While ordering the fighters to be dispatched, and at the same time contacting the navy to prepare for salvage, the lieutenant colonel's deployment was simply thorough.

However, it is a pity that in the northern sky at this time, the actions of the White No. 20 Su-27M2 will not go as he wants.

The "White Reaper", which had just achieved at least four victories, was turning on the afterburner and speeding up to the northern continent.

After a hearty fierce battle, several F-4EJs were eliminated, and Long Yun's feelings on the way back were very high.

However, in addition to the heights, he also has to face one thing, that is, the fuel storage situation of the landline.

The Su-27M2, a facelift with a reduced body size compared to the prototype Su-27S, basically has a large range improvement over the standard Su-27 in all flight performance, but there is one parameter that has hardly changed, that is, the combat radius and maximum range after filling up the fuel tanks in the aircraft.

Compared with the Su-27S, which has a fuel tank capacity of about 9,400 kilograms, although the design also draws on some expansion methods of the M-type aircraft, the reduction of the size of the fuselage will inevitably affect the design size of the internal fuel tank, and the final internal fuel capacity of the Su-27M2 is about 10,000 kilograms, which is an increase compared with the S-type, but it is obviously inferior to the Su-27M with a capacity of 11,500 kilograms, plus two more fuel-consuming AL-31F-M2 engines, it is naturally difficult to have a better performance in the range.

Of course, even if the range does not increase, the Su-27M2 has an incompetently oil range of three and seven hundred kilometers.

On the other hand, this number is actually difficult to achieve in actual combat, because the longest range is estimated when the fighter is "unloaded", that is, without any plug-ins. And what about Long Yun's white number twenty. Carrying a four-ton missile, it flew over the entire Sea of Japan, and then fought two fierce battles in a row. Now he has less than 2,000 kilograms of aviation kerosene in his hands, and even if he is careful with his calculations, he can only fly about 800 kilometers.

Eight hundred kilometers, which doesn't sound bad, it's almost that far from Wakasa Bay to Vladivostok.

But now that there are pursuers behind him, can he still cruise back all the way?

Of course not, the current Long Yun is facing such a sky crisis. Of course, he would not be stupid enough to climb to an altitude of 7,000 meters and fly in a straight line at a speed of 800 kilometers in order to save fuel, so he would provide an excellent straight line target for the Americans, so he immediately climbed after breaking away from the coastline at a low altitude, turned on the afterburner at the same time, and accelerated while climbing at a speed of 950 kilometers per hour, and soon broke away from the airspace of Wakasa Bay behind him.

After a fierce battle, the fuselage and wings of the White No. 20 fighter were already empty, and the fuel consumption was four-fifths, and the light fuselage could easily climb all the way to a height of 5,000 meters, but although the missiles were lighted out and the pylons were still there. If you don't continue to drive afterburner, the Su-27M2, which has a lot of cumbersomeness, will still not be able to break through the sound barrier.

At the time of receiving the Su-27M2 at the IAPO. Long Yun personally did some test flights and knew what the real capabilities of this fighter were.

As a facelift of the Su-27S, equipped with two AL-31F-M2 engines with an afterburner thrust of 14 tons and a maximum thrust of 8.5 tons, the power of the M2 type is more abundant than that of the S type, but the weight and aerodynamic drag of the body are smaller than that of the S type. For the aerodynamic design and control characteristics of the Su-27 series fighters, supersonic cruise is not a very practical function, and there is no no-load sortie in actual combat, but this does show that the M2 is a powerful high-SEP and high-maneuverability fighter.

The situation of the test was like this, and although there were many external pylons on the body, the white No. 20, which was moving forward with its head held high and the tail vent flame bright, still climbed and accelerated little by little, and gradually accelerated to Mach 1.3 with some afterburner turned on.

The internal oil reserves were worrisome, but they still drove the afterburner out of the battle at high speed, Long Yun's decision was very correct, and the Americans who pursued behind began to worry.

Just a few minutes ago, after liftoff, approaching the 255X airspace, a burst of 35th Wing "Spur" squadron fighters that were rapidly accelerating and climbing, and several F-15Cs painted in gray camouflage entered the battlefield at Mach 1.5 speeds, and on the way they were far away from the JASDF fighters returning from the wolf.

Finally arrived at the predetermined theater of operations with afterburner, and as a result, after checking the target information sent by the command center, the cunning "Scythe" had actually been oiled on the soles of its feet, and the speed of detachment was not slow at all, and the USAF fleet, which had just turned off the afterburner and let the engine rest for a while, had to continue to climb to an altitude of 7,000 meters that was conducive to the speed of the fighters, and then once again drive the afterburner to break through the sound barrier and accelerate the pursuit of the Russian "Reaper" in front.

