The terrible sirens sounded at the same time on the warships of the American task force, and some of the seagulls who dared to land on the railing and rub against the boat were also frightened and flew up.

On the iron ladder, on the deck...... Sailors in a hurry were running everywhere. The special combat alert means that all the active people on the ship must rush to their posts in the shortest possible time.

No one will slack off at this time, because no one will joke with their lives. This kind of bell, which rings for several minutes in a row, is a combat order, not a preparation for sailing, not a vigilance, or a battle!

Two huge Essex-class aircraft carriers have begun to take off the F-7 Sea Javelin, and on the four Borg Pole escort carriers, the F-2 Banshee and F-3 Devil two subtone super fighters are also taking off urgently.

The telegram sent back desperately by the Caterina reconnaissance plane did not specify the direction and number of enemy aircraft.

Both direction and distance can be judged based on the range and mission area of the PBY, but the quantity is ...... If you think about it with your toes, will there be fewer attack aircraft groups of the Han army?

Although the specific coordinates of the opposing fleet are not yet known, Admiral Ingersoll still showed extremely high command quality at a critical moment. On the one hand, he ordered all PBY reconnaissance planes that were reconnoitring in other sea areas to search for the Han fleet with all their might in the direction of the downed reconnaissance planes. On the other hand, it is important to find the enemy fleet, but it is even more important to save yourself. Ingersoll knew very well that the Han army's carrier-based aircraft would carry a large number of anti-ship missiles and could even attack from several kilometers away, and the Sea Javelin must exert its high-speed performance to carry the Han army's attack aircraft in front.

At the same time, more destroyers and even battleships were arranged, forming a cascade of protection in front of the Essex and Yorktown. Compared with other arrangements, Ingersoll's tactic was the most effective, as it opened a precedent for close-in defense weapons and phalanx to shoot down anti-ship missiles, and affected the design of air defense weapons and the composition of aircraft carrier formations for all new aircraft carriers in the future.

Of course, more importantly, Ingersoll's unchaotic arrangement preserved the strength of the Atlantic Fleet to the greatest extent, so that the US military still had a fighting force in the subsequent Atlantic naval battle.

The first wave of attack aircraft led by Gao Jian was divided into three parts according to the speed and combat performance of the aircraft. Flying at the forefront are 24 J-15 Eagle heavy carrier-based fighters, claiming that none of the parts on the body are Hawks used for ground attack, the original design concept is an air superiority fighter based on air supremacy, its wings and eight weapon pylons under the abdomen, hung with Sparrow-7 medium-range air-to-air missiles and Sparrow-3 short-range combat missiles.

Four for medium range and four for short range, which is also determined by the performance characteristics of the Dolphin-6 radar.

Although the Dolphin-6 is capable of locking on to six targets at once, it can only attack four of them at the same time. Considering the high speed of the Sea Javelin, the main carrier-based aircraft of the Entente, the J-15 could only have one chance of over-the-horizon attack, and once it could not be shot down, it would only be a hand-to-hand dogfight. Therefore, next to the air intakes on both sides of the "Eagle" type, there is also a 20-mm cannon to increase the means of close attack of the "Eagle".

However, in Gao Jian's view, "Dog fighting? That's outdated! ”

The performance of the Sparrow-7 in training is not yet up to the level of "lock and shoot", but it is not much worse, right?

When the attack aircraft group was still 80 kilometers away from the 16 Sea Javelins, Gao Jian had already used the helmet communicator to call the friendly planes!

For the sake of insurance and because the Sparrow-7 medium-range missile was the first actual combat battle, Senior Colonel Gao arranged for eight "Eagle" types, including himself, to launch an over-the-horizon attack on the Sea Javelins, ensuring that each Sea Javelin that came to intercept them would be "taken care of" by two missiles.

A distance of forty kilometers is only a matter of two minutes for the supersonic fighter Sea Javelin. Soon the Sea Javelins were within range of the Sparrow-7.

Gao Jian calmly shouted "launch" into the microphone on his lips, and at the same time, the thumb of his right hand pressed the fire control switch on the top of the steering stick.

The fuselage shook slightly, and four Sparrow-7 medium-range air-to-air missiles under the wings ignited and flew out at the same time.

The biggest disadvantage of semi-active radar guidance is that the signal is almost uninterrupted, that is, the radar emitting the signal must continuously place the target in the radar illumination beam, especially in the use of air-to-air missiles. That is, the movement of the aircraft emitting the signal is greatly restricted, and if a large action is made or the target takes a violent evasive movement, the target is likely to leave the illumination beam and the guidance fails.

That is, the aircraft that launches semi-active radar-guided missiles must maintain a relatively stable attitude during the flight of the missile. Therefore, if both sides are semi-active radar guidance in missile fire, then the fighter that first makes a large-angle evasion will make its own missile lose its missile and cannot attack the other party.

This is commonly known as "dropping bullets".

Although the interception radar of the Sea Javelin can also detect enemy planes 60 kilometers away, the maximum range of the AIM-9C Sidewinder missiles carried by the Sea Javelin is only 18 kilometers, and the infrared-guided Sidewinder Snake must be launched in the direction of the tail of the enemy plane, that is, the heat source of the engine nozzle of the enemy plane is the main tracking.

In such a situation where the fighters of the two sides are facing the enemy head-on, the Sea Javelin's Sidewinder C thermal seeking missile is not yet omnidirectional, so it is completely powerless against the opposite "Eagle."

