The answer to this question, of course, is obvious:

If you really keep following the team and firing guns far away, it won't be the original Long Yun.

On the morning of the next day, after receiving an air briefing, the Longyun twin planes followed the large force to take off from the station in the suburbs of Stavropol as they did yesterday and carried out a routine combat readiness cruise.

With those previous thoughts, this time the weapon mounting scheme of Long Yun and Korolev is not full; Unlike the other fighters that were full of R-27R/R-27T and R-73 standard combinations, the Red Seventeen and the wingman both carried only four R-27Rs and two R-73s.

With such a configuration, it is obvious that Long Yun does not intend to be like other fighters, but just launch an over-the-horizon strike on the side of the battle line from afar; If possible, in today's air combat, he will act in tandem with Korolev and charge forward appropriately in close combat.

This is not only to practice the methods of engagement that he is most familiar with, but it is also absolutely necessary to familiarize the wingman with his tactics.

Shortly after liftoff, the ground guide sent an engagement instruction, requiring the 237th Regiment fighter formation to immediately rush to the airspace to the southeast and find signs of invasion by a large number of enemy aircraft over the southern border of Georgia; At the same time, inform them that the MiG fleet of front-line aviation has been dispatched, and by this time it is likely that there has been over-the-horizon contact with enemy aircraft.

Under the guidance and instruction of GCI, Long Yun and his wingman turned on the afterburner, and followed the formation all the way to an altitude of nearly 10,000 meters and rushed to the south.

Long Yun, who was sprinting at a speed of Mach 1.4, was paying attention to maintaining a two-plane formation and keeping up with the movement of the fighter formation, and he was also checking the battle plan he had drawn up; Although he has absolute confidence in his combat effectiveness, after all, it is the first time that he has piloted the Su-27S to engage in combat independently.

After two or three days of escort training, Long Yun also knew that although his wingman pilot Korolev admired him, he did not fully understand the combat strategy that was temporarily explained to him before the war.

Moreover, after two days of flight observation, Long Yun also saw that the combat effectiveness of this deputy could only be said to be okay; According to his understanding, Korolev's level in the 237th regiment is, of course, still above average, but compared with his trump card, who has only touched the Su-27S real machine for a few days, it is still a big difference.

In this way, when entering visual combat, Long Yun often has to act alone, and he can't completely give up covering the wingman, which is not ideal for him.

However, in the tense air battle, these thoughts were just spinning in Long Yun's mind; After a few minutes of accelerated flight, about a hundred kilometers in front of them, the MiG-105ML of the 23 front-line fighter regiment had already made over-the-horizon contact with the NATO group, and the two sides were approaching each other with standard head-on interception tactics, and a large-scale missile battle broke out.

This mode of operation is a great challenge for the combat personnel of the 105th Regiment.

Compared with NATO fighters, which have more advanced electronic equipment, due to their inferiority in radar performance, the eight MiGs of the 105th Regiment adopted a team tactic: they divided into two echelons of four planes and climbed separately, entered the predetermined interception area at a high speed of nearly 60 degrees, and then used supersonic raid tactics to strike at the invading fleet.

On the NATO side, it was their sworn enemy for many days, several F-15Cs of the 25 fighter squadron of the US Eighth Air Wing, that quickly unfolded vertically along the line of invasion.

Compared with the MiG-23ML, the powerful F-15C is obviously carrying out air superiority operations at this time, and they swaggered across the southern border of the Soviet Union and marched to the north in a line, looking "dare to fight" arrogant look.

With such a combat situation, the scattered F-15C cannot do anything to the MiGs that are attacked at supersonic speed for a while; However, this method of warfare cannot be sustained, and it will become dangerous after a long time.

All of this is in the eyes of ground-based air defense surveillance systems in the Caucasus; However, if it is to be said that the 237th Regiment is to be directed to approach the enemy and then enter the melee of a large group of aircraft, because the monitoring network has been attacked and there is a lack of three-coordinate radar for accurate positioning near the theater of operations, aviation guidance is powerless at this time, and can only play a minimum role in leading the way.

Of course, the pilots of the 237th Regiment at least know the type and approximate number of approaching NATO fighters at this time; As for the rest of the information, they can only judge it by looking at the undulating echoes that gradually appear on the display screen through the guò radar.

As he approached the airspace of engagement, Long Yun noticed the complications on the radar, and he was also preparing to carry out his plan.

Knowing that it was the friendly MiG-23 that was carrying out the interception operation ahead, if he was to be in command, the Su-27 formation at this time should try its best to catch up with the rhythm of the MiGs, and after the MiG-23 took advantage of the altitude and speed advantage of the plundering battle began, waiting for the opportunity to enter the medium and low altitude to engage in a decisive fight with the enemy aircraft caught in the chaotic battle, to kill the opponent who was caught off guard.

