Chasing three B-1B bomber formations without fighter escort is simply a very easy task for the J20 stealth fighter.
Due to the constraints this time, the red side's J20 formation also did not have early warning aircraft support. After all, for fixed-wing early warning aircraft like the KJ-500, it is very dangerous to fly with the J20 formation over the green side's control area.
Although there are not many radars available in the Green Side's control area now, a slow, non-stealth early warning aircraft swaggers across the entire Green Side's control area. After all, there is an element of gambling involved.
Without the support of the KJ-500 early warning aircraft, the red team's J20 only has a smaller radar detection range, but it is more than enough to deal with the non-stealthy B-1B. At worst, it needs to continue to move forward to follow and lock after launch, unlike the situation with the support of the early warning aircraft.
You can launch it and leave it alone, then turn around and evacuate immediately.
Just a few minutes later, the blue team's 12 B-1B Lancer bombers were dead on the spot.
As for Miyajima, the blue team immediately took off a mixed formation of fighter jets and early warning aircraft to rush to the accident site. However, it was a full 2,000 kilometers from Miyajima to the combat airspace. Even if all the blue team fighter jets turned on afterburners and flew at supersonic speeds, they would still have to fly at supersonic speeds.
It takes about an hour to arrive, not to mention taking off which also takes a while.
After the red team's J20 formation attacked the blue team's Lancer bomber formation, it was not willing to fight. It was not even interested in the blue team's early warning aircraft more than 200 kilometers away. It turned around and left, not willing to fight at all.
The J20, with its stealth performance, took full advantage of its greatest advantage and quickly disappeared from the radar of the blue airborne early warning aircraft.
Regarding the sneak attack by this kind of stealth fighter, the blue side could only sigh in despair, as there was nothing they could do about it.
Wen Zhaohui in the blue command post still has the last glimmer of hope.
The losses are already before our eyes.
The 12 B-1B bombers account for one-seventh of the number of blue bombers of this type.
The air battle lasted less than fifteen minutes, and the entire army was wiped out and fell into the sea.
This was a disastrous failure, there is no doubt about it.
It is impossible to reverse the situation.
The only thing that can gain a little bit of bargain is the one-third of the AMG-158C stealth anti-ship missiles that have been launched.
If these missiles can sink a destroyer, even a frigate, at least they won't return empty-handed.
It seems impossible to sink the red side's aircraft carrier.
As long as these stealth anti-ship missiles are found approaching, the entire aircraft carrier formation will use full firepower to protect high-value targets like the aircraft carrier.
The red side's shield ship system is capable of detecting stealth missiles, it's just a matter of distance.
The AMG-158C stealth anti-ship missile is a new model. Can the red team intercept them all?
This requires a question mark.
Similarly, Li Zheng also fell into silence in the Red Army's Joint Staff Command Post.
Whether the aircraft carrier formation can withstand the attack is another matter. It mainly depends on the landing craft groups currently located near the coastline of the green team's control area.
The difference from the aircraft carrier formation is that there are not as many destroyers responsible for air defense in the formation there, and most of them rely on the shore-based air defense system located at the rear.
Of course, after learning that Miyajima's B-1B formation had taken off, Li Zheng had already made corresponding deployments for each fleet and shore-based anti-missile forces.
A killer anti-missile missile newly developed by the red team has been loaded into the launcher, waiting for the arrival of the AMG-158C stealth anti-ship missile, which is known as the blue team's most powerful.
The key to dealing with AGM-158C anti-ship missiles is discovery!
Detect early!
The sooner this thing is discovered, the more warning time there is.
Although the AGM-158C has strong stealth capabilities and has a very concealed flight path, it can fly close to the ground and the sea.
But that doesn't mean it won't be shot down.
AGM-158C is very invisible to ordinary radars. The frontal radar reflection cross-section is said to be only 0.1 square meters (the Tomahawk is 0.5 square meters), but it is not that it cannot be detected, it is just that the distance is closer.
In order to achieve a long range, the missile chooses to cruise at medium altitude before discovering the target. The air resistance at this altitude is small, but it flies high and is easily detected by the meter-wave radar on our destroyer.
The eight-eye antenna on the 052D has a detection range of up to 300 kilometers, and the "fly swatter" radar on the 052DL has a longer detection range.
Of course, meter wave radar is more susceptible to interference. The red team also needs other auxiliary methods to detect AGM-158C. For example, long-endurance drones, fighter jets, and early warning aircraft can use infrared, photoelectric, millimeter wave, decimeter wave radar, and terahertz radar.
Detection in other ways.
Especially for terahertz radar, its attenuation is relatively large in the dense atmosphere at low altitudes, but its detection range is very long in the thin atmosphere at mid-to-high altitudes, and it has strong countermeasures against AGM-158C.
Once discovered, these subsonic targets with low maneuverability can be easily shot down.
If the AGM-158C is forced to fly at low altitude and sea skimming throughout the whole journey, its maximum range will be greatly compressed.
Unmanned aerial vehicles and radar are precisely the strengths of the red side.
While the blue B-1B bomber group launched the AGM-158C, two of the three J20 formations in each formation did not participate in the attack on the B-1B. They just turned on the airborne radar and started
Searching for traces of AMG-158C.
The most feared thing about flying close to the sea is high-altitude airborne radar, such as the Harpoon anti-ship missile. It also flies close to the sea, but under the surveillance of early warning aircraft, it is difficult to shield it.
The reason is that flying close to the sea and the ground uses the curvature of the earth to avoid radar detection. As an airborne radar on a high-altitude aircraft, an early warning aircraft does not have such worries. The radar waves can detect low-flying missiles.
The flight speed of the J20 itself is not slow, at least not slower than the AGM-158C, a Mach 0.8 subsonic stealth missile.
Therefore, when the B-1B launched the AGM-158C, it was quickly discovered by the radar of the J20 fleet that came to raid.
The red side's air finger understands this very well, so two more J20s are added to each formation. Their mission is not to attack, but to provide early warning.
Utilize the J20's stealth performance, go forward to the B-1B attack formation east of the green control area, and monitor the traces of the AGM-158C stealth anti-ship missile in advance, through the data link and the rear early warning aircraft, shore-based radar and other equipment
to share.
Those AGM-158Cs were already being stared at by the red team before they flew past the green team's control area.
Soon, interceptor missiles were fired from the red side's sea-surface aircraft carrier formation and shore-based anti-missile system launch vehicles, and penetrated into the sky.
When the AMG-158C missile group has not yet entered the air defense network of the ships on the sea surface of the landing group, dozens of anti-missile interceptor missiles have already dived downward from high altitude, plunged straight into the sea, and headed towards those who were still flying leisurely close to the sea.
The anti-ship missile flew away, like a Tathagata palm falling from the sky, shooting down one AMG-158C anti-ship missile.
Seeing the high-altitude interceptor missiles that suddenly appeared from nowhere, everyone in the blue command post was dumbfounded.
"what happened!?"
The blue air force commander couldn't believe his eyes.
Seeing the signal disappearing on the screen, he almost went crazy on the spot.
"Where did the interceptor come from?!"
He knew that these anti-ship missiles would be intercepted, but how they were intercepted so early was simply unbelievable!