Because Ding Zhennan was sleeping and resting during the flight, he received a war report from the Slan Garage Command until the next morning, after he returned to the front line command.

Overall, the battle from the night of the 23rd to the early morning of the 24th was full of drama.

As mentioned earlier, the first batch of fighter jets dispatched by the Newland Expeditionary Air Force were to intercept bombers, but they encountered the Imperial Air Force's escort fighter jets. Because they were too far away from their early warning aircraft, they did not find the oncoming escort fighter jets in time. All the Newland Expeditionary Air Force lost a lot in the first round of battles. Almost all of the dozens of heavy fighter jets dispatched were shot down and they had not completed the interception mission.

However, this is just the beginning.

Given the situation at that time, the commander of the Newland Expeditionary Air Force had been prepared for a long time and did not expect to defeat Liang Xia's air force's offensive operations in the first round of battle.

In any case, Liang Xia’s combat aircraft deployed in Slan by the Liang Xia Air Force several times that of the Newland Expeditionary Air Force.

Even if the bombers deployed on the local area are not considered and only using the tactical aviation forces on Slan, Liang Xia's air force can crush the Newland Expeditionary Air Force.

To this end, the commander of the Newland Expeditionary Air Force deployed a second air defense line.

Behind the F-15C/D aircraft group, about 100 kilometers ahead of the early warning aircraft, is a fleet of 60 F-16C/D air combat aircraft.

In addition, the second E-3B has also been launched, and it is located northwest of Trivan.

In other words, after the F-15C/D aircraft group that performed the interception mission was defeated, the Newland Expeditionary Air Force was still able to organize dozens of fighter jets to conduct air defense operations.

The key is that these F-16C/Ds can use medium-range air-to-air missiles.

Although it is not the latest AIM-120A, the range of the AIM-7F "Sparrow" missile is tens of kilometers, at least there is no problem of not being able to fight back.

With two E-3Bs providing support, combat efficiency will definitely be guaranteed.

Of course, after the Imperial Air Force's escort fighter jet accelerates forward, the distance between it and its early warning aircraft will be widened, and the support it will inevitably weaken.

Here, there is another very critical factor.

In the battle with the F-15C/D aircraft fleet, most of the "War-11B" that came out used up all medium-range missiles, and their over-range air combat capabilities are definitely not as good as before.

Then, after encountering the F-16C/D aircraft group, you will soon enter the fighting air combat stage.

Fighting itself is a masterpiece of light fighters like F-16C/D. In air combat, the thrust-to-weight ratio of the third-generation light fighter is not lower than that of the heavy fighter. Therefore, in terms of traditional weakness, that is, energy maneuvering, light fighters do not suffer any losses.

Whether it is the Imperial Air Force's "War-10" or the Newland Air Force's F-16, the ability to engage in combat air combat during the design stage is particularly emphasized. The F-16C/D is also the first light fighter designed completely according to the theory of energy maneuverability. The performance of some aspects exceeds that of the "War-10". After all, the "War-10" considers multi-purpose performance in the design stage, so there must be trade-offs, such as improving the structural strength of the fuselage.

To be honest, the F-16 is the third-generation fighter with the strongest combat capabilities, and the early A-grade ones are the best.

The reason is also very simple. The F-16A is a very simple air-optimal fighter that does not consider multi-purpose at all. In the later model, the ground strike and other tasks were added to the ground strikes starting from the C-type, and the aircraft was strengthened to adapt to new combat needs.

As a result, the empty weight of the first few batches of Type C was nearly 1 ton more than Type A, and the subsequent batches increased more.

Of course, the air combat performance of the C type is still very outstanding if the internal oil and ammunition is appropriately reduced. It is not until the depth improvement of the type-friendly fuel tank is installed that the maneuverability of the F-16 will be significantly reduced. At least during the war, the F-16 was one of the best fighter jets with the best fighting performance.

Given the situation at that time, the sudden "War-11B" aircraft group was likely to be hit by the F-16C/D aircraft group.

The key is that the Imperial Air Force's "Finger-8C" did not keep up.

As mentioned earlier, in order to deal with the assault F-15C/D, the escort fighter accelerated forward and then continued to fly northwest, that is, in the direction of Trifan. Even though the two "Finger-8Cs" had turned to follow up, the speed was too slow and they did not keep up with the pace of the fighter.

Because the maximum RCS value of F-16C/D in air combat loading state shall not exceed 10 square meters and the front is between 3 and 5 square meters, even in an ideal state, the detection distance of "Finger-8C" to F-16/CD will not exceed 450 kilometers, generally around 400 kilometers.

At that time, the two "Finger-8C" were more than 500 kilometers away from the nearest F-16C/D formation.

The result is that "Finger-8C" does not find those F-16C/D.

In addition, the distance between the "War-11B" aircraft group is not very close to F-16C/D, exceeding 150 kilometers.

