The speculation of "hired pilots" pricked Captain Aziz's nerves at once.

Thinking of the foreign military donors from all over the world who flew fighter planes into the skies of Iraq, the young and vigorous FIAF captain pilots couldn't help but feel irritated.

- Hmph, damn it!

If you think about it this way, this hateful enemy plane must be shot down today.

As a major FIAF pilot, having been in the skies of Iraq for so long, Captain Aziz has long known that these "volunteers" from different countries are not easy to deal with, and at the same time has developed a deep dislike for these people.

However, this sentiment is not so much a dissatisfaction with the interference of outsiders in Iraq's internal affairs as a kind of arrogant and arrogant concept.

In any modern military in the world, the Air Force is a relatively more elite branch of the military, and pilots are the best in the combat ranks of the Air Force. However, unlike in most countries, in Iraq, which experienced two Gulf Wars, the Liberal regime that came to power reverted to the old military system in order to completely control the army, and changed the command of the Iraqi national army into an old-style officer corps organization, which is also the case in the FIAF.

In the midst of such a dull and completely outdated military system, the pretentious FIAF pilots, who were also middle- and lower-ranking officers, soon formed a small group of military groups like the old aristocracy, and not only in Iraq. Even within the army, it has always been arrogant and arrogant.

Martial artists form a party and show off their might. Such a situation is naturally not beneficial to a modern nation.

However, it has undergone military changes one after another. The rules of war in the new era are that the sky decides the winner, and although the politicians of the Liberal Party do not understand geopolitics, they see this very clearly, so they still rely on the officer group of the FIAF; In addition to this, the regime can use the officer corps to firmly control the military, which is an opportunity for national violence and strengthen the rule of the Liberal Party, so it has adopted a laissez-faire attitude towards this.

But for FIAF, officers can exert their authority within the system, and opponents on the battlefield may not necessarily accept it.

In recent months. The Liberal Party and the New Regime have been fighting fiercely, and FIAF pilots are deeply resented by the fact that they have been on the battlefield with people who have worked together in the same country and even in the same army. At the moment, driving the MiG-29 and the mercenaries from outside met in a narrow way, Captain Aziz was naturally even more angry and wanted to get rid of him as soon as possible.

But no matter how much affection there is, things like war can never be decided by anyone's mood.

In the face of the frantic pursuit of the two MiG planes, driving the Su-27SKM, which has plenty of internal fuel, Long Yun carefully took the two enemy planes on a cruise. He knew that he had no chance to climb and accelerate away - as long as he flew at a lower altitude than his opponent, he would not be able to escape the tight pursuit of the MiG-29 behind him.

But it's just right. He has no intention of escaping now, but is bent on running out of fuel in the FIAF fighter.

As soon as the battle was engaged, Long Yun had already considered the confrontation situation between the two sides, and he thought that the "Crimea" wing and several squadrons of the Iraqi Liberal Party were stationed far away from the south of Kirkuk, which was now wandering, and the two yellow-green camouflage MiG-29s maneuvered very quickly, and obviously there was not much fuel in the body; So make a rough estimate in your heart, even if the fuel consumption ratio of the enemy and us is exactly the same, the first to run out of fuel will be the enemy.

But then again......

If you run out of fuel, will you be able to get them to go home?

In the face of the MiG-29, the most familiar MiG aircraft, Long Yun has now thrown away a lot of sighs in his heart, he thought about the situation after the fuel bottomed out, at that time, the FIAF MiG-29 was of course only running away, but he didn't seem to have much fuel left to chase - although looking at the current amount of fuel in the aircraft, the Red No. 15 is still close to three tons, but as a heavy fighter, the Su-27SKM fuel consumption is higher after all, in order to return to the base, he can't really completely drain all the fuel.

So now, if he can't kill his opponent by relying solely on the marathon, he should still find a chance to attack with a backhand!

Striving to take the initiative in battle, this principle is very clear to every combatant, but now the flight altitude is at a disadvantage, and occupying a place is also the most troublesome to be bitten, Long Yun weighed the weapons of the landline, and felt that it was difficult to regain the initiative on the battlefield by relying on two R-77s alone.

Different from the generous launch conditions of over-the-horizon combat, the use of the R-77 in combat requires relying on the missile homing head to lock on the target autonomously, and now it is difficult to provide stable aiming conditions for the missile even if he reluctantly turns around and counterattacks; And if you talk about hand-to-hand combat with the enemy and try to use aerial guns, it is a very dangerous operation in the face of the MiG-29, which is slightly more maneuverable......

