The Saudi Air Force's Crushing Defeat
Chapter 687:The Saudi Air Force's Crushing Defeat
In the face of the prince's inquiry, the Saudi Air Force major on the early warning aircraft was not at all surprised, because the current problem is quite serious.
If the eight fighters in front of them were shot down by the Houthis, it means that the location of the AWACS is also quite dangerous, and they must return to their own national airspace in the first time.
“It is no accident that our communications system failed briefly before the eight fighters disappeared from the radar, which is no accident, we are now in the airspace, we are now in Yemen, and if the Houthis have anti-aircraft weapons to destroy our fighters, it means that the early warning aircraft are also in the range of the other side.”The Saudi Major said again seriously.
The prince of the Saudi Air Force, although very reluctant to believe from the heart, but heard his subordinates repeatedly stressed that there is inevitably some uneasiness in the heart, after all, this is related to their own lives, no matter what kind of results, first to a safe place to talk about.
"Order the captain immediately, and return home at the first time."
After giving the order to return, the prince, confronted the young major, and said, "I hope your analysis is correct, otherwise you will go to the military court for it."
The major heard and looked unchanged, and he did not defend anything, for he believed his own judgment.
The Houthis are indeed a mud leg in the eyes of Saudi Arabia, but the Iran supported by the Houthis is not a mud leg.
Iran is a country with an autonomous defense industry capable of producing medium- and short-range ballistic missiles.
Earlier, it has been reported that three Iranian ships loaded with a large number of weapons and equipment docked in Houthi-controlled ports, and at least thousands of tons of weapons and equipment were received by the Houthis.
At present, the Saudi military intelligence has not yet figured out the details of these weapons and equipment, but it is not ruled out that there are a large number of missiles in this batch of weapons and equipment.
It is also completely excluded that there are a large number of anti-aircraft missiles in this batch of weapons and equipment.
Because of the precision attack on the ground, the air force fighter generally flies only a few thousand meters, unlike the early warning aircraft, it is above 10,000 meters.
The altitude above 10,000 meters is completely outside the range of man-portable anti-aircraft missiles, but the fighter does not count.
Yemen has man-made anti-aircraft missiles capable of shooting down low- and medium-altitude fighters, as the major acknowledged.
However, it is difficult to shoot down eight fighters in one fell swoop, which is difficult to use man-portunistic anti-aircraft missiles by the Houthis alone, and most likely to be advanced regional anti-aircraft missiles, even if it is medium and short-range anti-aircraft missiles, they can shoot down early warning aircraft.
When the watchtower early warning aircraft turned to leave, on the ground, an anti-aircraft missile system had already locked the Saudi early warning aircraft into Yemeni airspace.
The early warning aircraft is an advanced early warning command aircraft in Europe, and it is quite difficult to shoot down such an early warning aircraft.
Especially with anti-aircraft missiles to shoot down early warning aircraft, in actual combat, it is difficult to have such an opportunity.
If the Saudi side knows that the Houthis have a large number of anti-aircraft missiles, they will not dare to let the early warning aircraft enter.
At this moment, the radar system on the ground has been secretly opened, and the radar signals and communication signals released from the watchtoise warning aircraft are like fireflies in the night sky, so bright and outstanding.
Silently, two anti-aircraft missiles were ejected from the camouflaged launcher, ignited in the air, and flew toward the early warning aircraft in the middle of the sky.
Anti-aircraft missiles launched, radar lock guidance at the same time, early warning radar on the early warning aircraft, the first time to find the incoming missiles.
There was no need to explain anything, and the commander of the Saudi Air Force in the early warning aircraft looked pale in an instant.
How can the early warning aircraft avoid anti-aircraft missiles, alarm lights in the aircraft, and flash up quickly.
The missile quickly approached, and the AWACS could not be as flexible as the early warning aircraft, and the captain released a large number of decoys in the first time, but the signal locked by the missile-guided radar has not stopped.
“Receive God’s provision.”The Major slowly closed his eyes.
The prince's face was as white as snow, and he seemed to want to open his mouth to say anything, but he could not say a word, and the others in the airport were not much better.
The AWACS are locked by missiles, and the decoys do not work, and the result is no better than the civil aircraft being locked by anti-aircraft missiles.
It seems that the process is very long, but in fact only a few seconds, the anti-aircraft missile approached at more than seven times the speed of sound, ignoring the interference of the decoy, the two anti-aircraft missiles directly hit the early warning aircraft, and the instantaneous explosion almost blew the early warning aircraft to smash.
The strong fire in the sky shone, a large number of debris fell down towards the ground, and a large number of debris in the fuselage burned and fell.
This is not an accident, in the face of the Red Guard Corps' advanced anti-aircraft missiles, not to mention the sightseeing station early warning aircraft, even the world's most advanced early warning aircraft, it is difficult to escape bad luck.
This day, also destined to be a disaster day for the Saudi Air Force, the air campaign against Yemen, dozens of fighter jets, a third of the dozens of fighters, including a very precious watchtower early warning aircraft, but also buried a Saudi prince, and is still Salman's right arm.
And this is bound to be a news that can not be hidden, there are many international media in Yemen, and even personally shot the Saudi air force fighter was shot down.
Near Sana'a, three Saudi Air Force F-15 fighters were shot down, and some reporters rushed to the site where the wreckage fell and took a large number of photos.
More than a dozen Saudi fighters have sunk in Yemen, which is still the Houthis have not really carried out a full counterattack, otherwise Saudi fighters into Yemen, it is estimated that few can be repatriated.
This is a well-prepared counterattack, based on no one knows that the Houthis have such a strong anti-aircraft firepower, otherwise, if the careful Saudi Arabia, at least there will not be such a huge loss.
International media have also published relevant news reports, almost all of which are using the sand to describe Saudi air strikes in Yemen today.
It also allowed the Houthis to enter the eyes of the international community, and while the international community was surprised at the fighting strength of the Houthis, it also looked at Iran.
As if everyone knows that this is certainly a credit to Iran, otherwise it would not be possible to have so many anti-aircraft missiles with the capabilities of the Houthis.
In this regard, Iranian officials also issued a statement condemning Saudi air strikes in Yemen, but also called for peace and calm treatment and not to further escalate the war.
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