In the sky, eight 'Super Tucano' fighter jets were flying from Mexico to Cuba in broad daylight. Lieutenant Colonel Yi Xiu, the leader of the team, stared at the navigation information displayed on the onboard avionics equipment in silence, although there was no satellite navigation.
, but the inertial navigation is still powerful.
Lieutenant Colonel Yixiu once served in the US military and has more than ten years of experience in flying F-16 fighter jets. Now in his fifties, he had retired for many years before the catastrophe. He opened an aviation club in his hometown and is still an expert in air combat.
After the Enclave decided to interfere with the expansion of the Aurora Legion, Lieutenant Colonel Isho, who joined the army again, joined the military system of the Diego regime in Mexico as an air force advisor. He was responsible for rebuilding and training Mexican pilots how to fight.
The Air Force is a very money-consuming service. Modern fighter planes consume several tons of fuel every day. But all the armies in the world have disappeared. The Mexican army is already weak, and there are even fewer civil aviation talents. After the catastrophe, there are no qualified personnel.
pilot.
In order to consume as little resources as possible, the air forces of all forces now only fly propeller-driven fighters. This is because propeller-driven aircraft are much simpler than jets in terms of fuel consumption and ground handling. For this reason, the Enclave even presented a batch of propeller-powered 'Super
Toucan' to President Diego.
The previous night air raid on Havana was the masterpiece of Lieutenant Colonel Isch. It was later proven that the air strike successfully destroyed most of the production capacity of the Havana refinery. This result encouraged Lieutenant Colonel Isch to continue to carry out more air strikes on Havana.
However, Lieutenant Colonel Yixiu's fleet suffered huge losses due to multiple air raids. In the first night attack, five of the twelve Super Tucanos were lost. Such a high battle loss rate almost destroyed the entire air raid plan.
The complete cancellation will cause a lot of losses to the Mexican pilots who were finally trained.
In order to continue the air raids, Lieutenant Colonel Ixiu had to completely replace the Mexican rookies with Enclave flying veterans. The improvement of technical and tactical levels had just curbed the high battle damage rate.
And as the number of battles increased, Lieutenant Colonel Yi Xiu also figured out some tricks - a large number of pilots on the Aurora Legion side were actually rookies, but one of them couldn't help but have a fighter pilot who was particularly experienced. Yi Xiu's side suffered almost
It's all caused by it.
Lieutenant Colonel Ixiu decisively canceled the night attack with limited vision, because for the Super Tucano whose radar was not powerful enough, visual combat could sometimes give full play to their numerical and skill advantages.
This was also verified in many subsequent battles - the powerful pilots of the Aurora Legion were also limited by the performance of the fighter aircraft. They were unable to take advantage of their tricky and bizarre combat skills in one-to-many battles during the day, and it was always difficult to make a difference.
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In recent days, Lieutenant Colonel Yi Xiu has been leading a team to visit Havana every day. His goal for coming today is very clear, "We must blow up the airport in Havana, which should be the air defense command center of the Aurora Corps. Destroy the impact there will have on us in the future."
Combat should be helpful."
Judging from the results of previous operations, Lieutenant Colonel Yi Xiu is still very confident in his operation this time. The Aurora Legion has a lot of pilots and a lot of aircraft. But their airspace is full of loopholes, their air force is weak, and their equipment
The most common one turned out to be an old-fashioned biplane transport aircraft.
"The Aurora Corps probably doesn't have any effective air warning force. We were intercepted five minutes before we arrived over Havana every time. Their air defense network probably couldn't even cover the entire city.
The enemy has too few pilots capable of stopping us. There should be only one group of instructors, and the rest are very poor. We don't have to worry at all." Lieutenant Colonel Ixiu repeatedly instilled this in his fleet members before the mission began.
One's own tactics.
Simply put, keep an eye on that perverted opponent, and everything else will be easy to handle.
Just flying like this, the Yixiu fleet flew from Cancun Airport to Havana, and flew to Batanova Bay and just entered the land. It stands to reason that at this time, the Aurora Legion's air defense network will be almost alerted. In a few minutes...
No need to wait for more than a few minutes.
Suddenly, a ball of flames flew from the sky, rushing at three times the speed of sound, and arrived in front of Lieutenant Colonel Ixiu in the blink of an eye. Before the Lieutenant Colonel could figure out what was going on, countless fragments suddenly exploded in his fleet, as if
A dark cloud exploded, shaking like thunder in the daytime.
There was a loud bang, and Lieutenant Colonel Yixiu's wingman was blown to pieces. The aircraft disintegrated in the air and fell downwards. The two pilots in the fighter plane had no chance to escape, and they were finished without even a groan.
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This sudden death frightened the experienced Lieutenant Colonel Yi Xiu half to death. He quickly lowered the flight altitude of the fighter plane. After thinking about the scene just now, he shouted on the radio: "There are anti-aircraft missiles, avoid them."
The entire fleet suddenly became chaotic like a swarm of bees. The 'Super Tucano' was designed to deal with low-intensity combat. The enemies it usually faces are drug dealers, guerrillas, and anti-government armed forces. This does not include professional personnel.
Regular army of anti-aircraft missiles.
'Super Tucano' relies on its speed to easily dodge individual air defense missiles with a narrow attack window, but the missile that just hit looked thick and big. It was a radar-guided medium-range air defense missile. This was not
Propeller fighters can handle it.
"Damn it!" Lieutenant Colonel Yi Xiu regretted that he didn't bring an electronic warfare pod for Mao, which could at least interfere with the opponent's radar - well, it's not that he didn't want to bring it. It was because the propeller fighter's power generation capacity was not enough, so it consumed a lot of power.
A large number of electronic warfare pods.
What to do now? Run away!
The impatient Lieutenant Colonel Yi Xiu could only turn around and flee. He really couldn't figure out where the Aurora Legion's anti-aircraft missiles came from - if there were anti-aircraft missiles, you should have taken them out earlier! The refinery was blown up.
Arranging it after it was dropped would, in turn, cheat Lieutenant Colonel Yi Xiu.
Lieutenant Colonel Yi Xiu didn't know that in order to defend his fleet, Zhou Qingfeng spent a lot of money to improve the 'Red Flag-2' anti-aircraft missiles he obtained.
In order to solve the problem of Hongqi-2 being unable to attack low-altitude targets, Rabbit's military industry specially upgraded the centimeter-wave radar of the missile camp guidance station, hung it in a pod on a large integrated surveillance and attack drone, and then used the data to
chain for radio command guidance.
Facing the drone flying at an altitude of 8,000 meters, the Yixiu fleet flying close to the sea was discovered 200 kilometers away. The people at the drone remote control station on the ground waited for the opponent to fall into the trap and watched.
When the enemy plane enters the 35-kilometer air defense circle of the Hongqi-2, it will immediately launch missiles.
One shot was successful, followed by another.
Liu Meng's missile brigade training camp is not very skilled in the equipment and can only control one missile flying in the sky at a time. But just firing missiles into the sky one after another is enough to make the fighter pilots of the Yixiu fleet collapse.
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If you can't fight, you can't escape. Seeing the rumbling missiles appear again in the sky, the pilots who realize that they can't escape simply parachute - such large anti-aircraft missiles can easily reach a maximum overload of more than ten or twenty G, and the pilots can't fly out even if they fight to the death.
Its killing range!
When downed fighter planes and fluttering umbrellas kept appearing in the sky, Lieutenant Colonel Yi Xiu, who was still running desperately, did not look back and ran away. He was puzzled, "How come the Aurora Legion has a mid-range army?"