Destruction of 48 Iraqi aircraft at H3

It was announced by the flight crew leader that the probability of martyring in the operation is high, so each of the pilots is not ready for any reason, so that the alternate will be placed on the main list, everyone is ready to make a statement. Following the execution of the prayer and air purification, the operation began. The war began, and the air force of the Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, on 1 st of October 1359, and only one day after the start of the war, brought a strike to the Iraqi Air Force. During this operation, 140 air strike bombers in Operation Kuman 99 bombarded most of the Iraqi Air Base, except the Al-Waleed Base.

How many months did the war go? At that time, the Ba'athist government in Iraq was plunged into a swamp that had never thought of getting into it. She was doing great work and bombarding the military areas daily from the eyes of Ba'athis. At this time, the city of Abadan was surrounded by three sides, and the Iraqi ground forces could, with their air support, achieve their main objective, namely the occupation of Abadan Was to arrive. Meanwhile, the Iraqis, who had not forgotten the memory of the 140-strong attack on the first day of the war, thought that, perhaps on the eve of this operation, their air bases would be targeted at the airspace of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Army Air Force. So they decided to transfer all their main aircraft to a point where no Iranian desperate squadron could reach and target it. So, with the necessary coordination, on January 21, 1359, Iraq transferred part of its operational planes to the Al-Walid Basin in western Iraq, near the Jordanian border. This base is divided into a base and two sub-stations, called "H3", and had a powerful defense. At the same time, Saddam Hussein made a speech on the Iraqi TV screen, which was partly like this: I have a firewall and Iran can not penetrate into any territory at all.

Shortly thereafter, the Iranian Air Force announced the transfer of Iraqi aircraft, and the Brigadier General Martyr Jawad Fakuri, commander of the Air Force, had proposed at the meeting of the Air Forces commanders on February 15, 2009, that the plan was to launch the operation The Air Force's plans began to work on it, and after a while it was considered impossible to do so. At the same time, the plan was rejected by the Air Force, but plans were also proposed: First plan: 16 phantoms to fly; 14 main and 2 reservations; 6 tankers with them; 3 tankers inside Iran And three tankers at the western end of Iraq, and to protect each tanker, two F-14s will fly, which will create a massive number of aircraft. The second plan: There are 12 phantoms to fly, 10 main and 2 reserve, four tankers with the same conditions, in which the number of fighters and tankers was reduced, but the phantom status was susceptible to the shortage of tanker tankers. And the likelihood that two phantoms would be lost was abundant.

Meanwhile, the late Brigadier General Bahram Hooshir prepared a plan to confess with the martyr Fakori in which he arranged 10 armed phantoms with eight main and two flight reservations, and also for the misleading enemy on arrival Phantoms invade Kirkuk 2 F-5s into Iraqi territory. The attack's launching location was also the second base of Tabriz. After reading this plan, the martyr Fakori considered it practical and agreed to it. But this operation was canceled twice because of infiltration of the infiltration and information of Iraq. Therefore, at a meeting, the martyr Fakouri was scheduled to announce the failure of the plan. The meeting was held in the second half of March. The meeting was about the status of the battlefields, the deployment of Iranian and Iraqi forces, and .... After the end of the meeting, Martyr Fakori, Brigadier General (then colonel), summoned Fraz ... Bratpour, who was the deputy commander of the operation of one of the air bases, and informed him of the crucial and vital mission of the series. To personally take the flight command.

Ten Phantom (eight main and two reserve) armed forces fly in full protection from the Shahid Nogheh Hamadan base and flock to Lake Urmia. The planes hit a bunker tanker at the altitude at the post, after arriving at the Turkish border, they arrived in Iraq, where they collided with two tankers that left the international route, and after Refueling at Alwalid bases is bombarded and retreated. The plan was carried out in full swing and it was supposed to be carried out at dawn on the fifteenth day of April. An important point in designing this operation was the lightness of the fighters and the swiftness of the attack.

At the morning of April 15, 1981, the selected pilots were summoned to the command post without prior notice, and a briefing was promptly described, and all cases and how they were carried out were described for all pilots, and it was assumed that phantoms To be divided into two categories.

