Towards the end of the year, a sandstorm of unprecedented scale has just dissipated in the cold and windy land of the Middle East, and in many places, atmospheric visibility is still poor.

In such unfavorable weather, Long Yun, who was ready to attack early in the morning and had basically figured out the temperament of the J-10E "villain" for a few days, was already sitting in the cockpit of the red 03 fighter with a wide field of vision, temporarily taking off his flight gloves to warm his fingers.

Received the new fighters of the 3rd Independent Squadron and became a kind of special combat force in the 3rd_IHFS, and in today's operation, Long Yun, nicknamed "Red Dragon", has no partner, that is, a person who takes to the skies to fight.

Since receiving a Security Council resolution, it is not only the Liberal Party that has jumped up and down in the Middle East that needs to change its strategy in order to avoid being pointed at by the major powers, but also the new regime that has revolted in Iraq on the surface, and has also stopped any foreign military action. However, it is the same thing on paper, and it is difficult to implement it in practice, and the ALSA in the sky may not be able to intercept all Syrian rebel fighters, and NATA must naturally be prepared in the face of a vicious neighbor who is eyeing it.

Piloting the J-10E "Villain" that was smuggled in not long ago, after taking off all the way to the west, Long Yun's flight process was quite relaxed and comfortable.

Different from the cold wind howling in the base, sitting in the cockpit of the J-10E fighter with constant temperature and pressure, reminiscing about the strong push back feeling when taking off before, just exerting the engine to the maximum thrust without afterburner, the sharp fighter painted with sand-yellow camouflage in the sky smoothly accelerated to Mach 0.9, which is already very good for a single-engine fighter with six air-to-air missiles and a drop fuel tank in the middle line of the belly.

The weather is fine in the middle and high altitudes. Controlling the new "villain" to climb all the way up and fly forward, Long Yun's mission today is to patrol the edge of the "Syrian no-fly zone" according to the instructions of the ground guide.

Fly a fighter with mediocre over-the-horizon capabilities optimized for combat. Obviously, this kind of mission cannot be counted on the on-board Type 1471 radar, and looking around, there is not a single friendly fighter plane under the clear blue sky, and it is clear that the new Iraqi party attaches great importance to the Security Council's ceasefire resolution, and as long as the Syrian rebels in the west do not take the initiative to provoke trouble, NATA's actions will not rush out of bounds.

But the idea is good, but to say that the Liberals don't come to life. This is almost an impossible scenario.

With the rudimentary NATA ground guidance instructions, he took off to meet the enemy, and approached the "Syrian no-fly zone" according to the GCI's prompts, although Long Yun's "villains" had not really entered the no-fly zone at this time. The sensitive RWR alarm system is already beeping intermittently.

The reception sensitivity of the radar warning system is generally very high, but in order to reduce false alarms, such a system does not only "feel" the electromagnetic radiation signal of the enemy aircraft to warn the alarm. It takes several waveforms to accumulate energy before it can be triggered; So now. Now that there is an RWR alert, it can only mean one thing, and that is that the Liberals' warplanes have penetrated deep into the no-fly zone and are now tracking him with radar.

The enemy aircraft in the no-fly zone found that the airborne 1471 radar had not moved, Long Yun appropriately switched the working mode, but his eyes were mainly focused on the RWR warning, he adjusted the course of the landline, while peeking at the movement of the alarm, and quickly estimated the distance between the enemy and us.

About 60 kilometers. This number is not too close, and it is even more distant for the J-10E, which only carries combat missiles. However, it had long been expected by Long Yun.

Since this machine does not carry over-the-horizon missiles, and even if it does, it will not be able to exert its tactical performance, Long Yun's combat strategy is very straightforward, he immediately pulls the rod and enters the process of accumulating altitude, and at the same time uses radio to report the situation to the command.

Compared with the chaotic battle in the sky many days ago, the number of NATA fighters patrolling the sky today is smaller, and the 3rd_IHFS forces with limited strength have long been stretched thin, and the four newly added "villains" cannot make up for the great disadvantage in the number of such fighters.

In Iraq, which is not a small country, the vast sky in the northern region cannot be defended by relying only on a squadron-level fighter force; If you simply count the establishment, there are naturally several other fighter squadrons under the command of NATA, but these forces that only exist on paper are almost gradually exhausted in the long-term battle, and the remaining fighter status and personnel morale are not ideal, and they are more often just performing some marginal tasks that do not hurt or itch.

While driving forward, while paying attention to the movements of the RWR, Long Yun now thought of the background behind these sky battles, but for him, it was nothing new to attack independently.

