The "backfire" reappeared, and the Americans attacked with all their might, and a fierce offensive and defensive contest was just around the corner.

In the northwest Pacific Ocean, where the morning sun is rising, on the turbulent blue sea, there are heavy aircraft carriers with busy operations, fighter engines roaring, F-14 fighters full of air-to-air missiles and auxiliary fuel tanks, wings flattened, rudder swinging, lined up behind the flame shield in the take-off area, steam catapults suddenly started, and the "Tomcat" full of fuel and bombs sank slightly after flying off the deck, and then dragged two tail flames into the blue sky.

Alerted by Russian bombers, a squadron of F-14 Tomcats was urgently released within a few minutes, and the CV-67 "John F. Kennedy" was ejected very frequently, as was the CVN-73 "Theodore Roosevelt" in the center of the fleet on the south side.

The battle group of three heavy aircraft carriers has a great advantage in the dispatch of carrier-based aircraft compared with the battle group composed of one aircraft carrier.

Just like now, in addition to the CV-71 "George Washington", which specializes in attacking and carrying aircraft recovery work has just ended, the ability of the two aircraft carriers to take off the F-14 in an emergency has also doubled, which means that if the Russians desperately break through the defense and rush forward with strength, the "Tomcats" can also calmly occupy a defensive position that meets the requirements of the "Immortal Bird" in terms of bearing and height, without leaving the opponent a little opportunity to take advantage of.

In the face of a strong enemy, the "Tomcats" reacted quickly, but at the same moment, the VF-122 squadron, which intercepted the "Scythe" in the sky ahead, fell into a bitter battle.

Piloting planes to penetrate defenses and attack and disrupt the Americans' air defense system is not difficult for Long Yun at all.

Although at first glance. Facing the US aircraft carrier battle group with a complete system and abundant fighters. A fighter that relies solely on its own radar will be at an absolute disadvantage. The U.S. Navy with E-2C can have the convenience of "one-way transparency" on the battlefield, and can casually mobilize some fighters to shoot down the penetrators.

But now, not to mention who the infiltrators are, when reconnaissance planes are everywhere and Tu-22M3s are flying all over the sky, the Americans' defense focus is obviously not "flankers", and the White No. 20, which is intended to open the way for the Red Navy bomber fleet and indicate the target, has few enemies to entertain it, and as a coverer, it can still get a little light from the covered. This is a bit funny to say, but it has long been in Long Yun's pre-war planning.

Flying forward along a straight course, the "Hawkeye" early warning plane deployed by the Americans on the west side of the fleet was forced to retreat on the way, and Long Yun's ears finally sounded the RWR prompt sound illuminated by radar.

In the strict jamming environment, the N011 radar can only roughly detect a few head-on targets, but there is no distance information at all, but Long Yun, who has experienced a hundred battles, guessed eight or nine, and he deduced from the flight altitude, speed and formation posture of approaching the target head-on, that the plane sent by the Americans to respond to the battle, or to send them to death, should not be a "Tomcat". Rather, it is a swarm of "super bumblebees".

This kind of speculation is basically in line with the current war situation. According to the information sent by "Ruslan", several bomber regiments of the Red Navy are approaching the predetermined sea area, and the Americans are probably too anxious and do not have much mind to fight an air battle with themselves in the traditional sense.

With such speculation in mind, further infiltrating into the hinterland of the Americans' air defense, Long Yun flew the plane to flexibly dodge and use a set of well-played continuous sideways turns to shake off the radar tracking of the American carrier-based aircraft.

After entering the side turn, the RWR quickly regained its calm, but the effect of diffuse electronic interference was still there, and Long Yun knew that these interceptors were still far away - probably, a hundred kilometers anyway, otherwise with the ability of AN/APG-73, they would not be so easily thrown off by a few side turns.

Fighting on the vast oceans, unlike on land, the NDS (Non-Doppler_Scan, Non-Doppler Scan) mode, which is plagued by ground clutter and does not have the ability to look downward, can also play a role.

So theoretically, if the PD mode is unlocked due to the radial maneuver of the target, the "Hornet" can switch to other modes to re-intercept, but now the distance between the two sides is still far away, and the AN/APG-73 in NDS mode can not see 100 kilometers. As a result, when the "backfire" roared in the sky and the "Tomcat" attacked with all its might, the F/A-18E/F planes sent to intercept the "Scythe" still needed to occupy the precious "Hawkeye" command channel, adjust their deployment according to the target information provided by the early warning plane, and pounce on the "Grim Reaper" in the sky in front in two directions.

