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: Accidental

The battle to intercept the J-11b aircraft group has not ended yet, and the battle to intercept the FBC-1c aircraft group in the north has begun.

This time, the first thing we arrived at was f-22a.

Four F-22a were sixty kilometers away, each sent an am-120d to six FBC-1cs. More than ten seconds later, eight F-15cs, twenty kilometers behind the F-22a fleet, also sent an am-120cs to three FBC-1cs to enhance intercepting firepower.

There is no need to deal with fbc-1c like j-11b.

More importantly, the main purpose of intercepting FBC-1c is not to shoot it down, but to prevent it from launching anti-ship missiles.

Faced with medium-range air-to-air missiles, j-11b has to maneuver to avoid, let alone the bulky fbc-1c. When the bomb is fully loaded, the maneuver of fbc-1c is even worse. To avoid incoming missiles, not only do you have to turn, but you have to throw the bombs and speed up and leave as soon as possible.

The interception operations of f-22a and f-15c have immediate results.

Shortly after the F-15c launched the missiles, twenty-four FBC-1cs successively launched the missiles they carried, dived and turned at the fastest speed, and returned at an altitude of less than one hundred meters.

What the US military did not expect was that the missiles fired by FBC-1c did not fly to Yuanshan, but to the coalition material transfer centers in Yangde, Tianyili, Quanchengli, Plateau and other places.

As E-3D discovered that FBC-1C was returning straight north, the US military realized that it was not a fighter bomber of the Chinese Navy aviation, but a fighter bomber of the Chinese Air Force.

Their target was not the fleet in Yongxing Bay, but the ground supply line of the Western Front Alliance.

This change immediately made Colonel Pitt busy.

It’s nothing to lose some materials, but the consequences of the Volunteer Army’s combat intentions are immeasurable.

What is even more urgent is that in addition to the twelve F-15cs and four F-22a that pursue the J-10a aircraft group, there are only four F-22a and eight F-15cs on the battlefield, and there are not many missiles left. If the second batch of attack aircraft group appears at this time, it will definitely not be able to intercept it in time.

Where is the second attack aircraft group?

Colonel Pitt waited for a long time when the second group of attack aircraft appeared.

This time, the enemy was discovered not by e-3d, but by e-2d patrolling in the East Korea Bay. The enemy planes were not over land, but over the ocean.

The twelve j-10a were only detected by e-2d when they were pulled up from an ultra-low altitude.

The distance is less than 250 kilometers, and the F-15c that took off urgently will definitely not arrive in time.

There were only four f/a-18f fighters that were able to enter the battle in time.

Although the f/a-18f is an air-controlling fighter of the US Navy, this carrier-based fighter amplified by the f/a-18c/d multi-purpose fighter is not suitable for air-control operations.

Compared with f-15c, especially compared with the "Golden Eagle" that has made mid-term life extension improvements, f/a-18f is much worse in speed, ceiling and agility. The only highlight of f/a-18f is that it can carry fourteen aim-120c under extreme conditions.

Is this a highlight?

In actual combat, no fighter carries ammunition in extreme ways.

This is especially true for carrier-based fighters who need to patrol several hundred kilometers from the aircraft carrier.

When performing patrol tasks, f/a-18f usually carries a secondary fuel tank on the main hanger on the inner side of the wing and the central hanger on the belly, and can only carry up to eight aim-120c and two aim-9x.

Even so, the bomb loading capacity of f/a-18f is amazing.

Because agility is too poor, when encountering high-mobile fighter jets such as j-10a, f/a-18f will not actively shorten the combat distance.

Compared with j-10a, the advantage of f/a-18f lies in the bomb load capacity.

The four F/A-18fs have thirty-two Aim-120cs, each of which can guide six missiles to attack six targets at the same time. J-10a can only carry four pl-12s while ensuring range, and twelve only have forty-eight medium-range air-to-air missiles, each of which can only attack four targets at the same time.

If the number of f/a-18f is comparable to j-10a, it is very likely to take the initiative before fighting.

Unfortunately, there are really too few four f/a-18fs.

After j-10a climbs up, it accelerates toward e-2dbi. Obviously, j-10a has been supported by early warning machines and knows the exact direction of e-2d.

When the four f/a-18fs turned to fight, they returned from the e-2d that took off on the "Washington".

In the aircraft carrier battle group, three aircraft carriers were launched at the same time, and each of them had four f/a-18fs in one minute. However, these fighters did not challenge the j-10a, but were used to strengthen the fleet's air defense.

While worrying about the Volunteer Army attacking the fleet, the US military also had to consider the threat to the fleet.

Compared with fleets, fleets are definitely more ideal targets for attack.

Four f/a-18f patrolling in the East Korea Bay did not contact j-10a. They sent two batches of aim-120c in a row to prevent j-10a from chasing e-2d, and then f/a-18f immediately turned to evacuate.

What the US military did not expect was that when J-10a avoided Aim-120c, he did not turn to Yuanshan, but to the outer sea.

Is the target of the Volunteer Army an aircraft carrier battle group?

Colonel Peter first thought of this possibility.

The strike fleet was just to force the coalition forces to concentrate their efforts to defend Yuanshan, causing the air defense network of the aircraft carrier battle group to leak.

Fortunately, when arranging air defense forces, Pitt did not count the aircraft carrier battle group.

It’s not that Pete doesn’t want to do this, but that the US Navy does not have fighter jets suitable for air defense operations, and mainly undertakes ground strike missions.

Although the early warning aircraft did not find the attack aircraft group, the threat was approaching and the US military still dared not take it lightly.

