Chapter 603: The Great Air Battle of the Century (I)

"Hawkeye Nineteen calls the Eagle." The air command task is the air early warning command aircraft with the call sign "Hawkeye 19".

"Hawkeye Nineteen, this is the Eagle Formation." Zhao Kai answered the call in the communication channel

"Keep the route the same." Recently, the situation in the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea has been extremely complicated, and the naval aviation and air force have frequently engaged in small-scale battles with the allied air forces, so the Chinese navy and air force have to dispatch several batches of air early warning command planes every day to stay in the air to conduct air early warning command. This Hawkeye 19 is part of the 121st AWACS Squadron of Chongming Island Air Base.

The aircraft carrier squadron of the North Sea Fleet is heading south, and north of the Taiwan Strait, the task fleet composed of four patrol detachments of the South China Sea and East China Sea Fleets is heading north, and this has naturally attracted the attention of the allied forces; from the day the aircraft carrier formation sent by the North Sea Fleet departed the port, the intelligence departments and air forces of the three Allied countries have frequently dispatched to try to spy on the large-scale movements of the Chinese Navy.

Today, thousands of Allied warplanes flew toward China, which was an unprecedented air raid and a high-cost gamble by the Allied leadership.

"The altitude is 200, the course is the same."

The 12 Black Hawk fighters flew at a low altitude close to the sea and swooped straight into the interception airspace.

Zhao Kai looked a little excited, grandma's, the saber that claims to be superior to the Warhawk-3, can fight against the saber, which is far more refreshing than fighting with those propeller fighters.

According to the battle sequence, the opponent faced by the Black Hawk Air Regiment of the 7th Air Division was the 1st Fighter Wing of the United States, which was also the first unit in the United States to be equipped with Sabre jet fighters. In the combat sequence of the US Air Force. Be in the ace unit.

China, on the other hand, gave the United States a pair of swords, and used Black Hawk fighters to compete with the United States' sabres. As a fighter with air superiority as the main focus, the main task of the Black Hawk fighter is to seize air supremacy, and this air supremacy naturally also includes interception tasks. A supremacy fighter plane that has been ahead of the world in science and technology for nearly 20 years is doomed to the first-generation jet fighter just developed by the United States.

The 1st Fighter Wing of the US military was an ace unit, when it was still the 1st Tactical Fighter Wing. It was the first operational unit of the Tactical Aviation Command to fly the 'Eagle'. When the United States entered the war, the 1st Tactical Fighter Wing, deployed to London to support Operation London Shield, was the first unit of the U.S. Air Force to establish air superiority over the United Kingdom.

Subsequently, squadrons of the 1st Fighter Wing were routinely deployed to North Africa and the Soviet Union to support Operation Northern Watch and Operation Southern Watch, respectively. Perform interception missions against the Luftwaffe.

For the confrontation with the advanced fighters of such an old powerhouse. Zhao Kai naturally felt excited.

Major Virgin was annoyed. Although the fighter being piloted is the Sabre fighter that is the first plane, and although the Sabre has always been the new pride of the United States, when its own fighter formation loses contact with the early warning aircraft in front. Even after the continuity between the groups was lost, the Major still felt a chill down his spine. He seemed to see the figure of the Chinese fighter plane rushing densely in front of him.

In front of the US Air Force formation, every 200 kilometers, there is an electronic aircraft converted from the American C-121 transport plane, which is also the latest American AWACS aircraft. The fuselage of the transport aircraft is endowed with a powerful carrying capacity and enough to put down complicated electronic equipment. And this EC-121 early warning aircraft is officially the leader of this large-scale air raid on China.

However, this early warning aircraft, which the United States had high hopes for, dropped its chain before the big war.

Just when the follow-up group actively contacted the front group, they also found that the electronic equipment on the plane was out of order, and all the communications could not be sent at all. In this way, all the Allied fighters have a feeling that the storm is coming.

Just in front of the Allied fleet, on the huge Prowler electronic warfare aircraft, countless electromagnetic interference was sending electromagnetic waves at full power, disrupting all the electronic equipment of the Allied forces. Let all the Allied fighters become blind and deaf.

