"Missiles, missiles! - Missiles are coming! ”

Seeing the bright numbers on the radar display, he felt that the incoming missile would hit the AWACS plane he was riding in the next second, and the captain in charge of several sectors of the rear hemisphere turned on the channel and shouted on the radio intercom; However, at the moment when the missile was close at hand and about to relax the invitation to death, all the efforts of the crew on board had become meaningless.

As the gray-white R-27EP missile approached, the automatic defense system, which judged the threat based on the radar scan signal, immediately responded, and the electronic jammer installed in the belly of the E-3A immediately connected to the power and released powerful electronic jamming in the direction specified by the system.

However, it is completely different from the expected jamming effect, and this effective strategy against semi-active radar-guided missiles or ARH missiles is doing some useless work in front of the R-27EPS missile that tracks the S-band radiation signal: the complete misalignment of the frequency makes the missile homing head unable to receive the jammer's jamming signal, and still rushes straight to the "bright" AN/APY-1 antenna in the field of vision!

In the short period of tens of seconds when the missile flew over a distance of tens of kilometers and finally encountered the "watchtower," the personnel in the early warning plane did not have enough time to react, and no one thought of turning off the power supply of the transmitter and cutting off the most obvious electromagnetic radiation signal on the fuselage; although these people already knew the combat strategy of the Russians and the storage of anti-radiation air-to-air missiles, they were caught off guard by the sneak attack of the Longyun twin planes, and no one would have thought that it would really be two anti-radiation missiles.

Because no one believes that there will be Russian fighters that can get so close to AWACS that they are even dangerous enough to launch missiles.

Yes. It's a complete surprise!

Face the arrows of the Assassins flying from the sky. We are convinced of our own technological superiority and system combat effectiveness. Once again, the commanders of the United States have paid the price for their light enemy, albeit too high.

Between the inaction of the escort fighters and the panic of the crew, the R-27EP missiles with flamboyant wings are still rushing towards them as if no one is around; The "Wanglou" early warning plane, which emits a large number of electromagnetic signals in the sky, is like a fat roast goose smeared with honey in the field of vision of the homing head, and the stout gray-white missile goes all the way forward under the guidance of the homing head, chasing the huge body that has no ability to maneuver, until finally the brilliant collision of fate.

Although the presence of anti-radiation missiles had been learned in previous war briefings, no one in the AWACS crew was really aware of this. Everyone felt that the attack on the "watchtower" was the most unlikely thing to happen on the battlefield, and no matter how many fighters the Russians had, could they still repel the fighter interception line and launch an attack on the AWACS aircraft hundreds of kilometers deeper? Everyone thought it was impossible, even if it was the analysis of the military intelligence department, and everyone was staring at the display screen from their own small posts, directing groups of fighters to intercept the swarming Russians, until a missile actually flew in front of them, and the vast majority of people on the E-3A were still skeptical.

Incoming missiles?

Is there going to be some mishap?

Suddenly, someone was heard shouting in the headset, and before the operators in the various positions could come to their senses, an atmosphere of panic filled the entire cabin; The officer on duty had just stood up, looking back and forth in the corridor in the middle of the cabin in confusion. He didn't know who to arrest at this time to ask for the end?

Who was shouting "missile attack" just now?

Suddenly, I felt a sharp tremor under my feet, and the scene of the cabin in front of me suddenly became distorted and weird. The officer on duty who was standing in the corridor with his gun drawn opened his eyes in horror, his ear drums were filled with a sharp and piercing "creak" mixed with a dull explosion, and the terrible cracks in the side wall of the cabin made the air leak quickly and let out a terrifying scream, while the huge "watchtower" began to violently jolt and fall, and he vaguely heard someone screaming:

"We—we've been hit!"

"Damn,-what the hell is going on?!"

"Grab the handrail, Richard! ……”

Suddenly encountering Yan zhòng's destruction, the officer staggered down the corridor and fell to the ground, he felt that the whole plane seemed to have a tendency to turn its nose down, were they going to fall directly?

In the instantaneous huddle of the cabin, panic was in a state of panic, and before the people present could come to their senses, a second more violent explosion and destruction followed, completely distorting and breaking the already damaged body into two sections; With the violent turbulence of the fuselage, a gust of air swept across the corridor where the officer was lying on his stomach, and before the dizzy officer could figure out what was happening, he realized that there was nothing underneath him, and then there was complete weightlessness with the violent air current, and he struggled to open his eyes, but he could only see a large gray-blue sky that was constantly changing and tumbling.

