Chapter 1286: The Fall of the Lieutenant Colonel

The F-14D, now a lieutenant colonel with a variable wing, is indeed in a dilemma.

If you want to accelerate as much as possible, you have to retract the main wing and pay the price of reducing the angular velocity of the circle, so that it is easy to be beaten by the "sickle" to seize the opportunity, on the contrary, you have to dodge with mobility, and the flat wings are not conducive to acceleration, so that even if you open the afterburner, you can't get rid of the Russians, and after such a long time of fighting, the "Super Cat" has no oil reserves at all.

In a kind of gap between advancing and retreating, the sense of foreboding in his heart became heavier and heavier, and Lieutenant Colonel Sean Phelps, who had never been very religious, couldn't help but feel a little frightened.

He suddenly had an intuition that in today's battle, he might end up like those comrades who encountered the "sickle".

Trying his best but still not having a chance, is this the true strength of the "Grim Reaper"......

The fighter plane is still flying sideways, the continuous overload makes the lieutenant colonel feel a burst of pain and nausea, although the pilot's body is far superior to ordinary people, after all, it is also flesh and blood, in this competition, most of the time is being pursued, Phelps's F-14D maneuver range is greater than that of the opponent, even if the fighter can still hold on, he also feels that the world is spinning for a while, and he feels that he is almost to the limit of his physical and mental endurance.

On the one hand, ordinary pilots will inevitably make mistakes in the fighting, and they can end the battle in one fell swoop by seizing the opportunity, and on the other hand, the fighters are limited by fuel and engine afterburner time, and it is impossible to support a maneuver confrontation for too long.

In addition, there is always an upper limit to people's endurance, and the ace in this regard is not necessarily much stronger than the average pilot. The same goes for Sean Phelps. His next manipulation was a little flawed.

I don't know what to think in my heart. Perhaps fed up with the frequent horizontal shifts, the high-G sideways turn made the lieutenant colonel and his partner Pearson dizzy and nauseous, and neither of them paid attention to the orders forwarded by "Hawkeye" at first. Seeing that the confrontation was so bad, the Americans, who refused to admit defeat, did not want to lose another top trump card, and after confirming that the VFA-27 squadron was approaching the attack position, Major General Stanley Cooper crossed the air traffic control level and directly ordered the lieutenant colonel to leave the battle.

The order to leave the war was long overdue, for Phelps, who was now blindly fleeing. It's really too late.

From the beginning of the encounter with the "Scythe", the fierce battle over the vast ocean, the airspace of the two sides has been moving westward, the two twin-engine heavy fighters are about 200 kilometers away from the Red Navy's surface battle group, and the "Super Hornet" in the southern sky has finally approached the range of the AGM-84 "Harpoon".

The target emerged from the water antenna, but the attacking Su-27K was already in place, and the R-27 with its wings flying was dragging white smoke through the air; The radar warning device was screaming, and the US pilots did not dare to slack off, and the F/A-18E/F, which had been running for a long time, immediately dispersed to meet the enemy, risking the risk of being blown up by the "sea guards" in the air. It is not known what the situation will be in the sky where the AWACS aircraft cannot shine, and a contest between attack and defense will immediately break out everywhere.

What happened to the "bumblebees" next. Sean Phelps has no time to care, and he hears the call of "Hawkeye" in the whirlwind of the world; Physically and mentally at its limit, he decided to disengage without hesitation, only to find that it was impossible.

Escaping under the pursuit of the "Scythe" is simply impossible!

The landline missile is almost exhausted, and the space is completely unfavorable, and the F-14D that turns on the afterburner can not accumulate enough kinetic energy, so it has to be forced to enter the maneuver to dodge, so that it is impossible to get rid of the shadowy "flanker", just when the lieutenant colonel is struggling to fight, an R-73M swooped down, and the sky scattered the hot flares, and the "super cat" that rolled away could not avoid the subsequent artillery strafing of the "sickle", and Phelps, who had avoided at least three or four missiles one after another, only felt that the landline suddenly trembled, and his "super cat" Hit!

Sensing that the landline was shot, without a trace of hesitation, the lieutenant colonel who was clenched immediately pulled the ejection handle and let Pearson in the back seat eject the cockpit first, at this time the F-14 that was shot was out of control, dragging smoke and rolling in the sky, and he was almost unconscious He felt a burst of acceleration of the catapult rocket, and then lost consciousness.

As the gray giant bird tumbled and fell, the two pilots ejected one after another, and Long Yun witnessed this scene from the perspective of a pursuer, and he immediately turned around and broke away without having time to observe the results of the battle.

