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As long as the sky is full of wolf smoke, the low-flying and sweeping comrades can control the "Bumblebee" through the line of fire, and then jump up and throw the "Harpoon"!

One hundred and twenty AGM-84s, which is quite a terrifying number.

At this moment, the mentality of the American pilots is probably the same as that of the American pilots who are driving the Red Navy warships in the vast sea, whether they are piloting the "Tomcat" or the "Bumblebee."

One hundred and twenty air-to-ship missiles, the "Harpoon" warhead charge is quite a lot, even if the success rate of the launch cannot be 100 percent, the Russians must be able to intercept some, and in the end, even if only twenty or thirty of them bloom on Ivan's ship, it will be enough to deal a heavy blow to this challenger who is not capable of doing anything.

Hmph, even if it's just a heavy blow instead of a total annihilation, so what?

The battle between air and water has been a spiral for many years, but no matter what, one principle has not changed.

Restricted by the laws of physics, it has always been more difficult for surface ships to "push ammunition into the air" than for fighter planes to "throw ammunition on the surface"; just like the current situation, the AGM-84G, which is generally tall and less than four meters in length, has a warhead weighing 500 pounds, but it can still have a high ballistic range of more than 100 kilometers, while the Red Navy's 5V55 series of ship-to-air missiles, although the size and weight are much larger than those of the "Harpoon", the weight of the warhead is only half of the former, and the maximum range is less than 100 kilometers. This can only be achieved at a very low target altitude.

It is this phenomenon that is well understood. U.S. Navy pilots are confident. Tonight's all-hands assault. On the side of the United States, more than fifty fighters were put into this direction alone, and the Russians, there are not necessarily so many "sea guards" on the two aircraft carriers!

In front of the VF-103 and the Russians are in a mess, and the low-altitude VFA-102 and VFA-27 take advantage of the situation to infiltrate, but the two F/A-18E/F, which are exploring the way in front and actively turning on the radar to expose their whereabouts, can see clearly, and the situation is the same as that at high altitude. Russian warplanes were also spotted at low altitudes, and now their radar exposure seems to have been spotted.

Although there were only two enemy planes in a group from the radar, out of prudence, the squadron leader ordered a group of fighters to abandon the middle line auxiliary fuel tank and be ready to open the electronic jamming pod at any time.

At the same time, the Major called the "derrick" to report the situation, asking how the VF-102 was doing at a distance of forty nautical miles.

In view of the current situation of friend or foe, his idea was that if the VFA-102 in the northern airspace did not encounter Russian interceptors, then. Their 27th Squadron could even turn around and distract the Russians from it at once; And then what. After the 102nd Squadron crossed the interception line and even determined the position of the Russian fleet, the 27th Squadron turned back unexpectedly to cover up, disrupt the Russian defense deployment with a beautiful time difference, sweep away a threat, and then throw the "Harpoon" outside the air defense circle of Ivan's fleet!

Twelve F/A-18E/F, forty-eight AGM-84D/Gs under the wings, and models of anti-radiation and active radar seeker are readily available, and the Americans who smeared the raid can be described as full of confidence.

A salvo to eliminate the main forces of the Russian fleet, even if the aircraft carrier cannot be caught for the time being, is a very good deal.

Chaos broke out suddenly, in the night sky, one after another fierce missiles flew rapidly, invisible fighters, staring at the equally invisible enemy in the distance, doing their best to keep the radar beam irradiated, the overlapping of scanning signals, coupled with the interference pod and the full power radiation of the EA-6B, the radiation information over the ocean became unprecedented chaos for a while, whether it was the "Super Cat" and "Bumblebee" as the attacking side, or the Su-27K as the defensive side, the radar operation was affected by a considerable amount of time.

Radar was jammed, the IFF system was also difficult to operate, dozens of fighters fought each other, but they were scattered in a large dark night sky, outside the cockpit could not see five fingers, can only vaguely glimpse a round of crescent moon, completely relying on radar, navigation and command and communication systems to engage in battle, it is conceivable at this time how chaotic the command centers of the two sides in the rear will be.

In the face of a strong enemy, the front-line fighters relied on technology and courage, while the commanders sitting on the flagship competed in courage and intuition.

The two sides confronted each other for several days, and a decisive battle broke out tonight, and the battlefield deduction that followed the rules in the past may be very important, but when it comes to the ever-changing battlefield, the difference between victory and defeat is often an unknown gamble full of uncertainty. In fact, all of the myriad questions about a distant sea and air contest can be reduced to two crucial questions: first, where is the enemy now, and second, on the basis of answering the first question, how to make their forces appear at the right time and in the right place.

