"Well, he should be fine. - Besides, the fighters are ready-made, and your other Red Seventeen is in good shape, Victor, I think this plan will come to fruition! ”

"Hehe, good! You go to him and talk to him, and send a message to the 224th regiment after you make it clear. Pay attention to secrecy! ”

"-No problem, don't worry!"

Glad to respond, Korolev hung up the phone.

Hearing the tone of his partner on the phone was very excited, although he was worried about keeping it secret and did not explain the whole plan to Korolev, it also made the little pilot very excited; Feeling that the morale of the regiment was still quite high, Long Yun put down the phone quite easily, whistled and walked towards the barracks, while still pondering his plan of action in his mind.

Originally, in the face of the overwhelming and imposing NATO fighters, although he was hit head-on only the day before yesterday, but thinking about the next stage of the battle plan formulated by the Americans, it is clear that "dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water", or completely ignore his existence!

That being the case, the adversary has taken such an attitude that he has decided to ignore the threat of his number one ace and continue to attack on a large scale, and it is impossible for him to first resort to a small trick and take decisive measures to turn the attention of the Americans to himself. Only in this way will it be possible to smoothly complete the overall plan drawn up at the operational seminar and give more time for the combat forces of the Caucasus theater, especially the VVS and PVO units, to recuperate.

Of course, as for how to deal with the swarming NATO fighters and cruise missiles, in addition to giving full play to the powerful combat capability, the current Long Yun also has a trace of quite bold war rhapsody:

In addition to the ability to fight in the air. Doesn't he have superpowers?

……

As foreshadowed by top-secret intelligence. A new offensive from the Americans came quickly.

In the last two days. As a wide range of stormy weather gradually descended, large rain clouds gradually piled up over the stormy Black Sea, and the gradually increasing wind mixed with patches of rain splashed on the rough and gloomy sea, making all ships afraid to go to sea. Adverse weather conditions have greatly affected the activities of the warring sides in the airspace over the western Black Sea, but fighting is still in full swing under clear skies in the Caucasus, where the weather is not stormy and the weather is clear.

It was another sunny morning, over the Black Sea on the western side of the Caucasus. A number of "Fighting Falcons" painted in light gray with a crescent moon and white stars on their tails were maintaining an altitude of less than 500 meters at this time, flying northeast at high speed in a very dense attack formation.

From a distance, these Turkish F-16C fighters, which adopt low-altitude raid tactics and are full of auxiliary fuel tanks and attack ammunition, look quite small against the background of the vast and clear sea and sky; In fact, it is precisely this, under the unified command of NATO's Central Command, that they are only a small part of the air attack force in the entire Caucasus theater.

However, even so, having learned the lessons of previous operational disadvantages, these sharp-shaped "Fighting Falcons" no longer carry laser-guided bombs that require carrier aircraft to climb to increase the firing range and are often beaten by MiGs, but are equipped with the usual fire support configuration of NATO's tactical air force. Use a combination of AGM-65 Maverick air-to-surface missiles and ASM-88 Hamm anti-radiation missiles to carry out more targeted, but more risky, precision strikes against Russian ground targets on the eastern shore of the Black Sea.

For the NATO Tactical Air Force. The reason why expensive fighters and missiles are used to carry out more dangerous low-altitude raids is also because the Soviet Union's tight high-intensity anti-aircraft fire network has greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of subsonic cruise missiles such as "Tomahawks"; Under the coordinated strikes of Soviet interceptors, ground-to-air missiles, and antiaircraft artillery that received early warnings from the reconnaissance network, assigned targets by the fully automatic air defense command system, and engaged in unified engagement, it was difficult for cruise missiles with relatively fixed routes and no maneuverability to break through the layers of interception and hit targets.

It is precisely because of the poor effectiveness of relying solely on cruise missiles that the front-line command command, under the repeated urging of the US Central Command, ordered the front-line fighter wing to increase the intensity of the delivery of guided munitions, so that a large number of attack aircraft can break into the range of weapons under the cover of the fighter fleet, and then launch fierce attacks on high-value targets.

Large-scale air strikes in the form of tactical support require fighters to get close to the target at a considerable distance, which means that the risk is greatly increased, but now in addition to counting on the unreliable "Pershing" ballistic missile, it is probably the only way to ensure the achievement of the set campaign objectives. In this way, the F-16Cs of the Turkish wing could only go on the road with their own ammunition in fear, and fly all the way north under the cover of US air superiority fighters at medium and high altitudes to meet their unknown fate.

The fear of the Turks is not without reason.

As an air force that has been stationed on the Black Sea coast for a long time and has been fighting with the Soviet Air Force for a long time between the mountains and mountains of the Caucasus, they naturally knew the "Caucasus Reaper" for a long time, even if not counting the fiasco a few days ago. The astonishing performance of this Russian ace pilot in the "Flanker" assault probably caused a certain psychological shadow on the Americans and their die-hard allies, so that the British "Tornado" fleet was slow to engage in the battle, and now it was only for them, the Turks, to continue this extremely dangerous and unpromising work.

To put it bluntly, it's just to provoke in front of the Russians with your head up, isn't it?

Piloting the "Fighting Falcon" all the way north at a low altitude, the Turks were naturally very nervous.

However, at this moment, the leader of the 15th Wing, the 42nd Squadron, which was lined up at an altitude of several thousand meters and controlled twin-engine heavy fighters to provide air interdiction, was also in a bad mood.

Rising early in the morning from the beds of the improvised barracks, being ordered to strike at the sound of sirens and whistles, and now driving the heavy "Strike Eagle" all the way through the air, while at the same time using radar to keep an eye on the Turkish "Fighting Falcon" sneaking northward below, this troublesome drudgery had been done by the 8th and 30th Wings stationed in eastern Turkey; But since the fierce aerial battle in the past two days, the F-15C wing, which has obviously been demoralized by the "Caucasian Grim Reaper", has been forced to rest, so now he can only continue to rush into the sky with his weapon operators to continue the endless aerial tug-of-war with the tenacious Russians.

Oh, and the reason for this is probably because the two wings with the highest eyes did not buy the Russians' account in the first place, so they broke their heads one after another in the Caucasus.

Fortunately, after the initial contempt and anger, the awe and fear that had been exchanged for several fiascos gradually loomed over their hearts, and these stinky guys who had been flaunting their might in Iraq and Libya gradually became full of fear, and even began to resist a head-on confrontation with the Russian "flanks", especially from the 237th Regiment.

But......

If fear is useful, then what is the need to fight? (To be continued......)