Just after Harris gave the order, two fighters in the formation had hastily launched missiles, and four gray-white "Slammers" broke away from the F-15E's fuselage pylons one after another, dragging a puff of fluff and disappearing from sight.

Witnessing this scene in the side turn, the lieutenant colonel immediately shouted loudly:

"Stop firing, stop firing! Pay attention to the radar warning prompt, and each machine immediately turns sideways to avoid it according to the predetermined plan. ”

In the face of the enemy who turned around and fled, it is completely meaningless to launch missiles again, after all, for the Russian "flanker" who turns sideways at supersonic speed and turns around and detached, the attack envelope of the AIM-120B missile has shrunk very strictly, and there is no possibility of hitting it at a launch distance of tens of kilometers.

In accordance with the commander's order, attaching great importance to the possibility of the Russians using active bombs, one after another dark gray "attack eagles" carrying missiles that had not yet been launched entered the evasive track and transposed horizontally along a smooth arc course.

The well-trained pilots fully understood Lieutenant Colonel Harris's intentions in the face of air-to-air missiles that were not supervised by carrier aircraft, even if they were active missiles, as long as they kept flying sideways as much as possible and left the antenna detection cone of the homing head on the missile before the missile arrived at the predetermined starting point, they could get rid of the threat of missiles at once.

As the warplanes scattered left and right in the sky, Harris tried to contact the "torch" on the radio, but found that the channel was rarely unanswered, and he could only upload the position changes of the Russian "flanker" through the guò number jù chain, but there was no way to report the latest movements of the enemy in time.

Realizing that this was most likely due to the fact that there were too many fighters in the Caucasus theater today, and there were some problems with the dispatch of the command center, Harris was enduring the discomfort of overloading in the reverse side, but he was also secretly speculating. how exactly the fighting is going in the surrounding airspace; And he was thinking at the same time. The Russians, who sent a much larger number of fighters. Could their rudimentary and backward battlefield command and control system have been paralyzed earlier?

If that's the case......

Is it precisely because of the lack of command that the Russian fighters on the opposite side will escape.

Realizing that today's battle was extraordinary, and that the enemy's appearance was very strange, a faint instinct made Lieutenant Colonel Harris think suspiciously, but he could not come to a credible conclusion.

However, unlike the lieutenant colonel, who was briefly confused, Captain Harper Cartel in the rear seat has been faithful to his duty, and the sideways "Strike Eagle" is still monitoring the northern sky with radar, and the accompanying speed numbers are still negative next to the target designations on the display screen representing enemy aircraft.

At this time. The captain heard the call from friendly fighters, and "Postman" II reminded Harris in the headset:

"'Postman' No. 2 called, there are 'scissors' approaching at low altitude, and the target information has been transmitted;

"Roger, uh...... The target number jù has been confirmed. - Chief, the low-altitude MiG fleet is approaching, in our direction of ten o'clock! ”

"Oh, really!"

A moment ago I was still thinking about "what the Russians are doing this for." Harris was alerted by his partner, and suddenly noticed several targets reappearing on the display, which were the first low-altitude fighters they had spotted. At this time, the troops were infiltrating southward in two ways; I don't know where the Canadians who were supposed to be on standby nearby have gone, the lieutenant colonel frowned and thought for a moment, and he immediately grasped the enemy's intention to act.

Dispatching so many "flanks" at once may be to attract your own attention, so that other fighters can wait for the opportunity to penetrate from a low altitude, it must be so!

Suddenly, the lieutenant colonel seemed to have an insight, and the lieutenant colonel made a stirring in the cockpit, and the fire control system had been judging the model of those fighters as the "fulcrum" before, but only by virtue of the flight characteristics, electromagnetic signal characteristics and RCS, the accuracy of this judgment was actually very average - so that is to say, perhaps unlike his previous imagination, those low-flying Russian fighters were likely to be a large number of "whipper J" or "assemblers", that is, incoming ground attack aircraft?

Suddenly, it was found that the situation seemed to have changed, and the command center also sent a response at this time, confirming that the Russian fighters in the northern airspace of 8422 and 8423 were still flying north, and there were no other medium and high altitude targets in the nearby airspace.

Now that the original target has been turned and withdrawn, it is now the first priority to deal with the low-altitude approaching fighters.

