This battle can still scare the enemy from coming?

Thinking of this, Long Yun subconsciously shook his head, he raised his hand to put away his goggles, and continued to vigilantly scan the surrounding sky and the rapidly sweeping ground.

The so-called joking idea of "the Yankees have already confessed and walked around when they see him" is okay to think about it normally, but it is not reliable at all to say that it is not reliable on the battlefield, and he Long Yun is not so pretentious, and he will feel that he can scare the enemy like this with only one person's strength.

So the enemy will still come, but where will they come from?

While thinking about it, a black dot faintly appeared in the sky, confirming Long Yun's guess.

One after another, as the black dots in the field of vision gradually became clearer, the "Didi" movement of the RWR warning became more and more obvious, and he noticed that the landline was being illuminated by several airborne radars in the eastern sky, Long Yun guessed that the enemy was not only about to kill the front, but also was preparing to launch the first wave of attacks with over-the-horizon missiles.

The wave of enemy planes coming from the east, the F-16C/D, was the "Crimea" squadron of the third wing of the Turkish Air Force that had dropped bombs in Tskhinvali earlier.

After completing the task, another order was received from the command center, and the squadron of "Crimea", having lost one fighter, immediately turned to engage the enemy.

A fighter plane flying a distance of 100 kilometers per hour at a speed of several hundred kilometers per hour is only ten minutes if you count the time for regrouping and checking the mission. However, when a group of "Fighting Falcons" rushed to the sky above Kutaisi, the "Aardvark" in the sky had already been expelled by Long Yun.

Finding the arrival of reinforcements, Lieutenant Colonel Fletcher Harris, who was hovering at an altitude of 5,000 meters and even more hesitant in his heart, called on the Turkish fighters to launch an offensive immediately, and at the same time completely abandoned some of the tactics he had just envisioned.

Although he also knew it in his heart. Those tactics that seem to work. And it doesn't necessarily work on the terrible "crazy Ivan".

According to the original tactical conception of the lieutenant colonel. Since the F-111s of the "Titan" squadron in the ultra-low altitude are already dead and fleeing, and the command center must have notified all the units in the nearby airspace that there will be no friendly fighters here now, then in the face of the ultra-low-altitude flying "flankers", the "attack eagles" of the 41st squadron can completely rely on the AN/APG-70 with excellent downward vision ability to lock on to the target and fire a dense over-the-horizon salvo; Isn't it very reasonable to use your own advantage in thousands of meters to stab that hateful plane into a hedgehog with a "Slammer" missile that dives all the way, while the opponent is unable to fight back because of the altitude difference?

However, theory is theory, reality is reality, and the battle-hardened Lieutenant Colonel Harris is naturally very clear. Enemy planes at ultra-low altitudes are not easy to fight, and the difficulty of attacking them is much higher than that of eye-catching targets in the sky of Chengming.

For the "Slammer" that looks down on the target and can only use the PD mode, not to mention whether the missile will be affected by ground clutter and get out of lock, just in the current situation, the Russians flying close to the ground can get rid of the radar tracking of the F-15E at once as long as they make a few side turns, and the probability of hitting the missile without the correction of the mid-course command is very low.

So, since over-the-horizon attacks may not be effective, why don't all the players rush down and fight a fight with outnumbered people to see if they can solve this headache-inducing "Grim Reaper"?

What are you kidding, don't even think about the visual air battle!

He had just lost the Postman's number three, and he almost got into it with his wingman. In the face of the "Grim Reaper", who will give priority to dog fighting, isn't that tired of being alive?

On the battlefield in the sky where life and death are on the line. Every second seems so long; The lieutenant colonel, who was in charge of the heavy duty, was clenching his teeth in the landline, and he was calculating, in fact, it only took more than ten seconds in total, but it made him feel like his head was about to explode.

The pilot's plane is constantly circling over the theater of operations, calculating the current over-the-horizon firepower of the 41st Squadron, the "Sparrow" or something is a waste at all, and the "Slammer" is only two per F-15E today; With such a small amount of ammunition, even if the planes immediately distract and lock on to the salvo after approaching in multiple directions, can they get that elusive "Grim Reaper"...... But if you don't do this, you really don't have the courage to fight, and the dignified US Air Force, can you let a "flanker" swagger under your nose like this?

Repeatedly tormented by the dignity and honor of the soldiers, and the cold reality, the arrival of the Turks was a relief to the lieutenant colonel; With the help of the number of jù chains to indicate the target, and the bearded men were ordered to rush forward and entangle with the "Grim Reaper", he immediately led the 41 Squadron to evacuate and go to other airspace to carry out the mission.

When the plane left, he couldn't help but speculate secretly about the thoughts of the command center, Lieutenant Colonel Harris was very dark, he always felt that those F-16s were more auspicious in the face of the "Grim Reaper", but how could the generals in the command not know this?

