Chapter 42: The Scarlet Night Sky
Unlike the East German fleet, which was in a bitter battle, Long Yun and his team were about to encounter four F-16s covering attack aircraft, belonging to the 17th Air Wing of the United States.
Unlike the rudimentary models used in China, the Block 30 F-16s used by the European wing are at least capable of firing AIM-7 medium-range missiles. At this moment, say goodbye to the cosy vacation time and the enthusiastic Spanish girls, who were urgently transferred to the south of France a week ago, and then this shitty combat mission.
It stands to reason that a large-scale military operation such as a war between the East and the West should have a detailed battle plan and a thorough arrangement of operations. After all, this is something that has been planned by both sides for many years, isn't it? But as with so many other things in the world, once you start, there are no rules. Plans are not as fast as they change, which is why the original escorts of these attack aircraft were needed to jack the tank after they were smashed to the ground by the SS-21.
According to the guidance of the ground command station, without much effort, Long Yun's formation had close contact with the opponent.
When he really entered the close-range air combat at night, Long Yun found that it was quite uncontrollable. He always needs to pay attention to his altitude and attitude, and be careful not to get too far away from the long plane, otherwise the radar will soon lose tracking, and in such a night sky, he has no way to find his long plane.
Of course, the same is true for opponents: fighting in the night sky is never a good option, but at this time it is only necessary to drag the Warsaw Pact plane. In the dim sky, the afterglow of the fires drawn by the fighters and the tail flames of missiles that appeared from time to time made the situation even more chaotic.
After realizing that he could only be beaten passively like this, and no one would take care of his tail, Long Yun decided to give up following and taking the initiative. After shouting to the long plane, he made a nice roll to disengage the circle, and then lowered the altitude and rolled in reverse, waiting for an opportunity to attack the enemy plane that was in pursuit. The flat appearance did not play a role, Long Yun did not plan to use the cannon, but relied on the infrared search equipment installed in the nose cockpit to find the enemy.
Lowering the height a little, Long Yun got a suitable placeholder. Glancing at the display, he knew he already had a target ahead of him. Perhaps with a keen intuition, realizing that the point of fire just above him had entered the action sector of the R-73 seeker, Long Yun decisively pressed the launch button.
Considering the amount of ammunition the MiG-29 had, and the fact that the next fight would be tough, Long Yun only fired one R-73 - but that was enough.
Against the backdrop of the deep night sky, the tail vents of NATO fighter jets are as conspicuous as lit bullseyes; In the ever-changing dogfight, no one could notice when the enemy plane launched an infrared-guided missile, and it was obvious that the pilot of the enemy plane did not notice it, let alone have time to maneuver to evade.
Due to the immediate turning and taxiing disengagement, Long Yun did not directly see the missile hit; But with the fireballs exploding in the sky behind him, he knew that he had achieved a victory.
One Shot Down Result!
Long Yun's mood was quite excited at this time. Although it is completely different from the glamorous simulated air combat game, and there are no points or anything else to show, the qiē that I am experiencing in front of me is so real. No matter what kind of world this is, the excitement of shooting down an invading enemy plane is incomparable to the virtuality of a qiē.
At this moment, Long Yun, who was holding the joystick tightly, clearly realized that this qiē was not a dream.
This is by no means a dream, but a real war!
However, the current situation did not allow Long Yun to think too much, the battle was still going on, and he had no time to think about it anymore, so he could only quickly concentrate on his own control.
With the continuous circling maneuver, the radar display signal is meaningless, and Long Yun needs a high degree of mental concentration at this time, determining his relative position in the sky, and at the same time trying to combat the vertigo caused by the high overload.
From the beginning of accelerating to meet the enemy, it should be almost two minutes to continue to drive afterburner, I wonder how long the engine can last? The fuel tank capacity of the MiG-29 was not sufficient, and Long Yun decided to solve it quickly. He seized the opportunity to launch another R-73, but failed to hit the target.
However, with the help of Superman's visual perception, he had already observed in the grappling just now that the enemy was using an F-16.
Realizing that such a grappling would not necessarily solve the problem, Long Yun began to stall for time, he turned off the afterburner, and began to rely on the MiG-29's agile maneuverability and his own driving skills to maneuver with his opponents.
Finally, the F-16, which is also a light fighter, is also short of fuel; Unlike Long Yun and the others, they had to set aside enough reserves to return home, and the fighters of the 17th Wing gave up continuing to fight, and instead began to cover each other and accelerate away from the battlefield. And this gave Long Yun a rare opportunity.
Although I don't know much about American fighter planes, I rarely use them when playing games. Regarding the F-16, Long Yun at least knows that its maximum flight speed is not very good. The F-16, which belongs to the third generation of light fighters in the United States, has an air combat thrust-to-weight ratio of more than 1.0, but it suffers from a rudimentary air intake design and only has a maximum altitude speed of Mach 8. Long Yun, who got rid of the entanglement of the F-16, pulled up his altitude, and turned on the afterburner again to accelerate.
"Victor, save enough fuel for the return trip! Don't chase! ”
Hearing Changji's reminder, Long Yun didn't respond for the time being, after all, he didn't plan to really chase all the way over, and he didn't want to disobey Changji's instructions directly.
After a long journey and a fierce dogfight, the fighter had little fuel left, and only two missiles at the middle hardpoint were left under the wings, which gave excellent conditions for acceleration. Long Yun quickly accelerated to Mach 1.7, and at this time, the target distance reading given by the radar was 10 kilometers, and he shot out both R-73s in one go.
The R-73, with a maximum speed of more than Mach 3, has a static range of 30 kilometers, which is rare among combat missiles; Long Yun had already tried his best to create good initial conditions for his launch, and now it was only up to luck to be able to catch up with the enemy.
Hit or not, it depends on luck!
As soon as the missile was launched, Long Yun immediately made an arc and turned around, flew at high speed to ensure that it was out of the battlefield, and then turned off the afterburner, relying on the altitude accumulated before to taxi. At this point, the fuel gauge is nearing the end, which is a bit risky.
Long Yun's first sortie of twin planes, although the long plane did not win, but it was confirmed by the GCI system monitoring afterwards, so that Long Yun had two F-16 shooting down records in his first battle. Maybe he didn't know it himself, but on the opening night of this chaotic war, many of the same good pilots had already left this world in the heat of battle, and he was already very lucky in comparison.
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