Flying along a straight route to the northeast, before you know it, the track of the White Twenty Su-27M2 is almost parallel to the Air Self-Defense Force E-2C "Hawkeye", and the AWACS aircraft, which are busy monitoring the airspace over the western part of Hokkaido, do not find this low-altitude target; In contrast, the JASDF "Devon Eagle", which is only twenty or thirty kilometers away from the vertical projection, is fully capable of detecting low-flying Sukhoi fighters, but the two F-15Js led by Air Captain Keiichi Yokoji are confronting the Korolev twin planes, and the AN/APG-63 in the STT state is not scanning other airspace at all.

Unlike the observation mode of the human eye, the fighter radar can hardly take care of other targets in the airspace in front of it after entering the single-target engagement mode, at least in the era of mechanical scanning, which is also a major disadvantage of the aircraft scanning radar compared to the ESA (Electronic_Scan_Array, Electronic Scanning Array) radar.

The enemy planes in the sky were surging, but they could not find the approaching "White Grim Reaper", and the slender fighters with huge red stars painted on their backs moved forward in concealment, and the situation of the enemy and us was also changing at any time.

While advancing at a low altitude and roughly estimating the enemy situation in front, Long Yun, who was able to go around the flank of the JASDF fighter, was about to turn on the rear burner, pull up the landline to climb, and turn around a half to enter the attack from the rear hemisphere of the enemy plane, but the RWR happened to send out an alarm signal, detecting an X-band irradiation signal with a high pulse repetition rate!

Oh, what else could this be, probably the two "Devonian Eagles" that were dragged just now?

Long Yun's guess was not wrong, just as he was detouring all the way to launch a sneak attack, the two JASDF fighters that had been in the rear to maintain an interception posture and wait for an opportunity to move had just arrived. At this time. The F-15DJ fighter numbered 941 has intercepted the Lucia fighter echo at low altitude. Preparing for an attack in tracking mode.

"Call 'headquarters', call 'headquarters', identify Lucia machine one, and confirm the target parameters as 'flanker'!

-- Please confirm the air situation, and whether the 'Night Heron' fleet has successfully detached? Our department is about to enter a wave of attacks, and the identification of friend and foe procedures has been lifted; Repeat, our department will enter a wave of attacks, and the identification program will be lifted! The call is over! ”

The low-flying Lucia fighter was spotted and is now approaching its target, piloting the F-15DJ fighter jet of the 941. The Air Self-Defense Force's first-class air force Cao Yamashita Fengwen made a desperate call.

As a newcomer to the 201st Flying Team, he had previously flown with Captain Yokoji and Captain Ozawa to attack many times, but he had not yet achieved a single result, and the young pilot from Kamakura was a little nervous at this time, and while he called the command, he poked the button with his finger and prepared two AIM-7Ms to attack.

From the beginning of the war to the present, although my skills are mediocre and I am driving a two-seater "Eagle", the back row of the empty Cao under the mountain is empty, and it is obvious that the war has now entered a high-intensity competition of strength. For the JASDF, which has a limited number of fighters and a deadly length of the line of fire, even the aging F-4EJ has to go all out. Every F-15 must do its best in the Imperial Air Defense War!

The call was sent out, and it was quickly answered, and after hearing the instruction of "permission to attack", Yamashita Fumi, who was driving the plane close to Lucia's "flanker", immediately coordinated with the wingman, and he personally mobilized the radar to lock the target in STT mode, and the other F-15DJ was responsible for monitoring the surrounding airspace and guarding against the sneak attack of the Lucia army.

When the button was pressed, the two slender missiles broke away from the pylons one after the other, and the self-homing head gave instructions along the weak target echo in front of them, and the "Sparrow" M, with its wings swaying and its bright tail flame, immediately dived and accelerated.

"Two 'Sparrow' M missiles, the launch is complete!"

“Ryoukai！ -- There are no enemy planes in the nearby airspace, and the report is over! ”

While launching missiles, while shouting on the radio to announce, the air under the mountain, which had been firmly stared at Lucia's plane with radar, could no longer see the air situation in front of him, but the F-15DJ with the number 940 next to him was still sweeping the sky with radar, and saw a few light spots in the upper right corner of the display screen moving a little bit, and the air pilot raised his hand to set it up and manually identified these targets as "friendly forces", he knew that these were the "Night Heron" fleet just reported by the command center, and now it was flying back from an airspace close to the Lucia coast.

