the navy, and they know that the sky and the earth are blue during the flight over the sea. After a long time, it is easy to have illusions and mistake the sea for the sky. Some navy pilots once had the illusion of flying. During the flight, the sea was regarded as the blue sky, but as soon as it was pulled up, it plunged into the sea.

As for the Iraqi Air Force, which has always been flying over land, rarely flew over the sea, and has never reached the sky over the Gulf of Oman, although their pilots are not of low quality, this kind of lost will happen.

Let's wait and see the good show, because the US Navy, which can only watch from the outside, is a little depressed because it cannot be stationed in the Persian Gulf.

The combat intelligence officer looked at the screen and suddenly had a strange feeling that these fighters didn't seem to be lost, but more like they were flying in that direction consciously.

He woke up suddenly, that direction was the direction of Chah Bahar Port in Iran!

At this time, the few light spots on the screen suddenly began to climb higher.

Having entered the firing range, Phoebe ordered the formation: "Get ready to climb, turn on the fire control radar."

The entire formation immediately began to climb rapidly from the sea level tens of meters high.

Phoebe turned on the "Cyrano" IV fire control radar, and after a bright line on the radar screen swept around, some bright spots appeared immediately.

That is a warship in the port of Chah Bahar!

At this time, the distance from the other party was already ninety kilometers away. At this distance, launching anti-ship missiles was quite sure.

The radar started to work intensively, calculating the opponent's position, providing initial data for the missile's launch, and at the same time, through the data link, assigning the target to be attacked to other people in the formation.

Because only one target can be attacked at a time, and, in order to improve the effect of the attack, Phoebe chose to shoot two salvos.

Phoebe chose the biggest target, a Babur-class destroyer.

After a few seconds, the Phantom F1's fire control system completed all preparations for firing. Phoebe put his hand on the firing button without hesitation.

Suddenly, he felt a flutter in the wings.

Two huge anti-ship missiles, the mounting mechanism has been unlocked, the missile fell from the wing, and then the engine started to ignite, the missile adjusted its attitude and flew forward.