In the face of surface-to-air missiles launched from dozens of kilometers away, the Longyun twin aircraft did not respond at first.

Since locking onto the "Lancer" in the distant sky and firing two R-27ER missiles, Long Yun has kept the fighter plane flying forward steadily, his eyes vigilantly scanning the vast sky above and below, left and right. He did not intend to perform unnecessary maneuvers until a substantial threat was observed, and the N001 was easily unlocked by the heavy maneuvers of the carrier aircraft during continuous wave irradiation, and he now had no more R-27 missiles to correct such mistakes.

A target shot without interference may be ideal; But as RWR's warning prompts changed, the strength of the C-band signal quickly made Long Yun highly nervous, and he immediately realized that he and his wingman were about to be attacked by PAC-2 "Patriot" missiles.

"No. 19, pay attention to the airspace in the lower hemisphere on the left, and pay special attention to the incoming missiles in the direction of one o'clock and four o'clock!"

"Received on the 19th! -- No target has been found at the moment. ”

On the radio, he told his wingman to be on the lookout for incoming targets in these two directions, and Long Yun's sharp eyes scanned the sky as well as the large area of the sky on the left. For the "Patriot" II missile using the C-band TVM (Track-Via-Missile) guidance mode, unless it is a special ballistic attack on an air target very close to the position, the missile will basically attack from the direction of radar irradiation, which is very helpful for pilots to predict the direction of the missile attack and prepare for evasion.

Judgment is made according to the direction of RWR irradiation. Long Yun, who continued to guide the R-27ER, called the white nineteen wingman over the radio to maintain a dense formation flight posture with him; At this moment, he suddenly noticed a faint bright spot on the horizon at four o'clock. The rich experience of "real combat" on the simulator allowed him to make a judgment. Those were two surface-to-air missiles that were faintly shining in the sunlight!

The threat of surface-to-air missiles stimulated the sensitive nerves of the pilots at once.

Different from the descriptions in film and television works or literary works, on the real battlefield, what pilots are most afraid of is often not advanced fighters and enemy trump cards, but ground-to-air missiles that do not have a chance to show their faces.

As for the reason, first consider sitting in the cockpit of a fighter jet flying at high speed, and it is easier for pilots to spot a bulky surface-to-air missile attack with obvious tail smoke with the naked eye; This kind of mental stimulation of seeing a threat approaching at a rapid pace is definitely not something that can be given by air-to-air missiles that rely mainly on sneak attacks to achieve results.

Besides. To put it bluntly, ground air defense units can use batches of missiles to launch fighters, but the fighters are often flawless or incapable of launching effective counterattacks against them. This kind of situation of being completely passively beaten is naturally different from air battles in which there are attacks and defenses against each other, and the psychological pressure on the pilots is extremely heavy.

Even now, less than ten seconds after the missile was launched, it is estimated that the R-27ER thrusters that have left have not yet burned out, and the surface-to-air missiles that appeared in the sky made Long Yun a little difficult. Although he still has some theoretical basis and experience in dealing with surface-to-air missiles, especially the "Patriot," he has to complete target irradiation himself, and second, he has to worry about the safety of his wingman. Even if there are no NATO fighters in the sky to make trouble for the time being, in the face of the threat of "Patriots" -

What is that. No way!

The eyes inadvertently swept over the earth covered by thin clouds below them, and it seemed that there was also a direction at two o'clock!

The two Sukhoi fighters immediately appropriately widened the distance and put the missiles flying in the direction of five o'clock on the vertical bisection of the line connecting the positions of the two planes, which is also a typical tactic for the two planes to deal with TVM mode missiles in formation.

Keep the distance and angle between the two fighters and the missiles almost the same, and in the face of the incoming missiles in this way, the target echoes received by the seeker on the missiles will appear strictly aliased, which will basically mistake the two fighters for a large target located at the midpoint of the connection between the two aircraft; The missile then rushes straight towards the "target" and finally passes through the middle of the two-plane formation and loses its threat. In the face of such evasive tactics used by missiles, it can be said that Long Yun and the wingman are full of courage; You must know that not every pilot dares to fly a plane to face the missiles directly, not to mention that there is a second batch of missiles coming at two o'clock!

In this way, in the face of the threat of death rising from the ground, the White Twenty slightly changed course to follow the footsteps of the wingman, but the N001 radar antenna in the nose was always aimed at the "Lancer" fleet in the sky, faithfully performing the signal illumination mission.

With the maneuvering flight of the fighters, the stout missiles that meandered and climbed in the sky were gradually approaching, and the ground-to-air missiles with a maximum speed of more than Mach three passed through a distance of tens of kilometers in less than a minute; Seeing that the missiles were getting bigger and bigger in the field of vision, and the palms of their hands were unconsciously full of sweat, the Sukhoi two-plane partner was extremely excited at this time, but it was not them who were the most nervous in the sky.

Rather, it is the American strategic bomber that is being hunted down by the R-27ER.

In the sky, the afterburner desperately fled, but the speed could not be improved, and in the face of the milky white missiles behind them, the "lancers" who had just projected AGM-86 were already in a desperate situation.

R-27ER, an extended-range air-to-air missile with a maximum usable overload of only 24~30G, may not be very good at dealing with flexible fighters, but it can be said to be a target artifact that strikes slow and clumsy strategic bombers.

Just when he was nervously evading the "Patriot" missile, there was chaotic interference in the echo signal of the radar display screen in front of Long Yun, and it was obvious that the Americans had discovered that they were being chased by the missile and were using electronic jamming to try to protect themselves; However, in the absence of a full-time electronic jammer to accompany the protection, it is a little too late to think of the use of simple and crude blocking electronic countermeasures.

Panicked Americans, the most important thing they should have done before should be to call for backup; But in such a crazy battlefield situation, the arrival of reinforcements is already a complete luxury.

Ankara, NATO's Joint Theater Command Center of the US Central Command.

After experiencing the initial disbelief and the subsequent anger, the theater commander who had woken up from the catharsis of his emotions was now completely powerless in his current combat situation.

Just now, the general has realized one thing from the staggering situation of combat losses, that is, the "Caucasian Grim Reaper" does not necessarily and does not need to stay in the Caucasus all the time. In order to cope with this "Grim Reaper" that came out of nowhere, all the standby "Fighting Falcons" of the Turks have been dispatched, and the British "Tornado" ADV (Air-Defence-Variant, anti-aircraft interceptor type) has also been forced to attack; Although he didn't expect to destroy the "Grim Reaper" with these patchwork fleets, it should always be possible to expel this guy from Turkish airspace and protect the "Lancers" who were already in danger, right? (To be continued......)