The two "Sparrow" Ms had just been launched at a low-altitude target, and the two "Eagles" of the 201 Flying Team discovered the Longyun landline by accident, but they soon received an order from the command to deal with this "emergency", requiring them to immediately cross the interception line to chase and kill the lone Lucia military plane.

The appearance of a lone "Flanker" in the night sky caused a high degree of tension among the air commanders, which was certainly not a stress reaction, but because a group of "Night Herons" of JASDF's 6th Flight Team were on a mission in this airspace.

The No. 6 Flying Group, codenamed "Night Heron," has a total of six F-1 support fighters, each with a drooping tail and two white missiles hanging under its wings.

The six fighters lined up in an oblique line, carrying two ASM-1s, known as the "Type 80 anti-ship missiles," and the chubby guys flying these F-1 fighters were all in fear, staring at a gray, green radar display screen while paying attention to the movements in the radar warning instrument and radio.

As soon as any disturbance is discovered, whether it comes from the sea or the air, the "support fighters" who are basically defenseless will have no choice but to throw away their missiles and run away, if it is still too late.

The F-1 "support fighter", which itself is not good looking and relatively mediocre in performance, is the first supersonic fighter developed by Japan after World War II.

Because they are bound by the "Peace Constitution," the armed forces of Japan, which are called the Self-Defense Forces, are not allowed to be equipped with offensive weapons such as "attack planes" and "fighter-bombers," and the United States, which is eager to arm Japan against the socialist camp, acquiesces in the small moves of the Japanese, and conceals the offensive nature of the F-1 with the title of "support fighter," which is neither a donkey nor a horse.

In the name of "support", now not only do they have to do the old business of anti-ship attacks, but there is not a single escort aircraft around the fleet, it is no wonder that the pilots flying the F-1 are very worried.

However, even so, no matter how many ideas there are, the orders of the superiors cannot be disobeyed after all.

As a result, not long after they took off together, the pre-dawn "Grim Reaper" gradually approached their tracks.

Shortly after departure, several F-1s were still hovering in the northern part of the Sea of Japan at night, and the 201st Flying Squadron, which spotted Lucia's "Flanker", reported the situation.

Due to the tense battle situation and poor information, he and his wingman did not know at first that there was a "Night Heron" of the 6th Flying Group at a low altitude nearby, but this report made the generals of the Chiba Command very panicked, and a liaison officer reported the situation to the US Air Defense Command in Japan on the spot, and at the same time, the dispatch officer immediately ordered two F-15DJ fighters to go forward to intercept them, and as for the gap in the "Eagle" interception line, it was filled by the rest of the fighters of the 201st Flight Team on standby at the airport.

A lone Sukhoi fighter plane, whose model is only identified by features such as the Guò RCS, makes the Air Self-Defense Force feel like a great enemy, which is naturally caused by the repeated orders and reports of the United States personnel in advance.

Located on the eastern side of the distant Eurasian continent, in a remote corner of the world war, Japan, both civilians and self-defense forces still lack the necessary emotional understanding of war, and Viktor Rezenov, the super-ace who has gone on a killing spree in Central Europe and the Caucasus and terrified NATO's air power, has not yet had much real fear.

However, once the ruthless war came, the awe of the "White Death" was quickly established by Long Yun himself, a short and fierce battle in the Japanese Sea, four F-15J fighters were shot down one after another, disappeared from the sky without a trace, and the "jade shattering" of colleagues did make many JASDF pilots angry, and the commanders hiding in the reinforced concrete basement had a different idea.

The terrifying "White Death", such a terrifying killer in the air, how to deal with it?

As far as Japan, which has recently joined NATO, was confined to the technical headquarters of the Air Self-Defense Force, but now it really has to face this terrible "butcher of fighters," and the Americans' lesson is right in front of them.

Of course, if it is really a "Grim Reaper", can just two F-15 fighters really stop it?

Out of insurance considerations, just after the fighters in front reported the air situation, some generals decided on the spot to "immediately withdraw" the "Night Heron" fleet, which was still stranded at sea and whose track was about to intersect with Lucia's planes, and chose to take a detour to land at Wakkanai base far away from the enemy planes.

However, after a few words of discussion, I don't know if it was a fluke, or if the mentality of the martial arts was so obsessed with gambling, and was bewitched by the staff next to him, Lieutenant General Ohashi Shigeru, who was neatly dressed in military uniform and gray hair, waved his hand calmly, and ordered the forward "Night Heron" fleet to immediately turn to the southeast and return to Hakodate Airport in a cross with Lucia's scheduled track. (To be continued......)