To put it bluntly, it won't be the same as before, and those Turks will be used as cannon fodder!

"Don't be afraid when you encounter the 'Grim Reaper', just mobilize a group of cannon fodder machines to surround him, and when he finishes shooting missiles, he will go home by himself", this kind of thought made Fletcher Harris disgusted for a while; Because combined with his own battlefield observations, I am afraid that this idea is really not made up by himself, but is likely to be some kind of cruel truth on the Cheng dù.

However, in his disgust, he thought that these Turks, who were now completely dependent on the United States for their fighter jets and supplies, etc., were all completely dependent on the United States, and the lieutenant colonel's heart was a little less disgusted.

Yes, what if it is "sent to death"?

After all, when it comes to sending people to death, who is in the whirlpool of war, who doesn't understand this cold reality.

Without hesitation, Lieutenant Colonel Harris was lamented, but he had not forgotten the minimum tactical cooperation between friendly forces, and he ordered the "Postman" Six, who had survived the robbery and made meritorious contributions, to do this - he had no "Slammer" anyway, and stayed to continue to monitor the airspace of 941X.

In ultra-low-altitude battles, figuring out the opponent's position is more important than anything else, and in order to prevent the bearded "Fighting Falcons" from losing their targets when they go around, the F-15E at medium and high altitudes will always provide air information with a number of chains and calls.

In such an operational situation, it is still not known who the opponent is in the sky ahead, and the F-16s of the "Crimea" squadron still start with a standard over-the-horizon combat method.

The F-16D at the head discovered an ultra-low-altitude target at a distance of more than 30 kilometers, and when the high-altitude "Attack Eagle" sent instructions and was completely confirmed to be enemy aircraft, the two "Fighting Falcons" flying in front directly skipped the IFF step and mobilized radar locking, and then each plane launched two AIM-7M.

With the launch of the fighters' missiles, the following F-16Cs turned on the afterburner left and right, preparing to enter visual contact under the cover of over-the-horizon missiles, and then rely on numerical superiority to besiege the lone enemy.

With missile salvos and fighters following up, the Turks' tactics were quite standard in the face of a single enemy.

As a second-rate force in NATO's tactical air force, TAFs, which are large in size but broad in quality, tend to be more cautious and cautious in combat; However, unlike the large-scale chaotic battle in the sky, the gathering of several fighters in the squadron against a single target, such a favorable engagement situation still made Major Hassan and the others maintain a fairly calm attitude.

However, this calmness was maintained until the diving F-16s approached the target and the two sides made visual contact.

Shuttling over the Caucasus in the midst of war, the ground fighting on the southwest side of Kutay is nearing its end, and NATO armored vehicles rumbling northward and groups of logistics convoys can be seen from time to time on the roads winding northward.

Maintain vigilance on the ground at any time, for the outbreak of an aerial battle overhead, the NATO air defense forces organized into mobile units have naturally been witnessed, but unlike the Soviet air defense forces' "come and fight" strategy, in the face of the air friend and foe are difficult to distinguish between friend and foe one after another, the cumbersome IFF procedures and command system limit the play of the combat personnel, so although the fierce battle in the sky has not stopped, the ground anti-aircraft firepower has never moved.

To put it bluntly, the principle of the air defense forces under the command of NATO's ground forces, which has always been full of confidence in air cover, is to "avoid firing as much as possible unless your own troops are attacked": When our air forces firmly grasp air supremacy, if we do not distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, we will rashly shoot at them, and we may accidentally damage more friendly planes than the enemy planes that shoot down.

Try to be cautious and do not open fire if you are not sure, this combat habit has also been cultivated over the years.

However, in this all-out war between the East and the West, in the face of the Warsaw Pact bloc, which is far stronger than those weak opponents in the past, some principles of NATO's command system and tactical tactics are not so easy to change. Just like today, knowing that the sky has already started and there must be a Russian plane in it, no one will take the initiative to give the order to open fire until the target is really identified.

To put it bluntly, NATO land forces are still habitually relying on air power, or rather, they believe that even without the assistance of ground air defense, the boys of the tactical air force can solve the problem on their own.

Solve the problem yourself, huh?

Looking at the shape in the sky, this time the thorny problem is probably not so easy to solve.

In good visibility, the difficulty of detecting and attacking enemy aircraft flying below 1,000 meters can be greater or less; However, under the command of the high-altitude "Postman" No. 6 F-15E, the offensive of the Turkish fighters came very quickly, only to see the "Sparrow" missiles in the sky that had just burned out and dragged white smoke to fly towards low altitude one by one along different tracks, and the two groups of F-16C twin planes with full afterburner and dive sprint separated from the left and right from the left, trying to outflank the targets that were still at low altitude from both sides. (To be continued......)