Missiles are troublesome enough, and the "Bear" and "Backfire" reconnaissance planes that are everywhere are sometimes even more difficult to guard against.

As soon as the "Eagle Eye" did not fix its sights on any part of the sea, the Russian reconnaissance planes that slipped in and smelled the smell of the battleship would call in a large number of long-range bombers and drop an astonishing number of anti-ship missiles; To get rid of this kind of trouble completely, the Americans actually only need to keep the fleet away from the coastline, but in today's decisive battle, the Russians are not fools, who will go to the depths of the ocean and fight the world's first navy?

In the face of a strategic dilemma, U.S.Navy no longer has the basis for slow and patient competition with its opponents, and a battle close to Kamchatka and not too far from Aleutian is the bottom line for the two sides to test each other.

Thanks to the efforts of the "Tomcat", after a missile salvo, dozens of dazzling fires soon bloomed in the sky.

The ballistic KSR-5 missile, although fast, is easy to be successfully intercepted by the AIM-54C; The TWS mode inherently cannot guarantee that all "Immortal Birds" will be guided by the target, and the 36 "Immortal Birds" are launched, except for a few malfunctioning bombs, the interception success rate in the face of the "Kingfish" is about 80 percent, and the shield effect created by the United States is indeed quite good.

After a wave of "immortal birds" strafing, there were only about 20 "kingfish" left in the sky that were dragging tail flames and rushing wildly, which is still quite a lot, but it is already within the limits that the "Aegis" system can handle.

In addition, the "Flying Angel" squadron of the inner defense circle will also take action and launch AIM-120B missiles at a distance of 200 kilometers to intercept them; The weight of the warhead of the "Slime" missile is only one-third that of the "Immortal Bird", but the guidance accuracy is higher. It was not very difficult to shoot down the "kingfish". Perhaps this wave of missiles will be shot down before they reach the interception range of the RIM-66 "Standard" missiles.

That's probably how the battlefield is going. Next, according to the observation and calculation of the E-2C "Hawkeye", the command center quickly ruled out the threat of this wave of "Kingfish".

Predicting that the trajectory was still quite far from the coordinates of the aircraft carrier battle group, and realizing that the Russians were just bluffing and "scareping" themselves with a large number of anti-ship missiles, William Pratt, who was in charge of the "Roosevelt," did not rush into anger, after all, after receiving the message of "launching missiles from the backfire" just now, the commanders were indeed very nervous, no matter what. It's not bad if a missile doesn't fall on the head.

Synthesizing the information from the forward reconnaissance platform, which was displayed on the operational situation map, the command organization of the battle group quickly confirmed that the threat was temporarily lifted.

Except for the western seas, where the air raids are still underway, there are no Russian fighters, bombers, or long-range reconnaissance planes to be found anywhere, so even if Ivan's next wave of "backfire" has already hit the road, it is now at least 700 kilometers away from the aircraft carrier battle group, and it has not yet entered the sight of the "Eagle Eye."

A decisive battle broke out between the two sides, and the first round of defense of U.S. Navy was basically successful.

After the efforts of the VF-21 squadron, the group of "Kingfish" anti-ship missiles that the "Immortal Bird" did not stop is still penetrating. However, at this time, not only the "Super Hornet" fighters of the VFA-122 squadron had already filled the position. The E-2C "Hawkeye" early warning plane, which was hovering in the inner defense circle, also calculated the trajectory of the incoming missile, and found that these terrifying big guys were not aiming at the aircraft carrier battle group at all, but only at an empty sea area.

With regard to the Red Navy's heavy anti-ship missiles, the Americans' intelligence work was not very adequate; although the guided weapons lacking aircraft guidance could not easily change their trajectory, the F/A-18E/F members of the "Flying Angel" squadron still locked onto their targets one by one and carried out intensive "Slammer" interception and firing, striving to intercept all the missiles outside the air defense kill zone of surface ships.

Missiles flew fast, explosions broke out everywhere, and there was a life-and-death contest between spear and shield, and the Americans were not bad for the time being.

In the face of multiple batches and multi-direction fighter interceptions, only a few of the dozens of roaring KSR-5s broke through the defense and entered the range of fire of the US Navy's RIM-66 "Standard" missiles, and the anti-ship missiles whose flight altitude was reduced to 150 meters were quickly captured by the "Aegis" system, and then encountered the ship-to-air missiles intercepted head-on. disappear on the radar display.

Having successfully defended against a salvo of air-to-ship missiles, the Americans finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the contest between the two sides was far from deciding the winner.

