A cold sweat broke out on Zhan Pengfei's forehead, and the enemy plane had already activated the fire control radar and was about to attack.

"Hole, hole, enemy planes are approaching!" The air commander on the AWACS plane was even more anxious than Zhan Pengfei, almost yelling at the microphone.

What to do?

The radar of the J-20A can only detect the oncoming F-22A within forty kilometers, and if the distance exceeds forty kilometers, activating the radar is looking for death.

At this time, the radar warning signal suddenly disappeared.

What's going on!? Zhan Pengfei was extremely surprised and quickly checked the radar warning machine. Didn't go out of order, and the enemy aircraft turned off the fire control radar?

"Hole, activate the radar to search for enemy aircraft. Repeat, start the radar to search for enemy aircraft. ”

"I understand." Zhan Pengfei said this, but did not do it, and also made the three wingmen keep the radio silent through the tactical data link.

Last year, an encounter over the East China Sea made Zhan Pengfei not have much confidence in the J-20A's fire control radar.

At that time, the J-20A piloted by Zhan Pengfei was patrolling on the west side of the central line of the East China Sea, covering an electronic reconnaissance plane to collect radar electromagnetic signals on Okinawa Island. Before returning home, the electronic reconnaissance plane intercepted the radar signal sent by an F-22A, confirming that the J-20A would not be more than 50 kilometers away from Zhan Pengfei. Zhan Pengfei activated the fire control radar, and although he once captured the F-22A, he never locked on, but was counter-locked by the opponent. If it weren't for the F-22A's eagerness to return home, I'm afraid Zhan Pengfei would suffer a big loss in the confrontation.

Compared to the F-22A, which has completed the fourth stage of upgrading, the electronics of the J-20A are not advanced.

"Hole, ...... at twelve," shouted the wingman pilot.

Zhan Pengfei also saw it, those were four missiles!

The missile flew at an altitude about 1,000 meters higher than that of the J-20A group, and Zhan Pengfei's first reaction was that the radar warning plane was malfunctioning.

Immediately after that, the missile warning aircraft sounded the alarm.

It's just that the radar warning plane has not sounded.

Those were four radar-guided medium-range air-to-air missiles, so they would only be detected by the missile warning system after approaching. If the missile had not yet entered the self-guidance stage, the J-20A had not been locked with the on-board radar, the fighter's radar warning machine would not have sounded the alarm.

Four missiles flew over the J-20A group and then began to dive.

"Hole, hole, intercept enemy planes, intercept enemy planes immediately!"

Zhan Pengfei suddenly understood that the enemy plane was not attacking the escort fighter, but the transport plane protected by the fighter, and all four missiles were fired at the transport plane.

It's just that it's too late to do anything now.

Zhan Pengfei did not hesitate any longer, and immediately activated the fire control radar.

The maximum powered range of the AIM-120C is 80 km, and the transport aircraft is 20 km behind the J-20A fleet, so the enemy aircraft is about 60 km away from the J-20A when launching missiles. Probably, that F-22A did not detect the J-20A group, or directly locked the transport aircraft with a fire control radar, did not search the nearby airspace. The point is that the J-20A is already moving faster than Mach 2, and if the F-22A turns after launching the missile and escapes at a cruising speed of Mach 1.6, the distance between the two sides is shortening.

In the case of tail pursuit, the fire control radar of the J-20A can detect the F-22A at a distance of sixty kilometers.

Now, the distance between the two sides will certainly not exceed sixty kilometers!

Zhan Pengfei's judgment was very accurate, the enemy plane was about 45 kilometers ahead, and it was flying in the same direction, and the speed was only Mach 1.6.

It's just that instead of one enemy aircraft, four F-22A in dense formation.

In less than five seconds, Zhan Pengfei locked on to four enemy planes with fire control radar, and at the same time sent fire control information to three wingmen through the No. 15 tactical data link.

Immediately afterward, Zhan Pengfei launched four PL-12D medium-range air-to-air missiles.

Under the guidance of the long plane, the three wingmen each fired four missiles and carried out a cross-attack on the four enemy aircraft.

