The answer, naturally, is no.

Unlike the F-15C encounter just now, or the impact of the Turks' "Fighting Falcon", after such a fierce aerial battle, now Long Yun has basically determined that the opponent should have discovered his reappearance.

In the face of the interception line of the US heavy fighters that were already in place, especially the Yan zhòng threat with more active bombs, considering that most of the fighters' fuel stocks and missiles had been consumed, Long Yun decisively gave up the idea of continuing to expand the results of the battle, and at the same time taking great risks, he rotated his side rod disc to the north and entered the return journey

Such an action is right in the hands of Harris, who is waiting for an opportunity in the southern skyrim.

Harris's plan was actually very simple and straightforward: after discovering the hesitation of the Russian fighters in front of him, and realizing that the opponent's fuel was limited and most likely he would withdraw from the confrontation and return home, he immediately contacted the "counter" and confirmed the emotional situation and set a plan of action to "wait for the opportunity to catch up".

His plan was that since the Russians would soon be forced to turn back, the four fighters under his control would only need to disperse and standby, and once they detected the opponent's turn around, they would immediately go forward to pursue, give full play to the high-speed characteristics of the F-15E fighters to approach the opponent and launch a missile salvo; In the face of an opponent like the "Caucasian Reaper", even if he can dodge the attacks of batches of over-the-horizon missiles, he will inevitably lose energy because of this, and then he will either be chased by the "Attack Eagle" under his command and continue to pursue, or he will have to take the initiative to turn back and engage in the battle -- but with the current fuel stocks of the Russians, how long can he hold out, and will he really be entangled with his own fleet, which has absolute numerical superiority?

Harris doesn't think it's possible. So he confirmed through the command network that there was no danger: Russian fighters in the direction of Crimea were fighting with NATO escort fighters. On the east side, there are other NATO escort fighters, as well as four other F-16C Fighting Falcons of the Turks as a barrier.

Under siege. The Russians now have to flee all the way north, and in this case he can't play any tricks.

At this moment, it was found that the target ranging information on the radar display screen had changed, Harris calmly observed for a moment, determined that the opponent had turned and returned, he immediately turned on the afterburner and beckoned the fighters under his command to speed up and catch up, and drew an arc track with a huge radius from the east and west sides to pursue the Russian ace in the north.

The so-called adventurous pursuit, which seemed to be a somewhat risky action, was carried out very decisively.

Although when the head-on situation turns into a tail-chase. The effective attack range of the missiles carried by the fighter has been greatly shortened, but with the excellent acceleration and high-speed characteristics of the F-15E, it is only a matter of a few minutes to catch up with the "flanker" dozens of kilometers away and cannot be frequently strengthened while carrying sufficient fuel.

While driving the fighters to accelerate forward, while nervously paying attention to the air situation alert from the "counter", Harris called on the planes to abandon the auxiliary fuel tanks that had become a burden and enter a supersonic state to pursue the enemy planes. In the clear and cloudless sky, four dark gray "Attack Eagles" each carried four AIM-120Bs and two "Sidewinders" to break through the sound barrier and further accelerate to more than Mach 1.3, giving full play to the F-15 series' ultimate flight speed at an altitude of 6,000 meters, and sprinting to the north!

The pursuer and the escapee, one after the other, are flying in this catch-up race. The black sea, which had just broken out in a fierce aerial battle, added a dull and distant incessant roar, and the white narrow tracks left by the fighter planes cutting through the sky.

Fly the Red Seventeen to the north. In the close pursuit of the enemy aircraft behind him, Long Yun found the first clue from the RWR's warning prompt.

In order to make full use of the radar warning system, which can only determine the bearing and cannot give the distance of the irradiation source, he controlled the plane to fly north at an altitude of 7,000 meters, and at the same time made his route appear in a zigzag "Z" shape with left and right zigzags, and roughly grasped the enemy's movements through the changes in the flight direction.

However, this kind of rough estimation based on radar warnings generally has a large range error and is not completely reliable. While controlling the plane to break away from the battle line at a speed of 900 kilometers per hour, while looking behind him in the cockpit, Long Yun's spirit was highly concentrated, and he soon found that the Americans had made a move. At this time, the RWR light plate also told him that the source of light in the southern sky came from two directions, five o'clock and seven o'clock, and they were dividing their forces to outflank themselves.

As far as modern air combat is concerned, the most worrying thing about fighter fighters on their way back from disengagement is whether they will be attacked from the direction of six o'clock; At this point, Long Yun's current situation is somewhat unfavorable.

