Chapter 764: Cat and Mouse
Pursued by enemy planes, and there was no way to get rid of it, Harold Fisher, who was ready to fall consciously, sighed lightly in the cabin, he felt that he would not be able to turn the tables this time no matter what, let alone complete the task assigned above.
Being bitten by someone's tail at such a close distance, even a rookie pilot at the training base can kill him, let alone a "Grim Reaper" that makes people talk about it?
However, with such an awareness, the Major grasped his hands on the ejection tab, and his eyes were fixed on the formidable opponent against the background of the canopy, and he waited for a while (in fact, it was only two or three seconds), but he saw no sign of the Russian attack, nor did he see any air-to-air missiles flying straight towards him with white smoke.
It's been a few seconds since he fired, is that guy out of ammo......
The feeling of being under the gaze of a beast made the major uncomfortable, and he hesitated for a moment to think nervously, but he couldn't guess the opponent's intentions, but the pilot's subconscious instinct made him hold on to the joystick and wait for the opportunity.
Seeing that the enemy planes are getting bigger and bigger in their field of vision, and it is clear that they are chasing closer and closer, could it be that this "Grim Reaper" has really run out of combat missiles, wants to get closer, and then attacks with aerial artillery?
Just when he was suspecting that the opponent had run out of ammunition and a glimmer of hope swelled in his heart, the major saw a sudden burst of gray smoke rise from the side of the fuselage of the "Flanker" that was chasing behind him, and a faint bright spot immediately appeared, and he was surprised to determine that it was an air-to-air missile that had just been launched; Completely subconsciously, the probe pressed the button and released a set of infrared jamming bombs, and Fisher, who was wearing goggles, still felt dazzled and confused in front of him. He immediately closed the throttle, lowered the speed brake, and used a violent side turn to break away from the bright and dazzling barrage of interference in the sky.
The continuous large overload side rotation brings a burst of black vision and a sense of high G oppression; Unable to observe the direction of the missiles in the sky, the major still completed the evasion maneuver very skillfully, and the F-15S/MTD, which suddenly rotated to one side, was far away from the airspace where the jamming bombs were splashed, and escaped the pursuit of the R-73M missile by reducing the infrared signal of the tail nozzle and using the body to shield the heat source.
Attack and evasion, when the distance between the two planes is only more than 2,000 meters, it is only a matter of a few seconds from beginning to end; After completing a set of busy but not chaotic dodge actions, I didn't feel any signs of being shot on the landline. Relieved, Fisher turned his head to look in the direction of six o'clock-
As expected. The "Grim Reaper" is still behind him!
Fighter chases in the sky generally do not last long, and end with the pursuer being shot and falling, or the pursuer making a mistake and losing his position. However, this rule obviously does not apply to the current situation. Facing the "Agile Eagle" that slows down and turns sideways to avoid. The Longyun landline, which also stretched out the speed brake, performed a small high-power maneuver in the air, and also completed a rapid change of direction at the top of the track. He continued to stare at the opponent steadily.
Faced with the situation of continuing to be pursued, the major was a little disappointed, but he did not intend to give up, he knew that infrared-guided missiles were not suitable for continuous firing one after another. Otherwise, the missiles in the rear may "lock" onto the tail flame of the missiles in front and completely ignore the real target; If the Russians continue to launch missiles one after another, then they should still have a little chance to escape - yes, that is, to escape, in the face of the powerful "Caucasian Reaper", Fisher has abandoned the unrealistic idea of going all out to win, not to mention that he found out that this guy has changed the plane, and now the "Flanker" performance he is driving has completely subverted his existing understanding of this model!
From being determined to defeat his opponent to only wanting to get out of the war, Harold Fisher's love is very abnormal, but he can't care about it in this life-and-death situation; With a strong desire to escape, his next performance was like divine help, and another speeding missile was successfully thrown off.
Dodging the two R-73Ms chasing after them in quick succession is already quite a remarkable achievement.
After all, if you want to rely on mobile hard throwing missiles, anyone can say one, two, three theoretical countermeasures, but if they are really displayed in the sky and really work, for many pilots they are just gambling on luck.
But now, being closely pursued by the Red Star "Flanker" behind him, the "Agile Eagle" piloted by the Major instinctively flew all the way south, and he wanted to get out of the airspace of the engagement and fly into the control zone of NATO anti-aircraft missiles. Dodged two "Archer" missiles in a row, allowing the major to break free from the desperate situation, and now he even began to feel that the "Grim Reaper" was nothing more than Erer, otherwise how could he fight like this, and he was not even prepared for the minimum attack?