The F-15C, an air superiority fighter with outstanding high-speed interception capabilities, is designed to pursue extreme speed, even when it is full of four over-the-horizon missiles and four combat missiles, it can fly at a high speed of Mach 1.8.

However, compared to the numbers on paper, no F-15 in actual combat will continue to pursue the enemy at this speed, on the one hand, continuous afterburner will quickly run out of fuel in the aircraft, and on the other hand, the pursuit of afterburner-to-weight ratio, for which the aircraft engine can appropriately sacrifice working time, the design does not allow pilots to fly with afterburners all the time.

Just look at the current "Spurs" squadron, as well as the "Rainbow" squadron flying from the east, the gray war eagles in the clear sky are driving afterburner into the supersonic state, and the triangle representing the "sickle" on the multi-function display screen is also approaching, but what is inconsistent with the report of the command center is that the flight speed of the Russians is not much slower, although the distance between the two sides is getting closer a little bit, with a speed difference of less than 150 knots, how long will it take to see the "Grim Reaper"?

Phew, bah, this statement is really unlucky, in short, it is to catch up with the Russians in front, I'm afraid it won't work like this!

The opponent's escape speed was amazing, which not only made the "eagles" in the air very tricky, but Lieutenant Colonel Smith in the command center was also stimulated, and his eyes widened and he kept muttering:

"This ,...... What's the situation?

It's not normal, it's not normal at all,--Hamilton, are we mistaken? What the hell is going on with this guy's landline! ”

"Understood, sir!"

Sitting in front of the computer and clicking the mouse frantically, the high-speed printer next to him spit out a few pieces of A4 paper, as a front-line commander, in fact, Lieutenant Colonel Smith, who was temporarily arrested to deal with the threat of the "sickle", his throat moved slightly, he grabbed the printing paper and looked at it again, feeling that the Russian ace who swaggered and fled in the sky must have some tricks, could it be that what the intelligence department said is true, and Crazy Ivan's landline is no longer an ordinary "flanker"?

"Even if it's Flanker_C, it's too unexpected! ――As for the people in the tactical analysis team, how much oil should the 'Scythe' have now?

Hurry up, hurry up! ”

"Okay, good sir, I'll call right away and check!"

Seeing that the "sickle" on the projection screen was still going north, and a large group of "eagles" behind him were clearly a little unable to catch up, Lieutenant Colonel Will Smith's feelings began to fluctuate violently, and he was reprimanded by General Buckhill Clark just now, which had already made him have a belly full of fire, and he originally hoped to use the 35th squadron's net to catch the "sickle", but now he saw that it was about to fail, and he urged again and again in a hoarse voice, and the technical officer who was sweating hard could only respond frequently.

From the sortie to the present, how much oil is there for the "sickle"?

It would have been nonsense to say how much fuel it still has on the enemy's side, a fighter plane, and it is still on the enemy's side.

In a large-scale war, the analysis of the range and combat capability of the aircraft of both the enemy and us, which of course also includes the estimation of the range of internal oil and the current oil stockpile, in this regard, the USAF, which has rich combat experience and strong technical force, is very good at it, but it is one thing to estimate at the campaign level, and no one will pay attention to this stubble in terms of tactics.

To put it bluntly, the flight status of a fighter plane changes every moment in the process of navigation and engagement, and the technical parameters of the enemy fighter can only be snooped on by the guò intelligence department, and there is no guarantee that the number will be accurate.

This is the case, but it is not at all too careful to be wary of the "sickle".

After the outbreak of the Far East War, a military technical group was set up in the US military command center in Japan under the US Pacific Command to continuously pay attention to and analyze the movements of Viktor Rezenov; Now, once Smith asks, assuming that the Reaper's landline is the Flanker C, which is the Russian designation Su-27M, and based on the recorded combat history, technical analysts are quick to report that, as a rough estimate, the Sickle plane should now have nearly four tons of oil in stock.

"Four, four tons?!

What the hell, are the Russians flying tankers! ”

According to the internal oil capacity of the "Flanker" C, the figure given by the intelligence system is "eleven thousand five hundred", and it has to be said that they did steal the correct number, but now it startles the lieutenant colonel:

"Damn, how can this be, don't let him run! - Damn, order all the troops to pursue at full speed, and make sure to catch up with that guy and knock him down! ”

"Uh, Mr. Lieutenant Colonel...... It's dangerous to do that now, the 'foxcatcher' of the Russians—"

"-Really! What kind of bullshit is this, damn ......" (to be continued......