Whoever takes off first will have this advantage, flying first to the confrontational airspace, where you can find a place to hide.

Due to the limitations of the airborne radar, a hundred kilometers away, absolutely nothing can be seen, and now the radar is still short-sighted, and in air combat, a distance of a hundred kilometers is almost a flash.

At the same time, the airspace is so large, if you can predict the opponent's tactics, then you can hide in the opponent's side or the airspace behind in advance, and then attack from the opponent's back. This is also the most effective way to attack the Sparrow air-to-air missile.

That's what Nathan had planned, and first, he needed to find the civilian planes on the route.

In order to avoid exposing the target, it is best to use visual search first, fly along the route of civil aviation, and find an airplane!

However, after a few minutes of flying, Nathan felt unreliable.

"I have a bad feeling." Nathan said: "When I came that day, there was a situation where the passenger plane flew the wrong route because of a compass failure, will they change the route these days?" ”

It is entirely possible, and in the absence of the rule of law that it is impossible to rule out flying on the wrong route, flying into the airspace of the USSR, which airline would dare to take the risk? It can be said that as long as one passenger plane has an accident, then the airline is finished.

Sure enough, they were still put on a show by these air forces, and they must have known about the situation where the airspace here was emptied, but they deliberately didn't tell themselves!

Of course, this is nothing, you can't use civil airliners, then there are other ways.

"Turn on the radar and search the surrounding airspace." Nathan said. Since you can't find a passenger plane, let's just face to face and compete hard!

Steve in the back had already warmed up the radar, and now when he heard Nathan's order, Steve immediately turned on the radar, and the powerful current flowed to the parabolic antenna in front, radiating dense electromagnetic waves, filling the airspace in front.

The airborne radar of fighter jets is absolutely not working all the time, otherwise it will be scrapped after one flight, it only belongs to the equipment that works intermittently, and how to rationally use the radar is the key to air combat confrontation.

Let these colleagues in the Air Force who are above the top see how they use radar!

And this time, just after turning on the radar, Steve suddenly got excited: "Found a large plane, on the route of civil aviation, only eighty kilometers away from us!" ”

I actually found a passenger plane!

"Okay, then we'll fly over and execute the first plan." Nathan said, stopping his hand changing course and continuing to fly forward!

"Eaglet, attention, about to fly out of the confrontation airspace, repeat, about to fly out of the confrontation airspace." The sound of the ground came from the headphones.

The radio is still in the receiving state, listening to the sound in the headphones, Nathan feels a little uncomfortable, what he doesn't like the most is this kind of confrontation, what rules and regulations are made, in actual combat, there is nothing, everything is based on the principle of shooting down the enemy.

However, in order to convince the Air Force to lose, then he had to follow these rules, so he turned on the radio: "Eagle received." ”

Pushing the operating stick, Nathan spun out a big circle in the air, since he said that he was going to fly out of the airspace of the exercise, then he just went around here in a circle and waited for the plane to fly over.

When the first big circle is over, you can see the flying target visually, Nathan pushes the control stick and heads towards the airliner, and then, depending on his skills, get under the opponent and fly with the opponent!

"Its transponder didn't respond." At this moment, Steve in the back muttered, "Could it be that the transponder is broken?" ”

Civil aircraft also need to have a transponder for air traffic control, and in this era, due to the backwardness of the electronic system, the transponder may still fail at some times.

When he heard this, Nathan didn't pay much attention to it, anyway, he was about to fly over, and he could see it visually without those unreliable radios.

Now, Nathan is flying north, and the other party is flying south. The two sides flew head-on, and the distance of 30 kilometers was almost a matter of a minute or two.

In the field of vision, the bright spot gradually became larger, and when he saw the outline of the airliner clearly, Nathan immediately frowned, something was wrong, it didn't look like a passenger plane!

In this era, Boeing almost monopolized the aircraft for intercontinental flights, the Boeing 707 was the absolute workhorse, and other passenger planes such as McDonnell Douglas and so on were also basically the same structure of the wing underhanging engine scheme.

They all use turbofan jet engines with low fuel consumption, but the big guy flying in the distance, the four engines under the wing, are with propellers, and that's a turboprop engine!

I can't think of any airliner with this structure, and only the American C-130 uses turboprop engines, and in this era, the most turboprop engines are used by the Soviets!

It must have been a Soviet plane, and even Nathan could guess that it was probably the most terrifying large plane for the Soviets.

Sure enough, almost at the same time as he deduced, as the two sides continued to get closer, the structure of the other party's aircraft could already be clearly seen, and Nathan immediately pressed the intercom: "Elmendorf, Elmendorf, the Eagle is on the northern edge of airspace No. 6, and a Tu-95 has been found!" ”

During the Cold War, the most terrible thing was that both the United States and the Soviet Union had huge arsenals of nuclear weapons, and once a clash of fire, it would be the end of the world's destruction.

The United States followed the path of ballistic missile nuclear submarines, while the Soviets had many ways, all kinds of missile trains and the like, and long-range strategic bombers were also one of them.

Now the Tu-95 discovered by Nathan is a long-range strategic bomber developed by the Soviet Union's Tupolev Aircraft Design Bureau, codenamed "Bear" by NATO.

Familiar pilots can be recognized at a glance from a distance.

The most distinctive feature of this aircraft is the swept wing, which is equipped with four turboprop engines, each of which drives two large-diameter reversing four-bladed propellers. As long as you see a large propeller aircraft with swept wings, it must be this cargo.

In addition to this intuitive feature, the fuselage of this aircraft is elongated, the wingspan and aspect ratio are large, and both the flat tail and the vertical tail have large sweep angles.

This is a huge monster with a take-off weight of almost two hundred tons and can carry twenty tons of ammunition, like that terrible missile with a nuclear warhead!