However, thinking that his current car is not a light and agile MiG-29, combined with the combat characteristics of the Su-27, Long Yun considered his tactical arrangements again.

If Korolev rushed forward like this, leaving aside the attack of the other fighters in the jamming regiment and the risk of being hit by mistake, he and his wingman now had four R-27s and two R-73s, plus relatively abundant fuel in the aircraft, these heavy loads were quite unfavorable for combat combat.

In particular, Long Yun had done his homework before, and he had already learned that the U.S. Eighth Air Wing here was quite active, and he didn't want to clumsily go to a close confrontation with the powerful F-15C; Although he is not afraid of any opponent, once he is raised, he may capsize in the gutter.

- So, drop four medium-range missiles, approach the enemy with afterburner, and go into battle lightly?

Don't even think about it.

Since traveling to this parallel world and starting to fight in the skies as Viktor Rezenov, Long Yun's principle is not to squander every missile; And in the vast majority of cases, he did.

Therefore, to throw away the missiles now, of course, is a complete strategy.

Commanding Korolev to follow his maneuver, Long Yun reported on the radio, and then piloted the fighter plane to break away from the main formation of the 273rd Regiment; Beginning to slide in small increments in the direction he had estimated, the Long Yun Twin Plane completed a large radius turn and flew along the edge of the interception area towards the southern sky.

Seeing that the formation was gradually moving away, Long Yun knew that the time had finally come for him and his wingman to act independently and show their skills.

Korolev, the wingman pilot who followed Long Yun as a maneuver, tried to keep up with the graceful and smooth movements of the long plane in front of him, while recalling Long Yun's explanation to himself before the war. The movements of the long plane are quite standard and skillful, not at all like a novice flying the Su-27, which, of course, gives him great confidence.

But Korolev is still a little skeptical, the ace in front of him, who was still flying the MiG-29 a few days ago, is now in a hurry to act alone, can he get an ideal start in the volley battle if he breaks away like this?

Oh! Now he's not alone, isn't there still himself with him?

I hope that when the time comes to encounter the enemy and make a big fight, I will not cause trouble for this trump card, Korolev thought with a little shame.

Almost gliding out of thin air in the air, Long Yun paid attention to the direction of his nose while observing the consumption of fuel; Seeing that the handling characteristics of the Su-27S are quite close to the feel he has mastered before, Long Yun's confidence has been strongly supported.

Thanks to the support of ground guidance information, what Long Yun tried to deceive at this time was the US Air Force early warning aircraft that was likely to peek not far behind the battle line; These clairvoyants, who were far behind the battle line but always gazed at the sky, were no less threatening to the activities of the Soviet Air Force than the murderous fighters.

Long Yun's tactics proved to be quite successful.

When flying over a winding course and finally completing the turn to prepare for the attack, the echo signal of the Longyun twin aircraft became clear and appeared on the monitoring console of the E-3A early warning aircraft; However, at this time, the AWACS aircraft no longer has enough processing time to effectively evade and guide the distant aircraft group.

As several target signals appeared from the radar display, Long Yun secretly congratulated himself on his opponent's carelessness, which allowed him to successfully occupy the advantageous position of the rear attack with the radar silent.

It was only less than 13 kilometers away from the enemy plane, and it already met the conditions for the tail pursuit launch of the R-27.

Without further hesitation, he immediately ordered Korolev to launch an operation, locking up one enemy plane per person and launching a salvo!

As the four R-27Rs ignited from the pylons and flew away, bright flames erupted, dragging gray-white smoke straight towards the target; But this was not the end, under Long Yun's order again, after a time interval of about five seconds, four more R-27Rs flew out from under the wings of the twin planes, and once again cut four thin and narrow tail smoke in the sky.

The two fighters fired eight R-27Rs at once, and although the first four could no longer hit the target, the momentum of the attack was still quite amazing.

Launching all the missiles in the first attack was exactly what Long Yun had planned; Although the radar echo is not completely certain, Long Yun is ninety percent sure that the targets he and his wingman have locked on now should be two F-15s.

This kind of opponent, which is quite difficult in the European sky, will be shot to death at once since it has been encountered!

While thinking like this, Long Yun and his wingman grabbed the more than ten seconds before the missile entered the terminal guidance to perform a sideways maneuver; Of course, at this time, the enemy planes in the sky were completely in chaos, and no one could lock on to them, this was just a strategy to seize the attack position.

Shouting a few times over the radio to keep Korolev at his pace, Long Yun decisively turned on his full strength, swaggering on the radar and rushing towards the sky that was fighting in front of him to the left.

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