Ignorant of a large number of incoming missiles, the 42nd Squadron, a powerful U.S. military force in the Caucasus, finally ushered in their end.

The "Strike Eagles", which had been turning sideways to the left and right respectively, and were guiding the "Slammer" missiles to intercept the MiGs head-on, were almost unguarded, and they were simultaneously fired by R-27EP missiles in a large area of airspace.

The Americans who were caught off guard had no time to maneuver to evade, only one or two pilots hurriedly released dazzling infrared jamming bombs, or flying radar jamming chaff, but in the face of the R-27EP, which was staring at the radar radiation signal and completely ignoring the others, the effect of these measures was almost zero.

Almost at the same moment, a large fireball and thick black smoke suddenly erupted in the sky, and several gray parachute flowers bloomed everywhere.

After a storm of missile baptism, the first attack of the anti-radiation missile achieved a rare one-sided result in the BVR engagement: a total of six F-15E "Attack Eagles" were not spared in this round of concentrated fire attack, and the fighters with the radar wide could not escape the pursuit of the anti-radiation missiles, and in just a few seconds, all of them turned into piles of black smoke and then burning and falling terrible wreckage.

At the last moment of the attack, the incoming missile was discovered, but it was too late to evade it, and Lieutenant Colonel Fletcher Harris, who escaped with a "bang" from the landline, almost fainted, and looked around in horror when he had just woken up.

In my ears, there were gusts of wind whistling. Explosions and flashes of light burst into the pupils. The lieutenant colonel, with trembling hands, fumbled for the unlock handle, detached from the ejection seat and pulled the main parachute. Slowly falling and falling in the sky. Choosing to parachute and abandon the plane at the moment before the landline was about to be shot, and not knowing whether the escape of his partner Harper Cartel was smooth, the frightened lieutenant colonel looked left and right in the sky, but never found anything.

As far as the eye could see, the air was filled with horrific blast debris and billowing black smoke, Harris closed his eyes in pain, he was no longer in the mood to discern the tragic situation in the sky, let alone confirm whether there were any surviving comrades in the 42nd Squadron.

A terrible sneak attack. Without warning, the dense missile firing actually knocked down all the squadron fighters in full swing; The lieutenant colonel recalled in horror the moment before he escaped, black dots suddenly appeared in his sight, and those death guns flying from the sky to his eyes were like ghosts, and they slaughtered the "Attack Eagle" fleet led by him frantically without a hint......

But is this possible, is that the new missile of the Russians?

What kind of terrible weapon could have come without warning and inflict a devastating blow on his squadron?

No matter how you think about it, it feels impossible, and there is a dull roar of another fighter plane exploding in the air, and Harris, who is dazed by the acceleration of the ejection, can only barely see a few parachute flowers blooming in the air. Probably his loud shouting in the moments before he was shot still played a little role, giving his subordinates the opportunity to catapult and parachute.

Such a self-soothing thought. At first, the lieutenant colonel was a little relieved.

However, after calming down a little, thinking that the elite fighters of his squadron were almost wiped out in one wave, which meant that the interception line of the US Air Force in the 933X airspace disappeared without a trace, Harris's mood became more and more depressed, and he knew very well that his 42nd squadron was the only NATO air superiority combat force in this airspace, and now that it was killed by the Russians, the air supremacy in this sky had changed hands at this moment.

This has come to this, but ......

How did these terrible missiles target them and leave all of them unaware?

Hanging under a parachute and slowly falling, the bewildered lieutenant colonel was forced to leave the combat post; For him, today's battle is de facto over.

However, at this moment, under the same clear blue sky, another fierce battle in the eastern sky is slowly kicking off, and the anti-radiation missiles that have won the division are about to once again exert their unprecedented combat effectiveness.

Just now, the 390th Regiment's large formation, which cooperated with the comrades-in-arms of the 237th Fighter Aviation Regiment and acted as a decoy in front of the enemy, divided into two fleets and turned around after advancing to meet the enemy, using this flight method similar to that of attack aircraft to confuse the Americans; When the RWR warning issued a prompt, knowing that the high-altitude US fighters were continuously irradiating and would soon launch a batch of over-the-horizon missiles, the MiG fleet's response was different, and the fighters that turned to the west side of the battle line decisively turned their heads and pretended to return home, while a number of MiG-29Ms that turned to the east turned a deaf ear to this, turned on the afterburner and rushed to the eastern sky, preparing to compete with the Canadians who were trying to intercept the attack planes of the Air Force's front-line aviation.

