"Negative, STT (Single-Target-Tracking) is being tried, the radar can't enter the stable dìng tracking, over!"

As in the case of the long plane, the wingman pilot is now wrestling with the fire control system, but although he has re-searched the entire sector with VS mode and then switched to STT mode, which is not suitable for multi-target engagement, he has once again lost his target pointing due to the Russians' counter-maneuver, and now he can only continue to try to recapture in vain, which is a very time-consuming process.

Hearing the wingman's report on the radio, the lieutenant colonel looked up and looked ahead, but of course he could not see the trace of the enemy plane that was still tens of kilometers away.

Is it really a sideways maneuver, these Russians are quite difficult to deal with!

Seeing that the lock-on prompt on the heads-up display still did not appear, and realizing that it was obviously not a rookie sitting in the "flanker" who came this time, Johnson dismissed the plan to continue to sprint and blindly shoot "Slammer" to try his luck, and instead called the wingman to maintain the existing speed and course, and prepared to enter the visual air combat with another group of F-15C twin aircraft.

In such a short period of time, the approximate position of the target marked by the radar has shifted to the right, and intuitively felt that this encounter was not easy, Johnson hurriedly prepared to call another group of twin aircraft at medium and low altitudes, but looking at the situation on the radar, "Wrangler III" and "No. 4" have gradually approached the scheduled engagement interception point, and will soon enter a visual air battle, so it is a bit redundant to remind them at this time.

In the face of Russian fighters turning to the eastern coastline, he did hesitate a little now. I should keep my distance and try to attack from a distance with "Slammer". Or do you want to dive down and get into the fight with another group of F-15s?

A lieutenant colonel who sensed a tricky situation. Also weigh the pros and cons in the landline.

And in the not far eastern sky, the death chase between fighters and active bombs has already begun.

From the moment they adjusted their course to meet the enemy head-on, the two Su-27S kept flying south smoothly at an altitude of 6,000 meters, and the lateral distance between the two fighters, one in front and one behind, was about 300 meters, and they approached the US fighters in the south in a relatively dense two-plane formation.

The Red Seventeen, which had just taken over, was speeding through the blue sky and thin clouds, and Long Yun found from the radar display that the four American fighters were separated from each other in a group and their altitudes had also changed drastically; This tactic was expected by him, so he told Suvorov on the radio not to be nervous and follow his actions closely, and then just as the RWR system prompted him to encounter X-band irradiation. Start implementing a large-radius maneuver that turns to the left!

With the sidestick of the long plane and the wingman pedaling the rudder, the two huge Su-27S fuselages measured the oblique and drew two smooth white tracks in the sky; Worried about the wingman's manipulation and following, Long Yun did not pull the overload too much, his eyes were fixed on the boundless sky in front of him, but his ears paid attention to the change of RWR's prompt sound, and he quickly got rid of the radar tracking of the incoming enemy plane at high altitude.

With the maneuvering action of the long plane, the mentally focused Suvorov also used all his strength to follow closely, although he still didn't know the meaning of Viktor's this, but the change in the RWR prompt made him understand that at this time, the Americans on the opposite side were already using radar to capture their tracks, which was also a sign of an attack with over-the-horizon missiles!

But......

previous discussions. Didn't Victor say that he didn't build an evasive maneuver during the time period that the opponent locked?

Yes. He wasn't wrong.

However, Long Yun's current side-turning maneuver is not to interfere with the launched AIM-120B and make it impossible for the missile to enter the homing direction, but to do another thing: to use the side-turn to evade the opponent's PD radar tracking, so that it cannot obtain stable tracking and interception, and then it is impossible to complete the fire control solution, and there is no way to launch over-the-horizon missiles at him!

The main reason why this side-turning maneuver tactic was not put forward at yesterday's tactical discussion meeting was that the maneuver tactics against active missiles were already quite complicated, and that few people present were able to accurately judge the position and posture of the enemy planes on the rapidly changing air combat battlefield with the help of radar and RWR prompts, and then use perfect maneuvers to evade the enemy's radar tracking.

But this kind of thing is not difficult for him to come to the cloud!

In the face of the cross-attack posture that the Americans were accustomed to, he chose a group of enemy planes attacking from high altitude as the target of evasion when entering the engagement, and led the wingman to use a combination of continuous sideways rotation and level flight maneuvers to restore fù speed, and dodged the opponent's PD detection in a leisurely stroll. For U.S. fighters looking down from a high altitude, once the PD mode is unlocked, it cannot be re-locked with the CWS mode limited by ground clutter.

Cruising at an altitude of thousands of meters, Long Yun, who carried out a sideways turn, quickly determined that he had escaped the opponent's tracking, but the RWR was still ringing, it was another group of American fighters attacking from low and medium altitudes, and they were likely to have launched missiles at this time!

Long Yun was not surprised by this situation.

Originally, the cross-lock tactic could not be completely dodged by a set of side-turn actions, because the radial flight track of any group of incoming enemies could not be radial in the field of view of the incoming enemy in the other direction, so it could always be detected by the PD radar.

After locking on, they immediately launched an attack, and the F-15C twin planes at an altitude of 4,500 meters began to climb to meet the enemy after firing missiles, and the distance between the enemy and us was rapidly narrowing.

Just when Johnson and his wingman were still adjusting the radar mode in vain and trying to capture the fighters, the two Sukhoi fighters had already completed their steering and climb in the air, and began to evade the over-the-horizon attacks of the F-15 twin aircraft at medium and low altitudes; While piloting the fighter plane to continuously fly in the direction of the sun, Long Yun could almost see with the naked eye two slow-moving black dots in the direction of three o'clock and on the lower side of the field of vision, and there were several black shadows with smoke near these two black spots, which were AIM-120B missiles launched by the Americans!

Seeing AIM-120 with the naked eye for the first time in battle, Long Yun's spirit suddenly became highly excited.

In the face of the high-speed attack and obvious trail of the "Slammer", whether the evasion tactics he talked about at the seminar are good or not, he will immediately give Suvorov a demonstration, and he will also let him fly a fighter plane to experience with him!

Thinking of this, his eyes stared at the death throwing spear roaring in the sky, Long Yun estimated the situation of friend and foe like electricity, these AIM-120Bs should have been launched at a distance of about 40 kilometers, and now they have already entered the unpowered flight segment; In this case, he immediately pulled the lever and at the same time drove the afterburner into the climb, leading Suvorov's Red 15 to play hide and seek with the surging missiles. (To be continued......)