Under the unfavorable battle situation, a pocket formation was still prepared to deal with the "scythe", and the commander gave an order, and the morale of the pilots of the United States improved, after all, no one likes to be beaten in the ass, even if there is only a glimmer of hope to turn the tables, it is better than facing the enemy and doing nothing.

Setting up ambushes on an unobstructed sky battlefield may sound a bit fantastical, but in fact it is an ordinary tactic that often appears.

Take a look at the current situation, there is nothing to hide from fighters on the sea, F/A-18E/F itself is not a radar stealth fighter, how to say that it will be discovered by the "flanker" a hundred kilometers away in a head-on situation, and the "ambush" seems very nonsense, but considering the working mode of the fighter radar, unless the opponent does not want to fight at all, just open the VS mode for sightseeing and playing, otherwise as long as it enters the working mode of missile guidance, it is impossible for the machine-swept radar to take into account the scanning and refresh of the entire field of view while focusing on illuminating the target.

The radar on the fighter jet works completely differently from the human eye, the former can only see a cone with a small angle at any time, but the latter can see the entire field of view at the same time (to be precise, the human eye can only see the projected image on the macula, so the eyes still have to move line by line when reading a book), if you don't continue to scan the entire field of view over and over again, you can't get a comprehensive air situation.

With this point clear, it is not difficult to understand the so-called "ambushes" in air combat.

The White Twenty, which is dispatched by a single aircraft, can also use radar scanning to find every cluster of enemy aircraft in the front hemisphere before engagement, but since it is a war, it is always necessary to launch missiles and enter the guidance process. At this time, the airborne radar will become like a "leopard in a tube". Keep your eyes on a small stretch of the sky near your target. The situation in other airspace is completely blind.

At this time, if other detection methods cannot keep up and visual observation is not feasible, the fighter plane focused on guidance will not know the movements of the rest of the enemy planes, nor will it know whether other enemy planes are approaching in the vicinity.

This feature of mechanical scanning radar, or heavy dà defect, is basically endured by fighters in parallel worlds, even advanced radars such as AN/APG-71 and N011, the difference is only whether they can scan the nearby airspace "by the way" when irradiating the target.

But the nature of mechanical scanning. Generally speaking, as long as the fighter is equipped with a sweep radar, the combat state of the fighter can only choose between search and attack, so the scale of participation in modern air combat should also be at least two, so that when launching an attack, at least one fighter plane can be arranged to be in the search mode, so that everyone will not become blind to the target.

Based on such a peculiarity, it was decided that the Russians' airborne radar was not so advanced, and the "Scythe" was always a one-man man. The Americans will naturally figure out how to do this.

When necessary, U.S. Navy even did not hesitate to arrange bait to attract the attention of the "Grim Reaper". Fighters from other directions are approaching at high speed, which may create some opportunities, and even make this guy scramble, and then the wolf bèi disengages - yes, the Americans' extravagant hopes are limited to this, the commanders do not take into account the "downing of the 'sickle'" at all, and the goal with a zero probability cannot be used to guide the operation!

Of course, such a consideration can only be a secret within the command organization, and if it is disseminated, it will hit the morale of front-line personnel.

At this critical moment when the morale of the military is sluggish, it is of course absolutely impossible to leak negative news.

In the face of the lone attack of the "sickle", a group of "bumblebees" mounted on the AGM-84 hurriedly avoided it, the high-altitude escort F-14D has already opened the way in front of the AIM-54C warhead, the Red Navy Su-27K in the distant sky has also climbed to a superior height, using the R-27 series of missiles to intercept the low-altitude attacking enemy planes, the sea and air contest between the two sides has begun, and the operation to encircle the "sickle" has also reached a critical juncture.

When the airborne RWR intercepted the continuous irradiation signal of the N011 series radar, the American pilot piloting the decoy immediately issued a code, and at the same time, the two planes turned to accelerate and disengage, using a very standard decoy tactic to try to confuse the "sickle" and create opportunities for friendly fighters to follow up in other directions.

In the face of the two enemy planes attacking directly ahead, the White Twenty really chose to attack and launched two R-77s one after another.

The gray and white giant bird in the sky moved very quickly, did not slow down after firing two missiles, but continued to turn on the afterburner to maintain supersonic speed, the fire control system command radar firmly focused on the two targets, while providing correction instructions for the missiles in the air, the young man in the cockpit scanned the surrounding sky with his eyes, and an intuition told him that the cunning Americans must be playing some tricks now.

