The Tu-126 Moss, which has the foundation of the Tu-114 airliner, which in turn was inherited from the Tu-95 bomber, can be said to be mainly prepared for transcontinental flights, in this case, needless to say, from the Kamchatka Peninsula, even from Vladivostok, it can easily fly to the sea area of the exercise in northern Hawaii and then fly back.

However, other fighters are different.

Even the MiG-25, the most powerful professional interceptor of the Soviet Territorial Defense Force, has a fuel load of up to 19 tons, which is more than the full weight of many fighters, and even so, its maximum range, that is, the longest distance of subsonic flight, is 2,500 kilometers.

In this case, it is simply not enough to meet the needs of the round trip.

The excellent performance of the MiG-25 at high altitude and high speed makes it have quite good performance in aviation reconnaissance, and even a considerable part of the MiG-25 service models are reconnaissance types.

At the same time, in order to meet the needs of long ranges, the MiG-25 also has a special air refueling model, the MiG-25RBVDZ.

Among them, R is reconnaissance, B is bombing, this is a reconnaissance bombing aircraft, in this kind of task is heavy, of course it will not hang bombs, the pylons outside, just mounted two short-range missiles for self-defense, this is the price necessary for the sake of soaring, with heavy medium-range missiles, how to soar out of high speed?

At this time, two MiG-25 reconnaissance planes were slowly approaching a Tu-16 tanker that had released an aerial refueling pipe.

"001 call 010, 001 call 010, there's a Tomcat fighter jet, it's approaching me, please come to support immediately, please come to support immediately."

At this time, a muffled voice came from the radio of the reconnaissance plane pilot Yakov, who was carefully starting the fighter plane and aiming at the conical oil jacket in front.

At this time, nearly half of the fuel in his plane had been consumed, and if he did not complete the task of refueling in the air, he would not have to say go to reconnoitre, and I am afraid that even returning home would be a problem.

Refuel yourself first, or go to the rescue of your own AWACS aircraft first?

After a slight hesitation, he pushed the lever and left the refueling cone.

"011, continue to refuel in the air, I'll take a look." He shouted to another MiG-25 next to him.

The two of them flew together to carry out reconnaissance missions in order to have a backup for each other, and now, the Americans actually came to trouble their own AWACS aircraft?

"011 Roger." At this time, his companion Varisiev replied.

They are still more than a hundred kilometers away from AWACS, and for the MiG-25, this distance of more than 100 kilometers is nothing at all.

Turn on afterburner!

The two R-15 turbojet engines in the tail suddenly burst out of light blue flames, and a huge thrust came, and the MiG-25 fighter easily broke through the sound barrier and continued to accelerate forward, Mach 2, Mach 2.5.

This is where the toughness of the MiG-25 comes in, and if desired, it can go wild at high speeds.

Ordinary aircraft, after turning on the afterburner, can also soar to more than Mach 2, but not for a long time, otherwise the afterburner will burn out, but the MiG-25 is different, its afterburner is special, until the fuel is burned, it can always be at maximum speed.

Mach 2.5, that second is 850 meters, a distance of 100 kilometers, only two minutes is enough.

And subsonic planes, at least three times longer, by the time they arrived, the battle would have been over long ago.

In the cockpit of the Tomcat fighter, Lieutenant Gus in the back seat has regained his composure, and with the Lone Ranger, he has to get used to it every time it can be so exciting.

When the radar is switched to PDSTT mode, it is like a flashlight, they will shine the most powerful light on the target, and at the same time, the surrounding area will become dark, that is, they will lose the ability to perceive the surrounding targets.

It's good that they still have AWACS.

"A hundred kilometers away."

"Eighty kilometers away."

"Lone ranger, attention, behind the target, a high-speed target, Mach 2.5, is being flown in the direction of the target."

At this time, the Hawkeye AWACS aircraft sent new news.

The target of Mach 2.5 must be the MiG-25, and the sudden appearance of the MiG-25 is definitely not an accident, there must be Soviet tankers nearby!

"PDS mode, find the airspace around us." Nathan shouted into the rear cabin: "There must be an air tanker of the Soviets nearby!" ”

Although the scanning range of the Hawkeye early warning aircraft is relatively broad, the problem of orientation makes the Hawkeye early warning aircraft not necessarily able to find the target, and in PDS mode, the detection distance of more than 300 kilometers for large targets is enough to make the Tomcat also become an early warning aircraft.

Sure enough, after Gus adjusted the radar mode, he was immediately pleasantly surprised to see the bright spot on the screen: "There are large targets in the airspace thirty degrees to the left!" ”

That's you!

Nathan had already come up with tactics to deal with the MiG-25, but he did not expect that he would be so lucky enough to complete two missions in one flight.

Expelled their tankers, so that the MiG-25 could not refuel, so that it could not continue to fly over to reconnoitre!

Push the lever, kick the rudder, and the Tomcat swerves in the sky in style, swooping down on a new target.

Inside the moss AWACS, the piercing sound like a cat's meow disappeared.

When the other party unlocked, the radar alarm receiver was not triggered, and when the sound disappeared, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

A false alarm.

It shouldn't have been, even if the American pilot is crazy, they still have superiors, how can they watch the gun go off the rails and finally usher in an irreversible end.

Just when they were just breathing a sigh of relief, the radarman looked at the bright spots displayed on the screen, and suddenly his tone became even more rapid: "Damn, it's heading for our tanker!" ”

The Hawkeye AWACS aircraft is over the eastern seas, the Moss AWACS aircraft is in the northwest, and the target is in the southwest.

In this way, the Hawkeye AWACS aircraft can see the target airspace and see the place where the MOSS AWACS aircraft appears, but the tanker aircraft, which is closer to the northwest than the MOSS AWACS, cannot be seen and exceeds its maximum observation range.

If Nathan hadn't sprinted forward, he wouldn't have seen it, and now, when he approached the airspace of the moss AWACS aircraft at a distance of eighty kilometers, the Tu-16 tanker, which was less than two hundred kilometers away, was seen by him.

The Tu-16 tanker planes are 500 kilometers away from the aircraft carrier battle group, and the airspace is absolutely safe.

What's going on with the Americans today? I've never been so fierce before!