This means that the fire control radar of "War-11B" is also unable to detect F-16C/D.

It must be said that the Newland Expedition Air Force has very good tactical qualities.

In order to avoid early exposure, these dozens of F-16C/Ds all use dual-machine formations, and are densely formed. The long aircraft leads flying in the front and the wingman follows in the rear. The distance between the distance is only a few dozen meters and the height difference is only a few meters, so as to minimize the detection distance of enemy aircraft radars.

For light fighters like F-16C/D, the fire-controlled radar of the "War-11B" is only about 120 kilometers of detection distance.

In addition, E-3B has long discovered the assault "War-11B" fleet, that is, the detection distance of E-3B against "War-11B" will definitely not be less than 400 kilometers, and can exceed 500 kilometers under ideal conditions, while the distance between the "War-11B" and the nearest E-3B is less than 300 kilometers.

What's even more terrible is that because "Finger-8C" follows behind and shows bravery in the battle ahead, after defeating the F-15C/D aircraft group, dozens of "Fighter-11B" all turned off the fire control radar and prepared to use the radar after "Finger-8C" discovers the enemy aircraft.

Obviously, this is exactly the same as when dealing with F-15C/D before, just changing positions.

At that time, 60 F-16C/Ds had dispersed and were preparing to encircle and annihilate the rapid assault "War-11B" fleet, and on the front, there were only 12 aircraft in front of the E-3B.

This arrangement is related to the AIM-7F "Sparrow" missile.

To put it bluntly, the performance of the "Sparrow" missile is too poor and the hit rate is extremely low, so the pilots of the F-16C/D are more willing to use the AIM-9L "Sparrowsnake" fighting missile, so they have to take advantage of maneuvers, such as the rear half of the enemy plane.

The AIM-9L is the first fighting missile of the Newland Air Force with omnidirectional attack capabilities. In theory, it can attack on the oncoming enemy aircraft. However, in actual use, in order to improve the hit rate, it is still necessary to launch missiles at the rear of the enemy aircraft, that is, the tail-launched missile with the strongest infrared radiation.

For this reason, you can only go around from both sides.

In fact, leaving only a small number of fighter jets to face the enemy head-on, allowing more fighter jets to maneuver to grab positions is also the basic tactics of large aircraft group air combat.

As expected, the "War-11B" fleet will be defeated, and more than 40 "War-11B" aircraft are likely to be wiped out.

But, something really happened!

This accident came from the Vanluo Air Force.

According to the battle report sent by the Slan Garage Command, about 15 minutes after defeating the F-15C/D fleet, the fighter fleet of the Van Luo Air Force arrived.

Almost 100 F-4E heavy fighters!

What's bad is that these fighter jets are divided into several large formations, each formation has a size of about 20 aircraft, which is one brigade.

As a result, it was discovered by "Finger-8C" 500 kilometers away.

Subsequently, the "War-11B" that came out received a warning from "Finger-8C" and activated the fire-controlled radar. When searching for the Fanluo fighter, it found the closer F-16C/D. More importantly, the "Finger-8C" in front adjusted the working mode of the radar in time, reducing the scanning angle of the radar beam by half, which was equivalent to doubled the unit power and increasing the detection distance by dozens of kilometers.

It is precisely because "Finger-8C" discovered the F-16C/Ds that were encircled from both sides in time.

The battlefield situation became clear, and the advantages of the Newland Expedition Air Force disappeared immediately.

Of course, the front-line commander of the Imperial Air Force also adjusted his tactics in time, such as allowing the former "War-11B" aircraft fleet to take advantage of its speed advantage and assault Newland early warning aircraft.

As for the location of the Newland early warning aircraft, it is provided by a large electronic reconnaissance aircraft accompanied by the "Finger-8C" activity.

Although only the general direction was measured and no accurate distance parameters were obtained, F-16C/D could be encircled from both sides, which was enough to prove that E-3B was not too far away. It must be within the combat radius of "War-11B". Even if the distance parameters were not obtained, it would not have much impact.

As the distance is shortened, the E-3B can be detected by the radar of the "War-11B".

More than 40 "War-11B" sprints at full speed are by no means a joke.

Even if these fighters don’t have a few KK-12A left, as long as they are close enough, they can beat the early warning aircraft down even if they use machine guns. If they really get red in their eyes, even if the shells are used up, the pilot may fly the fighter and directly hit the early warning aircraft.

What's more serious is that there are only 12 F-16C/Ds facing each other head-on!

As for the F-16C/D that surrounds both sides, even if the ammunition is sufficient and the acceleration performance is excellent, it may not be able to catch up with the "Battle-11B" that sprints at full speed.

The result is obvious that the E-3B that was ahead immediately turned to avoid after being threatened.

