Chapter 165

Even though Israel had suffered condemnation from the entire world.

Some war correspondents reported on the Gaza massacre, but the arrogant Jews, as if tearing away the hypocritical veil they had worn for so long,

transformed into demons attacking Gaza's civilians.

Even some little girls fleeing for their lives were torn to shreds by the GE 20mm M60A1 Vulcan cannons mounted on those F-15 fighter jets.

At this moment, they were nothing but slaughterers.

They were even worse than the Hans who once massacred the Jews.

However, as a missile came roaring in with a "boom,"

it turned an F-15 "Strike Eagle" fighter jet into a ball of fire in the sky.

The Palestinians in Gaza finally welcomed hope.

Their true god, Allah, seemed not to have abandoned them.

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"What!"

Barnhill, an Israeli Air Force pilot flying an F-16I "Sufa" (Storm), saw the fireworks in the sky.

An expression of disbelief spread across his face.

An Israeli Air Force fighter jet had actually been blown up mid-air by someone.

"Who did this!"

Barnhill simply could not believe Hamas possessed such capability,

and moreover, that just now had not been a surface-to-air missile.

Although the model was indistinguishable in the dark night, it was absolutely a very fast air-to-air missile.

"There are enemy fighters... there are enemy fighters!"

Barnhill shouted loudly over the communication system.

However, the next moment, a missile

turned an F-15I "Thunder" fighter jet into aerial fireworks.

Watching the orange firelight surge in the mid-air, Barnhill's pupils constricted rapidly.

He never expected that within such a short time, two jets from their formation had already been taken out.

However, soon the Israeli Air Force began changing their formation in the sky.

They formed a simplified Eagle Wall squadron.

The so-called Eagle Wall refers to a mode of gathering a large number of fighter jets in a certain airspace to completely suppress the opponent with uninterrupted aerial combat.

Typically, when operating in a certain airspace, twenty F-15s form one combat formation,

divided into five combat groups, with each group further split into two two-aircraft formations.

This tactic originated from the Ugly States during the Gulf War era; with an early warning aircraft commanding from the rear and utilizing ultra-high-power search radar, enemy aircraft positions could be detected hundreds of kilometers away.

At the rear, the "Phalcon" early warning aircraft increased its detection power and range.

However, the radar system of the "Phalcon" early warning aircraft, which had previously been invincible, showed no reaction whatsoever.

"What is going on? Why can't the radar system detect anything...!"

Flying behind the Eagle Wall squadron, Barnhill asked the command center,

yet before he could finish speaking, he suddenly choked on his words.

"Is it a stealth fighter!? Damn Hamas, they've gotten that DWS crowd to make a move!"

Regarding the air battle that took place over Syrian skies more than a month ago, shocking the world,

Israel naturally knew about it.

After all, that battle had already been recorded in the history of aerial warfare.

Consequently, anti-stealth and beyond-visual-range combat became extremely valued by various nations following this engagement.

In reality, beyond-visual-range combat itself is not unusual.

In fact, during the Gulf War era, the Ugly States had already pioneered its use.

At that time, as soon as any Iraqi fighter jet took off, it would immediately be detected by the E-3 early warning aircraft behind the Ugly military lines,

which would then direct nearby F-15s into designated zones to search for targets using their radar.

Compared to the small-diameter radar equipped on fighter jets, the E-3 early warning aircraft's radar could detect low-altitude flying targets 400 kilometers away and command one hundred aircraft to engage in aerial combat.

Therefore, many Iraqi fighter jets were locked onto throughout their entire flight immediately after takeoff, shot down by air-to-air missiles fired from afar before they even knew where their opponent was.

The Eagle Wall tactic, based on beyond-visual-range aerial combat, was born from this context,

utilizing one's own numerical and command advantages to greatly compress the enemy's combat scope.

However, compared to the Gulf War era,

modern beyond-visual-range combat is far more terrifying.

This is especially true when used in conjunction with stealth fighters.

Israel's "Phalcon" early warning aircraft could not detect the targets at all.

Yet their own forces were well within the enemy's attack range.

The Eagle Wall, regarded by the Israeli military as a classic tactic, had instead become a living target.

As air-to-air missiles came attacking from extremely far away one after another,

neither the F-15s nor the F-16s possessed any ability to counterattack.

Watching fighter jet after fighter jet explode, with some pilots ejecting directly,

the Israeli command center immediately issued the order to retreat.

Almost without any hesitation, these Israeli Air Force personnel who had just been delighting in killing Gaza civilians

now fled in panic like dogs with a broken home.

But could these aircraft really escape?

Just as an Israeli brigadier general had stated during the war between the Israeli Air Force and Syria,

"From the perspective of our squadron, the battle against the main Syrian Air Force forces, the MiG-21s and MiG-23s, was more like a shooting game."

And now, from Lin Yi's perspective as he piloted the F-22,

whether it was an F-15 or an F-16, it was hardly any better than a shooting game.

He only needed to spot the fighter jet locked onto within the radar system, then press the launch button,

and then, AIM-120C medium-range air-to-air missiles would be launched one after another.

Even a three-year-old child could perform such actions.

There was absolutely no technical difficulty involved.

As for whether those fighter jets could escape,

Heh! Although the AIM-120C cannot match the six-Mach speed of Dragon Country's PL-21,

a speed of four Mach is still something neither the F-15 nor the F-16 can escape.

Thus, this is just like a simple shooting game.

On Lin Yi's radar screen, those small icons representing fighter jets

looked much like the enemy planes in the old arcade game "Galaga."

With every AIM-120C missile expended,

the system deducted fees and immediately reloaded them.

In just five minutes, Lin Yi had fired nearly thirty AIM-120C missiles.

It was only when his radar system displayed that no enemy aircraft remained within two hundred kilometers

that Lin Yi switched to normal cruise mode, reducing his speed from two Mach to about 1.5 Mach.

By now, his fighter jet had passed over the skies of Jia Sha,

and as if on purpose, the F-22 gradually lowered its altitude.

Even in the darkness, some people could make out the familiar fuselage of the F-22.

"How could it be the Ugly Country's F-22?" The people of Jia Sha were utterly bewildered.

At this moment, five-year-old little Dalun had already been rescued by Jia Sha residents from a house on the verge of collapse.

Her mother's corpse had been hastily carried aside,

and many Jia Sha civilians had lost their lives in this airstrike.