Chapter 1278: There is no choice
Oh, the so-called "decisive victory", the exact words of Rear Admiral Stanley Cooper, the calculating fleet aviation staff officer may really think so; Asking his partner to turn on AN/APG-71 to RWS mode, Lieutenant Colonel Phelps looked up at the sky, but he knew very well that this thought was a delusion.
The longer he fights in the sky, the more he knows the horrors of the "Grim Reaper", and what can he do with a "Super Cat" that the United King's Cards under Viktor Rezenov can't count on two hands?
Pushing forward the throttle valve to speed up to receive the enemy, the radar officer Pearson in the back seat has been in contact with the "Hawkeye", receiving the air information sent by the E-2C, a large piece of "Hornet" at medium and low altitudes is gradually moving away, and there have been traces of Russian fighters in the sky ahead, and the lieutenant colonel's landline plane with only two "immortal birds" on board does not need to participate in the over-the-horizon group fight, Sean Phelps is waiting for the call, that is, waiting for the old enemy to appear.
As soon as he woke up and suddenly jumped into a terrifying battle, Lieutenant Colonel Phelps's mood fluctuated a little violently.
Although he has a lot of combat experience, the young man who controls the "Super Cat" is not worried about the safety of himself and his partner, but he is really worried about the current battle situation, and what is even worse is that he has always had a bad premonition in his subconscious.
In any case, the landline of the "Reaper" should always be a land-based fighter, so ......
Before Sean Phelps could think about it, the message from the "Hawkeye" caused Pearson to shout loudly, and an order came from the command center.
Less than thirty minutes after the sortie, the VF-103 "Skeleton" squadron colleagues in the southern sky sent a report. The two F-14s in the vanguard encountered fierce opponents. The pilots reported that the over-the-horizon attack was ineffective and immediately entered a visual air combat. One of them was quickly shot down, and a suspected "scythe" appeared in the air!
After receiving the order, he immediately pedaled the rudder into the side turn, and the accelerated "Super Cat" swept back with its wings and tail flames suddenly brightened, and it accelerated sharply to Mach 1.6 and pounced southward, throwing away two auxiliary fuel tanks halfway to prepare for battle.
An air battle broke out in the vast sky, and one of the participants was approaching at high speed, in the direction of the AWACS guidance. Gray-white giant birds are also coming quickly.
Under the sunset, a huge red star shines on the back, the number of "2019" is very conspicuous, white javelins are ready to launch on the pylon, two AL-31F-M2 engines are surging with power, and the white 20 from the 1143.6 "Varyag" jumps all the way and pounces in the direction of the enemy aircraft.
After a few hours of rest, Lieutenant General Viktor Rezenov of the Red Air Force Air Force set out at about 4 p.m. on the same day to complete the temporary overhaul and ensure the normal operation of the landing hook, and the White No. 20, which had completed a temporary overhaul and ensured the normal operation of the landing hook, took off from the No. 3 take-off position and climbed the runway to a 195-meter jump. It was more than enough for the Su-27M2K with a full tank of fuel and air combat loads, and the roaring ace landline soon disappeared into the vast sky.
Meanwhile. The Su-279K of the 281st and 281st carrier-based aircraft aviation regiments of the Red Navy has also been continuously dispatched to provide aerial shelter for surface battle groups advancing at high speed.
After the first encounter, the belligerents used radio signals and continued to scout the opponent's position, and the result was that each side knew exactly where the enemy was, and the Red Navy was well aware of the plight of the Americans, and the Americans were left with all their strength to survive, and a collision of steel and fire was inevitable.
In the battle that broke out on the ocean, due to the lack of a reliable air early warning platform on the side of the Red Navy, the combat plan drawn up by Kuznetsov and others was almost the same as the previous plan, which was to obtain battlefield situation information with the coordination of the ship-borne long-range early warning radar and the Ka-31 early warning helicopter, and through the analysis and judgment of the command center, they gave specific combat instructions one after another, so that the two carrier-based aircraft aviation regiments on the "Tbilisi" and "Varyag" carried out offensive air defense operations.
In a battle a few hours ago, the 279th and 281st carrier-based aircraft aviation regiments belonging to the Pacific Fleet lost some fighters, plus the 1143.5 "Tbilisi" has limited flight capability, and the Su-27K itself does not have very reliable air-launched anti-ship weapons - the Kh-31 has limited range and power, and the Kh-41 has not been seen at all, and the task of the Red Navy's carrier-based aircraft is to support a safe airspace for the fleet and ensure that the sea-supremacy ships break through to the long-range missile launch position, Instead of mounting air-to-surface weapons to do the anti-ship work that the Tu-22M3 is good at.
As for the VVS White 20, which came to help, the command gave the order to the fleet side to "do everything possible to ensure the operation of Vice Admiral Rezenov", and the specific arrangements were all decided by Viktor himself.