However, the flight speed of the early warning aircraft is less than 900 kilometers per hour, and the "War-11B" can exceed Mach 2 after completing the acceleration.

As for the 12 F-16C/Ds facing each other head-on, even if they are intercepted with "Sparrow", they cannot shoot down all "War-11B".

Then, the E-3B behind had to turn to avoid it.

In order to deal with the "War-11B", the Newland early warning aircraft had to issue orders to the Vanro fighter jets, allowing those bulky second-generation aircraft to intercept the "War-11B".

Simply put, the scene suddenly became completely out of control.

The situation is different on the Imperial Air Force side.

Although the main force of air combat is heavy fighter jets such as "War-11B", due to production capacity limitations, not all troops can obtain heavy fighter jets.

In fact, after the outbreak of the war, the Empire was unable to resolve the capacity bottleneck of "War-11B", or the Imperial Air Force did not have the motivation to improve the production efficiency of "War-11B". The reason is very simple. The "War-11C/D" that has been fully upgraded in configuration has been designed. The former is a multi-purpose heavy fighter that retains air combat capabilities, while the latter is an air-optimal fighter that has comprehensively strengthened air combat capabilities. Both are equipped with active phased array radars. The latter is also equipped with a comprehensive photoelectric detection system, and the air combat capability is several times higher than that of "War-11B". After completing the acceptance test, these two improved "War-11" will be put into production and become the main fighter before the "War-20A" is officially put into service.

According to the Imperial Air Force's plan, the early models will also be improved at the C/D level.

That's why many front-line combat units of the tactical aviation corps are equipped with "War-10B".

Strictly speaking, the air combat capability of "War-10B", especially the over-visual range air combat capability, is stronger than the "War-11B", and is mainly equipped with passive phased array radar.

Although after solving the technical difficulties of miniaturization, the Imperial Air Force has no longer developed passive phased array radars, especially the fire-controlled radars of fighters, all of which are in line with the active phased array radars. The "War-10B" has thus become the only fighter aircraft equipped with passive phased array radars in the Imperial Air Force, in terms of performance, passive phased array radars must surpass traditional Doppler radars in terms of detection distances or multi-target combat capabilities.

If you want to say it, "War-10B" is a little smaller.

Because it is a light fighter, the size of the head radar cover or the curb weight of the radar are far inferior to that of the heavy fighter, and the performance is limited. If it is a heavy fighter, it can only expand the antenna size and enhance the transmission power to greatly improve the performance of the radar. Take the fighter of the "War-11B" level for example. If you replace it with a passive phased array radar, the maximum detection distance can be increased to more than 400 kilometers for the target of RCS of 5 square meters, and the tracking distance can reach 150 kilometers.

Of course, thanks to the passive phased array radar, the "War-10B" has obtained an over-visual-range air combat capability that is no less than the "War-11B".

Compared with "War-11B", the biggest flaw of "War-10B" is actually the short combat radius.

With three large secondary fuel tanks installed, using 2+4 air combat loading, the combat radius of the "War-10B" is only 1,200 kilometers, which is 300 kilometers shorter than the "War-11B" with no secondary fuel tanks and two additional medium-range air-to-air missiles. If 2 medium-range air-to-air missiles are added, the combat radius will be shortened to within 1,000 kilometers. Only by 3 secondary fuel tanks and 2 fighting missiles can the combat radius reach 1,500 kilometers.

This is true, the Air Force frontline commanders generally allow the "War-10B" to perform combat theater air defense missions, which are used to protect important military bases such as airports. If they are performing offensive missions, the "War-10B" often covers early warning aircraft behind heavy fighters, and acts as a reserve force.

Usually, the Air Force will also dispatch tankers, so the "War-10B" left behind can be more convenient for air refueling.

This time is no exception.

Behind the "War-11B" aircraft group are 32 "War-10B" divided into four formations, two of which are responsible for covering early warning aircraft and electronic reconnaissance aircraft, and the other two formations are slightly ahead, and have begun to accelerate before that, shortening the distance with the heavy fighter formation.

According to typical air combat tactics, the main task of the 16 "War-10B" of these two formations is to provide cover for "War-11B".

Because the distance is too far, E-3B did not find these "war-10B".

By the time the distance was shortened, both E-3Bs had turned to avoidance and were still commanding and guiding the Fanluo fighter jets. Therefore, even if the "War-10B" was discovered, they might not be able to warn their fighters in time, let alone commanding the already messy F-16C/D to fight.

In addition, these "battle-10Bs" are all in "full blood" state, and all have 4 KK-12As!

This is definitely not a good thing for dozens of F-16C/Ds that are encircled from both sides.

That is, when attacked by "War-10B", most F-16C/Ds failed to complete the task of attacking "War-11B", and they were unable to prevent "War-11B" from assaulting at full speed.

There is no doubt that the battle has ended here.
Chapter completed!