Seeing that the enemy planes were scurrying around, and there was no way to talk about the minimum tactical cooperation between them, Long Yun really wanted to chase and kill the enemy until he eliminated all the enemy planes that were stuck in the air.

Unlike the NATO attack planes that ran back to the base after the attack, the Turks, who had suffered a heavy blow, were tasked with intercepting enemy planes, and the bearded men who flew the fighters could not give up the sky lightly even if they suffered heavy losses, and as long as he had enough patience and perhaps enough fuel, it was not impossible to say that he would take away all these F-4Es that were unwilling to accept defeat.

But today, Long Yun's battle intention was not here, since the opponent had already been beaten and scattered in all directions, it was impossible to recover in formation and return to fight in a short period of time, he immediately gave up these "fat" that was about to arrive, and turned around and accelerated to climb to a height of more than three thousand meters.

Away from the chaotic Turks, re-receiving the air information specially sent by the ground guidance station, Viktor Rezenov, as the number one ace of the Red Air Force, had complete combat autonomy, Long Yun soon piloted the fighter plane through the battle-torn sky over Tskhinvali, and detoured at an ultra-low altitude from the gap in the anti-aircraft killing area of the Soviet ground forces, and appeared above the NATO coalition forces in Kutaïsi in a very sudden manner.

Piloting the fighter plane through the battle line, Long Yun kept an eye on the fuel stock at all times, and he knew that the first day of today's anti-radiation operation was of great significance.

In today's battle, although the R-27P/EP has exerted its unexpectedly great power, as a conventional weapon that is not irreproducible, the existence of anti-radiation missiles is destined to be impossible to keep secret. Before the NATO bloc recovers from its shock and gradually figures out the secret weapon that attacked them, the VVS must go all out. Give full play to the precious window period when the opponent is at a loss and passively beaten. Provide good air cover for large-scale ground operations of the Army.

As for this "window period" that relies on one-way killing of the enemy by anti-radiation missiles. How long can it be maintained under the dual pressure of NATO intelligence personnel and technical level?

This kind of complicated matter that has a bearing on the overall situation is probably beyond Long Yun's ability to estimate, but thinking about the mutual penetration of the two camps during the Cold War and the fact that they did everything to get intelligence, he felt that the development of this matter was probably not optimistic.

In short, in the face of the inevitable response of the West, the Warsaw Pact must be fully prepared for the worst-case scenario -- in case the Americans wake up from this slap and not only figure out the secrets of the anti-radiation missile. If similar missiles are further developed and put into combat, the struggle for air supremacy in this war will probably become more and more intense, and the mode of operation will also undergo considerable changes.

So back to the current combat mission, driving the White Twenty to run wildly on the side of the battle line, Long Yun's operational idea is also very clear, he is not to refresh the number of shots downed, but to appear on multiple fronts as much as possible, to interfere with the enemy's tactical deployment and campaign review to the greatest extent, so as to delay the time for the NATO bloc to detect the abnormality and further investigate, so that the later they know the storage of the R-27P/EP, the better.

Of course, the so-called "show up as much as possible". Even with the abundant internal fuel reserves of the Su-27, Longyun can only limit the space of activity to Transcaucasia. As for the fierce fighting in the western skies, he was still beyond his reach, so the command also arranged for other ace pilots to take off in the "Red Seventeen", which had temporarily changed its livery.

In such an unprecedentedly fierce battle, the Red Air Force's tricks have so far played a considerable role.

Just as they were passing through the theater of operations all the way west and along the railway line to the skies over Kutaisi, fierce anti-radiation warfare over the Caucasus was already blossoming everywhere: Red Air Force fighters implementing the "hit-and-run" tactic were shot out of the fleet with arrows in batches, and where gray R-27P/EP anti-radiation missiles passed, the fighter formations of NATO's tactical air force were completely caught off guard on the spot. The warplanes dragging the smoke and flames in the futile struggled in the sky, leaving behind them a large area of undefended open airspace, and the dense interception line of NATO fighters soon became as fragile as a sieve.

Such a terrifying battlefield situation not only frightened NATO's front-line combatants, but also deeply stimulated the nerves of high-level commanders.

Early this morning, he gave the order to "all take to the air to meet the attack", but now he has experienced a terrible nightmare in which the fleet has disappeared from the radar, and the frightened and angry General Clark trembled in the command headquarters for a while, and the hard-nosed lieutenant general never wanted to admit defeat, let alone bow down to the damned Russians, but the panic reports of the battlefield dispatchers stimulated his tense nerves again and again, and the words he said were completely illogical:

"- Damn, resist me! Command the Israelites to gather the 'eagle of David' at once, and give them ten minutes, ten minutes!

