Chapter 265: The Final Blow

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In the face of twelve MiG-29s, it is difficult to take advantage of only four F-15Js. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Don't forget, when these four F-15Js arrive at the battlefield, they have less than 55 percent of fuel left, even if on the way back, because half of the fuel and all the ammunition are used, the fuel consumption rate is slower, and you can choose the most suitable flight speed to extend the range as much as possible, but in combat air combat, the F-15J can only use 15 percent of fuel at most, and with the afterburner of the engine open, it can only last five minutes.

Obviously, this problem does not exist with Russian fighters.

Even if you run out of fuel, it is much better to let a fighter crash at sea than to let an aircraft carrier sink by the enemy.

What's more, after the discovery of the F-15J, the A-50 spotted the P-1 group below in time and then sent the message to the carrier battle group.

Twelve MiG-29s immediately split into two lines, four staring at the F-15J and eight rushing towards the P-1 group.

For a slow patrol plane, it takes about 10 minutes to complete 150 kilometers, while the MiG-29, which is already in the southwest direction of the fleet, can launch an attack with the AA-12 air-to-air missiles it carries in five minutes, and then it can also use the AA-11 and aerial artillery to beat the patrol plane.

It can be said that the situation is extremely urgent, and in front of fighters, the patrol aircraft has no chance of survival at all.

It was also at this time that four F-22Js killed eight MiG-29s that had taken off urgently and rushed over in time. It's just that by this time, the ammunition of the F-22J was almost used, only two F-22J and AIM-120, in addition only one had two AIM-9X, and the other three had only one AIM-9X.

When the F-22J attacked, the MiG-29 also launched the AA-12.

Although after being attacked, the MiG-29 had to immediately abandon the patrol aircraft in front of it and turn around to deal with the F-22J, the military patrol aircraft did not get out of danger, because the AA-12 is an active homing missile, even if it is not guided, it can approach the target under the control of the customary guidance system, and then launch an attack. More importantly, the patrol aircraft is not a fighter, and the flight altitude is too low, and there is simply no way to leave the range of the missile.

In this life-and-death battle, the Russian pilots showed a fearless spirit of sacrifice.

The eight MiG-29s all launched the four AA-12s they were carrying, and locked on to two targets in a two-on-one fashion. That is, at least four P-1s were attacked by four missiles fired by two fighters, while another eight P-1s were attacked by two missiles.

The results can be imagined.

Before being hit by the missile, at least three P-1s turned to evacuate, but no matter how fast the patrol aircraft was and slower than the missile, they could not escape. Of the nine remaining P-1s, five launched anti-ship missiles ahead of schedule, three of them fired all their missiles before they were shot down, and two were shot down while launching anti-ship missiles. The last four P-1s did not launch missiles in advance, pinning their hopes on jamming systems, and all were shot down during the penetration.

That is, twelve P-1s dropped only about thirty anti-ship missiles.

In the air battlefield, the F-22J's advantage was still obvious, and the first round of attacks took out three MiG-29s, and then entered the melee air combat phase. In a four-on-five situation, the F-22J instead had the upper hand, quickly shooting down three of the MiG-29s, forcing the other two MiG-29s to flee north.

The air battle was fierce, and at least one of the three MiG-29s shot down in the dogfight was killed by the F-22J with aerial guns.

When it came to the use of aerial artillery, we had to admit that the escort fighters of the Chinese army had done their best.

It's just that in another air battle, the F-15J is not very good.

In close proximity, both sides fired medium-range air-to-air missiles, but neither side was able to achieve results. It's not that the missiles of both sides are not advanced enough, but that both sides evade them in a timely manner. Subsequently, the two sides went within line-of-sight, and in a four-on-four situation, the F-15J did not take advantage.

By the time the Russian army found out that the F-22J had won a complete victory and let the MiG-29 fleet retreat, only one MiG-29 was shot down by the F-15J, but two F-15Js were beaten down.

This result is very different from previous air battles.

Strictly speaking, it has little to do with the surname of the F-15J, but in the dogfight, the military pilots did not dare to open the afterburner, so that the F-15J's excellent vertical mobility surname could not be brought into play, and was forced to engage in a grapple with the MiG-29, and in the horizontal mobility surname, the F-15J had almost no advantage.

On the surface battlefield, more than 30 anti-ship missiles launched by the Chinese army once again forced the Russian fleet to carry out air defense operations.

This time, it was still the nuclear-powered cruiser that sang the leading role.

The large size of the cruiser not only provided sufficient deck area, but also allowed it to carry much more ammunition than the destroyer. On this cruiser, there are 96 regional air defense missiles with a range of more than 100 kilometers alone, and the "King Kong" class destroyers of the Chinese military can only carry so many missiles at most. In addition to this, there were one hundred and twenty-eight short-range anti-aircraft missiles on board the cruiser, as well as dozens of anti-aircraft missiles equipped on the terminal interception system. To put it mildly, the cruiser of the Russian army is a fighting munitions ship.

Under the anti-aircraft umbrella propped up by the nuclear-powered cruiser, the attack of the Japanese army became meaningless.

Only four missiles broke through the anti-aircraft fire network of the nuclear-powered cruiser and were subsequently shot down by anti-aircraft missiles fired from the destroyer of the "Modern" class, which accompanied the activities of the "Glorious"-class cruisers.

Because the aircraft carrier was not attacked by missiles, the "Kuznetsov" did not change course.

