53: Chapter 53 The Military Base Under Air Attack

Hera Joint Military Base.

This is a military base of the USA located in the Hasakah region of northern Syria.

Since the USA invaded this place and established a military base, they have used it as the command headquarters for their troops stationed in Syria.

Lieutenant General Green is the commander of the USA forces in Syria. He has held this post for three or four years and has commanded the troops stationed in Syria to eliminate all armed organizations in northern Syria.

Apart from the Opposition Armed Forces supported by the USA, there is no longer any armed force here that can threaten the USA troops stationed in Syria; there isn't even an armed force that dares to provoke them.

Therefore, the USA has openly organized oil-stealing troops to brazenly occupy large oil fields in Syria, transport stolen oil, and sell it for their own personal gain.

However, what Lieutenant General Green did not expect was that a massive oil-stealing convoy had actually been attacked, and a Black Hawk Helicopter had been downed. This situation made Lieutenant General Green very furious.

After receiving the intelligence, although Lieutenant General Green had no evidence to confirm whether it was the Syrian army or the Iranian army that attacked the USA oil-stealing convoy, he immediately prepared to launch a retaliatory operation.

Raqqa, not far from Dairo in northern Syria, is a military base of Iran, and it is also one of the only three military bases Iran has in northern Syria.

A battalion of Iranian troops is stationed here. The force is not large, making it the perfect target for the USA to launch its retaliation.

The USA is quite experienced in bullying armies that have a technological gap in weaponry.

This military base was barely retained to maintain the balance of power, and now it can be wiped out as an excuse to achieve the goal of retaliation.

Lieutenant General Green immediately mobilized a joint force of 500 troops to prepare for an attack.

The mobilization of troops was fast, but it still required time. However, Lieutenant General Green did not stay idle; he immediately arranged for more than ten F-16 Fighter Jets to get ready and launch an airstrike first.

As one F-16 Fighter Jet after another roared off from the Hera Joint Military Base, the pilots knew it was time to bully the weak again.

Lieutenant General Green knew that Iran's Raqqa Military Base had anti-aircraft missiles, but the combat performance of those anti-aircraft missiles could not threaten the F-16 Fighter Jets at all.

The Raqqa Military Base could only be unilaterally crushed and was completely incapable of resisting. Lieutenant General Green was very confident about this.

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Raqqa Military Base.

Because this military base was too close to the USA's Hera Joint Military Base, Iran did not dare to station too many troops there, with only less than a battalion of personnel.

Major Jafari served as the commander of the Raqqa Military Base and concurrently as the battalion commander stationed there.

He had thought nothing would happen that day, but the officers and soldiers monitoring the radar discovered more than ten USA fighter jets appearing on the radar.

This immediately made the officers and soldiers highly tense; the appearance of more than ten fighter jets was not a good thing.

The Raqqa Military Base did not have many anti-aircraft missiles to begin with, and the appearance of more than ten fighter jets over the military base meant that the base had almost no defensive capability.

The officers and soldiers hurriedly reported the situation to Major Jafari.

"Report, USA fighter jets have appeared in the northeast, with a number reaching over 10, and they are flying in our direction."

Major Jafari's expression changed, and he asked urgently, "Are they really flying towards our military base?"

"According to the flight trajectory, they should be."

"Immediately sound the air defense alarm, all personnel transfer to the underground bunkers, keeping only the anti-aircraft missile operating personnel for defense."

Major Jafari immediately issued the order.

But after such an order was issued, Major Jafari did not feel very reassured. An airstrike by more than ten fighter jets would be a devastating blow to this military base.

I am afraid that all the facilities of this military base will be bombed to the ground, and it will take a lot of effort to rebuild it again.

Major Jafari had served as the commander of the Raqqa Military Base and had rebuilt this military base several times, but more than ten fighter jets had never visited here before.

"What has the USA gone crazy over?!" Major Jafari complained bitterly.

Because of the fear of USA fighter jets bombing this military base, all the officers and soldiers of the entire military base often conducted drills for avoiding airstrikes.

Very quickly, the officers and soldiers of the Raqqa Military Base entered the underground bunkers, and only the surveillance radar officers and anti-aircraft missile operating personnel remained on the ground.

Major Jafari was praying that the USA fighter jets were just flying past the Raqqa Military Base, when sudden explosions reached the underground bunker.

The more than ten F-16 Fighter Jets did not have any intention of testing; after reaching the airspace above the Raqqa Military Base, they directly dropped "Maverick" air-to-ground missiles.

The first round of more than ten "Maverick" air-to-ground missiles covered nearly half of the area of the Raqqa Military Base.

Although the anti-aircraft missile operating personnel of the Raqqa Military Base pressed the launch button at the first opportunity, the F-16 Fighter Jets locked onto by the anti-aircraft missiles quickly broke the lock, and not a single F-16 Fighter Jet made a mistake and was hit by an anti-aircraft missile.

In the end, the anti-aircraft missiles just exploded in mid-air, causing no damage to the F-16 Fighter Jets.

Seeing that there was still resistance, the F-16 Fighter Jet pilots immediately conducted a saturation attack on the anti-aircraft missile positions.

Following the explosion of seven or eight "Maverick" air-to-ground missiles, the anti-aircraft missile positions all became ruins, and the operating personnel could not escape the explosion and all perished.

The surveillance radar personnel were affected, but because they were not the main targets, and coupled with timely escape, there were not many casualties, but all the surveillance radars were covered by the explosions and could no longer be used.

Major Jafari completely lost intelligence on the Raqqa Military Base, completely in the dark, like a blind man, not knowing the specific situation of the Raqqa Military Base, only knowing that explosions were coming one after another from above.

Seeing that no more anti-aircraft missiles were flying over, the F-16 Fighter Jets confidently launched a saturation bombing on the Raqqa Military Base.

One conventional bomb and free-fall bomb after another detached from the bomb bay and detonated in every corner of the Raqqa Military Base.

The entire military base was reduced to a sea of fire from bombs. The pilots only stopped dropping bombs after seeing that there was not a single intact building left.

After flying a circle, feeling still not satisfied, several F-16 Fighter Jets dropped another round of bombs on some buildings that looked unpleasant, and only then did they satisfactorily fly away from the Raqqa Military Base.

After the F-16 Fighter Jets left the Raqqa Military Base, Major Jafari did not hear any more explosion sounds, so he dared to send officers and soldiers to leave the underground bunker to check the situation of the military base.