Chapter 284： E-three early warning aircraft

F-4 takes off! Inside the Aomori base, piles of bloated F-4 fighter jets came out of the hangar, started their engines, and made preparations for takeoff.

Originally, after the F-15 fighter was equipped with the US military stationed in Japan, the F-4 fighter almost fell into the role of soy sauce. This kind of heavy fighter has limited performance and is not suitable for fighting with flexible fighters. Therefore, they have retreated. The second line, the original plan, was to use F-15s to gain air supremacy, and then follow up with F-4s to hit the rolling torrent of Soviet armor on the ground.

Therefore, the F-4 fighters are all mounted on the ground. Except for the auxiliary fuel tank and the two Sidewinder missiles for self-defense, the main mounts are various ground attack bombs and missiles.

But now, the F-15's collective squatting has forced the F-4 fighter to take the lead again. The ground crew hurriedly removed all kinds of bombs and replaced them with medium-range Sparrow missiles, which cost at least half an hour of precious time. time!

During this period of time, the fighter jets of the plaster flag that took off from Chitose Base were being abused by the 171st regiment of the Soviet Union. The pilots of the plaster flag felt despair again. Their fighter jets could not fight the MiG-23 at all. So flexible! Moreover, the other party launched the missile too quickly, so fast that they felt incredible! Even the F-15 pilots were extremely depressed.

Finally, the F-4 fighters with the sparrow missiles mounted in a hurry, rolled off the runway and took off. Just as they were just taking off and climbing, they received an order from the early warning aircraft: "Attention, the direction of Hokkaido, fly Get a MiG-25, 24,000 high, 2.5 speed!"

Attention, it can only be noticed. Such height and speed have exceeded the interception range of the F-4 fighter. The pilot of the F-4 fighter continued to turn on the afterburner while cursing the shamelessness of the Soviets.

Throughout the seventies, NATO was trembling under the deterrence of the MiG-25!

"The Aomori base is taking off a fighter plane. Judging from the climb speed, it should not be an F-15." On the MiG-31 interceptor at high altitude, Andre heard the radar operator in the rear cabin.

Almost after leaving the AWACS, they flew south while turning on the large radar at the front of the nose to scan the airspace on the opposite side. Just after flying over the original Kushiro-Rumoi boundary, the radar caught the situation in the south. , the Aomori base on the other side, the fighter plane took off!

If it is the F-15, thanks to the advantage of the thrust-to-weight ratio brought by the high-thrust engine, they can quickly climb at a high angle of attack, and now it is a battle, and the scrambled American fighter will definitely take off with the afterburner turned on. of! But now, the other side is slowly climbing, which is not the way the F-15 flies at all!

what happened? Andre is very strange. In the previous reconnaissance, he learned that the opposite Aomori base had 24 F-15s deployed. The air combat capability of this base is very strong, but now? The Americans did not use their F-15s, but sent F-4 fighters over?

too weird!

"Keep watching," Andrei said.

As the fighter planes fly fast, they will soon be able to detect air bases further south, such as the largest Yokota base!

Almost at the same time, the United States has also realized that a high-altitude MiG-25 has single-handedly killed it!

"Attention, a MiG-25 was found, attention, a MiG-25 was found!" There was a terrified voice from the radio.

Of course terrified! At this time, flying over Honshu Island is the most advanced equipment of the US Air Force, the E-3 early warning aircraft!

As a new generation of early warning aircraft of the US military, this aircraft is much more advanced than the original EC-121 early warning aircraft! The body of Boeing 707 is adopted, and the advanced AN/APY-1 S-band pulse Doppler radar with a diameter of nine meters is installed on the top. According to different combat conditions, the 360-degree azimuth circle can be divided into 32 sectors. Select the appropriate combination of working modes in each sector. The IFF system can interrogate more than 200 transponder-equipped air, sea and land targets in a single scan.

It can handle 400 targets at the same time, and command its own fleet to engage in combat. The distance to find ultra-low-altitude targets is more than 300 kilometers, and high-altitude targets have a range of 500 kilometers. This kind of strategic early warning aircraft can be worth it. Get on ten E-2s!

At the same time, the cost of this kind of early warning aircraft is high. Until now, the United States has deployed two E-3 early warning aircraft in the island country, belonging to the 961st Air Control Squadron.

In order to coordinate the operation, the U.S. military took off an E-3 early warning aircraft and flew back and forth over the otherwise relatively safe Honshu Island. They could not only monitor the planes in the sky, but also the vehicles on the ground if necessary. !

However, they are not safe. The personnel on the early warning aircraft clearly remember that the Soviet MiG-25 once killed an EC-121 early warning aircraft! At that time, although it was due to the carelessness of the personnel on the early warning aircraft, it was close to the sky over the strait, but the MiG-25's powerful altitude and speed, and the fast flight that could not be intercepted, was still the natural enemy of the early warning aircraft. It can be said that that thing is simply for hunting. Prepare to kill the early warning aircraft!

And now, a Soviet MiG-25 just swaggered in. What does he want to do? Is it for your own side?

"Quick, fly to the south!" the commander on the AWACS shouted No one is not afraid of the MiG-25.

Compared with the EC-121, the Boeing 707 body used by the E-3 early warning aircraft still has an advantage in speed. The maximum level flight speed can reach 850 kilometers per hour, which is also considered a high subsonic speed.

The four turbofan engines were fully powered, and the pilot, operating the huge E-3 early warning aircraft, quickly retreated south.

At the same time, the two accompanying F-4 fighters are also ready to use their own bodies to block missiles at any critical time.

At the same time, the MiG-31 interceptor just caught the target from the radar screen.

"It was found that a large target and two small targets were originally flying north. Now, they suddenly changed their course and flew south." The radar operator said: "That large aircraft has very strong electromagnetic radiation."

Large-scale flight, strong electromagnetic radiation, did you catch the big guy again?

Andre's eyes were suddenly full of fighting intent, since he found it, then kill it! (To be continued.) Enable new URL