From the very beginning, the Leopard B sent by Qi Yiming used a difficult low-altitude breakthrough and chose to fly in mountainous areas with complex terrain, while avoiding premature detection by Soviet air defense radars as much as possible. Compared with the Leopard A, the performance of the Leopard B at low altitude and low speed has not improved, and it seems to have become a little worse, but it has improved significantly in aerial combat and other aspects. Entering the war zone in the form of low-altitude penetration was originally a rather risky decision, but Qi Yiming was still willing to take this risk. This is also a manifestation of his absolute trust in the superb and outstanding skills of the Red Alert pilots.

It wasn't until Leopard B dropped AR-2 missiles on the heads of a group of T-64s that the Soviets spotted the daring fighters.

"Swift Wind Brigade, Super Wind Brigade, Fire Wind Brigade, please note, please note. The enemy has taken off 6 Su-27 fighters from Chilchik airbase and 8 MiG-31 fighters from Zhaneysmey airbase. ”

"Received by the Blast."

"Chaofeng received."

"Fire Wind received."

Because these fighters did not belong to the Air Force, and they did not even have a base establishment, they were temporarily assigned to three flying groups for unified command. At the beginning of the conflict, although the Fifth Agricultural Division suffered serious losses on the front line due to poor deployment, after Qi Yiming took over the baton, a larger amount of materials and military strength were continuously transported to the border area, and what he controlled was basically the strength of his base.

Qi Yiming, who was far away in Beijing, was also a little nervous and excited, because the Leopard B was going to fight against the third-generation fighters of the Soviet Union's main force, and it was no longer the second-generation aircraft such as MiG-23 and F-4.

Although Qi Yiming has a lot of confidence in the Leopard B designed and produced by Xifei, the Leopard B, which is a heavy aircraft, does not suffer in the face of the Su-27 and MiG-31, which are also heavy aircraft. However, the Leopard B's mission payload is mainly anti-armor, and the anti-aircraft weapons are only two PL-12 and two PL-8s per aircraft, which is inferior in firepower compared to the Su-27 and MiG-31, which concentrate on interception.

"Ditch the drop tank!" The captains of the flying groups decisively gave orders before engaging the enemy, and the two heavy fuel tanks they carried were not in the way of ground attack, but in air combat, they were in big trouble, so they needed to get rid of this obstruction before meeting with Soviet fighters.

Because of the huge body of the Leopard B and the conformal fuel tanks on both sides of the air intake, the Leopard B with two auxiliary fuel tanks can transfer more than 4,000 kilometers, which is comparable to some heavy bombers. After throwing away the cumbersome auxiliary fuel tanks, the pilots felt that the plane was suddenly light, and everyone adjusted their mental state and was ready to face the enemy at any time.

"Enemy planes come into range, Hurricane 2-4 shoots!" All the pilots of the Celestial Empire have mastered the routine, and it is nothing more than relying on the PL-12 active medium-range interception projectile that has a much longer range and is much more accurate than others, to detect the enemy first, to attack first, and after a fat beating, if there are still fish that slip through the net, they will attack them in groups until the enemy is swept down from the sky.

To be fair, the radar used by the Leopard B is still a bit behind the AWG-9 used by the HNA F-14, but it is clear that the radar of the Su-27 and MiG-31 is not much better than the avionics of the Leopard B. What's more, even if they found a Chinese fighter plane sixty or seventy kilometers away, they couldn't find a way to attack them, so they could only tell them to approach.

From different directions and angles, a group of Leopard Bs thoroughly carried forward the true meaning of bullying people with their superiority in technology and numbers, and all three flying groups, totaling more than 40 PL-12s, threw them at the Soviet fighters 60 or 70 kilometers away as if they were not paying for money. It didn't take long for these missiles to "see" the Soviet fighters who wanted to give the Chinese Air Force a good look at them at a high speed of Mach 4, and the first to suffer were the MiG-31s that could be called flying rockets with a maneuvering overload of only 5G, and the oncoming PL-12 effortlessly shot down these fighters flying close to Mach 3 one by one.

The speed of the MiG-31 is naturally much faster than that of most fighters, but it may not be able to catch up with air-to-air missiles. What's even more tragic is that these MiG-31s know that they are locked in and want to escape from the PL-12's fire control radar, but their poor maneuverability makes them like a slow-motion replay in front of the PL-12 with a maximum overload of 38G, so that no MiG-31 is lucky enough to avoid such an unreasonable, face-wrenching, and fearful attack that they don't know that there are many missiles in the road.

In comparison, the Su-27 performed slightly better, but not much better, and these third-generation heavy fighters, which also served in the PLA in another plane, were also vulnerable to the PL-12. After being locked, the skilled Soviet pilots immediately began to carry out their own tactical evasion maneuvers, or make a sharp landing, or roll sideways, but there are several fighters in front of the PL-12 within the range of the inescapable zone, plus the attention to China's air-to-air missiles is limited, and the maneuver maneuver is not large enough.

