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Strictly speaking, the counterattack of the Russian army is not perfect. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

First of all, in terms of troop input, the Russian army did not strictly follow the tactical plan formulated during the former Soviet Union to provide sufficient support for the bombers carrying out assault missions. You must know that according to the tactics of the former Soviet Navy, when attacking the US fleet with Tu-22M, it is necessary to put in dozens of support aircraft, including early warning aircraft, electronic warfare aircraft, air command aircraft, strategic reconnaissance aircraft, and escort fighters. Among them, the most important are the strategic reconnaissance planes, which are responsible for searching for targets and providing attack data for the bombers, and the air command planes, which are responsible for coordinating the attack operations and allowing the bombers to launch missiles at the right time and in the right place. If the scale of the assault operation is huge and it cooperates with the navy's cruise missile nuclear submarines, it is also necessary to use strategic reconnaissance satellites and missile guidance satellites so that the long-range anti-ship missiles launched by bombers and cruise missile nuclear submarines can use different flight routes to launch attacks on targets at the same time.

Obviously, with the strength of the Russian army, it is simply not possible to invest so many support forces.

The Russian army dispatched only one maritime patrol aircraft improved from the Tu-195. As a result, it is difficult to obtain accurate target information when launching an attack.

To do this, the Russian army had to make a major risk: to have a MiG-31 interceptor on a reconnaissance mission.

The second is that in terms of tactical preparations, the Russian army has no way to determine whether the attack nuclear submarine is deployed in place, and therefore cannot determine the exact time of the assault. Although the Russian Air Force insists that it can launch a counterattack alone, the top commander of the Russian army still believes that it is necessary to cooperate in the operation, otherwise the counterattack effect will not be able to achieve the desired goal, and it is necessary to ensure that the attack nuclear submarine participates in the counterattack as much as possible. For this reason, the Russian army had to repeatedly delay the counterattack. It's just that the Russian Navy was not passive, but very active, dragging the Second Fleet with a conventional submarine, creating favorable conditions for the Russian army's big counterattack, and also laying the foundation for the subsequent harvest of results.

These two problems almost made the Russian army's counterattack fall short.

It can be said that as long as the army is a little vigilant and attaches great importance to the opponent, the Russian army will not have any chance.

For example, in the first half of the night, when a large-scale movement of Russian aviation in the Far East was discovered, the army asked the Second Fleet to sail southward appropriately, and the Russian army had to abandon the counterattack.

Even if this opportunity is missed, the Yue army is not without a chance of winning.

In the second half of the night, the first thing that appeared in front of the army was not the Russian bomber, but the MiG-31 interceptor that replaced the fire control radar with reconnaissance equipment.

After detecting this fighter, the first thing that came to the mind of the army was not the Second Fleet, but the E-767 early warning aircraft.

The MiG-31 is a standard interceptor with a maximum flight speed of close to Mach 3, and after the retirement of the SR-71 and MiG-25, it is the fastest flying fighter in the world. Although theoretically, the MiG-31 can also carry anti-ship missiles to attack sea targets, the Russian army will definitely not do this, and the MiG-31 flies at an altitude of more than 25,000 meters, and no anti-ship missile can be launched at this altitude.

The army's fears are not unreasonable, because the MiG-31 is definitely capable of taking out the E-767.

If the interceptor had four long-range air-to-air missiles on it, it would have been able to attack the E-767 at a distance of 150 kilometers or more. AWACS aircraft fly at a very slow speed and at a much lower altitude than interceptors, so it is difficult to escape after being attacked.

Affected by this, the army immediately turned the E-767 south to avoid the interceptor.

Subsequently, four F-15Js were on board, ready to intercept the MiG-31.

The military did not use the F-22J, because the maximum ceiling of this fighter is only 18,000 meters, and the maximum flight speed is less than Mach 2, even if you count the AIM-120D's 10,000-meter altitude, it cannot reach the MiG-31. In comparison, the F-15J has a ceiling of 25,000 kilometers and a maximum speed of Mach 2.5, which is a little worse than the MiG-31, but it is not helpless.

Unfortunately, the interception did not go well.

When the E-767 was discovered, the MiG-31 had already reached Mach 2.5 and flew at an altitude of 25,000 kilometers, while the F-15J patrolling nearby flew at Mach 0.9 at an altitude of less than 10,000 meters. By the time the four F-15Js accelerated to Mach 2.5 and reached an altitude of 20,000 meters, the MiG-31 had already flown nearly 250 kilometers to the south.

It was only at this time that Yue Jun suddenly came to his senses.

Instead of pounced on the AWACS, the MiG-31 flew towards the First Fleet. When the air defense destroyers in the First Fleet activated their fire control radars and irradiated the interceptor, its flight altitude was reduced to 20,000 meters, and its flight speed was also reduced. Then it passed over the First Fleet.

The warship did not relent, and immediately launched two "Standard 2" anti-aircraft missiles.

Theoretically, the maximum launch altitude of the "Standard 2" reaches 30,000 meters, and the maximum flight speed exceeds Mach 4, which can intercept any kind of fighter, but in the case of a tail pursuit attack, its attack range is greatly reduced, and it is simply unable to catch up with the Russian interceptor at high speed.

No matter how stupid the army is, it should know that the MiG-31 is not an interceptor, but a reconnaissance aircraft.

