Chapter 452 Half Wing
By hiding yourself perpendicular to the opponent's radar and using the Doppler effect to filter yourself out as clutter, you can eliminate the threat of medium-range missiles!
Perry operated his fighter plane and performed a high-overload maneuver. Sure enough, the sound of the radar warning receiver in the earphone disappeared!
He was already sweating profusely on his back. After all, he had just walked on the brink of life and death. Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, a huge silver fighter suddenly appeared in front of him.
****! Perry was extremely depressed. He pushed the joystick quickly, but the two planes crossed each other and his own plane shook violently.
Looking out through the bubble-like cockpit, I saw that half of my left wing had been lost! The tail of the other plane that collided with me was smoking. It seemed that my left wing was caught on the other plane's engine! I crashed into the other plane's engine and smashed half of my wing at the same time!
The fighter plane with the damaged engine was still flying unsteadily. This was the inherent advantage of a twin-engine aircraft. The pilot abandoned all the mounts to reduce all resistance.
This is more than 200 kilometers away from the coastline! Even if I parachuted down here, it would take an hour for the rescue helicopter to arrive! By that time, I would have no idea where I was floating!
Rescue at sea is much easier than on land, because the flowing sea surface can cause the parachuting pilot to move! Searching for a pilot who has fallen into the water in the vast ocean is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
At that time, only the Soviets could save him! Perry was extremely depressed when he thought about being rescued by the Soviets. It was even more painful than killing him.
Having lost half of its wing, the F-15 fighter began to roll inexplicably. Perry kept hearing Tedoro's orders for him to parachute, but he still gritted his teeth and pushed the control stick hard.
Finally, the fighter plane leveled off!
The F-15, which lost half of its wing, resumed level flight at an altitude of 300 meters above the sea! Perry had to keep pressing the joystick to prevent the lift of the other wing from being too great to prevent it from rolling again. At the same time, the vertical tail also needed to provide additional torsional torque.
Just like that, the F-15 fighter continued to fly forward! After slightly changing its course, he was able to return home safely!
Damn the Soviets! Tedoro looked at the F-15 below, which was missing half of its wing and was still trying to fly back. He could only suppress the impulse in his heart.
Should we rush forward and fight the Soviets to the death? If that happened, both sides would definitely launch another round of medium-range missile attacks. Not to mention the other fighters, the two damaged fighters would definitely be shot down!
Now, we have to protect Perry's fighter jet and ensure its safe return, as well as the F-15 that has damaged an engine, so we can only end this contact!
Damn it! Tedoro knew that this operation was completely ruined. Now, what else could he do except go back in disgrace?
At an altitude of several hundred meters, four American fighter planes were returning to the north. After discovering the Americans' return, the MiG-23 fighters did not attack again. The enemy had just approached within a hundred kilometers of their formation. Now it was almost a semi-war state. It was the right choice for them to launch missiles to expel them. Now that the enemy has returned, they can no longer provoke trouble to prevent the scale from escalating.
Unfortunately, the four R-27 missiles launched by our side this time did not produce any results. Either the Americans' combat skills are quite high, or there are problems with our missiles! Christophe couldn't help but think in his heart. On the radar screen, the four planes were still flying, but they were no longer hostile and were returning to the north.
Since the enemy had returned, there was no need for us to kill them. After all, since the Americans had admitted defeat, we had to give them some face.
At this time, the F-15 fighter jets were already visible. When he looked at the plane with the lowest altitude, he could see that the plane was very strange in the shimmering reflections on the sea.
Why is half of the wing missing? It seems that this must be the result of our battle! Four missiles, one hit!
No, the warhead of an air-to-air missile is a shatter-rod warhead, which relies on the flying metal shatters to provide its lethality. It is not a grenade, so how could it blow off half of the opponent's wing while leaving no other part of the aircraft intact?
Looking at the distance, there is another F-15, and it seems that one of its engines is damaged. They were flying head-on just now, and our missiles will definitely not destroy the opponent's engine like a rear-end attack!
The four-plane formation conducted a cruise flight at a distance of 200 kilometers from the aircraft carrier. Now, the situation is obviously not good. Will the injured Americans retaliate? The entire fleet is on high alert, waiting to respond to various emergencies.
The new MiG-23K fighter jets were lifted from the hangar to the parking area behind the bridge, ready to respond to emergencies at any time. The anti-aircraft firepower of each warship was also on standby at any time.
Time passed little by little, and the battle alarm was not sounded. However, on the distant land, the battle was in full swing.
When the 105th Airborne Division just landed, it encountered almost no resistance and completed the task of gathering the troops and advancing at the same time. Before dawn, the second batch of paratroopers also landed. The 105th Airborne Division was fully equipped and staffed. They did not wait for the next batch of the 103rd Airborne Division to arrive, and began to attack the Iranian defenders.
According to the progress of the Iran-Iraq War in recent days, the Iranian army has launched a counterattack, and the key troops are all in Isfahan. Now, the Iranian army has defeated the Iraqi army with human wave tactics and is trying to drive the Iraqi army out. Therefore, Iran’s main armed forces should be in central Iran!
This conjecture is not wrong, but they overlooked a major problem.
Where did the Iranians' T-62 tanks that suddenly appeared come from?
Iran’s own factories had long been destroyed by US air strikes, and they were temporarily unable to produce even a screw, so Iran’s tanks could only be purchased from abroad.
The internal investigation of the Soviet Union has been completed. Those retired T-62 tanks were not privately resold. If it was during the Brezhnev era, someone would have dared to do this. But now, under Andropov's rule, the anti-corruption operation is quite decisive. Even a group of high-level people in Moscow have been knocked down. How many people dare to do such a big thing? The money is good, but it is not worth it to throw away your life for money.
So, if these tanks are not from the Soviet Union, then they are from another country! Looking around the world, which country is it from? The answer is obvious.
North Korea!
As one of the famous four gangsters, North Korea has been tirelessly developing its military strength. The people can go hungry and there can be only one fat man in the country, but military construction must never lag behind!
The North Korean army, which dreams of unifying the country, has always put the construction of tank forces first. Judging from the number of tanks alone, North Korea's more than 3,500 tanks can be ranked fifth in the world! Among them, the T-62 is definitely the most advanced one. Based on this tank, North Korea modified its own Tianmahu tank.
In the early 1980s, North Korea was able to import a large number of T-62 tanks from the Soviet Union. After all, the T-62 tank was backward for the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union still treated North Korea as its younger brother, so exporting the T-62 was no big deal. At the same time, North Korea also improved its production line based on the T-62 tank, trying to transform the T-55 production line into a production line for the T-62 tank!
Unfortunately, all of this requires a lot of money, and North Korea is a typical poor country. When it is poor, it will think of change. Exporting weapons in exchange for funds to continue to develop weapons is one of North Korea's methods! For various reasons, North Korea began to cooperate with Iran.