Chapter 660: Returning from the Cruise
The second sortie that afternoon, this kind of combat intensity was already commonplace for Long Yun.
Piloting the red No. 17, whose fuselage was quite heavy, flew into the blue sky with his head held high, and his operational thinking was already very clear at this time: the situation was now clear, since the Americans' "leapfrog" attack had been launched, they would inevitably make every effort to ensure the follow-up support of the 101st Division's assault forward; Even if it is only for this purpose, NATO's tactical air force will inevitably go out in a big way to create conditions for helicopter deliveries and transport aircraft airdrops.
Before gaining air supremacy in the theater, a group of helicopters were dispatched to carry out a roundabout sneak attack, which was completely gambling, and a sneer appeared on the corner of Long Yun's mouth.
These guys, they haven't learned a lesson, or are they just going to put on a posture of "dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water"?
Thinking that nearly a quarter of the 1,500 fighters gathered by NATO in the Southern Theater have now been wiped out by VVS and PVO, but looking at the appearance of the opponent, it is clear that he doesn't care much about these battle damages, Long Yun lowered his head and checked the R-27T and R-73M mounted under the wings of the fighters again, and he intuitively felt that he would experience an unprecedentedly fierce battle today.
The Americans, who have always been arrogant and consider themselves "world leaders", are now probably refusing to stop even if they are beaten like this, probably by virtue of their abundant fighter stocks?
If you think about your sortie record in the last few days, shooting down nearly ten NATO fighters almost every day, if you continue like this, even if he Victor alone only takes a few months, he can turn all the fighters in NATO's southern theater into piles of burning wreckage and garbage!
Of course, even if he can really do this kind of thing. For the United States, where the industrial potential is extremely deep, and the production capacity of fighter jets has increased to nearly 300 per month. Perhaps such a terrible loss is not irreparable; But Long Yun has always been skeptical. If they continue to play like this, I am afraid that the Americans will soon not be able to find enough pilots, and they will have to use a group of rookies to fly fighters to continue the war.
If it really comes to this point, what will this war become?
Piloting the fighter plane to fly over the sky, thinking of a terrible scene of the continuous development of the war, at this time, Long Yun only felt that his blood was boiling, and he seemed to see that in the boundless deep blue sky, new crash records were waving to him.
With the strong belief that the enemy will win and kill the enemy, after taking off, it made contact with the ground guidance platform, and the smooth Red Star fighter quickly accelerated to break through the sound barrier and fluttered forward with a white blade with sharp wings. Facing the orange sun in the afternoon, he showed his incomparably sharp blood-colored long knife to the enemy in the sky.
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As the sun sets and night falls, the Stavropol base, which has been busy for a day, temporarily calms down.
At this time, Long Yun was in the tall reinforced hangar of the 237th Fighter Aviation Regiment, standing in front of the white No. 20 landline that had been put into storage for maintenance, and held a tactical discussion meeting for the comrades-in-arms present.
Unlike the large-scale killing in the morning, during the afternoon operation, a large group of NATO fighters in the sky probably received an early warning. As soon as Red Seventeen approached the battle line, they turned around and ran away, scattering in the sky.
Piloting the Su-27S, which is full of missiles and imposing like a rainbow, single-handedly entered the war zone, but it has never found a decisive battle with NATO's air superiority fleet. Long Yun had to follow the guidance of ground navigation and patrol around the war-torn Georgia. During the operation, he first picked up a Turkish F-4 "Phantom", turning the ugly and clumsy fighter into a fireball, and then found and shot down a "Super Hornet" with a failed navigation system and flying like a headless fly; In addition, there were no other gains in the afternoon's battle, which made Long Yun, who was eager to kill the enemy, feel a little unhappy, and he felt that he was far from having fun with it.
But even so, his sortie this time has already achieved the desired effect.
In the face of the obscenity of the "Grim Reaper", the activities of NATO's tactical air force in Georgia were severely restricted, and the fighting on the ground also fell into a stalemate; Until the Red No. 17, which had bottomed out in fuel, returned to fly north, a helicopter of the 101st Air Assault Division still lay in the base and did not dare to move its nest, which made the American GIs in Kutaisi who were fighting hard very unhappy, but they were helpless for a while.
Seeing that the sky is getting dark, follow-up support can only be carried out at night, which will naturally add countless variables to combat operations, but what can be done now?
Night sailing also has the benefits of night sailing, at least the "Grim Reaper" generally does not appear at night!
The depression of the Americans, perhaps, is clear only to themselves. And Long Yun, who was still unfinished and returned from killing the enemy, was telling his comrades about the fierce battle that morning.
During this morning's combat operation, he encountered the F-15S/MTD "Agile Eagle", which is very active in the skies of the Caucasus, that is, the guy he nicknamed "Black Hawk". Of course, according to the latest information from the KGB system, Long Yun already knew that the mysterious pilot was named Harold Fisher, codenamed "Shark", and was one of the aces of the US Air Force who had previously made a big splash on the European battlefield.
"Shark", this nickname sounds quite scary, and the air combat skills are indeed very good!
However, after a battle during the day, Long Yun was now more curious about why this person could not be controlled by his own spirit; Naturally, the KGB will not investigate this kind of thing for him, so for the time being, he can only try to solve it himself:
“…… Yes, that's it! Even though I kept going at 770 km/h and circled to the left, the guy was clearly better at turning sideways. And then at this moment, several Turkish 'Fighting Falcons' that had been roaming around the periphery fired cold guns, and they fired about three or four 'Sparrow' F......."
Standing in front of the white No. 20 landplane returning from the attack, Long Yun held a model of a fighter welded into iron sheet in his hand and compared while talking, he explained the combat process at that time in detail, and also told everyone present that the maneuverability of the "Agile Eagle" is indeed excellent, and in fact, even the horizontal maneuverability is slightly better than that of the Su-27.
Of course, the so-called tactical discussion is ultimately for combat service, and he doesn't want the boys of the 237th Regiment to lose confidence after hearing his story, so he chooses to hold a discussion meeting in the hangar. If nothing else, at least the pilots can see with their own eyes that after a fight with the "shark", at least he and his white No. 20 returned unscathed and smoothly. (To be continued......)