The sudden loss of contact with the E-3A AWACS aircraft, if it is caused by a malfunction, this is a barely acceptable situation.

However, this self-consoling assumption did not last long, and while General Clark was pacing irritable and waiting for news, urging the rear base to take off the backup plane immediately, another non-commissioned officer received a contact message from the ground communication node, confirming that the "torch" had been hit by an air-to-air missile of "unknown origin" and had now fallen into Turkish territory:

"Your Excellency, the 'Eagle' of the 17th Squadron of the 30th Fighter Wing has just sent a message that they have called the ground command post and reported that they saw the 'Torch' hit by at least one missile, and now-"

"-What?!

What do you say, and how is it now? - Say! ”

The general's scalp was numb from the thunderbolt-like news on a sunny day, and the general stood in the command room in a complete daze, his mouth opening and closing to speak again, but he couldn't say anything; It wasn't until he let out a long breath of relief that Buckhill Clark went into a complete rampage, and a long series of machine-gun-like curses began:

"Damn, bastards!

How the hell did they do it, how could it be, a bunch of drunkards, infidels, shameless Russian Ivan, who sooner or later will go to hell with the devil! You guys- why are you still stunned, son of a bitch, where the backup machine is now?

Now give me the place to take the place of the unfortunate bastard, and whoever dares to delay for a moment will shoot him! ”

After a complete outburst, he pulled out the pistol on his waist and swung it wildly, and the general raised his hand and fired a "bang" at the ceiling. The echoing gunfire frightened everyone present:

“Wuaaaaaa――！

Fucking_damned。 we_won’t_hold_this_piece_of_shit_anymore！ (Wow!) Damn it. We can't fight this battle anymore! ）”

Clarke, who was completely caught up in his personal feelings, had already entered a state of unscrupulous frenzy, he relied on his only remaining sanity to throw away Beretta's 92F pistol, and then he flew into the battle room, roaring and scolding from time to time like a trapped beast in a cage, and a qiē thing on the table was thrown into the air one after another, and then fell to the ground "crackling".

Faced with a completely out of control Buckshir Clark, the operations command room has become a mess. At this time, almost no one is still working.

In NATO's Central Command, which has just lost a "watchtower" and the air situation information and command orders have become a mess, there is no command at all at this time, and the stunned civilian officers see the generals going crazy everywhere and the command information on the display screen and the control platform are becoming more and more chaotic.

Yes, it should not have been so; NATO's warplanes, which have a well-organized system and are equipped with advanced equipment, are by no means a wobbly round table on one leg, and they cannot be played without the "watchtower".

However, now, because they have adopted the "Blind_Combat" method to engage in the war, they have been completely beaten by the Warsaw Pact in recent days. The UASF's air command system has just completed a tree-shaped adjustment and has been converted into a command center-early warning aircraft-leader plane-fighter model that facilitates "blind eye engagement." As a result, the key nodes of the entire chain of command have been attacked by people. At this moment, even if the ground liaison station is immediately activated and the command link is re-established, a rout in the sky is inevitable.

And the crux of the matter is, who attacked the E-3A in the sky?

Can the Russians still -

"General, - General? Oh no, General Clark fainted! ”

I don't know if it was too angry or exhausted, but under everyone's bewildered gaze, the roaring General Buckhill Clark suddenly raised his hand to his forehead, convulsed, and then slowly collapsed to the ground.

Seeing that the general suddenly fell, the soldiers present did not make much fuss, but hurriedly beckoned the general who stepped forward and foamed at the mouth to lay flat on the ground.

Waiting for the medical officers and guards to carry stretchers and hurriedly work, the huge operational command room was already in a mess and panicked; Except for the control personnel who must be on duty, everyone is already in the house, and they are completely unintentional. Anyway, after the "watchtower" was hung up, the command temporarily lost contact with the fighters in the air, and it would take 30 minutes to recover. And on the battlefield of life and death in the sky, thirty minutes is enough for anything to happen.

Suddenly hit and lost a key node in the system, Ankara's command headquarters is still a mess, but the MiG twin aircraft in the clear sky have completed their mission and are diving and accelerating to avoid the tracking of NATO fighters.

Less than 30 seconds ago, while leading the wingman to turn around and enter a dive flight, Long Yun has also been paying attention to the display of the S-band signal detection system to determine whether the E-3A early warning aircraft in the air has been shot down.

