Now, seeing that Lucia's "flanker" was approaching step by step, Air Captain Yokoji Keiichi refreshed the air situation with the help of the number sent by E-2C, and confirmed that there was no other incoming enemy within 100 kilometers ahead, so he called the wingman through the encrypted channel between the two F-15Js, and commanded the 933 to accelerate the climb with him, and at the same time switched to the radar single-target tracking mode, and turned on the "Sparrow" M pre-powered to prepare for interception.

Two F-15Js, against the same number of "Flankers", although I don't know the specific model of Lucia, Yokoji Keiichi also knows that this will be a dangerous battle.

Even if they all use SARHM, they have a certain advantage, not to mention that the opponent now has an active radar-guided missile!

Although in terms of fighter performance and even the level of electronic equipment, the third-class air lieutenant who flies the plane to meet the enemy is not unconfident, and the F-15J/DJ fighter purchased from Midi is still more advanced than Lucia's "Flanker", but the "Eagle" fighter with a longer radar detection range is now carrying an AIM-7M "Sparrow" that is obviously inferior to the AA-10 "Poplar" of the Lucian people, and the difference in range makes the air pilots feel very tricky.

In addition, not to mention, almost half of the fighters recently lost by the NATO side such as the AA-12, the "Viper" active radar-guided missile, and the 201 flight team recently lost fighter planes were all presumed to have been attacked by active missiles.

Hmph, now, how can you care about this, and now you can only draw your sword to the enemy, "those who are fighting are arrayed in front"!

At the moment of the fierce enemy, but I didn't know how to think of such a sentence, two "Devoni Eagles" with blue tails flew in the darkest and heavy sky before dawn. Climb to an altitude of 6,000 meters and accelerate to Mach 1.4. At this time, the two enemy planes in the west had approached within 60 kilometers. The RWR "Didi" sounded, and the 932 and 933 intercepted the irradiated signal of the "Flanker" radar almost simultaneously.

Once they were continuously tracked, the missiles were about to come in one after another, and the eyes of Captain Yokoji scanned the dark night sky outside the hatch, and there was no trace of the enemy planes in the distance.

Gritted his teeth and glanced at the display twice, the green target highlight track was almost unchanged, but the air pilot could only choose to enter the maneuver to evade, and a series of supersonic serpentine maneuvers tried to get rid of the track: F-15J fighters with four "Sparrow" M mounted. Now they are in a very disadvantageous position, and they must approach, or let Lucia's plane, come within a distance of thirty-five kilometers to have the least chance of intercepting head-on.

As the serpentine maneuver progressed, while maintaining constant radar tracking, the two F-15Js and the Lucia fighter plane, which was also accelerating and preparing for a BVR attack, were still approaching each other.

The battle seemed to be about to break out, and in the night sky, several gray-white missiles with sharp wings had broken through the sky, and two Su-27Ms from the 239th VVS Fighter Aviation Regiment, piloted by Captain Vasily Korolev and colleagues, preemptively launched a batch of four R-27EPs to suppress them, while maintaining a high angle of attack to climb and turn on the radar's downward view mode to capture the JASDF fighters with lateral displacement.

For the 239th regiment, which hibernated for a day and a night. In the early hours of the morning, the battle intention was very simple and clear.

As a hammer on the battlefields of the Far East. Lieutenant General Viktor Rezenov, who originally had a high degree of freedom of operation, has now chosen to integrate into the VVS combat system instead of fighting alone, and the three Sukhoi fighters that took off from the forward base at about 4 o'clock in the morning flew over the coastline with missiles on their loads, and their task was to "sweep" the airspace between Vladivostok and Sapporo and open up a channel for the front-line air attack planes that attacked in a big way after dawn.

The so-called "clearing the airspace", the three Su-27s naturally cannot participate in the air all the time, and the plan formulated by Long Yun is to lure the enemy forward, attract the fighters of the Air Self-Defense Force to come forward, and then annihilate them.

At this moment, an over-the-horizon confrontation at an altitude of 6,000 meters is in full swing, and on the sea surface 30 or 40 kilometers in front of the two Su-27M fighters, a huge fighter plane with a gray body is heading east at a low altitude of 2 or 300 meters, and the wide fuselage and wings are full of sword-like air-to-air missiles, and the roar of the two AL-31F-M2 engines in the middle thrust state is reflected far away by the calm sea, leaving a rumbling roar at the junction of the sky and the sea.

Approaching the coastline of Hokkaido to the east from a low altitude, maintaining one-way radio silence along the way, the white No. 20 Su-27M2, whose radar was also not turned on, was approaching the enemy at a speed of 700 kilometers per hour.

