The two people who watched the fighter plane land had a bad premonition almost at the same time.

Because they know that the size of the 237th Fighter Aviation Regiment's recent sorties has always been eight fighters; This number seems to be quite a lot, but in fact, it is a bit stretched to the front after liftoff. If we encounter an interception mission in multiple directions on the way, and when it is too late to take off fighter reinforcements urgently, we have to divide our forces against the enemy, and it will be even more insufficient.

However, this way of attacking is not immutable for a long time; What really made Long Yun and Kamenev feel that things were not good was the specific model of the returning fighter.

Generally speaking, no matter how many fighters are dispatched, the 237th Regiment, like many aviation regiments, will distinguish between commanders and wingmen, that is, a two-plane formation of two planes as the basic unit to organize the air formation, so that it is also convenient to divide troops to engage the enemy in the event of a situation.

An important principle of the composition of the long plane and wingman is that the models of the two fighters should match: this is of course easy to understand, as a fighter that needs to cooperate in combat, if even the model is different, it will greatly affect the coordination of actions and the coordination of tactics.

But now, among the fighters that have landed in front of them, there are five single-seat Su-27S and one two-seat Su-27UB; This combination is basically impossible, so there is only one bad prediction:

In today's sortie operation, the formation suffered battle losses; And, most likely, two more were lost.

With doubts and bad premonitions, Long Yun and Kamenev put aside the argument just now, quickened their pace to leave the barracks building, and walked towards the tarmac on the side of the runway.

When the two of them approached the tarmac by the runway, the fighters that had landed earlier had already parked here in turn; Seeing the pilot with a gloomy face and a heavy tone, who was reluctant to say more after climbing down the boarding ladder, Long Yun looked at the expressions of the people around him and knew that the situation was not good.

Sure enough, after asking the ground crew and other personnel who rushed to hear the news, he talked for a while, and he roughly knew the experience of the 237th regiment's attack; It was from these descriptions that Long Yun also began to realize that, like the tense battle situation in the European sky, in the sky of the Caucasus, there were also ace pilots of the NATO Air Force who were carrying out safari operations, and these people were still a considerable threat to the Soviet front-line air force.

This time, they encountered the 237th Regiment Formation, and it was their old opponent, the Eighth Air Wing of the United States Air Force.

As an air wing stationed in the Middle East before World War II, and with the highest level of equipment and training among U.S. overseas garrisons, the main fighter of the Eighth Air Wing is the F-15C, which was based on the F-15A but with improved electronic systems and engines, and once posed a considerable threat to the territorial air defense of the southern Soviet Union. It was not until the mid-eighties of the twentieth century that several units of the Soviet Air Force and Air Defense Forces stationed in the Caucasus were equipped with new MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters.

Even so, the Eighth Air Wing, which had been quite active since the outbreak of the Great War, concentrated on air interdiction and air supremacy after dumping other ground attack, escort, and harassment tasks to other newly garrisoned wings, and for a time put great pressure on the air defense of the southern Soviet Union.

In the veteran team of the Eighth Air Wing, as far as the intelligence department knows, the strongest 26 Fighter Squadron has a number of ace pilots who participated in the Gulf War; Although it is said that their so-called shooting down results are a little bit watery, they are still very good in terms of actual combat and combat quality.

No, just after yesterday's launch into the air and the two downed results in the face of the 25th Fighter Squadron, the formation of the 237th Regiment encountered trouble today.

In the process of receiving the combat order and proceeding to intercept in accordance with the ground guidance information, they received an air situation report forwarded by the early warning aircraft through the Guò guidance station, showing that a low-altitude target had penetrated the defense in the southwest direction and had now crossed the national border. So the formation divided its troops into two routes, sending a group of Su-27S twin planes and Su-27UB twin planes to turn to the southwest to meet the enemy, and the rest of the fighters continued to carry out the original mission.

However, the NATO attack planes that crossed the border this time did not actually have a clear target -- there were indeed not many targets to attack in the territory of the three Soviet republics on the side of the Caucasus Mountains, but the bait dropped by the Americans.

In the process of engaging the enemy, the four fighters of the 237th Regiment encountered a sneak attack by the opponent, and several F-15Cs of the 26th Fighter Squadron of the Eighth Air Wing first kept the radar silent, should have approached from the side and rear under the guidance of the AWACS aircraft, and then killed from the direction of the sun at high speed.

Because it was completely defenseless, the formation was caught off guard, and lost a single-seat Su-27S in a hasty response, and the two-seat Su-27UB damaged by a missile crashed on the way back, and the pilot escaped by ejection.

