Why didn't the Cat Regiment find any trace of the Falcon Brigade?

They went straight to the Beiku base with one foot on the accelerator, completely unaware that the Eagle Falcon Brigade had been evacuated to Highway No. 4, more than 300 kilometers south of the Beiku base, just below their attack route.

While the Royal Cat Regiment was striking at the three major bases in Beiku and a number of Blue Army military targets, all ten fighters of the Eagle Falcon Brigade took off behind them.

After the plan was adjusted, Nie Jianfeng also boarded the plane and took off, and he and Tang Leilei drove back to the No. 27 SU-27UBK to serve as the air command aircraft, while the Eagle's Nest Field Command Center began to evacuate to a safe area. The main reason that forced the Falcon team to make this adjustment was the weather – the latest satellite cloud imagery shows a new sandstorm forming in the desert north of Highway 4, just 50 kilometers away.

What had been a maximum of eighteen hours of combat time had suddenly become only one sortie attack. In other words, all ten fighters of the Eagle Falcon Brigade only have this chance to take to the skies to fight, and winning or losing depends on this. It can be seen from this that the combat plan is one thing, and the implementation of the battle is another. No one can predict the unexpected situations that may be encountered in the course of actual operations, and it is normal for the final plan to be implemented to be very different from the original plan.

The planes took off along Route 4 with a very short interval of one minute on average. Li Zhan was the last to take off in the No. 037 J-7EGG because of his short legs. In order to increase the air time, he even brought three auxiliary fuel tanks, plus two training empty bombs, the little girl hung up a body of goods, and then looked at the SU-27 with a big waist and a round waist, and the two training empty bombs were so easy to die.

Even so, the air time of the No. 037 J-7EGG is not as good as that of "Su Niangniang".

As for why Li Zhan finally chose him to pilot the No. 037 J-7EGG, the main reason is that only he can fully exert the full combat effectiveness of the fighter. There are very few fighters that can be used, and if one of them cannot give full play to its combat effectiveness, it will be a great loss to the overall combat capability.

In the new generation of pilots, it is obvious that Li Zhan is the best player in the J-7. From the original J-7E to the later J-7B, and then to the current J-7EGG, and even when he visited the 300th Division, he also drove the J-7G.

The use of the J-7E for low-altitude penetration attack training was tried to ask who dared to think, and it was really put into action, so that it successfully developed and affected the aviation units, including the HNA force.

There is no better choice, and the more than 300 tie-rod fees can only be earned by Li Zhan.

After the landing gear was all off the ground, Li Zhan made a high-angle turn at a low altitude less than 100 meters from the ground, and the sound of the WP-7PG jet engine neighing hit the desert surface and rebounded into the sky. Adjusting the course due south, Li Zhan ascended to an altitude of 500 meters above ground and flew at a constant speed of 500 kilometers per hour.

On his left flank, Nie Jianfeng led three SU-27UBKs to the east, at a height of 700 meters higher than Lie's strategy. The remaining six fighters divided into two groups and circled cautiously at low altitude, ambushing on either side of the Red Army's return route.

The Red Army formation returned, and the fighters were scattered around to protect the heavy six H-6Ks in the middle, so the fighter formation had to slow down to accommodate the old six who walked after dinner. Everyone's feelings are not very good, after more than a year of preparation, they have gathered enough strength and waited for a punch tonight, but the discerning person knows that the reaction of the Blues is very strange. After calming down, everyone realized that it was not so much that they had destroyed the Blues on the ground and destroyed many of their targets, but that the Blues had taken the initiative to give up the entire Beiku area.

But is it possible to give it up?

Offensive and defensive warfareOffensive and defensive warfare, if the Blues as the defensive side fail to hold the North Ku area, then doesn't it mean that they have lost?

Therefore, the first reaction after the conclusion that the Blues voluntarily abandoned the North Reservoir area was not to believe it. It would be tantamount to giving up the victory, which the Blues would never have been able to do.

There are two possibilities, first, the Blues have been beaten down by their own thunderbolt tactics, and second, the Blues are hidden.

The problem is that all three stations have been destroyed, and there are no aircraft in the air, and ground personnel and equipment can be hidden, but you can't hide fighters! Even if you hide the fighter in the cave, you can't take off without the runway, so there is no point.

So I got into an extremely awkward situation – I couldn't figure out what the Blues were like.

At present, Yang Xuhua only has the option of returning to the air, they must complete the current ongoing operation, and after the guidance and dispatch department reports, the guidance and dispatch department will give the damage result and make a judgment.

Let's go back and talk about it, after a long-distance attack of thousands of kilometers and a low-altitude penetration of hundreds of kilometers, the J-10A aircraft group responsible for ground strike missions has not much fuel left, and there is no way to carry out the next operation. At this time, the disadvantages of medium fighters came to the fore. With the addition of auxiliary fuel tanks, the combat radius of only 1,500 kilometers is only 1,500 kilometers, and after more than half an hour of combat in the air from a distance of 1,000 kilometers, it is necessary to consider returning home.

When the J-10B came out, there were some calls to increase the range in the subsequent modifications, such as the use of conformal fuel tank schemes, and the most wanted to do so was HNA. They have to go out one or two thousand kilometers at every turn, and in the future, the HNA will go to the far sea, and they hate short-legged fighters. However, the Air Force believes that the current range of the J-10 is sufficient, and there is no need to engage in any conformal fuel tanks - the Air Force has always regarded the J-10 as an air superiority fighter, and the installation of conformal fuel tanks will have an impact on maneuverability.

Eight long-legged J-11Bs were in the rear at a high altitude, and they circled from time to time to point the nose of the plane to the west, and alternately turned on the airborne radar to search. There is a small radar in the tail vertebrae between the two launches of the J-11B, which is oriented towards the rear hemisphere, but the combat range is limited, and it can only provide an actual detection distance of more than ten kilometers, which is mainly used to cooperate with off-axis combat missiles to attack the rear.

Obviously, a large oil load can be capricious.

Liu Zhiwei looked at the dark night sky outside the cockpit, and felt very unsteady in his heart, feeling cold behind his ears. He once again climbed up a steep slope with his wingman and turned around and searched for more than ten minutes with the airborne radar, but it was still calm.

At this time, the mixed fleet of the Red Army had already returned to a position about 500 kilometers away from the Xiding Field Station, and it would be able to leave the battlefield in about ten minutes. The H-6K is very slow and is flying at a speed of about seven hundred kilometers per hour at this time. If it weren't for these "cumbersomes", the fighter group would have landed to make tea and drink it long ago.

H-6K: That's not what you said when you asked someone to lay an egg!

The most bloody "massacre" in the history of the Chinese Air Force is preparing to take place on the battlefield that is so calm that people are afraid that this confrontation drill is destined to go down in the history of the Chinese Air Force's actual combat training.

PS: I'll update it later, try to finish writing about this confrontation today.