At such a low flight altitude, on the giant bird in the sky that controlled the car into the tortuous "S" shaped track to evade the detection of the early warning aircraft of the NATO side, and zigzagged forward with the super-large internal oil, Long Yun could not hear the sharp sound of the radar alarm in his ears in the dimly lit cockpit, and he knew that the JASDF fighter in the sky had not yet discovered himself at this time, including the "Eagle Eye" patrolling far behind the battle line.

The White 20, which flies over the calm dark sea, maintains a slightly risky altitude with its instruments and keeps the N011 radar off, can still know the general air situation around it, because the Su-27M/M2's added on-board communication system has worked.

The improvement of communication technology, as one of the standard equipment of the M/M2 fighter, is of great help to the pilot.

Take a look at the Su-27S, the prototype of the previous two improved fighters, although the electronic equipment itself is not very backward, and it is also equipped with a complete set of SDU-10-17 digital chains, but it can only be used for the Red Air Force, the GCI system of the Territorial Defense Force and the number of communication between fighters, and it does not support information sharing between fighters.

Such a technical configuration, when fighting in Central Europe and the Caucasus, due to the good cooperation of the ground guidance network, he has become accustomed to attacking alone, Long Yun does not have much experience, and in most cases he is equivalent to driving a Su-27S without backup to meet the enemy.

However, now, the conditions of the battlefield have changed all of a sudden, and on the Far Eastern battlefield, where the ground clutter is obscured, if he still relies on a rudimentary radio, one can imagine how difficult it will be for him to fight.

Just like now, the radar is silent along the way, and there is no movement in the RWR, and the dragon clouds flying over the black water in the sky can't see where the clear water antenna is at all, and the Su-27M2 with all-weather combat capability can't provide night vision for the pilot, if it weren't for the two lagging friendly fighters to send some air information, he might only be able to fly alone in the dark night with a black eye, not to mention whether he can find the JASDF fighter, even where he is, Ensuring flight safety can be a tricky issue.

Standing in the cockpit of the white No. 20 Su-27M2, adjusting the course according to the number chain information of the Korolev landline, after the friendly fighters spotted two Self-Defense Force interceptors and entered the over-the-horizon confrontation, the low-altitude Long Yun flew sideways with a rod just right, far away from the combat airspace where the two sides competed in BVR technology.

Well, now that the enemy has taken the bait, it's time to pounce next?

The two F-15J "Devon Eagles" that came forward may be very happy to be ordinary pilots, and at the same time may be a little ambitious, but Long Yun, who has entered the side rotation of the slope, does not see it this way, and he does not need to study the operational details of JASDF in the parallel world or NATO tactical air force, and he can guess that the Japanese must have a back hand.

Because the lagging Su-27M twin aircraft had already encountered the "Devon Eagle", and at this time Bacheng was engaged in a BVR attack, and the target information transmitted by the chain was not refreshed for a while, Long Yun did not know where the four large targets on the radar, which were basically judged to be F-15, were at this time; But in general, when undertaking the task of air defense interception, no commander will overwhelm all the interception forces in one wave, and he estimates that the "Eagle" of the Self-Defense Forces is no exception.

So he slightly kicked the rudder and pulled the lever, and the heavy white No. 20 drew a smooth track over the sea, turning to the north side of the airspace where the JASDF fighter was located.

High-altitude fighters attract the enemy, and the ace comes out from low altitude to sneak attack, this battle plan sounds pretty good, but there are many variables in the real implementation, not only the front fighter needs to have good combat performance, the pilot's own skills and courage, sometimes intuition and luck are also very important.

First of all, the energy reserve of the fighter at low altitude and low speed is limited, and the tactical choice is greatly limited, and once it is discovered by high-altitude enemy aircraft, it will immediately be at a disadvantage. Second, even if the opponent is discovered after covertly engaging the enemy, the range of air-to-air missiles fired up from low altitude is very severe, including the R-27R/T and R-77, and the head-on interception distance of these medium-range missiles will become three-and-four-half of that of high-altitude missiles, and if the tail chases and attacks, they will even directly enter the combat range of WVR (Within_Visual_Range, within visual range).

It is precisely because of these limitations that although the downward viewing distance of fighter radars is lower than that of upward looking, in other words, it is more difficult to detect targets approaching in the lower hemisphere, there are not many examples of air combat in which low-altitude tactics are used to engage the enemy.

However, as the saying goes, "there is no impermanence in the form of soldiers, and there is no growth in water", the situation on the battlefield is rarely immutable.

The plane flew at sea at high speed, planned an approach route through the air situation information transmitted through the guò number jù chain, and flew all the way forward with the Su-27M2 fighter that turned to the course of 300, Long Yun's grasp of the battlefield situation was quite accurate, whether it was the E-2C behind the battle line or the F-15J at high altitude, he was not found. (To be continued......)