As soon as the words came out, seeing that the pilots' expressions became stern, the regiment commander nodded wordlessly, he knew that the question he had asked countless times no longer needed to be answered, and his voice became a little muffled.

"Yes! My comrades-in-arms.

The smell of gunpowder smoke and artillery fire comes from our beautiful and rich Caucasus land; Just ten days ago, the invaders, armed to the teeth, brought the flames of war to the front of the Alliance's doorstep.

In these ten days, we have fought bravely again and again, and we have fought hard again and again; But the atrocities of the aggressors continued, and our lovely comrades-in-arms, Vasily, Konstantin, Leonid and Semyon, have been laid to rest forever on the land of the Motherland.

But here, I would like to say that in the face of a beastly and brutal enemy, the glorious 390th Regiment has not yet been defeated, and the flag of the Red Air Force is still flying high in the wind!

Dear lads, I, a veteran of the battlefield who has served for sixteen years, I am here to say my long-cherished wish, that is, to fight with honor, to fight for our cherished one; Even if after this brutal war, each and every one of us has turned into a meteor in the Soviet sky, there will always be people who will remember us, how we sacrificed our lives here and fought to the death for honor and faith.

The enemy is in the air, strike boys; Hope is left to the motherland and the people, and the anger burns the jackals and the enemy!

For the great Soviet Union, forward, Davarich! ”

……

After a long battle and waiting, the moment of decisive battle has finally arrived.

The sky was clear, thin clouds were floating in the air, and one after another MiG warhawks were ready to leave the runway. Merge your body into the vast and lofty sky.

The vast stretch of the Caucasus. The undulating shores of the Black Sea. On the side of the 2,000-kilometer front from Bulgaria to Azerbaijan, there are scattered forward bases and field airfields, and fighter planes, attack planes, fighter-bombers, and strategic bombers sprayed with camouflage of different colors, red stars shining on their wings and vertical tails, and the burning engines roar like thunder, accelerating and gliding into the sky, circling and forming over the bases and waiting for an attack; Under the command of ground guidance and early warning aircraft, groups of fighters climbed south with bright afterburner tails, and the missiles under the wings were as dense as a forest of guns. The fighters participating in the "anti-radiation operation" formed several groups of attack formations and took cover in the direction of the enemy.

Just after 9 o'clock in the morning, several air battle echelons composed of more than 300 fighters have already taken their own roads, issuing a death invitation to the NATO fighters entrenched in the southern sky!

The earth trembled, as if the sky were burning; The fierce fighting in the Southern Theater is about to reach its most brutal and ruthless, yet gorgeous and splendid peak today.

The strategic defense posture of the past was completely different, and the hundreds of Red Air Force fighters that took to the air in the morning soon appeared on the display screen of NATO's long-range warning radar. At the U.S. Central Command, which is also poised to settle the Transcaucasian problem with a thunderous offensive, the commanders are already battle-hardened in the face of a preemptive attack from the north. But I couldn't help the bursts of blood boiling.

Yes, after ten days of fierce fighting. Is it finally time for the Russians to have a showdown?

In the days since Operation Typhoon was implemented, the offensive of NATO ground forces has suffered repeated setbacks, and the battle in the sky has not been very smooth; Under the all-out interception of the Soviet front-line aviation, especially the violent slaughter of the "Caucasus Reaper", all fighter wings formed by NATO's tactical air force suffered severe losses. The unprecedented and tragic fighting, while arousing fear among NATO's front-line combatants, has made the top commanders all hold back a breath of fire, and the generals in military uniforms are eager to find an opportunity to be ashamed, and now it seems that such an opportunity has finally arrived.

Both eyes seemed to be on fire, the big-brimmed hat in his hand was grabbed tighter and tighter, and seeing more and more red target highlights on the air situation display screen in the war zone, General Clark, who was standing in the combat command room of the command center, only felt a burst of adrenaline rushing into his veins, and his forehead was bruised, and he didn't know whether it was fear or a deep desire to fight that was now filling his mind.

"How many goals?"

In the face of the unprecedented scale of the Russians' attack, the general's words trembled a little.

"Report to the general, the target currently screened is two hundred and thirty to two hundred and forty, which is based on the statistics of the airspace at a depth of 200 nautical miles."

"Good. - Haha, it's a good time! ”

The sudden loud roar surprised everyone in the command room, and they only saw the iron-faced general, who seemed to be full of anger, waving his arms exaggeratedly, while continuing to roar loudly:

"If the Ivan want a decisive battle, then give them a decisive battle! Liaison officer, immediately contact the Admiralty for me, find Rear Admiral Lawrence, and ask them to attack with all their strength and keep an eye on the airspace west of Ankara; Order all front-line combat units of the Air Force to attack and carry out the mission according to the predetermined plan, so that the boys of the United States can teach these drunken maniacs a truth, the mighty free world is the eternal master of the sky!

