Chapter 287 The tip of the needle is against the wheat

With the launch of the missile and approaching, the RWR system warning of the Longyun landline was belated, and he looked at the sky vigilantly but did not find the incoming missile, but according to his understanding of the AIM-54, since he could receive the radiation signal of the radar homing head of the "Immortal Bird" missile, the missile was now within 20 kilometers of him.

Suddenly startled by the approach of the "immortal bird", Long Yun had no time to care about the fleeing American fighters, and he reminded Kamenev and others on the radio to pay attention to the incoming missiles: "Call the snow leopard!" Watch out for nine o'clock, missiles are coming! ”

Long Yun was a little hesitant to keep an eye on the sky while using EOS to search for an incoming missile with a dive trajectory that would have a strong infrared radiation signal - how could he explain that he had discovered the AIM-54 that the Americans had called?

Just with the rudimentary RWR indicator disc and band tips on the Su-27S, that's just nonsense.

In any case, although he was a little hesitant, Long Yun still reminded the fighters of the brigade that followed behind in time to pay attention to avoiding missiles; But it was obvious that the comrades-in-arms did not have a good understanding of the vague warning, and just when Long Yun was still hesitant to report the warning of the attack of the "active radar-guided missile", but at the same time fell into the predicament of being unable to justify himself, his keen eyes found a vague black dot in the sky that was rushing by.

Just as EOS captured the oncoming target almost simultaneously, the Americans' missile salvo had already passed over his position and was about to encounter the fighters behind him - these Americans were indeed cunning, and did not aim at him to kill him, but launched missiles in batches, using the F-14's multi-target engagement capability to launch simultaneous attacks!

The unexpected missile assault posed a considerable threat to the 237 regiment fighter formation.

Because he did not have enough experience in confronting active radar-guided missiles, although he immediately entered a maneuver to evade after receiving Long Yun's warning, he was still attacked by the "Immortal Bird" because of his improper actions -- just when Long Yun was nervously staring ahead and had no time to care, Kamenev's landline plane was hit by a fragment of the "Immortal Bird" missile that swept over the side of the fuselage at high speed and the warhead detonated instantly!

The AIM-54 has a rather large radius of more than 60 kg of warhead, and although the missile, which has a storage speed of more than Mach 3, did not directly hit the fuselage, it also damaged the wing and one side of the fighter's tail. But he was not the most unlucky, most of the other fighters in the formation shook off the oncoming missile assault after making a sharp sideways, but one fighter plane was still hit at close range, and the pilot immediately ejected and parachuted and fell into the vast sea with uncertainty about his life and death.

The sudden long-range missile attack disrupted the assault rhythm of the 237th Regiment; Under Long Yun's radio reminder, they retained most of their combat strength, and the several Su-27Ss that entered the side immediately reformed into formation, and used radar to scan the direction of twelve o'clock while turning on afterburner, preparing to engage in a new round of missile exchange with the newly reinforced Americans!

At the moment of the great enemy, after fighting a batch of battles, the most important thing is that Victor is still fighting in the sky ahead, what is his situation now?

Barely able to control the white smoke of the red 09 landline, Kamenev threw away all the remaining missiles and handed over control to his deputy, while hovering over such hidden worries in his mind.

Just now, caught off guard by the missiles that suddenly appeared in the sky, Kamenev looked at the RWR indicator panel that had flashed and sounded, and remembered that there seemed to be such a paragraph in the operational intelligence manual issued before, could it be the American AIM-54 long-range missile?

As far as he knows, there is only one type of aircraft that can carry and launch AIM-54......

What a hell, it must be the F-14s of the Yankees, these heavy fighters of the US Navy actually crossed Turkey and killed over the Black Sea, they were really careless just now!

Because the forward rush was too far away and the formation could not be guided by the GCI system for the time being, Kamenev did not act rashly before he knew the situation of friend or foe, but reminded his comrades to pay attention to covering each other and resisting those hateful F-14s with continuous over-the-horizon attacks.

Unexpectedly, the Americans who were stubbornly defending the southern shore of the Black Sea were running and coming in batches, and today's forward operation was destined not to be too smooth, Kamenev immediately used the radio to contact the nearby ground guidance station continuously, but he also knew in his heart that the rear would not send a large number of fighters to attack without getting confirmation information, and now was not the time to let those slow and clumsy Su-24s appear!

Just when the large formation of the 237th Regiment was attacked by missiles and suffered battle damage, Long Yun was also playing a thrilling game with oncoming missiles and enemy planes.

