After finishing his words in a smooth tone, feeling that his meaning had been expressed clearly, the thin radar soldier Major General took a glass of water and took a sip for a while, leaving you some time to think and digest.

As the general's words landed, there was a brief silence in the room.

The commanders present may not be able to think clearly about the serious question he just raised, but the officers from the Soviet Air Force and Air Defense Force nodded slowly with stern expressions, obviously everyone agrees with the correctness of this assertion.

Yes, just as Comrade Major General said, the Americans' integrated air command system is relatively mature and has a relatively high level of technology, and fighter planes are like pawns on a chessboard in such a combat system, and even if they have no idea where the enemy is, they can still carry out combat missions according to the orders sent by the command center. In this regard, the unified command style of the Soviet Air Force and the Territorial Defense Force seems to be similar, but considering that the two camps do not agree on the strategic value assessment and tactical use of air power, in fact, the command systems of VVS and PVO are still three points inferior to their opponents.

After this point was clarified, the major general's doubts were very sharp, and it can be said that the key to the problem was pointed out from a strategic height.

Take the R-27P/EP, which has just been put into use, for example, the anti-radiation missile can indeed suppress the opponent's electronic equipment, especially the fighter plane's airborne radar, but NATO fighters do not rely on radar to perceive the air situation and the enemy's situation and carry out combat missions.

On this basis, further consideration is given to how to deal with the command system of the Americans. Those US early warning planes and battlefield control planes cruising in the rear of the theater of operations. It is also at least 300 kilometers away from the line of fire. Not to mention the R-27P/EP, which has a range of less than 100 kilometers, it is impossible for any air-to-air missile to fly such a distance; And if a large number of fighter planes are dispatched to attack for a long distance, flying hundreds of kilometers from the line of fire in one breath, and then launching an attack, it is completely impractical to be under the full protection of NATO fighters.

The final conclusion, then, is that as long as the Americans' battlefield command system cannot be destroyed, the combat capability of the NATO Air Force will not be fundamentally attacked, and the next road to the south will still be full of thorns. This is not a problem that can be solved by a single anti-radiation missile.

Realizing that the situation was so complicated, and that the current one-sided scene could not last, the participants all sat silently at the long table, and for a moment no one spoke rashly.

Yes, I just got off to a good start with the R-27P/EP, but how will we fight the battle in the future......

With the current air power of the Warsaw Pact bloc, if we rely on the courage of the young men and the number of fighters to fight hard against the enemy, we can see how tragic such a war will be when you think about it, and it is also something that all the commanders present here are unwilling to accept -- although the duty of a soldier is to strive for victory at any cost, but look at such a protracted world war. When will it be over?

Before you are sure how long the battle will last, or what course it will take, it is a wiser choice to try to preserve your strength.

Unconsciously fell into thinking at the strategic level. For a while, no one in the room spoke again.

However, at this moment, unlike the embarrassed faces of the other participants, Long Yun, who had been thinking for a moment, had already shown a very relaxed look, because he had completely understood the speech of the major general of the radar army, and therefore thought of a fairly powerful countermeasure.

Speaking of which, thanks to the materials sent by the MiG Design Bureau before, he raised his hand and tapped on the table after a moment of silence, and opened a new topic in a calm tone:

"Regarding the operational command system of the US military, this is indeed a very difficult issue.

Just as Comrade Major General said, if in the next combat operations, we can only rely on anti-radiation missiles to suppress and intimidate our opponents, and engage in an aerial brawl with NATO's tactical air force that abandons radar, then the situation still does not allow for optimism. However, I personally have some ideas about this, and maybe I can bring some new changes to the situation in the south.

Well, that's the idea?"

As he spoke, Long Yun inadvertently looked at the Air Force Commander Sergeyev at the head of the long table, who nodded slightly to him, which gave him enough confidence, so he continued:

"Let me start with the project report of the 'MiG' design bureau."

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It was late at night, and another secret meeting was over, and Long Yun, who had left the venue, got on a helicopter arranged by the KGB as usual, and rose off to return to the Stavropol base with the roar of engines and blades.

Recently, every time I come to Rostov for a conference, I will use a helicopter to pick up Viktor Rezenov, who needs to come from the front, which has become a common practice; However, like the Mi-24 last time, the model that came to pick him up this time became the Mi-28N, of course, the movement is still the same and noisy.

