After the war, the British paid a total of more than 150 advanced fighter jets to Argentina to offset debts. In addition, Argentina also bought many aircraft from the Americans, which greatly enriched the Argentine Air Force.
Among these aircraft are 15 Avro Lancasters and 30 improved Lincolns.
Of these 30 "Lincolns", 18 are newly manufactured and 12 are used by the British. They are assigned to the I Group of the 5th Air Wing and are still partially in service.
In addition, the Argentine Air Force has a total of 100 Gloster "Meteor" F.4 types, half of which are second-hand and half of which are new.
Argentina now not only has the largest navy in South America, but also the most powerful air force.
In addition to San Jose's familiarity with the Cordoba Army, some forces in the navy and air force also planned to launch rebellions and coups.
The Air Force has always been the most powerful commander in the Argentine army, and there are also many anti-Bilón factions here. This time, the ones taking action were several military chiefs stationed in Buenos Aires Province, who have a close relationship with the church.
This is determined by their origins. They are from wealthy families, and they are severely suppressed by the presidential office.
Now the Argentine air combat force is divided into two major factions, one is the government forces loyal to Bilon, the other is the naval aviation rebels who oppose Bilon and some air forces, and a few are neutral. This has evolved into a larger scale. Split.
The navy also split into three groups, namely the southern neutrality faction headed by General Jose, the rebel faction in northern Argentina, and the government faction supporting Bilon.
Since the small-scale military rebellion in the past few months was suppressed, the army at that time fell silent, but now the suppression of the church has become more and more severe. This time a larger-scale military unrest has been brewing, and Bilong's opponents have united again Woke up.
The first to take action this time was a joint rebellion by some of Argentina's navy and air force.
Saint Jose also received secret information.
He responded to the news that the Navy planned to launch an airstrike on the capital on Thursday.
He evacuated important senior executives of his company from the capital in advance.
He informed the personnel to protect his father-in-law's home.
Protect the Blue Delta State.
Fortunately, the target of the air raid was only around the presidential palace. Saint Jose asked his father-in-law to get off work early at noon. After all, the Ministry of Agriculture was right at the presidential palace.
Even if something happens, I don’t know how to face my wife.
The University of Buenos Aires may be affected.
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Thursday, June 11, 11:00 p.m.
North of the town of Robinica, Indian Head Bay, Naval Aviation Barracks,
This is an important naval military base in Argentina, 165 kilometers away from Buenos Aires.
Navy Captain Purnis Rhodes was arranging missions with confidence. He was wearing a navy uniform. This time he summoned 19 pilots and related personnel to arrange combat missions.
A large-scale detailed map of the capital was placed on the small blackboard. It marked the locations of the capital's air force and anti-aircraft guns, and the address of the Rose Palace was highlighted.
He held a stick and pointed back and forth between the Moron base and the Rose Palace. He felt a little nervous and his palms were sweaty.
"Under the general's arrangement, we are about to carry out this combat mission. Our goal is here. I believe everyone will be familiar with it."
He pointed the stick at the x-marked spot in the Rose Palace and drew several circles around it, his voice trembling.
"This is a joint air force operation, a beheading operation jointly planned by the navy and air force. The first purpose is to kill Bilon and bomb the presidential palace, and the second purpose is to blow up those radio antennas."
"We have to face fighter jets that are more advanced than us. The naval aviation fighter jets have always been inferior to the air force. I emphasize again that the first purpose of our combat mission is to blow up the Rose Palace Presidential Palace."
His voice gradually became calmer, and the pilots' breathing became heavier, but no one spoke, and the air seemed to freeze.
This combat operation is almost equivalent to the assassination of the head of state in the late World War II.
They felt their mission was sacred, and that's what the general told them.
It can be said to be quite tragic.
"It's foggy in Buenos Aires today. It's a rare opportunity. Kill Bilon. Look at the map carefully. You only have this chance. Bilon will have lunch at the Presidential Palace today."
Since last month, everyone has engraved the map of the Rose Palace in their minds. Which streets and which buildings? Some people have seen it in person during their vacations, and have simulated it dozens of times on the sand table.
