After taking off, we encounter an opponent, and there is a large fleet of dozens of planes, how to face such a situation where the enemy is outnumbered?

This kind of question is not answered by just sitting there and thinking.

Single-handedly facing a full-scale offensive of 100 fighters, this kind of tense and fierce confrontation has no precedent in the history of world air combat, but it appears more in some air combat games; The reason for this is that it is completely different from the bloody battle in the sky and the encirclement that ordinary people imagine, and the operation of this scale is completely an idealized assumption, and it will definitely not appear on the real modern battlefield.

In the real world, observing several large-scale air battles in the history of warfare, it is obvious that one pattern can be discovered, that is, although with the upgrading of weapons and the increasingly fierce competition in the air battlefield, the number of fighters, as the actual participants in the battle, in a single air battle has shown a clear downward trend.

Recalling the era of World War II, there are many tragic scenes of hundreds or even hundreds of fighter planes fighting each other and fighting to attack or defend heavy bombers in the war-torn European skies. And during the Middle East war, when Israel and Arab countries were fighting to the death, the number of jet fighters participating in the war at the same time in the sky was only a dozen. So much so that today, although the world's major powers have considerable stocks of fighter planes and have strong war potential, the number of air combat units involved basically does not exceed the maximum limit of a few dozen, whether it is the training syllabus of military academies or the detailed plans of combat departments.

In this case, it is not difficult to note nature; However, not everyone can say why.

In a nutshell. It's not the same as the rudimentary propeller fighters of World War II. Modern fighters are of course advanced in performance and powerful in combat power. However, the logistical maintenance pressure brought about by this has also increased by an order of magnitude, and the maximum number of fighters that a medium-sized air force station can support is only at the regimental level, often at the level of a dozen fighters. In addition, jet fighters also have more stringent requirements for airfields, and the number of airfields available on the front line is limited by a certain range; This also limits the number of fighters that a commander can mobilize at one time, regardless of how many fighters are theoretically on standby on the ground.

After clarifying this theory, Long Yun's mind turned back to the battle he was about to face, the simulated confrontation on the SFM7560, and the logistical constraints such as airports were of course equal to nothing. Anyway, the simulator conjured up a hundred F-35 "Lightning" out of thin air and waited in the sky, and they were all in a state of abundant fuel reserves and excellent sustained combat effectiveness.

But the surface situation is like this, if you calm down and analyze it carefully, the situation can be said to be different: the multi-function display screen in front of Long Yun is showing the current air situation in 3D mode at this time, and the distributed radar has successively discovered four batches of target aircraft groups of different sizes, and the total number of statistics is only about fifty, in other words, since it is known that there are a total of 100 enemy planes rushing up this time, then about half of the enemy planes have not been discovered by the "Yanlong".

It has an unprecedented numerical advantage of 100 planes, but it is arranged in such a scattered configuration of the east and west batches. Looking at the three-dimensional display, Long Yun, who has rich combat experience, quickly determined the general movement of these aircraft groups. Obviously, they are not working together, but they are a little bit of a separate battle.

What kind of situation is this, is it Colonel Lu who shows mercy to his men?

Ha ha! How is this possible, thinking about Lu Chunjiang's typical heroic character of a soldier, Long Yun felt that this guess was a joke.

Since the colonel's deliberate release of water has been ruled out, of course, this is impossible, and the colonel Lu, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, was probably expecting him to learn a little lesson at this time, that is, maybe he was beaten by a large number of "lightning" groups, Long Yun immediately noticed one point, that is, this one-on-one simulated confrontation, since the map was a fair random choice, and there were no long-range large air targets in the sky, then the conclusion was not obvious.

Yes, such a large number of swarming "lightning", they can now only adopt the tactics of fighting in multiple batches on the basis of maintaining simple contact, because they have no choice, this large area of fighters, they have neither ground guidance support, nor an early warning command platform in the air!

The reason for this is that, in addition to the fairness of the map, the simulation capabilities of the SFM7560 are indeed limited, but these are no longer important.

Without the support of the early warning command system, such a one-to-one hundred is indeed fair enough!

Thinking about this at once, Long Yun made it clear that his combat goal was not to confront a hundred "Lightning" planes embedded in the US military's next-generation combat system and with unprecedentedly strong joint combat capabilities, but to face a hundred F-35 "ball lightning" that were "fighting alone".

Isn't it, modern air combat is a system, even if a single pilot's skill is high, it has to be embedded in the system to have a chance to play in close combat.

