Staring at the target, he sighed, Long Yun was not making a fuss.

Tu-22, a long-range supersonic bomber developed by the Soviet Union in the sixties of the last century with a large-angle swept wing and engines on both sides of the vertical tail, NATO gave it an inexplicable nickname "Blinder", which sounds quite weak, but in fact, the performance of this bomber was quite advanced at the time.

Of course, on today's modern battlefield, it can only be a large supersonic target aircraft.

However, as the saying goes, "there are no backward weapons, only weapons in the wrong place", in the Middle East, a land where wars are frequent, the ground is an old air defense system on duty, and the sky is a lack of support systems of third-generation fighters fighting each other, Tu-22, a bomber with an internal magazine and capable of supersonic penetration, is still a rather threatening weapon, and ordinary fighters cannot catch up if they do not use afterburner; If the Liberal regime really sent such bombers to deliver a few cloudburst bombs or even chemical warheads at soft targets such as cities and villages, it would be a very terrifying thing.

As for whether the Baghdad regime will have no qualms about using chemical weapons and the like on its own soil in the midst of a civil war?

Having heard a little about some of the dark episodes of the Iran-Iraq war, Long Yun was not at all optimistic about the war practices of these Arab madmen, and he felt that it was better to hurry up and beat down this silver-gray giant bird that was racing all the way.

Now, since the electromagnetic silence has been maintained and has not been discovered by the Tu-22 in front for the time being, Long Yun plans to quietly follow and carry out the fatal blow; It was noticed that the bomber did not turn on the afterburner and entered supersonic flight, so the speed is not fast at all. You don't need to speed up to catch up gradually. So he didn't turn on the afterburner. Just keep the watch speed at 800 kilometers and slowly approach the target.

However, the so-called "slow", in Iraq, which is not very large, maybe this Tu-22 will soon fly over the target, and Long Yun has no intention of following it all the time. So he urged the fighter plane to come to the tail of the bomber, which he didn't know about, and saw that the result of fire control and ranging was 3.8 kilometers, and his finger stretched out to the button next to the display screen, but suddenly remembered a problem.

Still thinking about sneaking up on the opponent, now his Su-27SKM has no infrared missiles at all, what else is there to do sneak attack?

Thinking of this, tilt your head and look at the rear left side of the landline. The R-73E missile, which is still hanging from the wingtip missile launch rail, is the only infrared-guided weapon that the Red Fifteen now carries; Of course, in addition, he also has two R-77s hanging on the pylons under the air intake, but whether this kind of missile is launched by guò fire control or directly intercepts the target launch with the homing head on the missile, it will allow the enemy aircraft to detect the X-band or W-band signal, and the so-called sneak attack has become an empty talk.

Now, since we have caught up behind the tail of the enemy plane, we are only facing bombers with very poor maneuverability, and even if the enemy finds out, what if we can directly turn on the radar and launch missiles?

However, Long Yun didn't want to do that. He didn't think of the silver-gray bomber for a boiled duck either.

As a long-range bomber that was put into production half a century ago and is now obsolete, the survivability of the Tu-22 on the battlefield is naturally worrisome. However, it has plenty of space in the aircraft to install various missile countermeasures systems, whether it is high-power jamming equipment or laser irradiation systems, it can be installed more conveniently.

Especially now, such a lone bomber is flying around in the sky, to say that this is because the enemy plane's navigation system is out of order, Long Yun thinks it is unlikely: today is a sunny day, even if you get lost, it is impossible to fly all the way to the north against the light.

So...... Is the enemy fearless, or what kind of trap is this?

On the first day, he faced the Iraqi Liberal Party fighters and fought a short encounter with the pilots of the FIAF, and Long Yun seemed to feel that the "trap" was a bit out of line with the Liberal Air Force; However, just as he was considering how to act, whether to use the R-77 or approach the use of the aerial gun, the conscious spy suddenly issued a cold warning, and he suddenly turned his head to see the enemy plane in the sky, and the incoming missiles with a flaming light.

I also thought about how to sneak attack the enemy plane, but I didn't expect to be targeted by the enemy first!

As soon as he turned his head, he saw the missiles chasing after him, and the flashing black dots in his vision were filled with the cold aura of death, and Long Yun, who had experienced a hundred battles, couldn't help but stand on end, and he was shocked into a cold sweat in an instant.

Facing the flying death gun, this experience is so exciting and terrifying that people who have not experienced it may not be able to understand it; Even a well-trained pilot may forget about it in such a daze because of this. However, unlike the reaction of ordinary pilots, how many times he narrowly passed by from the brink of crisis, at this time, Long Yun's brain was still sluggish, and his subconscious mind had already taken action in front of thinking.