These U.S. Navy fighters have just learned the power of the "Grim Reaper" before, and it must be impossible to engage them head-on, but I don't know what kind of tricks they have?

The enemy is constantly approaching, Long Yun is also flying planes to raid, the Americans' plan is to surround and fight an ambush with multiple planes, but the VVS ace has no heart to compete with these miscellaneous fish in air combat skills -- the command center's order is to "intercept the US attack planes", and now there is a group in front of them, rather than fighting a slow circling air battle with the US escort planes, it is more enjoyable to rush down and kill those "bumblebees" who have no power to fight back.

With such a thought, the white No. 20, which had a high altitude advantage, took the initiative to speed up, and it seemed that it was bent on chasing and killing the two F/A-18E/F that had turned around and escaped, and the irradiation signal of the N011 radar had also been locked on the target, and the U.S. Navy fighters in the direction of the 39th parallel were also quickly catching up.

However, after a short time, the Americans realized that something was wrong.

On the heads-up display, the height number next to the target is changing all the time, and the "sickle" is accelerating its climb, which is not a hooked at all!

Out of the need to protect the attack aircraft group, the VFA-154 "Hornet" are deployed in the airspace below 20,000 feet, and the same is true for the ambush arrangement, as a result, these planes are now more than 15,000 feet away from the "Scythe", even if they want to ambush, they can't do it at all, the range of AIM-120B is enough, but they jump a few kilometers against the trend to hit the target, and the words in the face of the "Grim Reaper" are basically just tickling.

A pocket array had been prepared to intercept the Russian ace, and the clinker targets were not acting as expected, and the pilots of several F/A-18E/F were busy calling the squadron leader to see what countermeasures should be taken.

Seeing the Russians acting like this, after a short period of thought, the leader of the team quickly ordered the two "Hornets" acting as bait to climb up, on the one hand, to continue to try to decoy, and on the other hand, to minimize the altitude difference between the two sides, so as to avoid being attacked by the "flanker" missiles.

As for the other "Super Hornet" fighters in the squadron, since the "Scythe" has been operating at high altitude, the "Black Knight" squadron leader greeted a few times, except for leaving a group of twin planes to continue to escort the VFA-27 and VFA-102 attack fleet, all of them climbed together, preparing to launch the AIM-120B tail pursuit attack after approaching a certain distance, and use the dense missile fire to drive away the hateful Russian madman.

At high altitudes where the atmosphere is thin, the speed at which fighters maintain level flight should also be increased, the ability to stabilize and instantaneously disk under the same speed index will decrease, and the difficulty of attacking air-to-air missiles will also be lower.

The abacus is not bad, several F/A-18E/F engines running at full speed have pulled up into a maximum climb rate track, to pursue the "flanker" in the air, the horizontal distance between the two sides is still increasing a little bit, the vertical distance is shortening, the "Hornet" airborne fire control system has been trying to solve, the radar signal is projected together in the direction of the white twenty, the sharp sound of the RWR in the cockpit is particularly harsh, and Long Yun, who is driving the plane to raid, immediately raised his vigilance.

Looking down at the alarm light panel on the dashboard, the direction indication is a bit confusing, how many radiation sources are there?

Su-27M2K, Long Yun's limited edition car is from the S-type overhaul, Su-27S cockpit a large number of instruments have been replaced by multi-function displays, since it is a test model, the cockpit level of the M2 type is about the same as the M type, as for the radar warning system standard with the Red Air Force fighter, whether it is the receiver, or the display device has not changed, the RWR light panel with small bulbs can indicate the threat range dù "largest" and "second" radiation source direction, When there are more than two sources, only the two with the highest interception power can be displayed.

Such a system is basically enough for VVS and PVO fighters, and if an ordinary fighter encounters "fire control radar irradiation in more than two directions" in air combat, there is basically only one way to be shot down.

However, for Viktor Rezenov, who is in the sky, all-round fire control radar care is simply commonplace, and RWR is sometimes a little "confused", for example, now, Long Yun stared at the light plate for a second or two, and couldn't guess which directions the American fighters were attacking from, but there is no doubt that these "Hornets" chasing themselves are probably equipped with AIM-120, otherwise it is a little redundant to enter continuous tracking at such a distance.

The RWR on the Su-27 series of fighters can only indicate the radiation source band, interception power and general direction, and other information is not provided - in fact, the radar warning instruments on other fighters are similar, and the key distance information can only be guessed by the pilot's experience. (To be continued......)