Donglu Xinhai, the 51st Special Mixed Fleet flagship, the "Baizhizhan" super aircraft carrier.

Before dawn, Li Shenzhi arrived at the commander's bridge.

Actually, he didn't sleep at all last night.

Just like a few days ago, the staff officer brought the breakfast. He took advantage of the opportunity to have breakfast and quickly looked through the telegram he received at night.

The counterattack on the mainland battlefield was very smooth and almost all goals were achieved.

The front line command was destroyed, and the Western Land Group combat forces showed almost zero subjective initiative after losing unified command. At least last night, the enemy's front line troops did not take decent actions and did not pose a threat to the Imperial army from beginning to end.

If there is any accident, it is the location of the Front Command.

The command train actually stopped inside the Volgograd station, and after the counterattack began, it did not leave the station.

Although the difficulty of bombing has increased, the final result has not changed.

After confirming the position of the command train, only about 5 minutes later, the closest "Hong-12A" arrived. In just half a minute, 12 short-range air-to-ground missiles using TV/infrared composite guidance and with independent attack capabilities were launched.

Because the station was too large, dozens of trains were stopped, and the explosion caused interference, and there was no way to identify the bombing results. So about 30 minutes later, the "Hong-12A" on the south side had arrived and launched 12 "Ship" missiles for additional bombing.

Even if the front-line command is not completely eliminated, the enemy's command system will definitely be paralyzed.

After finding the command train where the front line command was located, the two "H-12A" in the south carried out the bombing mission, while the two "H-12A" in the north were converted to perform the secondary mission.

Meanwhile, the feint operation carried out by the Air Force has begun as planned.

On the other side of the Dnieper River, the escort fighter jets that came out of the front were fighting with enemy planes around the early morning and successfully attracted the attention of the enemy.

The battle was very fierce.

It’s not that “War-11B” is not powerful, but that “War-11B” is too powerful.

Because the DPL-22D pulse Doppler radar equipped with the "War-11B" has a detection distance of fighter-sized targets at high altitudes and is close to 200 kilometers, and the KK-12A's head-on interception range is about 80 kilometers, so the "Finger-8C" responsible for providing support did not come forward and stayed in the south of the Crimean Peninsula, about 300 kilometers behind the escort fighter fleet.

This distance makes "finger-8C" almost a decoration.

Although in the battle behind, "Fing-8C" discovered that it was maneuvering to both sides many times, trying to encircle the enemy planes behind the escort fighter, and promptly warned the escort fighter, on the front, "War-11B" could only rely on itself and used fire-control radar to search for enemy planes that were coming from the north.

Obviously, this puts "War-11B" in a disadvantageous situation from the beginning.

Because it can rely on ground air defense radar and there is a complete command system behind it to support it, the enemy's air defense fighter jets have always received effective support.

In addition, the number gap between the two sides is also very huge.

The two squadrons have 16 "War-11Bs" opposite, with nearly 100 air defense fighters, of which more than 40 MG-31 and MG-29.

Fortunately, the MG-31 is an interceptor, while the MG-29 is a short-legged front-line fighter.

More importantly, there are indeed serious problems in the command system of Xilu Group.

So many air defense fighter jets arrived in batches and did not arrive at the same time, so they could not exert their military strength.

As the saying goes, two fists cannot beat four palms.

No matter how hard the "War-11B" can fight, it cannot defeat the enemy planes that arrive at the same time, several times that of its own.

The first thing we came to was not the MG-29 frontline fighter, but the MG-31 interceptor deployed in the rear.

Perhaps he was staring at the battle in the east, but he didn't expect that the Imperial Air Force would spend so much effort to launch operations in the direction of the Mo Sea at the same time. So it was not until the "War-11B" flew over the Dnieper River that these heavy interceptors, which were known as "the world's most advanced", were quickly launched.

As a result, the 24 MG-31s ​​divided into 3 batches failed to complete the climb before the battle.

For the interceptor, it is very fatal not to complete the climb in time.

The MG-31 is a typical high-altitude high-speed interceptor, with its advantage being that it launches an assault at a speed of nearly Mach 3 at an altitude of more than 20,000 meters.

At the height of air-battery fighter usually, the MG-31 has no advantage.

For example, at an altitude of 15,000 meters, the fastest speed of the MG-31 is only Mach 2.5, while the "War-11B" can fly to Mach 2.5 with a larger thrust-to-weight ratio.

In addition, the MG-31 is a heavy interceptor and has almost no ability to fight and fight.

Even if it can carry combat missiles like the R-60 and R-73, it only intercepts bombers at close range, rather than being used to fight fighters in air.

In fact, no interceptor was born for air combat.

All interceptors use fast in and out, as well as tactics of going high, often launching missiles tens of kilometers away, and then turning back. Because the probability of close combat is very low, some interceptors even cancelled their machine guns.

Before these more than 20 MG-31s ​​completed their climb, the distance between them and the "War-11B" fleet was shortened to 200 kilometers.

Perhaps worried about encountering "War-11B", the MG-31 launched the R-37 long-range air-to-air missile 100 kilometers away.

To be honest, this missile is the most worthy of showing off the MG-31.

The range of the R-37 exceeds 100 kilometers, while the KK-12A is only 80 kilometers.

In theory, the only ones that can fire against the MG-31 are the "War-9" that is also equipped with long-range air-to-air missiles, and the F-14 of the Newland Navy.

