Chapter 68: EF2000's Missile Rain

In the clear sky, it was the German air knights who were killing in the direction of the Longyun twin planes at high speed.

Four EF71 from the 37th Squadron of the JG2000 Fighter Wing of the West German Air Force, whose mission was to escort a raid formation of several Whirlwind attack aircraft. The latter undertook the heavy task of striking at the eastern railway junction and several fuel depots of the Federal Republic of Germany, and stopped the frenzied offensive of the Russians in the tragic way of bombing the motherland; Ground attack weapons were hung under the wings, and whether these clumsy attack planes could accomplish their mission here would have to rely on the air cover of the knights for a long time.

On the No. 37+06 aircraft at an altitude of several thousand meters, Major Schmering looked around quite relaxedly, paying attention to the attack aircraft group that was maintaining a dense formation at low altitude.

By marching through the air corridors, which had been so difficult to open, the Federal Luftwaffe was finally free to commit its attacking forces to a tentative attack on a number of important targets deep in the occupied territory. Although it is also necessary to pay attention to the threat of anti-aircraft missiles, it is necessary to maintain altitude to drive the attackers away before the attack aircraft formation is attacked.

So far, there is no radar warning indication and the situation is safe for the time being.

- Oh, what's that?

Noticing the echo on the display screen, the ECR90 Doppler radar dutifully alerted the pilot that at a low altitude about sixty-five kilometers in front of him, a target was approaching at high speed.

Is it a Russian fighter?

The characteristic echo signal made Schmering sure that it was a two-plane formation, and he immediately used the number chain to provide target information to the rest of the fighters whose radar was turned off, and ordered the fighters No. 37+12 and No. 37+05 to break away from the formation and prepare to engage the enemy. In the past few days, the knights of the Federal Republic of Germany have fought two encounters with the Russians, and Schmolin estimates that this time he will meet his old opponent: the MiG-29.

Yes, those hateful MiG-29s.

Limited by the level of economy and equipment, the fighter planes of the Soviet front-line aviation have not been updated quickly in recent years, but the elite aviation regiments that are really deployed at the forefront of operations will definitely ensure the speed of rearmament. Hundreds of front-line fighters deployed in air bases in East Germany and Czechoslovakia have almost all been replaced with new MiG-29s over the past five years.

Although the technical level of this twin-engine fighter is not very advanced, its fighting ability is quite excellent; Coupled with the huge volume of low prices, it is a very difficult opponent to deal with.

However, Schmering is even more confident in his EF2000.

Although it can be said that this advanced fighter with a purchase price of 100 million German marks has just entered small-scale production, it has a large number of more advanced electronic equipment, such as the ECR90 radar and an all-digital fire control system, which the Russians do not have, and has a considerable advantage over the MiG aircraft that is still in the mechanical age.

Although the MiG-29's ferocity was repeatedly mentioned in the battle losses and reports of the brothers, he believed that he was confident that he would lead the German knights to victory over the Russians.

Of course, a long-term view is good, but what is the truth?

He'll find out soon.

During the low-altitude and high-speed flight, he suddenly heard the sound of the radar alarm, and Long Yun was basically sure that the signal was coming from an unknown target in front of him. Generally speaking, the simple structure of the L006-LM/101 radar alarm on the MiG-29 can only provide azimuth warning, but cannot provide specific information about the source of irradiation; Being able to detect the tracking of the opposing radar at such a distance is already very face-saving.

But Long Yun did feel that the nature of the radar beam encountered today was a bit unusual; Although I can't tell what is going on, no matter what the opponent is, since he is here, he must always greet him well.

For the time being, no low-altitude attack aircraft formation was found, and the Longyun twin aircraft continued to search forward, and the N019 radar still did not find the target, but they have now appeared on the radar display of the EF2000.

Due to the enormous pressure of the Cold War, the EF2000 in this world did not have a difficult birth, and now the West German Air Force has been equipped with a small number of mass production models, and these aircraft are equipped with the ECR90 single-pulse Doppler radar with excellent overall performance. The ECR90, which has a fairly high degree of integration, has good ground clutter processing capabilities, which makes them barely detect the low-altitude attacking MiG aircraft at a distance of 65 kilometers; Compared with Long Yun, who knew nothing about it, the Germans had gained a considerable asymmetric advantage in terms of information on receiving the enemy.

As they swept towards the front line at high speed, Long Yun judged from the simple prompt on the radar alarm that the target that illuminated them was about ten o'clock, and the distance range was between fifty and one hundred kilometers.

This is nothing in the first place, as long as time and airspace permit, experienced pilots can use the primitive triangulation method to measure radar radiation sources that cannot be detected by airborne radars; But now this number jù makes Long Yun a little confused, and there is still nothing found on N-019, what is the situation?

NATO's stealth fighters?

Long Yun shook his head, he felt that this was unlikely. If it's really a stealth fighter, who will keep the radar on after scanning the opponent? It's no different from a stupid thief in a nightcoat who is looking for someone with a flashlight. Long Yun quite decisively thought that this should be a NATO fighter equipped with an advanced radar system.

Since the radar of the MiG-29 has not yet been detected, is their distance still outside the effective detection range of seventy kilometers of N019?

Presumably the old rival F-15?

But -- no, a medium-sized radar reflective target like the F-15 should already be visible at this time.

Although his combat ability is strong, Long Yun can't understand a qiē after all; Flying at low altitudes, they missed the guidance message sent by the GCI, and the "Whirlwind" attack aircraft had now leaked from the front line. There is no way, the command center will naturally mobilize the PVO interceptors behind to encircle and intercept, and the fighter planes in front of him now are the biggest threat that Long Yun needs to consider.

In order to maintain the speed of the enemy, Long Yun commanded the wingman to start climbing, sneaking into the battle between the fighters from a low altitude, which was not a good idea. When entering the altitude of 4,000 meters, the radar finally responded, indicating that at 11 o'clock 50,000 meters away, there were four enemy planes, the speed of Mach 1.2, and it was still speeding up further!

What the? Long Yun was indeed a little surprised, the previous intermittent crossing made him miss the briefing in the regiment, and he did not know that the German EF2000 had appeared in the skies of Europe.

Indeed, after approaching the Longyun twin aircraft to the attack range, the EF37 of the 2000 Squadron immediately began a standard medium-range interception operation under the command of Major Schmering, and they took advantage of the excellent acceleration performance of the fighters to take the first place, and then took advantage of the favorable situation of cross-occupying the position, and carried out a salvo of up to twelve AIM-7Ms in one go.

These German knights really make full use of the multi-channel illumination advantage of EF2000!

If one fighter plane falls and one less plane, missiles can always be used casually, right?

Anyway, the Americans provide it for free, and you just need to fill out the form again after you finish playing.

With the dual advantages of altitude and speed, the swarming AIM-7M soon reached a top speed of about Mach 3 at low altitude, chasing the radar echo of the opposite MiG. The dense missiles approached quickly along the two intersecting tracks, and the relative distance was quite close, which could be described as a real rain of missiles for the Longyun twin aircraft; Although they are all semi-active radar-guided goods, they are not allowed to slack off in the slightest.

Without any further hesitation, Long Yun and the wingman immediately broke away from the formation again as if they had discussed, and each carried out a big maneuver to evade!

The formation has broken up again, how many times has this been? Ivan, who was maneuvering, suddenly had such an idea.

――It's important to save your life, why do you care so much!