In the face of anti-ship missiles, even if there is no carrier-based aircraft to escort them, the Americans' aircraft carrier battle group is not unprepared, and the anti-aircraft firepower of the whole fleet is still very strong.

CV-67, CVN-71 and CVN-73, in order to protect these three heavy aircraft carriers, the U.S. Navy ship formation deep into the ocean is crammed into a total of six "Ticonderoga" class air defense cruisers, four "Arleigh Burke" class air defense destroyers, in addition to the "Spruance" and "Perry" classes that specialize in anti-submarine, or simply soy sauce, ten anti-air defense ships equipped with the AN / SPY-1 "Aegis" system, with the "Standard" series of ship-to-air missiles, It is more than enough to fight dozens of high-trajectory Russian air-to-ship missiles.

But on the other hand, no advanced defense system can guarantee 100% interception of an incoming target.

Therefore, if it is possible, the Americans still do not want to take a little risk, so that those terrifying big rockets will be shot down in the middle of the road, which is the safest for the aircraft carrier battle group.

Although they encountered the "Grim Reaper" who stirred up the situation, the front-line pilots were terrified, and the command center's order was given, and the Americans' naval and air forces still acted quickly.

In the sky, the first rays of dawn shone brightly, the vast night sky faded into heavy black, and a large area of hazy golden light fell on the fuselage of the fighter plane in the sky; The air currents swept quickly, the smooth skin was slightly shiny, and it looked a little gorgeous, but the fighter planes with bright tails and roaring and killing had no time to care, but fought to the death against their opponents in the vast Pacific Ocean.

Single-handed, deep siege. Once the action begins. Long Yun's spirit was highly tense.

Navigating the white twenty between several F-14 Tomcats. The young man who was focused on the enemy looked into the distance at the rising sun, and he knew that just behind that vast water antenna, the American aircraft carriers and even a large group of escort ships were gathering, and the big torches that made them fall into fear, dozens of KSR-5s fired in a salvo of the 22nd Red Flag Regiment, were flying fast in the high sky ahead.

A salvo of anti-ship missiles, it is not known whether it will be possible to target the aircraft carriers of the Americans. The young man in the midst of the tense confrontation still had time to shake his head, he knew that it was basically impossible.

In the vast sea area with a radius of hundreds of nautical miles, with the active homing head on the KSR-5 missile, only the target within a sector of tens of kilometers and 60 degrees in front will be intercepted after the machine is turned on.

Before his comrades-in-arms attacked, to be precise, he knew such a result when Long Yun called "Ruslan" and built the 22nd Bomber Aviation Regiment of the Red Banner to "engage in it cheaply".

Now that it has disrupted the Americans' defenses, the air situation swept by N011 is very chaotic. Changing from a high-G side turn with a sharp overload, and by the way, the cold sub swept out a long point shot, and the white No. 20 Su-27M2 flexibly entered a very different maneuvering plane, throwing off a "Tomcat" that was chasing after him. However, this action was carried out in a bit of a hurry, and as a result, the gray F-14 with its wings folded and like an arrow in the field of view took the opportunity to escape, and a string of 30-millimeter shells did not greet the enemy fuselage.

Blindly firing heavy anti-ship missiles, dozens of KSR-5s are used as props for a feint, Long Yun obviously doesn't know much about this arrangement, but he doesn't have time to think about it so much now, but pushes the throttle valve forward and pulls it up to climb at the same time.

Before departure, the "Kirilenko oven" was mounted, and the Sukhoi fighter with the red star shining on the wing completely ignored the threat of the "sparrow", and jumped to a height of 7,000 meters in a puff of smoke, broke through the sound barrier and turned away; Seeing that the Russians were about to escape, the two F-14A+s hovering behind them naturally refused to give up, and the Americans fired two AIM-7Ms while driving afterburner pursuit, but watched the two missiles fly like drunks, and then fall with all their might.

Before the missile was launched, the Tomcat's on-board fire control computer had been calculating and determining that the target was within the attack envelope; In addition, the AN/AWG-9 radar that locked on the "Flanker" also encountered co-channel interference, and the "Tomcat" crew, which had no experience with this kind of jamming wave, chose to ignore it, and only felt that something was wrong when they saw the missile falling crookedly.

With just such a little effort, the powerful Russians have flown without a trace, and only one "Sidewinder" F-14 twin plane can only return with hatred.