Thinking of this, the lieutenant colonel contacted the planes and asked his subordinates to reorganize into battle formations, each using radar tracking to lock on to a large number of targets below, and at the same time using the number chain to distribute target channels.

The distance between the enemy and us is 53 kilometers, and the difference in altitude is 5,000 meters, and launching the "Slammer" at this time will have a fairly high probability of killing, and there is no fear that the opponent will repeat its old tricks -- no matter whether it is a Russian attack plane or a fighter, as long as it is completely driven away and no Russian fighter plane appears in the sky over Tskhinvali, then the own fighter plane can swagger and bomb in the air to provide strong support for the offensive of the ground forces.

So now it's time, track, lock, launch!

Sending the Russians and their fighters back to their hometown was the only thought of the distracted lieutenant colonel.

In the sky, the dark gray fighters flying in the wind, and the AIM-120Bs on the fuselage series pylons are ready to go; However, in the gray-blue sky with white clouds drifting, a large number of deadly throwing guns dragging thin traces of smoke are approaching, and the radiation detection antenna in the parabolic head cone is already aimed at the source of radiation in the sky: the F-15E "Attack Eagle".

These gray-and-white missiles that covered the sky were naturally launched by a group of Su-27S, that is, fighters from the 237th Fighter Aviation Regiment.

Piloting a fighter to engage the enemy at high speed, identifying the source of radiation and launching an anti-radiation missile, and then immediately turning to disengage with the opponent can be applied to the tactic of one-hit departure, which is fundamentally only possible when the R-27P/EP is put into combat.

In the silent contest just past, in the face of the radar lock of the Americans, Major Kamenev, who led the team forward with the Su-27M fighter, faithfully carried out the order sent by the ground command center.

In today's large-scale battle, the fighters of the 237th Regiment located in the airspace of the central Caucasus and the 390th Regiment of the MiG-29M formation at low altitude are in cooperation with each other; With regard to the problem of coordination between such a large number of fighters, which are sure to encounter electronic interference from US fighters, the Red Air Force, which is relatively backward in electronic communications technology, has adopted a rather simple and practical "divide and conquer" strategy, successfully coordinating the fighters of the two air regiments to wait for an opportunity to advance and retreat together on one side of the battle line, thus creating a near-perfect combat situation for the use of anti-radiation missiles.

The so-called "divide and conquer", as it is now, the command center's digital chain channel only maintains contact with Kamenev's landline, and the number conveyed does not include the details of the air situation in the nearby airspace, and this information is processed in the ground command center, and is responded to in accordance with the tactical principles proposed by Major General Viktor Rezenov and approved by the High Command, and only brief instructions are issued to the front-line fighters on how to act.

After receiving the order from the command center, he led the captain to contact the planes by radio and make corresponding tactical adjustments.

Generally speaking, such a hierarchical command method will certainly not be able to cope with the intense and intense air superiority operations, but it is completely effective for the "queue shooting" tactic that gives full play to the power of the R-27P/EP.

Even now, the radar ranging showed that the enemy plane was about 80 kilometers away and the speed was Mach 1 by one, and the ground command center also sent an order to "fire after accelerating"; After briefly comparing the number of R-27P/EP missile attack envelopes that he had memorized in the previous theoretical training class, and confirming that the judgment obtained by the command center through the long-range radar calculation was correct, Kamenev immediately ordered all fighters to continue to speed up and prepare for missile launch!

As the order was given, the flames from the tail vents became brighter one after another, and the sharp air currents that swept the fuselage soon appeared a white mist, which suddenly dissipated in an instant.

As the fighter broke through the sound barrier with full afterburner, the Su-27S fighter carrying gray-white R-27EP missiles on all available hardpoints quickly climbed to an altitude of 6,000 meters.

Unlike semi-active and active radar-guided missiles, which require carrier aircraft to indicate where the target is, the launch and follow-up guidance of the new missile truly "leave it alone after launching" and are only a kind of "release" at a greater range.

Considering that it was impossible for the American fighters to fly all the time until they collided with the missile, the pilots of the 237th Regiment each used a sector in the airspace in front of them that they were responsible for as the area covered by the strike fire, and the guò fire control computer set the rough parameters for the missile.

The first qiē step is carried out, which is very similar to the process during the exercise, and now it is waiting for the regimental commander's order.

"Attention everyone, the target is sixty-five kilometers away, and the missile will be launched in three seconds!" (To be continued......)