"Don't turn on the radar just yet." On the Tu-95 reconnaissance aircraft, Captain Locks gave the order.

The other side has already searched for the signals of the opponent's early warning aircraft, and with the help of radio equipment, it can roughly judge the position of the other side, but without radar, it cannot be accurately located.

According to the previous scheme, as soon as an electromagnetic signal was detected, it was time to turn on the radar. But now, Locks won't let the radar be turned on.

Now, they are only passively receiving electromagnetic signals, so they have only one bright spot on each other's radar screens, and the other side does not know what kind of plane they are.

If they turn on the radar, as soon as their electromagnetic signal leaks, the other side will immediately know that they are a maritime reconnaissance plane, and then, how will the other party's aircraft carrier act?

They themselves don't care if their reconnaissance plane is killed, and when they become pilots of such aircraft, they know how dangerous it is, and how dangerous it is for an unarmed plane to guide a huge missile attack on the enemy's fleet.

(Because the earth is a sphere, the direct firing distance of the ship-to-ship missile at sea will not exceed 30 kilometers, and after exceeding, it is outside the visual range, and it needs to rely on other guidance methods, for example, the most common is the guidance of the ship-based helicopter, but I don't know how dangerous this kind of helicopter to guide is?) ）

They don't care, but they have to hold on as long as possible, and it is best to hold on until the arrival of their Tu-22M bomber group to guide them to launch missiles, and then they can start the plane with confidence and boldness.

If they don't hold out, then don't worry, when they report to their superiors, the reconnaissance planes searching for the US fleet in other airspace are flying towards this sea area, and there will definitely be reconnaissance planes that will take over the task of missile guidance and complete the task of launching a fatal blow against the US fleet!

Now, they need to stick to it as long as they can.

Without relying on radar, they can receive more and more signals by relying on passive receiving equipment, indicating that the other party is flying towards them!

"Discover a new electromagnetic signal, it's a Tomcat fighter!" The person in charge of the listening shouted.

Generally speaking, the ordinary radar warning receiver needs the other party's radar to turn into a locked state to issue a warning, after all, there will be a large number of radios in the airspace, if anyone scans the alarm, the pilot will not be able to react at all.

However, the current reconnaissance aircraft is different, there are a large number of electromagnetic processing systems, so just scanning their planes has already been observed by them.

The Americans came too fast, and in such a short time, they had already flown over!

What to do?

"Let's fly." "This is public airspace, and if the Americans dare to attack us, they are actively provoking a war," Locks said. ”

Hearing his words, Adeteff's face also became firm: "Yes, let's keep flying. ”

The reconnaissance planes did not change direction and continued to fly towards the airspace ahead, the night sky was dark, and it was very difficult for them to detect themselves by sight.

The intensity of the radar is getting bigger and bigger, and in the distance, it seems that the roar of the engine can be heard.

"Lower the height." Locks shouted.

Eddef pushed the control panel, and the huge reconnaissance plane began to dive downward, and almost at the same time, the two incoming Tomcat fighters flew over their heads at high speed.

It is not easy to find the target at night, especially in a dark night like now, the visibility is less than 50 meters, and if you turn off all the navigation lights, if you fly head-on, the other party will not be able to see it at all.

"Turn off the two engines and adjust the power of the remaining two engines to the minimum." Locks continued to shout.

His order attracted Edtek's suspicious gaze, was this a suicide?

The Tu-95 is a large four-engine aircraft, and when it was designed, it was possible to continue flying without one or two engines, but now, they want to take the initiative to turn off the engines, which is really suicidal.

"Execute the order." Locks said, he was calm.

As a result, Adetev turned off the two engines on the left and right sides.

The roar was reduced, the propeller rotation was slowed down, and finally it became the most economical way to follow the propeller, and the two engines on the inside were also adjusted to the minimum power, and Adetef operated the plane carefully, and now, it could fall at any moment.

At the same time, he also understood the intentions of the madman Locks.

The other side was looking for its own bombers at night, but as a result, it dived, went down, and passed by the other side, and the other side had early warning aircraft, so they could continue to search for their own side under the guidance of the early warning aircraft.

Just now they passed by, they were flying, and now, when they flew past and returned, it was a tail chase.

If you look at it from behind, the tail flame of your own engine will expose the target.

Therefore, simply turn off the engines on both sides, leaving only the two engines inside, or the minimum power state, so that the tail flame in the tail is almost invisible.

This is also the advantage of propeller aircraft, in which case only propeller aircraft can control.

No, you're losing height!

"Our altitude is decreasing!" Adteff shouted that just two engines, or the lowest power rotation, were no longer enough to provide power.

"Don't worry, we've got a few kilometres to go." Locks didn't care.

Overhead, two warplanes appeared again, whistling, flying over their heads, and the flames spewing out of the tail were exceptionally clear.

They again flew over the head of the Tu-95 and did not find a target.

Flying at night is already dangerous, but fighting at night is even more difficult, first, it is impossible to find the target.

If it is a dark night sky, if you look at it with the naked eye, you will miss the target from a few dozen meters away.

As for the airborne radar? No matter how precise the radar is, it is impossible to guide the aircraft to the other side by tens of meters, and the accuracy of the radar is not so high!

In the past, during World War II, bomber groups often flew out at night, just to use the cover of night to reduce the casualty rate, and at the same time, the way to deal with night bombers was to throw flares in the sky.

It's a pity that when we entered the jet age, these means disappeared, and without flares, even if they could be observed on the screens of airplanes, they could be found nothing.

It wasn't until later generations, when infrared imagers were used on a large scale, that night pilots began to wear infrared night vision devices, and it was really the same as in the daytime.

There is no such advanced technology yet.