After a long maneuvering confrontation, the young man was very tired and the plane had little fuel left, so he didn't pay attention to the F/A-18E/F that was about to move nearby, and the plane further reduced its flight altitude and returned from under the large group of planes in the chaotic battle.

While approaching the Red Navy's surface battle group in the fierce battle, missile smoke and explosive fireworks could be seen everywhere in the sky, and the ultra-low-altitude flying White No. 20 could not receive the air situation information sent by the "Varyag", Long Yun could only sweep the sky by himself and guess the progress of the battle, he estimated that the Americans' attack aircraft fleet was already approaching the main force of the Red Navy fleet, and the explosion flashes in the distant sky may be the attack planes of the ship-to-air missiles intercepting the "Harpoon" or even approaching the air defense circle.

The battle between the sea and the air was still fierce, just now a U.S. Navy ace was downed, and the White Twenty consumed a lot of missiles and fuel in the plane for this, and the mission was basically completed, Long Yun did not fight again, he drove the plane back, and at the same time thought of the group of American pilots who fell into the sea.

"Sean Phelps", losing such a number one ace, I wonder how the Americans will feel?

Now there is no threat around for the time being, for the battle just now, the young man was able to calm down and review it slightly, with his superpowers to control all the details of the entire confrontation, Long Yun is not only familiar with his white twenty, but also knows the situation of Phelps's landline, in the fight, this US Navy ace with quite good technology actually has no chance, and it doesn't even pose much of a threat to him, in addition to the fact that there are some gaps in the strength of the two sides after all, I have to say that the difference between the Su-27M2K and the F-14D, It is also an important factor in the person's final hatred.

The M2 Su-27, a facelift based on the S/P type, although the landing gear, landing hook and other structures have been strengthened for the ship, but in any case, the empty weight is about three tons lighter than the F-14D, and the engine thrust is also greater than the latter.

The performance of the fighter is a head shorter, and the missile is even more so, one side has the R-77, the other side only has the "Sparrow", the AIM-54C is almost useless in fighter confrontation, and the gap between the combat missiles is not a little and a half.

If the lieutenant colonel of the US army escapes by chance, I am afraid that he will also scold, and this contest is not fair at all!

is also a pilot, and the trump card of aces, although he is in two opposing camps, Long Yun can probably guess the opponent's thoughts, but the so-called "fairness", there is no point in talking about this kind of thing on the battlefield, and in the face of the choice of life and death, any reason is inevitably a little pale.

After shooting down the enemy plane, he quickly broke away, and Long Yun, who returned home, crossed the sky fire line in the fierce battle while thinking, and encountered two fire control radar irradiation on the way, but there was no danger; Sean and the others who parachuted to escape were still struggling in the ocean, the American helicopters searched for radio beacons everywhere, and the white twenty who had returned from the sky had landed on the wide deck of 1143.6, and the landing hook finally did not drop the chain this time.

As soon as the main wheel brushed the surface of the ship, two or three seconds later, the tensioned blocking cable made the fighter stop the forward momentum at once, and the overload impact of the carrier-based aircraft when landing was greater than that of catapult take-off.

He took off his flight gloves and made some explanations with the ground crew, and looked at the distant sky when he walked to the hatch of the ship island, and from the sea area where the "Varyag" was located, there were no surface battle group ships deployed in front of him, and there was only a backlit silhouette of a Type 956 destroyer on the nearby sea.

The wind and waves were calm in the rear, and only two Su-27Ks that had been lifted off one after another were seen in the sky gradually flying away, and for a while on the deck they watched the vast sea under the sunset, and then went to the combat readiness room of the aviation regiment of the "Varyag".

After waiting for a few minutes, Colonel Anatoly Kapushkin, who was in charge of the operation, appeared and told him the latest situation in the battle.

The colonel heard the news that just when a fierce battle broke out in the sky, in the vast sea to the east, a wave of anti-ship missile assault by the Red Navy had been launched smoothly, and the specific situation was still unclear, but according to the information from the Red Navy's Tu-22M3 reconnaissance plane, the Americans seemed to have chosen to retreat at the last moment of the decisive battle, and the anti-ship missiles fired out in a salvo might not be able to greet all the Yankees -- but even so, the Red Navy's campaign operation was a great success.

"The Americans flinched?

――So, what about our losses? ”

Long Yun was a little surprised by the actions of the Americans, he thought that the arrogant United States aircraft carrier battle group would not be able to swallow this breath, so it would launch a wave of counteroffensive after retreating for a few hours, and now it actually ended the battle in a hurry, it seems that most of the Yankees suffered heavy losses in the first round of missile attacks, otherwise with the arrogant vigor of the "world police", as long as they have the ability to attack, these people will not give up lightly. (To be continued......)