In the vast ocean, no matter how advanced the means of reconnaissance are, sometimes only intuition can be used to make decisions.

All the staff go into battle for a wave of assault, and if you win, you will win, and if you don't hit, you will die!

The law of war, the changing situation on the ocean, the situation is more or less so, but tonight's mighty decisive battle, the process is obviously not just a "wave of all-out bursts".

Just when the battle broke out between the Red Navy and the U.S. Navy carrier-based aircraft over the ocean, and the formation of surface ships and the group of attack aircraft in the air were about to encounter, hovering on the E-2C "Hawkeye" in the northwest direction of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier battle group, the battlefield dispatcher was urgently calling a group of F-14 twin planes in front of them to inform them that backup was coming, and at the same time coordinating a group of "Super Hornets" of the VFA-52 squadron of the inner air defense circle, and all the surrounding fighters. Let every US fighter within the current 60-degree sector be ready to attack.

"Confirm that the squadron of 'Free_Lancer' (Free Lancers) is in position, - are there four on the outer line?" Backfire's current distance, the headquarters to be specific to distinguish the number jù!

- Chandler, call 'Flying_Angels' and ask them to report their oil reserves! ”

"Understood, sir!"

The "Hawkeye" early warning aircraft was busy, and on the screen in front of the liaison non-commissioned officer, the number of requests and orders sent by the command headquarters were also overwhelming, and everyone's spirit was highly nervous, and the display screen in front of the radar operator explained the reason, the E-2C, which was one hundred and ninety nautical miles away from the core of the fleet, had already discovered a large number of oncoming death torches, and the echo signal was as bright as a solar flare.

The roaring long-range bombers, each with three AS-6 "Kingfish" on it, the Tu-22M3, a two-Mach swept-wing assault aircraft with a slender silhouette, a sharp bow and a huge sail-like tail, have always been a haunting nightmare for the US Navy.

A "backfire", just a "backfire", if it rushes into the aircraft carrier defense circle, it is not something that can be taken lightly!

As the pioneer and pioneer of U.S. global hegemony, U.S. Navy has always been proud of a number of heavy aircraft carriers in its hands, and the huge aircraft carrier battle group even couldn't find an opponent for a time, until the rise of the Soviet Navy and the gradual challenge of the United States' absolute sea power, this situation finally began to change.

However, even in the face of an opponent like the Red Giant, America's century-old sea power is not so easy to shake.

Looking back at the entire Cold War era, after having supersonic long-range bombers such as the Tu-22M3 and even the Tu-160, as well as long-range heavy air-launched anti-ship missiles, the activities of the US Navy in Western Europe and the Far East were suppressed, and the strategic posture of the Red Navy and even the Soviet Union did change somewhat because of this.

But on the other hand, this weapon platform is not without its flaws, first of all, anti-ship missile bombers based on land airfields cannot penetrate deep into the far sea, and can only play a powerful deterrent role near the coast; secondly, even if they are determined to strike at the US aircraft carrier battle group, the roaring Tu-22M3 must obtain information such as the target's orientation and distance before launching a missile attack, and this condition is difficult to achieve when the Americans are strictly guarding against it.

After midnight, they flew in groups at high subsonic speeds for about 90 minutes, and just northwest of the American fleet, twenty-one Tu-22M3s of the 22nd Red Banner Bomber Aviation Regiment were approaching.

At this moment, the crew and the general headquarters did not know that they were still about 700 kilometers away from the center of the target ship group, and the number of reconnaissance Tu-22Ms sent before was incomplete, and then lost contact, and it was likely that they had been shot down by the Americans; In addition, just after the battle began, military reconnaissance satellites that skimmed over the ocean once again grazed the predetermined sea area, but did nothing because it was at night.

Now, although they are flying and attacking and approaching the enemy, the bombers of the formation shock are not at all clear about where the Yankees' aircraft carriers are and what the air situation is in front of them.

The Tu-22M3, as an airborne anti-ship platform, is equipped with a fire control radar, but it is limited to searching and targeting surface warships, and its air surveillance capability is almost zero; If they run all the way like this, and then start the afterburner to seize the missile launch position, it is conceivable that in the face of the outer air defense circle of the US military that the F-14 fighters are waiting for, the bomber formation will inevitably suffer heavy losses, and the fighters who are lucky enough to penetrate the interception line will not be able to obtain the precise location of the target, and the entire operation will become a futile exercise.

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