The F-4 "Ghost" is a two-seater, dual-engine all-weather long-range supersonic air defense interceptor. They were well-deserved air bullies throughout the 1960s and early 70 years!

Radar and avionics that surpass the times and the powered twin-engine engine make "Ghosts" an outstanding representative of the second-generation fighter jets. They are huge in size and high in speed, and have relatively balanced performance in all aspects. They can not only fight beyond the visual range, but also have a fierce attack ability to attack ground.

The imaginary enemy of MiG-23's design is this old man!

It is undeniable that the "Ghost" F-4 fighter is extremely excellent, but it also has fatal flaws.

The design of "ghost" is based on such an expectation:

Air combat in the 1960s would be a showdown between medium and long-range missiles, and the two sides of the warring parties could not see each other.

It was absolutely epoch-making to put forward such an advanced air combat concept in the 1950s. It was definitely epoch-making. It is precisely because of this that "Ghost" has excellent avionics and radar systems that crush all fighters of the same period, so that it can accurately capture targets during "out of the visual range" air combat.

Unfortunately, early missiles such as the "Sparrow" radar-guided missile were awkward.

"Ghosts" can detect enemy aircraft in advance, but cannot press the missile launch button at the moment of discovery. They have to continue to approach about 20 kilometers, and then launch the "sparrow", followed by a long radar illumination until the target is hit.

There is a fighter plane opposite, not a kite!

Will it not roll around and avoid the radar blind spots of "ghosts"?

Even if the "sparrow" flies fast enough and the "kite" does not run away, within the ten seconds of providing radar illumination, the "ghost" is like a marionette, and must fall behind the missile's butt for guidance, otherwise the "sparrow" will lose its target and fall down...

In the air battle, maintaining a flat flight for more than ten seconds is simply a lie flat and beating position. If it were a flying formation on the opposite side, other planes would have rushed over to catch the "ghost"'s butts and were full of old fists!

This means that once the "ghost" enters the fighting state, "extra-visual air combat" is a joke. It has to fight with smaller and more agile MiG fighters at close range, but its huge size, overweight fuselage leads to excessive turning radius and poor maneuverability in large angles of attack, etc., will be exposed at this time...

The US Air Force has never liked it very much, mocking it as a "dive rhino", but in the Middle East and Vietnam, the "ghost" has a very good record, which is related to the technical differences between pilots on both sides and the lateness of the difficult-to-delivery MiG-23.

In fact, in addition to completing the mission of ground bombing, these 72 "ghosts" in Israel also put in full swing to kill the damn 101 flight squadron of the Egyptian Air Force!

MiG-23, don't be afraid!

The E-2B early warning aircraft has a detection distance of 200 kilometers. As long as the MiG-23 probes, it will be discovered that the "ghosts" can be fully aware of the mindlessness. The two types of aircraft have the same ceiling. The limit speed of the "ghosts" reaches Mach 2.23, which is no slower than Mach 2.35 of the "Flasher". Besides, they have a total of 72 aircraft...

The ambitious "Ghost" formation began to bomb Egypt's military airports in order. The huge fuselage provided an amazing nine weapon pyramid, among which the six pyramids on the tail and wings could be hung with a "Sparrow" air-to-air missile or two "Saturday" air-to-air missiles, and three bomb ejection bomb racks. The maximum plug-in weight reached 6042 kilograms!

In contrast, the MiG-23 can only carry a maximum of no more than 2,000 kilograms of bombs or five missiles.

In other words, the load capacity of a "ghost" is equivalent to three "fighters". If all "rattlesnakes" are mounted, or even four "fighters", of course it is impossible.

Although the "Sparrow" is very naughty, it is much more awesome than the "Rattlesnake". At least it can launch an attack from 20 kilometers away, while the "Rattlesnake" must be close to 7 kilometers, which means it is revealed that it is short!

This time the air strike mission is mainly ground attacks, so each "ghost" has only two "sparrows", two "rattlesnakes", and the rest of the gantry are hung with AGM-12 "Little Doudou" radio remote-controlled missiles, AGM-62A "White Star Eye" TV bombs, AGM-45 "Mockingbird" air-to-ground anti-radiation missiles, etc....

Seven airports were blown up in a row, and the "Ghost" formation did not even burn the hair of Egyptian planes. The angry David could only tilt all the ammunition to the hangar, tower, runway and radar station!

They even began to wonder if the air strike was leaked?

Because, every time the "ghost" formation approaches the airport, Egyptian air defense forces will suddenly appear on their dive route, and various anti-aircraft artillery, rocket launchers and Sam-2 missiles burn the skylight of the airport to the red...

When the first batch of bombing targets were destroyed, 17 "ghosts" had been swallowed up by dense air defense fire!

But at this time they could not return. The remaining 55 "ghosts" had to patrol the Sam-6 air defense missile positions on the west bank of the Suez Canal. The remaining 110 AGM-45 "Mockingbird" air-to-ground anti-radiation missiles were already hungry!

Just as they were about to arrive, the early warning plane suddenly heard an alarm:

"Note that four enemy planes are attacking from the south, with a distance of 80 kilometers, an altitude of 18,000 meters, and a speed of Mach 2.35..."

The detection distance of the E-2B Hawkeye Early Warning Aircraft did reach 200 kilometers and an altitude of 30,000 meters, but it was slow, heavy, and self-aware, hiding at an altitude of 8,000 meters in the Mediterranean, and 120 kilometers away from Egypt's missile positions.

Therefore, it only appears on the radar screen when the enemy plane approaches 80 kilometers from the south of the Sinai Peninsula.

The height is 18,000 meters, the speed is 2.35 Mach, and there are four more aircraft?

Fuck, isn't that the damn 101 Squadron?

Among the 55 "ghosts", 110 brave Davids were all excited, and a loud complaint sounded in the communicator. It should be like this when translated into Chinese.

It's so good, it's so good!

It takes no time to find a place to find a broken iron shoe!

If there is a way in heaven, you don’t go, if there is no way in hell, you break in...

The "Ghost Monster" formation quickly lowered its height and began to dive bomb the "aircraft missile positions" on the west bank of the canal. 110 AGM-45 "Mockingbird" air-to-ground anti-radiation missiles poured down!

The west bank of the canal suddenly turned into a sea of ​​fire. The "ghosts" had no time to appreciate it. They quickly raised the head of the engine. The two J79-GE-17 afterburner turbojet engines burst out with 160 thousand nh of thrust, and the aircraft group soared up!

The distance of 80 kilometers is less than a hundred seconds for the MiG-23, which is flying at an extremely fast speed of Mach 2.35. The "ghosts" must take advantage of this period to accelerate to the limit and occupy a strong advantageous altitude.

In theory, it is enough to leave one or two "ghost" squadrons to deal with the "damn 101". Other aircraft can already return, but given that the early warning aircraft did not send an alarm for other aircraft to approach, the formation commander issued an order that he would regret for his life-

55 "ghosts" were attacked in three ways, and they were eaten by the four devils!
Chapter completed!