Chapter 1256: Reasons for Underestimating the Enemy
The position of "Eagle Eye", Long Yun, who piloted the White Twenty, could not be obtained by relying on the airborne radar warning equipment, which was completely a cheating with superpowers.
About fifteen minutes ago, when the 317th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment of the Red Navy was attacking in a big way and the 68th Bomber Aviation Regiment flying from the northwest was acting as a countermeasure, Long Yun, who had penetrated the defense alone, decided to look for the US carrier-based aircraft, but he did not intend to fight to the death with these guys who intended to intercept, but when the planes were climbing and staggering past the opponent's fighters and missiles, he snooped through guò consciousness to sweep away the thinking activities of these American pilots.
As long as the location of the "Hawkeye" is clarified, the Americans can say that this battle is lost.
Before participating in the battle, Long Yun knew that he was a complete amateur in naval warfare in this ocean-going contest planned by the Far Eastern Theater Command, but he did notice that since the winners and losers of the two sides were mainly in the sky, then the air power was still the protagonist in this battle, so the key node in the US Navy's defense system, the early warning aircraft, could naturally be used as a priority target.
In the face of the threat of long-range anti-ship missiles from the Red Navy, the Americans' countermeasures, in addition to relying on air power to counter surface ships and submarines, are to use E-2C to monitor the airspace and F-14 to intercept them.
It is easy to understand that as long as the "Hawkeye" early warning aircraft is eliminated for such an air defense interception system, the interception capability of the "Tomcat" will be greatly affected.
However, it is easy to say that the elimination of early warning aircraft is not easy to do.
Previously when entering the war in the Caucasus. Long Yun's crash record does include an E-3A "watchtower". The detection range and electronic countermeasure capability of this early warning aircraft are even stronger than those of the E-2C "Eagle Eye". But that was the result of piloting the MiG-29N and carrying an R-27EP in the belly magazine.
Now, since we want to drive the Su-27M2 deep into the far sea and have a big battle with the US Navy carrier-based aircraft, the stealth MiGs with good stealth capabilities and other parameters are scummy cannot be considered, and the Sukhoi fighters with large RCS and more obvious missiles are very conspicuous on the radar display screen of the early warning aircraft, and the sneaky tactics have no basis in reality, and Long Yun's plan must also be changed.
This change. To put it bluntly, unlike the situation in the Caucasus, what he is doing to the Americans is actually a psychological war.
Throughout the course of the engagement, although he fought with all his might at the beginning and shot down several "Tomcats", Long Yun's pace of combat was always unhurried, and he kept trying to confuse the command system of the US Navy in this way, allowing those commanders to guess their combat intentions out of thin air.
Sure enough, in the face of the sudden appearance of the "Grim Reaper", U.S. Navy was shocked, but he still couldn't figure out what he was planning to do; A team of staff including Stanley Cooper and others. I thought about this and thought about it, but no one expected that he would raid the "Hawkeye" AWACS aircraft. Because according to the general idea, in the vast sea with no backup, without a full-time electronic warfare aircraft to indicate its direction, it is impossible for a wandering "flanker" to find a trace of the E-2C.
Taking a step back, even if the Russians flew in the direction of the "Eagle Eye" by mistake, not to mention the two F-14s around the AWACS aircraft, the E-2C itself could be slightly evaded, anyway, as long as he was not allowed to get close.
But now, in the face of the "White Reaper" who rushed to the airspace where the "Hawkeye" was located, and was bent on asking for his life, the commanders of the United States who were in doubt were indeed confused, they did not know Victor's superpowers, and they could not understand at all what the Russians, who had never been very good at the level of electronic technology, had to do to enable the fighter jets to accurately detect the location of the "Hawkeye".
Just when the Americans were anxious and didn't know what to do, in the sky, the Su-27M2 painted with a red five-pointed star was still accelerating its sprint, directly killing the "Eagle Eye" at the speed of Mach 1.6, and dodged the two "immortal birds" without any suspense on the halfway, and then included the slow E-2C into the attack envelope of the R-77 missile.
Seeing that the battle situation ahead was critical, and the Russian bombers were also running to make trouble, Colonel Walsh had just reminded the "derrick" in front and told them that the "Scythe" was probably carrying anti-radiation missiles or active radar-guided missiles, and he ordered the "Hawkeye" to immediately turn around and flee, and at the same time turn on the active electronic jammer.
The order seemed to be timely, but at this time, two milky white missiles in the sky were shooting at one after the other!