After pulling the throttle valve, supporting the speed brake on the back of the machine, the lever raised the elevation angle and pressing the release button of a group of jamming bombs at the same time, more than a dozen dazzling infrared jamming bombs shot out and bloomed brilliantly, and the huge red No. 15 took advantage of the momentum to slow down sharply and fall, and it was very thrilling to avoid the attack of the incoming missile.

Long Yun, who was in a critical situation, almost without thinking, made an extremely dangerous "tail rush" maneuver, which made the two R-73 missiles that were dragging white smoke hideously disoriented!

If you fail to take advantage of the opponent's reaction delay and put the enemy plane into your front hemisphere at once, it will become a good target in the sight of the enemy plane, and many amateur military enthusiasts have also denied the tactical value of the "Cobra" and "tail rush" and other over-stall maneuvers, but this is only a superficial misunderstanding.

In air combat, maintaining energy is crucial, and there is certainly nothing wrong with that; However, there is no absolute saying in everything, and the situation of confrontation in the air is already changing rapidly, and what kind of action should be taken to be the most advantageous is of little significance in relying solely on paper deduction, and everything must be considered in actual combat.

For example, it was in front of him that almost instantly determined that the sneak attacker was behind him, and the height difference between the enemy and me was not small, and seeing that the pursuing enemy plane was less than a thousand meters away from him, Long Yun dared to slow down suddenly and fall to avoid, in this case, the enemy plane had no time to lock on and launch a combat missile, and even if it was barely launched, it would not be able to attack because of the limited available G-value in the early stage of the missile launch.

Missiles are powerless, and as for switching to aerial guns, you can know by estimating with the naked eye that the enemy aircraft needs to use the aiming line to face the Su-27SKM in front of you at this time, and you need to pull a reverse somersault with high overload, and the centripetal overload caused by this action has exceeded the upper limit of 3~4G that ordinary pilots can bear; While enduring red vision and overload, he also has to aim and shoot, even Long Yun, who is physically capable, does not dare to say that he must have this ability, if the pilots of FIAF can fly, it is an alien from the Zenith.

In less than ten seconds, the fighter plane fell from a height of three thousand meters to several hundred meters, and Long Yun, who was disgusted by the overload, did not have time to take a few more breaths, he immediately pushed forward the throttle valve, turned on the afterburner, and raced against time to restore the storage speed of the fighter.

The tail rush just now is considered to be bold and careful, but this kind of trick can't be played all the time, if he doesn't speed up quickly, he will soon really become a target.

Thrilling escape from the sneak attack of the enemy plane, driving the Red No. 15 all the way to accelerate and hover, Long Yun could still see the gray Tu-22 in his sight at this time, and the sharp and slender fuselage sprinkled with a layer of sunlight was clearly distinguishable in the western sky; However, noticing that the speed of the enemy plane was obviously much faster, and the tail of the plane was still dragging a whitish afterburner, Long Yun immediately dispelled the idea of chasing and killing the bomber, and instead concentrated on searching for the Liberal fighter plane that had just attacked him.

Almost to the meat of his mouth, but now he can only watch the opponent slip away, Long Yun does not feel pity at all, he knows that the advantage of bombers over fighters is that they have built-in magazines, no external drag, and it is not difficult to fly supersonic speed in medium-altitude airspace - for example, the Tu-22 on the edge of the sky now, if the afterburner is fully turned on, it can quickly fly out of Mach 1.2 or 3 at an altitude of 2,000 meters; This is difficult for the average fighter to chase, unless you also learn to follow the bomber's afterburner and drive all the way, but competing with the bomber who has more internal fuel and whose endurance lasts longer, this is of course an extremely stupid behavior.

Not to mention that there is more than one FIAF fighter in the sky now, so how can there be time for him to persistently run an air marathon with the Tu-22?

Seeing the bombers on the horizon speeding all the way to escape, and also determined to counterattack the Liberal fighters that attacked him, Long Yun carefully searched the boundless sky around him, and he soon found two yellow-green camouflage traces in the sky.

Recalling the sneak attack from behind just now, without a hint of warning, and the timing of the missile launch was quite tricky, Long Yun realized that this time the opponent was a bit unusual, and he had to concentrate on dealing with these two FIAF fighters in the sky, otherwise it was really possible to capsize in the gutter in the sky of the Middle East.

As the landline continued to accelerate and regain its previous flight altitude a little bit, the two camouflage fighters that had just dived and sneaked up but failed to succeed also turned around and pounced back.

These two light fighters have a sharp nose but not long nose, a flat and wide fuselage behind the sleek edged wings, and two slightly outwardly tilted tails that look quite sharp; These are the two fighters from the A squadron of the "Crimea" wing of the FIAF, and the model happens to be the single-seat MiG-29 that Long Yun is very familiar with. (To be continued......)