Oh, what's going on on the ground ahead—

Oh my god, wouldn't it, those ring marks seem to be an anti-aircraft artillery position?

Piloting the fighter plane to dodge left and right, cruising all the way with the two FIAF fighters behind him, unknowingly lost where he was, Long Yun did not have time to check the navigation beacon from time to time in the fierce battle, and now he has gone around to the southern suburbs of Kirkuk, an important town in northern Iraq, and approached a preset anti-aircraft artillery position, only to soon encounter a burst of fierce anti-aircraft fire.

On the battlefield in Iraq, where there are not many radars deployed and the technical level is also worrying, the air situation early warning systems of both warring sides are very imperfect, and the number and quality of anti-aircraft guns deployed in this position south of Kirkuk are not optimistic. On the antiaircraft artillery positions that the Red No. 15 is now passing at close range, there are only three Type 56 double 37-mm antiaircraft guns and one Soviet-made 85-mm antiaircraft gun.

However, even so, the few planes in the sky were spotted by the forward observation posts of the New Party, and the amateur post personnel could not distinguish between Sukhoi and MiG in the air, so they reported the situation to their superiors by telephone.

The antiaircraft artillery positions under the scorching sun immediately became chaotic, the antiaircraft artillery officers were running, and at the same time fastened their steel helmets and entered the position, and the guns were aimed at the direction of the enemy planes, and one after another the shiny 85-mm antiaircraft artillery shells were stuffed onto the rapid loading racks of the large-caliber antiaircraft guns, and the commanders holding small flags took their positions on the open ground outside the shelters, and a tense and fierce anti-aircraft battle was about to begin!

Long Yun, who was walking in the sky with the enemy plane, was still unaware of the loading and waiting for the battle, and only after he noticed that something was wrong on the ground in front of him and he caught a glimpse of the flash of anti-aircraft artillery fire, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Flying at low altitude and high speed, the oncoming anti-aircraft artillery shells are superimposed on the speed vector of the fighter itself, and the lethality will become even more terrifying.

If it weren't for the fact that several anti-aircraft guns on the position were all manually adjusted and aimed, and the performance of the artillery itself had also deteriorated due to maintenance and ammunition problems, and the projectiles were spread very largely, the red No. 15, which was caught off guard, might have been directly hit -- fortunately, after sensing the ground artillery attack and realizing that it was a misfire, Long Yun suddenly shifted the rudder with a large overload almost without thinking. The huge red fighter plane suddenly flew with its head bowed and pressed against the ground, and from the anti-aircraft artillery position, which was firing intensively and bullet casings were flying indiscriminately, it braked sharply and flew away along the outer edge of the position in a thrilling way.

Because of the lower flight altitude and the eyes far beyond ordinary people, Long Yun, who discovered the ground artillery fire in time, adopted the correct evasion strategy, but after dodging a round of shelling, he still felt afraid in the cockpit: if he was directly hit by the shell just now, not to mention whether the plane would be destroyed and killed, even if he injured the Su-27SKM in his hand, it is estimated that he will be in trouble next!

The NATA in poor conditions, as well as the Fort Scharqat base where the 3rd Independent Squadron is temporarily stationed, are not even able to do the daily maintenance of fighters, and as for the maintenance of fighters, it is naturally completely impossible to talk about it.

Recovering from the high-G overload that turned sharply sideways, the frightened Long Yun did not forget to search for traces of enemy aircraft in the sky, and the two Liberal MiG-29s that followed him all the way just now must have also been taken care of by the anti-aircraft artillery, what is their luck now?

Looking at the sky in the cockpit, while carefully avoiding falling into the terrible anti-aircraft artillery fire network again, Long Yun looked up and looked around in the cockpit, only to see two vague black dots in the sky were getting smaller and smaller, and then disappeared, one of them was dragging a thin black smoke, obviously injured by the anti-aircraft artillery fire just now; Although it was not shot down directly, looking at it like this, the injured enemy plane had no choice but to return directly.

was relieved by the anti-aircraft artillery fire coming from the ground, and just passed by the flying death invitation, Long Yun's heart was still pounding, he pressed his nervousness, and first left and right to see if the fighter was injured.

After seeing that there was no abnormality in the on-board self-test system, Long Yun looked left and right at the fuselage in the cockpit and found no smoke and fire, but he always felt that something was not right; After staring at the wingtip for a second or two, he realized that the R-73E that had just been fired was thrown out at some point, and now it is no longer visible.

So, when the launch button was pressed just now, the pins of the missiles were unlocked, but the engine did not ignite? (To be continued......)