They felt that there was no chance of failure in this operation.
Various intelligence from the Presidential Palace cannot be concealed from the military, and there are also people from the Ministry of National Defense involved in this rebellion.
"Our purpose is not to fight with the air force. The pilots at Moron base have a lot of vacation today. The reaction time is at least one hour. We will not face too many enemies in one hour. This is a good opportunity. The general will arrange it for us. This creates the best opportunity to fight."
The Naval Aviation is the second largest air force in Argentina, second only to the Argentine Air Force. Most of the aircraft are produced in the United States. The Argentine Air Force is produced in the United Kingdom, and its performance is not as good as that of the British aircraft.
This combat operation has been planned for a long time, but when the actual combat mission was assigned, most of the pilots were still very excited. The families of these pilots had some hatred towards Bilong.
"Our main opponent is the aircraft from the Capital Air Force, which belongs to the 7th Air Wing. The main model is the British Meteor F.4, which is stationed at the Moron base on the outskirts of the capital Buenos Aires."
The Gloster Meteor F.4 has a length of 12.49 meters, a wingspan of 11.3 meters, a maximum take-off weight of 6597 kilograms, a top speed of 940km/h, a ceiling of 13563 meters, and is equipped with four 20mm Hispano cannons and a total of 780 rounds of ammunition. It was newly manufactured in the United Kingdom, and there are still 52 of them at the air force base. It is also their main opponent.
Naval aviation pilots love and hate this aircraft. This aircraft has extremely powerful combat data.
This fighter has a very strong record and combat capability.
"We have to face at least four more Meteor F4s. The Air Force pilots of the 7th Group are our opponents, but we also have people at Moron Air Force Base who support the coup. There will be people covering our actions. Our aircraft are not as good as those of the government forces. , we will fly 4 AT-11 and 15 AT-6A trainer aircraft to launch the decapitation operation first. This mission code name is Project Corner Bay."
The 7th Air Group is the ace of the Argentine Air Force, and the naval aviation is much stronger, which is also a source of pressure for them.
The AT-11 model is a fighter aircraft developed by the American Beechcraft Aircraft Company and the United States Air Force during World War II.
The AT-6A trainer aircraft is a single-engine tandem two-seat primary trainer aircraft manufactured by North American Airlines. It has been used to train the U.S. Army Air Force, U.S. Navy, etc. since World War II.
Since 1947, at least 120 refurbished North American Aviation AT-6As have been in service with the Argentine Naval Aviation, and these flights are in the attack aircraft category.
"Everyone, be prepared. We will take off on time at 12:20 and arrive at the bombing site at 12:40. Now go check the plane and refuel it." Gu
He clapped his hands, and the pilots of the Horn Formation sprang into action.
In fact, the performance of these two aircraft is not as good as the Arrow 2 aircraft designed by the Argentine Military Aircraft Factory, and it is far inferior to the Meteor F4.
The Meteor F4 belongs to a relatively advanced generation of fighter jets, and its combat results during World War II were also very good. It had remarkable results against the German Air Force.
It is completely different from the Arrow 2 designed by the Argentine Military Aircraft Factory.
There are now two major aircraft manufacturing plants in Argentina, namely the military's Argentine Military Aircraft Plant in Cordoba and the San Martin Aircraft Manufacturing Plant in San Jose.
Both aircraft factories are optimizing and improving Arrow 2 fighter jets, but the military aircraft factory lost 70% of its German aircraft designers in 1952, 20% of which left Argentina forever and went to the United States, Canada and even India. 60% went to the San Martin Aircraft Factory.
This allowed the St. Martin aircraft manufacturing plant to expand its research and development levels to an unprecedented level.
The flight data of the Arrow 2 fighter is very close to that of the MiG-15. Except for the different range, there is no difference between the two.
Judging from the overall layout of the two, they are very similar to the MiG-15 except that the wings are high-monoplane.
St. Jose is not very optimistic about the Arrow 2 fighter jet. It named this model Tank-52 at the San Martin Aircraft Factory. St. Jose's goal is to develop a second-generation aircraft for Argentina.
