Red Alert Somalia

Chapter 371 Unexpected ambush, the death of the air force!

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Unlike Lin Chengen on the AWACS, as Air Force Commander Smith Kay, he considers more issues, unlike Lin Chengen who only considers grasping the battlefield in front of him.Kay’s consideration was all military operations carried out by the air force throughout the war.

At present, the Air Force, after deducting the naval aviation, only has three wings and more than 300 fighters.

Hargeisa’s air battle was the first to break out, but he must also do a good job in ensuring the air supremacy of Djibouti and Galkayo, and better ensure that there are follow-up support forces that can be supported at any time.To be honest, these more than three hundred fighters are not enough. The number of U.S. Air Force fighters stationed in Ethiopia alone has reached more than 300. Although there are a large number of support aircraft, there are only more than 100 real air superiority fighters. That's it, but the power gap is also very obvious.

The U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean made him dare not take the slightest care. The radius of 2,000 kilometers is not outside the combat radius of the carrier aircraft. As long as the coalition forces need it, it can take off in Egypt or Saudi Arabia. Refueling aircraft provides air refueling for carrier-based aircraft.There are five aircraft carriers, four nuclear-powered aircraft, and one Italian conventional light aircraft carrier.The carrier aircraft on these aircraft carriers is a very powerful combat capability.

Had it not been for the Fifth Fleet of the Allied Forces to search for its own twin aircraft carrier fleet, I am afraid that Kay could not sleep well now.

However, Kai is not without a solution. Shortening the defensive circle was originally Li Lan's strategy to avoid weaknesses.The Red Police Corps, with a combat radius of only more than 400 kilometers, possesses extremely strong defense after shrinking.On the other hand, the coalition forces, because they were afraid of a sneak attack from Somalia, placed the airport more than a thousand kilometers away. This is the opportunity of the Red Police Air Force.

The air control time is long, the support speed is fast, the back road is guaranteed by the base defensive circle, the attendance rate of taking off into the battlefield is also very high, and the replenishment of ammunition is extremely convenient.

If it weren't for these advantages, Li Lan would not be sure of victory in this war.

Of course, in order to ensure the continuation of the war, Li Lan also ordered Kai to tell the Air Force not to fight the enemy recklessly, to give full play to its air defense superiority when necessary, and to cooperate with multi-arms air defense and air control.

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On the lookout early warning aircraft, the troubles are different from Kai.After annihilating an enemy squadron of Rafale fighters, Air Force Brigadier General Lin Chengen was unhappy. The battle damage ratio was close to 1:0.8. Except for the enemy’s heavy aircraft, which had the advantage of air superiority, the pilots of the Red Police Corps had not experienced actual combat. The reason is that if it is an elite flying unit that has experienced actual combat, Lin Chengen dare to pat his chest to guarantee that the 0.8 behind will definitely be erased.

The attack on the enemy is obviously not over. The information from the long-range ground-based radar shows that the enemy's follow-up troops have arrived, and the formation of one's own fighters is already not far behind. It seems that the two sides are really in flames.

The loss was a bit bigger than expected, but from the team leader’s point of view, it was totally worth it. From actual combat, the troops really learned a lot. This is completely different from the so-called game-like training on the simulator. Then there was the training that was immediately lost after being tracked and locked, but real real guns and live ammunition.

He was so careful that he gently stroked his "knight", and the captain put on his mask again, "All fighters, rearrange their shapes!"

In the air still filled with the smoke that has not yet dissipated, the invader fighters and the Black Hawk fighters are constantly gathering, and they are rearranged in a neat pair. The nose is pointed directly at the direction where the enemy is about to appear, and quickly flew past...

On the airborne radar, with the continuous movement to the designated airspace, the radar interference became more intense, and the communication between the aircraft and the ground began to become difficult, which made the colonel commanding the f-15 group feel unusually annoyed. What is the battle?Without the coordination and transit of the early warning aircraft, just relying on the assistance of the constantly disturbed ground communications to participate in the battle is simply a joke.I really don't know what the above group of people are thinking?

The airborne radar was switched to manual mode, but even so, there is still no enemy in the expanded search range. Although the airspace range of the enemy's activities coordinated with the ground, they are obviously flying very high, surpassing themselves. The upward viewing angle of the radar.

Once again coordinated with the nearby f-15 group and two Rafale squadrons, the colonel gave all his subordinates an order to enter the airspace of Hargeisa.

The Hargeisa Air Force is simply vulnerable, at least in the view of the coalition forces. Frank did not raise any objections to the bomber group that crossed the Hargeisa airspace and directly attacked the opponent’s back. The clever f-15 played against those groups. An intruder fighter is basically no different from a vacation, and entering the Hargeisa airspace can obviously offset the advantages of the Somali army’s early warning aircraft.

