Chapter 848: Assault and Pursuit
Going deep into the no-fly zone over Syria, the nearest New Party airbase to the east is 200 kilometers away, but the number on the fuel gauge has become about 1,000, and the situation is already very critical.
About 1,000 liters of aviation kerosene, if you fly smoothly in a Su-27SK fighter, this amount is actually not small, and it is not impossible to support him to fly farther to Iran and land. However, now, in the face of the pressure of the ECJA attack aircraft, if the afterburner flight is continuously turned on at low altitude, after deducting the "dead oil" that cannot be used in the fuel tank, Long Yun knows that this fuel is completely insufficient, let alone continue to maneuver in the air and avoid the crazy attacks of enemy aircraft.
"But what, 'Red Dragon'? What's wrong—"
The words stopped abruptly, and Gao Meiyu, who was questioning, was afraid of the possibility of the channel being eavesdropped, he had no way to know what difficulties his temporary partner had encountered, and he could not ask by radio, and now he could only wait for "Red Dragon" to make his own action choice.
Hearing the sudden interruption of the question, it was also clear what the problem was, but Long Yun now had no time to worry about the fuel of the fighter, or regret the habit of attacking in the past few days - in Iraq, where the territorial span is not large and it is often put into battle immediately after takeoff, the 9,400 kilograms of internal fuel capacity of the Su-27SK is simply a waste, and the restrictions on the maneuverability of the fighter are also very strict, so he will be careful every time he attacks, and will not let the ground crew fill the overloaded fuel tank of the landline. Although this ensured that the Sukhoi fighters, which had a worrying thrust-to-weight ratio, had good maneuverability, they also lost a first-hand opportunity to escape by relying on fuel storage.
About 1,000 liters of aviation kerosene, converted into weight, is more than 700 kilograms. If this fuel is saved, it will probably allow the Su-27SK to fly nearly 300 kilometers. But now-
No matter how it is calculated. The enemy's pounce has come.
An encounter that happened in the clear sky was a tense psychological torment for Gao Meiyu or Long Yun who was in it; However, in the eyes of onlookers, a qiē only experienced a few tens of seconds.
Two light white ES2000 "Strong Winds" dragging heavy white tracks, a string of blue five-pointed stars on the fuselage are the same color as the sky, wide delta wings and sharp and slender head cones, which even look a little symmetrical; However, unlike the seemingly beautiful appearance, these fighters of the "Tiger Shark" squadron of the European Community Combined Forces, which have been rampaging through the skies of the Middle East for several days and are almost unrivaled, are even more arrogant under the control of a single German pilot.
Follow the instructions of the air warning platform. After taking off, they entered the no-fly zone to "flex their muscles", and the two boring "Galea" attack planes were just wandering around aimlessly.
For a long time, in order to control the scale of the operation and avoid the escalation of the conflict, the European Community Combined Forces Command was quite conservative in the arrangement of the Tiger Shark squadron, and the generals did not intend to involve these very expensive and powerful raiders in specific no-fly zone operations, or to use these delta-winged giant birds as a kind of coercive deterrent.
However, unlike the generals in the command center, the "Tiger Shark" pilots who flew the plane cruising in the blue sky did not think so, they were not interested in this war, but they were not willing to let go of any opportunity to vent their wanton safari.
Just like now, I just caught a brawl in a no-fly zone. The two sides involved are still old faces such as the FSA and NATA, but compared to the hordes of Syrian rebel fighters. Wouldn't those two red fighters close to each other be a good manned target plane?
Now that you have found a fight, can you just open fire and attack?
As for the consequences of doing so, "over-handling" in the execution of the task, this kind of behavior can actually be big or small.
The pilots of the "Tiger Shark" squadron recognized Gao Meiyu's Red Star F-15C and determined that this fighter was from ALSA, so they naturally focused their attention on another NATA fighter.
Very good, this New Party fighter plane that looks quite eye-catching can just be used as an empty target to practice your skills!
The brutal war of blood and fire was nothing more than an occasional game of target hunting to the eyes of the two Combine pilots who flew the assault planes freely and treated almost all other planes as air.
Contrary to the operational consciousness of ordinary pilots, these German pilots, who were supposed to be the elite of the European Community's air, came from a very mixed source, almost from many parts of Central Europe, which are now called the "Federal Republic of Germany", but in fact they were completely chaotic; These men of different beliefs, but none of them have a sense of honor, are now gathered in the land of the Turks, just to take to the skies for a trumped-up goal.