Finally the promised day arrived. At the morning of April 15, 1981, the selected pilots were summoned to the command post without prior notice, and a briefing was promptly described, and all cases and how they were carried out were described for all pilots, and it was assumed that phantoms To be divided into two categories. The leader was one of the ranks of Colonel Bratpour and the leader of the other Brigadier (Colonel of that time) Farhadpour. At the end of the briefing, the flywheel leader stated that the probability of a martyr in the operation is high, so that each of the pilots is not prepared to announce any alternative to the main list, everyone is ready to make a statement. After performing the prayer prayers, the operation began with the illumination of the air.

The operation was predicted so accurately that aircraft of each flight group were identified the night before. Following the announcement of the number of planes from the maintenance battalion, the pilots were placed one after the other in the cabin, while the maintenance personnel themselves did not know the details of the operation. In this way, 10 F-4s were flying in full-time radio silence. During the operation, only twice the radio's silence broke. One when flying, each aircraft announcing their number after getting out of the gang, and once again after the completion of the refueling operation, they announced a rummage.

After flying phantoms, they traversed the lake of Urumieh, and when weather was cloudy, they collided at the altitude with two 747 gas tankers and the first refueling stage was completed successfully after 20 minutes. Then the phantoms flew to the frontier. At the same time, two F-5s flew from the Tabriz Air Base to Kirkuk's refinery and, in a successful attack, bombed the refinery. At that time, the phantoms were near the border and At 7:57 am, they reached the zero point of the border, divided into 2 categories, and returned 2 reservations. (Totaling 8, 6 Phantom and 2 Phantom Di arrived in Iraq). At the same time, the Iraqi air force commander reports that a number of unidentified airplanes have been seen on the Turkish border, saying that the planes belong to Turkey. The phantoms crossed the 4-foot quadrant of 500 feet from each other, at low altitudes from the Zakho border town and entered Iraqi territory. At that time, they reached their lowest elevation and continued their route on the Turkish border. At the end of the northwest of Iraq, the phantoms were at a distance of 90 miles from the target with two 707 tankers, which, in the sense of the airport in Larnaca, Cyprus, and in the sense of an airport in Turkey, turned themselves into it. They collided and floated at a height of 20,000 feet, then lowered themselves back up to about 30 meters and landed at the very first landmarks that were quoted at this moment. Bratpour himself (Operation Leader) fired their fighter navigation devices and when the position of the devices is shown with a role E compares the real situation that he was talking to with the rear cabin, who was a radar control officer, and says:

Bratpure Brigadier: Apparently, my navigation device is in error. Can you tell where your device is? Rear Cockpit: (Calmly Tells) Tel Aviv. BrentPort: So let's go there! Cockpit Cockpit: (with Shirazi dialect)!

In any case, after crossing the last landmark, Bratpour finds the main road, and with his mark, each of the four phantoms is separated from one, forming the third group. Meanwhile, one of the pilots saw a defensive stance that had not been foreseen in the initial map and it was attacked and destroyed by the fact that it would not be disturbed on the way back.

The first group, under the command of Brigadier General Farhadpour, attacks the base at 8/45/8. The second group attacks at the second base at 8.50 pm. The third group, under Brigadier General Bratupur's command, is attacking the third base, while the third group still did not reach the main base, the other two groups ended up because they were far from the base. The smoke from the blast of planes and caches filled up all space and fired the enemy and enemy missiles on either side to overthrow the phantoms. Bratupur, in view of this situation, decides to launch a rush to the right of the opposite side instead of being attacked by a predetermined route to the third base, which would thus be overwhelming. The enemy's base was very good camouflage, even in the color of the ceilings of the nest, and the equipment was well covered. When the third group was headed by Brigadier General Bratupur, the Iraqis, who did not think the Iranian pilots had the courage and ability to attack it, were completely surprised.

Those who were doing routine work first thought that their own plane was coming to them, and because of the change they had given, their anti-aircraft balloon tubes marked the opposite side and their so-called firewall was on the side Another was Phantoms reach the top of the base, diving and releasing all their bombs and turning the base into a hell of a fire so that in some places, due to the low altitude of the phantoms, the fire tabs can also be raised to the planes' height. Receipt. Those who were doing routine work first thought that their own plane was coming to them, and because of the change they had given, their anti-aircraft balloon tubes marked the opposite side and their so-called firewall was on the side.

