"He's going to shoot us down!"

"He's coming for us! Damn, it's already more than Mach 2, it's definitely going to launch a missile! ”

"God forbid!"

There was a lot of screaming in the cabin, and if it weren't for the fact that this compact plane couldn't parachute, they would have wanted to get out of this terrible AWACS that was about to explode into a fireball.

When the locking voice disappeared, everyone was drenched in sweat and soaked all over, and the air traffic controller sat in his chair and actually began to cry.

This kind of experience of escaping death is not something that everyone can bear, and they are not so lucky every time, the guy who drove the MiG-25 is simply a devil!

After three seconds, Andrey turned off the radar in satisfaction, pulled the lever to the left, and it was time to return!

With the afterburner just used, the fighter had already exceeded the speed of sound, and by the time he completed this turn, it was almost flying over Hokkaido and reaching the southern part of Sakhalin, and at high speeds, the turning radius would be unacceptably large.

Andre continued to use the afterburner, and the fuel in the plane had been consumed by more than half, and the performance of the fighter was also further improved, and soon, it was raised to 26,000 kilometers, and the speed also reached Mach 2.6.

On the opposite side, the F-4 fighters that flew in, facing the altitude difference, these American fighters could only look at the aircraft and sigh, but they couldn't reach it!

The pressure on the Americans on the MiG-25 is enormous, and it is almost impossible for the Sparrow missiles carried by the F-4 fighters to attack targets at an altitude of more than 20,000 meters, and in the current situation of flying head-on more than Mach 3, the hit rate of the Sparrow missiles is almost 0 percent.

The only thing that can pose a threat to this kind of fighter is the Immortal Bird missiles carried by the Navy's F-14 fighters.

On the top of the heads of the Americans, flying around with great force, and disregarding the intercepted F-4 fighters as nothing, Andrey this time can be regarded as a complete show of the Soviet Union's force.

However, in addition to worrying that he will be scolded by Kozhdub and punished after he goes back, Andre is now facing the biggest problem, which is fuel!

MiG-25, this is a controversial fighter, in later generations, various bricks have a variety of statements, some believe that the combat radius of this fighter does not exceed 300 kilometers, it is simply better than the MiG-29 or an airport guard, some say that it is a flying brick, there is no maneuverability.

If you haven't used it, you're not qualified to comment. Andrei knew that those claims were false.

The MiG-25 has sufficient fuel in the aircraft, has a maximum range of more than 3,000 kilometers, and the combat radius under the air combat load also exceeds 1,000 kilometers, typical of heavy fighter data.

Of course, these data are not in the afterburner cruise state, like this sortie, rapid interception mission, almost flying together, has been flying afterburner, when flying to the interception point, that is, flying four or five hundred kilometers, half of the fuel in the aircraft has been consumed, in the scheduled airspace for more than ten minutes of fighting, there is still enough fuel to support the speed of 0.8 Mach to cruise back to the base.

However, like Andrei, he accidentally "got lost" over the island country, ran after the chrysanthemum of the F-4, and ran around with the E-2, and when he came back, he took a picture of the height difference of tens of thousands of meters with the F-4 group, and when he flew away in style, looking at the fuel gauge, Andrei's face was about to turn green.

There are also more than two tons of oil in reserve! A few hundred catties of them are still oil bottoms, which cannot be pumped out and used, and he can use no more than two tons!

There are still 800 kilometers from the base, and this little bit of oil is not enough!

What to do? If it is in two years, the MiG-25 will be improved again, and it will be able to refuel in the air, so quickly call the base and send a tanker over, and you can still hold on, but now, this trick is impossible.

With the afterburner turned off, the speed began to decrease continuously, but the altitude did not drop much.

The higher the altitude, the thinner the air and the less air resistance, so if you want to fly back, you can't drop the altitude! Andrei reminded himself secretly.

In this way, I flew for another minute, calculated the amount of fuel in my mind, and still couldn't return safely!

What to do? Do you want to fall into the sea and wait for the helicopter from the base to save yourself?

Of course not! Andrei suddenly remembered something, it seems that if he wants to continue to save fuel, he can only take risks!

Wearing thick gloves, Andrei's fingers flipped the switch on the front panel, and when the fifth switch was flipped in succession, the body suddenly shook, and with it, the speed slowed down, and the height began to fall down.

If you look at Andrey's MiG-25 fighter from behind, one engine in the tail continues to emit orange flames, while the other engine has no tail flame!

Turn off an engine! Use only one for cruising!

This is also a way adopted by the helpless Andre, the two R-15 engines, like a monster drinking oil, even if there is no afterburner, the fuel is being consumed rapidly.

The only way to do this is to turn off one of them!

With a sudden drop in power, the MiG-25 began to lose altitude.

Andrei carefully operated the fighter and turned off an engine to reduce fuel consumption by about 30 to 40 percent, but if it went to a dense atmosphere, this effect would be canceled out, and the altitude should not fall too much!

Fortunately, when the altitude dropped to 20,000 meters, the MiG-25 finally resumed level flight, looking at the speed indicated by the Mach meter in front of it at about Mach 0.7, it seems that a single engine provides cruising power, which is still good.

"032, 032, report fuel situation." The sound of the base in Sokolovka continued to be heard in the headphones.

As the radio continued to fly back, two-way communication was finally restored, and Andrei looked at the oil gauge and said, "032 reports that there are still 1.5 tons of oil. ”

1.5 tons! Looking at the distance displayed on the radar, there are at least more than 400 kilometers, and this bit of fuel, I'm afraid I won't be able to fly back! Kori Dub couldn't help but clench his fists: "032, you are piloting the latest fighter of our regiment, even if you die, you have to die for me!" ”

Listening to the howl of Kozhdub in the headphones, Andrei felt that after he went down, he would definitely be scolded by this guy, alas, the bureaucratic style is so serious.

However, looking at the fuel consumption just now, you should be able to return to base!

"032 Roger." Andrei replied on the radio, and he continued to move the switches, turning off all kinds of redundant equipment to save electricity.

The waiting process was full of torment, and Kozhdub stared intently at the radar screen, for fear that the plane would suddenly fall off as it flew, and it must have run out of gas.