If you heard no, I ordered all the fighters to attack, and all the fighters on standby were to take up the air to be responsible for the interception line of their respective airspace; Ha, even in the competition for the number of fighters, we will never lose! ”

"- Yes! Your Excellency, General. ”

With the busyness of the command headquarters, the passionate orders full of emotion were quickly translated and broken down into battlefield instructions without any emotion, and the invisible electromagnetic waves spread everywhere and were transmitted to every combat unit in the southern theater, and even to every fighter plane on standby.

Clark's anger was probably too emotional, but his fierce response was not out of impulsiveness and recklessness, but a thorough implementation of the relevant arrangements of NATO's top leadership.

At this moment, at the critical juncture of the "Typhoon" operation, NATO's tactical air force, which was originally preparing to make large-scale sorties and completely maintain air supremacy in the theater, will naturally take to the air to intercept the overwhelming Warsaw Pact fighters. After all, when the battle is fought at this point, both warring sides will do their best to seize air supremacy in the theater, and whoever controls the sky can recklessly throw bombs on the enemy's head, and under the high-intensity air strike, no ground unit can continue to complete the combat mission after a week of continuous combat.

Moreover, as far as the current NATO coalition forces are concerned, seizing and maintaining air supremacy has another important benefit, that is, they can use the method of airborne surprise attacks to send the 101st Air Assault Division, which has been withdrawn from Kutaisi and basically completed its rest, to the Sukhumi and even the Sochi front line, completely sever the railway links between the western part of the Transcaucasia and the interior of the Soviet Union, and form a situation of joint attack between the north and the south, so that the operational objective of the first phase of the "Typhoon" operation can be quickly achieved.

At the moment of fierce warfare, the commanders are still strategizing on the map and display; However, for the frontline combatants who are fighting on the front line, when the clarion call of war sounds, not everyone can go to war willingly.

In the face of the overwhelming Soviet fighter jets from the north, one after another fighters rushed out from the forward base in eastern Turkey, and gray traces of NATO fighters soon appeared over the vast Black Sea; The F-15C fighters from the 39th Squadron of the Eighth Fighter Wing of the U.S. Air Force were in full swing at this time, like the "Eagle" fighters of other wings, and these gray twin-engine heavy fighters with low visibility paint lined up in a horizontal line, all the way to an altitude of more than 6,000 meters, and the CF-18 "Hornet" at a lower altitude formed an echelon configuration lineup for air supremacy.

Unlike the American fighters that appeared at high altitudes, the CF-18 single-seat fighters flying at low altitude with light gray paint and red maple leaf logos painted on a white background and blue circles on the fuselage are from Canada, a member of NATO in the Americas, and are also a cutting-edge air force stationed in Turkey under the framework of NATO's military integration.

In recent months, after a series of high-intensity operations, even the deep-pocketed United States could hardly endure a series of fighter and personnel losses, and it seemed logical to draw some troops from North America, which was safe and secure for the time being; Moreover, as a strange tradition in the Western world, regardless of whether the war itself is just or not, the aggressor always tries to involve as many countries as possible, as if this would prove that the armies of the free world are famous and may strive for some public opinion superiority in the international community.

This is the case with the Eight-Nation Coalition more than 100 years ago, the "United Nations Forces" in Korea, and the so-called NATO Coalition that is now burning the flames of war to the foothills of the Caucasus.

Coming from a cold country separated by oceans, the Canadians who have not yet fully adapted to the climate of Asia Minor, and the Canadians who took to the air with the large force were not given the heavy task of seizing air supremacy, but formed a standard fighter interception line under the cover of high-altitude F-15C to guard against low-altitude sneak attacks by Russian fighters and provide necessary air shelter for NATO attack aircraft that ventured to penetrate the defense.

In the airspace over this large area of fighter planes over the eastern part of the Black Sea, close to the middle line of the Black Sea from the Crimean peninsula to the salient of Asia Minor, a formation of Turkish "Fighting Falcons" flew in the air.

Looking further west, in the vast sky across the middle line of the Black Sea, flying with wings are groups of "Super Cat" and "Super Hornet" fighters of the US Navy, which, like their air force counterparts, are being dispersed under the unified dispatch of NATO's battlefield command system, ready to face the surging sea of Russian fighters in the north. (To be continued......)