But now, all of a sudden, back to the air combat mode of the sixties and seventies of the last century, the "Yanlong" with superior flying performance and terrifying combat power is indeed worthy of a battle even in the face of 100 enemy planes!

A battle with such a background, as expected, began with Long Yun's attack.

After taking off, the radar was fully turned on, and he fully felt the great advantage of the attack plane's use of omnidirectional distributed radar scanning without electromagnetic control and the use of omnidirectional distributed radar scanning by the big horn, and Long Yun, who was close to the theater, quickly obtained relatively comprehensive air information from the large display screen. This feeling of being in control of comprehensive intelligence, when I confronted Major Du Feng before, I didn't realize it at all, when there was only one opponent in the sky, of course, this was not a problem at all, but now since I was facing a hundred "lightning"-

The airspace monitoring capability similar to that of a small AWACS aircraft is indeed very necessary!

Facing an unprecedented number of fourth-generation fighters besieging them, and at the same time ignorant of the enemy's combat tactics and tactical deployments, if it is not for the all-round air situation monitoring capability, it will really feel very tricky.

But now, as there are more and more small red triangles representing targets on the display screen, and the superimposed pieces of information display are becoming more and more encrypted, he quickly switches the fire control system to the intelligent analysis mode with a certain amount of control experience, and lets the on-board computer screen and take care of those targets that are still far away and do not pose a substantial threat for him, and only display the targets with relatively strict threats in front of him.

While driving the soaring speed and still climbing rapidly into the war zone, observing the opponent's engagement intentions from the display screen, Long Yun's first round of attack targets a large number of "lightning" in the direction of the landline at ten o'clock, a hundred kilometers away; Judging from the information prompted by the fire control system, this batch of F-35s with an altitude of 7,500 meters and a speed of Mach 1.2 has just been increased, and more than a dozen fighters are roughly divided into two echelons, and the rich experience of fighter air combat has played a role at this time, and Long Yun quickly judged that the opponent was planning to carry out a stormy over-the-horizon missile assault.

Looking at these "lightnings" scattered everywhere in the sky, it seems that they are planning to use such a large group of planes to attack each other with missiles on their own, so as to distract their attention and oppress the maneuvering space of the "Yanlong," and then have fighter squads from other directions approach to meet the enemy to see if they can do it in one fell swoop?

Such a tactic has to be said to be quite methodical; It's a pity that Long Yun glanced at the overlay display on the projection screen in front of him, and just sneered lightly at the corners of his mouth.

"Over-the-horizon missile rain, close-range assassins follow-up", although this tactic is simple and straightforward, but it is also powerful, but-

In the face of an assault plane flying at an altitude of 24,000 kilometers and Mach 3.2, where is the realistic basis for this style of play?

With a hint of not knowing whether to watch the play safely or be complacent, seeing that a small cluster of red triangles on the screen is still approaching, and the height has gradually climbed from 7,500 meters to nearly 10,000, Long Yun in the cockpit can't help but feel a little sad for these brave and poor "ball lightning", he knows very well that the practical ceiling of the F-35 "Lightning" fighter is about 16,000 kilometers, and even if these chubby fighters really climb to this height, and then carry out a dense AIM-120D salvo against him, For the "Flame Dragon" he is controlling, it is just a large canopy of aerial fireworks to be admired.

Head-on engagement with a target with an altitude difference of nearly 10,000 meters and three times the speed of sound, the difficulty of this attack is undeniable, and it is conceivable what kind of hint the fire control system on the "Lightning" fighter will give the pilot, AIM-120D In the face of such a perverted target, the attack envelope is naturally like a deflated ball, and the calculated killing probability will be as low as what Cheng dù, he really wants to see it now!

Of course, the thorny problems that the "Lightning" and "Slammer" combinations have to face, Long Yun naturally has no time to pay attention to them now, as the initiator of this contest with huge disparities in numbers and even greater disparities in strength, what he has to consider now is how to give full play to the strong combat effectiveness of "Yanlong" to give a loud opening greeting to the "Lightning" on the opposite side.

The throttle valve continued to increase its speed, and the altitude had climbed to 27,000 kilometers, and the speed was Mach 3.4, which was the first time Long Yun had seen this parameter.

When he was sighing, he saw the text prompt of the fire control system that "the surface speed is close to exceeding the limit", and he realized that he might be flying too fast, almost exceeding the upper limit of the speed of the missile out of the cabin, but fortunately, at this time, the distance between friend and foe has approached about 80 kilometers, and there is no high-threat target near the radar monitoring, and the fire control system can be launched after calculation! (To be continued......)