Northeast of Taiwan Island.

Major General Song Zhiyuan, commander of the 401st Wing of the Taiwan Air Force, looked at the cluster of Japanese F-35 fighters that were getting closer and closer on the helmet display, and saw that it had approached to a range of 50 kilometers, and was very anxious.

However, Song Zhiyuan also knows that his requirements for E-2T are too high, although E-2T has spent a lot of military funds to upgrade repeatedly, but because the combat object has always been the third-generation aircraft such as J-10 and SU-27 on the opposite shore, the AN/APS-145 radar on it claims to have a detection range of 648 kilometers for large bombers, 269 kilometers for cruise missiles flying over the sea, and 258 kilometers for small patrol boats. In actual combat, I'm afraid half of it will be thankful.

Judging from the Japanese F-35 today, the E-2T, which is less than 120 kilometers away from the F-35 cluster, is still unable to accurately catch its whereabouts and lock it in the range guidance displayed by the continental radar.

In the face of the high-speed F-35, if the radar lock could not be carried out, Song Zhiyuan's F-16 fighter wing would not be able to launch an attack at all. Seeing that the distance between the two sides was approaching, Song Zhiyuan couldn't help but grit his teeth, he couldn't wait for the E-2T early warning aircraft to guide the attack, and now he had to rely on his own initiative to assault, and after approaching the F-35, he turned on the fire control radar system on the fighter plane to aim and attack.

In order to ensure the safety of the E-2T, it is impossible to let the large, clumsy and self-defenseless E-2T get too close to the Japanese F-35 swarm, and thus become a target for the other side.

Fortunately, through the E-2T, Song Zhiyuan can "see" the approximate location of the Japanese F-35, which provides certain conditions for the Taiwan Air Force to approach the F-35 for close combat, and it is inferred from common sense that in order to launch an attack more accurately, the Japanese army will also rely on its stealth effect to approach before firing.

"Attention to all units, we follow the four-plane formation model, the 401st Wing against the Japanese Army's Cluster A flying on the left, and the 439th Wing against the Cluster B flying on the right. Each formation bites an F-35 and launches a hit. From the radar screen, Song Zhiyuan saw that the Japanese army was roughly a group of two fighters, and the two squadrons formed two attack groups on the left and right, so he decided to concentrate his forces on the numerical advantage to kill a group first.

After all, the maximum thrust of the F135 engine used by the F-35 without afterburner reaches 131 kN. Compared with the Pratt & Whitney F-100-PW-200 engine of its own fighter, the 64.9 kN is twice as high, and it is much higher than the 105.7 kN of the F-100-PW-200 engine with afterburner turned on, not to mention that in afterburner mode, the maximum thrust of the F-135 engine is as high as 181.4 kN, which is much higher than the maximum afterburner thrust of the F-100-PW-200 engine.

Therefore, even in terms of close-quarters combat mobility, the F-16 fighter is at an absolute disadvantage against the F-35, one-on-one is obviously not an opponent, and it is necessary to use wolf pack tactics to make up for the disadvantage in quality with a quantitative advantage. This is Song Zhiyuan's tactic.

It would be nice if there was a theater joint combat system on the mainland, Song Zhiyuan sighed in his heart, because although his side was fighting with 4 opponents and 1 plane, because they could only coordinate through voice communication in the middle, they did not completely transform the numerical advantage, and if the formation of 4 fighters together could exert 2 times the combat power, Song Zhiyuan would be satisfied.

The results of this theater joint combat system, which Song Zhiyuan learned about when he went to work with his mainland counterparts not long ago, are simply very different.

However, the war has started, and it is useless to think about these things again, Song Zhiyuan worked hard to sort out his thoughts, recalled his tactics again, and was sure that there was no major problem, so he made up his mind and said, "Attention to all units, now all aircraft are flying at full speed with afterburner, and when we are approaching the enemy 30 kilometers, we will turn on the fire control radar system to attack." ”

The APG-80 fire control radar modified by the F-16 fighter of the Taiwan Air Force is an AESA improvement of the original APG-66/68 fire control radar, which has a certain ability to detect stealth aircraft, and within a range of 30 kilometers, it should be possible to search for and lock on to the F-35, which is also an important basis for Song Zhiyuan's decision to fight a decisive battle with the F-35 of the Japanese at about 30 kilometers.

After turning on the afterburner, the feeling of pushing back brought by the violent acceleration made Song Zhiyuan, an old pilot, still feel a little uncomfortable, from a speed of about 1000 km/h, in less than a minute to accelerate to more than 2000 km/h, this load on the body is by no means imaginable by ordinary people.

"Turn on the fire control radar system and each search for a predetermined target to attack!" After entering the afterburner flight, as if in the blink of an eye, Song Zhiyuan's F-16 cluster rushed into a 30-kilometer range with the Japanese F-35 like a rocket.

"Damn! The people of China have been prepared for a long time! Looking at the F-16 fighter that suddenly appeared on the passive radar, Ichiro Yamamoto, the temporary commander of the F-35 fighter group, was excited, and immediately reacted and exclaimed. As soon as the fire control radar system of the F-16 of the Taiwan Air Force was turned on, it was discovered by the passive fire control radar system of the F-35, and Ichiro Yamamoto looked at the amazing speed of the F-16 displayed on the radar, and knew that the opponent had been prepared for a long time, and it was precisely to turn on the afterburner to achieve the strongest maneuverability and enter the combat state.

At this moment, Ichiro Yamamoto's F-35 cluster is maintained at a low altitude of about 100 meters, and the speed is only less than Mach 1 subsonic cruising state, he originally planned to use the F-35 stealth effect to suddenly jump when approaching the combat radius, and the air force of Taiwan Island was caught off guard, but now it seems that this plan is completely bankrupt.

Fortunately, he was an experienced veteran pilot of the Japanese Koukong, and he quickly woke up from the shock of the bankruptcy of the original plan, "immediately turn on the fire control radar system and engine afterburner, and immediately climb into combat state." Ichiro Yamamoto immediately gave instructions to the planes in the formation. At the same time, the fighter was skillfully pulled up, and then the fighter's fire control radar system was turned on and the engine afterburner was started.

The F-135 engine instantly spewed out blue flames, and with a bang, it emitted a huge thrust that pressed Yamamoto Ichiro violently on the seat at once, and the gravitational acceleration of up to several Gs made Yamamoto Ichiro feel a little dizzy.

The rest of the F-35 fighters also began to pull up, quickly moving from cruising to afterburner flight, and turned on the fire control radar.

Song Zhiyuan, who had been unable to lock on to his opponent, turned on the fire control radar as soon as the opponent turned on the APG-80 of Song Zhiyuan's F-16 fighter and immediately bit an F-35!

It's just that now the opponent is still climbing rapidly, and the lock of the APG-80 is not stable, so Song Zhiyuan notified the wingman to lock on to the F-35 together, ready to attack immediately after the opponent enters the level flight state.