Chapter 672: Sneak Attack and Counterattack
For a country like Israel that is surrounded on all sides, air force power is the first thing to be valued. Israel has also experienced the difficulties of purchasing fighter jets from abroad during several Middle East wars. Although its relationship with the United States is now quite friendly and it can obtain first-hand advanced military equipment from the United States, Israel has not stopped its own research and development.
The Leon fighter is a masterpiece created under such circumstances. When talking about the Leon, we must first mention the French Mirage fighter.
Israel won a great victory in the Third Middle East War, and in this war, France's Mirage 3 fighters also played a big role. The Israeli Air Force was very satisfied with this fighter and had signed an agreement with France to produce the latest Mirage M5J fighters in Israel. Unfortunately, the French government tore up the agreement under the pretext of maintaining peace in the Middle East, and these fighter contracts faced the fate of abortion.
Later, with the unremitting efforts of the Jews, especially with the help of an outstanding Swiss engineer Alfred Franknecht, Israel obtained the drawings of the Atar 9C engine. With the production equipment from Dassault, it began the task of producing new fighters. After repeated efforts, in 1975, this fighter was finally put into service and was renamed the new Lion Cub from the original Thunder.
Unfortunately, the Cub faced an awkward fate as soon as it came out, because negotiations with the United States for the F-15 fighter had already begun. The F-15 fighter was produced with the most advanced technology in the United States, and its performance was naturally far superior to that of the Cub. The Cub, with its advanced structure, had insufficient air combat performance, and in the end, this fighter was used as the main ground attack aircraft.
And now, the Cub fighters are following the F-4 fighters to undertake ground attack missions. As the first unit to receive the Cub fighters, the 101st Fighter Squadron has quite rich experience in pilots.
As soon as he discovered that the anti-aircraft missile launcher on the ground was surrounded by smoke, Gilat knew that the situation was complicated!
What was the smoke? Was it emitted by the enemy's smoke launcher to avoid our airstrike? This is just a funny guess. The most appropriate reason is that the enemy launched a missile, and the smoke from the missile's takeoff surrounded the launch vehicle!
If the other side wants to launch a missile, it needs radar guidance. How can we launch a missile when we have destroyed the other side's radar guidance vehicle? Moreover, our radar warning receiver has not sounded a warning until now!
No matter what happened, Gilat knew that this was the most dangerous time! He quickly pressed the button and dropped the laser-guided bomb mounted under the wing directly. This would definitely not hit the target, but it would reduce the weight of his own body. Then, he turned on the afterburner and did a standard side-turn and escape action.
"Boom!" At this moment, a sound rang out near the fuselage! Along with this sound, countless red indicator lights flashed in the cockpit, oil pressure warnings, fuel leakage, and engine flameout!
There was no time to hesitate. He pulled the ejection handle under the seat and put his legs together. Under the huge overload, Gilat was taken out of his cockpit by the ejection seat.
At this time, the Lion Cub had already fallen with a huge fireball.
Until now, Gilat doesn't know how he was shot down, and there are many people who have experienced the same thing as him!
On the ground, flames flickered on the SAM-6 missile launcher, and missiles flew into the sky one after another. The SAM-6 missiles powered by ramjet engines flew at a very fast speed. At this time, those Israeli fighter planes had just flown over the missile positions, and they were simply targets delivered directly to them!
Just like the war in 1973, the Israeli Air Force was abused by the SAM-6 missiles!
No one knows why this happened. Obviously, the guidance radar of the SAM-6 missile had been destroyed, but the SAM-6 missile was still able to aim at the target and launch!
What's going on? What's going on? Standing in the small cabin of the E-2 early warning aircraft, Commander David was already furious! His air force was being ravaged by the ground-based air defense missile forces, and until now, there was no evidence to explain the reason!
In the sky, Israeli fighter planes exploded into fireballs and beautiful flowers bloomed. The Eagle of David launched a sneak attack but was attacked instead!
Damascus, Syrian Ministry of Defense.
"It's really exciting, this is a great victory!" The Syrian Defense Minister said to the man in front of him, with great respect for him. It was because of this man who miraculously foresaw the entire process of the Israeli attack that he was able to design various counterattack measures against the Israeli attack.
In order to lure a large number of Israeli fighter jets to attack, their side also made sacrifices. Those guided radar vehicles were not fake targets, but real ones, and were destroyed by Shrike missiles.
If it were in the past, if these guidance radars were destroyed, the entire missile company would lose its combat capability, and Israel’s follow-up aircraft could easily bomb it!
But now, the situation has reversed because the Soviet Union provided emergency assistance and improved its own missile launchers!
The defect of the SAM-6 missile is that once the guidance radar is destroyed, it will lose its combat capability. The Soviets are well aware of this, so their improvement work is continuing. The later SAM-11 missile has a guidance radar installed at the front end of the launch vehicle, so that even if the radar vehicle is destroyed, it will continue to have combat capability.
Most people think that only the SAM-11 missile has such an improvement. In fact, this improvement of the SAM-6 began as early as 1977. The launch vehicle was modified into a new launch-radar integrated system of 2K12. It is equipped with three 3M9M1 missiles on a tracked chassis, and a "FireDome" guidance radar is installed in the front of the chassis. After being discovered by the Western world, this system was named SAM-6B.
When the radar vehicle is there, use it for guidance. After the radar vehicle is destroyed, each launch vehicle has a radar to guide it and can continue fighting!
What Syria obtained was such an improved system, and in order to enable the Syrians to have combat capabilities, more Soviet instructors joined in and participated in the air defense operations in the Bekaa Valley.
Moreover, because it was the first time for this system to work, the radar warning receivers on the Israeli fighter jets were not set up for this type of radar. Due to frequency band issues, the radar warning receivers were not triggered at all!
The confidentiality was very good, but the Israelis were fooled, and they lost dozens of fighter planes! The fighter planes were loaded with bombs and had no maneuverability at all!
"Yes, but the fun has just begun." Andre said, "It's time to deploy our powerful weapons."