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    It was still two salvos, passing through the tactical target assigned by the early warning aircraft at the rear. Fire continued to flash under the wings, and the missiles flew out.  【High quality update.】

    The Su-27k fighter jets responsible for the attack mission continue to fly at ultra-low altitude. As long as they get close to a distance of 300 kilometers, they can launch missiles under their wings.

    For the pilots of F-14 fighters, they are now faced with a choice. If they attack the opponent's escort fighters first, then those attacking groups will break through their own defense lines. When they took off, they only carried two immortal bombs.  Bird missiles, and the rest, should be replaced by aim-120 missiles. After all, the hit rate of Phoenix missiles against high-mobility targets is not high, and the Sparrow has also fallen behind.

    The Phoenix missile underwent a mid-term improvement in the 1990s and replaced the solid circuit. However, its design was outdated after all, and its huge size and weight made it impossible for the carrier aircraft to perform high-overload maneuvers.  Come, moreover, the phoenix can only be carried by a tomcat.  Therefore, the United States is more inclined to improve the aim-120 so that it can reach a longer range.  Moreover, although the Phoenix has a longer range, various problems such as identification of friend or foe have prevented the performance of this long-range missile from being fully utilized.

    The American Tomcat fighter squadron has forgotten a very important thing. In an air battle, attacking the opponent's early warning aircraft is always the most important thing. However, Iraq's carrier-based early warning aircraft is two hundred kilometers behind, and Saudi Arabia's  The AWACS aircraft was four hundred kilometers away. They could not surpass the Iraqi fighter planes and directly attack the AWACS aircraft.

    After the Su-27k fighter jets flying at ultra-low altitude avoided the first round of strikes from the Tomcat fighters, although one was shot down, they continued to fly forward. At this time, they.  It was as if they were like paramecia that were not afraid of death, without consciousness. Now, what they needed was this fearless spirit.

    Two e-2 early warning aircraft were constantly monitoring, and at the same time, their own fighters were mobilized to intercept. However, the Tomcat fighters had already flown within the attack range of the opponent's escorting fighters.  Once the two sides start fighting, it is not easy to withdraw.

    The covering Su-27k fighters commanded by Leyer pounced on the Tomcat fighters and began to fire their own medium-range bombs.

    Sudden.  The two Su-27k fighters flying at ultra-low altitude below turned on their afterburners and began to climb quickly.

    Are the Iraqis about to launch an attack?  At this time, they are still nearly 400 kilometers away from their own aircraft carrier formation!  When did they have anti-ship missiles with such a long range?  Could it be another Soviet weapon?  However, only granite missiles can reach such a long distance, right?  Just that missile.  It is impossible to mount it on the Su-27k fighter plane. To be precise, that kind of missile does not have an air-launched version.

    The conductor on the American early warning aircraft hesitated, but he didn't notice.  At this time, my plane is less than 300 kilometers away from the other party!

    Iraq does not have long-range air-to-air missiles, otherwise, in the battle just now.  Why not use long-range air-to-air missiles at long range?

    He forgot, ten years ago.  Iraq has used long-range air-to-air missiles to attack early warning aircraft.

    It’s just that at that time, the carrier aircraft was a MiG-25. The MiG-25, with its considerable altitude and speed, would provide the missile with a sufficient initial velocity and increase the missile’s range.

    It is impossible for the MiG-25 to take off from the ship. Although the radome on the nose of the Su-27k is large, it cannot provide guidance information for the missile three hundred kilometers away.

    However, early warning aircraft can!  The Iraqi early warning aircraft behind them were already providing data to the two aircraft. What was mounted under the wings of the two aircraft was not a thick anti-ship missile with a titanium alloy shell, but a new type that was relatively slender.  missile.

    This kind of missile is a new missile specially designed to attack early warning aircraft using a ramjet engine that has a longer range than the R-33. In later generations, after a long period of development, Russia introduced it to the international market under the name ks-172.  Now, this kind of missile has fallen into the hands of Iraq. After several years of development, this kind of missile, which is specially used to attack early warning aircraft, has entered the sequence of Iraqi air weapons.

    However, the maneuverability of this missile is not good, so it is OK for attacking slow early warning aircraft, but it is not so suitable for attacking flexible fighter jets. Moreover, it mainly uses anti-radiation seekers now.

    After reaching an altitude of three thousand meters, the two Su-27k aircraft each launched the two ultra-long-range missiles they carried. At this time, they were only 250 kilometers away from the American early warning aircraft.

    It was true and false. In the formation of attacking ships, two aircraft specially designed to act as early warning aircraft actually appeared. Moreover, they launched missiles at a distance of more than 200 kilometers.

    This time, the U.S. early warning aircraft panicked.

      The propeller engine was spinning rapidly, and the pilot had fully opened the throttle, lowered the altitude, and performed an S-shaped maneuver, hoping to avoid such missiles.  In fact, they don't know, they just need to turn off the radar.