Because of this, Long Yun chose to lead the attack and dispatched together with the four Su-281Ks of the 27th Carrier-based Aircraft Aviation Regiment of the Red Navy.
The number of four synergies is not a lot for a VVS Super Ace.
However, considering the number of aircraft carried by the two heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers and the losses in the previous battles, the scale of the first four and last five fighters is not small; After taking off, according to the command center's order, the fleet soon flew to the flank of the Red Navy's surface battle group, and the MR-800 radar, which was constantly sweeping the sky on the warship, discovered the traces of a wave of incoming enemy planes, with a target number of about 10 and an altitude of 3,000 meters, and the automatic combat command system immediately instructed the White 20 to go forward to intercept it.
When an order is issued, it is immediately executed if he is replaced by other pilots, but for Long Yun, he can have his own understanding and then "engage in it cheaply".
Entering the battlefield from the south side of the Red Navy surface battle group, the N011 radar quickly captured a number of incoming targets, followed by electronic interference with high power, which is commonplace on the simulator, Long Yun probably judged that these flea-like jumps on the display screen are all US Navy attack aircraft, and the eight achievements are F/A-18 mounted with "Harpoon", as for several other targets at an altitude of 10,000 meters, the speed reading is more than 1,000, and it is undoubtedly the old opponent F-14 at a glance.
Oh, and speaking of "old rivals", probably from the standpoint of the Red Navy, Viktor Rezenov really hasn't fought with the "Tomcat" a few times before, but I believe that after this battle, the horror legend of the "Grim Reaper" will also spread in the U.S. Navy Army, as happened to the USAF before.
Prestigious and famous, making opponents fearful, and sometimes it is also an invisible combat power.
However, in today's situation, the number of "bumblebees" in the sky is really quite large, and the pilots of the United States have obviously forgotten their fears, or rather, they have no choice, rather than stay on the aircraft carrier and be afraid and then be bombed into the sky with Russian anti-ship missiles with the battleship, it is better to fly the fighter plane into the air and fight, and maybe find an opportunity to inflict heavy damage on the enemy's fleet, which can be regarded as fulfilling the oath they made when they joined the armed forces of the United States.
After the first battle, the fleets of both the United States and the Soviet Union did not stop their reconnaissance operations, and the objectives of the attacking force were very clear.
The information gathered from all sides, coupled with the fact that both fleets broke the radio silence and put on a posture of deciding the winner in a grand manner on the ocean, as a result, both sides figured out the general position of the enemy, the surface and underwater anti-ship platforms of the Red Navy were moving east at full speed, and the attack aircraft fleet of the U.S. Navy was going straight to the west.
When the distance between the two sides was about 350 nautical miles, a group of "Hornets" of the Americans poured out their nests, which could be regarded as seizing the first hand, but the subsonic F/A-18E/F could not compete with the P-500 and P-700 of the Red Navy.
For now, if the Americans' plan is successfully implemented, a batch of AGM-84s will be thrown on the head of the Red Navy first, which can defuse this wave of offensive that threatens Yan Zòng, and let the main force of the fleet calmly get out of the battle.
On the other hand, if the air raid is slightly worse and the guide makes some mistakes in time, once the Red Navy's heavy anti-ship missiles are fired first, with the residual anti-aircraft firepower of the United States' aircraft carrier battle group, most of the Americans will have to spend their lives on this large number of ships.
To live or to die, such a straightforward torture can't help but make Americans not fight with all their might.
With such a dangerous thinking, the "Super Hornet" on the sea covered with gray-white "harpoons" and even more clumsy cross-shaped bodies are moving forward bravely, and the F/A-18E/F with terrible high-speed performance flew at an altitude of 3,000 meters at a speed of 450 knots, considering that each fighter plane has at least two AGM-84s on board, this is already a pretty good result, but in front of the white 20 that came from the split surface, it is so insignificant.
From the 1143.6 "Varyag" into the sky, the wings were full of air-to-air missiles, and the Su-27M2K, which was nearly full of fuel, still had ample thrust reserves, and Long Yun, who was driving the plane forward, entered the battlefield from a height of 6,000 meters, and he let the plane fly to Mach 1.3 with a little afterburner.
After the second sortie, although he did not have a full set of GCI support during land operations, Long Yun's action was still decisive, and he quickly approached the US military aircraft group in the sky from the front.
At this moment, the "Eagle Eye" in the distant sky is peeping, and the US fighter planes are also moving with their cameras, but in the face of the surprise attack of the "White Death", all calculations and tricks are destined to be nothing; After flying about 300 kilometers after liftoff, the F/A-18s at medium and low altitudes soon encountered the Red Navy's Su-27K that was strongly intercepted, and the two sides broke out a BVR fire with a low hit rate at a distance of 60 kilometers. (To be continued......)