Even in such a bad rainy day, the Americans still reacted fast enough on the battlefield.

At the NATO Joint Command Center in Ankara, the commander immediately ordered them to turn around and disengage and follow the established route south through Turkish airspace, bypassing Greece, which had become hostile and returning to Tunisia.

At the same time, the E-3A early warning aircraft hovering in the air was also quite dutiful, and the dispatcher identified the biggest threat to the "Lancers" from the chaotic air situation, and the liaison officer immediately coordinated the naval fighters in the nearby airspace to intercept them; After contacting the F-14D of the "Red Boar" squadron failed for a while, several F/A-18E "Super Hornet" fighters that were still playing hide and seek with the MiGs in the wind and rain received an order from the command center, and they were told that a large number of Russian "flankers" were attacking from the direction of two o'clock, and now they immediately gave up the guerrilla warfare like a hide and seek, resumed the formation of the BVR engagement, and prepared to meet the enemy!

After receiving the order from the command center, several "Hornets" that were on a safari did not dare to slack off, and they quickly made contact with each other and regrouped in the clouds, and the AN/APG-73 radar quickly detected the oncoming enemy aircraft from 80 kilometers away.

Under the conditions of bad weather and lack of backup, the pilots who intercepted such a large number of menacing Russian "flankers" and flew the "Hornet" were a little hesitant at first, but after a long war of attrition, they have survived to this day and are lucky enough to know that the strength of the Russians should not be underestimated; But soon, the four fighters who were waiting in the whole team found out one after another, and the echo of the low-altitude incoming target on the radar display screen quickly dimmed and disappeared. Only two supersonic targets at an altitude of several thousand meters are still rapidly approaching.

For Doppler radar. The blurring and disappearance of the target is often caused by the enemy plane turning around and returning to its home and losing its relative speed. Finding that the number of opponents has changed, the "bumblebees" who have been waiting for the battle have found the courage to take the initiative again.

Under the tactical arrangement of the captain, a column of E/E-18E fighters with full afterburner advanced rapidly between the clouds, the slender fuselage tore through large areas of rain and fog and continuous gray clouds all the way, and the Americans were ready to seize the advantageous interception position, and then beat the Russians into the sea with a salvo of "Slammer"!

In the face of the head-on approach of the Americans, the Longyun twin planes, which were pursuing at high speed, soon discovered the approaching target.

The possibility of a weak F-16C is denied in terms of the strength of the target echo, and it is highly suspected that it is an F/A-18F/A capable of using active bombs. Long Yun's heart stirred up a burning battle intent: in order to pursue and destroy those hateful "lancer" bombers, now they had no choice but to fight cleanly and neatly to kill the incoming enemy, and then continue to chase and kill!

But......

In the face of the interceptor suspected of being "Bumblebee", the pounce of "Slammer" and the visual air battle behind it, it seems that it is a little too difficult to solve the battle without wasting time.

Two Su-27s, against four F/A-18, no matter how powerful the ace is, he can't defeat the enemy in one move!

Not to mention that he had made up his mind to hunt down the Americans' strategic bombers before the attack, Long Yun's white No. 20 plane was equipped with stout R-27ER air-to-air missiles under the air intake and on the innermost hardpoints of the wings, and these four missiles alone weighed 1.4 tons. Coupled with the large amount of fuel that is refueled for long-distance travel, it is estimated that his Su-27S air combat thrust-to-weight ratio may not even reach 1.0 point.

Such poor power performance. If we want to start a fight with the numerically superior Americans, the situation is naturally very unoptimistic.

But in the face of these interceptors in front of you, and thinking about the "lancers" fleeing in the distant sky, can these black giant birds that have just launched an air raid on the interior of the Soviet Union go home safely?

I still want to go home, and it's almost the same as sending them to hell!

Facing a strong enemy and retreating in the face of difficulties, this is not the style of the number one ace.

Facing the interceptor plane in front of him that was climbing from a height of 3,000 meters, guessing that the opponent wanted to use the downward-looking clutter to shorten the engagement distance of N001, Long Yun immediately decided how to act.

He immediately called the wingman to pay attention to the cooperation, and then decisively pulled the lever and pushed the throttle valve forward, and the two blue-gray Su-27S soon began to climb again with afterburner, firmly occupying the advantageous position in height. In the face of the over-the-horizon threat of the "Bumblebee", now Long Yun's first-hand response is also very simple, the target height on the radar display is constantly refreshing, the opponent is climbing, then we are also climbing; In short, it is necessary to maintain the altitude difference of several kilometers, and if you are willing to launch the "Slammer", come here!