In the face of the attacking R-77, the "Tomcat" responsible for interception has occupied the head-on interception position, but there is no way to take these two long swords with amazing speed - in fact, it is better to say that these two F-14Ds did not notice this scene at all, as a result, about forty seconds after Long Yun pressed the launch button, an R-77 that flew fifty kilometers away and the thruster had already burned out directly hit the E-2C who was desperately escaping, and the fragments flew away in the air instantly, and the broken circular radome was like a frisbee, Shake and fall in the blue sky.
The electronic jamming was fully turned on, and a large amount of jamming chaff was thrown on the side, and the "Hawkeye", which fled for its life, deceived the first missile, but did not escape the second R-77 with a straight trajectory.
The AWACS aircraft was actually hit, and the command center on the CVN-73 immediately bombed the battalion.
Seeing that the "Scythe" suddenly attacked and broke through the interception of the F-14 fighter all the way to chase and kill the AWACS aircraft, just a few dozen seconds ago, everyone present still didn't believe it, and they never imagined that the "Crazy Ivan" would come to this hand anyway.
I had a trace of illusion in my heart, and it was not until the battlefield dispatcher lost contact with the "derrick" that the shadow of the E-2C was no longer in the air transmitted by the other "Hawkeye", and the vice admiral who was deeply stimulated shouted and cursed angrily, and in his tone, in addition to being annoyed and angry, it was a panic that was difficult to hide.
Panic, it seems, is sudden, but it is not at all controllable, what will become of the air defense system of the fleet that has lost its eyes and ears, William Pratt, of course, is very clear.
"Quick! - Damn, where is our backup machine? ”
The most tense moment of the operation in the high-threat sea area has now arrived, and an E-2C previously flown by the "Theodore Roosevelt" immediately received an order to fill the position.
The order was given very quickly, but as a backup aircraft, the current position of this "Hawkeye" is really not ideal, even if it is at the top speed of 350 knots, it will take a quarter of an hour to fly a distance of 150 kilometers, this kind of speed, for the tactical arrangement is irreproachable, but in the case of the "backfire" attacking in groups, it will already form an intolerable long window period.
Not only that, but for the busy Americans, the doom is not over there.
Just solved an E-2C cleanly, and at the same time fell deep into the air defense circle of the US Navy, in the face of two angry and roaring F-14D, as well as the "Super Hornet" that caught up with the back, and a large area of electronic interference glitches and snowflakes on the display screen in front of him, Long Yun did not fall in love with these guys, but directly made a judgment based on the information that these people received on the battlefield, he quickly got rid of a hastily attacking "Sparrow" M, kept the afterburner turned on state and broke away, and went to another "Eagle Eye" in the southern sky Pounce.
Pumping out an E-2C and acting so cleanly and neatly made Long Yun himself a little surprised, and it was only when he got rid of the entanglement of enemy planes that he learned through his superpowers that the Americans had no foresight of his actions at all.
Are these guys so relieved about their "Eagle Eye"?
Driving the plane to get rid of the pursuers, and killing the second AWACS aircraft along a straight track, Long Yun could only raise his eyebrows in a boring way for the Yankees' negligence.
He knows that the Americans are not fools, but the so-called trick of "snooping through guò consciousness to get the direction of the 'eagle eye'", naturally no one can guess it, so in the eyes of the U.S. Navy commander, his Long Yun's breakthrough should be a farce of a blind fighter breaking into the air defense circle of the fleet, no matter how strong the fighter is, it is impossible to compare with the entire system of the Americans in battlefield situational awareness, this is the reason why they underestimate the enemy, of course, now quickly pay the price.
Dealing with a "Hawkeye" that didn't have time to escape, and now it is pounced on another target in the southern sky, Long Yun's movements are very fast, but he knows that the Americans who have just suffered the pain will not be able to make the same mistake again, and the E-2C in the distant sky will definitely flee, leaving only a large number of fighters waiting for him to collide with him.
Long Yun's judgment was basically consistent with the facts, and he found that the Russian madman was still chasing after the "Eagle Eye" with a knife, and the Americans' entanglement had completely broken through the sky.
Shouting and swearing in the command center, completely ignoring Stanley Cooper and others in a cold sweat, Vice Admiral William Pratt's shirt collar was completely wet with sweat, and he can't calm down now: as a fleet commander, he knows very well what the loss of "Hawkeye" means, and now, seeing that the "Grim Reaper" is eyeing another AWACS aircraft, Stanley this guy immediately ordered the "Hawkeye" to urgently evade, but in this way, the gap in the fleet's air defense circle has become two, what is the difference between this and being directly shot down by Ivan?
Completely confused about what was going on, the general could only blame the military intelligence agencies for this, and they must have underestimated the level of electronic detection of the Russians, so that the fleet would run into big * trouble.
Damn Russian, the "Grim Reaper" from hell, this guy is actually here to hunt E-2C, why didn't he think of it before! (To be continued......)