As a lone ranger attacking alone, now all the support fighters in the nearby airspace are gone, but the pursuers behind him are approaching; A glance at the fuel gauge on the dashboard shows that the fighter has only about 3,500 liters of fuel in storage, which is naturally more than enough for returning home, but it is overstretched to cope with the fierce air battles that require frequent afterburner.

Due to the fierce fighting just now and the lack of time to fly according to the established route, the navigation ability of the Su-27S itself can only be said to be average, and Long Yun estimates that he is now in the central area of the Black Sea, near the southern side of the Crimean Peninsula. Worried about the accidental attack of the Soviet Union's fully automatic air defense network, he did not want to fly straight to the territory of the Ukrainian republics in the north, and he was still willing to get rid of the opponent with full force and return to Stavropol all the way east, but at this time, the RWR suggested that there was a new threat in the direction of three o'clock, and the Americans seemed to have unconsciously formed a secondary encirclement of him!

Oh, if you want to say that it is encircled, the mentality of the two US fighters who are now surrounding them is completely different.

Unlike the Harris fleet, which rushed to take out the opponent with a "Slammer" salvo, several F-15Cs of the 41st Fighter Squadron of the 15th Wing of the US Air Force, which went deep into the airspace of the Black Sea, flew out of the airspace of the original patrol after being taken over by the Navy's F/A-18E "Hornet" and came here in a large circle from the southern shore of the Black Sea. In the face of unfathomable opponents, these battle-hardened veterans are very cautious, and none of them really want to rush forward and fight the "Grim Reaper".

Originally, although their own side was superior in numbers, who could guarantee that the result of rushing up would not be a nest?

With such a fear of war, the "eagles" in the eastern sky are still lingering, and the Russian "flankers" in their eyes are also unwilling to face the enemy head-on because of the fuel problem: finding that he is once again in the sign of being deeply encircled, Long Yun thought for a moment and felt that it was better to break away from the north - how to say that the Soviet ground anti-aircraft fire was easier to deal with than the F-15C in the air, and the fuel situation did not allow him to hesitate any longer!

At this moment, the Sukhoi fighter plane with a big red five-pointed star accelerated away in the sky, and Long Yun did not know that it was not the old rival F-15C that was chasing closely behind him, but the "Attack Eagle" with the "Slammer" mounted on the high-speed sprint.

Trailing the bright orange afterburner flames over the vast Black Sea, the pilots could almost see the traces of targets in the sky in front of them with the naked eye, which showed that their pursuit speed was indeed very good. In the case of tail chase attack, maintaining the speed advantage relative to the target is not only to catch up with the opponent, but also to provide the PD radar with a velocity vector difference sufficient to identify the target. It has only been five minutes since the afterburner was accelerated, and the AN/APG-70 radar has already steadily intercepted the Russian "Flanker" at a distance of only 14 kilometers in front, and the fire control system prompts that it can be launched!

"Postal-three, Postal-four, pay attention to keep the speed at 900 (knots), and carry out the first and second batches of attacks after twenty seconds, with an interval of five seconds!"

"Postal-three received! -- Prepare missiles No. 1 and No. 4 to be fired in a salvo of two in a group of five seconds! ”

"Postal-four received! -- Missiles are ready, over! ”

While controlling the "Attack Eagle" like a wild horse to quickly approach the opponent, Major Harris and another group of twin planes in the division of the army were connected, and the four F-15Es with sufficient ammunition cooperated with each other, calculated the time of continuous echelon attacks and the missile set parameters, and then launched four batches of a total of eight AIM-120Bs in turn under the order of the major!

With the launch of "Fox-three! Fox-three！ Two groups of F-15E twin planes at an angle of nearly 45 degrees launched attacks one after another, and more and more missiles were flying away in the sky with tail flame arrows, and they swept away at high speed from the direction of crossing.

At a distance of less than 15 kilometers, or even 10 kilometers, the "Slammer" missile was able to lock on to the only radar reflection source in the airspace ahead without the guidance of the carrier aircraft.

This salvo of over-the-horizon missiles from the 42nd Squadron has become a great threat to the Longyunzuo mechanism.

After heading south after taking off and experiencing two fierce aerial dogfights, he has now basically achieved the tactical intention of "announcing a comeback", and does not want to rush into a more intense battle without air support. But at this moment, he found that the Americans' heavy fighters were frantically catching up, and immediately detected the dense W-band radiation signal, and he immediately accelerated with full strength, no longer sparing fuel, ready to accumulate altitude and speed, and prepare to evade the attack of AIM-120B!

Even if he took action in advance and got rid of "Slammer" after being chased, it was not an easy thing for him Long Yun to do. (To be continued......)