Introduction: I wanted to write something on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War, but I didn't write it. After the outbreak of war in Eastern Europe in February, the information was too mixed and the controversy was too fierce, and I did not dare to write. It was not until recently, after media reports on the MiG-29 copycat "Wild Weasel" and the S-400 air defense system position against Sevastopol, that the two were linked. The topic is sensitive, in order to avoid trouble, the text uses "Ze Army" and "Prussian Army" as synonyms for the two sides of the battle. Everybody knows this.
For some time, the war in Eastern Europe has been gradually in a stalemate, but recently, a cottage version of the "wild weasel" surprise attack on the shores of the Black Sea has heated it up.
According to public information on the Internet, the Zeitgeist MiG-29 fighter jets covertly penetrated and used the US-made AGM-88 "HARM" high-speed anti-radiation missile to hit the Prussian S-400 air defense system position or long-range early warning radar position near Sevastopol.
If this is indeed the case with the whole incident, then this can be regarded as a late "gift" from the Zetan Air Force to the national "Independence Day", and it has also made President Ze's slogan of "Great Counteroffensive" finally have some repercussions.
[Of course, in the complex environment of the enemy in the Eastern European battlefield where there are enemies in us and we have enemies, it is not excluded that it was the agents of the Zetsky Army who were infiltrating and infiltrating, and it was later publicized as the result of the air force. 】
Zejun MiG-29 and Hamm missile (image from the Internet)
Online photos of S-400 positions firing
When I saw this news, the first thing that came to my mind was the Falklands War 40 years ago.
When people think of the Falklands War, most of the first things that people think of are: the Argentine "Super Military Flag" fighter jet, with a "Flying Fish" anti-ship missile, sank the British destroyer "Sheffield", "200,000 US dollars of missiles for 200 million US dollars of warships", which is still talked about.
This is indeed a landmark event in modern military history. Since then, the use of small tactical formations with flexible maneuverability and the use of a small number of precision-guided weapons to destroy or defunction enemy high-value targets has become the ideal for the efforts of many national armies.
With the weakness of the Afghan army at that time, it was still able to play such a record against the old maritime powers. With weapons assistance from the United States and allies, and the support of the advanced intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) system, it is not surprising that the Prussian army, which is superior but has become inferior, has achieved similar results in the familiar combat area.
The comic strip shows the Argentine military plane launching the Flying Fish missile
The sinking of the Sheffield in the comic strip
What is laughing is that on some online platforms, there are actually such remarks:
"The air defense system is specifically designed to deal with aircraft, how did it get blown up by the aircraft?"
Destroying aircraft is of course the task of air defense systems, but attacking air defense systems is also one of the jobs of aircraft.
[It is recommended to add a modern military term through the search engine: SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defense), which Chinese translates as "suppressing enemy air defenses." 】
Then there were people who sang about the decline of the air defense system, what "air defense air defense, ten defenses and nine air" clouds.
If the Chiang Kai-shek pilots who lost their lives during the disturbance of the mainland in the 1950s and 1960s, the US pilots who died in the "Rolling Thunder" of the Vietnam War, and the Israeli pilots who folded their wings in the Yom Kippur War heard this tone, I am afraid that the coffin board would not be able to cover it.
[Even the members of the "wild weasel" who carried out the SEAD mission of the US military were shot down dozens of ah.] 】
Mr. Song Xiaojun called this arrogant layman's style of "big mother watching two mouths fight", which is to lower the cognitive threshold and simplify complex factors.
It is useless to say more, in short, two sentences:
It is brainless to understand the modern integrated air defense system as a surface-to-air missile in one-sided way.
Aircraft without electronic countermeasures single-handedly challenge ground anti-aircraft fire, which is to send people to the head.
The U.S. Air Force F-16CJ "Wild Weasel" classic plug-in configuration
Personally, I recognize some inferences of professional netizens, and then add a little view of myself, and comprehensively believe that there are several keys to Ze jun winning this battle:
The first is the huge and sophisticated ISR system of the United States and the help of almost "hand-in-hand"
The US side has been keeping an eye on the prussian movements all day and all day, and has obtained detailed information on the Sevastopol S-400 air defense system and radar positions, not only accurately calibrated the coordinate position, but also found out the loopholes in the defense system, grasped the PRUSS radar blind areas and the areas and time periods where the security was lax, and carefully planned the combat route accordingly, including the preset launch point and altitude. The relevant data assembly and missile combat mode setting and calibration work are ready before take-off (it is not excluded that the US personnel will directly start it). This full set of high-quality services paved the way for the infiltration of the Ze army MiG-29, and the combat mode was close to "no matter after launch", and the battle was easy to fight. What the Ze army has to do is to select capable pilots and fighters in good condition, and strictly abide by the implementation.