However, Franck obviously overlooked one point. The Somalia dispatched to Hargeisa was not a missile battalion, but a brigade, an independent air defense missile brigade under the Air Command of the Red Police Corps.The brigade is composed of three regiments, with a total of nine battalions, and its regional air defense capabilities are very strong.

When the fire control radar hit the first f-15, the pilot obviously did not realize anything. In his opinion, including the anti-aircraft artillery, there was no weapon capable of hitting such a height. This view has been maintained until the first When a v-1dk anti-aircraft missile dragged his long and stout body behind him, all the f-15s, including him, realized a problem at the same time-they were ambushed.

A massacre started, and it was a ground-to-air massacre. The air superiority fighters that came specifically for air combat obviously had no way to use the anti-aircraft missile positions on the ground. The only thing they could do was to constantly dodge.

On the ground, the command vehicle is evenly scattered around the launch vehicle. The launcher repeatedly controls the fire control radar to identify the most favorable six to eight targets from dozens of targets, and make them the fastest Passed to the launch vehicle.

On the launching position, the launch barrel was raised high again, and from time to time, missiles burst out of the barrel and shot towards the sky...

The group of phantom machines in the sky has completely fallen into chaos at this time.

The performance of the v-1dk anti-aircraft missile was fully demonstrated in this air-to-air attack. This kind of patriot, called Somali by foreign military experts, is obviously not exaggerated.

The f-15 fleet finally met a natural enemy that could restrain his mobility and dexterity. The airspace within a radius of 50 kilometers has now become the cemetery of the coalition fleet. The sky is like a turkey contest before Christmas, with long The long-tail flame's v-1dk happily chased the flexible f-15 and ran around.

"Boom..." It exploded, and countless prefabricated fragments divided the airspace into a piece of death zone. Although it was only a few seconds, as long as a fighter plane passed through, the only result waiting for him was disintegration.

The Somali army used superb tactics to direct an excellent ground-to-air ambush, and all the soldiers from both sides of the enemy were the audience of this battle.

The only thing that the Air Force Commander of the Second Expeditionary Force Franck has to do now is to return the F-15 and Rafale fighters that have not yet arrived at the air combat zone to the Ethiopian airport immediately. Everything about the Somalis was too unexpected for him, and they were lying in Hargeisa. Obviously, it is not a battalion of missile units, but at least a brigade or even a division.

And what annoyed him most was that these obviously should have been noticed before the war began. Somalia’s air defense forces had been fully proven at the beginning of the war. Two thousand cruise missiles could not completely destroy the opponent’s defense. Firepower network, this kind of defensive strength, even with the US anti-missile device, is difficult to achieve.

But what makes Franck strange is, when did the Somalis send air defense troops into the vicinity of Hargeisa?Before the war, it was impossible. Hargeisa was too close to the border, and any activity could not escape the eyes of the coalition forces. That was during the war, but if this was the case, the only thing Frank had to do was to remind himself everyone My colleagues are wary of Somali generals. If all this is his plan, then obviously they are too smart.

The coalition air force finally retreated. Looking at the signal of the coalition fighter plane that was gradually disappearing from the edge on the radar screen, Lin Chengen secretly sighed. The performance of the Somali Air Force in the first battle was obviously not satisfactory. It’s hard to imagine what the battle would be like without the support of ground forces. Although the coalition forces have been strategically despised, their air force can definitely be called sophisticated or elite, at least compared to other countries that have not participated in any actual combat. The air force is much better.

This battle allowed the Somali Air Force to learn a lot. There is no insurmountable generation gap between its own aircraft, its own missiles, hardware, and the enemy, but the corresponding software—technical and tactics, etc., want to cooperate with the new equipment. Some skills are obviously not forged and mature.In the new modern warfare, other armies, whether they are enemies, friends, or defeated generals, are all standing in front of the same starting line. Compared with them, the honor of the past cannot be the advantage of today. Sometimes It is a burden.

Dempsey knew all this at the first time the air battle took place. Somalis seemed to have finally put away their stinginess at such a critical moment, opening up a period of time for communication between Franck and the headquarters. The door to convenience, and the news he brought to the general headquarters and other expeditionary army headquarters was the result of the battle for air supremacy.

The coalition air force, assembled with such a powerful force, actually lost shamefully when it took the first step. Every year, the general expenditure occupies more than half of the expensive elite services, but it ends up like this. It seems that everyone has forgotten. One point, no matter how powerful and advanced the air force is, it is the army that ultimately determines the outcome. Even if only a small part of the army's military expenditures originally allocated to the air force is allocated to the army for the purchase of artillery, Dempsey believes that the current situation is absolutely absolute. It will not be so severe.