Babylonian Empire

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At 19:36, 2 F-24F fighter-bombers, each carrying more than 111 pounds of bombs, finally slid onto the runway. The young American pilots, who were lightly packed, operated a huge fighter plane and began to take off from the runway. The runway lights passed by at high speed, and finally disappeared, surrounded by the dark night sky.

There are a total of 24 aircraft, each of which forms a formation of 6 aircraft. At the same time, 1 EF-5 electronic warfare aircraft also took off from Upper Heyford Air Force Base, following the F-111F, to undertake electronic interference tasks.

EF-111 is an electronic warfare aircraft modified on the basis of F-111. Like the Navy's EA-6B, it undertakes the main electronic jamming mission. They fly with their own bombing formations. After encountering ground threats, jamming The machine works at full speed, which can ensure the safety of its own formation.

9100 meters above the English Channel, 57 aircraft assembled into a huge fleet. This is the largest air raid fleet assembled over the UK since the end of World War II.

This time, we chose to gather around [-] o'clock at night. When we arrived at the target area, it happened to be around one or two o'clock in the morning. This is the time when most people sleep most soundly, and it is also the time when Libya's defense is weakest. Attack at this time , It will definitely have the effect of a surprise attack.

They didn't know that when they just took off, Libya was already in full swing.

It is absolutely impossible for people not to know about the take-off and landing of such large-scale fighter planes. Therefore, before this, the United States only announced that it would conduct an exercise here. It began to observe near the air force base.

So many fighter exercises, how is that possible?The ones that took off were all F-111 fighter-bombers, and they were clearly carrying out bombing missions. Moreover, more than 20 tankers took off at once, so it was definitely a long-distance bombing mission. If all these situations come together, you are a fool We all know that the Americans are finally going to be ruthless.

In Gaelyan, Gaddafi listened with great interest to the news that over the UK, the largest attack fleet in decades had already taken off, and he was full of respect for President Qusay's command.

If it wasn't for someone from the Iraqi side, then he must still be in Tripoli now, and he has rested as usual. Where can he be like an outsider now, watching the development of the war situation, and then waiting for the next good show, as if He is not the main target of the American bombing this time.

Gaelyan is in the south of Tripoli, without facing the sea. Here, it is much safer. Moreover, since he knows that the American bombing is about to start, it is definitely not Gaddafi's style to stay in Tripoli.

The main task of Marwan here is to protect the safety of Iraqi personnel, and the specific command is Arslan, a rising star in the Iraqi Air Force.

Before Qusay came, he had given Arslan the main general direction and principles of this battle, but the specific operation was still to be planned by Arslan. Qusay trusted Arslan very much.

From the outside, the arrangement of Libya's air defense forces is still the same as before, without any changes, but those are fake models.

The SR-71 reconnaissance plane of the United States has scouted over Libya many times. However, it can only be approximated from the sky. Therefore, when the reconnaissance plane and reconnaissance satellite did not pass over the sky, they replaced it with false targets. The real target, and the real anti-aircraft missiles, have begun to shift positions.

Only when it appears at the most sudden, can it exert the most sudden power!

Moreover, between these positions, the latest frequency-hopping radio station brought by Iraq is equipped with the missile force. The anti-jamming capability of this radio station is much stronger. Unfortunately, due to limited conditions, if it can be installed in Iraq's C3I system , can uniformly dispatch those air defense firepower, share information, and play a greater role.

At this time, the U.S. Air Force and Naval Air Force did not know that Libya below had changed from a sheep to a hedgehog!If you want to touch it, you will still stab yourself!

Over the English Channel, at this time, the outside is a dark night sky, only the navigation lights on the plane are blinking.

A huge F-111, under the KC-10 tanker slowly approaching in front, all he needs to do is nothing more.

"Attention, our baby is going to have milk." On the KC-10 tanker, the refueler said jokingly, and at the same time, his hands began to concentrate on operations.

Refueling in the air has always been a very challenging maneuver, which requires close contact between two planes at a short distance apart. Even in the daytime, refueling in the air is very dangerous, let alone in the evening.

However, for the U.S. Air Force, the difficulty will be greatly reduced, because they use the hard tube refueling method.The pilot only needs to follow the operating procedures and align a certain reference object in the cockpit with the navigation light in front, and the mission is considered completed.

The rest is to rely on the superb skills of the refueling staff to insert the telescopic refueling pipe into the fuel receiving port of the F-111.

"Okay, it's done!" The fueler skillfully and accurately inserted the fuel pipe, and the billowing fuel began to quickly flow into the fighter plane behind.

在空中加油完成后，6架备用的F-111，2架EF-111和几架已经空了的加油机返回基地。另有2架F-111出现了机械故障，其余的16架F-111，3架EF-111和二十几架加油机，开始了长途跋涉。

The next refueling point is over the waters west of Portugal. After continuing to refuel over the waters north of Algeria and the waters north of Tunisia, they will enter the war zone.

At the same time, the two aircraft carrier formations, the "Coral Sea" and the "USA", wandering in the Mediterranean, immediately sailed to the coast of Libya and entered the battle position. The "Coral Sea" entered Benghazi and the north, and the "America" ​​aircraft carrier was north of Tripoli, all in waters 500 kilometers away.

The decks of the two aircraft carriers were full of various aircraft. They began to work nervously. They needed to launch about [-] carrier-based aircraft into the air with high intensity. For them, it was also a test. .

In the early hours of the morning, as the air force formation was about to arrive, the carrier-based aircraft of the two aircraft carriers also began to dispatch quickly.

At this time, the deck was the busiest time for personnel. The four catapults were already at full power, and every few tens of seconds, a plane was launched into the air by high-speed catapults.

