Chapter 656： Mavericks out

The two sides encountered each other suddenly. After taking Gawash, this tank force originally planned to attack Tatwan, but they did not expect that the two sides would encounter on this rugged mountain road!

In fact, if the Turkish army were a little more determined, they would find that the Kurds they had to deal with were just a bunch of novices.

For example, they just need to set up roadblocks, or even simpler, light several cars side by side, and they can stop the Kurds from advancing! Although they use tanks as bumper cars, they never dare to hit a car on fire. As long as the road here is blocked and the mountain road is rugged, the Kurds will never find a second way to go!

As long as the Kurds are blocked here and the follow-up reinforcements arrive, the Kurds can be completely wiped out!

It is a pity that they were scared. After being knocked off a cliff by a Kurdish tank, the Turks behind lost their courage to resist. They only cared about themselves to escape, and they were defeated by the Kurdish tank troops. Packed up!

The Kurds didn't all push the cars off the cliff. Since all the Turks in the cars escaped, these cars are their property! The tank unit is just the front, and there are infantry behind it! The Kurds are very poor. The infantry relies on two legs. It would be good to have a motorcycle. Now, these cars are obtained for free, and of course they must be used!

The rear team became the front team. The Kurdish infantry crossed their tank troops and climbed into the car. The mountain road was too narrow for the tank troops to pass first, so the infantry driving the car went ahead. .

All the way, the army, mighty, marched along the mountain road to Tatwan!

An infantry brigade was routed by the Kurds! Heavy casualties! The Kurds have tanks! This amazing news soon spread to Ankara in the rear.

Must not allow the Kurds to occupy Tatwan! Compared with the city of Van, Tatvan has a larger population! If the Kurds are unrest there, it is likely to make the situation even more corrupt! There will be more Kurds to respond!

Evren was also at NATO headquarters to coordinate with the heads of state, and the chief of staff of the three armed forces in Ankara knew that it was a big deal, and immediately mobilized more troops to Tatwan!

At the same time, the air force was also dispatched quickly, and a bombing formation composed of four F-4 fighters flew quickly towards the direction of Lake Van.

The army troops are just a bunch of idiots, they can't even beat a group of mountain Turks! Turan, the lead pilot who flew at high altitude, could not help but be full of contempt.

Now, under the order of the superiors, the Air Force has to support the troops to fight. Originally, the confrontation with the Soviets on the border line was very tense. The Air Force was always on the lookout for when the Soviets and the Iranians would suddenly launch a large-scale attack. Therefore, each fighter is mounted in the air, and the Sparrow missile and Sidewinder missile are ready to strike the enemy at any time.

And now? They were originally eagles in the sky, but they had to do the work of attacking the ground! On the pylons of each fighter plane, AGM-65 "Maverick" air-to-surface missiles are mounted. Only the wingtips have two sidewinders for self-defense. They need to find the Kurdish tank troops and launch an attack!

This is a difficult task, because the terrain here is quite complicated, with mountains and mountains below, and the speed of the jet fighter is very fast.

At the same time, the AN/APQ-120 fire control radar is an early type of radar. It has no synthetic aperture mode or pulse Doppler mode at all, and cannot filter ground clutter. Therefore, this kind of attack mission is not used at all. on this radar.

Fortunately, although the carrier aircraft is backward, the Maverick air-to-ground missiles it carries are not backward, but it is a good player against armored targets!

During this Cold War period, the Soviet tank troops would be rolling forward at any time, drowning the West in the sea of ​​steel, and the West's choice was to use quality to overcome the advantage of quantity, and use fighter jets to launch a ground-attack missile , is very necessary. The Maverick missile was developed under this circumstance. As a small tactical missile, it can mount six on an F-4 fighter and attack six ground targets, and the tank is the one of the most important goals.

Turkey is the front line of NATO's fight against the Soviet Union. All kinds of advanced weapons will be equipped with priority to Turkey, and the same is true of this Maverick missile!

No need to use outdated radar, the Maverick missile can be TV-guided, infrared imaging guidance and semi-active laser-guided, and now, what is mounted on Turan's fighter is the TV-guided Maverick missile.

The airborne AN/ASX-1 optical/electrical target recognition system has started to work, and the scanned images are displayed on the IP-1094/APQ-120E display in front of the radar operator in the rear seat of the F-4 fighter, and synchronized to the front IP-1093/APQ-120E monitor.

In order to observe the target more clearly, the F-4 fleet flew to the target at a high altitude, and when it saw the wide Lake Van, the altitude and speed were reduced, so that the target could be better detected.

The weather was clear and the picture from the TV camera was quite clear. The radar operator in the rear cabin constantly adjusted his C-8909/APQ-120E display control device to make the target clearer.

In front of the mountain is the mountain, and then there is the valley, and in a flash, the shadow of a team appears below!

"Target found!" shouted the radar operator in the rear cabin. "In the valley we just flew over."

"Find the target, go around, prepare to attack!" Turan shouted in the radio, ordering his formation to prepare for the attack.

After two turns, it flew through the valley on one side. This time, a huge convoy appeared on the monitor. The radar operator in the rear cabin carefully adjusted the control device. Finally, the convoy below could see clearly, and sure enough It's a tank!

"Target, the Soviet-made tank, attack immediately." The radar operator in the rear cabin said while using the aiming device to switch to a continuous tracking state. In four seconds, the target was intercepted, and the control lever moved a few times to put The target is in the center of the aiming reticle, and a Maverick missile is quickly selected, the gyro is unlocked, and the hood is thrown away. The camera of the Maverick missile transmits images to the display in the cockpit of the aircraft, and follows the AN/ASX-1 optical/electrical target. The targets indicated by the identification system coincided, and then, with the sound of fire, the flames flashed under the wings.