The ISR system mentioned here includes, but is not limited to, reconnaissance satellites, reconnaissance and early warning aircraft (including unmanned aerial vehicles), fixed/mobile ground signals/optoelectronic reconnaissance equipment, network open source intelligence collection and network theft and human reconnaissance (including espionage and forward observation, etc.).
Second, the Zejun MiG-29 adopts a flexible and convenient low-cost emergency configuration
Integrating NATO standard air-launched weapons into the original Soviet-made fighters is something that the UNITED-led NATO and those Eastern European countries that have invested in NATO have been tirelessly doing in recent years. Shortly before the war, Pentagon officials voluntarily revealed that the Zeezi Army MiG-29 had the ability to launch Hamm missiles with the help of the United States, and the Prussians also exposed fragments of Hamm missiles found on the battlefield. It is not difficult to modify the "Hamm" to launch the MiG-29, but it is not so simple to integrate the electronic countermeasure equipment of the "Wild Weasel" into the MiG-29 and run smoothly. Moreover, the original design of the MiG-29 did not take into account anti-radar, and with its basic performance and the foundation of the avionics system, it was still unable to support anti-radar operations.
According to the inference of the Ze army's recent propaganda video, during the raid, the Ze army MiG-29 (possibly a two-plane group, one carrying the "Hamm" missile attack, one carrying air-to-air missile cover) was equipped with a map navigation device terminal and a handheld GPS in the cockpit, which was a guarantee that it could successfully carry out a surprise attack in accordance with the route and tactics designed by the United States, and an important improvement of the MiG-29MU1 currently used by the Zee army was to support GPS. This emergency approach circumvents the problem of crosslinking between fighter radar, avionics and electronic countermeasures equipment, which is why the term "cottage version of 'wild weasel'" is used at the beginning of this article.
It is not known whether this navigation equipment configuration model is a wartime contingency plan or will be used in the future, and it is not certain whether the additional equipment is military or dual-use. However, this time-saving, labor-saving and money-saving method, this time because of the KO S-400 and fame, the next high probability will be continuously copied and used, in order to achieve the us side's high cost-effective plan, that is, with a lower cost, a large number of Prussian war resources.
In the Zee army propaganda film, the MiG-29 launches the Hamm missile
The third is the cold paralyzing slackness and greatness of the Prussian army
The black sea coastal area is the place where the Ze army desperately fought with the Prussian army, the bloody battle of Mariupol, the sinking of the Moscow, the bombing of the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet and the loss-making counterattack on Snake Island, all show how fierce the Ze army has been in order to avoid the sea outlet being eaten away step by step until it is completely closed.
However, in this dangerous situation of killing opportunities, the Prussians, who have suffered many big losses, are still loose in performance. As far as the S-400 shame battle is concerned, the Prussian army's destruction, interference and deception of the US ISR system have not passed, and their own evasion, camouflage and secrecy are not commendable, and they are slow and unsuspecting to the newly restored airfield of the Kherson Direction Ze Army, especially the air alert patrol of the Air Force is simply scornful, and it is fast-forwarded and quickly cut out of the eye and then gone. It can also be seen from this that because for some time, in the tug-of-war with the Zee army, the Prussian army has been paralyzed to what extent.
It is a pity that the S-400, in the first half of the year, also knocked out the Ze Army's Su-27 fighter jet from a distance, but now it is not as good as the Performance of the MiG-29 and has no power to fight back, just in response to the sentence in "Journey to the West": "Year by year, the family plays geese, but now it is pecked by the geese." ”
Just like the Taurus Golden Saint Seiya Arudiba in the manga of Masami Cheda, the move is fierce, no one in the twelve golds is incomparable, but he is repeatedly tricked by the opponent's various tricks, and he has the power to pull out the mountain, but he always falls to the embarrassing point of brushing the results of others.
In the comic strip, the British radar officer made a mistake, and the Prussians may have made the same mistake
In fact, many of the "Hamm" missiles given by the United States to the Ze army are long-term warehouse goods, and the version is lower. Recently, the Prussian army has recovered the remnants of the "Hamm" missile that left the factory more than 30 years ago. And this missile has been in service for nearly 40 years, and there are still many ways to deal with its old version. Including the traditional sudden shutdown, compression of high voltage time, sharp swing of the antenna, multi-base radar networking in turn for short-term boot work, etc., of course, more effective is the two-point source interference and the launch of electronic bait.
However, in the surprise attack on the S-400 position, it was the Prussian army itself that did not act, or whether the United States deliberately gave the Zetsyl army several newer versions of the "Hamm" missiles in order to fight this high-value target. In short, if the MiG-29 succeeded in sneaking in, the Prussians had already lost more than half.
At present, it is not known how badly the air defense positions of the Sevastopol Prussian Army were damaged, and whether the Zeitung army will supplement the attack after assessment. However, the Prussian army should put down its face, change its mind, refer to the US military and the People's Liberation Army, and make up for the lessons of offensive air defense and systematic operations.