"All the fighters are renewed", this seems to be a rather extravagant idea, and it is not a difficult task with the support of the huge production capacity of the Red Empire to complete the wartime system transformation.

With the help of a chain of several aircraft in close formation, Zakharov's Su-27UB can receive the scans of the radar system on the single-seat Su-27 at close range, and then process it with the help of on-board electronic systems, providing him, the air commander, with information about the situation of friend and foe in the 70-degree cone of airspace in front of the two-plane formation.

For a group of MiG-29Ms flying at low altitude in front, although IFF recognition is still a problem, but it is copied from the Red Air Force's ground guidance operation tradition, with the N011 radar's good multi-target tracking capability, the command team composed of "Fire Eye" and "PTZ" can still command up to eight fighters to meet the enemy, although this processing capability cannot be compared with the A-50 early warning aircraft or ground command center, but it is enough for VVS to carry out offensive and defensive operations.

The traces of the enemy have been revealed, and now it's time to look at the faces of the young men of the front-line fighter regiment!

Thinking of this, he squinted his eyes and tilted his head to look at the light-colored camouflage fighters piloted in front of him, Major Zakharov was busy and distracted, he felt that the new Su-27M fighters received in this batch of regiments not only had excellent performance, but even the paint scheme looked much more pleasing to the eye.

While observing the battlefield situation on the display screen in front of him, he accidentally thought of the suffix number "M", and the aviation major, who was an old pilot, couldn't help but recall that the model "Su-27M" seemed to have been heard in the gossip in the regiment for a long time; But now that I've really seen it with my own eyes, it seems that it's not the same as the previous statements.

You are in a sky battlefield where the shape of the shì changes at any time. He didn't have the time to think about anything more. After the discovery of signs of an over-the-horizon attack by an oncoming enemy aircraft. Immediately radio to contact White Twenty, who was on the verge of radar scanning:

"'PTZ' is called 'Cross Axe', 'PTZ' is called 'Cross Axe', there is a medium-sized target in your 10 o'clock direction, the height is 6,800, and the number is 5 to 6;

"The 'Cross Axe' received. Is it at ten o'clock? I have not yet found any trace of the target, and I am ready to go out to meet the enemy; Repeat, prepare to go out to meet the enemy, over. ”

"Uh...... The target distance is about a hundred (kilometers), the height drops to six thousand, "

Zakharov estimated that Viktor's White Twenty had not yet been able to "see" the enemy, but he naturally had no reason not to agree to the number one ace's request to receive the enemy, "The target should have just carried out a wave of over-the-horizon attacks; -- It has been confirmed that there are no friendly targets in the airspace ahead. Please keep IFF turned on and don't go overboard!

祝一qiē顺lì. 'Cross Axe'. ”

"Hehe, okay! No problem. ”

Pressing the intercom button to respond, driving the white No. 20 Su-27S to fly all the way forward over the command group, Long Yun, who was ready for battle, looked back at the two Su-27M and Su-27UB flying together in the sky below before pushing the throttle valve to speed up.

Today's lift-off sortie is not the same as the previous single-aircraft sortie that relied on ground guidance, with the "fire eye" with excellent radar performance on the side, although the Su-27M's N011 radar does not see as far as the A-50, but at least it can ensure that the airspace in the rear hemisphere is clean. Ensuring the safety of the rear direction is simply a matter of life and death for ordinary pilots, and for a sky killer like Long Yun, who is perfect in technology and intuition, it is not a problem that can be ignored casually.

Having experienced fierce battles in parallel worlds, and many times killing unsuspecting opponents with one hit, Long Yun, as a double ace in aviation competition and air combat, naturally knows very well that in more than 80% of the crash cases in air combat, the attacked person is hit without even discovering the attacker; Even for ace pilots, the ratio will be much lower, but in any case, it is still "no eyes in the back of the head", otherwise the pilots will not go to great lengths to maneuver and seize the opponent's six o'clock direction.

Although as a super trump card in the sky, and now with superpowers as support, Long Yun is very confident that no one can bite his six points, but there is always nothing wrong with being more careful about things like war. With such an idea, he glanced at a group of Sukhoi twin planes that gradually receded in the field of vision, and the brand-new Su-27M in light camouflage looked quite neat, which made him very tempted to fly the VVS standard Su-27S.

When this battle is over and the Americans are driven out of Turkey, will he be able to use a few new models, maybe this modification will be as good as the Su-35BM in the real world?

