Chapter 636 Discovery of the Su-24

Historically, Turkey was one of the first countries outside the United States to be equipped with F-16s. It also has the largest fleet of this type of aircraft outside the United States, and they have their own F-16C/D production line. Even Israel does not have this honor.

Historically, with the support of the United States, Turkey established the Aerospace Industry Company in 1984 and began to produce F-16C/D fighters under production license. However, these completed aircraft could not be directly delivered to the Turkish Air Force. Before delivery, they had to be flown to the United States for delivery and then transferred by the United States. The code name of this arms sale was called Peace Onyx. (It is very similar to the name of China's Peace Model project.)

The first batch of 160 aircraft produced by Turkey were delivered from 1987 to 1995, including 136 F-16Cs and 24 F-16Ds. Later, Turkey added 80 F-1k50 models. The three purchases in total allowed Turkey to have 240 F-16C/Ds, becoming the world's third largest F-16 fleet after the United States and Israel.

With these fighter jets, Türkiye is confident enough to look down on all the surrounding countries.

Now, for its own strategic considerations, the United States has started the Peace Agate Plan ahead of schedule. At the same time, in order to increase the strength of the Turkish Air Force, they modified the friend-or-foe identification of the F-16s produced on the production line and exported them directly to Turkey! Within a few days, the Turkish Air Force had the first batch of F-16 fighters!

The arrival of these fighter jets made the Turkish Air Force extremely excited. In the past, they were flying F-4s and were simply unable to stop the Soviet Air Force. Now, after switching to F-16s, they are not afraid of anything!

Moreover, since their pilots went to the United States in advance for flight modification training, it can be said that they were just waiting for the arrival of this batch of aircraft. With the arrival of the aircraft, they can directly form combat effectiveness!

Lieutenant Black was flying an F-16 fighter jet, cruising at an altitude of six thousand meters. He was looking at the blue sky and white clouds around him, feeling particularly relaxed.

There is a fresh smell in the cockpit of this F-16 fighter jet, which is the unique smell of a fighter jet just out of the factory. It has only flown for a dozen hours and came from the General Motors factory.

And now, this fighter jet has been painted with the logo of the Turkish Air Force, and has taken on the important task of protecting the sky in Turkey!

A total of four Sidewinder missiles are mounted on the wingtips and under the wings. This batch of fighters does not have the ability to launch medium-range Sparrow missiles. From this point of view, they are not as good as the old F-4 fighters. However, this type of fighter, which was developed entirely based on the energy theory of the Fighter Mafia, is very flexible.

The high-thrust turbofan engine gives this fighter a powerful thrust. In air combat, it can make up for the lost energy at any time, and it can also perform various high-overload maneuvers. As long as you fly past the F-16, you will definitely not want to fly the F-4 again.

He glanced to the side and saw that his wingman was following beside him. At this moment, they were flying along the Batman-Hakari-Van line, just on the border with Iraq and Iran.

Recently, the Soviets across the border are holding military exercises, and this exercise is completely aimed at Turkey! As a Turkish soldier, Bulaq is well aware of his heavy responsibilities.

He is a pilot, he is a child of destiny, he must protect his country's airspace!

"473, suspicious clutter detected, suspicious clutter detected." At this moment, the voice of the wingman pilot came from his headset: "Target, straight ahead, altitude 2,000."

Two thousand meters above sea level! The mountain area below is about 1,700 meters above sea level! And many high mountains have already exceeded 2,000 meters above sea level! In other words, the plane below is flying at a super low altitude!

There is a problem!

"Let's go down and take a look!" Black said, and he turned on his own airborne radar. The AN/APG-66 radar has advanced performance and can detect targets from complex ground clutter. Soon, his radar also discovered the target flying quietly below!

Chase after them! Two F-16 fighters dived down from high altitude, their fuselages trembling slightly, and they actually broke the sound barrier while diving!

A few thousand meters in altitude flashed by. After leveling the F-16 fighter again, Black carefully operated the fighter to avoid the mountain in front.

After passing through the valley, a fighter plane appeared in front of Black!

Variable-sweep wings, side-by-side double seats, and a tall vertical tail, this is the Soviet Su-24 fighter-bomber!

This is a powerful fighter-bomber! Equipped with a digital attack aiming/terrain navigation avionics system and a variable swept wing design, this aircraft can penetrate at low altitudes at Mach 1 or at high altitudes at Mach 1.3. At the same time, this aircraft can carry an 8-ton external load, including air-to-air missiles, air-to-ground missiles, aerial bombs, rockets and even nuclear weapons, and has powerful ground attack bombing and certain air-to-air combat capabilities.

At present, this fighter-bomber has a bomb clearly mounted under its wing! What are they going to do? Are they here to bomb their own base? Thinking of this, Lieutenant Black's heart is already full of fighting spirit.

"473 calling Ale base, 473 calling Ale base." Black called on the radio. Unfortunately, the opponent's exercise must have released strong electromagnetic interference, causing the communication in this airspace to be interrupted from time to time. Black called several times but heard no response.

And the bomber that invaded their airspace is still moving forward!

"The enemy has invaded our airspace, fight back resolutely!" Black shouted to his wingman on the radio. At the same time, he opened the weapon safety and activated a wingtip Sidewinder missile.

The Soviet exercise angered the entire Turkish army! As a brave and war-tested army, Turkey will never bow down to the Soviet threat! Moreover, behind Turkey is the most powerful NATO! To put it bluntly, no matter what trouble Turkey gets into, NATO will clean up their mess!

Therefore, now that the Turkish Air Force has discovered a Soviet fighter plane invading its airspace, it will definitely not show mercy! Without being able to consult his superiors, Lieutenant Brack decided to open fire!

Soon, the fire control system detected a locking sound. Since they were following behind, the Soviet pilots did not notice any situation behind them. The hot tail nozzle provided the best infrared source for the Sidewinder missile.

Fire! Lieutenant Black pressed the launch button on the joystick. At the wing tip, flames flickered, and a Sidewinder missile flew out!