Chapter 223 Cavalry and Platoon Guns

Thinking that he was now piloting a powerful Su-27, Long Yun felt that this was really a bit ridiculous.

This kind of thing, if he wants to do it occasionally, maybe he can; As for how to fight the battle later, it is still up to him to have the final say.

After returning from training, he had such thoughts and choices in his heart, and after two or three days of adaptive training, Long Yun, who was already eager to fight, finally got the permission of the regiment commander to attack.

After changing the type of aircraft he piloted, he would have to take to the air in such a short period of time, and if he was an ordinary pilot, he would definitely not even think about it; But with Long Yun's technology and prestige, no one will question it at all.

In the first two days of combat readiness duty, Long Yun and other pilots would gather in a small conference room in the station's office building every morning, and listen to the commander's briefing. Coupled with the information he had learned from his previous conversations, he probably understood the air combat situation in the Caucasus.

Unlike the fierce fighting in Europe, which was full of canines and artillery, the war in the Caucasus seems to be a different model.

In this land with rugged terrain and extremely inconvenient transportation, no one would really choose a large-scale attack on the ground, so even if there were heavy casualties, they might not be able to cross the majestic Caucasus Mountains running east-west, not to mention that the strategic significance of this offensive direction was quite limited.

But in the rear of this armor-like region was the southern territory of Soviet Europe, with its large mechanical and petrochemical industrial base and strong war potential. In order to attack a large number of targets here, the NATO Air Force has never stopped all kinds of infiltration and sneak attacks, and sometimes large-scale air confrontations have broken out between the two sides; The 237th Regiment stationed here is tasked with supporting the front-line fighter regiments, and together with the Territorial Defense Forces deployed in adjacent areas, they use the Su-27S and the Su-15TM and MiG-31 of friendly forces to form an impregnable air barrier.

However, since the beginning of the war, with the continuous strengthening of NATO's in-depth attacks, the regiment's results have increased day by day, and its losses have continued to rise. After a long-term attack on the ground guidance system, many ground radar stations were destroyed, and the connection between many nodes and the air defense command network was also quite poor, which greatly weakened the Soviet air defense combat system that relied on ground guidance.

Now, the arrival of Long Yun has placed extremely high hopes on the commanders and higher-ups of the 237th Regiment; If it weren't for the fact that the war was in full swing and the shape was tense, it is estimated that his application for combat would not have been approved so easily.

The sharp knife hidden in the snow must be unsheathed again; As for how sharp it is, it depends on his appearance after he lifts off.

But...... Long Yun drove the Su-27 into battle, and it was not the beginning that he was sent forward.

In the first two days of joining the team, as the absolute trump card that the entire 237 fighter aviation regiment was waiting for, Long Yun did not act rashly, but followed the actions of the large army in accordance with the rules.

According to the operational deployment of the regiment, he and his wingman Korolev only participated in two regular airspace cruises, interception and countermeasures, and followed other fighters to take off urgently, forming a magnificent first-line formation to cruise in the vast blue sky.

This kind of large-scale combat dispatch is a bit new in Long Yun's opinion.

Recall that in the 309th Regiment before, it was common for such a formation of multiple fighters to attack; But compared to the gray-black and pea-green gradient camouflage, the light and low-key MiG-29, the air formation in which he is now piloting the Red Seventeen looks much more spectacular.

In the previous formation cruise, when looking left and right, you could only find that the MiGs flying like sparrows were different, and Long Yun in the cockpit looked up and could clearly observe the clear formation baseline composed of four or five fighters. A row of figures flying forward in formation, the fuselage is long and smooth, and the full and powerful bow-shaped front fuselage seems to be full of explosive power; Such a row of Su-27S, dressed in blue and white gradient camouflage, in the vast sky, is as imposing as a mighty cavalry participating in the parade.

The spectacular cruising is certainly amazing; Under the prompting of the ground radar and the A-50 cruising behind them, the information sent by the command center reached the display screen, and the Su-27 formation, which climbed and accelerated to the theater of operations, and met the NATO Air Force in a narrow way, launched an over-the-horizon missile attack according to the usual strategy.

No different from the skillful operation of their comrades-in-arms, Long Yun and Korolev each locked on to the NATO fighters in front of them according to the target information assigned by the formation commander, and then launched two R-27s at intervals; Missiles trailing flames and long trails of smoke have drawn a near-straight track in the sky, and the Su-27s, which maintain a dense formation to counter the peeps of NATO AWACS aircraft, are spectacular no matter how you look at them.

Dozens, or even dozens of over-the-horizon missiles, dozens of seconds of fierce duel; After the sky was densely covered with white clouds left by missile tracks and fighter maneuvers, the results achieved by each were extremely limited.

After the early days of the war, and the fierce scuffle of the last two weeks, NATO fighters active in the skies of the Caucasus, like their Soviet counterparts, are no longer rookies with zero combat experience.

In the face of the imposing but ineffective over-the-horizon missile launch, experienced pilots will not panic; With the rational use of maneuver evasion and electronic countermeasures, these missiles often miss the target. After the gorgeous over-the-horizon raid, the fighter formation turned around and broke away from the battle in a uniform manner, and after completing the speed recovery and climbing into position, they were ready to carry out the next batch of missile assaults, but at this time, the cunning NATO fleet saw that the situation was not good, and immediately broke away from the Soviet front-line fighters who were fighting with them, so that the second batch of attacks of the 237th Regiment lost its target.

In this over-the-horizon interception battle as a member of the formation, Long Yun's operation was decent, but he did not achieve any results; However, such a battle result made him feel bored at all at this time.

As the number one trump card that he has figured out in the rain of bullets, unlike a rookie who is eager to try it or a veteran who has a deep hatred, Long Yun knows that his first task at this time is to adapt and observe.

Tong guò coordinated with the sortie formation, participated in the plundering and attack operations of his comrades, and the daily routine tactical seminars, Long Yun soon had an intuitive and comprehensive understanding of the territorial air defense form shì in the Caucasus; After considering the pros and cons of formation combat and two-plane sorties, Long Yun submitted an application to the officer on duty for a sortie in the next few days, and at the same time began to think about his next way to deal with the enemy.

Do you continue to mix in the formation and participate in platoon shootouts, or do you have some doorways that you are good at?

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