Even after a rambling brainstorm, Harold Fisher did not stop observing the "Flanker" fighter that had been following behind the unaware F-15 fleet, or pretending to be a member of the formation. As the landline continued to climb, the major's perspective became higher and higher, and his eyes were fixed on the "flanker" with the bulge on the back of the plane, and the exaggerated paint of the red star on a white background suddenly reminded him of whose landline it was, and at the same time immediately realized that something was wrong.

But, damn it, how could this guy be like this!

Suddenly, he spotted his opponent by sight, but in a way he never dreamed of, the major could only look at the direction of nine o'clock in a daze for a while, he really couldn't understand why such a bizarre scene appeared in the sky, and it was almost petrified on the spot.

As if to echo Fisher's surprise, just when he was at a loss, the Russian "Flanker" fighter suddenly began to move.

In the Major's sight, the white metal giant bird seemed to be tired of continuous follow-up flight, only to see it flick its wings quite briskly, and a few shadowy white dots broke out from under the slender fuselage; In an instant, the white dots began to splatter large clouds of smoke and glittering firelight, marking a narrow track in the air that was almost straight. A fan-shaped salvo like a peacock opening a screen suddenly bloomed in the sky, and on the extension line of each gray and white trajectory, there was an F-15 "Eagle" that flew forward with a trailing trail, as if it was piloting the missiles behind it——

Explosions and fires, all of a sudden, erupted in all directions in the clear blue sky; The heavy fighters that were still flying in the air one moment turned into clouds of smoke and fireballs that shattered and burned the next.

The sudden attack of the followers. For the victims, it was a bolt from the blue without warning.

However, in astonishment, he witnessed the whole process of the "flanker" attack, but because he was extremely surprised, he forgot to intervene in the eyes of Major Fisher. This qiē is done so perfectly. Each missile stuck in the air seems to have its own soul, and a journey of nirvana that rushes to the target and turns into a huge fireball looks so gorgeous and gorgeous.

However...... What kind of magnificence is this, and isn't the price already fantastically expensive?

Completely confused by the shocking scene in the sky, it was completely subconscious that the lever entered the big overload and circled, and the blurred vision of the major hit him with a burst of black vision in front of his eyes, and he could even feel a burst of adrenaline bursting into his veins, like thunder in the valley surging back and forth in his body.

This, this damn Russian. How many fights did he knock out just now?

Viktor Rezenov, the horror "Reaper" with a downed count has exceeded a hundred, this guy will definitely make some magic spells, it must be!

Witnessing the instant annihilation of his comrades, driven by the double pressure of fear and anger, the major's maneuvering maneuvers were very irritable, but the strong maneuverability of the F-15S/MTD still allowed him to turn one hundred and eighty degrees flexibly, and faintly formed a circling confrontation with the white No. 20 who had just completed an aerial salute performance.

With his eyes fixed on the Russian fighter against the backdrop of the canopy, the major's temples thumping and thumping, the emotional reaction of revenge for friendly troops and the duty of a soldier on a mission were completely integrated. With lightning speed, he abandoned the two auxiliary fuel tanks under the compound pylons of the wings, and pulled open the radar door. While waiting for the self-test, I easily turned on the pre-power of the two AIM-120B and two AIM-9L, and while pedaling the rudder to maintain the continuous sideways of the large overload, trying to occupy a position, I clicked on the melee mode when the multi-function display image switched and the radar had just completed initialization.

In the fierce battle in the sky where friendly forces have just died, the F-15 fighter plane that was shot and caught fire before is still burning and falling, but Harold Fisher's mind has not lost his mind, he quickly estimated that the distance between friend and foe is about 5,000 meters, and the altitude difference is less than 400.

When it is still far from enemy aircraft, the first choice for entering a hovering confrontation should be the AIM-120B, which has a longer range.

The lightning decided the weapon, pushed forward the throttle valve to open the afterburner to replenish energy, and the black "Agile Eagle" flat-tailed pressed down and the canard wings up, flying out of the limit circling angular velocity beyond the F-15C at an altitude of 3,000 meters; Pursuing the opponent at a turning angular velocity of 27 degrees per second, and always maintaining the flight speed near the angular speed, Fisher did not forget to mobilize the radar to lock the "flanker" flying in the direction of 10 o'clock, so that the airborne fire control system could grasp the timing of the missile's launch.

There is no way, to deal with this murderous "crazy Ivan", even if he is an elite pilot like him, he must use the lethal probability camera provided by the fire control computer; Otherwise, even if the missile is barely launched, it is almost impossible to pose a threat to that guy.