While thinking about it, he only saw white smoke rising from the wings of the enemy plane, and saw another missile being launched, Fisher, who was accustomed to turning sideways to dodge, naturally concocted the same method, and turned to the side with the lever pressure slope, he was still glad that he had brought enough infrared jamming bombs at this time, anyway, it must have been used more times than the missiles of the "Reaper" - but as if he had been mocked by fate, he glanced behind him in the process of violently turning sideways and reducing speed, and the major saw that the "White Death" in the sky was also striking, A combat missile was fired out with a thick burst of smoke and smoke.
This, this hateful Russian, actually rushed up to make up for a shot when his energy plummeted!
Probably because he didn't have time to think much about it in the tense confrontation, Major Fisher neglected the energy maintenance of the fighter for a while: although the previous two missile evasions were successful, they also reduced the speed of his "Agile Eagle" to about 350 knots, which was just right for the F-15S/MTD to fly out of the minimum side-turn radius, but it was not conducive to the energy retention and recovery of the fighter after a violent maneuver.
In order to dodge the AA-11 "archer" that shot at the previous one, the black giant eagle in the sky was already constantly turning sideways, and at this time, it was really helpless to encounter a stout javelin flying from the face.
Suddenly sensing that the situation was not good, the major who looked up in the cockpit only saw a black dot suddenly getting bigger, it was an incoming missile that was turning all the way to follow; He had never experienced the breath of death so close, and he only felt cold for a moment, but what Fisher thought about was "how long it would take for the missile to fly", whether it would blow him up and his landline in the next second......
The gaze of facing death, although it is only a short moment, is as long as a lifetime in the person concerned.
The stiff hand clenched the joystick, the stagnant vision was still dim and blurred, and in the short moment when the fighter plane and the missile staggered, the moment when no one could theoretically see it with the naked eye, Harold Fisher felt that he could see clearly, he could almost distinguish the small front wings on the milky white spear that swept over the fuselage; Completely shocked by the scene in front of him, the major who was dripping in cold sweat was still a little incredulous, he slowly released the joystick, lifted his feet hard, and as the fighter automatically returned to level flight, he felt a crazy beating of his heart in his chest, as if he had a sudden heart attack in a panic and manic.
The missile just now, just now, it seems that it is really an AA-11 "Archer", right......
Experiencing the edge of life and death, he almost suffocated in the cockpit, and the terrible feeling of being slashed by a cold blade through his neck made Fisher gasp for breath like a fish that had just been fished out of the water.
With the violent rise and fall of his chest, the mixed oxygen sent by the breathing tube made the ischemic and oxygen-poor brain gradually recover, and the major looked up effortlessly out of the cabin, seeing that the terrifying "flanker" was still following closely behind him, and even the relative position did not change much, as if the previous qiē was just his own hallucination; At first, he was completely unclear about the situation, and the major subconsciously thought that the "archer" might have failed the seeker, so he didn't directly hit his landline, but reason suddenly sobered him up, and at the same time extinguished the only remaining comforting illusion in his mind.
Yes, the missile may fail and miss the target, but at the current tail chase distance of only a few hundred meters, the Russians' 30-millimeter cannon will also fail?
Suddenly, he recalled the series of attacks and dodges just now, and a terrible thought rushed into the major's mind, and he vaguely remembered the situation when he maneuvered to dodge and flew continuously with the missiles, could it be that those missiles did not lock on to themselves, and even if they did not do any evasion, they would not hit?
With his rich combat experience and excellent theoretical knowledge, the major suddenly thought of this, and then he roughly guessed the attack intention of the "Caucasian Reaper", and now he only felt a burst of dizziness: that guy, the hateful "Mad Ivan" and "Butcher of the Fighter", could have knocked himself down a long time ago, but he has been playing a cruel game of cat and mouse with himself with scrap missiles!
This was a thought that bordered on a complete denial of himself, which naturally frightened Fisher, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it might be the truth, although he did not understand at all what the motive of the "Grim Reaper" was.
Why should the "Grim Reaper", who has been rampage in the sky for a long time and the number of crashes soaring, let himself go?
In this pinnacle confrontation where he is on the verge of falling almost all the time, Harold Fisher is constantly wandering; Just like now, he pondered blankly in the cockpit for a second or two, but couldn't think of any conclusions, when he heard a piercing explosion in his ears, and the fighter plane immediately began to yaw violently and tremble.
Just now, he was thinking about "why let himself go", but the lieutenant colonel turned his head in horror and realized that this was just a beautiful illusion on his part.
Just kidding, what a joke, his "Agile Eagle" has already been injured! (To be continued......)