All in all, the balance of sea and air power in the Far East is such that it does not seem to have a decisive advantage over either side.

As for the contest on land, there is no doubt that the Eastern bloc of countries has an overwhelming advantage, but this superiority can be said to have no effect on the course of the war until the victory is decided in the sea and air.

Although NATO was caught off guard by a "nuclear weapons crisis," it was still full of confidence in the strength of its navy and air force. This confidence also shows that in the strategic decision of the US Pacific Command, the generals are still considering where to launch the attack, and they plan to use superior maritime forces to respond to Ivan's brazen air strikes.

However, before they could negotiate the outcome, the real war was already in full swing.

Just a few days after the Fukuoka air raid, when the international community was still talking about this nuclear weapons turmoil, the Red Empire's warplanes were already rumbling into action, and the overwhelming VVS fighters escorted the formation of attack planes and bombers loaded with air-wide ammunition to launch a full-scale air attack on Japan across the sea.

In the face of the large-scale attack of the Russians, the US forces stationed in Japan immediately reacted and coordinated with the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force to counterattack, and a battle for the sky on an unprecedented scale broke out.

In such an aerial contest, the Warsaw Pact attacked in a big way, and NATO defended with all its might, and the warring parties seemed to have taken the wrong script, and the casualties between each other were also very heavy; In the three days since the war began, fierce air battles over the Sea of Japan have been almost non-stop, and the Air Self-Defense Force, which served as cannon fodder, and the attacking Red Air Force have both lost dozens of fighters, but for a time no one has been able to completely seize air supremacy around the four islands.

The struggle for air supremacy. It's the icing on the cake for the attacking side. For the defenders, it is a matter of life and death.

Just in the confrontation both sides did their best. When a large number of fighters were dispatched to fight back and forth, the Red Air Force's attack planes did not sit back and wait for their comrades to seize air supremacy, but went all out from the beginning to throw one air opposite weapon after another on the Japanese archipelago.

Among them, long-range bombers such as Tu-22M and T-95MS mainly launch a large number of patrol * navigation * missile * missiles behind the battle line, while fighter-bombers and full-time attack aircraft are more courageous and long-distance drive straight in; The Sea of Japan, which stretches for hundreds of kilometers, seems to be vast, but it cannot stop the high morale of the Red Air Force. The pilots flew fighter planes and braved the interception of the Air Self-Defense Force to surprise the air, and for a time the western part of Japan was full of smoke.

In addition, if it is said that the raid of fighter planes can still be intercepted, there are some things that make the Japanese people very helpless, and the tactical rockets that are blooming everywhere have quickly exposed the lie of the interception rate of the "Patriot" missile system, and the Japanese society, which is not well prepared, has fallen into a state of exhaustion little by little.

After a few days of development, no one had the slightest intention of retreating, and a battle in the sky that broke out in the Far East seemed to continue like this; However, with the arrival of someone. The shape of war will soon change dramatically.

Unlike other front-line combat units. Today's Viktor Rezenov, in the Red Air Force, has changed.

Viktor Rezenov, who had previously fought in the Caucasus and had risen to the rank of lieutenant general of the VVS Aviation Forces, served in the 237th Fighter Aviation Regiment; In the 237th Regiment, the regiment commander Samsonov's military rank is only lieutenant colonel, although in the army to give orders generally only look at the military position, not the military rank, but there is such a lieutenant general in the regiment, everyone feels a little funny in the honor, after all, the Red Air Force ace in history is not as rocket as a wartime promotion, and the general takes to the air to fight, this kind of thing is rare in the history of air warfare.

Of course, this idea is not out of "unconvinced", speaking of records, Victor has left many aces in history far behind, and the promotion to lieutenant general is also a matter of course.

However, it is clear that the Air Force Command is more thoughtful, and in the upcoming Far Eastern War, although the fighter division of the 237th Fighter Aviation Regiment was also transferred to the shore of Lake Xingkai, Viktor Rezenov did not return directly, but formed the 239th Fighter Aviation Regiment with three other excellent pilots, and became an independent unit that was free from the combat sequence.

The "239th Fighter Aviation Regiment", which has never appeared in history, is actually equipped with a total of seven or eight Su-27 fighters of various types, and its mission goal is to provide support for Lieutenant General Viktor Rezenov's sortie operations, including aircraft transfer, fighter maintenance, and wingman transfer, etc., and claims that its establishment is no different from that of an ordinary fighter aviation regiment; Such a team is nominally subordinate to the so-called "210th Fighter Division", this shelf division, in fact, has no subordinate units, only a 239th Regiment, and then it is directly under the direct command of the 10th VVS Air Army, to which the 237th Regiment also belongs.