"Ah――――――h

Falling out of the cabin between the falling garbage and debris, there was a scream of horror, and the officer's figure quickly fell and disappeared into the sky.

Compared with this unlucky faller, all the people who were still in the plane felt a whirlwind at this time, and everything in their sight was flying around irregularly, making people feel like they had fallen into the drum of a washing machine that was being shaken dry.

Captain Dirk Bogard felt like an astronaut floating in the air, his brain short-circuited for a moment before regaining the ability to sense fear, and the breathless Captain suddenly realized that he could barely feel gravity now, but not because he was actually an astronaut, which only meant one thing, and that was that the earth was rapidly approaching......

Momentarily overwhelmed by fear, the Captain experienced a terrible sensation of rapid decompression, and his last thought before he completely lost his mind was to let this qiē end quickly.

In the sky, two R-27EPs suddenly detonated at close range, and the fragile E-3A suffered a catastrophe.

With regard to the air-to-air missiles dragging white smoke in the sky, the "watchtowers," which have no ability to evade maneuver, dodge them or simply turn off their radars in time, they will not be directly split into two sections by the missiles that hit one after another. However, the lack of vigilance against the missile attack and the lack of timely measures were taken, and the E-3A "watchtower", which flew all the way to the level and the radar was fully turned on, was like a towering lighthouse in the field of view of the missile homing, and the radar signal swept every ten seconds was enough to guide the R-27EP to directly encounter the target.

As the missile approached the plane, the induction fuse caused the missile warhead to detonate suddenly just before the impact, and the first R-27EP blew an extremely terrible crack in the middle of the fuselage, and by the way, it also reimbursed one of the left engines of the "watchtower".

The second missile, dragged along with the smoke without any suspense, detonated next to the area roughly coinciding with the first blow, and the main structure of the entire aircraft was cut and torn by the continuous rod warhead flying in the shape of a saw blade, and then quickly collapsed under the pressure of the air flow of high-speed flight.

The E-3A "watchtower", which was suddenly shot and fell, then broke and rolled over, stunned all witnesses in the sky.

But among these witnesses, Long Yun and his partner did not include Long Yun and his partner: they solved the heavy threat in the western Turkish sky in one fell swoop, and after seeing the missile ignite and fly away, they followed the US AWACS plane for a while, until they were sure that the Americans had absolutely no time to react and take countermeasures.

Suddenly encountered a catastrophe in the sky, not only the F-15 fleet escorting the "watchtower" was completely shocked, but all NATO fighters in the nearby airspace were quickly chaotic; Having lost unified battlefield command and air information, and because of the previous "Blind_Combat" orders, it was not accurate and did not know whether to turn on the radar, and the tactical air force, which was originally in an orderly manner and was inseparable from the Warsaw Pact fighters, has become a piece of headless flies with no organizational ability.

"Blind_Combat", the so-called blind engagement, wasn't it a good job a few days ago, and what happened all of a sudden?

"What—what a situation!

Damn, Spencer, why did the empty number jù stop refreshing, what the hell happened! ”

As with the usual countless scenes, once again confronted with the thorny problems of war, Buckhill Clarke, who was holding his pipe, regained his irascible nature of "Growling Buck", and he questioned everyone in the command center with a fierce voice, even his colleagues who were coordinating on the sidelines.

In the face of the angry Air Force general, all the staff were sweating profusely, but no one knew the answer for a while, but some people still noticed that the number of jù streams in the communication system had been completely interrupted, and there was no problem with the self-inspection after the equipment was restarted, so they resigned themselves to report to the cadres:

"The report, Your Excellency General, the communication between the center and the 'torch' has been interrupted, and the preliminary judgment is...... It's a problem with the early warning platform. ”

"Early warning platform? ――Can't get in touch at all? ”

Looking back at the many years of war history in the United States, he had never heard of AWACS aircraft being threatened or even shot down by enemy fire, and General Clark's first thought might be that the equipment was malfunctioning, but after hearing the report of his subordinates and confirming the complete loss of contact with the "Torch" from the Air Force communication network, the general's face became gloomy.

Could it be that this unfortunate "watchtower" early warning plane fell because of a malfunction? (To be continued......)