Since it has become impossible to eliminate the new political power, it is always in one's own interest to grab more territory before the ceasefire.

Under the guidance of this ideology, while expressing "unacceptability" to the Security Council's SC/15480 and mobilizing its troops in the face of air strikes from the sky, the Baghdad regime almost completely gave up air supremacy in the south, and also boldly judged that the multinational force would not launch a ground offensive lightly, so it put all its efforts on the northern front, boasting on the one hand that it would "help its allies in Aleppo out of the predicament", and on the other hand hastening to launch an offensive against the liberated areas of the New Party.

However, although the Liberal Party has played a good game, the 3rd_IHFS in the northern sky is not destined to let them get their wish.

After the New Year, the Middle East is full of wars, wolf smoke everywhere, and there is a chaotic scene of fire everywhere.

In the vast clear and cloudless sky of central Iraq, a sharp fighter plane painted with sand-yellow camouflage and a pale blue belly was flying smoothly, drawing a light white track in the curtain-like blue sky.

The red 03 "villain", this giant bird soaring in the sky, is Long Yun's landline.

Since the resumption of the war, the J-10E from NATA's independent 3rd Heavy Fighter Squadron has been ordered to attack again, and the mission is still the so-called "offensive air defense", that is, under the guidance of the ground command station, it will fight independently in a large area of pre-demarcated airspace, and resolutely destroy any invading FIAF fighters under the favorable conditions that do not require IFF.

This kind of mission may sound like a kind of free hunting, but the 3rd_IHFS lads obviously have a better sense of humor. They call themselves "yeoman farmers in the air". Correspondingly, the task is to work in the field.

Recent times. In the face of the Liberal Party of Baghdad, which was being beaten by the multinational forces and cowering to the north, the fighting on the ground was in full swing, and the combat missions of the 3rd Independent Squadron became more and more onerous. In desperation, of course, it can also be said that the poor thought of change, 3rd_IHFS under the advice of Lieutenant Colonel Sami Ahmed, he abandoned the formation engagement mode that had been adopted before. Instead, take a similar approach to "sharding and wrapping up" to deal with the enemy.

Each fighter is in charge of a certain area of airspace, which is both an opportunity and a challenge for the highly skilled NATA volunteer pilots, and it is not a pleasant feeling to face a superior enemy force alone, but it is often more inspiring for the pilots to fight fiercely.

Just like today, I received an operational instruction in the morning, and flew south in the Red Zero 3 "Villain" to take over another NATA fighter in the air for patrol, and Long Yun's J-10E can be described as fully armed this time. Not only did they have four slender and light PL-9Cs on the outboard hardpoints of the wings, and two auxiliary fuel tanks on the inner hardpoints as usual, but also four slender milky white missiles on the hardpoints on both sides of the belly. Compared with the previous stage, the firepower has increased considerably.

The air-to-air missile, mounted on a short pylon close to the belly of the aircraft, with four narrow wings and an inverted trapezoidal tail, is one of NATA's most recent military aids, the PL-10A from China.

PL-10, as a fourth-generation air-to-air missile developed by China in the new century, adopts advanced technologies such as high specific impulse thruster, focal plane infrared imaging seeker, two-way digital chain and thrust vector, and its comprehensive performance has been improved by leaps and bounds compared with the previous generation PL-8/9, and its comprehensive combat capability is roughly equivalent to that of AIM-9X.

Although the number is limited, and the model is only an early PL-10A, which does not yet have a two-way digital chain function, it is enough to give the "villain" a considerable technical advantage in the current Middle East battlefield.

Just like today, Long Yun's J-10E landline is equipped with four PL-10A that are nearly half-buried on the belly light hardpoint.

Close to the rigpoint of the fuselage, this position is actually very torsion for the combat missile, the seeker field of view conditions are poor, and the target is often "seen" in battle because of the body blocking, and the seeker cannot be locked, so there is no way to engage the battle; However, for the PL-10, which has strong thrusters and a range much better than the PL-9C, Long Yun is not too worried about this.

Carrying eight air-to-air missiles, plus two 1,250-liter auxiliary fuel tanks, the light body of the J-10E is now a little heavy, but for the "villain" who has been replaced with WS-15B, the thrust increase also means a greater fuel consumption rate, and the fuel tank must be as full as possible before entering the battle, so carrying the auxiliary fuel tank has become a must; After taking off, he turned on the afterburner quite extravagantly, and Long Yun, who was quickly approaching the southern front, always paid attention to the GCI guidance, and his eyes behind the goggles scanned the large sky, looking for any trace of the enemy.

