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Mensaje: <blockquote data-quote="Roland55" data-source="post: 3363365" data-attributes="member: 50668">Asi rapido, el plan de Tollini (Kluso) y Pitts (Cherry), los pilots de los F-15, era derribarlos a distancia con los AIM-7 e irse, temian caer en una trampa ya que no solo habia Mig-25, habia Fulcrum y Mirage en la zona. Pero justo cuando tienen el lock y van a disparar (30Nm), los Migs maniobran para que estos pierdan el lock, para cuando vuelven a aparecer en los radares, estaban a 10Nm. El primer avion es derribado por un AIM-7 (el de hussein) mientras que el segundo es dañado por ambos AIM-9 y AIM-7, y es rematado con un AIM-7 (el de Hemhe)El primer derribo"Now 6,000ft behind the “Foxbat,” looking right up the tailpipes, Pitts re-selected AIM-9M, got a good tone and uncaged the missile’s seeker head. “Just as I was about to fire, he put out more flares that dragged the seeker head off before I could take the shot. I re-caged it back to the radar, got a good tone and shot, but he decoyed it with flares again. He was fighting pretty hard and I was thinking, ‘Man, am I going to have to gun this guy?’ I selected another AIM-7 and shot, and this time the missile went right up his tailpipe and exploded. The guy bailed out and his ejection seat came right over my canopy – I thought it was going to hit me!” Unfortunately, despite his ejection, Hussein Abdul Sattar was killed"El Segundo“I knew this was going to be a problem for ‘Cherry,’ and sure enough I watched as his first AIM-9 ‘Mike’ came off and immediately went after the flares. I then watched his first Sparrow leave the jet but, instead seeing a steady lag-pursuit missile path, the AIM-7 accelerated out front, started to pull lead and then made a high-G turn directly into the ground. Almost immediately I saw Cherry shoot another AIM-9M with the same results as the first, guiding on the ‘Foxbat’s’ flares. “This entire time as I watched [about 10-12 seconds] I had closed across the circle to about 9,000ft at the ‘Foxbat’s’ ‘three o’clock.’. I had my own AIM-9M uncaged and ready to rip. My -9M did not seem to have the same problem with the ‘Foxbat’s’ flares probably because of my beamish approach, and the fact that his flares were not fully blooming until well aft of his jet. The -9M seeker was growling loudly and held steady on the ‘Foxbat’s’ exhaust throughout the engagement. For this reason [and concern that ‘Cherry’ would run out of missiles] I called out on the radio ‘Two, come off!’ and a moment later I shot my -9M. Apparently, as he told me afterwards, Cherry never heard my call, possibly because he was calling what would be his final shot over the radio at the same time. “I watched as his second AIM-7 lumbered off and flew the pursuit path of a Sparrow that had found its target. ‘Cherry’s’ missile reached the target first, and I saw the warhead detonate at the extreme aft end of his tail section, but the MiG kept flying. Within another second or two my AIM-9 arrived, with similar results – an aft end warhead impact with the ‘Foxbat’ continuing to fly on. “At this point I heard ‘Cherry’s’ ‘Splash!’ call. I was now inside 6,000ft on the ‘Foxbat’ and closing quickly. I never saw the pilot eject, which ‘Cherry’ would tell me about later, so just to be sure this ‘Foxbat’ was finished I selected Guns and closed to make a final firing pass. As I did so I noticed the Iraqi fighter rolling out [of its turn] with its previously brightly lit ’burner cans now cold and dark. It was obviously a ‘dead’ fighter at this point, as I passed very close [inside 500ft] of its tail and watched the ‘Foxbat’ slowly drift down, almost like a sinking ship, and disappear into the undercastAs Tollini arrived at Nehme’s “six o’clock,” he could not immediately identify the target. “When we merged the first time we had good ID, but having been spat out of the fight [the ‘Foxbat’ extending to the south] I didn’t know who he was when he came back in again. I didn’t know where ‘JB’ and ‘Willie’ were, and I knew that there was a Navy package out there somewhere, so I was sitting about a mile behind him, looking at his tail, but unsure of what he was. What I could see was his two huge ’burner plumes, so I asked on the radio, ‘Hey is anybody in ‘burner?’” Pitts responded with “Affirm[ative].” “Based on ‘Cherry’s’ answer, I called, ‘Everybody out of ‘burner!’ – working on the basis that if he was one of us he would comply. Well, he didn’t, so I looked at him more closely and saw that he had two missile pylons under each wing. It was not an F-15 or F-14. That’s the moment I knew it was a ‘Foxbat.’ I then started shooting. “My first AIM-7 was at low aspect, maybe 20 to 30 degrees off the tail, and I hit the pickle button and waited, but I didn’t see the missile flying out in front of me. I think the rocket motor failed to light. I thumbed forward [on the HOTAS weapons switch] to select an AIM-9, at which time what looked like a single flare popped out of the aircraft – it was not really bright and it could have been him ‘punching out’ [ejecting]. In any case, having seen what happened to ‘Cherry’s’ missiles, I was not confident that the AIM-9 would get there, so as soon as I fired it I thumbed back to AIM-7 again. The AIM-9 flew close to his ’burner cans – through the plume – and appeared to fuze, but too far aft, resulting in a miss. I then shot the second AIM-7. “This time, after a short pause for the launch/motor fire sequence, I saw the Sparrow missile fly out in front of my jet and begin a constant acceleration on a smooth right-hand turn that In full afterburner, from the stern aspect, the MiG-25 looked much like the F-15 seen in the previous photograph – Tollini had to be sure the target was a “Foxbat” before firing. The four weapons pylons on the wings, and the fact the target stayed in afterburner following his radio call, convinced him that his target was indeed a MiG-25. Almost exactly matched the ‘Foxbat’s’ own flightpath. Finally, I saw the missile disappear under the ‘Foxbat’s’ belly. In what seemed to take an eternity, to the point where I again considered making a gun attack, I waited for the warhead to go off. In retrospect, it appeared that the AIM-7 actually impacted the underside of the ‘Foxbat,’ with the back-up contact fuze finally setting off the Sparrow’s large blast-frag warhead. The explosion was huge, like the ‘Death Star’ from the Star Wars film! Unlike the first ‘Foxbat,’ this one totally disintegrated in a breathtaking flash.Perdon que sea largo y en ingles, pero la traduccion al español me parecio muy pobre.</blockquote>

Verificación: Guerra desarrollada entre Argentina y el Reino Unido en 1982