This operation is a unified operation of the large fleet of the Air Force and Navy, with a total of about 150 attack aircraft, fighter jets, fighter bombers, electronic warfare aircraft, early warning aircraft, reconnaissance aircraft, anti-submarine aircraft, refueling aircraft, search and ambulance helicopters and other support aircraft. This kind of high-intensity aerial build-up is also the first time in recent years.

Everything is already on the line.

"Can our missile work?" A Libyan missile operator asked cautiously at a hidden surface-to-air missile position in Tripoli.

"Of course, this time, we will be able to shoot down the American plane!" said the technician from Iraq.

After arriving here, the Iraqi technicians acted urgently to disassemble several V-880E/5V28E missiles, that is, the bodies of the Sam-5 missiles, and then installed new seekers.

"Of course there is no problem, just wait and see!" the Iraqi technicians said. In fact, their hearts were not full of confidence, because before live ammunition was shot, actual combat was about to begin.

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However, for another missile, they are full of confidence. This time, they mainly modified two kinds, Sam-5 and Sam-6 missiles, and the modified seeker is a special anti-radiation guide head!

At present, anti-radiation missiles are mainly air-to-ground, that is, they are launched by fighter planes to suppress the opponent's air defense missiles.

However, President Qusay went in the opposite direction. In Iraq, two years ago, he began to study the Morasse anti-radiation missiles imported from the United States and the anti-radiation missiles imported from France. Radiation missiles are mainly the development of seekers, and this kind of development is much simpler than semi-active or active radar seekers, and they have made enough progress.

While preparing to modify this seeker to the sky flash missile for air-to-ground strikes, they also installed it on the surface-to-air missile. The first to use this seeker was the Sam-6 missile , They also received help from experts invited from the Soviet Union.Iraqi technicians tested this missile, and when it was being further improved, an urgent order came to transfer them to Libya.

It’s okay to modify the Sam-6, they are still relatively sure, but when they discovered that the Libyan army was equipped with Sam-5 missiles, they were tempted to install this seeker on the On the Sam-5 missile, it has more practical significance!

Because, since the Sam-6 missile only has a range of more than 20 kilometers, the combat target of this anti-radiation missile is the electronic jammer of the US military accompanying the flight.And the Sam-5 has a firing range of more than 200 kilometers, so their target is the opponent's early warning machine!

In today's war, the most important thing is to fight for air supremacy, and in the process of seizing air supremacy, it must first seize electromagnetic supremacy. machine.

The electronic jammers entered along with the air force, which is why the American electronic jammers are refitted with the same low-altitude, high-speed attack aircraft with excellent penetration capabilities, and the early warning aircraft are very valuable, and the early warning Police planes never fight at the forefront, they all hide behind, and are protected by fighter jets.

It is almost impossible for the Syrian Air Force to attack the U.S. Navy’s carrier-based early warning aircraft. Before they reached the combat area, they were intercepted by the opponent’s Tomcat fighter jets. In front of the absolutely superior air force, Libya The Air Force has no chance.

However, this does not mean that they have no ability to fight back. Under the interference of the opponent's jammer, the Sam-5 has no achievements. If the interference disappears, if a passive special anti-radiation seeker is used, Maybe, you can catch the other party by surprise.

It is an impossible task to modify the seeker of this missile within ten days. However, they still made it. In fact, as long as the steering gear of the steering surface follows the new seeker command That's it, remove the radio command and guidance part, and use a new seeker to operate.

However, no one knows how effective the new missile will be since no target shooting experiment has been conducted.

Over the Mediterranean Sea, the huge air formation has finally completed its assembly, and the time for the final offensive has arrived.

The fighter planes did not move, and the interference went first. The first wave of attacks was carried out by all electronic warfare aircraft. Three EF-3s of the Air Force and 111 EA-14B electronic warfare aircrafts of the Navy started at the same time outside the coastline of Libya. Electromagnetic interference in all airspace and all frequency bands is released tens of kilometers away.

For Libya's air defense force, just one or two EA-6Bs can't stand it. What's more, there are now nearly [-] electronic warfare planes. The strong interference not only makes all Libya's air defense radars fail, but also interrupts the radio , even neighboring Tunisia, is completely caught up in radio interference.

The first to act was the U.S. Navy's carrier-based aircraft, the F/A-** Hornet. This is an excellent fighter and attack aircraft. After the F-14 Tomcat retired, it fully assumed the U.S. Navy's air defense needs.Before the main attack formation entered the target area, six F/A-** Hornets and six A-6 attack aircraft visited the Libyan air defense. The radar station fired 6 high-speed "Moruz" and "Ham" anti-radiation missiles. This intense attack caused heavy losses to the Libyan air defense forces. They were forced to shut down their radars, and the airspace was cleared.

"Everything is going well." The pilot of an F/A-** Hornet said over the radio, just like the drill, those anti-radiation missiles are a bit wasted.

"Attack the formation and enter the battle immediately." The commander-in-chief of this operation ordered on the Coral Sea aircraft carrier.

"Everything is going well," Arslan told Gaddafi from another corner.

The lost radar stations are all the backward Sam-2 missile radars and long-range warning radars, and their other air defense missile units have been transferred away.

"The American bombing operation is about to start." Gaddafi said with great interest: "Are you sure that the Americans will take a detour, from the border of Tunisia?"

"The primary target of the Americans is the Aziziye barracks. In order to achieve the greatest surprise, it is more in line with the American style to bypass the coastline and raid from the south? We will find out after a few minutes. , if we have a source of disturbance in the south, it must be the Americans," Arslan said.