The stealth performance of the US F-22 is really good, and because China and the United States had intercommunication on this during the honeymoon period, the radar reflection cross-sectional area of the F-22 is smaller than that in another plane. Such an F-22 is worthy of the name of stealth killer, in the internal comparison of the US military and the battle of the NATO Tiger Club, the F-22 has almost no opponents, and can beat all other fighters to pieces.

Even though the F-22 suffered certain losses in the one-day war in Kosovo, the US Air Force did not blame the F-22's ineffective performance, but found other reasons to prevaricate in the past. The production of the F-22 has been going on continuously, but the US military is going to engage in an arms race with China on its own plane, and it is impossible to build 185 aircraft and stop producing them. Even though the cost of the F-22 is close to $200 million, the Americans are gritting their teeth and constantly stepping up the purchase of more fighters of this type to counter the growing fifth-generation aircraft fleet of the Chinese Air Force and Naval Aviation.

The enemy agreed by the U.S. military on the F-22 is actually the Chinese J-11 Black Hawk fighter, and the other two Chinese stealth fighters, the J-20 and J-31, are not even taken seriously by the Americans, because the J-20 feels more like a fighter-bomber and the J-31 is an order of magnitude lighter. As for China's fourth-generation and fourth-and-a-half-generation fighters, the Americans are simply dismissive, believing that the performance of the F-22 is enough to kill these fighters in seconds.

The air battle in the Arabian Sea is an opportunity to test the Americans' ideas, and although the number of F-22s in the U.S. fleet is slightly less than the number of J-16s in the Chinese Navy, both the rear commanders and the pilots in the front believe that they can win the battle.

The F-22 first spotted the Chinese Air Police-2000 early warning aircraft cruising in this airspace on the radar, although the Air Police-2000 is China's main air early warning platform, but its anti-stealth capability is still slightly worse, far inferior to some anti-stealth radar stations and mobile radars built in China. After determining that this was a Chinese early warning plane, the American pilots were very excited, which was equivalent to a big cake waiting for them to eat, but if they wanted to eat it, they had to fly closer, because the range of the AIM-120C missiles used by the F-22 was not enough to hit the Chinese early warning aircraft at a distance of more than 180 kilometers.

However, when the F-22 flew into the Chinese early warning aircraft at high speed and attempted to attack it, the multi-band phased array radar equipped with the Chinese Type 055 cruiser cruising on the sea discovered the existence of the F-22 and reported it to the early warning aircraft and escorting HNA fighters in the air through data link.

Ten J-16 fighters reacted immediately and intercepted the American fighters. Although the J-16's radar did not catch the F-22 Raptor either, the cruiser's multi-band radar provided them with a target and direction for attack, and in this relay guidance situation, the J-16 launched their PL-12X missiles with a range of up to 200 kilometers.

The PL-12X long-range air-to-air missile is actually a long-range attack air-to-air missile developed by the Luoyang Air-to-Air Missile Research Institute (612 Institute) on the basis of the Thunderbolt-12 missile, absorbing some technologies and concepts of China's improved version of the Immortal Bird. However, compared with PL-13, PL-14 and other missiles, they still belong to the previous generation of missiles, which are slightly larger and occupy more space.

However, the PL-12X missile provides Chinese fighters with the ability to strike enemy fighters at a long distance, unlike the immortal bird, which actually has a limited hit rate after 120 kilometers, the PL-12X is very intelligent, and can be automatically corrected after missing the target, and the enemy can attack again.

Good fighters are important, but so are good missiles. Relying on the PL-12X, a lethal weapon, the J-16 can be regarded as the first hand, and the J-16 can be hung with 12 air-to-air missiles as a bomb truck if it is mounted in the air, of course, it will not be mounted so much under normal circumstances. The J-16 group shot out more than a dozen PL-12X missiles in one go, and after the F-22's alarm device was remembered, the F-22s made various evasions, but there were still two missiles that hit the F-22 and directly knocked it down.

After dodging this round of urging attacks, the F-22 also relied on its own radar to grasp the J-16 fighter, and the Raptor fighter who was eager for revenge also released a number of AIM-120C missiles, although it is still slightly inferior to the Chinese PL-12X, but this missile is also a sharp weapon in air combat.

The Bvr attack of the F-22 was also successful, and two J-16s were shot down by the AIM-120C in the case of not being able to dodge, and from 1985 onwards, Chinese fighters were rarely shot down by the enemy in the way of BVR in actual combat, of course, mainly because the enemy was relatively weak. BVR is a way of playing, now basically depends on the performance of the missile, the active radar missile can attack the enemy on the battlefield by itself, and what the fighter needs to give is an initial guidance.