So the tragedy was for such pilots, when they thought they had pulled the planes far enough, they saw those vicious Cobra-like missiles effortlessly turn their direction, bite the trajectory of these Su-27s, and then hit these fighters headlong in the panic of the Maozi pilots.

And only two Su-27 pilots were lucky and cunning enough to play with their lives in the face of this round of "rain of arrows" and in the end they were not shot down.

The Maozi pilot, who was sitting in the cockpit, had a ghostly expression on his face, and he never thought that air combat would have such a pattern of conduct. Instead of engaging in artistic and melodic aerial combat, his opponents simply spot themselves and then Tucson presses the weapon launch button, and his comrades fall from the sky like a swarm of mosquitoes inflicted with special insecticides.

There are still two planes left on their side, and the opponent still has more than 20 planes, none of which have been lost, even if they firmly believe that their level is better than that of Chinese pilots, and the number ratio of 1:10 is definitely not a situation that pilots without talent can handle. Well, not everyone has come through from the Otherworldly Dragon Knight!

"Tower, tower, our department has suffered heavy losses, request to retreat, request to retreat!"

There was a sound in the communicator, and the person on the other end could hear what the ground commander was saying, but the two surviving Maozi pilots could not hear it clearly, and finally one person said in horror: "It's electronic warfare, it's electronic warfare, electronic suppression by the Chinese!" ”

He guessed right, although the body and interior are very different from the Flying Leopard A, but the focus on compatibility is still the biggest feature of the Flying Leopard series. This batch of flying leopards manufactured by the base is not only capable of attaching various electronic warfare pods to become a full-time electronic warfare aircraft, but also has a set of electronic warfare weapon systems built into its wide nose, which can interfere with the enemy's communications to a certain extent, which is not as good as a special jamming pod, but it is also very effective, and it is better to save space on the pylon. The electronic warfare pods used by the second-generation Leopard B are specially miniaturized and integrated for some functional pods, such as the pods in which several fighters are now hung on the front end of the air intake tract, which is a small electronic jamming pod, which can have certain electronic warfare capabilities when taking into account both air combat and ground missions.

Ever since the Soviets took it upon themselves to test the Chinese Air Force in Vietnam with new fighters, the Soviet Union has remembered the term electronic warfare vividly. Not only has it invested a lot of money in the research and development of its own electromagnetic interference and anti-jamming weapons, but it has also taught the pilots of the whole army to be cautious in dealing with electronic warfare aircraft and how to deal with operations after being suppressed by electronics.

It's just that such repeated teaching has also had the opposite effect, but after relatively low-level electronic interference, the two Su-27 pilots are already on the verge of collapse. The comrades-in-arms were cleanly beaten down for a long time, and the information from the rear could not be transmitted in time, and they were basically fighting alone.

Therefore, without thinking about it, the two Maozi pilots tacitly turned the nose of the plane, turned on the afterburner, and planned to flee the war zone, and they didn't care whether they would accept the review and punishment of their superiors in the future.

It's just that they want to escape, and it's a little too late. A group of Leopard Bs are at the same level as their flankers, and Leopard A has a speed of only 1. Mach 75, but these Leopard B, which evolved into multi-role fighters, can reach a top speed of 2. Mach 2, the better WS-10 series engine, the acceleration performance is also much better than the AL-31.

Before the two Su-27s could escape far, the black pressure on a piece of Leopard B like a predatory eagle had already surrounded them, and the Maozi pilots were shocked, eager to have two more engines on their plane, pushing them to flee for their lives. As soon as a group of cat-and-mouse leopard Bs entered the 15-kilometer interval, eager pilots took the lead in firing several PL-8 short-range combat bombs. This distance is about the same as the boundary between inside and outside the range, which is usually the distance at which missiles are avoided in the combat manual, but perhaps because they were too confident, they still fired.

Fortunately, a missile caught up with the tail of a slightly behind the plane, and after the fragmentation warhead detonated instantly, a radius of more than ten meters was filled with 2,500 steel balls, which immediately hit the Su-27 hard. Because the attack was on the part of his engine vent, it was equivalent to directly abolishing his hope of escape, although the Su-27 that was hit did not explode in the air, but it also inevitably fell to the ground. The pilot did not hesitate and immediately ejected, holding a life.

The last Su-27 ran for his life like crazy, but the leopards who gathered together would not give him this chance. After a short chase, they finally got close enough that several PL-8s were fired at the same time, not giving the Su-27 any chance.

After clearing all the obscure existence in the sky, suddenly the radar siren of one of the fighters of the Fire Wind Brigade beeped!