Chapter 778: Bloody Battle of Baraka (8)
When the PLA's J-10C turned on the afterburner and went straight to the US F-15 squadron, the vast majority of US pilots had not yet reacted to what was going on.
Although in terms of performance analysis, the F-15E/F fighter is no longer comparable to the J-10C, but the US military pilots have dominated the sky for almost a century, and have formed an almost deep-rooted superiority psychology psychologically, and they have never thought that anyone would dare to attack them first.
In this way, when the J-10C fighter turned on the afterburner and entered the supersonic flight state, almost in the blink of an eye, the PLA J-10C fighter entered the range that could be attacked, and then all the fighters turned on the fire control radar almost at the same time, and activated the theater joint combat tactical system, and automatically locked the F-15 fighters in front of them with the fire control radar.
It was only at this time that the US pilots woke up like a dream, and the fighter plane had been targeted by the opponent, and while they hurriedly reported the information of the attack to the headquarters, they hurriedly turned on the afterburner of the fighter and began to enter a supersonic state to evade high-speed maneuvering, and at the same time launched a series of decoys.
Unfortunately, under the constant whistling of Thunderbolt-10 medium-range missiles in the sky, this action of the US military seems to be a little too late. After the Diaoyutai air battle, the PLA Air Force's theater joint combat intelligence system has collected enough performance data of the US F-15E/F fighters, and has long been familiar with the various tactics of this type of fighter, and the intelligent system has long formulated a complete attack plan for the locked target, or 2, or 3 Thunderbolt-10 medium-range missiles will block the most likely evasion position of the more than 20 F-15 fighters of the US military.
In addition, most of the pilots of the U.S. military were caught off guard and almost all of the instinctive evasion maneuvers they were most familiar with, so when the first round of attacks passed, the U.S. F-15 squadron was left with only a few lone planes, but their good fortune did not last long, and they turned into fireworks in the blue sky over Burundi in the second round of strikes that followed.
If the two sides fought openly, even if the US F-15 squadron was inferior to the J-10C flying regiment of the PLA, the results of the battle would not be so disparity, and the US fighters would almost not have time to launch a single missile before they were annihilated. It's just that the U.S. military was too arrogant beforehand, and they unscrupulously approached the PLA's J-10C fighter jets to exert strong pressure, thinking that the PLA would never dare to go undeclared, and they knew that the PLA had launched an unusually unilateral attack one by one, and the US military certainly did not know that this was the personal behavior of Song Jihong, the front-line commander of the PLA, and in order to seize the fighter plane and let the PLA gain a foothold in Africa, Song Jihong made a desperate attempt to order an attack.
Now, militarily speaking, this adventure of the PLA has been a great success, a squadron of US F-15 fighters were annihilated, after completing this combat mission, the PLA J-10C fighters began to return without hesitation, they set off for so long, plus turn on the afterburner to enter the supersonic operation, fuel consumption has basically reached the limit of the combat range, and if they do not return, they can only land near Kigoma or Mpanda for refueling.
What's more, after 2 rounds of fighting, most of the Thunderbolt-10 medium-range missiles of the entire fleet have been consumed, if the US F-35 fighter is refueled and killed, with the J-10C group of fighters remaining now the combat missiles will not be opponents at all, with the F-35 supersonic high maneuverability, there is no long-range attack of the medium-range missile J-10C fighter is the target of the F-35 fighter.
Lieutenant General Reilly and Nick of the U.S. Army Command in Nairobi. Zieland all sat down in a daze, they didn't expect that at this juncture, the PLA would suddenly attack, it was a squadron of F-15E/F, and the whole army was wiped out in the blink of an eye, and the PLA Air Force retreated, although Lieutenant General Reilly and Nick Nick were all gone. Zieland has overestimated the PLA's J-10C fighters, and after the destruction of Uganda's F-16C/D fighters, Nick Brown. Zieland even proposed a retreat.
But neither of them expected that the PLA attack could be so sharp. As soon as he started his move, he launched an over-the-horizon long-range attack with a medium-range missile in the sky, and this kind of saturation attack method was encountered by the US military in Diaoyutai and in Persia, and Lieutenant General Reilly was no stranger to it, but the attack effect was so efficient that Lieutenant General Reilly felt a little crying without tears.
Although the US military is still said to be the world's largest military power, and its air force is far ahead in terms of both the number and quality of fighters, the US military now uses too many troops, and now the western Pacific region has concentrated most of the US naval and air forces, and the delay in the war in the Persian Gulf has also involved a lot of US forces, so the F-15 squadron stationed in Nairobi was also coordinated by Lieutenant General Reilly in order to confront the PLA Air Force stationed in Tanzania.
But who would have thought that the entire army would be wiped out in the blink of an eye, such a result, even the F-35 squadron could not do a better job, in other words, an F-35 squadron is no longer the opponent of the PLA flying regiment, in order to confront the PLA flight regiment, Lieutenant General Reilly must retain at least 2 squadrons of F-35 in Nairobi to achieve limited air superiority.
Facts have proved that the existing third-generation fighters of the US military, whether it is the F-16C/D or the F-15E/F, are no longer the opponents of the third-generation and a half fighters of the PLA J-10C, after all, these models are the products of the US military more than half a century ago, and they can no longer keep up with the pace of the ever-changing PLA Air Force fighters in terms of avionics and combat systems.
Although the PLA J-10C sneak attack is a factor, in the view of Lieutenant General Reilly, the more important factor is that the combat system is significantly superior to the US F-15E / F, because the PLA launches a saturated long-range over-the-horizon attack, firepower can be extremely intelligently distributed to each combat target, obviously the PLA aircraft group has achieved a shared intelligent system, in order to achieve this efficient attack mode, which is now the US F-22 \/ A feature that the F-35 fighter does not yet have.
According to previous research by the US military, in response to this tactical method, only by taking advantage of the over-the-horizon attack and high maneuverability of stealth fighters and opening up distances to carry out over-the-horizon operations can they gain the upper hand, after all, the PLA's third-generation and a half-generation fighters have inherent disadvantages in radar launch area and supersonic cruise, and are more likely to be radar-locked by fourth-generation fighters at long range.
But now, Lieutenant General Reilly and Nick Brown. Zieland does not have this capital in his hands, just because he has rushed from the Saudi base to help this F-35 squadron now, and now he does not dare to let them attack the PLA.