Chapter 573 Modified Sparrow Bullet

In this era, the biggest threat to the Western world is still the high-altitude and high-speed MiG-25! Because if you want to hit them, you can't reach them, and they either fly leisurely at high altitudes or suddenly come down to hit other planes. This situation of being beaten without fighting back makes the US Air Force very speechless. Although the Phoenix missiles of the Tomcat fighter can snipe, they are from the Navy after all!

Faced with this situation, the U.S. Air Force would certainly not remain indifferent. They searched their arsenal and found that improving on the Sparrow missile was the most appropriate option!

Therefore, they improved their Sparrow missile, especially increasing the reaction speed of the internal electronic circuit. To hunt Mach 3 aircraft, the reaction time must be shortened! Therefore, this missile is equipped with a new reverse monopulse seeker, a radio proximity fuze, and a digital control circuit. In addition, the missile body is streamlined to reduce air resistance. At the same time, the area of ​​the rudder surface is increased to expand the operating torque at high altitudes. And, most importantly, an additional engine is added behind the missile!

The Americans had to face the fact that if they wanted to defeat the MiG-25, they had to attack from above!

It is quite difficult for the F-15 to fly to an altitude of 2,000 meters. It usually tries to fly so high only when it has no external mounts. With air combat mounts, it is good enough to fly to an altitude of 18,000 meters. The MiG-25, on the other hand, can easily fly to an altitude of 25,000 or even 30,000 meters!

What to do? The solid rocket engine used by the missile will burn out after a few seconds, and most of the time after that, it will be inertial flight, and the speed will be getting slower and slower! Therefore, even if it hits the target at the same height, there is a certain probability, not to mention the upward attack. Let the missile soar to a height of several hundred meters by itself, and the little speed just now will be lost!

Therefore, the Americans knew to add another engine to the back of the Sparrow missile. The only function of this engine was to push the missile to a higher altitude!

The modified Sparrow missile is a powerful weapon of the US Air Force. Now, it has played a preemptive role on Saudi F-15 fighters! As escort fighters, they are supposed to intercept these Iraqi MiG-25s!

At this time, they did not know that the early warning aircraft behind them had been shot down. After all, an early warning aircraft that turned off its radar and communication devices was equivalent to cutting off contact with the outside world.

Launch missiles to let the Iraqis know that the MiG-25 cannot come and go as it pleases. This is Saudi airspace!

Facing the missiles fired by the F-15 fighter, Reyer gave the order: "Speed ​​up, keep flying straight!"

Accelerate! After turning on the afterburner, the MiG-25 began to accelerate again under the vigorous thrust. At the same time, the heading remained unchanged and flew towards the sky above the Saudi fighter plane!

A distance of thirty kilometers is just a few tens of seconds for the MiG-25, and this height difference will still become a talisman for its side!

The active guidance head for medium-range missiles is still an unattainable product in this era. Air-to-air missiles guided by semi-active radar cannot be separated from the radar guidance of the carrier aircraft!

As the two sides approached quickly, the F-15 fighter wanted to radiate the radar beam, so the elevation angle of the antenna had to increase continuously! However, the mechanical rotating radar antenna had a limited elevation angle!

Scheid watched the radar signal in front of him getting closer and closer, but the radar alarm began to turn red, and then the radar was unlocked!

The AN/APG63 radar antenna has reached its maximum elevation angle and can no longer capture the target! At this time, those MiG-25 fighters are still flying arrogantly in the sky!

The unlocked Sparrow missile exploded in the final stage like a firework released into the sky.

"Turn, prepare to attack!" Rayer, who was in the sky, gave orders to his squadron. He lost his plane in the fight with the F-15 yesterday, but he did not lose confidence! He was more familiar with the characteristics of the F-15, and today, he would attack these fighters!

The MiG-25 fleet swooped down from the sky and rushed towards the F-15 group. Without the guidance of the early warning aircraft, Scheider's Blue Shark Squadron was trying hard to find the target. They did not see the fighter planes diving down from the sky!

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The news that the early warning aircraft was shot down reached the Prince Sultan Air Force Base, and the atmosphere in the base suddenly became extremely tense.

"Damn it! The Soviets went too far, exporting all their advanced weapons to Iraq!" The ground radar station witnessed the whole process. Their early warning aircraft was shot down by a missile launched by the enemy at a distance of 250 kilometers! This made little William extremely angry.

"Commander, we must launch the early warning aircraft as soon as possible. Our attack aircraft group cannot be without the guidance of the early warning aircraft!" Powell said.

Now, the sky has just brightened and a new day of battle is about to begin. At this moment, news came that the early warning aircraft was shot down. This is definitely not a good sign. All operations today require the full cooperation of the early warning aircraft.

"The early warning aircraft's route must stay away from the Persian Gulf. We cannot let the Iraqis succeed in their sneak attack again," said William Jr.

On the runway, the A-10 attack aircraft formation that had originally planned to take off first had to give way to the runway first. An early warning aircraft that was transferred from the hangar was making preparations for takeoff.

Now, the AWACS is not safe. Soviet weapons repeatedly target AWACS, but they have no choice! Today's huge air operations must be commanded by AWACS! Especially to destroy Iraqi ground vehicles!

Two hundred kilometers north of Riyadh, deep in the Dehna Desert.

The huge offensive group abruptly suspended the attack under the order. Now, the refueling trucks of each division are refueling the tanks. At the same time, some large multi-wheel drive vehicles are making final preparations.

This four-axle MAz-543LTM vehicle is fully adapted to operations in the desert. They have been following the formation in the assault, and now, they have arrived at the designated position!

At the top, a missile is slowly rising. This type of missile is the Scud that Iraq is equipped with in large quantities!

When your sword is not long enough, you must take a step forward! Now, the range of the Scud missile is only 300 kilometers, so you must move forward with the attack group to reach the US military base! At the same time, these offensive forces are also the guarantee of the Scud missile!

After a night of travel, the final launch moment finally arrived!

In the desert, missiles were constantly erected, facing the morning sun, there were hundreds of them!