With the anticipation of a heavyweight showdown, the spectators were very excited.

But unlike the elation of the onlookers, or the heated debate, Long Yun in the simulator was in a very calm mood at this moment. In the absence of a mothership and early warning aircraft to provide air situation warning, they must make full use of the battlefield situational awareness of each fighter, and at the same time, they must first consider a question, that is, what kind of combat mode will the opponent adopt?

There are very few actual combat examples to follow in the confrontation of fighter planes that take place over the ocean, and it is difficult to guess the opponent's combat intentions.

Piloting the J-30 wingman gradually widening the distance from the long plane, Long Yun, who turned on the radar VS (Velocity-Scan, speed search) mode, was thinking calmly, if it wasn't for the fact that there was a means of attacking the aircraft carrier in the game, and if it hit, he could win directly, he would probably speculate that the "Polaris" combination would adopt a typical two-plane echelon coordination tactic.

The so-called two-plane echelon coordination is a safe combat method for two fighters in the face of a head-on threat and no other target detection unit "illuminates the road." The specific arrangement is to cruise behind the long plane, use the most effective VS mode to detect head-on approaching the target, and cover the wingman to go out silently. After discovering the approaching target, the wingman suddenly turns on the radar to TWS (Track-While-Scan, tracking while scanning, everyone should know this) mode to carry out a dense salvo of over-the-horizon missiles; Then the wingman handed over the task of correcting the medium-range command of the over-the-horizon missile to the later commander -- this required the cooperation of airborne equipment, and the early three generations of fighters did not have this handover capability, and they approached the opponent with full strength. Take up a position under the cover of over-the-horizon missiles and enter visual air combat.

In the absence of AWACS aircraft or ground-based radar command and guidance. This style of play is relatively safe. But now that both sides have aircraft carriers behind the enemy line to protect, the situation suddenly becomes complicated.

In the face of a two-on-two contest, will the Americans choose pure air combat, or will they use anti-ship weapons to wait for an opportunity to cross the interception line and launch a sneak attack?

Considering that there will be no cluttered ground clutter on the surface of the ocean for fighters to hide, Long Yun first built yì Lin Feng also turned on the radar VS mode, and the two J-30s quickly separated each other at a 60-degree angle directly in front of their own mothership - which is also the position and bearing limit of the enemy aircraft carrier given in the description of the battle mode - and used the 1493 AESA radar to monitor the vast airspace in front of them like a scavenger.

Long Yun now plans to prepare for an anti-ship attack if the "Polaris" combination chooses to mount AGM-84 anti-ship missiles, because the bomb compartment volume cannot be built into the chubby "Harpoon". The stealth capability of the F-34 will be destroyed by the payload, and the optimistic prediction is that the "Silent Cat" full of AGM-84 will not only be silent anymore, but will also be discovered by the J-30's 1493 radar VS mode when it is close to within 200 kilometers.

But...... Would the Americans rush straight up so recklessly?

Outside the bezel-less peardrop-shaped cockpit is a large expanse of clear blue sky displayed by the simulator; From time to time, looking around for a moment, looking at the vast water antenna below from a height of thousands of meters, Long Yun seemed to be able to see the curved appearance of the earth's surface.

Of course, this is actually an illusion, to see that the earth is round, and they are still flying too low.

Soon, a large area of airspace was scanned according to the predetermined track, but nothing was found on the radar, and Long Yun was caught in a dilemma of his next move. Whether to continue to search for the "Silent Cat" who has not yet shown a trace, or to cover Lin Feng for a while regardless of it. A direct pounce on the aircraft carriers of the Americans?

The battle of wits and courage between supersonic fighters does not wait for anyone at all; From taking off to now moving forward to a position about three hundred kilometers in front of the aircraft carrier, Long Yun knew that he had to make a decision immediately. However, in the head-on search just now, no American fighters were found, and Long Yun was even more sure of his guess, the "Polaris" combination really hung anti-ship missiles and hid in the corner of the street, intending to have an offensive confrontation with them mixed with sneak attack tactics!

Accustomed to being the world's policeman for decades, the offensive mentality of the Americans is really still deep-rooted.

Thinking of this, Long Yun did not hesitate to issue an order to Lin Feng:

"Brother Feng, implement the second plan, let's go to the meeting alone as planned!"

As soon as it was time for the real gun, Long Yun became the de facto commander of "May", he immediately asked Lin Feng to turn off the radar, turn the slope sideways to approach him, and then turn on the active electronic jamming and radar scanning to attract the attention of possible enemy planes nearby. As the order was issued, the two J-30s quickly approached each other and staggered their tracks, completely disrupting the position information of Lin Feng's landline that might have been detected by the enemy aircraft's RWR.

After completing the tactical maneuver, Lin Feng's J-30 long plane was only seen in the sky with full afterburner and entered a high-speed dive growth rate, and the blue-gray figure quickly merged with the vast ocean surface below the front, and the wingman piloted by Long Yun turned around in the air with a large radius and swept towards the right side of the track.