In addition, the current radar does not have the ability to prevent anti-locking, that is to say, it cannot warn in time after the fighter plane is locked by the enemy's radar, and the US pilots of the F-7 Sea Javelin do not even know that they have been locked by the opponent's radar when they are 80 kilometers away.

The Sea Javelins are rushing at full strength, and as long as the two sides are within visual range, the F-7 can use the Sidewinder heat to track and shoot down enemy aircraft without radar locking, especially the slower, multi-engine bombers, and they simply cannot escape the Sea Javelin hunt.

But this time......

The moment of tragedy is always so unexpected, as in the western Mediterranean, the Sea Javelin on the battlefield of Fuden beat the D-4 Phantom heavy fighter of the Italian Air Force into a fly in the first shot.

The Goblin could not keep up with the Sea Javelin in terms of speed and agility, and the performance of the missiles on board could not match the performance of the heat-chasing Rattlesnake, and the only thing the D-4 could do in front of the Sea Javelin was a highly automated fire control system.

This is perfectly passed down to the "eagle".

From the perspective of Huangdao Company, this air battle is also a battle of revenge. A new generation of fighters produced by the Royal Road, a revenge battle for the big brother D-4...... A perfect revenge.

The overall leadership of science and technology determines the huge gap in the performance of fighters and weapons. Just when the pilots of the Sea Javelin were still wondering why there were suddenly many small bright spots on the radar, when they raised their heads and suddenly found that there were many missiles shooting at them, and when they opened their mouths wide and didn't even shout "MYGOD", the GAME was already over.

Sixteen F-7 Sea Javelins, which once dominated the Mediterranean, instantly ignited fourteen dazzling fireworks. Only two F-7s flying behind the formation escaped the fate of the volley explosion, and more precisely, the Dolphin-6 interceptor radar still had shortcomings in the accuracy of distinguishing overlapping targets, which caused multiple Sparrow-7s to hit the same target repeatedly.

However, such a result is far beyond the exclamation of the pilots who have just changed to fly the "Eagle." Gao Jian grinned and scolded, "Nima, this is too wasteful! Next time, a sparrow against an enemy plane. ”

"Haha......" The wild laughter of the other pilots in the formation came from the headphones, which was extremely arrogant.

The remaining two Sea Javelins, no one will take him seriously, even if it is one-on-one, who is the pilot of the carrier-based aircraft of the Royal Han Navy afraid of? What's more, it is an "eagle" in hand, and I have it in the world! It's a great feeling.

While these boys were still having fun, the sophisticated Gao Jian secretly locked on the only two remaining sea javelins, and the distance between the two sides was less than twenty kilometers, and they could pass by in dozens of seconds. But Gao Jian didn't intend to give them such a chance, and the maximum range was 8. The Sparrow-8 of the 3 km is just against them.

However, the target in the radar suddenly split to the sides and rolled at a large angle, and the US pilots completed the upside-down flight in the shortest time with quite excellent technology.

"Nima, they're going to run!"

Several voices rang in the headphones at the same time, letting Colonel Gao know that it was not only himself who secretly attacked them.

"09, 10 each one, get them!" Unfortunately, he didn't have a Sparrow-7 anymore, and the remaining Sparrow-3 lacked range, so Captain Gao had to swallow the saliva that was about to flow out and ordered the other two brothers to shoot them down.

The Sea Javelin is very fast, however, reaches 2 in flight speed. Pursued by Mach 5's Sparrow-7, they were like two toddlers, who didn't run far before they were overtaken.

At the moment of being hit, the US pilot suddenly understood: It turned out that it was not only thermal homing missiles that liked Tyranny.

34 Sparrows - 7, 16 Sea Javelins were shot down! Such a record even the naval pilots of the J-15 felt like in a dream.

It's not that the pilots haven't seen the world, and during the war against Japan, it was not unheard of to shoot down hundreds or thousands of people in an air battle, but it was an advanced fighter against the old propeller plane, and it was not an air battle at all, it was bullying people.

After the warplanes of all countries entered the jet age and entered the age of sound...... Could it be that it is also so easy to shoot down enemy aircraft? You must know that the Sea Javelin is not a cat or a dog, it is known as the most advanced carrier-based interceptor aircraft of the Entente countries.

There was a lot of discussion in the headphones, and there were shouts "The Americans are not much better than the Japanese, what kind of interceptor is this, it didn't even delay us for a second!" ”

Gao Jian frowned, as the number one ace pilot in the navy, as a veteran pilot who had flown the H-5 and J-5 before the founding of the People's Republic of China, he knew that such an atmosphere would make the pilot proud.

Fighting in the skies where no mistakes are allowed, and despising the enemy is not a good sign. The success of the Sparrow-7 is due to the fact that the US military does not understand the J-15 and the performance of the missile.

The missile experts of the Royal Road Company have said that the Sparrow-7 can only be regarded as a medium-range missile with relatively excellent performance, and it is by no means the kind of artifact that "locks and shoots down", as long as the enemy plane can be detected early and make a large-angle evasion action, it can completely evade the pursuit of the Sparrow.

Thinking of this, Gao Jian moved the microphone to the corner of his mouth, and suddenly shouted: "Shut up!" Pride is the defeat of his wife, and now recite it all over the battle hand...... Don't carry it, get ready to fight! ”

On the sea in front of the "Eagle" triangular formation, some small black dots can already be faintly seen. In this sea area, there are no small islands, let alone other ships, which can only be the target of the aircraft group -- the US Atlantic Fleet task force.