The J-20A is not as good as the F-22A in terms of performance, but the medium-range air-to-air missiles used are definitely no worse than the F-22A's.

Perhaps, not many people know about the PL-12D, but surely they are familiar with the export model of this missile, the SD-10D. Compared with the export model, the biggest difference between the PL-12D and the PL-12D is that it is equipped with an integrated ramjet engine, and the maximum power range has been increased from 80 km to 120 km. Although the US military has also developed the AIM-120D with a ramjet engine, it has not purchased equipment in batches.

In the state of tail chase attack, the PL-12D has an inescapable range of up to sixty kilometers against the F-22A.

As long as the distance when the missile is launched is within 60 kilometers, even if the F-22A escapes at a maximum speed of Mach 2, it will not be able to escape the attack range of the PL-12D.

Sixteen missiles attacked four F-22As, and as long as the US pilots reacted half a beat slowly, the probability of being shot down was more than 90 percent.

It's just that Zhan Pengfei locked on the F-22A with a fire control radar, which is equivalent to warning the US pilots.

As soon as the four J-20As soon as the missiles were launched, the four F-22As split into two groups and maneuvered in opposite directions.

The US pilots are indeed old birds, not only reacted quickly, but also immediately took the correct evasion measures, because it is impossible for one J-20A to lock on to four F-22As that are evading in two directions at the same time, at least two are needed, and the J-20A must disperse the pursuit.

"Hole 3, hole 4, bite the west side, and give me the east side."

"Dong San understands."

"Dong Si understands."

The four J-20As split into two twin formations, and the J-20A, codenamed "Dong San", also activated the fire control radar to lock on to the two F-22As fleeing westward.

After the F-22A fleet dispersed, maneuvering evasion began.

Fighters do not rely on agility to evade missiles, and no fighter has more agility than missiles, and can only perform vertical maneuvers.

Even the PL-12D, a missile with a ramjet engine, cannot exceed 10,000 meters in maximum height from the target.

The F-22A flies at an altitude of about 8,000 meters, and as long as it climbs above 18,000 meters before being overtaken by missiles, it can save the day.

U.S. pilots apparently understand this.

The two F-22As in the east were directly converted to climb. Presumably a lot of fuel was burned, the weight was drastically reduced, and the F-22A's rate of climb was amazing.

The data calculated by the radar is that the climb rate of the two F-22As is more than 250 meters per second!

This is 8,000 meters in the air, not sea level. At this altitude, the J-20A minimizes its weight and has a maximum climb rate of only 220 meters per second.

Zhan Pengfei had no choice but to climb with the enemy aircraft in order to continue to lock on to the enemy aircraft and attack again.

Because the higher the altitude, the thinner the air, the less aerodynamic lift, so the rate of climb of the F-22A does not increase, but gradually decreases.

It takes about a minute and a half to climb 10,000 meters.

For missiles, the help produced by aerodynamic lift is very small, so there is little change in the rate of climb. The PL-12D flies at Mach 4 and can fly 45 kilometers in just forty seconds, and it will definitely not take more than 90 seconds to catch up with the F-22A.

What's more, the maximum ceiling of the F-22A is less than 17,000 kilometers, and only a jump can reach 18,000 kilometers.

The two F-22As had a very tragic end, being overtaken by missiles at an altitude of 14,000 meters, each directly hit by more than two missiles.

At this altitude, even if the pilot ejects and parachutes, the probability of survival is extremely slim.

"Hole, hole, I was bitten ......"

On the other hand, it's a different story entirely.

The two F-22As that evaded to the west did not climb directly, but first dived and only turned to climb after an altitude of less than a thousand meters.

This move not only saved the day, but also allowed the US fighter to seize the initiative.

Having gotten rid of the missiles, two F-22As turned to diving. The two J-20As lost altitude during the pursuit, and the climb speed was not comparable to that of the F-22A, and as a result, they fell to the downwind.

When Zhan Pengfei arrived, two J-20As had been shot down.

Fortunately, the J-20A was shot down at an altitude of less than five thousand meters, and both pilots managed to eject and parachute, perhaps uninjured.

