The Chicago escaped, got rid of it in an incredible way, this way, it is simply irreproducible, it is simply unique, in fact, the missile attack failed, and another reason is that there is an error in the altimeter, otherwise, it only needs to be two meters lower, it can pierce the Chicago, then, the Chicago, even if it does not sink immediately, will be forced to decommission.

A false alarm.

This mission of the Navy is so bold that it actually uses the Chicago as a bait!

What's the use? In fact, it was to fool the Soviets and make them think that there was a fleet here, nothing more!

After all, only large ships can have a noticeable echo on the opponent's radar, so that the opponent thinks that it is an aircraft carrier, and if the opponent does not detect the aircraft carrier formation, how can it launch missiles?

At the same time, only warships can complete the task, when the other side is lured to fire, their own side must escape, only warships have high speed, can meet the needs of escape.

The purpose of this time was to let the Soviets shoot out that large swarm of anti-ship missiles, and then there would be no results, which would seriously hit the confidence of the Soviets, after all, this time it was simply an absolute actual battle.

In order to avoid the escalation of the conflict, the US side did not shoot down their plane, but only drove it away, and as for the wrecked reconnaissance plane, it fell by itself and had nothing to do with its own side.

As a result, there was still an accident, there was an accident in everything, and there was actually a missile coming towards the Chicago! If the USS Chicago is sunk, then the US Navy will be completely out of play, and the more than 100 missiles are not as good as a battleship!

This night was absolutely thrilling, and at the same time, for the sortie carrier-based aircraft, they had one last difficulty, landing at night.

I can't wait for dawn now, it's just two o'clock in the morning.

The US Navy looks down on the Air Force, they consider themselves to be the most experienced pilots, not to mention anything else, just taking off and landing on aircraft carriers, that is, dancing on the tip of a knife, if measured by a data, the risk factor of aircraft carrier pilots is 5 times that of astronauts and 20 times that of ordinary pilots.

Operating a 30-ton Tomcat during the day and landing on the deck of a short aircraft carrier at a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour is already dancing with death, and landing at night is even more terrifying dance of death.

Historically, in the famous Battle of the Marianas, the Japanese Combined Fleet suffered a crushing defeat, three aircraft carriers were sunk, and more than four hundred carrier-based aircraft were shot down. The U.S. Navy lost only 20 aircraft in the battle with the Japanese aircraft carriers, which was a brilliant victory.

But these lucky ones of the US Navy suffered terrible losses during the landing, they lost 77 aircraft in the process of landing an aircraft carrier at night, which is 4 times the loss in air combat.

At the beginning, the US 58th Task Force recovered hundreds of carrier-based planes at night, and several aircraft carriers were in a state of light control, and the pilots could not see the deck of the aircraft carrier clearly, and some planes even used the mast light of a destroyer as a guiding signal and landed cleanly on the sea next to the destroyer.

At that time, in order to recover these poor children, Vice Admiral Mitchell was forced to make a bold decision: he ordered all aircraft carriers to turn on their lights, and the flight decks were brightly lit up before the rest of the planes landed.

That was in the era of propeller planes, and now, in the age of jets, it is even more difficult to land at night.

If it was daylight, Nathan was used to landing last, and he had to watch his entire squadron of planes descend to feel at ease, and if any plane could not land successfully, he could accompany and guide him.

But at night it was different, landing at night, it was impossible to fly with a companion, and Nathan had to be the first to land to give confidence to the pilots who followed.

"Kitty, I've seen the deck." Nathan shouted over the radio.

The navigation lights on the plane had been turned on, the wings were fully spread, and the Tomcat fighter plane was like a giant eagle, crashing into the Kitty Hawk.

The Kitty Hawk is also brightly lit, the runway lights are in the sky, you can see clearly, and the Fresnel light box, which is specially responsible for guidance, is also as gentle as usual.

A simple invention can greatly improve the safety of the ship, and this Fresnel light box is simply a great invention.

Relying on the combined action of the "Fresnel" lens and the biconvex lens to form a beam, it usually consists of 4 groups of lights, with a light box vertically arranged in the middle, and 5 layers of light beams are emitted through the lens.

These five layers of light beams are parallel to the flight runway and at an angle to sea level, forming a five-layer wave surface. The middle of these five layers of light is an orange beam, yellow and red respectively up and down, and a green reference beam on both sides, where the orange light represents the correct route.

Therefore, when the carrier-based aircraft descends, the carrier-based aircraft pilot only needs to keep looking at the landing aid mirror with the corner of his eye.

When he first came in, Nathan saw a yellow beam, so he pushed the lever and continued to lower the height, then saw a green light on the left, and then adjusted to the right.

Each time, his adjustments were swift, and at the same time, the lever was huge, so, the Tomcat fighter was dangling.

If you look from the deck at this time, the Tomcat fighter is like a drunken person.

Compared to the previous F-4 Phantom, the Tomcat is advanced, and its variable wings are now fully deployed, allowing for a lower and safer approach speed, but because of the lower speed, more and larger control surfaces are required, and the deflection angle of the control surfaces is also larger.

Now, the Tomcat fighter is swaying over, and when Nathan adjusts for the fifth time, finally, he sees the orange glow.

"The course is correct, hold on." The voice of the usher came from the headphones.

The sky was not as dark as the first half of the night, the stars lit up the night sky, and the people on the deck could only see the landing lights on the Tomcat's landing gear in the distance, and then, with a rough roar, huge wings and vertical tail silhouettes suddenly appeared!

The thirty-ton Tomcat fighter, the rear landing gear and the deck touched, and at the moment of contact, the huge impact made the entire deck seem to tremble.

At the moment of contact, Nathan pushed the throttle to the fullest, and the Tomcat fighter swooped down on the three steel cables on the deck like a beast of prey.

Once he can't hook up, he has to go back to flying immediately.

Then, the plane trembled, and the huge force dragged him, just like the feeling of rear-end, hooked!

Nathan let go of the throttle and entered a slow state, and in the huge overload, the Tomcat fighter slowed down rapidly under the pull of the ground blocking cable, and soon, it stopped.

Before he knew it, Nathan's back was soaking wet.