Faced with the MG-31 that launched missiles from more than 100 kilometers away and turned to evacuated, the pilots of the "War-11B" were gritting their teeth.

Unfortunately, I can only sigh in the air.

As for the effect of ultra-long-range interception, it is basically zero.

The R-37 targets bulky bombers, not agile fighters.

Although it has a range of more than 100 kilometers and can theoretically reach 180 kilometers, the maneuverability of the R-37 is not very outstanding, and the maximum overload at the end of the ballistic is less than 20G, so the fighter can get rid of this missile by just pulling out a high G maneuver.

The value of these more than 20 MG-31s ​​is actually forcing the "battle-11B" of two squadrons to disperse and avoid.

In addition, given the situation at that time, these MG-31s ​​were likely to search for and intercept bombers, but they did not receive assistance from the ground command center after they were launched.

The reason is also very simple: Xilu Group has not deployed large-scale early warning aircraft in this direction.

Although the air defense radar discovered the "War-11B" aircraft group and made accurate judgments, it did not detect the "H-9D" aircraft group that was still over the Mo Sea at that time. Therefore, even if it was speculated that the "War-11B" was an escort fighter, the position of the bomber could not be determined.

At most, the bomber can only be identified as being behind the escort fighter.

The MG-31's high-power fire control radar has a theoretical detection distance of only 300 kilometers for large targets such as bombers.

In fact, this is also the key to the "War-11B" aircraft fleet flying more than 300 kilometers in front of the "Fing-8C".

If the front distance of "War-11B" is not enough, the "Finger-8C" behind may be discovered and attacked by MG-31.

With the performance of "Battle-11B", it may not be able to catch up with MG-31.

However, this just reflects the serious problems with Xiluosha, or Xilu Group, in electronic warfare.

The "Finger-8C" was still searching around with radar behind the escort fighter. Even if it was covered by electronic reconnaissance aircraft throughout the journey, the electromagnetic radiation emitted was obvious and it could definitely be intercepted hundreds of kilometers away, and there was no problem that could not be detected.

Unfortunately, the Xiluosha Air Force did not arrange for the MG-31 to intercept.

Obviously, it is definitely not that the Xiluosha Air Force does not know the military value of large early warning command aircraft. After all, the Xiluo Group also has an air command platform with similar functions.

Judging from the situation at that time, it is very likely that the specific location of "Finger-8C" cannot be determined.

The Xiluosha Air Force intercepted the electromagnetic signal sent by "Finger-8C" and made accurate judgments. However, when it was disturbed, it was impossible to determine the signal source, that is, the specific direction of "Finger-8C", and even the distance was not accurate, so the interceptor was not arranged to intercept.

Don't forget that next to the early warning aircraft, there is an electronic reconnaissance aircraft dedicated to performing jamming missions.

Of course, the dispatch of 24 interceptors from 6 teams may also be related to this.

Simply put, it is because I can't figure out where the "Finger-8C" is, so I dispatched so many interceptors to launch an attack by chance.

In fact, this is also a common practice for the Xiluosha army to solve problems, simple and rough.

Because the MG-31 turned to retreat after launching the R-37 missiles more than 100 kilometers away, the "War-11B" aircraft group had to avoid the missiles they were fired as soon as possible. After the "War-11B" avoided the missiles, the MG-31 had withdrawn, so the two sides did not exchange fire, or the "War-11B" did not waste precious air-to-air missiles on these sub-threatening interceptors, and preserved sufficient combat power.

The next one to reach was the MG-29 of the Xiluosha Air Force Frontline Air Force.

There are also 6 formations, but only 20, of which 2 are 2 formations.

The first round of bye battle between the two sides started.

Although he did not receive direct support from "Finger-8C", and to be precise, he received a message from the early warning aircraft after encountering the MG-29, with the advanced fire control radar, "War-11B" still gained advantages in air combat, such as taking the lead in firing at enemy aircraft.

At this time, the problem of deploying the early warning aircraft backwards appeared.

The distance is too far, and when the "Fing-8C" detects the MG-29, the "War-11B" fire control radar has already discovered the oncoming enemy planes.

The first round of battle was to use medium-range air-to-air missiles to fire.

As for the result, there is no suspense.

The KK-12A is a fourth-generation medium-range air-to-air missile, which has the ability to be unavailable after launch. In addition to the usual inertial guidance, it can also be controlled by fighters through data links, so it has a high hit rate when firing at targets outside the sight range.

The R-27 used by the MG-29 is a third-generation semi-active radar-guided medium-range air-to-air missile.

As a result, in the first round of fights, more than 10 MG-29s were shot down by KK-12A, and the rest were all scattered.

As for the "War-11B", none of them were shot down by the R-27 because these missiles were not able to enter the self-guidance stage under the guidance of fighter jets.

In fact, even in the fighting stage, MG-29 did not take advantage.

It is not that the MG-29's mobility is not good enough, but that it has been broken up during long-range combat and has lost its initiative.

Only at this time did the "War-11B" suffer losses.

According to the Air Force's battle report, five "War-11B" were shot down in combat air combat, and they were all achieved by the R-73 fighting missiles launched by MG-29.

It must be said that this kind of missile is indeed very advanced.

The R-73 is the world's first combat missile with off-axis launch capability. The Xiluosha Air Force has always claimed that it is the best combat missile in the world.
To be continued...