It just takes more than 10 years, and the world is still dominated by first-generation machines. The production of stainless steel alloys by special steel plants is also a breakthrough for the improvement of Arrow 2.
He is not sure whether there is a market for the Arrow 2. The austenitic 304 stainless steel alloy developed by the special steel factory has been used in aircraft prototype manufacturing.
San Jose hopes to develop more powerful alloys specifically designed for fighter jets, especially high-energy alloys.
At the end of last year, he approved the production of two Arrow 2 prototypes by the St. Martin Aircraft Factory. The test flight will not be carried out until early next year at the earliest. These two Arrow 2s are much more optimized than the four prototypes originally manufactured by the military aircraft factory.
Countless amounts of money have been invested, and developing fighter jets is so expensive that even St. Hesse is struggling and may not even be able to recover the money.
This was based on the fact that the Argentine military aircraft factory was nearing completion and was designed again.
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As planes took off over Indian Point Bay, they flew toward Buenos Aires at extremely fast speeds.
This flight formation is very fast. In the absence of radar in Argentina, the Argentines can only detect these aircraft visually.
At 12:38, the aircraft formation arrived at the suburbs of the capital.
19 fighter jets that were not part of the air cruise suddenly appeared in the sky above the capital Buenos Aires.
Two aircraft performing combat patrol missions over the capital discovered this unknown combat formation immediately, but they did not respond. They chose neutrality and did not shoot down the aircraft group. They simply passed by.
Two minutes later, the Cape Bay formation bombed the Rose Palace, the presidential palace - where they thought Bilong was.
Bombs were dropped intensively on the Presidential Palace, and the Rose Palace instantly turned into a sea of flames.
The bombing campaign went unusually smoothly.
A vehicle in front of the presidential palace was also blown up.
The pilots in the Horn Bay formation couldn't help but cheer.
But Bilong was not injured in any way. He had left the Rose Palace and fled to an air-raid shelter 10 minutes before the bombing.
The Air Force Command's loyal faction, the government forces, immediately determined that the coup party came from Indian Head Bay, 165 kilometers southeast.
With a loud sound, one minute later, the air raid siren was sounded, resounding throughout the city, and the citizens of Buenos Aires were stunned.
It took a while for someone to react and hide quickly, but there was no place to hide, so they had to stay at home.
"The enemies have reached the capital."
Almost all citizens felt shattered.
The soul was greatly shocked.
Someone with bad intentions ran to the roof, and thick smoke rose from the Rose Palace.
Air Force Thomas Nick immediately issued an order to Moron Air Force Base,
Directly order Moron to assemble four meteors to "intercept any aircraft over the capital, and if necessary, shoot down any malicious aircraft."
Although this order is extremely conservative.
He was afraid of accidentally hurting his own people, so he had to give an ambiguous order.
This is also the mistake of the Cape Bay formation. The Air Force radio station is currently intact, and they are about to face Argentina's ace Air Force - the 7th Group.
These four aircraft were led by Lieutenant Juan Garcia, Lieutenant Mario Oresa, Lieutenant Osvaldo Rossito and Second Lieutenant Ernesto Adradas.
The Moron base stationed on the outskirts of the capital Buenos Aires immediately received the news, and within 10 minutes four Meteor F4 fighter jets from the Air Force took off.
Unfortunately, two of these four planes were sympathizers of the coup, so they chose to remain unmoved after taking off just like the two original cruisers.
This was a military coup. The anti-Bilon faction within the Argentine army, including the Navy and part of the Air Force, launched a military coup in an attempt to oust Bilon and physically eliminate him.
The Cape Bay formation has left the Plaza de Mayo.
A few minutes later, Captain Jorge Ruiz, who had returned from abroad, led two Meteor aircraft to take off from the Moron Air Force Base. However, they were also sympathizers of the coup party and took over the combat patrol mission over the capital and did not conduct an attack.
Immediately afterwards, Lieutenant Juan Carpio's two-plane team also took off to support the coup party.
At this time, there were already 27 aircraft in the sky over Buenos Aires, and an air war was about to begin.
Naval planes landed at Esaisa Airport southwest of the capital after bombing the Pink Palace, preparing to continue fighting.
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