Chapter 641 641 Battle of the Mozambique Channel (6)
Zhang Juzuo, commander of the Indian Ocean Fleet, was in a calm and calm manner, and an atmosphere of mountain rain was about to come and the wind was full of buildings on the entire Jiangsu aircraft carrier. The commander stood in the middle of the bridge, standing straight, he had a kind of ordinary soldier who was not paranoid about his appearance, even if he went to the battlefield, he still used hairspray to style his hair well, so that he looked his best, spirited.
"The 5th Carrier-based Fighter Aviation Regiment and the 11th Carrier-based Fighter Aviation Regiment have taken off, and our enemy already knows where we are, and we must deal with them in advance!" Zhang Juzuo is not worried that he has not found the location of the main force of the US expeditionary fleet at this moment, even if the US fleet will not take the initiative to come up, the Indian Ocean Fleet has enough ability to find traces of the US military.
The US military has the SR-71, and the PLA also has its own naval and air reconnaissance weapons. The aircraft carriers Jiangsu and Hubei carried a total of 6 Sword UAVs. The sword is also another Chinese PLA to imitate and copycat the US military X-47B and develop a carrier-based unmanned reconnaissance and strike aircraft, flying wing aerodynamic layout and back air intake, so that this aircraft basically does not have the same air combat and supersonic capabilities as the air knight, but it also has a very large range and a relatively high ceiling, coupled with its stealth ability, it is very suitable for carrying on aircraft carriers and conducting reconnaissance missions for aircraft carrier battle groups.
Once the enemy forces sail on the sea, it will be relatively difficult for the space-based spy satellite network built by Qi Yiming to track the US fleet, so it is still necessary to rely on this relatively traditional method of flying reconnaissance to discover the enemy. Six Sword drones separated different airspace to conduct reconnaissance of the US fleet. The Mozambique Channel is not very wide, so it did not take long for the US fleet to appear on the radar of the Sword UAV. Soon, the space-based spy satellite system immediately aligned with this coordinate and transmitted a large number of photos back to the Jiangsu of the Indian Ocean Fleet.
The Sword UAV will not be particularly close to the US fleet, there is no plasma active stealth ability and optical stealth ability, if the Sword is too close, it will still be discovered by the US military, and the Sword basically has no self-defense ability and can only be shot down.
However, it seems that the luck of the swords today is not particularly good, and after discovering the traces of China's Indian Ocean fleet, the US military also immediately sent a large number of carrier-based aircraft to prepare to seize regional air supremacy and further attack the Chinese fleet. Undyingly, two U.S. F-18 Hornets encountered a flying Sword drone.
"What's that?" The U.S. pilots saw the flattened boomerang-like aircraft at the edge of their sight, which was very peculiar.
"It really looks like a B-2, there is no friend or foe identifier, obviously this is a Chinese plane, is it a bomber?"
"No, it's a little small, but whatever it is, it's going to be our prey, haha!"
Since the appearance of the sword was obviously not a threat to the fighter, two curious and bold F-18 pilots approached the sword.
"There's no cockpit, it's a drone!"
"Not surprisingly, the Chinese seem to be unwelcome to our pilot industry, and are constantly developing drones, and soon our Chinese counterparts will be unemployed." The U.S. pilot joked that there was not the slightest nervousness.
Another pilot said, "Don't forget that we have something like a predator, and we might lose our jobs one day." ”
"Let's think about how you don't die in this damn war!"
For this Sino-American war of the century, ordinary officers and men in the US military still have mixed feelings, and those who are excited and eager for the battlefield and honor naturally have, but war-weariness is also universal. Although the United States has stepped up its propaganda to portray China as a corrupt country that is greedy, shameless, dictatorial, and authoritarian, China's openness is very high and the Internet has long been prevalent, and many people know what China is really like, and people there are not necessarily more luxurious than Americans, but they are just as rich and content with their lives.
So anyone with a little brain understands that this war is definitely not a just war to defend peace, freedom and democracy, as propagated by the White House and Capitol Hill, but a naked hegemonic war for world dominance.
The two U.S. pilots reported the discovery of the Chinese peculiar drone to their superiors, and when Cornell learned about it, he ordered the ship's technical team to find a way to capture the Chinese drone. Since the beginning of the war, the Americans have been dizzying at the technical capabilities of China's weapons, and they are even reluctant to admit it, but many American soldiers subconsciously believe that China's weapons are more advanced than those of the United States, and if they can get this Chinese drone, it may be of great help to the US military in the next war.
However, it is extremely difficult to capture the drone, and the US military's EA-18G electronic warfare aircraft is dispatched in the hope of using electromagnetic interference and other means to make the sword lose contact with the rear, but the drone is still naturally flying towards the north, preparing to disengage from contact with the US military.