What's more, when attacking these two J-20A, the two F-22As also lost quite a bit of height.

When the two J-20As led by Zhan Pengfei arrived, they flew at an altitude of 11,000 meters, about 4,000 meters higher than the US fighters.

The distance was shortened to less than twenty kilometers and entered the stage of dogfight.

In dogfight, the difference in altitude of four thousand meters is very deadly.

Zhan Pengfei did not give the enemy a chance, and when the two F-22As climbed to seize the altitude advantage, he and his wingman each fired a PL-11 combat missile. The US long plane was shot down by a missile, and the wingman used the long plane cover to avoid the missile, but had to change from climbing to diving.

The J-20A is inferior in climb performance to the F-22A, but not much different in dive performance.

Zhan Pengfei chased after him, and the F-22A kept rolling, so he couldn't lock on with the missile, so he had to use the aerial gun. The battle was fought from an altitude of 10,000 meters to 1,500 meters, and when the fifth point shot was fired, Zhan Pengfei finally killed the US fighter that was trying to climb again.

Moments before crashing into the sea, the U.S. pilot ejected from the cockpit.

Exercise! Zhan Pengfei cursed to himself, began to search for the two comrades-in-arms who had parachuted before, and then sent the location information to the AWACS aircraft.

"Cave Guy, return to the original route. Repeat and return to the original route. ”

"What?" Zhan Pengfei was even more surprised. "Received by the Cave, continue to Diego Garcia?"

"The order has been confirmed, go to Diego Garcia, prepare to receive navigation information for the US military."

What's going on? Zhan Pengfei couldn't figure it out at all. He had just taken out four U.S. fighter jets, two of which most likely had already been killed. Could it be that those fighters are not from the US military? Or will the U.S. military give up their old suspicions and treat them warmly as if nothing had happened?

It's one thing to not understand, it's another thing to perform a task.

"Dongyi, do you see it?" It was the wingman pilot who spoke.

On the sea, a large seaplane has arrived and rescued a pilot. Although it is separated by several kilometers, the pilot's vision is very good.

"It's Dong San, it looks like he's injured."

Zhan Pengfei didn't speak, he also saw that the lifeguards used the gondola used to rescue the wounded to drag a pilot into the cabin of the seaplane.

There was no drag, and the J-20A flew the rest of the range at a speed of Mach 1 and 4.

When he came to the sky above the U.S. military base in Diego Garcia and saw more than a dozen F-22A fighters parked neatly, Zhan Pengfei was angry.

"Red One, permission to land at the Trinity runway." This is the call code given to Zhan Pengfei by the US military.

Zhan Pengfei's English is very good, but he pretended not to understand, and deliberately made some noise, acting like the radio was malfunctioning.

"What do you want to do?" The wingman pilot found that Zhan Pengfei did not slow down after approaching.

"Hole two, how much fuel is left?"

"The warning lights are on."

"Use the fuel for fifteen minutes and give the Yankees a little color!"

"Cave ......"

Zhan Pengfei not only did not slow down, but pushed the throttle stick to the end, allowing the engine to work at maximum afterburner. Like an arrow, the J-20A flew over the airfield.

"Oh my God!" The U.S. military controller in the tower screamed.

Immediately, other US officers and soldiers also shouted on the radio, as if the end of the world had come.

For the US military on the ground, this is an absolute disaster.

The fighter plane's clearance altitude was less than 200 meters, and its speed was more than Mach 1.2 billion, and the sonic boom could burst the eardrums of nearby US officers and soldiers, and also shattered the glass on the windows of the control tower. Zhan Pengfei did not stop there, and after turning his head, he flew over the neatly parked F-22A fleet, and lowered the altitude to less than 100 meters, and the strong wind blowing the F-22A fleet staggered.

", it's out of the way!" The wingman pilot couldn't care so much about it.

After waiting for the wingman to pass through the field twice, Zhan Pengfei opened the speed brake, lowered the landing gear, aimed at the runway, and entered the descent channel before landing.

At this time, a Y-20A appeared on the sea antenna and flew towards the US military airfield.