Chapter 288: The Battle at Low Altitude
An almost evenly matched contest between heavy fighters was staged at low altitudes close to the surface of the Black Sea.
Long Yun in the fierce battle, the maneuver is of course perfect; But this time he faced a similar level of opponents.
Two F-14Ds from the "Red Boar" squadron of the "Carl Vinson", the two pilots who flew the fighter were obviously quite skilled; They covered each other, and the arrangement of maneuver tactics was also very reasonable, giving full play to the performance of the huge and heavy "Super Cat", and for a while it was inseparable from Long Yun.
The missiles in his hand have been exhausted, Long Yun can only try to circle close to suppress the battle, but the Su-27 was originally quite good instantaneous hovering ability at this time but encountered a strong opponent, to be honest, he now feels that the two "Tomcats" in front of him are really the same as on the simulator, at low altitudes are more difficult to deal with than relying on the abundant power of the F-15 - thrillingly throwing off an AIM-9L chasing after the tail at four o'clock, Long Yun immediately pulled the lever and flew out of a high-strength maneuver after firing the jamming bomb, But he was surprised to find that the power performance of this chubby F-14 turned out to be very good, and it didn't let him seize any opportunity after the change.
Something is wrong with this situation - could it be the F110 "Super Tomcat", the F-14D?
Realizing that most of his guesses were correct, Long Yun continued to barrel roll and did not leave a chance for the F-14 wingman who caught up behind him to gamble on the cannon, but he realized in his heart that he had encountered a rather troublesome opponent this time.
Originally, if he was driving a fighter plane with an R-73 hanging on it without a trace of cumbersomeness to meet the enemy, even if it was against two F-14Ds, he was sure that he could win the battle; But now, not to mention that there are no missiles, the mounted jamming pod is also a very important equipment, if there is a slight mistake during combat, the loss of a Su-27 is small, and the jamming pod is very bad if it is soaked in the Black Sea!
Long Yun, who was caught in a one-on-two fight and couldn't get out for the time being, had the intention to contact his comrades in the high-altitude chaos to help him break the siege, but at this time, his flight altitude was too low, and he knew almost nothing about the battlefield situation, and he didn't know what the situation of the spear-throwing melee above was.
At this time, it was another AIM-9L "Rattlesnake" stabbing into the kill, Long Yun counted in his heart while evading, the composite pylon of the F-14 wing sleeve, and on one side were two AIM-9s - that is to say, the opponent's two fighters carried eight combat missiles?
It's really troublesome now, he doesn't have so many jamming bombs to accompany them to play with fireworks over and over again!
Towards the end of the afternoon, over the Black Sea, the sun-lit sky was a chaotic scene of metal giant birds chasing each other: the thunderous roar and engine smoke of the planes that looked very small in the sky were quite eye-catching, and the originally calm sea and sky were all disturbed by the messy battle.
With the large fuel stock in the aircraft, the surprise attack of the 237th Fighter Aviation Regiment continued, and the huge fighters full of "cross axes" shuttled back and forth, continuously carrying out over-the-horizon fire attacks on enemy planes in the distant sky.
The young men who encountered the US Navy fighter for the first time and suffered a big loss from the AIM-54 also seemed to be twisted up, only to see the R-27 with a bright tail flame in the sky and the "immortal bird" with a ballistic high throw back and forth.
Not only that, but behind this large number of red-eyed heavy fighters throwing deadly spears at each other, the E/F-18C of the 10th Fighter Squadron, which took off from the "Carl Vinson" to reinforce each other, and a large number of Su-15TM from military airfields on the coast of the Sea of Azov are also on their way to help!
The scene was already extremely chaotic, and at this time it was no longer known where the number one ace of the 237th regiment, Viktor Rezenov, had gone?
Different from the fierce battles that broke out at medium and high altitudes, Long Yun at this time, in the face of the skilled F-14D "Super Cat" twin aircraft, was a little unrelenting. Flying rapidly over the dark blue sea, he intuitively felt that the two Americans—oh no, these two pairs of American pilots were quite skillful in maneuvering, as if the vast ocean below them was their home field; Although the F-14D twin aircraft never got out of visual contact, but continued to compete with him in combat skills, probably because there were no over-the-horizon missiles, Long Yun tried several times but failed to seize the opportunity to defeat the opponent.
With a high degree of mental concentration and looking left and right in the cockpit, Long Yun subconsciously thought that this time he should meet a veteran with rich combat experience and calm calmness, or an ace pilot of the US Navy.
In hand-to-hand combat with such an opponent, not carrying enough R-73 missiles is a serious mistake, and the incompatibility of fighter maneuverability and firepower has now become a big problem!
In this way, you have been fighting back and forth, and the fighting battle that consumes extremely physical energy and the fighter plane has been fighting for I don't know how long, and with Long Yun's spirit and physical fitness, I also feel a little unbearable. The breathing became a little heavy, Long Yun cursed in the cockpit, these Americans are really difficult enough - the Air Force F-15 escapes faster than the rocket, how can it come up with a more tricky "super cat"!
How long will it take to fight like this, until the enemy runs out of missiles, or runs out of fuel and falls into the sea?
Looking at the fuel gauge, the Red No. 17 fighter had less than 1,800 liters of fuel left at this time, which is really not good.
Just when Long Yun's mind was spinning, trying to think of some trick to get rid of these two energetic F-14s, or simply trick them into coming up and receiving a string of shells, the radar alarm made an intermittent sound, and the warning light representing the X-band flickered to indicate that there was a ground radar lock signal; Long Yun felt really strange at a glance, there was a vast sea all around, where would there be any ground radar illuminating him?
Just when he was confused, the ticking prompt from the IFF system made him react, and then he realized that the intermittent irradiation signal just now should be from a mechanically scanned three-coordinate radar, and it was a radar signal from a warship of the Black Sea Fleet.
Suddenly, he had a plan in his heart, and Long Yun immediately used the RWR alarm to roughly judge the location of the radiation source, and then decisively turned the direction and flew straight to the direction where the radar was. As he disengaged, the "super cat" behind him thought he was trying to escape, and immediately turned to catch up, and the three fighters flew towards the northwest at a low altitude of less than two thousand meters, gradually approaching the radar radiation source in front.
-- That is, there will be anti-aircraft fire in the direction!