"And what about Simonov? He- how is he? ”

Hearing the anxious inquiry of his comrades-in-arms, Rickkov, who was piloting the Red Zero-9 Su-27S as a long plane, shook his head, raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and then took the flight helmet and froze in a daze; It was about half a minute before a word came out of his throat with difficulty.

"I saw it. - Red Zero Three, after falling a few hundred meters, exploded, no ...... Didn't see him eject. ”

"Y-you see clearly?"

Except for the questioning of someone who was still asking with a glimmer of hope, the young men gathered around the fighter plane were silent around the empty tarmac. As pilots, they all know that once they are hit in an air battle, they have to eject and parachute; If there is no sign of ejection after falling hundreds of meters, it is estimated that the pilot has lost consciousness or died in the line of duty.

In short, Simonov's death is already a very clear fact.

Hearing such news, although it was not the first time in the 237th Regiment, as long as a soldier attacked, it was inevitable to see this kind of thing, but the mood of those present still sank to the bottom with Rykov's words.

On the busy tarmac, no one spoke for a while, only the ground crew was still working silently, and the red No. 09 Su-27S, which had returned from completing the mission but had been hit by the prefabricated fragments of the missile warhead in several places, was hit by the prefabricated fragments of the missile warhead, was hung on the towing frame, and slowly dragged back to the hangar for emergency treatment.

That night, when eating in the restaurant, Long Yun could still feel the gloomy atmosphere that permeated the group.

This kind of atmosphere is no stranger to Long Yun, and it is quite similar to the situation he encountered in the 309th Regiment before; The loss of a comrade who fought side by side, the whereabouts of another pilot, and the loss of two more Su-27s, of course, saddened everyone.

However, if you want to say that the most unacceptable thing for these young people with strong blood and vigor, it should be said that they were defeated by their old rivals, the Eighth Air Wing, and at the hands of F-15 fighters.

It was in this atmosphere that only Kamenev did not forget the discussion of tactics in the afternoon; Sitting opposite Long Yun to eat, he raised his hand to touch his mustache while still muttering quietly.

“…… You see, what's so good about such a battle? Didn't we say in the afternoon that there was no threat to the raid, but this is not the first time we have suffered such losses. If interception operations had been carried out on the basis of guidance information, then such a sneak attack could have been avoided entirely -- and it was not only the Americans who had AWACS aircraft, but ......"

Eating absentmindedly, Long Yun glanced up at the tall, dark-skinned man, but he didn't speak.

Long Yun already knew that Kamenev's heart was actually very uncomfortable at this time, and he was just using chatter to divert his feelings.

So he let Degamenev keep whispering, neither rebutting nor answering.

Thinking of Simonov, who was lying in the wreckage of the fighter plane that crashed in the Caucasus at this time, and had died in the line of duty, although Long Yun couldn't even remember his appearance, but he was also a comrade-in-arms of the 237th Regiment, and he didn't feel good now.

Even in this parallel world that has crossed into, what happened around him, including the young people around him, feels extremely real.

Although the reason tells Long Yun, what happens here is only the affairs of this parallel world, and has little to do with him as a participant; But the loss of his comrades-in-arms and the cruel reality of seeing the war devouring life, how can this make him let go of his mood and feel as if nothing had happened.

Compared to this war full of blood and fire, what a gentle sport the real world aviation competition is.

After eating sullenly, he returned to the dormitory after attending the combat discussion meeting that night, after all, Long Yun had already experienced the baptism of war, and he did not continue to immerse himself in the sadness of his comrades, but took the intelligence materials obtained from the combat discussion meeting and carefully read and studied them under the lamp.

It had only been a few days since he arrived in the Caucasus, and Long Yun felt that he did not know much about the combat situation in the theater and the details of the enemy in front of him; In particular, their main enemy, the Eighth Air Wing of the U.S. Air Force, was even slightly better than many of the fighter wings he had encountered in the skies of Central Europe.

In this way, this fighter wing, which participated in the Gulf War and which had many pilots who stood out in the "Red Flag" exercise, is indeed a strong force that is difficult to deal with.

Flipping through the battle records and looking at them page by page, those shocking figures probably confirmed Long Yun's speculation. Seeing the combat records of recent weeks, as well as the statistics of the results and losses, Long Yun realized that the scale and intensity of the battles that broke out in the skies of the Caucasus were not inferior to the fierce battles in the skies of Central Europe.

And the main enemy who caused this qiē was the Eighth Air Wing, which he didn't know much about.

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