After a round of over-the-horizon combat, the two sides basically entered the distance of the dogfight, and the two sides began to chase each other in the sky. In dogfights, the stealth advantage of the F-22 Raptor is gone, but its superior mobility cannot be ignored. The natural J-16 is equally terrifying, the J-16 from the Flanker family has an excellent aerodynamic appearance, and can fly out a lot of incredible actions, not only when performing, but also many actions are more effective in actual combat.

The pilots of the F-22 are outstanding in the US military, and the pilots of the J-16 are also experienced. The J-16s first used their numerical superiority to attempt to besiege the F-22, but the F-22 continued to get rid of the J-16 by virtue of its flexible maneuvering, and even an F-22 did not fall behind in a one-on-two.

Even, this F-22 even broke away from the pursuit of two J-16s at high speed, and used a beautiful air pull to launch missiles, hitting a J-16 to move back a little advantage for the US military. However, this advantage was quickly dissolved by J-16, after all, J-16 dog fighting ability is not inferior to F-22, two J-16 pursued F-22 were shot down one after another, and the entanglement ratio in the sky became 2:7, the contrast is quite large.

At the critical moment, the ace US pilot broke away at high speed with his wingman and flew to India's airspace to avoid the pursuit of J-16, and J-16 followed the two F-22s all the way into Indian airspace, and finally had to retreat because of India's anti-aircraft fire, and the two F-22s also successfully landed at Indian airfields.

The exchange ratio of this air battle was 4:3, and the US military lost a little, but the US military insisted that because there were many Chinese fighters at the beginning, China's HNA was in an advantageous position, and such a battle did not mean anything, and if the two sides were evenly matched, there should be a situation that was more favorable to the US military.

What worries the U.S. military is that the U.S. military originally thought that only the Black Hawk could fight with the F-22, but now the facts show that the performance of China's fourth-and-a-half-generation fighters is also not bad, and it may be a little worse than the F-22, but this little bit is not enough to make the F-22 appear one-sided in the war.

What worries the US military even more is that China obviously has a larger air fleet, and it is not uncommon for the Air Force and the Navy to deploy several hundred fighters on a battlefield, while the US military is already somewhat accustomed to fighting a local war, and it is still somewhat difficult to mobilize so many fighters at every turn.

However, the Americans are also smart and intend to pull their little NATO brothers together to offset the numerical superiority of China's air and naval aviation. Even if some countries shirked and did not want to get involved in the war so quickly, the United States still received more than 200 fighter jets from Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, and was ready to deploy in India to confront the Chinese.

Although the vanguard of the U.S. air raid on Gwadar was frustrated, more fighters also arrived near the theater of operations, and China has already grasped their movements through the Air Police-2000, and a large number of J-16s of shore-based aviation and F-14 fighters on the Sichuan aircraft carrier that have set sail have intercepted these U.S. military planes.

The scale of this air battle is relatively rare after World War II, and dozens of US fighter jets and PLA fighter planes are constantly fighting in the vast airspace of the Arabian Sea and Pakistan, and fighter planes are constantly falling from the sky. In this epic air battle, there was a grand scene of the United States and China's F-14s competing with each other, and the tomcats with different livery and military insignia, each for their own master, launched a desperate struggle against the other.

In terms of performance, it is naturally China's red Tomcat F-14CN+ The performance is slightly stronger, although the United States also upgraded the F-14 to F-14D in the later period, but it is still weaker than the F-14CN of the fourth generation and a half, especially in terms of power, F-14CN is a vector engine, and F-14D Although the engine thrust is improved, it is still an ordinary engine.

As a result, the red tomcat can be seen to make some super-maneuverable movements without listening, while the American tomcat can only stare dryly.

U.S. bombers are also involved, hoping to take advantage of the chaos to carry out air strikes on Gwadar, but it is obvious that the Chinese fighters are more concerned about these bombers and take special care of them, even in the face of the blocking of American fighters, the Chinese fighters boldly attack them, and their partners follow up to counteract the American fighters.

The plan to attack Gwadar ended in failure, and the tactical forces invested by the US military were still somewhat small, and the Chinese defense of Gwadar was too strong. In the end, the U.S. military lost more than 30 fighters and 5 bombers over the Arabian Sea, while the Chinese Navy lost 7 fighters.

George W. Bush directly bypassed the military's command command on the front line, instructing him not to take hasty action until it is determined that the scale of his own combat strength exceeds that of China, so as not to cause serious damage. On the other hand, the US military has made greater efforts to deploy various combat forces to the Indian Ocean theater, because the US military has profoundly realized that China is definitely not a cat or a dog, nor is it a paper tiger as they imagined before, and it must be willing to pay if it wants to win.