From getting off the track to being recaptured by the VF-122 squadron fighters who were circling and transposing, the tactics of the "Tomcat" and the "Bumblebee" were very different, and this certainly did not escape Long Yun's eyes.

Although the closer the U.S. warships got closer to the group, the more severe the electronic jamming situation became, the young man still combined the radar, IRST and RWR information to deduce the opponent's intentions, and he climbed all the way up in the short process of unlocking, and by the time the Americans surrounded him and prepared to launch missiles to intercept him, the White 20 had already achieved an altitude difference of at least 4,000 meters, which made the U.S. Navy fighters in the middle of the air helpless for a while.

In the face of the cunning Russians, piloting the "Super Hornet" with a huge fuselage and an engine that is very unsuitable for the high-speed range, the "Flanker" at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters gave the American pilots a great headache, and the young men cursed and accelerated to climb high to create the launch conditions for the AIM-120B missile.

In the dawn sky, there is a gold-dyed vastness in all directions, and the F/A-18 fighters that are speeding up are like sharp crosses, but the wide and thick edges on both sides of the front fuselage have destroyed the smooth lines, and in the nose radome, the flat slit array antenna is continuing to precession, the fire control system is solving, and the gray-white "Slammer" missiles are ready to launch, but the targets they need to attack are also climbing, and the altitude difference between the offensive and defensive sides is not close.

The AIM-120B, an active radar-guided missile recently received by the U.S. Navy, has a range much higher than that of the AIM-7 series of missiles, but compared with the "Sparrow" M, the upper limit of the negative altitude of engagement has not been improved much.

First of all, for the AIM-7F/M, because there is no number chain, it is not the thruster that restricts the range of the missile, but the echo interception distance of the semi-active radar seeker on the missile, which rarely exceeds 40 kilometers for ordinary air targets, and even if the thrusters of the "Sparrow" are strong, they cannot extend the range.

Secondly, the range of ARHM is increased compared with SARHM, and the contribution to ballistic optimization is not small, a kind of SARHM, nothing else, just replace the semi-active radar seeker with an active radar seeker, and the range can also be increased by a certain range, because in the process of engagement, ARHM does not need to do frequent follow-up maneuvers to changes in the target's orientation, so that it can run less detours and save its own valuable kinetic energy.

As for the thrusters, which are important factors in the range of missiles, from the "Sparrow" to the "Slime", the latter is obviously more advanced in terms of thruster performance, but it is also smaller than the former.

Because of this, it is not surprising that the AIM-120B's negative altitude interception capability has been improved.

As for the issue of the "Slammer", before that, Long Yun was very afraid of encountering this kind of missile frequently over the Caucasus, after all, the people who mounted this kind of missile were basically F-15 "Eagles", and the high-altitude and high-speed ability of this fighter is quite good, even if the initial position is unfavorable, it can quickly accelerate and climb up and then launch the missile.

But now, in the face of several "Hornets" surrounded by missiles, he has no similar worries.

In the high-altitude and high-speed section, the F/A-18E/F is almost a discus with wings welded, and although they are now fighting the U.S. Navy's air defense system on their own, young people who have not found any traces of the F-14 are still confident.

At this time, the most worrying thing for ordinary pilots is that they are not optimistic about the six points -- if the enemy plane is guided by the early warning aircraft and keeps the radar silently firing infrared bombs, it is very likely to be attacked without being aware of it; But for Long Yun, with the insight of his consciousness, as long as he concentrated on sweeping around, he could find the enemy planes trying to approach, and there was no market for the "sneak attack" in front of him, and the next battle would be a lot less suspenseful.

Getting closer and closer to the center of the aircraft carrier battle group, the red star giant bird in the sky is still strolling leisurely, a group of anxious, but a little helpless "bumblebee" is spinning around, and none of the barely launched AIM-120B greets the Russians, and at this time in the sky on the west side of the fleet, there is another wave of fighters into the sight of the "Eagle Eye".

A batch of "backfires" had just been discovered, and the F-14 fighters on the two aircraft carriers had taken off urgently, and now they had just completed their flights, and it was discovered that another batch of bombers had arrived in the direction of the fleet's azimuth 20, and the "Eagle Eye" that was stuck in the air quickly issued a warning signal.

The sirens sounded, a cluster of markers appeared on the screen of the integrated air defense command system, and the faces of the commanders also changed.

Sure enough, it was a decisive battle, the Russian bomber regiment actually came in two directions, this situation, the U.S. Navy is not unable to deal with it, but the threat is really not small - not to mention that damn "Scythe", the "Flying Eagle" squadron has not completed the task so far, it seems that the Russians are determined to win, could it be that they have already obtained specific target parameters, and then they have come to such a big deal? (To be continued......)