At this time, Nathan, who was flying at an altitude of 15,000 meters, shouted on the radio: "111 Squadron, attention, turn on the radar and lock on the target!" ”

With his command, one response voice after another, Guss in Nathan's rear cabin quickly turned on his fire control system, and then, a large shining point of light appeared on the screen.

Distance eighty, speed eight hundred, height three hundred, lock!

Lieutenant Gus quickly adjusted the buttons one by one, and soon, on the radar screen, he successfully locked onto the target.

At this time, all the Tomcat fighters of their 111 Squadron and 51 Squadron were flying near the airspace where the other side launched missiles, and they were only less than a hundred kilometers away from the retreating Tu-22M bombers.

At this distance, they can lock on to their target at any time, however, the other party cannot detect them.

How is this possible?

It's actually quite easy.

The other side flew, there were no escort fighters, only bombers, yes, Tu-22M, when it was originally designed, it was to rely on low-altitude and high-speed flights to break through the defense, and they didn't think about escorting fighters at all, and they are not the kind of slow subsonic bombers, they are supersonic bombers!

Tu-22M bombers have a range of thousands of kilometers at every turn, and even if those fighters want to escort, they can't keep up at all, and there are no fighters with a large range to match.

At the same time, different bombers have different on-board equipment, and the avionics equipment of the Tu-22M is completely used for sea attacks, including the terrain matching radar required for its supersonic flight, so that it can fly on land without scruples.

However, its radar, which does not have an effective anti-aircraft mode, and, in order to conceal the enemy, does not turn on the radar, flies at an ultra-low altitude over the sea surface, in which case it simply does not have the ability to perceive the surrounding airspace.

The only one with the ability to perceive is the Tu-95 reconnaissance plane, which is responsible for guiding, and its radar is under the belly.

What does this mean? As long as it flies higher than it, its radar will not see anything!

After all, its main task is also to search the sea.

In general, in such a dark night, there will be no large-scale sorties of naval aviation, and the two Tomcats that came to harass the Tu-95 bombers are already quite good.

Why?

Because it is quite dangerous for aircraft carriers to take off and land, and the take-off and landing of aircraft carriers at night is a danger among dangers, even the most skilled pilots dare not guarantee that they can grasp the one-time night landing.

Even in later generations, when various technologies are more advanced, the number of pilots on US aircraft carriers who can take off at night can reach 100 percent, and the number of pilots who can land at night will not exceed 60 percent.

On an aircraft carrier with a catapult, take-off is not a problem, as in the daytime, just see the gestures of the deck crew, and wait for the fluttering, but landing, completely by their own technology.

Therefore, the attacks of US aircraft carriers are generally launched in the early hours of the morning, so that by the time the carrier-based aircraft returns, it will already be dawn.

And now, the Americans didn't care at all whether they could successfully recover the fighters, so they catapulted all the Tomcat fighters into the air!

The 20 Tomcat fighters wantonly turned on the radar and locked on the Tu-22M group that was retreating.

"Oh God, what sound?" When he heard the sound of meowing and meowing from inside the headphones, Vladimir immediately heard the exclamation behind him.

There can only be one kind of sound, and that is the Tomcat fighter! And when they heard the sound of death from this Tomcat fighter, the pilots of the Tu-22M bomber suddenly trembled.

Judging from the direction indicated by the radar warning receiver, it was behind their own side, and the large group of Tomcat fighters were fiercely pounced on them, trying to tear them apart.

Yes, they launched a huge rain of missiles and wanted to destroy the opposing fleet, and now, how could the other side not destroy these bombers of them?

Although the Tu-22M has quite perverted capabilities and can bomb at ultra-low altitude and supersonic speed, it is a bomber after all, and the Immortal Bird missiles carried by Tomcat fighters are specially designed to hit their bombers!

As long as they are locked up, it means death, there is no doubt about it.

As a bomber pilot, the danger is quite high, those fighters, fly very chic, at the same time, there are many ways to maneuver to dodge, but, more than 50 tons of bombers, how to move?

Death was approaching, and Vladimir felt sweat whizzing from his forehead.

"No, I don't want to die." At this moment, the weapon operator in the back, first of all, could not bear this tremendous pressure, and he shouted while pulling the pull tab on his seat.

"No!" Next to him, there was an exclamation from the navigator.

Bombers, almost all of which are piloted by a single person, can be called an attack aircraft at most.

The Tu-22M is a four-person pilot, with the driver and co-pilot in the front, and the weapon operator and navigator in the left and right positions at the rear of the cockpit. The driver enters and exits via a canopy that lifts up from both sides, and the hatch above each driver's head is movable.

At the same time, like fighter pilots, they must also have the power to eject and escape, and their ejection is similar to that of fighter jets.

The ejection of the bomber is not easy, similar to the Tu-16, each person's position is different, the ejection also has a sequence, the procedure is complicated, and the post-ejection often has no time to survive.

In order to make the bomber pilots feel at ease, the aircraft designers are also trying their best, the most distinctive of which is the F-111 fighter-bomber, which uses the method of ejecting the entire pressurized cockpit, which has the least impact on the pilot, which is equivalent to wrapping a rescue cabin outside.

At the same time, when descending into the seawater, this cockpit can also be used as a small boat, waiting for rescuers to arrive.

But at the same time, the structure of this thing is quite complicated.

To put it simply, those operating levers are connected to the body, and when ejecting, how to separate those hydraulic lines? And all kinds of circuits, all kinds of plugs and whatever, it's a designer's nightmare.

The Soviet designers, of course, did not have time to ponder these things, they always solved them in the simplest and most effective way.

What do you want to eject in one piece? Just use the fighter jet's seat! At the same time, separate the angle and eject it to both sides.

In order, the one that ejects first will burn and then eject? Then let's just catapult together!

(Tu-22M's cockpit ejection, I didn't find specific information after checking for a long time, so, East China Zhixiong just wrote, these days, the Air Force Wings are gone, I can't check it, if you know, please leave a message in the book review area, thank you.) ）