The flight altitude was maintained at more than 6,000 meters, and the vast dusk and yellow earth were vast, and with the help of the flight altitude he crossed the anti-aircraft fire kill zone of the ground forces of the New Party, and after approaching the front line of the theater of operations, Long Yun slightly pulled the throttle valve back, slightly pushed the rod downward, and abandoned the two auxiliary fuel tanks while entering the dive, and at the same time switched the radar to VS mode.

As soon as they entered the patrol area, the air situation information guided by the ground had already arrived, and the enemy plane might be in front of them, and a hand-to-hand battle was about to break out!

Piloting the landline all the way, his traces must have appeared on the display screen of the Liberal Party's ground warning radar, and Long Yun, who received the intermittent L-band signal warning, did not flinch, but took a rod to turn the landline 90 degrees sideways and began to search sideways along the border of the patrol area.

Battles in the sky are often also in the service of the ground, and young people know that such patrols will not be successful every time, but even so, using frequent haunts to scare FIAF pilots and make their attack planes flee is considered to have completed the combat mission.

Of course, carrying eight missiles in a sortie is really nothing to gain, which is also quite depressing.

Flying sideways in the Iraqi sky, during which he briefly captured several target echoes at low altitudes, Long Yun tried to further determine the type of target, but was used by the cunning Iraqis to use the Doppler effect to turn sideways to get rid of it; At this time, the distance between friend and foe was about 30 kilometers, which was already a bit difficult for the downward view mode of the 1471 radar.

The low-altitude FIAF fighter jets are likely to bomb the front positions of the New Party, but NATA's single-plane "homesteaders" tactics have been going on for many days, and the guys from the Iraqi Liberal Party are not idiots, will they play some kind of conspiracy?

While hovering and searching with the naked eye, the bright sunlight in the morning affected Long Yun's visual observation, which was indeed a favorable condition for the Liberal fighters who had been killed in the south; Guessing with intuition, a group of enemy planes infested at low altitude are likely to be just bait, and the sand-yellow J-10E, which maintains a flight attitude, calmly accelerates and climbs, and soon occupies the advantageous position of "praying mantis catching cicadas, yellow finches behind".

Yes, the so-called decoy tactic is often used in air combat.

The sky is vast, and there is nothing to hide from the distance, and at first glance there seems to be no place for ambushes; However, unlike the simple and straightforward appearance, any well-trained pilot knows that the so-called "clear sky is in full view" is just a kind of paralyzing self-imagination, and when actually piloting a landline to patrol the sky, the pilot can observe many more blind spots than when standing on the ground and looking at the sky.

Let's just say that now, the sun is fine, and there is not a trace of clouds in the sky, if there will be any ambush in this picture-like clear tomorrow, ordinary people may still be skeptical.

However, after countless thrilling battles in the sky, the battles of sneak attacks and counter-sneak attacks have been countless, but Long Yun knows very clearly that the pilot's line of sight can never illuminate the direction of six o'clock, combined with the reality that the target is beyond the limit of the resolution of the naked eye and cannot be observed by the eyes when the target is opened at a certain distance, and the difficulty of carrying out a sneak attack in the empty sky is not as difficult as ordinary people imagine.

Especially now, piloting a "villain" with general radar performance, it is not realistic to expect 1471 to find targets for himself, and the RWR warning has not responded for the time being, then-

Oh, these FIAFs, indeed, are still a little bit better, and their ranged attacks are already here!

Facts have proved that there are still some gaps between Long Yun's expectations and reality about the way FIAF pilots are engaged.

Based on Long Yun's own judgment, which is the so-called empathy, if he was asked to plan this fishing operation, most of them would use the pilot's blind spot of consciousness to hide at an altitude of about seven thousand meters in the direction of the sun; In this case, the sneak attacker does not need to turn on the radar, as long as the radar scanning signal of the enemy plane disappears, guessing that the opponent is attracted by the decoy, he can keep the electronic silence all the way forward, kill from the backlit direction at high speed, and then as long as one or two infrared missiles can simply blow the hook chrysanthemum.

However, now, it is obvious that he still overestimated the FIAF pilot's sense of imminence and execution ability, looking into the southern sky, Long Yun did not find a surging enemy plane, but he could barely distinguish a few narrow traces of smoke in the direction of two o'clock, it was definitely not an enemy plane, it was actually ......

Several missiles are coming, right? (To be continued......)