When facing the enemy, there is still a little chaotic distraction in his heart, Sean Phelps was awakened by the shouting of his partner, and the target location found by AN/APG-71 was superimposed on the flat display, after intercepting the target, Pearson has switched the radar to PDSTT mode, "sickle" in the direction of ten o'clock, at a distance of ninety (nautical miles), the fire control system prompts that the "immortal bird" can be launched, Sean Phelps slightly kicked the rudder and pull the lever, and "put" the green glowing point representing the target to the center of the field of view, and then waited for the partner to press the button, Hit an AIM-54C.

At a distance of 90 nautical miles, which translates to nearly 170 kilometers, the probability of using the AIM-54C to intercept a highly maneuverable target at this distance is very low, and Lieutenant Colonel Phelps intends to carry out two over-the-horizon attacks in a row, using up the two "immortal birds" mounted on the landline, and then whether they hit or fail -- most of them will not hit, and then choose the opportunity to enter a dangerous visual air battle.

In order to reduce the missile's energy reserves, the "Super Cat" in high-speed flight turned to the direction of 10 o'clock and then opened fire, which is equivalent to completing the work of turning after firing for the "Immortal Bird".

A missile broke away from the pylon, and a cloud of gray tail smoke soon appeared in his sight, and the F-14D, which had thrown off its weight of five hundred pounds, seemed to be a little lighter, and the lieutenant colonel raised his hand and pulled the throttle valve, and at the same time opened the speed brake, he didn't want to crash into the "sickle" at supersonic speed like this, at least until the over-the-horizon confrontation was over-the-horizon.

Sending a fleet of attack aircraft to attack the Red Navy's surface battle group while trying to intercept the Russian fighters, Sean Phelps was not ordered to shoot down the "Scythe", and he probably didn't have the ability to do that. As long as you can delay this guy's actions and try to keep him out of combat airspace; For this. Several F/A-18E/Fs from the VFA-154 "Black Knight" squadron swept aside. Now these "Super Hornets" are approaching the airspace where the "Scythe" is located, and as soon as the opponent makes a move, they will implement a dense AIM-120B salvo.

Of course, according to past combat experience, even an active radar-guided missile like the "Slammer" is difficult to pose a threat to the "Crazy Ivan", and the fighters of the "Black Knight" squadron only stay at medium and low altitudes, and will not cross the upper limit of 12,000 feet, and use the relatively weak sea surface environment to enhance the AIM-120B missile's downward viewing capability, in short, to drive the "Scythe" to a high altitude as much as possible.

Once the battle enters the high-altitude, high-speed level. The "Super Cat" with variable swept wing should have a slight advantage.

The plan of the siege was probably like this, and then, after firing two AIM-54Cs in succession, they entered the middle of the guide, and the F-14D, which was at an altitude of 10,000 meters, continued to place the enemy aircraft in the direction of 10 o'clock and always maintained radar contact.

After the estimated moment arrived, as expected, the target echo on the radar display was still very clear, and the cunning Russian "flanker" did not even take a violent evasive maneuver and break away from the AN/APG-71, directly avoiding the long-range throw of an "immortal bird", which was also expected by the lieutenant colonel, but it really made Pearson confirm this scene. He still felt a little weak in his hands.

Sure enough, the "immortal bird" can't hope to hit. What's next, take a spin and get ready to use the "sparrow"?

AIM-7M, the lieutenant colonel's landline, is mounted under the air intake is two pieces, this kind of semi-active radar-guided missiles with average performance in general, especially it is believed that they cannot deal with the "Scythe" at all, and the U.S. Navy pilots who are used to firing at a long range do not like it very much, and compared with the "immortal bird" belonging to the ARHM, the SARHM needs the carrier aircraft to keep the radar irradiated all the time, which always feels a little dangerous.

Especially now, the "Flanker" in the sky must be equipped with an AA-12 with active radar guidance, and if it is approaching head-on, Phelps will not have the confidence to hit the opponent while dodging the "Viper" interception.

Messing around, the "Immortal Bird" is useless, is it really going to enter the fight......

Two long-range air-to-air missiles were fired, but the result was nothing to gain, and Lieutenant Colonel Phelps was still hesitating.

At this time, the white twenty in the sky was evading the second incoming "immortal bird", keeping the flight speed near the corner point, and there were so many radar scanning beams projected in front of him, the young man driving the gray and white giant bird did not deliberately avoid radar irradiation, and he didn't need it now, he scanned the large sky outside the cabin with both eyes, and paid attention to searching for any abnormality in the sky when the RWR began to alarm, and decisively entered a group of defensive barrels when the big rocket with the thruster burned out rushed over, and it didn't take much effort to let the clumsy "immortal bird" Pounced on an empty one.

