As the first in the world to be developed and put into service, the F22 set the standard that the fourth-generation fighter must have stealth, supersonic cruise, supersonic maneuverability, and super information superiority at the same time, that is, including over-the-horizon combat capabilities. This began to serve in the US Air Force more than ten years ago, known as the world's first fourth-generation fighter of the Raptor, just like the real Raptor, has an unrivaled advantage in air supremacy, and the reason is that it has four standards at the same time, so that the third-generation aircraft has no way to face it.

The shape of the aircraft designed for radar wave scattering, even if the front of the F22 is removed from the invisible paint, the RCS value is only about 0.01, and the RCS value is reduced to 0.001 with the invisible paint.

Assuming that F22 is flying head-on with the Su-35, without the help of the ground-to-air radar network, it all relies on the Su-35's own airborne radar to fight against the F22, taking the R77 missile as an example, the Su-35 has to fly close to the F22 for about 20 kilometers to find the other party on the radar, and the seeker of the R77 missile is started at about 6 kilometers, and if you want to lock the F22 with R77, the distance between the two aircraft must be within 3 kilometers, and if it is facing the F15 or the third-generation aircraft such as the Su-27, the Su-35 was able to spot each other as early as 180 kilometers away.

The supersonic cruise allows the F22 to fly at a speed of Mach 1.5 for more than half an hour without opening the afterburner in the afterburner, which sounds nothing unusual, but in fact, supersonic speed without opening the afterburner can not only save a lot of fuel, but also push the interception line far forward, which also means that the F22 can run away after the fight, once it enters the supersonic cruise state, the current third-generation aircraft has no way to take the F22, because the third-generation aircraft needs to drive the afterburner to keep up with the F22.

But the afterburner is an oil tiger, it only takes a short time, and the third-generation aircraft without fuel can only turn around and return home, and at this time, if the F22 is happy, it can turn around and smoke twice, and the third-generation aircraft that has lost fuel will not have any resistance.

And this is also the reason why when the test flight video of the J-20 was released at the beginning, the use of the Russian-made AL31 engine made countless people complain that it was just a third-generation aircraft with a fourth-generation aircraft shell. However, fortunately, the national key promotion of the big push aero engine project has made gratifying research progress, breakthroughs in materials and core aircraft, although there are still some gaps compared with F22, but WS15 does allow J-20 to achieve supersonic cruise.

The F22, which has the characteristics of a complete fourth-generation aircraft, has to play close air combat with enemy aircraft, in fact, it is quite a part of the advantages of the F22, so it is not surprising that Arthur I and Arthur II have a deep grudge against William De Nelson's command orders.

The maneuverability of the F22 is not bad, but it is the binary vector nozzle and two ** F119-PW-100 afterburner turbofan engines that make it capable of low-speed combat maneuvers. In terms of aerodynamic shape alone, the aerodynamic surface design of the F22 is not much higher than most mainstream third-generation aircraft, but it is enough to cope with close-range subsonic aerial combat, which is one of the reasons why Lockheed's F22 was able to beat the F23 in the bidding at the beginning.

Normal full-throttle propulsion, with the soaring speed, over the lonely and vast high sea, two crisp sounds of "pop", Arthur 1 and Arthur 2 broke through the speed of sound almost at the same time, and the speed is steadily rising, entering the supersonic cruise state, flying towards the predetermined target point.

The combat information link transmits the location of the target in real time, and on the radar screen from the AWACS aircraft, there are only two targets, but Arthur 1 and Arthur 2 have already known the mission information content, and there are two stealth fighters in the air formation, but because the distance is too far, the AWACS aircraft cannot find it.

Over the East China Sea, which is 270 kilometers away from F22, Xia Yu and others' four-plane air formation is returning with radar to follow up the formation, and through the information transmitted by the guò combat information chain, it was found that there was an early warning aircraft 370 kilometers away, and according to its electromagnetic characteristics, the Air Police 2000 identified the other party as an E3 early warning aircraft.

Seeing the content of this information, Xia Yu frowned, the United States' E3 early warning aircraft more often run to the Diaoyu Islands, and rarely operate in this current area, just their course, there are obvious signs of approaching this side, what are the Americans going to do? Xia Yu couldn't figure it out, but soon, the Air Police 2000 sent radar information again, and two unidentified planes were rapidly approaching the direction of the AWACS aircraft.

Xia Yu immediately received an order from the Jiangsu ship, asking the nearest Xia Yu to intercept, J-31 as a stealth fighter, in order to ensure that there is enough deterrence and not to appear on the first line of defense of interception, so the two J-15 in the formation accelerated past Xia Yu's head and went directly to the interception point, while Xia Yu and his wingman were kept 30 kilometers behind the J-15, ready to support at any time.

Xia Yu didn't know that this qiē was a tactical strategy made by the commander of Kadena Air Base in order to avoid the siege of the two F22s. At the beginning, I knew that there were two stealth fighters in the air, and the two J-15s in the formation directly exposed Xia Yu's position, even if the J-31 could not be seen on the radar, but judging from the flight track of the J-15, the approximate direction and speed of the J-31 could be derived, so with the help of E3 early warning, Arthur 1 and Arthur 2 entered the direction of Xia Yu at 3 o'clock according to the radar information.

Even if it is F22, it is impossible to get too close to the Chinese coast and the aircraft carrier formation, once it is too close, the radar network composed of roadbed sea-based and airborne early warning aircraft is still very likely to find F22, and in the case of approaching that distance, I am afraid that China's air defense measures will be activated immediately, which may cause unnecessary misunderstanding and danger, so the commander of Kadena Air Base sent two F15 to fly in the direction of China's AWACS Air Police 2000, judging by the position of the J-15 intercepted by E3, The other side will definitely send a closer air flight formation to support by the way.

The commander of Kadena Air Base could not determine whether China would directly let the J-31 intercept, or send the J-15, or four planes to intercept the F15 at the same time, but that was not the main purpose, as long as the air flight formation changed direction to intercept, it would make room for the F22 to fight with it, which is why in addition to the F22, the commander of the air base sent two more F15s.

"This is a Chinese Navy fighter jet, an unidentified fighter in front of you, please note that you have entered our country's air defense identification zone, please declare your identity and purpose, repeat." The J-15 long plane shouted at the two F15 fighters, which is a normal identification procedure, and Xia Yu, who had been following behind, suddenly found a target on the radar that was rapidly approaching from his 3 o'clock direction, and the distance was only 30 kilometers.

"At 3 o'clock, stealth planes!" Xia Yu shouted at the radio, and at the same time immediately pulled up the control stick and stepped on the rudder, the J-31, which had maintained a steady flight, seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, and made a maximum instantaneous disk fiercely, pointing the nose at the unknown stealth plane that was speeding away.