Another was Phantoms reach the top of the base, diving and releasing all their bombs and turning the base into a hell of a fire so that in some places, due to the low altitude of the phantoms, the fire tabs can also be raised to the planes' height. Receipt. Those who were doing routine work first thought that their own plane was coming to them, and because of the change they had given, their anti-aircraft balloon tubes marked the opposite side and their so-called firewall was on the side Another was Phantoms reach the top of the base, diving and releasing all their bombs and turning the base into a hell of a fire so that in some places, due to the low altitude of the phantoms, the fire tabs can also be raised to the planes' height.

All the bombs on planes and nests were thoroughly crumbled and destroyed almost all predetermined targets, then phantoms moved away from the place by turning the opposite. At this stage, one of the planes is hurt by a pilot-in-command of the martyr pilot "Mahmud Khidraei", who will quickly get rid of him. At the same time, Bratupur on the Iraqi-Jordanian international road sees a truckload of military cargo that allegedly loaded from the port of Aqaba on the Jordanian soil and entered Iraq. Immediately dive to the trailer with a plane and targets it with a machine gun and explodes it. Then immediately lower the height and fly to them after contact with the conventional frequency with the fuel tankers.

At this moment, fueling tankers in the same area (western part of Iraqi soil) were patrolling at low altitudes and out of sight of the enemy's radar to wait for the phantoms to complete the third phase of refueling. Bratupur will for a moment notice the fuel of his plane and sees that he has reached the minimum and does not see the tankers, which was because he was on the way back to destroy the trailer. On the other hand, in order to break the radio's silence and not to distract the enemy and other planes, he trusted God on the way the fighter planes would reach the tankers from there, and would continue to do so until this Which eventually sees a tanker tanker remotely. At that moment, the aircraft's fuel had reached its minimum, and they did not look at them to lick the tankers. Finally, with the help of God, all phantoms reach the refueling point and refuel with cold blood and caution. After refueling was completed and all the bunkers were refueling, the tankers immediately arrived in Turkey and returned to Iran from the Ankara-Tehran international route. Phantom planes returned from the northern part of Iraq, on the borderline, and from the same initial route to the country at a speed.

The enemy, moments after this deadly attack, immediately took on a large number of interceptor hijackers, so that he would be able to intercept and overthrow the Iranian phantoms and not allow any phantom returns in any order. Bratpour, Brigadier General, said that he saw two of them, and fortunately they could not track our planes.

While the Phantom planes were approaching the border, F5 and F-14 aircrafts were awaiting them near the border and were waiting for the phantoms to reach out to their aid. As phantoms approached the border, another air strike was carried out at the common borders so that phantoms could easily enter Iran's soil. Fortunately, the phantoms were able to cross the border and bring everyone to the fourth refueling station, and the Iraqi efforts to overthrow them failed.

After refueling, all phantoms returned to the Shahid Nogheh Hamadan base. The storing personnel who were informed about the attack at the last minute of phantom return were excited about how the operation was, and because they did not know about details, they turned to the deputy commander of the base and worried about the group's health. They were flying. Base personnel who were staggered by the courageous operations of the pilots were impatiently awaiting the return of all the pilots a minute. Eventually, the wheels of the first phantom group touched the runway, and the flying and maintenance battalion staff, with tearful eyes that showed the pilots again, would welcome them with shouting and sacrificing sheep.

After the operation, it was found that the damage was more than predicted: - 48 bomber hijackers (including MiG-21, MiG-23 Sukhoi-20, Sukhoi-22, Tupolev-16 and Mirage) have been damaged or seriously damaged. And 3 large aircraft hangars, 2 radar and several airplane hangars are generally destroyed. After this pride, the Iraqi air defense commander was dismissed by Saddam. He was later executed, but Iraqi sources announced his suicide. This operation had a great impact on the morale of the Islamic warriors, so that several months later, successful operations of "Samen al-Amaem" were carried out, followed by the successful operation of the "Holy Spirit" and "Jerusalem" with full success and again with the proper support of the Air Force Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Three days after the operation, on November 1, 1966, without any ceremonies, all the pilots participating in the operation went to Imam Khomeini (RA). The light of joy and satisfaction in the face of Imam (RA) was clearly seen, as one of Imam's close friends said: "Until now, they had not seen them happy." Given that during the Holocaust, Americans did not even provide spare parts for their own aircraft, the attack on the H3 could be considered one of the largest and most decisive air operations in the world, where brave pilots We were able to create an epic with something like about 5 hours of flight, four times refueling and over 1,000 kilometers in absolute air silence, which not only Iraqi leaders and allies, but also none of the Western experts thought it.