    This is an anti-radiation seeker, not an active radar seeker.  Although the Soviets were in the final development stage, it was equipped with an active radar seeker. However, after experiments in Iraq, the effect was not as good as the passive seeker.

    The missile hit the body of the early warning aircraft, blasting a big hole, and the early warning aircraft staggered and fell into the sea.

    The aircraft carrier at the rear immediately continued to eject new early warning aircraft. They must keep early warning aircraft in the air to effectively monitor the fighters flying at ultra-low altitudes.

    "Catapult failure." The captain of the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier heard this sound depressedly. At the critical moment, the chain dropped again.  Moreover, this time it was not a slide failure, but a high-pressure gas tank failure. It had not been repaired for half an hour. At the same time, all four catapults were unusable.

    "The high-intensity ejection of dozens of aircraft just now made the mature catapults of the United States unable to support it. Of course, another reason is that the Kitty Hawk is old after all.

    This did not happen to the Washington. Another early warning aircraft that ejected and took off flew in the safe airspace while continuing to monitor the enemy aircraft.

    But, there is a five-minute gap in the middle, this five-minute gap.  That's Iraq's hope of victory.

    Because, at this time, the other Su-27k had already flown to a distance of 300 kilometers, and the Tu-22m bombers and the J-H-7 aircraft group had also arrived on the battlefield at this time.

    If the early warning aircraft are still there, they must have discovered the newly arrived ultra-low-altitude aircraft group, and now, during this period, the Iraqi Air Force has gotten closer to a dangerous distance.

    Two Su-27k fighter jets launched missiles.  Instead of returning, it continued to climb higher, received instructions from the early warning aircraft, and engaged in air combat with American fighter planes. This is also the benefit of the Su-27k.  This heavy fighter can be used as an air superiority fighter after throwing away its bulky missiles. Although it currently only carries two short-range missiles and two medium-range missiles, with luck, it can still  Kill the opponent's two planes.

    Just when the air battle was fierce.  The ballistic missile had already crashed from the sky. After an urgent high-speed left full rudder maneuver, the Kitty Hawk's captain was still frightened.  When the warhead fell into the water, the water column it splashed was more than twenty meters high, and the sound it caused hit the hull of the ship.  It sounds very scary, though.  It also confirmed one of their judgments.

    It is not that easy for this kind of ballistic missile to hit an aircraft carrier, because it lacks the last thing: final terminal guidance.

    After all, ballistic missiles are used to attack fixed targets. If you want to attack moving targets at sea, all anti-ship missiles have an active radar seeker on the front end, which is used to determine the final position of the target and modify itself.  route.  However, for these ballistic missiles that travel at more than ten times the speed of sound, it is no problem to install a radar on its head, but it needs a high-temperature-resistant shroud that can transmit radar waves, so there is almost no material that can be used.  .

    Therefore, before re-entering the atmosphere, it receives the satellite signal for the last time. It can only determine the possible location of the opponent according to the pre-designed algorithm, and then collide with it.

    Not all warships have such luck. The two largest aircraft carriers evaded it, and the cruiser with the next largest displacement also evaded it. However, an Arleigh Burke-class ship was hit by the huge energy.  The warhead penetrated the hull of the ship. Under such circumstances, it was a miracle that the hull did not break immediately.

    Moreover, the warhead did not hit the mk41 firing unit, otherwise it would definitely cause a huge explosion. However, the situation was not much better. The ammunition under the front naval gun was ignited. The damage control personnel took emergency action and did not put out the fire.  , finally, in the explosion of ammunition, the front bow was blown apart, seawater poured in, and the captain finally had to give the order to abandon ship.

    For air defense, as long as one missile slips through the network, it will cause a huge disaster.  Now, Iraq is only using ordinary warheads. If it were equipped with nuclear warheads, then the entire fleet would have been wiped out at this time.

    The air battle between the escort fighters had already begun. As the most powerful U.S. Navy, at this time, they actually felt a sense of panic that they had never experienced before.

    After the early warning aircraft took off, they immediately discovered that a new batch of fighter planes were flying in at ultra-low altitude. Judging from the number, they were definitely not carrier-based aircraft on the Iraqi aircraft carrier, but their land-based aircraft. However, their land-based aircraft  , how can there be such a long voyage?

    ?It is definitely not enough to rely solely on escorting fighter jets. Each Aegis warship is on high alert, ready to fight against the roaring saturation attack at any time.

    At the same time, the attack aircraft group released by the US aircraft carrier formation has also entered the long-range defense circle of the Iraqi aircraft carrier formation, and the first round of Tomahawk anti-ship missiles has also flown.

    Twenty Su-27k fighter jets escorting the Iraqi aircraft carrier formation immediately rushed forward, and the battle also started on the outside of the Iraqi aircraft carrier formation.

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