After the twelve f/a-18fs were lifted, four f/a-18fs were lifted onto the flight deck on each of the three aircraft carriers, and they were lifted onto the flight deck in five minutes.

At this time, the air defense power of the aircraft carrier battle group reached its peak.

According to the combat arrangement of the US Navy, each aircraft carrier has 32 f/a-18e/f fighter jets, of which 24 are f/a-18e mainly attacks against the ground, and only eight are f/a-18f mainly defense. Although f/a-18e can also perform air combat missions, its combat effectiveness is definitely not as good as f/a-18f.

Twenty-four f/a-18fs are able to intercept dozens of enemy aircraft.

The aircraft carrier battle group did not fight alone, and the twelve F-15cs that took off urgently had turned and were flying to the East Korean Bay.

If necessary, these twelve Air Force fighters can also provide cover for aircraft carrier combat groups.

Including the twelve F-15cs that took off in the last time, the US military can provide up to forty-eight air defense fighters to the aircraft carrier battle group within half a time.

Although the size of the volunteer army is not xiǎo, it is unlikely to deploy dozens of fighter jets in one attack.

The key is not whether there are so many fighter jets, but whether there are ways to guide so many fighter jets to attack.

Even the US military has the upper limit to investing 30 attack aircraft at the same time. The command system of the Volunteer Army is not perfect enough, and its investment capacity is definitely not as good as that of the US military.

Do the Volunteer Army really want to attack the aircraft carrier battle group?

Pete was a little suspicious. After all, after breaking through the outer air defense network formed by combat institutions, he had to break through the inner air defense network composed of air defense battleships to pose a threat to the aircraft carrier.

Without investing enough troops, it would not make any sense to attack the aircraft carrier battle group.

Theoretically, even if the escort is effective, at least forty fighter bombers like FBC-1c are required to reach the minimum standard of saturation strikes. Including the losses suffered during penetration, the force must be increased by 50%. Is the volunteer army capable of dispatching 60 FBC-1cs at the same time?

Eliminating the twenty-four FBC-1Cs that were intercepted before, it is a problem whether the Volunteer Army has so many fighter-bombers.

Without the ability to break through the air defense network of the aircraft carrier battle group, there is no need to attack the aircraft carrier battle group.

Colonel Pitt still believed that the target of the Volunteer Army was not the aircraft carrier battle group, but the transport fleet in Yongxing Bay.

To this end, he left the second batch of twelve F-15cs that took off urgently in the East Korea Bay and did not approach the aircraft carrier battle group eastward.

Because the e-2d that took off from the Washington turned after being threatened, Colonel Pitt also asked an e-2d patrolling south to accelerate northward to fill the early warning void over the East Korean Bay.

This deployment was rewarded soon.

Behind the j-10a aircraft group, there is indeed an extremely low-altitude aircraft group, and it is j-11b, or the su-30mk2 of the naval aviation force.

The aerodynamic appearance of the two fighters is exactly the same, and the radar anti-shè characteristics are almost the same.

Will these fighter jets also perform air-control missions as they did at the beginning?

The US air defense commander did not dare to make a bet and immediately dispatched twelve F-15cs to intercept.

As the second e-2d arrived at the patrol area, the situation on the battlefield became very clear.

In j-third group, and it is fbc-1c.

Both groups of aircraft entered at ultra-low altitude and made full use of the coastline as cover. They were discovered less than 150 kilometers away from Yongxing Bay.

It is definitely too late to intercept fighter jets.

Before the twelve F-15cs arrived at the place where they launched the shèaim-120c, the j-11b aircraft group launched the missiles, and then accelerated to climb up high, preparing to fight the f-15c in air.

Obviously, this batch of fighter jets not only carry anti-ship missiles, but also air-to-air missiles.

To enable the fbc-1c group to launch an attack smoothly, they have to entangle f-15c.

At this time, interception became a secondary problem.

e-2d locked up the anti-ship missiles launched by J-11b, confirming that these missiles were flying to Yongxing Bay and were expected to hit the transport ship within five minutes.

The second batch of F-15cs immediately accelerated their sprint and went to intercept the FBC-1c fleet that was about to launch the shè missiles.

However, the distance between the FBC-1c shè missiles was even longer. When they were still two hundred kilometers away from Yongxing Bay, they climbed up and then dropped anti-ship missiles at a height of 5,000 meters.

When the FBC-1c launched the shè missile, the J-11b aircraft group used the pl-12 to intercept the near F-15c aircraft group.

This time, the Volunteer Army's fighter jets did not get entangled with the US fighter jets, and then turned back after firing medium-range air-to-air missiles.

The attack was very concise and did not give the coalition forces too many opportunities.

As the fleet was about to be hit, the two F-15c fleets gave up interception operations one after another and instead locked in anti-ship missiles flying to Yongxing Bay.

Although the anti-ship missile's radar anti-shè strength is much lower than that of fighter jets, with a flight altitude of less than 100 meters, and the flight altitude of FBC-1c's anti-ship missiles is even less than fifty meters, under the direct guidance of the fighter's fire-control radar, the Aim-120c's interception efficiency against anti-ship missiles will not be too poor.

Even if it is not as good as the ground air defense system, it is much stronger than none.

At this time, e-3d intervened in the interception operation, allocated interception targets to the F-15c, and strived to shoot down more anti-ship missiles and reduce the pressure on the combat zone air defense system.

Two sets of thaad theater air defense systems and two sets of PAC-3 "Patriot" tactical air defense systems are also ready.

There are no air defense warships near the harbor, and transport ships can only rely on ground air defense systems deployed nearby.

At this moment, e-3d discovered a greater threat.
Chapter completed!