And not far in front of these wanderers, on top of those EC-121 AWACS aircraft, there was already a mess. They were the first to find out that the on-board radar screen was in vain, and then all the electronic equipment went on strike, and although the crew worked hard, switching several backup channels in a row, and also checking the equipment, all the work was in vain. When all the equipment was still in a state of disarray, the crew members were in despair.

They considered countless consequences, but never one was the way it is. At this moment, it has become a luxury for them to even contact the group behind them.

In the Yellow Sea, a very powerful fleet is cruising in front of these AWACS aircraft. This fleet has a very loud name, the Royal Pacific Fleet of China. A high-tech fleet produced entirely by the Red Alert shipyards.

Two supercarriers with a displacement of 100,000 tons are the core of the entire fleet, surrounded by Aegis air defense cruisers and anti-submarine destroyers, and two Typhoon-class attack nuclear submarines underwater, constituting the world's top naval fleet.

At this time, the Aegis air defense cruisers in the second and third defense chains of the aircraft carrier formation spotted the approaching EC-121 AWACS aircraft in the sky. These blind and deaf people did not dare to return without permission, and continued to advance towards the territory of China.

All the Aegis air defense cruisers in the defense chain of the two aircraft carrier battle groups heard the sound of radar reports from their combat command centers.

"Report, azimuth XXXXXX, enemy aircraft target found, speed 320 kilometers per hour, altitude 12,000."

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"Report, the fleet command conveys the latest operational instructions, the attack restrictions are liberated, all missiles are unlocked, and the anti-aircraft fire of each ship can be fired freely."

"Turn on the fire control radar, collect the information found by the early warning radar, and shoot all these flies for me."

This was the first battle of the Royal Pacific Fleet, an advanced fleet that had been trained for several years, and officially showed its fangs. Hungry and thirsty sailors need to use the blood of the enemy. to forge their own honor and remember it in the annals of history.

As the artillery commander of the combat center gave the order to prepare the missiles, the four anti-aircraft missile launchers (two in the front and two in the rear) on all the Aegis air defense cruisers raised their heads one after another.

The captain of the warship, the deputy captain, has been on the bridge and commanding the warship, and the warship exchange of fire is controlled by the artillery commander of the combat service center. This is a new command system, and the artillery commander is the second person in the whole ship. The division of labor of the entire fleet is very clear. It's all about doing what you want. This is other naval formations. What you can't have. Because such a command method needs to rely on powerful electronic equipment.

At the same time, the powerful electronic equipment also allowed this fleet to have the world's first naval fleet with regional air defense capabilities, which opened a historical precedent.

"The fire control radar has locked onto the target. Missile launches are ready. Can be launched at any time. ”

The Royal Pacific Fleet's 'Red Banner' anti-aircraft missile. The 'red flags' of those shipborne anti-aircraft missile launchers are extremely lethal for fighters like the Sabre, let alone those clumsy AWACS.

"Missile launches. Beat these white-skinned monkeys to death for me. ”

With the roar of the artillery commander, the missilemen in the combat center pressed the missile launch button.

The anti-aircraft missile launchers on the Aegis air defense cruisers are all six in one set, and each launcher has 12 anti-aircraft missiles. An Aegis air defense cruiser has 48 anti-aircraft missiles on it, and together with the ship's anti-aircraft phalanx and the integrated anti-aircraft system, the anti-aircraft fire has been connected from far and near, and the air defense force can be called terrifying.

When the radar soldier pressed the missile launch button, a small missile with a sharp warhead sprayed an atomized tail flame and rushed into the sky, dancing a long white band.

The Allied EC-121 AWACS aircraft in the air simply did not have time to show it, and they did not have strong enough electronics to tell them that their aircraft was locked by missiles. The result is inevitably tragic.

As an explosion sounded, those expensive early warning planes in the air turned into debris one by one. The crews of these AWACS aircraft who killed them did not know what was going on, they were still having a headache with the electronics. Maybe they have a chance to go to heaven and ask God how they died.