As a division-level unit under the Air Force, the 210th Division naturally has several airfields where it is stationed, and personnel and equipment flow between various stations in peacetime for only one purpose, that is, to facilitate Viktor Rezenov to carry out combat missions safely and efficiently.

All in all, although there is a bit of confusion in the establishment, theoretically speaking, the military rank of Lieutenant General Viktor Rezenov Aviation Corps has changed, and he is now not only an ace pilot of the 239th Fighter Aviation Regiment, but also the division commander and political commissar of the so-called "210th Division", directly obeying the orders of the powerful 10th Air Army, and his identity has changed from a pilot to a divisional commander.

Of course, these were all deliberate arrangements by the Air Force, and they had no impact on his completion of combat missions.

As for the above considerations, arranging him to be the division commander is equivalent to commanding himself, which is of course to facilitate Victor's mission, and I am afraid that there are some meanings that cater to the general secretary's vision; Observing words and colors, and acting with a camera, this is inevitable in any era, and Long Yun didn't go to the bottom of it, he just had to fight his own battle.

So just this morning, flying a fighter plane, he will soon make an appearance in the sky of the Far East and once again participate in a magnificent large-scale air battle.

Sitting in the cockpit of the fighter plane ready to go, he quickly replaced another flight helmet, and the test helmet sight was working properly, Long Yun closed the cockpit canopy of the fighter and sent a call to the tower to request takeoff; A moment later, the command tower specially serving the lieutenant general's comrades told him that "it is ready to take off", and the gray-white camouflage giant bird with its roaring engine began to speed up and glide, and soon the nose of the plane spread its wings and flew into the blue sky.

For the first sortie after leaving the battlefield, today, Long Yun chose to fly the Su-27M2 fighter that he had just taken over.

After receiving the new fighters, the ground crew was asked to do some paint modifications for the fighters, one of which was sprayed with the "classic" 2019 livery, and the other retained the original gray and white splicing camouflage, but the fuselage number was changed to a more eye-catching red No. 17; In addition, he suddenly became the commander of the 210th Division, and the number of fighters under his command also became as many as eight, and the livery of the remaining six Su-27Ms in the 239th regiment remained unchanged, but the numbers were uniformly changed to white 20.

After such a treatment, in the eyes of people who do not know the truth, it seems that the sky of the Far East is full of super-ace Sukhoi landplanes, of course, at most only one of them is controlled by Viktor Rezenov, which is also due to the need for security work.

The first time the plane flew out, the fighters were full of missiles under the wings, and the wingtips were also equipped with the long-lost "Kirilenko oven", and the powerful Su-27M2 still flew a little light, which did not look like the plane was filled with ten tons of fuel; While pulling the rod to let the fighter continue to climb, feeling the ups and downs caused by the low-altitude turbulence, Long Yun first contacted the ground guidance station, and by the way verified that the IFF module of the landline was working normally.

Large-scale operations in the Far East are different from those in Western Europe, and VVS, which has become the attacking side, can no longer rely on fragmented engagement to avoid the problem of identifying friend or foe, and IFF has become a necessary prerequisite for pilots to perform their missions.

Speaking of IFF, with Long Yun's understanding, this set of things in the real world has caused a lot of trouble to the Soviet Union.

The so-called identification of friend or foe, to put it bluntly, is to use electronic equipment to respond to a specific radio interrogation signal, and the answer is a friendly army, otherwise it is suspected of being an enemy, at first glance, it seems that it is not difficult at all, but the battle of wits and courage about IFF has almost run through the entire Cold War era.

For the Red Empire, which was relatively backward in electronic technology, some of the early identification systems for friend and foe, such as "alkali" and "silicon", were very rudimentary, and with the intelligence theft of Western spies, they could easily be cracked by opponents and exploit loopholes. Later, on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the "password" system developed was better in terms of encryption strength, but this system has not been widely used because of the turmoil in Russia, and many of Russia's own fighters have not upgraded the IFF system to the "password", during which there were several accidental accidents, until the times changed, and it was gradually replaced by the unified identification system of the Eastern League.

The so-called IFF problem involves many aspects such as electronic systems, cryptography and air interface design, and Long Yun does not know much about this, but he does know that it is a matter of success or failure in a large-scale air battle.

In this world war, when the Warsaw Pact group fought on the European continent, it was actually stained with a lot of light on the difficulty of NATO IFF identification, and it avoided the troublesome identification process of friend and foe in a fragmented way, but still suffered a certain proportion of accidental injuries; Now that the battlefield has become a vast ocean in the Far East, it is very difficult for the attacking side to completely separate combat operations from each other, and it is difficult for the PVO fighters of the Far Eastern Military District to distinguish friend from foe from the extremely chaotic battlefield, which has caused great trouble in the next battle. (To be continued......)