Chapter 376: Firefight!

Although the aircraft is not made of plastic, it will never be left outside to be exposed to wind and sun. The F22 requires a constant-temperature warehouse.

Of course, this does not include Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in the United States, which has an aircraft cemetery.

What does it mean to be wealthy?

Morocco definitely does not have this strength.

According to a series of photos taken by the U2 reconnaissance aircraft, the air base deployed by Morocco in Western Sahara is U-shaped and covers a large area. There are too many open spaces in the desert area.

The staff team has calculated that if a covering strike against the entire air force base is to be carried out, the number of missiles required will be twice that of the last bombing of the YL Shipyard!

This is unrealistic.

Therefore, the staff group was waiting for the time when the Dakhla base would ask for help.

Only now will those aircraft be pulled out of the hangar and appear in rows on the airport, so that they can be destroyed at once!

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Orange fire erupted from the bottom of the missile's butt, setting off the white smoke in a magnificent color.

Especially the scene where ten missiles are launched at the same time is really beautiful!

Sean just stood not far away and looked up, watching the East 1 line up and quickly take off into the air, until it slowly turned into small dots.

He did not follow the troops to the front line. As he said, everyone is equal before bullets and artillery, and he did not want to join in the fun.

A few minutes later, 10 missiles fell almost straight from the sky over an air force base in central Western Sahara, more than 300 kilometers away.

Falling at 6 times the speed of sound, there is no sound!

The air defense radar at the air force base discovered the missile when it entered an altitude of 15,000 meters, and a harsh air raid siren sounded!

But there was no reaction time at all, and no reaction time was allowed. The moment the Moroccan soldiers in the base were frightened by the air raid siren and quickly raised their heads.

The ten missiles were like the big feet of the gods, trampling them down at will and with overwhelming force!

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom" "Boom"

Magma-colored mushroom clouds rose up one after another, and finally gathered into a ball, rolling and rising into the sky. The shock wave accompanied by fire destroyed everything on the tarmac!

The loud noise of the explosion rolled forward in all directions until the sound waves disappeared, until the mushroom cloud rolled and disappeared.

When you look at the tarmac at this time, you will feel it is very clean!

None of the scattered gravel was gone, all carried away by the shock wave, leaving only large, black-smoking potholes and large chunks of burning aircraft wreckage.

The scene can no longer be operated with chaos, that is the scene of doomsday!

The scene was completely silent. It wasn't that everyone died, but the explosion was so loud that even if they didn't die from the shock wave and debris, the huge explosion would make people fall into coma.

A few minutes later, a call came from the radio station in the navigation station, but no one responded...

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The called air support did not arrive. When contacted again, it was learned that the air force base had been hit by a missile attack. All the aircraft were either scrapped or malfunctioning, and no support could be provided at all.

The combat command room of Dakhla base fell into a dead silence, and the air seemed to be frozen.

Faced with this situation, no one knows what to do.

The over-the-horizon strike from missiles is a crushing technological power that makes you unable to resist.

Now, let alone Dakhla, the General Headquarters of Western Sahara and the Commander-in-Chief of Moroccan Domestic Operations, Moulay Sidi Ben Youssef, are all numb.

Nearly half of Morocco's air force was gone in just a few minutes!

After receiving the news, Moulay Sidi bin Yusuf's expression changed, distorted, and eventually became hysterical. It was he who advocated mobilizing the army into Western Caesar. There was nothing wrong with this in itself. The mistake was that he misjudged the situation.

The U.S. officially supports Morocco, and those aircraft are supported by the U.S. military. Although the U.S. military only has a small amount of symbolic F5 equipment, it is also American equipment!

We are all Americans, and we are all our own people. What did you think, Sean, to suddenly kill you!!

Moulay Sidi bin Yusuf could not accept this result at all. Ballistic missiles were used. Is it possible to save this sub-base in Dakhla?

It goes without saying, pill!

The point is, it's thousands of miles away, and now he has no choice but to watch.

As for the nearly half of the air force left in his hand, he would never dare to send it out. If it were lost again, he would no longer have to covet a king, and his current position would not be preserved.

Dakhla and so on... It's time to make sacrifices for the great cause of Morocco.

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There is nothing Morocco can do, and there is nothing the Western Sahara headquarters can do either. It is too late to mobilize troops. What they can do is to have the garrison along the fifth sand embankment gather towards the sub-base, try their best to organize defense, and wait for support.

It's cold. Everyone in the Dakhla Combat Command feels cold.

A protective umbrella is a protective umbrella. If you don't take action, it will be a missile. The people below will not receive the news and may still be angry. But the more they know, the more they know, the more unsure they feel.

What I'm most afraid of now is that an air raid siren suddenly sounds...

The news was suppressed. We should fight if we should. We calmed down and mobilized our forces. The tank troops that advanced 10 kilometers forward received orders to retreat 5 kilometers to maintain closer contact with the rear front.

Regardless of ancient or modern times, you cannot rely entirely on base defense, otherwise you will be directly suffocated at home by heavy artillery and other long-range attacks.

The wait was long and painful. More than an hour later, the Umbrella troops approached the Dakhla base, 50 kilometers away.

The team was divided into two parts. The tank troops rushed forward to clear the way, followed by various armored vehicles, vehicle-mounted missile troops, radar vehicles behind, and personnel carriers in the middle.