From the original frontal search to the sideways interception situation, Long Yun's tactical arrangement has become very clear: since the opponent clearly wants to fight an offensive operation, it is really unwise for him and Lin Feng to continue to converge together to search for enemy planes - giving up the offensive and focusing on defense is tantamount to putting himself in an invincible position.

Because of this, he adopted a division of troops strategy, allowing Lin Feng to use the J-30's good radar stealth characteristics to raid the US aircraft carrier, and he himself showed his position to turn back to find the enemy and fight. The so-called artist is bold, now of course he is not afraid that radar and electronic jamming signals will attract the attack of the "silent cat", but the frequent RWR warnings will effectively harass the attackers, if they are in a hurry or timid, abandon the anti-ship missiles to come to him in an air fight, that is better!

Long Yun's tactics have indeed achieved certain results.

Since the beginning of the competition, after ejecting from the aircraft carrier, the two F-34s with four AGM-84 "Harpoons" each mounted on each other have left each other, desperately climbing and accelerating with the higher aerodynamic drag caused by the missiles, and they have made very large detours from the north and south directions, trying to avoid the interception line of Chinese fighters that will inevitably occur in the front.

Stanley Bodder, who piloted the "Silent Cat" long plane, at this time was controlling the heavy F-34 "Silent Cat" to continue to climb, and he once again reviewed the combat plan formulated before the game, which was to rely on the "Silent Cat" good high-speed cruise characteristics to approach the target airspace in a roundabout way, and immediately launch an attack after discovering the aircraft carrier.

It can be said that the principle of attacking first and winning first is fully embodied in the "North Star" battle plan, and in order to attack, they even directly gave up the protection of their own aircraft carriers, pinning their hopes entirely on the very limited air defense capabilities of the aircraft carriers themselves.

Of course, this kind of all-out attack is no problem at all on the real battlefield, the aircraft carrier itself has a certain defensive capability, there are frigates specializing in air defense around it, and there are fighters specially responsible for air defense interception on duty in the air; But now this kind of two-to-two, the aircraft carrier itself is the shape of a bare-rod commander, it can be said that the Americans' plan is very risky, they bet on the Chinese's caution and conservatism, it is expected that they will not hang both fighters full of anti-ship missiles and pounce on them, absolutely not!

Yes, in some way, the "North Star" combination guessed correctly; However, they still underestimated the strength of their opponents and their sense of combat with insight into the overall situation.

Sensing the possible intentions of the Americans, Long Yun piloted the J-30 gradually increased its altitude further, and he knew that the Americans could now have two choices: either a high-altitude supersonic raid and give full play to the range advantage of the AGM-84 to launch a long-range assault, or they could also fly close to the sea surface, rely on the curvature of the earth to evade the aircraft carrier's air detection, and jump up to a distance of 50 kilometers to launch a surprise attack. In view of these two different situations, it is obvious that the former is more realistic threat, and the "Silent Cat" mounted on AGM-84 can only sneak attack at a speed of about Mach 0.8 at ultra-low altitudes, but still has a maximum speed of Mach 1.5 or more at high altitudes!

In the face of two possible threats, Long Yun's countermeasures are also very simple, after climbing to an altitude of nearly 12,000 meters, he switches to RWS (Range-While-Scan) mode to scan sideways, and turns back along an arc with a large radius to search a large area of the southern sky first.

After a period of silent search, he finally found a suspicious target with a speed of Mach 1.5 and an altitude of 8,000 meters in front, and the fire control system put the target coordinates and situation on the multi-function display after completing the target interception and ranging, and now this "silent cat" with full afterburner and full speed sprint is only less than 300 kilometers away from the aircraft carrier he wants to cover, and has entered the maximum range of AGM-84!

Seeing that the enemy and us were still about 50 kilometers away at this time, Long Yun knew that the US fighter plane in front of him was outside the PL-12's attack envelope, and now even if he launched a missile to chase after him, he would not be able to hit the opponent. As for the previous "silent cat", the RWR system has also given a hint, and the American Stanley is also caught in the tangle of "to fight or not to fight".

You must know that the high-altitude and long-distance launch of AGM-84, the killing probability of this method of warfare is indeed very unsatisfactory, the aircraft carrier can quickly capture the target after the missile flies away, and also has a very calm time to prepare for resistance, at this time, the killing probability of a single "Harpoon" is only about 0.1 percent, and the killing probability of four salvos is only 35 percent. Originally, he planned to take advantage of the F-34's high-altitude speed advantage, accelerate to evade the interceptor fighters, and then dive near the sea to wait for the opportunity to attack, but now RWR told sù that he had been targeted by the Chinese, with four heavy "Harpoons" and the opponent in air combat, which is not a wise idea! (To be continued......)