On the opposite side of Su Ming, there was an E-3 "Watchtower" early warning aircraft, two F-15E "Attack Eagles", two F-16C, and one EA-6B "Prowler" electronic warfare aircraft.

Su Ming and they were originally on a patrol mission, as long as the other party did not deceive into a certain range, this range refers to the range within which the other party can attack.

The two sides are facing each other in the airspace more than 100 kilometers apart, and the radar of the super thunderbolt naturally does not have so much power, and can only accept the data transmitted to them by the super MiG, and when the two sides continue to circle around, suddenly the radar ticks out a prompt, it turns out that unconsciously, the other party has expanded the range of the circle, and the nearest distance is close to the range of 100 kilometers.

In modern air combat, 100 kilometers is a safe range to judge, once the distance between the two sides enters this range, then the other side may launch an attack at any time, the most significant special of the third-generation aircraft is over-the-horizon attack, and the opponent's aircraft, whether it is F-15 or F-16, are the best of the third-generation aircraft.

Before the advent of air-to-air missiles, all aerial combat was dominated by machine gun attacks, and the maximum attack distance of machine guns was only a few thousand meters, and the effective firing range was only more than 1,000 meters.

Germany is the originator of missiles, air-to-air missiles are no exception, at the end of World War II, the Germans developed a radio-guided air-to-air missile, but unfortunately it failed before it played a role, the first use of air-to-air missiles for air combat occurred in China, the Taiwan Air Force used the modified F-86 to launch an AIM-9B "Sidewinder" to shoot down a MiG-17 fighter, creating a precedent for air-to-air missiles to shoot down fighters in actual combat.

However, at that time, the air-to-air missile was still very imperfect, the launch distance was only 2-3 kilometers, beyond this distance or below this distance can not be used, and the aircraft can not do large-scale maneuvering when launched, and this kind of aircraft uses infrared guidance, can only launch an attack in the rear, tracking the tail flame mouth of the enemy aircraft, once the angle of the missile will lose the target and crash on its own, so in the air combat missiles did not play any role, some people once put forward the theory that "missiles are not as good as artillery shells, and the air still relies on bayonets", It was not considered necessary to develop such a missile.

These people ignore the fact that the initial appearance of any weapon has technical shortcomings, but everything is developing, and at a time when the country is indifferent to this weapon that can change the pattern of air combat, air-to-air missiles are developing rapidly abroad.

Following infrared guidance, semi-active radar guidance, infrared / radar composite guidance and other technologies appeared, with the technical transformation of the engine, the maneuverability of the missile can be greatly increased, at this time it can be said that the missile has a real threat to the aircraft.

At this time, the United States made a very forward-looking decision, completely abandoning machine guns, completely using missiles as air combat weapons, the Americans overestimated their technology before their surnames, or those officials of the Ministry of Defense made this decision by the deception of arms dealers, and as a result, during the Vietnam War, they were taught a lesson by the old MiG-17 and MiG-21 aircraft with aerial guns, and their "AIM-7E" Sparrow 3A air-to-air missiles, the success rate of attacking targets was only 10 percent. This conclusion further verifies the conclusion that domestic missiles are inferior to artillery shells.

As a result, after the war, the United States picked up the cannon again, but did not give up the development of air-to-air missiles, the third generation of air-to-air missiles appeared, this missile uses the habitual navigation flight control system, even if it loses guidance, it can attack, laser or radio proximity fuse, does not need to contact with the target can be detonated, causing damage to the target, full digital processing, anti-jamming ability has been greatly improved, and with the further improvement of engine technology, the omnidirectional attack capability has been realized.

The United States has developed the Sparrow and Sidewinder systems according to different guidance methods, while the Soviet Union has its own counterparts R-27 and R-73, while China is still continuing to improve the Thunderbolt 2, which was copied from the AIM-9B second-generation air-to-air missile launched by Taiwanese fighters, although it has added some of the technology of the AIM-9, which was unexploded in the Vietnam War.

In the fourth Middle East war in 1973, 331 planes were shot down by Arab countries in air battles, of which 81% were shot down by air-to-air missiles. During the Anglo-Argentine Falklands War in 1982, British "Harrier" carrier-based attack planes launched 27 AIM-9L air-to-air missiles and shot down 25 Argentine "Mirage" and other fighters.

Only then did China gradually realize the reality, and the future air war will inevitably be the world of air-to-air missiles, and in this way, China imitated the Thunderbolt-7 from the French R-550 "Matra" missile. In addition, the Thunderbolt-8 missile was copied based on the Israeli Snake-8. But these missiles can only be considered early models in the third generation.

At this time, foreign countries have developed a composite guidance mode that adopts mid-route command, habitual guidance and radar active terminal guidance, has the ability to "launch and ignore", can achieve over-the-horizon omnidirectional attack targets, has a variety of anti-jamming measures and flexible launch methods of the fourth-generation missile, the representative works are the American AIM-120 and the Russian R-77.