From the previous GCI guidance information, Long Yun already knew that the only U.S. Navy F-14D "Super Cat" fleet over the Black Sea today seems to have been caught in a large-scale melee to save the "Fighting Falcon" and "Apache".

A fully hung Su-27S and a heavily loaded F/A-18E?

This kind of low-level competition is actually really boring!

With a joking idea, the clear sky above the dark clouds, the slender Su-27S full of missiles and the "Bumblebee" rushing up, the projection distance between each other quickly approached within 20 kilometers, but the Longyun twin planes, which had climbed to an altitude of 16,000 meters, were still accelerating straight forward, flying out of Mach 1.4 at a speed of 1.4 in the thin air; In the face of such an opponent who does not play according to the routine, several "Hornets" full of missiles are also struggling to catch up, but the F/A-18E, which is good at medium and low-speed mobile combat and ground attack, is very difficult to do the work of high-speed volley.

While pulling the angle of attack and desperately climbing, while staring at the Russian fighters in front and above through the guò fire control system, seeing that these two hateful "flankers" were about to get out of the AIM-120B attack envelope, the pilot of the fighter plane couldn't help but curse, if the "super cat" of the fighter wing was here, would these hateful Russians still be so arrogant!

"Damn! Rearhorse-one, Rearhorse-three, turn around at six o'clock! - Smith, you lock the one on the left, I'll take care of the right, and the 'Slime' two volleys! ”

"Rearhorse-two receive!"

Annoyed, he didn't care about calling the number, so the leader immediately notified the other group of two planes to separate, and then called the wingman to cooperate with him in the battle, and the two "Hornets" immediately launched two "Slammers" each. At a straight-line distance of less than 20 kilometers, and without even the need for medium-range command corrections, the self-guided head of the "Slammer" on the pylons locked onto the Russian "flanker" in the high sky, only to see a few white trails that meandered and climbed through the dark blue sky, and the powerful missiles dragged the dazzling tail flames straight into the sky.

After firing over-the-horizon missiles at a visual distance, the two "Hornets" continued to catch up unabated, preparing to attack under the cover of the "Slammer" missiles, and take down the opponents while they were busy evading!

In the face of the Americans' back-firing attack, Long Yun's response was also very fast.

Seeing that the US fighter plane also climbed higher and then launched an over-the-horizon missile, he immediately reminded his wingman to pay attention to evasion and observe his own movements.

Different from the poor visibility at low altitude, leading the wingman to climb to a high altitude is more conducive to observing the signs of missile launch. Moreover, after the afterburner climb and acceleration just now, the fuel of the fighter has been consumed by half, and the fuselage has begun to become a little lighter, and the chances of winning against the "Slammer" will be relatively high.

Concerned about the wingman's ability to respond, driving the relatively heavier white No. 20 to rush ahead, the two Sukhoi fighters slowed down to the high subsonic range of Mach 0.9, and faced the AIM-120Bs rushing up in a dense double formation with overlapping projections, until the RWR alarm had sounded rapidly and the missiles were approaching within a few kilometers of extreme danger, and then they suddenly made a violent high subsonic turn to separate from each other!

As the blue-gray figures moved away from each other, and a large area of radar jamming chaff erupted in the sky, "Slammer", who was staring at his opponent's attack, fell into a daze for a while.

In the field of view of the homing head, two almost equally obvious target echoes suddenly appeared, which made the on-board processing circuit fall into a brief confusion; Although it was only a short period of less than a second, the homing head re-selected and locked on one of the targets, but in the rapidly changing air battle, one second of confusion means more than 1,000 meters of unguided flight, which is enough for the fighter to calmly shake off.

Seeing that the missiles were coming head-on and gradually being dragged to the direction of three o'clock, the two Su-27S, which tacitly cooperated, were thrown out again with a piece of jamming chaff, and the "Slammer" that was unlocked again in PD mode had been dizzy, and they switched to CWS mode and stared at the large chaff cloud in front of them, and they were like lost guns and moved away from the fighters.

A rather violent missile attack was declared all in vain!

Without any suspense, flying through the pale and feeble track of the "Slammer" missiles, the first salvo of the Americans was a complete waste of ammunition; Not allowing the opponent to use the AIM-120B to calmly shoot again, Long Yun immediately opened the afterburner with his wingman to restore his speed, and after circling his sidestick for half a circle, he made visual contact with the two "Hornets" that climbed up.

And it's one-sided visual contact! (To be continued......)

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