As it turned out, the general's expectations were still a little too optimistic.

At this moment, in the sky over the northern part of the Asia Minor Peninsula, when the Sukhoi twin planes were in a dense formation to evade the PAC-2 and the "Lancers" were trying their best to race against the R-27ER, groups of NATO fighters from the east side of the battlefield were also hurrying away.

Different from the entire fleet that was previously put into operations in the direction of the Black Sea, these NATO fighters dragging afterburner to patrol the sky, whether it is the thin F-16C "Fighting Falcon" or the stubby and fat "Tornado" ADV, all of them rushed into the air from the adjacent bases in twos and threes; The deliberate weakness of the Warsaw Pact Air Force for many days had paralyzed the nerves of the Americans, and they did not keep enough air defense interceptors at the front-line airfields and were not ready to resist the invasion of Warsaw Pact fighters.

Yes, as NATO, which has the world's largest air force and has always flown into the enemy's airspace to bomb indiscriminately, it is probably not possible to recognize who it is fighting against, or whether it will be attacked in the most familiar combat mode.

Even now, the two "flankers" who are weak but murderous, the Longyun twin planes have scared away the E-3A early warning planes hovering over the southern Turkish city of Konya, and now they have to face a stray group of planes from the east and another batch of US Navy fighters from the waters west of Cyprus. But whether it is the F-16C desperately speeding up or the F-14D climbing with all its might, the distance of hundreds of kilometers is only a short journey for high-speed fighters, but for those "lancers" who are in urgent need of help and panic. But it is as insurmountable as a chasm separating life from death.

Break out of thin gray clouds. Four dark gray B-1Bs were still running in vain in the sky. The variable swept wing has reached its limit, and the four F101-GE-102 tongues of fire in the lower part of the fuselage are spewing out a thunderous howl with a maximum afterburner thrust of nearly fourteen tons.

The four "Lancers" lined up in an oblique formation and swept across the land, the scene was certainly very spectacular, but limited by the awkward air inlet design of the reduced frontal RCS, the F101 engine, which could have driven the B-1A to fly above Mach 2 at high altitude, was like a brute bull that could not pull the car, and although the huge strategic bomber had gradually climbed to an altitude of 4,000 meters where the air was relatively thin, it could not accelerate to more than Mach 0.9.

Afterburner dodges pursuit. These heavy-duty "Lancers" were already very nervous about fuel, but no one could care so much when they were fleeing for their lives, as long as they could quickly get rid of the AA-10 "Poplars" behind......

But this is clearly no longer possible.

Under the vast endless sky, a series of dark clouds gradually receded in the line of sight like a low tide, drawing a large S-shaped track in the sky, deceiving the two incoming PAC-2 missiles, and the white No. 20 Su-27S finally got rid of the shackles of providing irradiation for the missiles, and entered a steep acceleration dive with the lever of Long Yun.

Dodged the missiles at four o'clock, but there were still several more in front of the left!

After tens of seconds of engagement guidance, the first batch of R-27ERs finally caught up with the target, and the PAC-2 in the clear sky was already close at hand. The two die-to dates between fighter and missile began almost simultaneously, but the results were very different.

Flying against the clear blue sky background, facing the increasingly dense atmosphere of medium and low altitudes. The R-27ER, with its teeth and claws and sharp rudder surface, is rapidly attacking along a high-throw trajectory with optimized range, and the target echo received by the seeker is getting stronger and stronger, and it is obvious that the enemy aircraft is already in front of you; If the missiles had eyes and could see the picture in front of them, they would have found that at the end of the trajectory they were speeding through, the black crow-like figures were growing in size dramatically, and the flames erupting from the tail vents were so bright and gorgeous.

Close enough!

Smelling a target that was close at hand, the radio proximity fuse suddenly moved.

Like a cluster of sharp arrows piercing the body of a giant bird, the sudden fuse detonated the 39-kilogram continuous rod warhead of the R-27ER missile, and the ring of death burst out of the flames in the sky with the flying shrapnel spread sharply, immediately tearing the tail of the "Lancer" into pieces of rotten rags separated from the mop head.

Fatally hit by the incoming missile, the out-of-control dark gray giant bird completely lost its attitude control ability at the first time, and began to roll in the sky, catch fire and fall; While the B-1B was still struggling in vain, a large cloud of black smoke and fire burst out from the sky not far away, and the wing of the other pursued "Lancer" had been torn in half by the explosion, but the body was not damaged, and it could continue to fly for the time being.

was busy dodging more PAC-2 missiles flying in the sky, and Long Yun did not see this scene that happened dozens of kilometers away; But as the target echo scanned by the radar changed, and seeing that the escape formation that the Americans had maintained before had been completely disrupted, he guessed that the first missiles had hit the target!