-- Or maybe it's just a leisure vacation, who cares about him at this time?
Piloting the almost impossible to shoot down, the "Gale Wind" attack plane was completely worry-free, and did not feel the pressure of survival in the fierce battle in the air, and the two fast-flying ECJA fighters almost leisurely lowered the angle of attack, ready to come to a relaxing aerial gun fire when the NATA fighter turned around and ran away.
Shooting at a New Party fighter jet that was fighting in the no-fly zone, this kind of thing Hans did without a little psychological burden, anyway, the above meaning is almost like this, otherwise they came all the way to Turkey, is it really for sightseeing in this place where birds don't.
However, with such a relaxed idea, the Combine's assault plane that chased all the way failed to do so, and in the fully enclosed armored cockpit of the ES2000, the pilot of the long plane saw that the red-gray NATA fighter in the diffraction projection seemed to sense the threat and was entering the circle and accelerating away, he immediately called the wingman, and the two of them exchanged a few words in the channel, and decided to simply do nothing, and simply chased up and exploded the cunning NATA fighter in the air:
"Hey, Claude, that NATA fighter still wants to run! -- We're just going to catch up with him all the way and turn him into a ball of fire! ”
"Haha! I'll do it, but don't forget to turn off the video recorder. ”
After many days of going back and forth over the Middle East without getting a chance to fire, Major Claude Norman, who piloted the "Galewind" wingman, replied loudly, and he was in the landline, switching the radar operation mode, and almost effortlessly separated the NATA fighter from the signal echo in the sky.
Originally, I was going to directly lock on to the target and launch missiles, thinking about the routine report after the battle, Major Norman now thinks the same as the long plane, they all think that using an electromagnetic cannon is a better option, after all, missiles and other weapons, it is not easy to explain "why accidental damage occurred".
Anyway, even with an aerial gun, it is easy to solve a weak fighter!
With the escape of NATA fighters and the strong pursuit of coalition fighters, a battle that broke out completely inexplicably intensified in the clear sky, and even the Syrians who were hesitant to watch the battle found it strange, and the black "ghosts" quickly received instructions to leave the battle, and turned around and accelerated away.
As soon as the "ghosts" of the rebels retreated, the chaotic sky suddenly became quiet, with only two twin-engine heavy fighters with bright tails speeding up and flying straight, followed by two unhurried ECJA fighters, staging an astonishing chase contest.
After starting the afterburner sprint at an altitude of 3,000 meters, seeing that the fuel gauge indication was constantly beating, Long Yun, who was driving the red No. 19 Su-27SK, turned his head back from time to time, and through the shallow induction of consciousness snooping, he was now completely sure that the "strong wind" that was chasing after him was determined to attack him, and the reckless dive and detachment just now was completely a fluke -- if it weren't for the two stinky Combine Force attack plane pilots, they were completely carrying out this mission with a game mentality, with a "strong wind" 's strong combat effectiveness, I'm afraid that he, and even Gao Meiyu, have already been shot down.
But now, although he has not yet been caught up by enemy planes, he is flying away from the base little by little in the airplane, and he is almost about to cross the "Syrian no-fly zone" in the north-south direction, and he can only get farther and farther away from the new Iraqi party-controlled zone behind him.
Knowing that this is definitely not the way to go, Long Yun can't think of a way to deal with it, if he circles and turns around now, there is no doubt that he will create an excellent shooting window for the ECJA fighter; And if they contact Gao Meiyu, who is flying with him and providing cover for himself, and the two turn around to fight against the United Army, their two F-15 and Su-27, which are not in good condition, are definitely not the opponents of those two ES2000 "Gale Wind".
Keeping the momentum of accelerating forward, Long Yun in the cockpit felt more and more tired, he didn't know if it was because of the chasing soldiers behind him or because of today's two fierce battles, now he only felt that the objects in front of him were slightly blurred, and from time to time there was a little Venus rising, and there was a cold sweat on his body.
In the thermostatically pressurized cockpit, he still felt bouts of chills all over his body, which did not bode well for a pilot on a mission.
As it stands, he and his partner are not in mortal danger for the time being, but it is clear that the chase that could break out in this moment of crisis will not last forever, and God knows when the patience of the two ECJA pilots will end; In the cockpit, there was a new change in the RWR alarm, and the C-band signal from the ground radar was intermittent, and it was obvious that their fighters had been noticed by the air defense system on the ground, and they might soon be attacked by a wave of Syrian surface-to-air missiles. (To be continued......)