"No, if you let it fly like this again, it will run back to the Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet." The pilot of the EA-18G Growler shouted over the intercom.
The Hornet pilot laughed and said, "Then knock it down, and then find someone to fish!" ”
The two bumblebees flew not far from the left and right of the sword to prevent the drone from escaping directly. But at this time, something unexpected happened, the drone that was originally flying well suddenly exploded in the air! The flying parts directly hit the bumblebees on both sides, and the impact force of the explosion made the aluminum alloy and carbon fiber fuselage fragments so dangerous, and even directly cut off the wings of the bumblebee, and even directly exploded the auxiliary fuel tank.
"Damn, mayday, mayday, I can't control it anymore, I'm going to eject!" No one expected that the drone that was originally flying well would actually come to this hand and explode itself directly in the air, and also pulled two fighter jets of the US military to accompany the funeral. Although a Sword drone is worth a lot, if calculated on an average cost, it is more expensive than a Bumblebee. However, in this case, it is not a loss to be able to pull a few pads.
The sword can carry nearly four tons of weapons and ammunition, and naturally did not carry so much when performing reconnaissance missions, and when the sword was designed, it was taken into account that this technologically advanced UAV is likely to become the object of the enemy's coveting, and it is very likely to be captured by the enemy or the wreckage is collected under some special circumstances, so the sword has a very fierce self-detonation system, which can detonate the weapon in its own magazine, and explode together with its own fuel tank, the power of this explosion is quite large, And it's enough to turn the sword into tiny pieces, so that the enemy can't get anything as much as possible.
From the very beginning, the drone pilots in the rear who operated the sword knew that they would probably not be able to run out today, but seeing that the US military pilot was so bold to follow him, he directly started the self-destruct procedure and sent the two F-18s into the tomb.
In addition to this self-destructing drone, there was also a sharp sword that was unfortunately discovered by the US plane, but this time the US F-14 directly launched a missile to hit it, and after being hit, the sword started the self-detonation process, and it did not achieve any "results". After losing two Swords in a row, Zhang Juzuo recalled all the Swords drones, and the approximate location of the U.S. military has been obtained, and there is no need to let the drones continue to reconnoiter and cause greater losses.
At the same time, a magnificent sea and air battle has begun!
The first to engage in the battle was the J-15 Flying Shark of the 5th Carrier-based Fighter Aviation Regiment on the aircraft carrier Anhui, and their opponent was the F-14 Tomcat, the main fighter of the US naval aviation. In response to this war, the 5th Carrier-based Fighter Aviation Regiment was expanded to carry 36 J-15 fighters on board the Anhui at full duty. J-15 is generally regarded as the carrier-based version of J-16, the performance is relatively close, the same four-generation and a half fighter, except for some shipboard equipment, avionics, weapons, etc. are basically the same.
Flying Shark vs. Tomcat, for the J-15 pilots are actually no strangers, they have fought with the F-14CN of the brother unit many times, in the early days they did lose more and win less, but slowly they also reversed the defeat, and gradually the two sides won and lost. Therefore, when facing the US F-14, Chinese carrier-based aircraft pilots are not nervous, and they are confident enough to deal with these fighters that they are very familiar with.
Neither side is a stealth fighter, so after each found the other, they launched a round of BVR attacks, but the effect of this round of BVR strikes was not good, and no fighters were shot down on either side. When attacking a distant target, the medium-range missile is very likely to be thrown away by the opponent's relatively large overload maneuver, and once the launching vehicle loses its radar lock on to the enemy aircraft, the missile may lose its direction during the mid-flight process.
The fighters on both sides flew at high speed, and a round of BVR basically entered a near-sight battle without hitting. And this time the Flying Shark took the lead and launched several PL-12X missiles, and at such a close distance, the advanced nature of the missiles was undoubtedly revealed. The F-14 was in the missile's inescapable zone, and the missile turned on its own active radar almost as soon as it was launched, and although the American F-14 pilots wanted to evade the missile with a large overload maneuver, they were still directly hit by the missile with a higher overload.
At a distance of only 30 kilometers, the Flying Shark shot down three US F-14s in a row, also achieving a numerical advantage. Naturally, the 5th Carrier-based Fighter Aviation Regiment did not fight in a huddle of more than 30 planes, after all, this was not the era of World War II, and there was no way to fight with dense fighters piled up together. The struggle with the US military planes was carried out in a fairly wide airspace, and the US pilots were also the first to realize the flying skills of their Chinese counterparts, and the battle became more and more fierce.