Just a few days ago, Long Yun already knew about a major event in the 237th regiment, although it seemed indifferent to him, who has three fighters (and one is still being repaired at the Kherson base for the time being): that is, after a period of waiting, the latest batch of Su-27M fighters from the IAPO has finally arrived.

Regarding the familiar number of "Su-27M", at first Long Yun thought it was the old Su-35 produced by Russia in the real world, that is, the Su-27M and the enhanced version of the three-wing Su-27 that were casually changed for the sake of promotion. However, when he went to the hangar between battles to take a few looks, he found that it was not the same as the situation in the real world, because the Red Empire had always existed, and although the Sukhoi Design Bureau had already proposed a plan to improve the three-wing surface of the Su-27, it did not waste too much time on it, but quickly embarked on the road of weight reduction, reinforcement, and thrust improvement.

Because of this, unlike the so-called "Su-27M" that the Sukhoi Design Bureau manufactured in 1987, the Su-27M, which has recently begun to appear in the equipment sequence of the Red Air Force and is still relatively rare for the time being, although the number is similar to the old Su-35 in the real world, and many subsystems are also in the same line, but in their bones they are taking a different path of development.

Long before the launch of "Operation Typhoon", like the other three Su-27 fighter aviation regiments stationed in the Caucasus theater of operations, the 237th fighter aviation regiment also began to be reequipped with a small number of Su-27M fighters, these are equipped with N011 flat slit antenna radar, upgraded AL-31FM engines and rewritten part of the flight control code of the improved Su-27, although the appearance looks almost unchanged, not as fancy as the three-wing Su-27M scheme proposed by the Sukhoi Design Bureau, The actual performance was much higher than that of the basic Su-27S, and then it won the competition in the design bureau by beating the flashy three-wing Su-27M scheme.

For this situation in the parallel world, Long Yun is naturally a little overjoyed, he has long been familiar with the Su-27M, Su-35 and even Su-37 in the real world after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in contrast, the Soviet Union in the parallel world so quickly found the correct direction of improvement of "hard work" and launched a new model similar to the Su-35BM made in the Soviet Union and Russia in the real world, which still made him quite gratified.

Not to mention anything else, for the Su-27M and Su-35BM in the real world, the old and new generations of "Su-35", one sentence can explain the right and wrong here:

The performance shortcomings of the single-seat Su-27 are mainly due to the insufficient thrust-to-weight ratio caused by the overweight of the fuselage, resulting in poor vertical maneuverability and energy recovery speed, while the Su-27M with three wings can be said to have made no achievements in this regard because of excessive weight gain, and it was not until the Su-35BM that it finally had a substantial improvement.

Of course, in addition, other shortcomings of the Su-27, such as roll rate, etc., cannot be solved by simple improvements, and Long Yun does not have too high requirements for this.

After thinking about the replacement of fighters for a while, Long Yun secretly laughed that he was a little greedy, but for a super ace like Viktor Rezenov, if he insisted on using the basic Su-27S and did not switch to the M model in time, this would be a bit abnormal!

Let's just say that this Su-27M change of outfit, if it weren't for the busy war and no time for adaptive training - of course, for Long Yun, who is full of simulator flight experience in the real world, he actually doesn't need this step at all, but even for the sake of pretending, he also needs to carry out several days of refitting test flights, and he really doesn't have so much time to do this kind of thing at the moment when the Caucasus theater is full of wolves.

Well, then greet the Americans first, and when the battle is almost fought, get busy with the change of clothes!

Thinking of the Su-27M, which has been further optimized in aerodynamic shape and equipped with the AL-31FM engine and N011 radar, Long Yun unconsciously has some itchy hands; At this time, a prompt sounded in the cockpit, and the fire control system had already discovered a number of head-on approaching targets in the sky ahead, and he switched to the radar multi-target engagement mode to confirm that there were only these head-on enemy planes in the high altitude, so he further pushed forward the throttle valve and pull rod into the accelerated climb.

As the thrust of the engines increased, a cloud of white sonic booms flashed around the fuselage, and the huge fighter plane loaded with missiles quickly accelerated to Mach 12; Controlling the fighter plane to fly straight forward, Long Yun was ready to open the way with two R-27ET heads, followed by a volley, and slammed into the American air "eagle" wall like a real cross axe! (To be continued......)