In the process of quickly turning around and diving all the way into the clouds, counting the approximate hit moment in his heart, Long Yun didn't see the obvious reading change from the display screen at first, and thought that the missile didn't hit; But just when he was puzzled, and even a little anxious, he saw the green waveform simulation beat twice, and then turned into a straight line like the heartbeat of a dying patient.

- Hah, I really hit it!

Seeing that the S-band signal jump disappeared, Long Yun excitedly waved his fist in the cockpit, and this was clearly not an injury, but a direct reimbursement of the E-3A: if it was just injured, the Americans in the "watchtower" might not react immediately and think about turning off the airborne radar, so now he can basically be sure that the fat goose in the air with a large plate has been leveled by their twin planes.

Seeing that the operation worked in one fell swoop and shot down an AWACS aircraft for the first time in history, Long Yun was of course very excited now, and he also wanted to share the joy of victory with his comrades.

However, now that they are still in the hinterland of Turkey, surrounded by alarmed NATO warplanes, it is not a good idea to break the radio silence, and as for swinging the fuselage to show off, it is best not to do so when the plane is upside down and accelerating all the way down.

And when it comes to reporting on the situation of the battle, let the VVS command center know that they have knocked out the Americans' AWACS aircraft, and it is not possible for these two MiG-29N, which are deep behind enemy lines, and their most urgent task now is to immediately break away from the theater of operations.

Going deep into Turkey as a silent assassin and smearing oil on the soles of his feet after completing a wave of attacks, the first half of this mission was lucky and thrilling enough; After the E-3A in the sky was suddenly shot, rolled and broke into two parts, several F-15 "Eagles" escorting it had recovered from their extreme shock, and the well-trained US fighters reacted very quickly, and it became more difficult for the MiG formation to retreat with all its bodies.

Seeing that the wreckage of the "watchtower" in the sky was still burning and falling, at this time, no one in the 17th Squadron of the 30th Wing still cared about any "Blind_Combat" or bullshit radio control, and the anxious pilots turned on the AN/APG-63 radar one after another, and while shouting in the channel and confirming the air situation with a very primitive contact method, they divided into two-plane formations to search everywhere, trying to pull out the Russian fighter plane that assassinated the "watchtower" from the vast sea of clouds.

Not only the 17 squadron escorting the E-3A, after losing the air command platform, many NATO fighters in the air did not know what was going on at all, they just received an unknown order from the long plane to seek the enemy, and then they opened the afterburner in the sky to search for the traces of the Russians.

Damn the Russians, damn crazy Ivan, how could they suddenly appear over the Turkish hinterland, and from the line of fire to here, they have to cross the front-line fleet, plus an interception line of air superiority fighters, isn't it hell in broad daylight?

Although it is carrying out "blind engagement", the NATO fighters in the sky, as long as they are close to the line of fire, do not use radar to avoid becoming the target of anti-radiation missiles, but the second-line fighters behind still have radar turned on, plus the E-3A "watchtower" that is trusted by the US military, and its ability to monitor the sky is so strong that the pilots really can't figure out the situation, let alone how the Russians sneaked in and shot down the early warning plane cruising in the rear of the battle line.

No trace of the assassin was found, and the subsequent search was completely separated, and there were really a lot of NATO fighters flying in the sky, but none of them really found the MiG-29N twin aircraft intended to leave the war.

And to tell the truth, this kind of assassin-like search is really unsustainable: after discovering the enemy's abnormal movements in the southern sky, and discovering that the E-3A's iconic S-band radar signal suddenly disappeared, the Warsaw Pact Operational Command Center, which had long been greeted by Long Yun, quickly determined that "the Yankee's large disk plane has been killed, and the enemy plane has become a rabble", so it immediately deployed tactics one by one through the guòGCI guidance system, and concentrated a large number of fighters of the front-line aviation to carry out a dragnet-style powerful sweep of NATO planes in the air.

In this way, the NATO warplanes that hastily turned on the radar have just organized themselves in the sky, ready to pull out the Russians who suddenly fired cold arrows (anyway, they are not sure what the attack on the "watchtower" is, but who else can there be besides the Russians?). ), and encountered a full-scale attack by VVS. (To be continued......)