Returning to Stavropol from Rostov overnight, in the dark night when a cold crescent moon hung in the dark night, Long Yun looked around from the front seat of the gunship with good visibility, and then looked at the starry sky in the distance.

Raising his hand and yawning a few times, he wanted to take this time to flip through the text folder in his hand, but he couldn't do so because of the light control of the night flight.

When you think about the conclave that has just ended, the hours of discussion are worth it, as is the short dinner that goes on in between. Gathering with some commanders of the Southern Theater of Operations of the Soviet Union gave Long Yun a good opportunity to introduce ideas and collect feedback, which was also of great benefit to the planning of the next step of the Southern Theater. However, he was still very wise not to talk much about the next arrangements for "anti-radiation operations" and the new MiGs that will be put into operation in Transcaucasia, and this matter must be kept strictly secret before it is actually put into practice.

At the secret meeting, Tong Guò talked and listened to the words and looks, and of course, with the help of omniscient consciousness snooping, Long Yun knew that the commanders present were indeed jealous of the Americans' integrated battlefield command and dispatch capabilities, and they also knew very well that they could not be suppressed by using anti-radiation missiles alone, so they were worried about the next stage of the battle plan, which was also a completely reasonable reaction.

Unlike the ground guidance and centralized command of the Red Empire's VVS and PVO combat systems, the Americans' complete air battlefield command system, although it costs a lot and has not been able to fully play a role in the European battlefield, it has to be said that it is still quite efficient, flexible and resilient.

Looking at the current strategic situation in the Caucasus, since it has become an offensive in the Warsaw Pact and a defense in NATO, the confrontation between systems has suddenly become more acute.

For the Soviet Air Force and the Territorial Air Defense, which are highly dependent on the ground guidance network and the air command platform as an auxiliary tool, the number of special aircraft such as early warning aircraft has always been relatively scarce, and it is difficult to ensure the timely follow-up and seamless coverage of the ground guidance nodes in the rapid advance of the ground offensive, which will affect the combat effectiveness of the front-line fighters in a considerable distance. On the other hand, the NATO Air Force, the integrated air command system can enter the battlefield at any time, provide air situation information and unified battlefield dispatch to all aircraft in the air, and the important nodes of this command system are far away from the line of fire and will not be threatened by missiles such as R-27P/EP.

In contrast, once the two sides really fight with anti-radiation missiles, and fighter planes no longer rely on radar to carry out operations, whoever can ensure the operation of the battlefield command system will have a huge advantage of almost "one-way transparency," which will naturally have a decisive impact on the outcome of the battle.

At present, although the Americans have not been hurt by the sudden attack of anti-radiation missiles, their air power has not been damaged, and such a first-class air force in terms of quantity and quality is indeed a huge stubborn rock on the southward journey of the Red Air Force. However, as mentioned at the operational meeting before, Long Yun has already taken some countermeasures against this extremely complicated and uncertain situation, and his thinking is actually very straightforward, that is, to make up his mind on the early warning fuselage, a key node in the battlefield command system of the US Air Force.

With regard to the US E-3A, E-8 and other early warning aircraft loitering on the side of the battle line, the conventional fighter assault tactics may not be able to do anything, but if we change the operational thinking, this problem is actually not difficult to solve.

What if such a fighter could evade detection by NATO's air situation monitoring system?

Thinking of this, Long Yun, who was deeply sleepy, closed his eyes and planned to rest for a while on the journey, he closed his eyes in the rhythmic sound of the helicopter's paddle blades, but at the same time, he was recalling the project report sent by the MiG Design Bureau to the 237th regiment, which briefly introduced some of the bureau's technical explorations in fighter radar stealth, including a low-detectability project verification aircraft based on the MiG-29.

At that time, when he took the report in his hand, although the wording of the design bureau was a bit vague and the relevant numbers were not very complete, Long Yun's eyes still lit up after reading it.

Judging from the rough number given in the materials, this project verification aircraft improved from the MiG-29, after adopting a more comprehensive radar stealth design, the forward RCS of the whole aircraft has been greatly improved, and the RCS in the X-band has been reduced from about three square meters of the prototype to less than 0.1 square meter, which is converted into a radar detection range, which is only about a quarter of the original.

A quarter of the radar detection range, what kind of concept is this?

If a qiē shun lì, the MiG-29N, a radar stealth fighter with a tentative designation, will soon appear in the vast skies of the Caucasus. (To be continued......)