Penetrating tens of kilometers into the atmosphere, invisible X-band radar signals swept by, intercepting a lone target in the sky, and several F-16C fighters of the FSA were lining up, dragging thin white tracks to the east in the clear sky. At noon, the dust storm of the past few days gradually subsided, and the oblique winter sun shone on the yellow and brown desert camouflage bodies of the "Fighting Falcons", and the emblem of the crescent moon and white star was slightly bright, and it really looked a bit like a normal patrolling air force, rather than an uninvited guest who had already penetrated into the "Syrian no-fly zone".

In clear weather conditions, the target suspected to be a NATA fighter was quickly discovered and intercepted, and the RWR did not move for the time being, and the Liberal pilots who served as commanders were eager to give the order to open fire and launch a batch of over-the-horizon missiles to preemptively attack, as they had often done before.

However, unlike a few days ago, the Security Council's mantra of tightening still played some role, and if we shot rashly without identifying friend or foe at this time, we might get into even greater trouble.

Because of this, the F-16Cs in the air only carried two AIM-120Bs and four AIM-9L, ready to be used for the main combat after visual confirmation; Finding that there was only one target in the sky for the time being, the information sent by the friendly neighbor fleet showed that the ALSA patrol fleet was still far away, and several "Fighting Falcons" immediately abandoned the auxiliary fuel tank as if they were not short of money, and rushed to the target with the missiles on the pylons.

The FSA's provocative move is naturally due to the order of the Aleppo regime, but it does not mean that the Liberal Party is not worried about the current crisis.

Observing the changes in the attitudes of the major powers towards the war situation in the Middle East, the Syrian rebels, who are perfunctory on the surface but do not want to surrender at all, are secretly preparing for war, including the previously active FSA "Ghost" fleet, which has disappeared for the time being.

In this situation, only a batch of F-16C/D fighters in the "Syrian no-fly zone" are left, doing some sneaky things under the nose of ALSA.

Just like now, while piloting the aircraft to rush at high speed, but no abnormal reports were found in the RWR, the small fleet of four "Fighting Falcons" quickly separated left and right under the orders of the commander. Perhaps the rebels did not find it difficult to deal with an unradared aircraft, and two of the fighters quickly turned themselves in other directions and followed the guidance of the ground command post to attack other air targets; The remaining two F-16Cs adopted a very straightforward head-on interception tactic, and the Liberals who flew the fighters also played a little clever, and the two tawny "Fighting Falcons" opened up one after the other, and turned on the IFF at the same time, preparing to notify the fighters behind to launch an attack after the pilot in front determined the nature of the target.

In the clear sky, the jet fighters approaching each other, the shortening of the distance is a matter of moments.

Piloting the J-10E "Villain" equipped with the 1471 radar, using the radar warning system to guess the opponent's movements, Long Yun, who is hovering on the edge of the no-fly zone, is a little constrained at this time, he needs to keep an eye on navigation information to ensure that he does not rush to cross the no-fly zone boundary - of course, this is only under normal circumstances, if you do encounter a Liberal fighter and be attacked, it is naturally a different matter.

After being irradiated by the radar of the enemy aircraft for a long time, but no missiles were found, Long Yun, who was extremely experienced in combat, could probably guess the opponent's thoughts, and quickly ruled out the possibility of the ALSA fighter from the direction of the movement of the radiation source.

It's not ALSA, it's an enemy plane, and seeing that the encounter is right in front of him, Long Yun immediately threw away the auxiliary fuel tank.

As a trace of enemy aircraft appeared in the sky, with his keen eyesight staring for a few seconds, Long Yun instantly determined the aircraft type with the naked eye and completed the step of identifying friend and foe - the fighter plane that flew over, since it was a thin F-16, it was basically not the Liberal Party, Israel, it could only be a Turk!

The so-called Israel, or Turkey, is unlikely to appear in the skies over Syria at the moment, so-

Oh, don't think about it, the enemy plane that flew straight over has already opened fire!

The two "Fighting Falcons" that rushed one after the other almost overlapped in their line of sight, and Long Yun, who piloted the plane into a sideways turn to occupy a position and maintained an appropriate track distance from the incoming enemy plane, thought at first that the enemy plane in front of him was firing; However, combined with the prompts of the radar alarm and the position of the enemy and the enemy, he immediately understood that the situation was different, so he turned the lever and rudder to the inside of the attacker's track, and at the same time released a large area of radar jamming chaff.

When a W-band radiation signal is detected, the adversary directly uses an active radar-guided missile, is this a kind of mutual cooperation, or does it mean that they don't care about IFF in the first place? (To be continued......)