The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran by Crist David

Author:Crist, David [Crist, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781101572344
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2015-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

“Enough of this bullshit,” Dyer said, as he ordered one of the F-14s to close and take care of the problem. The C-130’s pilot evidently decided not to push his luck and exited the Gulf, likely flying back over the Iranian mainland.

Having sunk the Sahand and dispatched the Boghammers, Engler’s and Webb’s planes topped off with fuel from an air force tanker over Oman and went looking for some reported Boghammers, which turned out to be only fishing boats. Dyer requested that they head up near Larak Island to look for the Sabalan. Looking through the black-and-white images displayed on his aircraft’s radar, he and his wingman investigated an endless string of contacts, from junked vessels to fishing dhows that pervaded the Gulf waters southeast of Qeshm Island.

At four thirty p.m., Captain Nasty finally came out to fight. Engler and Webb immediately closed in to attack.58 The Sabalan saw the approaching American aircraft and fired a surface-to-air missile (likely a shoulder-launched SA-7) at Engler’s A-6. It never came close, but Webb radioed back that they had been fired upon. Each A-6 still carried a Harpoon surface-to-surface missile. However, Larak Island silhouetted the Sabalan, and Engler feared that the Harpoon might not track with this background clutter, leading to the missile’s inadvertently hitting the Iranian mainland. He reluctantly decided against using his Harpoons—a decision he would later lament. This left Engler with a single five-hundred-pound laser-guided bomb with which to dispatch the Iranian frigate.59

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