The first contact was with the Air Force.

One of the latest Apache armed helicopters took the lead and formed a helicopter combat formation with five AH-1 Cobra armed helicopters and rushed towards the enemy's defense line immediately.

At the same time, Dakhla was not to be outdone, and three AH-1s also took off and rushed out.

After the Cobra was equipped with the US military in 1967, the export volume was very large, and Morocco was the beneficiary country. It actually owned a lot, at least much more than Sean, but the layout was relatively scattered...

At a distance of 20 kilometers, Apache's radar discovered the whereabouts of the Moroccan Cobra in advance. Immediately, Sean's helicopter formation entered the battle formation, and the mounted AIM-9 air-to-air missiles entered the preparation stage.

The two sides approached head-on at high speed, and within the blink of an eye they were within 15 kilometers. The umbrella side did not say anything at first. After the lock was completed, six AIM-9 air-to-air missiles were launched.

The other side was not to be outdone. The missiles here had almost just finished launching. The other side also fired continuously, and 6 AIM-9 air-to-air missiles were also fired at them.

Sean: What a sin!

AIM-9C, Mach 2 speed, infrared guidance + semi-active radar guidance, this thing is simply fatal to helicopters!

Just after the missile was launched, both sides began to accelerate and maneuver in a wide range.

Especially on the protective umbrella side, six armed helicopters bloomed like blooming chrysanthemums, making large-scale horizontal or vertical movements in the air.

The moment before the AIM-9C approached, the infrared missile approach alarm on the helicopter quickly sounded the alarm. Then, the helicopter suddenly shot out a large number of infrared interference bombs from all directions, with long white tail fins, releasing huge amounts of light and heat in the air in a short period of time.

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This is during the day. If it is night, the jamming bomb will be as dazzling as a flare.

The principle of the jamming bomb is to use the built-in mixture of magnesium powder, nitrocellulose and polytetrafluoroethylene to generate strong infrared radiation and trick the seeker of the infrared guided missile into deviating from the target.

At the same time, the pilot's eyes were fixed on the front, his expression was tense but his hands were motionless. At the last moment, he yanked the control stick. As if someone kicked him in the butt, the helicopter suddenly shot up diagonally.

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A missile passed diagonally from behind the butt of the helicopter. Only at this moment did the pilot exhale sharply.

A key data between armed helicopters and general helicopters is reflected here, climb rate!

The higher the climb rate, the greater the ability to avoid missiles.

The climb rate of the twin-engine AH-1W is 8.4 meters per second, the climb rate of the Apache reaches 12.8 meters per second, and the climb rate of the Black Hawk is only a pitiful 4.5 meters per second. The huge gap is evident.

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In the first wave of attacks, all the protective umbrellas completed tactical evasion and were not shot down.

On the opposite side, two of the three AH-1s of the Moroccan Army fell to the ground with thick smoke, and only one managed to escape successfully. Upon seeing this, without saying a word, he turned around and ran away!

This is not to say that the Moroccan Army's AH-1 is a castrated version. The pressure faced by two air-to-air missiles at the same time is several times that of one. The difference is only a few tenths of a second. Once the missile is not interfered by the jamming bomb, then for those who are making evasive actions

Helicopters are deadly and difficult to avoid continuously.

The Moroccan army was able to complete the lock-on twice in a short period of time, and it was already the limit to launch two missiles. There was no chance for them to launch the third round. The AIM-9C that was shooting head-on was already in front of them!

Top speed of Mach 2, too fast!

Seeing the enemy plane running away, the Apache pilot pushed the control stick and chased after it. The co-pilot quickly completed the lock and fired at the AIM-9C with one round.

Behind him, five AH-1s also quickly caught up, but an order came from the communication equipment, "Look for opportunities to destroy enemy tanks!"

But in single combat, AH-1 is no match for AH-64, so there is no need for everyone to catch up together.

Of course, what's more important is speed. With the same model, they can't catch up.

In fact, when the enemy Cobra fled with all its strength, Apache could not catch up in a short time. In terms of maximum speed, the gap between the two sides was only a few dozen kilometers. Under the current battlefield situation, as long as it approached the Dakhla base, Apache

Qi didn't dare to really catch up.

The Stinger 2 in the hands of the Moroccan army is not vegetarian either!

This situation is more about driving away, preventing the other party from interfering with one's own helicopters and destroying enemy tanks.

Another jamming bomb, another large-scale maneuver, barely dodged a missile, and was pulled into some distance by the Apache.

Seeing that it was passing over the top of its own tank troops and unable to provide air support, the Moroccan AH-1 fled away.

The Dakhla base was close at hand, and while the AH-1 driver relaxed slightly, the five AH-1s whose protective umbrellas fell behind also completed locking on the ground tanks.

"Whoosh" "Whoosh" "Whoosh"

With tail flames spraying out, 5 Hellfire anti-tank missiles shot straight towards the Moroccan army's T-72 main station tank.

That’s right, the T-72 is a type of main battle tank designed and produced by the Soviet Union in the early 1970s, and was authorized to be produced by Warsaw Pact allies Poland and Czechoslovakia. It is the new signature tank of the Soviet Union, with a production volume of more than 25,000 units.
To be continued...