The R-27ER, a weapon that requires good technical use and could easily turn into aerial fireworks, has finally played a decisive role in the textbook precision of Long Yun's textbook operation.

In previous aerial battles, Long Yun generally chose to equip the R-27 series missiles with high-explosive fragmentation warheads, because the use of continuous rod warheads for over-the-horizon missiles with limited guidance accuracy is often a gamble, either cutting the opponent in half or letting them go unscathed. But today, of course, the situation is completely different, and unlike striking fighters scurrying around, BVR missiles can track sluggish bombers with higher accuracy and often have a much closer detonation distance; As long as the pilot guides correctly, the lethality of the heavy continuous rod warhead that detonates at close range is very amazing, and it is an extremely fatal blow to a bomber with a huge body and structural strength but not rich.

The use of missiles to hit the Americans' strategic bombers, a rare example of excellence, is now no time to celebrate.

Piloting the white No. 20 Su-27S to dive rapidly in the sky, evading the two "Patriot" missiles that were diving along the high-throw trajectory, Long Yun did not break away from the original straight track and began to make a sharp turn until the last moment, but he was not idle during this period - with the rapid operation of his left hand, the two R-27ERs under the air intake broke away from the pylons, ignited and flew away, and the Sukhoi fighter, which had lost the last trace of drag, immediately shook off the thrust of the first missile with a continuous horizontal maneuver with a large overload.

But that's not all, there's one more less than two kilometers away!

After entering the side rotation and throwing off the first "Patriot", he immediately reversed the rod, the afterburner was fully opened, and the standard minimum radius circled at an angular speed of more than 700 kilometers, and with a twisted "S" shaped track appeared in the sky, the second missile passed by the blue-gray fighter plane that flew sideways over the line of sight, but did not detonate, and a severe torture of life and death was easily resolved by Long Yun into nothingness.

Throwing off two PAC-2 missiles in succession, although it was not dangerous, but he felt a little tired because of nervousness and overload, Long Yun looked in the sky for the white No. 19 that had just separated from his left and right, he only now remembered that he had been in the air for three hours, and now it was best to complete the attack immediately and then break away immediately.

"No. 20, call No. 20, I was hit by a missile!"

"- What? - I just saw you, how is it now? ”

Just as they scanned the sky and spotted the first glimpse of a fighter plane approaching in the distance with thick smoke, a shout from the wingman reporting battle damage was heard on the radio.

After separating from each other to dodge the first batch of PAC-2 missiles, the white 19, which turned to the left, also narrowly dodged the attack of another "Patriot", but his technique and on-the-spot reaction were obviously not comparable to Long Yun's, and he was injured at close range by the second missile that came from behind.

Seeing that the wingman was injured by an anti-aircraft missile, Long Yun, who was keeping the BVR irradiation guide, frowned, although there were no enemy planes in the sky that came to make trouble, but it is conceivable that the Americans could not let them calmly line up to shoot these expensive "lancers" all the time. If the enemy aircraft attacked, would they be able to cope with the Su-27S, which had two bombs and one battle-damaged Su-27S?

"No. 19, keep the course steady, don't panic! -- If you can still keep flying, you should immediately turn to the direction of three o'clock and break away in the direction of the strait. ”

"Received on the 19th, and is still able to fly - but there are signs of a fire in the engine. I can hold out for a while! ”

While answering Viktor's call, the white No. 19, who was struggling to control the white No. 19 with its wings damaged and the rear fuselage faintly bursting into flames, Lieutenant Colonel Boris Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky looked back with trepidation, and sighed at the failure of the evasion just now.

As an experienced combat veteran, or the temporary political commissar of the 224th Regiment, this cooperation with Victor has always been quite smooth, but I didn't expect to let myself be defeated in the end. However, he cannot be blamed for this incident, because the radio proximity fuse of the "Patriot" missile is generally calibrated at a detonation distance of about 20 meters, and it is obvious that the lieutenant colonel is not clear about this, and his evasion maneuver is too slow before he is blown up by the passing missile.

Just now, I heard a loud thunderous sound that had changed its tone, and I felt that the fighter plane was rolling like a small car that had been hit head-on by an eighteen-wheeled truck, and all kinds of alarms in the cockpit were "whining"; Holding the joystick firmly in a panic, Dzerzhinsky subconsciously glanced at the navigation information, and now they have penetrated into Turkish airspace for tens of kilometers.

If you skydive at this time, you will definitely become a captive of the Americans! (To be continued......)

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