Chapter 596: The Verge
Caribbean.
"Discover the Soviet fleet!"
The pilot's shout sounded on the Ming Army's Red No. 4 Yinglong bombers that took off from St. Maarten, and on the blue sea below them, the huge fleet rode the wind and waves, and the red sickle hammerhead flag hunted and danced on the top of the masts of the battleships.
The three heavy aircraft carriers arranged in a zigzag arrangement stand out among them.
"The opposing carrier-based aircraft has taken off."
Then the navigator on the other side shouted.
"Keep an eye on it!"
Rear base orders were heard over the radio.
"Understood!"
The driver said.
The wings of the Yinglong bomber in flight were retracted, and soon reached a maximum sweep angle of 65 degrees, and the whole aircraft became a sharp triangle most suitable for high speed, and under the impetus of two three-rotor turbofan engines with a maximum afterburner thrust of up to 25 tons, it quickly broke through the sound barrier and pierced the sky upward.
Below it, two Yak-25M carrier-based aircraft, which had just taken off, turned on the afterburner almost at the same time to break through the sound barrier and chased after it.
"Play with speed?"
The pilot on the Ying Long bomber sneered and turned on the afterburner.
Behind him, the huge tail vent, terrifying blue flames erupted instantly, and under the impetus of the violent force, the speed of this aerial beast with a take-off weight of more than 100 tons soared again, and by the time it reached the 18,000-meter ceiling, it had already exceeded Mach 2.
Two kilometers below, the Yak-25M reluctantly stopped the pursuit, although they could barely reach such a height and break through Mach 2 at a speed, but that was the data of the test, and there were two atolls air-to-air missiles under the wings, and when the internal fuel tanks were almost full, they could only look and sigh below.
However, they didn't have time to entangle with this Yinglong bomber, because at this time, a large spot of light appeared on the radar screen of the Soviet fleet.
The people of the United States are coming.
An E1 Tracker AWACS aircraft that took off from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise was the first to spot the advancing Soviet fleet, and then twenty-four of the latest F4 carrier-based aircraft catapulted off from the Enterprise, carrying Sparrow and Sidewinder missiles.
"It's a good place to look lively!"
On the constantly circling Yinglong bomber, the pilot said to the navigator with a smile while drinking a special drink to replenish his energy.
This is indeed a good place to watch the excitement, on the three Soviet aircraft carriers below them, the Yak-25M catapulted off one after another, and the same atoll air-to-air missiles flew directly at the F4 Satan group of the US military.
Compared with the previous Yak-25, this fighter has been completely improved, not only replaced with two engines with afterburner thrust of five tons, but also re-enlarged fuselage, replaced with a new generation of fire control radar, which can use not only infrared-guided atolls, but also the latest P8 semi-active radar-guided missiles.
This missile is the AA3 Anabu that will be officially put into service next year, with a range of 19 kilometers, which can barely be regarded as a medium-range bomb, which is much farther than their earliest AA1, because it obtained a complete sparrow in the Japanese War, so the development progress has been greatly accelerated, and it can now be officially put into service, as for the performance......
At this time, the sparrow is already rotten, and there is no need to say what it looks like as an imitation of the sparrow.
Of course, neither the Mi nor the Soviets know this yet, and they are confidently ready to replicate the glory of the Ming army's lightning missiles with their medium-range missiles.
Just a few minutes later, two opposing groups collided with each other with the smell of gunpowder.
"Mah, this little plane is so tough?"
The pilot of the Ying Long bomber looked down with some surprise.
Against the backdrop of the blue sea, the scene of dozens of fighter jets fighting stunts is absolutely spectacular, but the result is very surprising, the small Yak-25M is like a cheetah playing bison, flying up and down around the Satan, constantly easily seizing the advantageous position. And the satanic air of the fully pirated Ming army ghosts far exceeds their performance data, but when it comes to this kind of pure dexterous battlefield, it has become the object of abuse, and it is even inferior to the previous crusaders, at least the crusaders and Yak 25 dog fights are not inferior at all, but the ghosts are obviously not able to play others.
"Of course, you can rely on dog fights to defeat tiger sharks, and let ghosts fight them dogs, isn't it looking for death? It is only right to open the distance and maintain the altitude to launch medium-range missiles. ”
Said the navigator.
But this is a confrontation and not a war, and missiles are hung to scare people and not shoot down opponents.
"The Crusaders are coming!"
At this time, another point of light appeared on the radar screen in front of them, and the navigator immediately said.
"The Soviets' radar also spotted it."
The driver looked at the Soviet fleet, which was almost out of sight in the distance, and said that silver dots of light could be faintly seen flickering in the sky.
