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Zhang Feng was not nervous at all, he looked at his watch, it was one o'clock in the morning.

Flying at night is a very difficult project, but the pilots who can fly F-20 and Mirage F1 are all elite pilots.

"How's the weather condition?" Zhang Feng asked.

"The climate in the area where the target is located is very good, with a breeze and no fog." Fate replied.

Laser-guided bombs are very dependent on weather conditions, especially if there is fog, the laser will scatter, and the bomb's seeker will easily lose its target.

"After half an hour, the attack formation set off on time." Zhang Feng said.

In later generations, when the United States air strikes other countries, it always chooses to carry out air strikes at night, so as to maximize the surprise of the attack, and night is when the opponent's defense is weakest.

However, during the Iran-Iraq War, the Air Force almost never showed up at night, because most of the bombs dropped were aimed visually, and ordinary free falling bombs could not exert their power at night.

Now, the situation has changed!

Basra Air Force Base is already extremely busy at the moment.

Four Phantom F1s, each of which has a huge missile mounted on the wing root at both ends of the wing. This is the Red Bird [-] cruise missile crystallized by the technical personnel of China and Iraq. This morning, it will be The first time to declare your power to the world!

Ten F-20s, under the wings are full of bombs, although the appearance is very similar to ordinary bombs, but the difference is that there is a small lens on the front of the bombs, and there is a rotatable seeker inside. , is the laser receiving device.

The MiG-23 also has a big belly, ready to play its nanny role again.

The arrow is on the string!

Chapter 3 Fifteen Qom

135 kilometers south of Tehran, the capital of Iran, is the holy city of Qom.

Mosques of different styles.The round roofs of the mosques, the solemn arches and the towering minarets and minaret tops all make this holy city full of Islamic colors. A long time ago, Qom became a Shiite temple. leadership center.There are many seminaries with a long history here, and it is the Islamic theological education and research center of Shiites.And the great spiritual leader Khomeini lived here, and it has become the actual center of power in Iran.

Khomeini spent most of his life here. He studied here, taught Islamic theology and philosophy here, and became one of the six major Ayatollahs of the Shia sect in Iran. In addition to the uprising against the pro-American Pavelli dynasty, there are too many glorious histories here.

Every time he comes here, he will feel calm. This is the holy city in the Islamic world, and it makes him wise.

Recently, there have been many things that bothered Khomeini, and the situation in Iran has become increasingly pessimistic.He came here, hoping to quiet himself down and have more time to think.

The battle with Iraq has been retreating steadily, losing the territory in the southwest, where Iran's main oil production center and oil refining center are, and now, even the Khomeini port is lost, the port named after him , had been nearly razed to the ground by the Iraqis.

What is even more chilling is that Iran's chemical weapons were discovered by Iraq and also by the international community.

Chemical weapons are weapons that are expressly prohibited by the international conventions to be used by both belligerents. However, the belligerents who have been caught in a hurry, how can there be any international conventions!The Iraqis flattened the Khomeini port. We use chemical weapons and die together with the enemy. Why not?

However, Western countries made a big fuss about this matter. Even the United Nations requested several times to send weapons inspectors into Iran to search for such weapons of mass destruction, but Khomeini resolutely rejected them.

Weapons inspection?Americans also have chemical weapons, why don't you go to the United States to check?Khomeini's attitude is very tough. In this case, the United Nations has nothing to do.

The voices of Western countries are very powerful. However, Khomeini is not afraid of these voices at all. It is not the first time that he has withstood all kinds of pressure from the international community. Now, don't you still have a good time?

"Teacher, it's late at night, you should rest!" At this time, Ayatollah Yazidi said.

Ayatollah was Khomeini's student when Khomeini gave lectures at the famous Feiziya Theological Seminary in Qom in his early years, so he is called a teacher.

Today's Ayatollah is one of the members of the Expert Council and has great power in Iran.

After the success of the Islamic Revolution, Khomeini implemented in Iran a political system unique in the world in which theocracy was unified and theocracy was paramount.This political system is divided into two major systems: the religious leader system and the zhèngfǔ system.The religious leader system is a guardianship system, which has absolute power and is above the three zhèngfǔ departments of legislation, administration, and justice; while the zhèngfǔ system specifically manages the country, in which the parliament and the president are elected by universal suffrage, but they are all under the guardianship of religious leaders operate.

In addition to these, there is an oversight body behind the Supreme Leader: the Council of Experts.Composed of 86 Islamic clerics, in addition to electing and supervising the supreme leader, they can also depose the leader if he is incompetent or otherwise necessary.

Under such circumstances, the president does not have any real power in Iran. For example, Abel, who has fled, was the first president of Iran, but he did nothing. He disliked Khomeini’s theocracy Rule above all else, as a result, he was deposed.

Ayatollah is one of Khomeini's trusted confidantes. He knows that the supreme spiritual leader is worried about chemical weapons.