With the help of EOS for the first time, he determined the direction of the incoming missiles in front of him, and Long Yun was sure that it should be several "immortal birds", so he immediately temporarily closed the wingtip jamming pod, and then maintained a high-speed forward posture to attack the missiles head-on!

It takes great courage to face the strategy of resisting missiles, but he can win in danger, this kind of play is not the first time he has adopted it, just when he observed the traces of missiles protruding in the sky in the backlight, Long Yun immediately turned sharply with the side rod pressure slope, and drew a twisted and torsional trajectory in front of the missile at extremely high speed and overload!

As the maneuver progressed, the overload feeling of almost 8G made Long Yun's eyes appear slightly black, but he still determined from the horizontal projection outline of the missile that it was two or three AIM-54s, but this judgment gave Long Yun great confidence: although this kind of missile with a maximum usable overload of only 17G is huge and amazing, it is not very good at maneuvering and chasing. As the sharp sideways turn progressed, Long Yun made a sharp climb action when he turned the slope by 90 degrees and gradually put the missile behind him; This action consumes a lot of energy on the fighter, but the "immortal birds" who are chasing after them and whose thrusters have long burned out have been unable to keep up.

One, two, turning his head to observe that the "undead birds" who were closely following were losing control due to the reluctant climb after a sharp side turn, Long Yun was sure that he had dealt with the threat of these undead birds quite neatly, but the instructions of the RWR warning light plate were still there, reminding him that the "tomcats" who were rushing over from the south were nearby at this time.

They're right there -- right in front of their eyes!

In the pale blue sky, facing the still brilliant sunshine, the red No. 17 piloted by Long Yun and the oncoming F-14D twin planes staggered, and the distance between the two sides was surprisingly close.

With his extraordinary eyesight, Long Yun could even barely distinguish the thin rod-shaped "Sidewinder" missiles carried on this group of twin wing sleeve pylons, and saw that the variable swept wings of this group of twin planes had been spread out to forty-five degrees, and the body of the aircraft was covered with white smoke caused by violent maneuvering and turning, which was obviously a silent challenge to close combat.

Although the staggering was only a moment, this kind of encounter that should never occur in normal air combat allowed Long Yun to see this huge variable-swept wing heavy carrier-based fighter for the first time with the naked eye; Realizing that these two "Tomcats" who took the initiative to approach and tried to grapple with each other obviously rushed up after launching all the "immortal birds", they must have their share in the account that shot him or his comrades in the rear just now!

Thinking of this all of a sudden, Long Yun was nervous, but he also calmed down in an instant.

Assessing the shape of the battlefield in his mind, he had just learned about the tactical arrangements of the rear formation on the radio, and Long Yun realized that the excessive forward rush of him and the F-14 twin planes had put them between the two teams of heavy fighters who met in a narrow way.

Whether it is the Su-27 formation, which is intent on dispersing the opponent and has a relatively large stock of missiles, or the F-14 group that is rushing to reinforce the holding, a large-scale BVR (BeyondVisualRange, over-the-horizon) group brawl will definitely break out next.

Sandwiched between two armies with full firepower and firing at each other, that's no ordinary danger!

――But do you still have time to think about that?

Controlling the landline to leave the original route and immediately confront the F-14 twin planes that were staggered by, Long Yun's most urgent consideration now is not how to save his life in the rain of missiles shuttling back and forth; It's about how to deal with these two "Tomcat" twin planes that rushed over by themselves, and they were obviously quite confident.

Because the F-15 was fought too fiercely when the group beat it just now, there are no missiles available for the Red 17 -- but even if you can only rely on unreliable aerial artillery, how can you show weakness in the face of such a straightforward challenge from the Americans?

Chasing along a near-drifting trajectory in the sky, Long Yun almost immediately thought of a countermeasure.

With his temporary mistake in the real world, the F-14 has good all-flight envelope maneuverability because of the design of the variable swept wing; Dealing with such a large and flexible opponent, and now that he has no combat missiles in his hand at all, he must be cautious and cautious.

Now the best way is to reduce the altitude to fight with them for subsonic mobility, so that not only can you avoid the high-altitude missile battle, but also fight at a speed of less than 700 kilometers, and the Su-27S has a better chance of winning.

Over the vast Black Sea, three heavy fighters bathed in the sun and chasing back and forth seemed to have a heart in their hearts at this time.

Confronting each other, suppressing the hovering and lowering the altitude, no one made any serious judgment mistakes, the blue and white camouflage, the Su-27 with a big red five-pointed star and the F-14D with bright red tail and flat wings are all afterburner, and they let go of the struggle at low altitude where the air is denser and the wing lift is sufficient, and they fight each other fiercely!