And even if it is such an action, with the eight air-to-air missiles carried by the "Agile Eagle", it is uncertain whether it can touch the side of the "Reaper" landline!

Remembering the last aerial confrontation, flying the F-15S/MTD, which had obvious superiority in flight performance, fought against the "Flanker", and tried his best but was never able to solve the enemy, Fisher seriously summed up the pros and cons of the confrontation after the war, and he thought that there was no serious mistake in his play. The main reason why the "Grim Reaper" failed to catch the "Grim Reaper" was that it did not fully realize the strong vertical maneuverability and special agility of the "Agile Eagle", and in addition, it has to be said that the "Sidewinder" missile was not as good as the AA-11 "Archer" of the Russians, which was also a factor that could not be ignored.

Therefore, in today's narrow encounter, the highly skilled major will naturally not stick to the rules, and his intention is very clear, that is, to abandon the illusion of a quick settlement of the battle, and to continuously approach the opponent through continuous horizontal maneuver, so as to increase the effectiveness of deterrence; Then rely on the excellent vertical maneuverability and SEP advantages inherited from the F-15 family of "Agile Eagle" to gradually compress the opponent's maneuvering space, and finally try to use missile salvo or aerial artillery to do it in one fell swoop.

Following this line of thinking, Major Fisher's F-15S/MTD plane entered the pursuit, and he flew the plane around a steep arc and tried to cut into the inner side of the opponent's route to seize the initiative.

Now, it is not yet time to kill the opponent, and the most important thing is to try to suppress the maneuver space of the Russians!

In this battle of the number one trump card, the outburst of love "Shark" Harold Fisher is obviously close to going berserk, and the black "Agile Eagle" he controls is fierce and dazzling, like an angry Black Eagle swooping down in the sky.

Under the vast sky, the Americans met the enemy with all their might, and the Americans' fighting spirit was unprecedentedly high; However, the world is unpredictable, the major who pilots the high-mobility F-15 can't understand it after all, he doesn't know that the "Caucasian Reaper" has made a crazy second slimming of the fighter, and now the Su-27P42 that is maneuvering with himself not only has plenty of R-73M missiles on board, but also has surpassed the "Agile Eagle" he piloted in terms of SEP and even the thrust-to-weight ratio of air combat.

The F-15S/MTD, a high-lift verification model for the McDonnell Douglas short take-off and landing fighter project, is equipped with a binary vector thrust structure with thrust reversers, and a front canard wing with trim lift, which is further increased to more than 14 tons on the basis of the prototype F-15C using empty weight; It is equipped with two F100-PW-229 engines, with an afterburner thrust of about 13.2 tons and an air combat thrust-to-weight ratio of about 1.37 tons.

Su-27P42, the product of the crazy weight reduction plan of the Sukhoi fighter of Major General Viktor Rezenov's Aviation Force, dismantled many components such as radar and fire control systems, and reduced the empty weight from 16.8 tons to 14.6 tons of the Su-27S, equipped with two AL-31F engines, a single afterburner thrust of about 12.5 tons, and an air combat thrust-to-weight ratio of about 1.32.

If you simply compare the thrust-to-weight ratio of air combat calculated by theoretical values with the non-production models from the two camps of the East and the West, it seems that the "Agile Eagle" still has a slight advantage, but the actual situation is just the opposite; The F-15S/MTD tail thrust reverser binary vector thrust nozzle has contributed a lot to its maneuverability, but it has also caused a total thrust loss of almost 6 percent, and the F100-PW-229, which has a higher bench thrust than the AL-31F, has a slightly inferior thrust output after being installed on the "Agile Eagle".

So today, the thrust-to-weight ratio of the two twin-engine heavy fighters in the sky facing each other and chasing each other is almost at the same level.

On this basis, if we want to consider the advantages and disadvantages of the mobility of the Su-27P42 and the F-15S/MTD, and compare them in terms of configuration and numbers, the "lightly armed Su-27S" and the "F-15C equipped with canard wings and TVC (Thrust_Vector_Control, thrust vector control) have made great efforts in their own shortcomings, and the vertical mobility and SEP of the former have been greatly improved. The latter's horizontal maneuverability and agility have also improved dramatically, and it can be said that they have reached a terrible level beyond the F-16 and other light third-generation aircraft, and they are almost on par with each other.

Then the victory or defeat in the real confrontation depends on which pilot's skill can be higher!

Using such a powerful fighter, the confrontation between the two top aces was extremely hot at the beginning; Missiles snag through the sky, interspersed with demonstrative shells, and heavy fighters circling and chasing each other tried to turn behind the opponent's tail, but for a time no one could do so. (To be continued......)