The two TF30-412 turbofan engines output surging power, and after being squeezed by Alsie's performance potential, the heavy fighter with a full load of nearly 30 tons was pushed to an altitude of 15,000 meters.

During the climb, the fuselage was slightly shaken by the impact of the air current. As the altitude increased, Zhou Qingfeng saw the first rays of morning light at dawn.

The ground shrank rapidly, the blazing sun rose, warplanes raced through the clouds, and the horizon stretched rapidly into the distance. Only by flying in the air can you feel the vastness and magnificence of this world.

The Persian side was extremely slow to respond to this 'Tomcat' that suddenly lifted into the air. Hesa was being cleaned up, and when he heard the roar of the engine, he sent someone to investigate. The factory area and the airport can be counted, and all the fighters that can fly are still there.

No one thought that the 'organ donors' piled up in the warehouse would be rebuilt and repaired, and they would soar into the sky.

Although the ground radar found Zhou Qingfeng flying in the air and tried to establish communication with him, it could not send a fighter plane to intercept him at all.

As for the anti-aircraft missiles on the ground, they are all points of protection, as long as the 'Super Tomcat' does not directly collide with them, just dodge them from a distance.

Zhou Qingfeng's target is more than 500 kilometers away in Kuwait. Since the distance was quite far, he chose to approach from a high altitude to save fuel. After all, flying from a low altitude can't avoid the E-3 early warning aircraft deployed in the Middle East.

Super Tomcats' don't fly to Kuwait from the Persian side yet. Zhou Qingfeng chose to take a slight detour, and his route was northerly, first intruding straight into Iraqi airspace and passing near Basra.

This series of maneuvers frightened the radar stations on the ground in the two countries, and the communication lines were hot. Persia thought that its own 'Tomcat' had defected, and Iraq thought that its old rival had come to attack and harass.

Both of them are currently weak chickens.

Let's not talk about Iraq, it has just been beaten by the eagle sauce. Ground facilities and equipment have been blown to shreds, Basra's proximity to Kuwait has destroyed radar stations and airfields, and there is little that can be done to repair them.

Persia has been blockaded for years, and its 62nd Tactical Fighter Squadron in the Gulf region has only a dozen Tomcats that can fly, and only a single digit of them have radar working properly. The rest of the heavens have to be guided by the earth.

The two brothers could only watch the 'Tomcat' in the sky fly above their heads at a cruising speed of Mach 0.8, unable to react.

The only thing that can be countered is the Eagle Sauce garrison in the Gulf, which is no-flying. When Zhou Qingfeng broke into the sky over Basra, an E-3 AWACS aircraft on a nearby mission spotted him on a radar screen.

The E-3, which belongs to the Eagle Sauce Eighth Air Force, took off from its base in Qatar and used the large S-band pulse Doppler radar on the back of the aircraft to monitor air movements within a 300-kilometer radius around Kuwait.

The four F-15Cs were divided into two groups and were responsible for air escort within a hundred kilometers around the E-3 to ensure the safety of the AWACS aircraft.

The E-3 was modified from a Boeing 707 airliner with several multi-function display consoles inside its fuselage. Twelve radar controllers and one officer on duty worked in it.

When the radar operator identified a 'Tomcat' in the direction of Persia, the officer on duty inevitably came over to take a look.

Since the fighters are all life-lasting, the Persian Tomcats are lost to the cheaper F-5E for routine patrol missions in addition to general training.

This should be the 'Tomcat' who transferred to Bushehr. The officer on duty didn't pay much attention, "I don't know how many 'Tomcats' there are in Persia that can fly?" ”

Eagle sauce has just won the Gulf War, and there is an unshakable military advantage in this region, but no one in their right mind will come to stir up trouble.

To be on the safe side, the E-3, which was on air traffic control duty, had a group of F-15Cs guarding itself to meet them.

Theoretically, the two sides will be separated by a distance of more than 100 kilometers, passing by the median line of the Persian Gulf, drawing a territorial demarcation line like a dog urinating, but neither will provoke anyone.

But it didn't take long for the radar operator to issue a warning, and it was strange to report: "This 'Tomcat' has intruded into Iraqi airspace and is flying over Basra." It's accelerating, right on our 'whiplash' No.6. ”

On the green radar console, the icon representing the fighter plane is beating one by one. All kinds of vector data change all the time. The officer on duty realized that the situation was not right, and he ordered two F-15Cs to make tactical maneuvers and not stay in front of the enemy aircraft.

Unlike AWACS aircraft, which detects in the direction of the aircraft, the fighter radar can only detect a certain sector area in front of the nose. There is also a 'non-escape zone' for missiles within this sector.

Radars and missiles with different performance constitute different 'inescapable zones', the radar performance of the partial F-14A is strong, and the 'immortal bird' is a large, long-range missile with active guidance.

With the combination of the two, the 'inescapable zone' is very large.

In comparison, the killer of the F-15C's 'AI' type, its maximum range is only 70 kilometers, which is far inferior to the 150 kilometers of the 'Immortal Bird'.

In the cabin of the E-3, the officer on duty was correct in his judgment. The two F-15Cs, which had gone a hundred kilometers ahead, were immediately ordered to deviate from course and avoid the adversary's radar.

It stands to reason that this was at best a demonstrative aerial encounter. The two sides said hello in the airspace dozens of kilometers away, detected each other with radar, and then 'went back to their own homes and looked for their own mothers'.

Major, this 'Tomcat' is still accelerating. It didn't respond to our evasive moves, and it was still moving closer to Whiplash 6. "The radar controller is shouting.

The tomcat's had already crossed Basra and continued to fly south. It had just broken through the speed of sound, throwing a beautiful Mach ring behind the airframe. At this moment, it was wrapped in a thunderous explosion and moved forward rapidly.

The officer on duty hurriedly grabbed the microphone and issued a radio warning to the F-15C in front. Before he could speak, the pilot ahead of him cursed over the encrypted radio.

Damn, he locked on us, his radar locked on us. 'Eagle's Nest', I'm 'Whip' No. 6, and we ask to fight back. ”

The officer on duty can imagine the mood of the crew in front, who must have been disturbed by the beeping of the radar warning machine. But now no one is authorized to fight back, and he must report the situation to his superiors.

But that's not the end of the story

In the next second, a beep sounded in the cabin of the E-3. This large aircraft weighing more than 100 tons is also equipped with a radar warning aircraft. But the cabin crew had never heard the sound since it was put into service.

Whether it was a driver, a radar operator, or the highest-ranking officer on duty, everyone was stunned when they heard the sound, wondering where this voice came from?

After a few seconds, more than a dozen people in the cabin shouted in unison: "**, we are locked." ”

It's the 'Tomcat', and only its 'ANA-9' pulse-Doppler radar has the ability to do this. It is really impossible for other fighters to lock on to targets one or two hundred kilometers away.

Provocation, this is a naked provocation!

The officer on duty was furious, and he didn't bother to report the military situation, but preemptively ordered the F-15C guarding him: "I am the 'Eagle's Nest', 'Whip' No. 6, I authorize you to return fire on the enemy's provocation and allow the opponent to be shot down." ”

Before he could finish speaking, 'Whipping' No. 6 was shouting, "Hell, we're running for our lives." The other side launched the 'Immortal Bird'. ”