Damn the Russians, did they transfer all the fighters of the whole country to the Caucasus? This bunch of hooligans, scoundrels, drunken maniacs and heretics, a bunch of uneducated bastards! - Philips, call Squadron 53 and let them fill the gap in the air of Squadron 42, and Jensen's Squadron 10, tell them to leave those hateful MiGs and go to Tskhinvali to solve the 'scissors' there!

Hell, it's a bunch of bandits, these Russians are simply too deceitful! -- What is the situation with the Navy? ”

"Report, report to the admiral, the navy's battle report has confirmed the loss of at least thirty warplanes—"

"What?! Bullshit backwater ghosts, don't they have 'tomcats'! ”

In a fit of rage, he scolded in the command headquarters, but the general's reason was still sober, and for the first time he saw the air force of the NATO bloc lose so badly on the battlefield, although Clark could not have guessed the killer weapon of the Red Air Force, he also intuitively smelled the existence of some new Russian weapon -- otherwise, so many fighters were dispatched to meet the enemy, but they were beaten all at once, and this can no longer be perfunctory with any "luck", and the Russians must be making trouble!

In the face of an unknown terrible threat, thinking that the boys of the NATO coalition forces were dying and wounded in the air, Clark knew very well that there was no turning back from the bow, and now that the Caucasus war situation had reached the critical moment of a decisive victory, no matter what terrible means Ivan used, as an air barrier on which the ground forces depended, they must continue to hold on.

Thinking of this, Clark paced around the room irritably, thinking for a while but really couldn't find any strong reinforcements, the high-intensity sorties of the previous days had consumed the strength of the tactical air force, and with the reckless order of "all hands attack" this morning, there were now few fighters in the whole of Asia Minor that could be dispatched to fight fires at any time. In the face of such a grim battle situation, it is not his usual style to bow his head and ask the navy for assistance, and listening to the previous battle report, those sea elites who are above the top have also been beaten by Ivan, and now even if he asks for support in a low voice, the support will come immediately?

Hmph, it's really damnable!

Now, do you have to pin your hopes on the Israelites?

Considering that the situation in the Middle East is still inconclusive, and Iran, which is hostile to the United States, is still in cahoots with the Russians, General Clark has reluctantly dismissed the idea of transferring troops from the Middle East theater of operations, and the current situation is like oil pouring on fire, and distant water cannot quench the thirst of the near near at all.

Excited by the Russian air rage, the general had the heart to call and ask the front-line troops, how the Russians had eliminated so many coalition fighters at once, but there was almost no damage to himself, he reprimanded the panicked subordinates in front of him with a blue face, raised his hand to wipe the fine cold sweat on his forehead, and his hand stayed on the telephone receiver for a long time, but he never picked it up and spoke.

Yes, the current situation is completely beyond everyone's expectations, even if you answer the confidential phone and directly spread your anger on the front-line commanders, what is the use?

After months of fighting polar bears in the Caucasus and the East, the general knows very well how difficult it is for these thick-skinned and combative Russians to deal with, and since the implementation of the complicated "Typhoon" operation for more than a week, NATO's elite troops have relied entirely on on-call air support to gain the initiative on the battlefield or to capture some hard-to-obtain fortified positions.

As a short-tempered but conscientious commander, Clark would take the time to look at the daily battle reports submitted by the front to the joint command, or at least let the staff officers sort them out and study them; After a period of repetitive work, what impressed him the most was the progress of the ground forces every day, and combined with the deployment and implementation of the tactical air force, he could find a seemingly coincidental, but alarming phenomenon when thought about carefully:

The long-standing nickname of the Marine Corps of the NATO coalition forces, the so-called "Air Force Marines", is really not empty words!

Looking back at the report on the battle situation in the previous stage, whenever the ground forces received strong air support, the predetermined battle plan could be carried out in accordance with the plan; Conversely, in areas where the Russians have air supremacy, or where neither side has control of the sky, the offensive of the NATO coalition forces is as slow and clumsy as a tractor running out of fuel, and sometimes it is bitten hard by the counterattacking Russians.

In this all-out war with the Warsaw Pact bloc, or the Soviet Empire, in the face of perhaps the most combat-effective army force on the planet, it is not ashamed that the ground forces of the free world will not be able to make achievements, but this also means that the victory of the coalition forces completely depends on the superiority of air force, and maybe some fashionable things such as battlefield informatization and logistics logistics?

All in all, the tactical air force must now withstand the counterattack of the Russians, otherwise the situation on the ground battlefield will inevitably be worrying! (To be continued......)