All in all, in the face of the radar irradiation of the F-15E at medium altitudes, and even over-the-horizon missile attacks, the young men of the Red Air Force were prepared and not surprised at all.

These MiGs, which had separated from their original routes, left extremely chaotic information on the multi-function display screen of the 42 Squadron "Attack Eagle", which was a headache for the Americans at first, which was indeed a test of the airborne fire control system; However, these F-15Es were quickly wiped out by the R-27EP, and the "Slammers", who had lost the care of the carrier aircraft, suddenly became motherless children and completely lost their threat.

The high-altitude fighters approached head-on and disengaged after firing anti-radiation missiles, while the low-altitude fighters went forward to attract the opponent to continue to use radar irradiation to provide good radiation conditions for the homing head -- the 237 Regiment's over-the-horizon attack was quite successful due to the skillful combat practice and the ignorance of the opponent.

For the R-27P/EP, the carrier aircraft can directly turn around and run away after launch, and this kind of air combat weapon, which is more convenient to use than active radar-guided missiles, won the favor of the pilots at once.

Yes, the ability to disengage immediately after launching a missile has a great advantage in air combat.

Although for anti-radiation missiles, it is difficult to guarantee the hit once the target is maneuvered to evade, but it is still the same sentence, I don't know how to maneuver and evade the missile attack at all?

After all, the maneuverable flight of a fighter jet cannot be as casual as a walk, which is not only limited by the current flight state and energy level, but also the endurance of the pilot himself. Not to mention that the Americans still don't know about the storage of the R-27P/EP, take a step back, even if they do, what can they do? In the face of an anti-radiation missile that may appear hideously from the sky at any time, either simply turn off the radar for the entire time -- this is tantamount to killing the Americans, or keep maneuvering violently to evade it -- then the pilot's physique alone will be completely unable to bear it.

The splendid explosions and the falling enemy planes showed the amazing power of the anti-radiation missiles in the first actual combat; However, the battle in the sky did not slow down, and the fighters of the 390th Regiment, which had escaped the threat of "Slammer", continued to move south, following the instructions of the ground guide to search for and intercept the invading NATO attack aircraft.

Having lost the hollow screen protection of the "Attack Eagle", the sluggish and clumsy attack aircraft is just a flying target in front of the MiG-29M.

However, facts have proved that in the face of an unexpected blow, the Americans' level of battlefield situation monitoring is quite remarkable: Although the fighters of the 42 Squadron were suddenly attacked and destroyed by a wave of anti-radiation missiles, there was no way to report the battle situation, the command center quickly discovered the abnormality from the battlefield air situation sent by the early warning aircraft.

Observing from the holographic display map on the large screen, the echoes of several F-15E radars deployed in the airspace of 933X suddenly all disappeared scattered, and there was no echo from the radio contact, which naturally made people suspect that they had been shot down - several heavy fighters were wiped out in an instant, although this speculation made people feel incredible, the battlefield dispatcher still dutifully called the Turkish F-4E fleet, ordering these second-line patrol fighters in the air to immediately take place and block the huge gap in the fighter interception line. It is strictly guarded against infiltration and sneak attacks by Russian fighters from here.

According to the command center's order, the F-4E "Phantom" fighters painted with crescent moon stars in the sky quickly approached the low-altitude MiG fleet.

Compared with the previous active bait, another air encounter was different, when the Soviet ground long-range warning radar had just discovered this batch of NATO fighters, and the command was still considering how to engage the battle, the low-flying MiGs also discovered the Turkish fighters that were approaching head-on and the RCS was quite impressive. Seeing that the number of targets on the radar display was still increasing, the regiment commander who led two squads of a total of eight MiG-29M fighters decisively gave an order to prepare all fighters for engagement.

Looking at the current situation, since the enemy planes are flying at an altitude of less than 3,000 meters and the distance is always approaching, then it is necessary to immediately launch a salvo of R-27P missiles and use a dense rain of missiles to shield these fighters on the side of the battle line.

According to the air situation prompted by the ground guide, a large number of MiGs in the air are now rushing to the sky over Tskhinvali, preparing to intercept a group of targets suspected of being NATO fighter-bombers; In the face of these NATO fighters killed in the oblique stab, the colonel's order was very resolute, and in the previous training and live-fire training, he had already figured out the strategy of using anti-radiation missiles, and now was the right time to play its role.

Unlike missiles that need to be taken care of by the carrier aircraft, after the launch of the R-27P, the carrier aircraft can take care of everything else, what a good battlefield shielding weapon it is! (To be continued......)