MTL - Big Time 1958-Chapter 952 Fishing in troubled waters
The F-111F fighter-bomber adopts the general layout of two-seat, twin-engine, upper monoplane and inverted T-shaped tail, and the landing gear is the front three-point type. The biggest feature is the use of variable swept wings, which is the first time this technology has been applied to a practical aircraft. The advantage of the variable swept wing is that it can improve the take-off and landing performance of supersonic aircraft, take into account the aerodynamic requirements between high and low speeds, and expand the scope of use of the aircraft.
Variable swept wing technology solves the problem of high-speed and low-speed compatibility. A general variable-sweep wing consists of a fixed inner wing and a movable outer wing. The outer side of the inner wing is equipped with a rotating shaft that runs through the thickness of the wing. The outer wing is connected to the inner wing through the rotating shaft and can be driven by mechanical force. The shaft is swept back and forth. The variable swept wing solves the contradiction between high and low speed flight. When flying at high speed with a large sweep angle, the resistance of the aircraft is small and the acceleration is good; when flying at low speed, using a small sweep angle, the wing aspect ratio is large, the battery life is long, the aircraft is economical and safe to take off and land.
The Soviet Union's response to the F-111F fighter-bomber model is the MiG-23 Thrasher heavy fighter of the Mikoyan Design Bureau.
However, even if the combat radius of the F-111F fighter-bomber is not low, it is still an impossible task to take off from the United Kingdom to attack Libya. Nearly 30 aerial tankers have taken off first and will fly in the English Channel, the western waters of France, and Gibraltar. The strait was on standby, and the fighter-bomber group was refueled in the air to complete the 5,000-kilometer raid mission.
"It's a pity that we don't have a military advisory group in Libya, and we can only give reminders through the military force in Egypt." Defense Minister Marshal Ahromeyev greeted the general secretary who came here for the night at the Ministry of Defense, unless the Soviet Union entered the range. The Red Navy's Mediterranean Fleet conducts a salvo of anti-ship missiles, otherwise no one can stop the US military's actions at present.
"The spy satellites show that the current position of the US tanker fleet can be judged that the US Air Force is currently under attack." Marshal Ahromeyev analyzed the situation through this analysis, which is to analyze where the fighter fleet has reached, only through It is estimated that spy satellites cannot solve all problems. Otherwise, during the Cuban missile crisis, how did Serov deceive the Americans who were close at hand? If you want to avoid the detection of spy satellites, even naval ships can do it, and it is even easier for planes.
"If it is just to eliminate the US Sixth Fleet, it is not difficult for us, especially Reagan risked ignoring our Mediterranean Fleet and concentrated on attacking Libya. But after the fight is the problem, Libya is not worth throwing away everything and The US confrontation, if it is Saudi Arabia? You can think about it then." Shelov looked at the position of the US Sixth Fleet, which was out of the range of the Egyptian anti-ship missiles, and only the Soviet Granite series could get it.
But Egypt can fight, but the Soviet Union cannot. This is the problem, and Serov has to admit that the Soviet Union can't help. Reagan's judgment of the Soviet Union's inability to intervene was very accurate, mainly because the Soviet Union saw that its intentions were too short. Just like the Soviet Union attacked Turkey, the United States simply did not have time to react. This time the role was reversed, and a few days were simply not enough for the Soviet Union to make targeted deployments.
Even if the Soviet Union invades Europe, the United States still hopes that Europe will stand by itself for a month to buy time for the United States to mobilize.
"Let Mubarak inform Gaddafi that the Americans are here. If he can save his life, he will win." Shelov squinted and gave an order. Although this nasty guy was also anti-Soviet, he was even more anti-American. To save.
There are not only two major camps in the world, there are also some secondary forces. If these secondary forces did not exist, the Soviet Union was killed by the United States after World War II and could not be turned over, but secondary forces are secondary forces, and the main thing is to If it is **** its own, it will be like Getu's death, and France will almost cut its wrists and bleed, but it still cannot stop the Soviet Union from committing suicide.
In fact, Mubarak's reminder can only play an icing on the cake. No one is stupid when it comes to his own life, especially Gaddafi, whose ambition has not been extinguished. Three days ago, from the constant reminders from the Soviet Union and France, Gaddafi concluded that he could not escape this time. The defeat of the war is so much.
In order to preserve strength, fighter jets were secretly transferred to neighboring Sudan, some military transport planes were transferred from the coast to the desert in the interior, several radar stations on the border were closed, the air defense of some important targets was strengthened, the army was withdrawn from the barracks, and the Foreign technicians and workers were concentrated in the oil fields as hostages, including a thousand Americans.
"One thousand American hostages?" Shelov finally saw something interesting. This Gaddafi response returned by Egypt is basically worthless, except for one thousand American hostages.