Twenty-four Crusaders took off from another nearby American aircraft carrier to join the battlefield, but then reinforcements from the Soviet aircraft carrier also arrived, and the scale of the fighting stunts in the sky became larger and larger, and this is when the inevitable happened. One of the Yak-25M's and its opponent's movements mismade at the same time, and the Satan's wings were crashing into the belly of the Yak-25M, and the sharp leading edge was like a giant axe that almost cut the fighter from the middle.
Of course, it ended up in two, but at the same time that the Yak-25 broke into two, half of Satan's wings were shattered, and the wreckage of both fighters fell almost simultaneously.
What's even more remarkable is that by mistake, the two ejected pilots collided together like two rockets, and then smashed into the sea together, while the other American pilot in Satan didn't know why and didn't eject, so all the pilots on both sides were spared and soon died in the sea together.
This tragic scene caused the situation in the air to change abruptly, and almost all battles were able to break away from the entanglement with the opponent as quickly as possible, and at the same time the infrared guided missile sight locked onto the target and was energized and ready to attack.
"Look, it's going to be a fight."
The navigator on the Yinglong bomber shouted excitedly.
"Fart, I'm going to fight early, didn't it happen that a major was killed by someone the day before yesterday after someone beat a U2? Barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes, what kind of life are the people of the United States, what kind of life are the Soviets living, if the two families are destroyed together, the people of the United States dare or the Soviets dare? ”
The driver said disdainfully.
"But didn't the people of the United States blow up a submarine yesterday?"
"That shows that they don't have the guts, they really have the courage to directly launch anti-submarine torpedoes and sink dry, why do they have to throw deep bombs down? It took more than 50 deep bullets to force people out, and then watched them fly away, and then they still had the face to put gold on their faces as a victory? ”
The driver said.
As if to confirm his words, dozens of US fighters facing each other in the sky suddenly turned to retreat at the same time, as for whether to withdraw from the battlefield or to distance themselves to make sparrows, this is unknown, but the Soviet fighters did not pursue, they did not have AWACS aircraft, and they could not fight outside the coverage of the shipborne radar. In fact, in the Soviet Union's combat system, aircraft carriers are air defense ships, after all, they also know that the gap in their ship-to-air missile technology is too large, so the air defense of the fleet can only rely entirely on aircraft carriers, as for the sea attack is not the main task of the aircraft carrier, that is the responsibility of anti-ship missiles.
At the same time, a large number of American warships appeared on the sea in the distance, followed by the six Sverdlov-class cruisers in the Soviet fleet, plus six old Kotlin-class destroyers rushing towards the American fleet at high speed. Unlike the original Kotlin class, these six destroyers are all like the later brigade class, with two triple Styx missile launchers installed in the middle.
The performance of this missile was fully tested by the Japanese War, and now the Soviets are equipping almost all of their warships with this kind of thing, including six on the Sverdlov class, which doesn't take up much space anyway, and it doesn't need much electronics to support it, and this thing can even be directly visually aimed at close distances.
And these Styx are not the original historical Styx, because the Styx of the Ming Army was obtained from Yugoslavia, and the Soviets have long improved it. These are actually equivalent to the later Styx M, not only have radar and infrared seeker, but also replace the barometric altimeter of the early Styx with a radio altimeter, and control the terminal flight altitude at about 20 meters, basically reaching the level of sea-skimming flight, and the penetration performance has been greatly increased.
It is this new generation of Styx that has shown great power on the battlefield of the Japanese Kingdom, otherwise it would be impossible to beat the American army to the north coast with the old goods that have been played into rockets by the Canaanites.
However, because of the poor air defense capabilities, it is still unknown how effective these old warships will be, but they are perfect confrontation ships, and when more than a dozen Soviet warships cross the front of the US fleet, revealing their missile launch boxes, even the US military has to deal with it carefully.
They have lost too much from anti-ship missiles.
The battle on the Red Sea still makes their hearts flutter when they think about it, the eagle strikes that hit the Saratoga like meteorites one after another, it was like a nightmare, and their almost defenseless fear in the face of this weapon is still imprinted in the hearts of many American troops who participated in the war.
Although this is the River Styx and not the Eagle Strike, this thing is much more terrifying than the Eagle Strike, and it also left them with a lot of painful memories on the battlefield of the Japanese Kingdom.
However, this did not give the Soviet fleet an advantage, because the second American fleet arrived immediately afterward, and this batch was almost all heavy cruisers with thick skin, and the huge ships like mountains on the sea were in front of the Soviet fleet, and one by one 203 mm main guns were turned to the side, forcing the latter to stop.
"The show begins!"
At an altitude of 18,000 meters, the pilot of the Yinglong bomber looked down and said.
The U.S. and Soviet fleets, with only a bunch of small black dots left, were parked on the surface of the sea, and in the distance there were more U.S. warships coming in for reinforcements. (To be continued.) )