In the face of several US fighters at different altitudes, daring to let the missiles approach and then evade them, Long Yun seemed a little risky to do so, after all, no matter how good a pilot was, he would not dare to pack a ticket and say that he could observe every incoming missile.

At present, a large number of enemy planes are still far away, and they are all in the front hemisphere, and infrared guided missiles without warning during homing can basically be ruled out; As for the radar-guided missiles, the "Sparrow" series in the hands of the Americans is completely ineffective against the White 20, and the ones who are worried about it are none other than AIM-54 and AIM-120B, which are active radar-guided missiles.

Based on this consideration, and at the same time, in order to complete the task, Long Yun, who was approaching the US carrier-based aircraft fleet, threw off two "immortal birds" one after another, and at the same time determined that the target at an altitude of about 10,000 meters was the F-14.

According to general logic, since the US Navy fighter specializing in air defense has been discovered, the next trump card of the Red Air Force should be to charge and fight an air battle without suspense with the challenger who is not self-sufficient; Obviously, Comrade Lieutenant General did not take off his plane to fight the US fighters alone or in a group fight, and the white No. 20, which was still full of energy after throwing off the missiles, immediately rolled half-roll, entered a dive, and rushed directly in the direction of the US attack planes.

The height of the "flanker" plummeted suddenly, and naturally Phelps and his partner saw that the opponent would attack the U.S. Navy attack aircraft group by himself, and he would also enter the attack range of the escort aircraft, and the lieutenant colonel fell and subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking at the distance of the "Scythe", he quickly considered the current situation of friend and foe, chose a roundabout track, and at the same time silently calculated the time in his mind, intending to launch a decisive plunder when the Russian ace was attacked by the "Slammer" and forced to turn away.

Attacking an enemy like the Scythe is a tactic that the F-14 fighter is good at, and it is also a less risky option.

Although in the previous BVR stage, Sean Phelps's landline was unable to take the "scythe", but in addition to over-the-horizon, the so-called "visual air combat" is not only a mode of fighting, since you are worried that you will not be able to take advantage of the hovering grappling, then the hit-and-run strategy is worth trying.

After determining the course of action, Lieutenant Colonel Phelps instructed Pearson to keep an eye on the air around him, and asked him to mobilize radar to keep an eye on the "flanker" that was approaching.

As the plane approached the opponent, the lieutenant colonel controlled the fighter plane while watching the light point representing the enemy plane move little by little on the heads-up display, and the radio heard the "Fox_Three" call of the pilots as they fired "Slammer", and the distance between the two sides was about 30 nautical miles.

Sure enough, perhaps the number of AIM-120Bs projected by the "Super Hornet" is really a lot, and the attack is carried out without concealment, even the "Grim Reaper" has to be afraid of three points, and the Russian "flanker" who is as cunning as a loach is changing positions frequently, and then, it disappears from the radar display screen all at once, and is obviously carrying out a high-G maneuver against the PD mode, the lieutenant colonel hurriedly instructed his partner to change the radar working mode, so as not to startle the snake, and he continued to sneak the plane, preparing to attack as soon as the "sickle" turned around.

"Sparrow" M, it doesn't matter if it's good or not, there is only one kind of goods at this distance!

Quietly approaching from the rear hemisphere of the enemy, Sean Phelps's judgment was basically close to the truth, and as the plane dived to attack the U.S. Navy attack aircraft group, Long Yun's White Twenty quickly became the only target in the eyes of the F/A-18E/F.

Combined with the warning issued by the "Eagle Eye", the people of the "Black Knight" squadron probably figured out that the comrades of VFA-103 who had just crashed into the sea did not lie, it was indeed the landline of the "Grim Reaper", and everyone's intention to fire and intercept was also quite powerful, and a group of slender gray-white sharp arrows shot out, dragging the thin thruster tail flame forward.

From medium to high altitudes to low altitudes, the airspace that can be seen by fighter radars is only a cone-shaped part, and according to the plan of the "Black Knight" squadron, the "Scythe" that is coming straight to the US attack aircraft fleet will rush into the airspace ambushed by several "Super Hornets" at once, and now it is only an ambush that takes the initiative to turn on the radar and throw AIM-120B to attack.

When this guy flew closer, everyone fired thousands of bullets, and a large number of "Slammers" sacrificed their lives, even if they couldn't hit the "sickle", they could make the Russians scramble for a while.

In this way, when he breaks free from the accumulation of missiles, he will not want to catch up with the "bumblebees" who have run away! (To be continued......)