As soon as the air defense alert was lifted, the crew on board the aircraft carrier immediately began to take off and let the fighters who came to the flight deck take off urgently.

At this time, the benefits of using the MIG-29 became apparent.

If the "Kuznetsov" was carrying the Su-33, then by this time there were no fighters on the aircraft carrier. Carrying a much smaller MiG-29, as well as an increase in the hangar area by removing the vertical launch system of anti-ship missiles in front, the number of carrier aircraft on the ship was doubled.

In addition to the twenty-four MiG-29s that took off before, there are still two dozen fighters on the aircraft carrier.

Because of the fleet air defense mission, and the third group of P-1 aircraft is approaching, the MiG-29 does not need to carry much fuel and can take off from the runway on the right side. As a result, "Kuznetsov" was able to release two fighters at the same time, with an interval of only thirty seconds between each batch.

Over the next three minutes, a dozen more MiG-29s were lifted into the air.

By this time the battle had been fought, the situation of the Yue army was already very difficult.

The P-1 was still slowly flying into the airspace where the missile was launched, while the Russian fighter jets had already risen into the air. When the patrol plane arrived, the Russian fighter had been waiting for a long time.

It is clearly unrealistic to count on four F-1Js to cover the third batch of P-15s.

At this time, it is time for the military pilots to display the spirit of fearless sacrifice.

The four F-22Js, which were already not very fuel-filled, did not return as planned, but turned to meet the MiG-29s, and the two F-15Js also gave up the right to return and turned to meet the fight.

Because the F-22J had already run out of missiles, the F-15J was the first to attack.

It's a pity that the F-15J is not a stealth aircraft, so the MiG-29 launched missiles almost simultaneously.

At this time, the training quality of the army was manifested.

While the F-15J was luring the enemy at mid-altitude, four F-22Js were waiting for an opportunity at high altitude. Although the F-15J doesn't even have a chance to survive when it's two against twelve, as long as the MiG-29 is brought into the combat distance, the F-22J can catch the opponent off guard with its excellent maneuverability.

That is, two F-15Js played the role of decoys.

It's a pity that there are too few of them.

Before they could reach the line of sight, two F-15Js were shot down by AA-12s launched by the MiG-29, while only one MiG-29 was shot down by the Japanese army's attack.

Since the F-22J was not found, the MiG-29 turned to attack the P-1 group.

In fact, even if the F-22J is discovered, the first target of the MiG-29 will be the P-1, after all, the first task of the fleet air defense fighters is to protect the fleet and intercept enemy attack aircraft.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the F-22J hit a surprise attack.

It's just that there are no suitable weapons, and when four F-22Js swooped down from a high altitude, only two MiG-29s were killed with aerial guns. Four MiG-29s then turned to meet the F-22J, and five MiG-29s continued to charge towards the P-1 group.

Fortunately, the third additional escort fighter formation played a role.

Four F-15Js against five MiG-29s, even if they don't take advantage, they won't suffer too much.

As in the previous round of air combat, the MiG-29 fired all the AA-12 missiles at the P-1 and then rushed to the F-15J in an attempt to shoot down the opponent with a combat missile.

As a result, it became clear that the F-15J would not give the opponent this chance.

What's more, the P-1 fleet has also learned its lessons.

Upon learning that the second group of patrol planes was intercepted by Russian fighters and all of them were shot down, the leader of the third group of P-1 captains deliberately slowed down and distanced themselves from the escorting F-15J. As a result, the distance from the P-29 was more than eighty kilometers when the MiG-29 had to launch missiles in order to meet the F-1J.

At this distance, the AA-12 could not afford to shoot down the enemy aircraft.

Receiving an incoming missile alert from the escort fighters, the P-1 group immediately made a tangential maneuver. It's just that patrol aircraft are much slower than fighters and much larger in size, making them easier to detect by missiles.

As a result, the two P-1s in the rearmost were hit by four AA-12s flying in front.

This result, at least, was much better than the second batch of P-1.

While the fighters of the two sides were tangling, the remaining six P-1s seized the opportunity and launched anti-ship missiles over the sea at a distance of about one hundred and thirty kilometers from the "Kuznetsov".

This distance is not too far, and the army's anti-ship missiles can fly at least 150 kilometers.

The Russian army had to fight the anti-ship missiles of the Japanese army for the third time.

Although the nuclear-powered cruiser is still on the outermost level, in previous battles, the area anti-aircraft missiles on the ship have been almost used, so in the face of incoming anti-ship missiles, only short-range anti-aircraft missiles can be used, and other warships provide cover.

This time, the protagonists were the "Glorious"-class cruiser and two "Modern"-class destroyers.

It's just that there are not many channels of anti-aircraft fire between the "Glorious" and "Modern" classes, and even with all their strength, they will not be able to intercept 48 anti-ship missiles.

Fortunately, in this battle, which lasted for more than an hour, the Russian army had enough pieces to adjust the formation.

When the third batch of anti-ship missiles arrived, the six Russian warships in the formation had already gathered together, and the five escort warships surrounded the aircraft carrier.

At that time, both destroyers of the "Modern" class were in the direction of the incoming anti-ship missile strike, and the distance from the aircraft carrier was less than two kilometers.

On the other side of the aircraft carrier, there are "Brave"-class destroyers that do not have much air defense.

In order for the military missile to hit the aircraft carrier, it must first kill two destroyers.

(To be continued)