In fact, as early as the Bavillian dynasty, Iran had the ability to manufacture chemical weapons. Moreover, it was in a close relationship with the United States at that time, and everything could be bought. They stored some raw materials and put them in a pesticide factory near Tehran and Kerr. In a pesticide factory in Mann.

Originally, Khomeini did not want to use chemical weapons, but the progress of the war has forced him to take this step. The country has been lost. As a leader, he must consider the interests of Iran!

The two factories began to secretly manufacture sarin, and then transported it to the front line of Port Khomeini, where it was most needed.As a result, before the Iraqi army attacked, it was discovered by the Iraqi team that had infiltrated earlier, and it was revealed to the world.

Ayatollah's instructions to the supreme leader have always been resolutely implemented. He knows that these two factories are still in production, because Iran has no choice!

"Yazdi," Khomeini said, "what do you think about our war with Iraq?"

Recently, with the continuous victories of the Iraqi army, especially the capture of Khomeini's port, Khomeini knew that there might be other voices from the lower levels.

"We are fighting a just war to export the Islamic revolution. Iraq has desecrated the sacred teachings of Islam. As the center of Islamic civilization, it is our bounden duty to export our revolution to other countries," the Ayatollah said.

"That's not what I want." Khomeini said, "Don't you have any other ideas?"

"Teacher, although Iraq has some advantages now, our land area is several times that of Iraq, and our population far exceeds them. Our war potential is great. Although Iraq now occupies our land, but, They don't have a big advantage, and as time goes by, the situation will become more and more favorable to us." Ayatollah said: "During World War II, Germany occupied almost the entire Europe, but it was still defeated. In the Far East, rì I occupied more than half of China, and I was defeated in the end. I believe that we will win the final victory! Justice must prevail!"

Justice will prevail!This sentence stung Khomeini's heart. He firmly believed that what he did now was completely correct. The Islamic world is a clean world and must not be Westernized by those things in the West!

Khomeini looked at the shadows of the mosques in the city of Qom in the night, and his heart began to calm down.

"Iraq is able to gain an advantage now because of the support of Western countries, especially the United States." Ayatollah continued: "Actually, we can adopt some other means, such as the occupation of the US embassy in our country last time, forcing The other party made concessions, and without the support of Western countries, Iraq would have no choice." Ayatollah thought for a long time before saying this.

After the Islamic Revolution, patriotic students seized 66 Americans from the American embassy with great success.

Khomeini's eyes lit up. The United States is the great Satan. Now, they are supporting Iraq's aggression against them, repeating the previous method again, forcing the United States to make concessions?

You can give it a try!Khomeini's eyes lit up.

For Iran, no matter what method is used, it is worth it!

He looked up, the night was still dark, but his eyes were bright. Although he was old, his heart was still not old. In the Middle East, Iran was the center of Islamic civilization and the overlord!

………… Phoebe was driving a Phantom F1 fighter jet, behind him were three other Phantoms from his 11th Combat Squadron. Under their wings were two newly developed weapons from Iraq, the Red Bird II cruise missile. .

Just at the beginning of the Iran-Iraq War, apart from being able to manufacture some light weapons, Iraq had to import almost most of its equipment. Now, the advanced missiles mounted under their wings were produced by Iraq itself. Huge improvement!

This time it is a ground attack, so two Red Bird [-] cruise missiles are mounted on the wing roots, and a huge auxiliary fuel tank is mounted under the fuselage, implementing a low-low-high combat mode, that is, entering from low altitude , complete the launch task at low altitude, and return from high altitude after disengagement. In this way, it can not only achieve concealment, but also take into account fuel consumption.

On the outside of the wings are short-range air-to-air missiles.

After taking off from Basra Airport, they flew over Ahvaz and entered Iran's actual control area, and then lowered their altitude. Then, they chose the flight route they had found in advance, avoided the opponent's ground radar, and bypassed Arak. After flying over Qom, the two cruise missiles under the wings can be launched.

After entering the airspace of the Iranians, Phoebe checked carefully and confirmed that all the navigation lights were turned off. In the dark night, if the navigation lights were turned on, it would be tantamount to courting death. The opponent's anti-aircraft guns would be unprepared. kill yourself.

There is a small amount of starlight tonight, and this kind of night voyage is considered a night voyage with less technical difficulty.

However, there are stars twinkling in the sky and city lights on the ground. When the pilot is nervous or distracted in the cabin, it is very easy to have the illusion of flying.The plane was originally in a level flight state, but the pilot always felt that the plane was on a slope, or felt that the plane was pitching up or pitching down, so he made corrections unconsciously.This is somewhat similar to the illusion of flight caused by sailing on the sea, and the solution is also very simple: Believe in the instrument!Operate the flight strictly according to the instructions of the instrument.

As veterans with nearly 11 hours of flying experience, the pilots of the [-]th Fighter Squadron, this flight is not very difficult.

The Phantom F1's navigation system was already very accurate, and when it was bypassing Arak, it took advantage of the city's lights to adjust its course. Phoebe was full of confidence in this attack.