After some nonsense just now, the VF-21 squadron that was preparing to line up to intercept the "Backfire" was so stirred up by the "Grim Reaper" that the "Free Lancers" not only lost four precious F-14A+, but also completely failed to stop the "Backfire" from launching missiles.

Not only that, but the most terrible consequence is that the two lucky surviving "Tomcats" of the VF-21 have little oil left and almost run out of missiles, so they can only return to the mothership first, so that there will be a fatal gap in the outer air defense circle of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier battle group.

The Russians may not know the specific location of the aircraft carrier battle group, but after all, the "backfire" is still equipped with a sea search/fire control radar, even if it is still some distance from the aircraft carrier battle group, at an altitude of 10,000 meters, you can still not see the big iron lump hundreds of meters long?

The courage of witnessing the death of his comrades quickly dissipated, and the pilots and weapons officers of the F-14 fighters who returned to the country still had a little lingering palpitations.

The coordinates of the crash points of several Tomcats have been reported, the remnants of the VF-21 are flying south, and the remaining six F-14A+ fighters of the squadron from the USS John F. Kennedy are preparing to fight the "Kingfish", or rather, are on their way to the scene of the fight.

The threat of air conditions is temporarily eliminated, and they can concentrate on intercepting these small planes that are roaring, and the heavy fighters that are full of six AIM-54Cs and climb to an altitude of 11,000 meters are still accelerating, the two F110-GE-400 engines are roaring like thunder, and the "Tomcats" who are full of missiles and almost full of oil are still 90 kilometers away from the incoming missile group, and they must climb at least four thousand meters in one minute to make the "immortal birds" have the minimum interception conditions, and they must be fast, Otherwise, once they miss the opportunity to intercept head-on and enter the tail-chasing situation, these big guys flying at an altitude of more than 24,000 meters and a speed of about Mach 3 will make the attack envelope of the "Immortal Bird" extremely shrink, and it would be a luxury to hit them again.

It is true that even if the "Tomcat" fails to intercept this wave of "Kingfish," there will always be the "Super Hornet" of the VFA-29 "Flying Angel" squadron behind it, and if we patiently wait for the grumpy "Kingfish" missile to fly over more than half of its range and gradually drop to a low trajectory of 300 to 500 meters, the success rate of interception will be higher.

- Yet!

War is not a game of cards, and any bit of a calculating mentality is dangerous.

Flying in the sky, facing the Soviet heavy anti-ship missiles whistling like meteors, several F-14A+ fighters lined up in a row with the radar set to TWS mode desperately climbed to the ground, and finally entered the interception position before the missiles patronized. The AWG-9 radar is capable of completing fast scans at two-second intervals.

The well-matched combination of AN/AWG-9 and AIM-54 on the "Tomcat" gives the F-14 fighter a "unique" multi-target engagement capability, and in the face of the Red Navy's "saturation attack", the "one dozen six" in TWS mode is almost a talisman for the US Navy.

On the other hand, what many people don't know, or deliberately ignore, is that the scanning range of the AN/AWG-9 in TWS mode will be greatly narrowed, in other words, if the target is not always clustered together and seen by the AN/AWG-9 radar (which is the enemy's aircraft and missiles, they will be so obedient?). Once a target is out of sight, the target can get rid of the threat of the "immortal bird", and the AIM-54 that loses the mid-course command correction will turn into an inertial guided rocket that is ultimately homing, and what it can hit is just a matter of winning the lottery.

The huge US aircraft carrier battle group, which has 150 "Tomcat" and "Hornet" fighters, at first glance, the Americans' fighter planes are simply endless, and no enemy should try to get close.

But now, in the face of more than 50 incoming missiles, only 36 "immortal birds" can be used by the six F-14A+, and the rest of the "Tomcat" fighters are either maintaining or running out of ammunition and fuel, not to mention the four that the "Reaper" sent to the bottom of the sea; Maintaining an air defense circle of 350 to 400 kilometers is a very troublesome task in itself, and the luxurious establishment of three heavy aircraft carriers cannot completely change this reality.

In this regard, the US Navy does have a great hatred for the Russians.

In the face of the AGM-84 "Harpoon," the Russian carrier-based aircraft only need to maintain an air defense circle with a radius of 200 kilometers, while the US Navy, which is always on guard against such perverted "galleys," "kingfish," "sandboxes," and "shipwrecks," may not be able to sit back and relax. (To be continued......)