Just a round of attacks by a few cruisers, those AWACS aircraft that flew into the air defense zone of the fleet, were finished one by one. And the two aircraft carriers in the middle of the formation also began to take off fighters, a fourth-generation carrier-based aircraft with performance close to the Black Hawk fighter.

In fact, this carrier-based aircraft, like the anti-aircraft missiles of the Aegis cruiser, was configured at the Red Alert base when producing these weapons. Consumption or damage can also be replenished from the Red Alert base.

The four squadrons of Black Hawk carrier-based aircraft had just finished taking off, and land-based Black Hawk fighters happened to fly in the sky, and the two aircraft groups just gathered together and pounced on the Allied aircraft group.

"Come on, Chinese Yankee." The Virgin major did not have superfluous ideas, there must be Chinese fighters ahead, this is no longer a doubt, but a fact. He has a wealth of experience, and after he lost contact with the AWACS aircraft and all the electronic equipment on the plane failed, the situation was already obvious in front of him. Since you can't retreat, let's fight.

It's time to let those Chinese people know the power of the American Sky Eagle, and let these hateful Chinese know the power of the 1st Fighter Wing.

As the pride of the American Air Force, the history of the 1st Fighter Wing is full of glory: the first American brigade-level unit to participate in air combat, the first American combat unit to destroy enemy aircraft in World War I, the mother unit of the first recipient of the Medal of Honor for Aviation Operations, the mother unit of the two American ace pilots with the highest scores in World War I, the first fighter unit to be deployed in its entirety over the North Atlantic, the first American unit to destroy German aircraft in World War II, The first American jet fighter unit.

Such a proud splendor will be written, and the Virgin Major pulled the nose, and the saber slid lightly to turn on the afterburner. More than 300 Sabre fighters of the 1st Air Wing followed behind Major Virgin, and a large number of Allied fighters behind them also accelerated, and thousands of fighters quickly pounced on the airspace in front with full horsepower, as if Chinese fighters had appeared in front of them.

At this time, under the command of the 121st AWACS Squadron of the Chongming Island Air Base, Hawkeye 19, 72 Black Hawks of the 7th Division of the 3rd Air Force were at an altitude of 200 meters. Doing a low-altitude sea-skimming flight, behind it are four squadrons of 48 Black Hawk carrier-based aircraft, and a little further behind is an integrated air division of 480 Hawk-3 fighters.

The blade of the sword pointed directly at the saber of the American army.

"Come on, damn chinkee." Major Virgin looked very proud, his Sabre fighter was able to quickly catch up with the Chinese fighter and make an attack.

At this time, the "Freedom" formation led by Major Virgin encountered twelve Sea Hawk-3s who had come to investigate the situation.

Although Major Virgin was confident that the moment he saw the enemy aircraft appear, he would be able to lock on to the enemy aircraft and shoot them down with AIM-9 advanced close-range air-to-air missiles mounted on weapons pylons. The Sabre jet fighter was paired with the AIM-9, which was actually the United States in the years after World War II. The most powerful air force armament.

The Virgin Major was clearly too confident. The Warhawk-3 is also not a vegetarian, although the performance of this twin-tail twin-engine medium-sized carrier-based aircraft is not as good as that of the Black Hawk, but both in terms of maneuverability and avionics system level. Or overall air supremacy combat capability. All excellent. The Flying Fox medium-range air-to-air missiles and Sidewinder close-range combat missiles are combined with advanced fire control radars and pilots' helmet-mounted targeting systems to deal with the air forces of some forces whose strength is slightly inferior to that of the United States, Europe, and other countries. Fully possessed of the ability to seize absolute air superiority.

Twelve Seahawk-3s approached rapidly from a height of 3,500 meters, their wings glowing with a blurry matte in the sunlight, the missiles on board could roar out at any time, and the guide head shone with a chilling sheen.