As the Russian fighter jets flew away, the army immediately let the E-767 return home, focusing on searching the northern airspace.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

When the MiG-31 flew over the Second Fleet, it had already sent the information of the Japanese fleet to the command center, and then the bomber group about 500 kilometers behind it obtained the necessary data for launching missiles.

It was the Tu-22M of the Russian army that participated in the attack.

Eight Tu-22Ms from the Urals and twelve Tu-22Ms originally deployed in the Far East carried a total of one hundred and twenty supersonic anti-ship missiles with a range of up to five hundred and fifty kilometers.

Receiving the target information sent back by the reconnaissance plane, 20 bombers successively dropped missiles hanging in bomb bays.

That is, when the E-767 turned to return to the patrol airspace, the Tu-22M had already finished launching missiles and followed the reconnaissance aircraft to return home.

For an anti-ship missile flying at a high altitude of Mach 3.5, it only takes ten minutes to fly 500 kilometers. Even if the missile flies at Mach 2.5 at a low altitude, it will take less than 15 minutes. During this time, the warships of the Second Fleet were at full power, and they could only sail a few nautical miles.

More importantly, such a short period of time made it difficult for the army to intercept it.

The radar of the E-767 was indeed advanced, and shortly after the turn it spotted a group of missiles rushing towards the First Fleet at high speed.

Because the anti-ship missiles were still outside the air defense circle of the fleet, the Japanese army first organized air defense fighters to intercept them with air-to-air missiles.

Eight F-22Js were the first to go into battle with four F-15Js.

Although the Russian anti-ship missile is very large, similar to a small fighter plane, and can be easily locked by radar, the missile flies very fast, not much slower than the air-to-air missile launched by the military fighter jet. Interception is not easy, at least not as easily as intercepting fighters.

In fact, the effectiveness of intercepting anti-ship missiles with fighters is not high.

In the short firing window, 12 fighter jets fired hundreds of air-to-air missiles, but shot down less than 10 anti-ship missiles.

As the anti-ship missiles entered the fleet's anti-aircraft fire circle, in order to avoid accidental damage, the fighters of the Japanese army were forced to withdraw.

Because all medium-range air-to-air missiles have already been launched, it is useless for military fighters to follow up.

At this time, the Yue army discovered an even greater threat.

The previous interceptions were all anti-ship missiles flying at high altitudes. Affected by the curvature of the earth, the anti-ship missile flying at low altitude was not detected by AWACS aircraft in time.

By the time AWACS detected anti-ship missiles coming from low altitudes, there was no ammunition on board the air defense fighters.

More importantly, of the 120 anti-ship missiles launched by the Russian army, only 30 penetrated from a high altitude, and the remaining 90 all penetrated from a low altitude.

Suffice it to say, this is a very standard attack tactic.

Anti-ship missiles penetrating at high altitudes have two tasks, one is to attract enemy anti-aircraft fire, and the other is to provide attack data for anti-ship missiles penetrating at low altitudes.

It can be said that the army has faced the most dangerous challenge.

Because the E-767 belongs to the Air Force, and the First Fleet belongs to the Navy, the situation detected by the E-767 cannot be immediately sent to the First Fleet.

By the time the First Fleet received the information, the air defense operation had begun.

It is the "King Kong" class air defense destroyer, which is equipped with dozens of "Standard 2" aircraft defense destroyers, that acts as the main force.

In just fifteen seconds, the air defense destroyer launched twenty-four anti-aircraft missiles to attack the twelve targets at the front in a two-on-one manner.

Because the speed of the anti-ship missiles is very fast, it will not take long for them to break through the outer air defense circle, and the air defense missiles need enough time to climb and accelerate, so the destroyers did not stop, and immediately launched 24 more air defense missiles, and let these missiles climb to an altitude of 30,000 meters along the high-altitude trajectory, and then intercept the anti-ship missiles below in a dive. In terms of time, after the first batch of anti-aircraft missiles has completed all the interception tasks, the second batch of missiles just reached the high altitude, so they can get the guidance of the destroyer in time.

Obviously, the Chinese army has brought into full play the destroyer's air defense combat capability.

Even so, even if the anti-aircraft missiles hit up to one hundred percent, they could only shoot down twenty-four anti-ship missiles, while only eleven of the anti-ship missiles that were previously shot down by fighters were left, so there are more than eighty anti-ship missiles, and relying on the inner air defense network of the fleet, it is difficult to intercept so many missiles at the same time.

Needless to say, the First Fleet will definitely pay the price.

It is also undeniable that the air defense of that "King Kong" class destroyer is really strong. Because the United States has long managed to get the Russian army's anti-ship missiles and knows their surnames well, when designing the air defense system of the fleet, it has optimized it, and the military has benefited a lot from it.

In the first two rounds of interceptions, the hit rate was as high as 95 percent.

Of the twenty-four anti-ship missiles that were intercepted, only one escaped, and the remaining twenty-three were all shot down.

At this time, anti-ship missiles launched from low altitudes have also entered the fleet air defense network. Although the air defense destroyer launched the last 10 "Standard 2" in the vertical launcher at the fastest speed, it would not be long before the warship could only defend itself with the "Advanced Sea Sparrow" with a range of 40 kilometers.

(To be continued)