The darkest night is when you can't see your fingers. Now, although it has not reached this level, it is impossible to see tens of meters away.

In the sky, it flew back and forth three times, but it did not find the reconnaissance plane that was close at hand!

In the cockpit, the pilot, Lieutenant Kosichsky, was rather depressed, and he looked behind him and asked, "Seymour, did you see that plane?" ”

Seymour in the rear cabin stared at the radar screen in front of him, just now, when the target reached the center of the screen, he was also looking out, but it was pitch black outside, and there was nothing.

"If we hadn't searched for the headlights, I'm afraid we wouldn't have found them, it's so cunning!" Lieutenant Kosichsky said, the front past can't be found, the tail chase can't be found, could it be that the other party's engine is a piston engine?

It's so weird.

In fact, although the Tu-95 uses a special engine, after all, it still has to be jetted backwards, although they are now in a slow state, if they are close enough, they can still be seen.

The key problem is that every time they meet, the Tu-95 leans down, so that every time they meet, the Tomcat fighter flies over it, just because the fuselage blocks the vague tail flame below, and as a result, nothing can be seen.

I can't find it, and I can't do a cannon interception or anything like that, unless I make up my mind, I really fire, and I can knock the other side down with a sparrow from a distance, but now, they have found nothing.

The E-2 AWACS aircraft in the rear is also very strange, every time I see that the two targets almost coincide, but I just can't find each other!

Could it be that the other party will be invisible?

"A large number of planes were spotted and were flying at supersonic speeds on the surface of the sea at a speed of Mach 1.5!" At this moment, the AWACS aircraft suddenly discovered a large number of bright spots, and when they saw these bright spots, they immediately became nervous.

Ultra-low-altitude penetration at sea, a typical Tu-22M attack method!

Before the Tu-22M appeared, there was also a model called the Tu-22 bomber, which was the first supersonic bomber that the USSR was equipped with.

Prior to this, all bombers equipped by the USSR were subsonic, and subsonic bombers did not have a strong penetration capability.

The Tu-22 bomber was originally designed to replace the Tu-16 at that time, break through the air defense network and air interception with supersonic flight performance, deliver nuclear weapons on strategic targets in Europe, and equip two RD-7 turbojet engines above the tail. The power provided allows it to reach a flight speed of Mach 1.5, can carry 9 tons of various types of ammunition or a Kh-22 cruise missile, and is designed to bomb enemy strategic targets in depth in a regimental flight formation to make up for the lack of surprise performance of the Tu-16 bomber.

The idea was good when it was designed, but when the design was completed, it was found that the performance of this bomber was seriously insufficient, and after loading ammunition, it was simply impossible to do supersonic flight, and even if it flew to Mach 1.5, the maneuverability would be quite bad, and it would not meet the requirements for breaking through the NATO air defense system at all.

So, after the Tu-22 design was finalized, there was only a small amount of equipment, and the Soviet aviation was very dissatisfied with it, so they wanted a new one.

However, the Tupolev Design Bureau did not care, after all, they were the authority of large aircraft, and they originally planned to repair and modify it, but the Sukhoi Design Bureau came up with a terrible T4.

Seeing that it was almost dismantled, the Tupolev Design Bureau was in a hurry, and hurriedly pushed to start over, and developed a new bomber with a variable sweep wing, if you want to achieve the intended goal, it must be the design of the variable sweep wing and the built-in bomb bay, which is completely different from the Tu-22 in appearance, but it still received a Tu-22M number, so that it looks like a modification of the Tu-22, so that it can fool the West.

It was not until 75 years that such powerful bombers began to be equipped with troops one after another, and naval aviation received hundreds of Tu-22M.

This kind of bomber is huge, its empty weight is 58 tons, after being fully loaded with fuel and ammunition, the total weight soared to more than 100 tons, in order to promote it, the Soviet Union also came up with an anti-sky class engine.

The thrust of a single engine is as high as 247.9 kN, which is equivalent to the thrust of two third uncles!

At the same time, its attack mode is not high-altitude and high-speed, but low-altitude and high-speed.

The lower the plane flies, the less likely it is to be detected by radar, and the less likely it is to be intercepted; even if it is discovered by an early warning aircraft in the sky, the radar on the ground cannot detect it early, and the air defense missile on the ground cannot fire early, and by the time the ground air defense missile fires, it has already dropped something and flew away.

Now, the Tu-22M bombers are flying, and there are three aviation regiments!

This is already the entire belongings of the naval aviation of the Pacific Fleet of the Far Eastern Military District of the USSR.

The slender and massive body, the huge rectangular air intakes, and the single vertical tail in the tail are extremely tall, and because of the supersonic flight, the variable swept wing has been put to the end.

In terms of load capacity, this bomber is comparable to the B-52, and in terms of penetration ability, it throws the B-52 out of several streets!

Because of the combat effectiveness of this bomber against the sky, it also received a terrible nickname called Backfire.

(It is said that our country once considered buying a backfire, but in the end, it was a mistake and missed this powerful bomber.) ）

Now, the two engines in the tail are emitting orange-red flames, and according to the information of their own long-range maritime reconnaissance planes, they have come to the target sea area, and then dived down from a high altitude, and directly entered the stage of low-altitude and large-speed penetration.

In the first bomber, Major Vladimir, the commander of the aviation regiment, said to the navigator behind him: "Please indicate the direction of the reconnaissance aircraft, we are about to make the final penetration." ”

Don't look at the Tu-22M bomber looks tall and mighty, but the internal space is quite cramped, and the operation of this bomber requires four people.

In the cramped cabin, four flight crews were accommodated, two in the front and two in the front, and in the aft cockpit were bombardiers and electronics-navigators.

The instrument panel in front of the cockpit is sky blue, and various gauges on it are displaying data, and the rear cockpit only has a small porthole to avoid strong light disturbing the display.

At this time, three huge anti-ship missiles, which have already completed their preparations, are waiting for the guidance information!

The Tu-95 has just been playing hide and seek in the dark for a long time, and now, finally, it no longer has to play hide and seek, it has to stand up bravely and provide guidance information to the Tu-22M fleet!

After receiving the news, in the Tu-95 reconnaissance plane, Locks said excitedly: "Turn on the radar and scan the nearby sea area!" ”

Just now, I didn't dare to turn on the radar, and now, we must find the aircraft carrier formation of the Americans in the sea!