These actions are ok against other Arab countries, but it is a joke against the United States. Serov stood up and said to Defense Minister Marshal Akhromeyev, "Comrade Marshal, basically there is no problem, I will leave first."
The general secretary, who went out of the gate of the Ministry of Defense, drove straight to Lubyanka, and was still thinking about the thousand American hostages on the way. The United States is a very interesting country because it has made human rights too noble to deal with the revolutionary Soviet Union. The result of human rights being too noble is that the United States cannot lower its tone even if it wants to.
From the favorable experience of history, Serov can know that one of the things that the United States will never forgive is the large-scale use of Americans as hostages. Iran has been blocked by the United States until the 21st century, and it has already formed in the hearts of Americans. With a fixed impression, when you mention Iran, you can think of the hostage crisis.
"Don't tell me, the French African Division, it hasn't grown at all over the years?" After arriving in Lubyanka, Chebrikov had already left work, it doesn't matter, let him come back, Chebrikov is not too old , and Shelov are the same age.
"Let's kill a group of Americans?" Chebrikov was taken aback, the general secretary's method was as direct as ever.
"I am also very desperate to meet such a leader of a third world country who is always swaying between two camps." Shelov looks like I have difficulties, but it is not that I have not done it. About thirty years ago, the general manager The secretary led the secretary and also bombed the US embassy in Hungary. To this day, Hungary and the US have severed diplomatic relations.
To gain benefits for the Soviet Union from this military operation, the means cannot be too bright. Serov has done a lot of things that are not bright, and he will care about the lives of Americans if he is ruthless?
Serov held his head in his hands, stared straight at the table, and said boredly while thinking, "Everything has a degree, if it kills the United States, it will be traced to the end, more than a thousand lives, I also have some troubles. Don't go."
General Chebrikov, who was about to drink water and then listen to his teachings, froze slightly, his head crashed for a while, and he put the cup back on the table, forgetting what he just did.
"Then how many people did we kill?" Chebrikov said while thinking about the difficulty of the action.
"One percent is enough. Just find a hostage location. I don't believe that there are no us in the Libyan army? A company commander can do this." Serov suddenly leaned back and leaned back. He said, "The number of people can't be too large, otherwise it will be a full-scale war. If Libya has a population of tens of millions and can resist the land attack of the United States, the Soviet Union will of course try to help it. Unfortunately, the population of Libya is less than 4 million. This point The population simply has no basis for guerrilla warfare."
"I will leave the finishing touches to Mendelev. Libya is a desert, and there are places where a few soldiers involved in the world are buried!" Even if Reagan knew about it, he couldn't do anything to the Soviet Union, but Still want to avoid trouble, Serov wants to force Gaddafi to join the Soviet Union, exposing that Gaddafi might bite back.
"No problem, dispatching four or five members is enough." Mendelev, the head of the operation department, replied in a flat voice.
"You have 14 hours to prepare, and you have to wait until the U.S. air strike is known to the whole world." Shelov looked at his watch while talking, "What support do you need?"
"A transport plane dropped us into Libya!" Mendelev replied without hesitation.
"The plane will take off from Sudan, and it can't pass through the Mediterranean Sea. Benin can also." Shelov spread out the map of Africa, the US Sixth Fleet is in the Mediterranean Sea, and it will definitely be found if it takes off from the north.
"There are people from our Operational Executive Department in Sudan, and they all understand Arabic." Mendelev's actions were the same as on the phone, and he was also comparing the map of Africa to find the easiest hostage gathering areas.
Just as the US air raid on Libya, the Soviet Union, which defined the US action as a typical imperialist act, was also preparing to fish in troubled waters and show the light of social imperialism.
At 1:00 midnight, the US Navy and Air Force completed air coordination, everything was ready, and Operation Golden Canyon officially started.
Off the coast of Libya, four EF-111 electronic warfare aircraft and fourteen EA-6B electronic warfare aircraft simultaneously released strong interference, even when Libyan anti-aircraft missile guidance radars were blinded and radio communications were interrupted. At the same time, the naval aviation carrier-based aircraft took the lead in launching a missile attack on the Libyan air defense positions. Six F/A-18s and six A-7s each fired about fifty Mozu and Hamm high-speed anti-radiation missiles at Tripoli and Benghazili radar stations six minutes before the main attack formation entered the target area. .
The air strike of the US Navy and Air Force was immediately captured by the Soviet spy satellites over Libya. Almost at the same time, an Il-76 transport plane appeared on the runway of the Soviet Air Force Base in Sudan, and soon took off and disappeared into the night. Taking advantage of the spare time of the first wave of American strikes, the Soviet Union began its own operations. The micro-manipulation master Shelov hasn't started for a long time.
