Chapter 671 Raid on the Position
The key to the surprise attack is the drone!
In the last test, Syria’s air defense system was unable to distinguish between drones and real fighter jets, so the Israeli Air Force used drones to attack outposts this time.
Drones were used to induce Syria's air defense missiles to open fire, exposing their positions and leaking their radar parameters. Before being shot down, the drones transmitted these parameters back to the early warning aircraft and the ground, providing the latest intelligence to the attacking aircraft.
At the same time, drones are still monitoring the situation on the battlefield. After all, not all drones have been destroyed.
Moreover, the Syrians will definitely find out in the end that those shot down were all drones. When their own fighter jets fly over, they might also mistake them for drones and not open fire at all?
In this era, even the United States did not pay attention to the value of drones. Only Israel, the army with the most combat experience, realized the great value of drones. After this battle, drones will also be valued by the whole world! And this battle example of the Israeli Air Force will also be analyzed as a classic battle example!
Flying at ultra-low altitudes close to the ground requires superb skills, but for the fearless Israeli pilots, this type of flying is part of their daily training.
Now, they were flying towards the target at a very low altitude, and the target had not even been discovered!
Thirty kilometers away, still out of range of the enemy's anti-aircraft missiles! Pilot Raymond pressed the button.
Under the wing, a milky white Shrike anti-radiation missile flew out!
Air defense missiles and fighter jets are natural enemies. Fighter jets have outstanding maneuverability, while air defense missiles have greater lethality. In order to counter air defense missiles, the United States first invented anti-radiation missiles.
Any air defense missile must be guided by radar, regardless of the short-range infrared missile. As long as the opponent's guidance radar is destroyed, the air defense missile will be blind!
With this idea in mind, the United States has improved this anti-radiation missile based on the Sparrow missile, with the focus on improving the seeker! The seeker relies on tracking the opponent's radar signal to locate, and is a killer that specifically strikes radars!
This missile was put into use in the Vietnam War and achieved good results. Afterwards, the United States continued to improve it, increasing the maximum range of the missile to 40 kilometers. At the same time, it continuously increased the frequency range of the seeker to a wider range, added angle selectors, and increased the direction of attack.
Although the Shrike missile is about to be discontinued, it is still one of the most commonly used anti-radiation missiles in the Western world. The Israeli Air Force uses the latest model. From the signal of the SAM-6 guidance radar intercepted by the drone, it was confirmed again that it was within the strike range of the Shrike. Now, they have already won!
"Boom!" The Shrike anti-radiation missile successfully hit a guidance radar vehicle on the ground. In the explosion, the radar vehicle was completely destroyed!
A Mastiff drone accurately captured this scene. The splashing radar and the burning fire made the scene simply spectacular!
The Soviet weapons were so vulnerable!
Although the SAM-6 missile was very powerful in the last war, Israel keenly found the weakness of this missile. Several launch vehicles share one radar vehicle. As long as this radar vehicle is destroyed, the entire missile position will be destroyed!
The F-4 fighter jets, carrying Phoenix missiles, launched a devastating attack on the guided radar launchers of the SAM-6 missiles deployed in the Bekaa Valley! At the same time, several SAM-6 missile positions a little further away were also destroyed by missiles launched by several Wolf ballistic missiles pre-deployed by Israel!
The entire Bekaa Valley was in ruins, and the radars of all 14 air defense positions were destroyed!
Go, keep going! After the F-4 fighter jet launched the Shrike missile, a large number of fighter jets continued to emerge from the rear, flying in the narrow airspace, looking for their targets.
It is impossible to completely destroy the Syrian fighter planes with only the Shrike missiles. They must fly over the enemy's head and drop heavy laser-guided bombs! Now, even if they move their positions, it is too late!
The Israeli Air Force coordinated very closely. After they had just bombed the radar, new fighter planes followed out to bomb the remaining missiles in the missile position.
Commander David was also very excited on the E-2 early warning aircraft. In his opinion, in less than five minutes, the air defense missiles in the entire Bekaa Valley would be destroyed! Now, what he was most concerned about was when would the Syrian Air Force be dispatched?
The Soviet equipment lacked effective friend-or-foe identification capabilities, so the Soviets used the simplest way to solve the problem, which was to divide the area. The air defense area and the fighter flight area were separated. For air defense missiles, as long as they entered its range, no matter what the target was, it would be shot down!
The Soviets were always so domineering, even when shooting down their own planes. In every Middle East war, the number of Arab pilots killed by their own anti-aircraft missiles was not necessarily less than that killed by the Israelis.
A large number of anti-aircraft missiles are deployed in the Bekaa Valley, so the Syrian Air Force will not appear over the Bekaa Valley. However, when all their anti-aircraft missile positions are destroyed, they will definitely send out the Air Force to fight back, right?
By then, we can completely crush the Syrian Air Force with our absolute strength! As long as we severely damage the Syrian Air Force and make them dare not continue to fly over Lebanon, our air force can safely and boldly support ground operations, and this war will end soon.
Israel has already won this battle!
Israel will win! The Jews will win! With this thought in mind, Gilat, a pilot of the Lion fighter, drove his fighter close to a SAM-6 missile position. His fingers flicked various switches, and a graphic of the ground appeared on the display in front of him. He only needed to press the crosshairs on the target, and the onboard laser would emit a laser beam to guide the bombs that were thrown out later.
Just like during training, the bombs that were thrown out afterwards would completely destroy the launch site!
Hold steady, you still need to fly forward another five kilometers before you can throw the ball. Due to the limitation of the payload, the weapons outside the defense zone are not very powerful. The most suitable high-powered, low-cost weapon is still a bomb!
Suddenly, he was startled. The triple-mounted missile launcher that his crosshairs were pinned on was suddenly surrounded by smoke!