Twelve against twelve, the pilot reconnaissance aircraft groups of the two sides met, and sparks were instantaneous. In front of the Sabre, the Warhawk-3 does not dare to hold it up, after all, the Sabre is the result of several years of research in the United States, and the data is not bad. Not inferior to the Seahawk-3 at all.

"Come on! Glory forever belongs to the 1st Air Wing. Major Virgin swooped down on his target with murderous vigour, and in his eyes, the twelve Warhawk-3s were almost his prey.

Major Virgin was not at all worried about getting into close combat with those Chinese aircraft, because he had been flying this Sabre fighter for several months, and the intensive training had given him enough knowledge of his fighter's performance. The level of operation is also very skilled. Of course, there is also a point in this, or the saber is not advanced enough, and in later generations, it is not even a second-generation aircraft, and it is not a myth that a skilled pilot can master it in a few months.

It's okay, let those Chinese people taste the excellent mobility of the Sabre, and let the Chinese know the power of the American Eagle in another way.

The Sabre has the ability to control stability and precise pointing of the nose in the range of high angles of attack, which is precisely what is pursued in overstall air combat, that is, to use the stable flight ability in the range of large angles of attack to quickly change the nose pointing and complete the aiming and shooting of the weapon system. Therefore, Major Virgin decided to take advantage of the saber and give color to the Chinese in the grappling.

In Virgin's view, with the excellent performance of the Sabre and the quality of the US Air Force pilot, even if he does not use missiles, he can use the cannon to kill those Chinese rookies. Of course, the inability to use the wireless channel may have some impact on air combat, but he believes that each of his subordinates has a wealth of combat experience and is enough to deal with any problem.

Under the sun, the saber painted by the air superior cut viciously into the Sky Gray painted Warhawk-3 formation.

Eight fighters were entangled and flying above the sea and sky, and the excellent performance made the Sabre clearly have the upper hand, and one Warhawk-3 rolled violently, trying to shake off the Sabre behind.

The Virgin major, under the cover of his wingman, bit the Warhawk-3 in front of him.

"Baby, don't be nervous." The Virgin Major's mouth was full of thoughts, and he was constantly soothing his prey as if he were soothing his Japanese lover, although he knew that the other party could not hear his sarcastic "reassurance".

"Don't try to resist, don't leave my field of vision." Major Virgin bit the tumbling Chinese plane, turned on the launch safety device, and only gently pressed the launch button on the joystick with his thumb, and the roaring AIM-9 could "bite" the so-called "sea dove" of the Chinese to pieces.

"Freedom, unknown target, distance 2000, high-speed approach, damn, I can't see the other party, I can be sure that it is definitely not the Chinese Warhawk-3 model, it should be the most mysterious No. 4 fighter." The Viking's vehicle was a two-seater command aircraft. Behind the Virgin, there was also a deputy. While the Virgin was entangled with a Seahawk-3, his lieutenant spotted a dark shadow that suddenly appeared in the distance.

Has China's most advanced fighter finally appeared? Major Virgin felt an unprecedented euphoria at this point.

After all, the 27th Fighter Squadron was subordinate to the 1st Fighter Wing, temporarily deployed from the Langley base to the Nagasaki base in Japan, and was not under the command of the 18th Air Wing. Because Nagasaki is not only beautiful with blue skies and blue seas and a large number of Japanese women, although it is now in ruins, this has little effect on these American pilots.

The most important point is that they can frequently "come into contact" with the air power of China, a rising power in East Asia, and almost all military personnel will hope that their opponent will be a powerful "master," and defeating such a "master" can satisfy the soldiers' sense of honor and pride; in particular, the US Air Force, which is "seeking defeat alone," and confronting the Chinese people's powerful air power is better than going to the Middle East to bomb those armies that are not even second-line troops.

The Chinese people's cutting-edge fighters, they praised the ugly fighter with the number Black Hawk as the "cloud dragon", and the so-called "dragon in the clouds, untraceable" means that it is really a group of megalomaniacs.

Come on, damn Chinese Yankee, Major Virgin has given up his "prey" in front of him, and he is going to compete with those cutting-edge advanced fighters of the Chinese. (To be continued......)