Penetration and interception, just when the battle on the battlefield was in full swing, the white No. 20 piloted by Long Yun had already escaped the pursuit of the "Tomcat" fleet; In the face of the "Grim Reaper" who broke away from the battle, the VF-21 "Free Lancer" squadron, whose strength fell to Yan zhòng, the two remaining F-14A+ fighters have returned, and the rest of the fighters in the air are busy intercepting the "Kingfish", and no one pursues him and his Su-27M2 fighters for a while.

The plane accelerated all the way away, the RWR warning quickly fell silent, and the sky situation behind him was like a fire, Long Yun knew very well that the Americans were now full of heavy air-launched anti-ship missiles flying with flames, and now I am afraid that he could not take care of his lonely fighter, if he really wanted to go deep into the enemy formation and break through the US air defense circle, then now is an excellent opportunity.

But he won't do that, because, of course, it's easy to penetrate, but what about after a successful penetration?

Su-27M2, a fighter with pure air superiority mounting, even if it hits the Americans' aircraft carriers closely, it will not be able to pose a threat to it, but will inevitably fall into the encirclement and suppression of a large number of US fighters.

Next, just when a fighter plane of U.S. Navy was busy intercepting the "Kingfish" and the fighter plane that was urgently lifted into the air in the rear was not yet in place, Long Yun was also busy rushing to the next battlefield.

Piloting the White 20 into an arc-shaped track, after getting rid of the electronic interference of the Americans, they contacted "Ruslan," received the air situation information relayed by the transport planes in the rear, and confirmed that the 22nd Red Flag Bomber Aviation Regiment had returned home and that the large-scale air defense interception battle in the southern sky had also come to an end.

The location of the surface battle group, in the plans of the General Headquarters, is the assault position of the 317th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment.

When rushing to the battlefield, Long Yun raised his wrist and looked at the flight watch, at 6:29 in the morning, the light gradually shining in the sky reflected the sky clearly, which was more beneficial to the visual air combat of the fighters, and for himself, it was less of an excellent cover, but he was not entangled in this now, but was considering the overall tactics of the Red Navy.

Regarding the arrangements of the General Headquarters of the Far Eastern Theater, Long Yun did not know much about naval and air operations.

But even so, he also knows very well that the US Navy's aircraft carrier battle group is not a bone to gnaw on, and the Tu-22M3 of a single bomber regiment is of little significance; Next, it depends on the battlefield command ability of the commanders of both sides, and perhaps, add a little luck that is bound to come, according to the superstitious naval parlance, it is probably a kind of doomed fate.

The confrontation between missile platforms and aircraft carriers, and between the Tu-22M3 and the F-14, was once a key operational topic for both the Red Navy and the US Navy.

Since it is from the real world in 2020, Long Yun has certainly done a lot of homework on these studies, he has consulted some reports of the Soviet military strategic research department, which have both considerable and pragmatic analysis, as well as subjective assumptions, of course, most of the materials are in between, but in short, most of the wise-minded naval strategic and tactical researchers have put forward one point, that is, in the confrontation between anti-ship missiles and aircraft carriers, if there is no big gap between the weapons and equipment, technical level and command capabilities of the two sides, Then either side actually has a chance to win.

In this way, the boundary between life and death has become a little blurred because of this.

As for the American side, because they do not know much about the specific combat capabilities of Soviet anti-ship missiles and long-range bombers, various inferences have emerged one after another, among which one of the widely circulated statements is that "the Russians have no chance" -- as for the arguments, because the E-2C "Hawkeye", which is hovering 350 kilometers away from the aircraft carrier battle group, can detect "backfires" at a distance of 700 kilometers from the fleet, and then these "backfires" need to run at Mach 2 speeds for 12 minutes, In order to break through to a distance of 300 kilometers and enter the missile launch position, and during this period of time, the US Navy can urgently take off at least two squadrons of 24 F-14 Tomcats and carry 144 AIM-54s into the battlefield.

Next, a simple comparison of the number of anti-ship missiles and bombers of the Russians with the number of "immortal birds" of the U.S.Navy, which is multiplied by the probability of hits, leads to all the above conclusions.

With such reasoning, the nerds will probably nod their heads again and again, and they can't see a flaw, but the battle-hardened Long Yun will only scoff, and he quickly flew close to the Pacific Fleet surface battle group, and the RWR also intercepted the scanning signal of the MR-800 radar, and then entered the predetermined position under the navigation guidance of "Ruslan", preparing to continue to harass the outer air defense circle of the Americans and clear the way for the bombers of the 317th Guards Regiment. (To be continued......)