The range of these two missiles is about 50 kilometers, and the aircraft equipped with this missile, with the support of advanced radar and electronic systems, can achieve over-the-horizon attack capabilities, which is called the real third-generation aircraft, and 50 kilometers is the effective range, in fact, these two missiles have the ability to threaten targets within 100 kilometers, which is the reason why Su Ming is vigilant.

It's not that there are no air-to-air missiles with a range of more than 100 kilometers, the American AIM54 "Immortal Bird" and the former Soviet Union R-33 have a range of more than 100 kilometers, but in this way, the radar of ordinary fighters can no longer provide radar guidance capabilities for missiles, so there are only two corresponding aircraft that can launch this missile, that is, F-14 "Tomcat" and MiG-31 "Foxcatcher", and Su Ming has four R-33s, two R-77s and two R-73s hanging at his feet.

And the mount on the super thunderbolt, but it is from the China Air-to-Air Missile Research Institute SD-10 lightning medium-range air-to-air missile, this missile and R-77 surname can be similar, China imported Su-27 at the same time, but also imported a batch of R-73, R-27, R-77 and other advanced air-to-air missiles to Russia, and learned a lot of technology, for the purpose of helping the experiment, Su Ming got a batch of such missiles from the Air-to-Air Missile Research Institute.

With the stern dripping sound from the radar, Su Ming knew that the missile had been launched in the opposite direction, and judging from the fact that the transmitter was EA-6B and the distance, it should have been an AGM-88 "Hamm" anti-radiation missile specially aimed at large radar targets.

Su Ming didn't expect the other party to attack so quickly, but thinking about it, the Americans even dared to bomb the embassy, and it was normal to launch an attack on themselves, and the war did not end there, since the other party dared to attack, then Su Ming's counterattack was an inevitable choice, Su Ming was also unceremoniously, as soon as he pressed the launch button, two R-33 long-range air-to-air missiles dragged a long flame and flew towards the other party.

Under normal circumstances, the radar is directly turned off by dealing with anti-radiation missiles, but because Su Ming also needs to provide guidance for the missile that has just been launched, and at the same time, the Hamm anti-radiation missile has a strapdown inertial navigation device, even if it is turned off, it cannot completely dodge, and even if the target cannot be found, the parachute will be opened, the engine will be turned off, and it will be in the air for two minutes.

Su Ming also had to provide command for the other three Thunderbolts, and at the same time also had to guide the missiles, how could it be possible to turn off the radar for two minutes at this time, and at the same time as the other party launched anti-radiation missiles, the two F-16s also pounced on them with great momentum.

The opponent's two F-15s still stayed next to the early warning aircraft and electronic warfare planes for protection, and Su Ming also left a super thunderbolt by his side, and at the same time commanded the two super thunderbolts to meet the enemy, commanding them to launch four lightnings, and at the same time, the powerful radar and information processing system on the super MiG took over the guidance of these four missiles and flew towards the two incoming F-16s respectively.

While sighing that it is not groundless that the AWACS aircraft is called an air combat capability multiplier, he is hurriedly dealing with various systems, fortunately, the Super MiG is a two-seater, and the aircraft control does not need Su Ming's heart, and the Moristov in front is much more professional than Su Ming.

Because the speed of the R-33 is greater than that of the Hamm anti-radiation missile, so before it can get close to the super MiG, the two R-33s have already flown to the other party's E-3 and EA-6B, because these two aircraft have powerful radar and electronic jamming systems, although the radar on the super MiG is also strengthened by super metal batteries, but it is still not a professional electronic warfare aircraft, and it is already jamming at a distance of three kilometers from the other party and is about to lose its guidance ability, Su Ming had to control and fly as far forward as possible After a while, The explosion program was initiated, and they were shocked if they couldn't hit it, but it was a pity that they couldn't procure anti-radiation missiles in Russia, otherwise there would be the other party's excess.

Seeing that Hamm had also flown in front of him, and finally transmitted all the coordinate parameters of the two F-16s to the four SD-10s, he suddenly turned off the radar, and at the same time, Moristov directly flicked his tail in the air, and dodged the missiles that came out directly, but after losing the target, a small white flower appeared on Hamm's top, slowly floating in the sky, and the missiles were hanging below and spinning, as if looking for a target.

At this time, the two Super Thunderbolts and F-16 were already approaching, and Su Ming was not needed to provide guidance and command services for them, so Su Ming's radar could be turned off as much as he wanted, and finally two minutes later, Hamm exploded in the air, and at this time, the Super MiG was far away from its explosion range, so it was not affected in any way.

However, when Su Ming restarted the plane, he saw that the two Super Thunderbolts were still fighting with the two F-16s, and among the distant targets, he had lost the whereabouts of one F-15, could it be said that the other party was going to carry out a sneak attack? But no matter what direction Su Ming scanned, he didn't find the other party, could it be said that the United States could already change the F-15 into a stealth fighter?

(To be continued)