The enemy's garrison positions have been clear, and Orillia has decided to attack the enemy forces on bridges and hub towns at the same time. Therefore, the air force is currently divided into three groups, each responsible for attacking different enemy garrison points.
Their air-to-surface missiles are prepared for tanks and armored vehicles that take more time to deal with by ground troops, and the drop-type wind direction correction spreader is really needed after tanks and armored vehicles have been destroyed, and the ground attack is blocked.
It will only be used during air support - mainly used to clear the ground and kill soft targets.
Like some fragile anti-aircraft vehicles and infantry units, when a cluster bomb explodes, the explosion can splash out and take away a large area.
"Ground guidance troops, we have arrived near the attack coordinate point, um...start circling and waiting. You can provide laser illumination to the main target and launch an attack at any time."
The guidance liaison officer on the ground gave orders to his teammates, asking them to set up instruments and aim three laser beams with different codes at the enemy's armored targets, and then responded: "Roger, guide the troops to start laser irradiation.
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"Launch attacks according to the corresponding frequency."
Wang Yu said in the team channel, while he unlocked the guidance head of an air-to-ground missile.
"The first attack, the target was an enemy tank, and it was hit..."
On the left screen, the constantly moving search cursor was quickly fixed on a point, and the missile locked the position of the laser. On Wang Yu's Hud, an inverted triangle was also used in the mountains not far away.
The symbol indicates that that is your goal.
"Lock the target and launch (Rifle)."
Wang Yu pressed the weapon release button, and an air-to-surface missile on the right rack was launched.
At the same time, he slightly pressed the lever to the right to prevent the fighter from tilting due to the imbalance of the mounts on both sides - at this time, he was too lazy to use trim, since he would have to launch the missile on the left pylon later anyway.
The missile disappeared from Wang Yu's field of vision, dragging a faint white smoke. After waiting for a while, the ground conductor's report sounded on the radio channel: "Hit! Hit! We gave the enemy a hard blow!"
This sentence immediately made Wang Yu feel like he was having a PTSD attack...
Fortunately, this was an air-to-ground missile. Wang Yu knew that the words of the ground guidance troops meant that the target had been killed. Otherwise, at other times, when he heard this communication, he really had to think about whether this meant that one missile would kill the missile.
My legs won’t bleed...
Then the ground guide immediately changed the target: "Code 1145, switch, the target is a rocket launcher; code 1919, switch, the target is an infantry fighting vehicle; code 1481, switch, the target is an infantry fighting vehicle."<
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So Wang Yu selected the air-to-ground missile on the left pylon, unlocked the missile again, and completed the process of locking and launching.
The second missile was launched.
After another moment of waiting, the missile hit the target again.
Beside Wang Yu, Luo Yu and Murong Lan were also repeating this process.
After the three of them destroyed all the ground-attack missiles, their ground attack mission was over.
"Very good, Ghost Squadron, there are no more targets for you to attack with missiles at the garrison point in front of us. Now we are going to start attacking. There is no need to continue attacking for the time being... You just act according to the mission requirements."
"Phantom received, we will continue to fly over this airspace to ensure air superiority."
At this moment, the first batch of enemy planes finally arrived belatedly.
"A new air target appears. It is the enemy's leading reconnaissance force. It is four Su-30s, bearing 175, sixty nautical miles away from your position. You immediately engage the invading enemy aircraft to ensure the safety of the airspace. Our ground forces are advancing.
,We cannot let them be disturbed at this time."
"Received, the ghost team is responsible for the attack... By the way, can you confirm, what is our attack order?"
"All non-friendly aircraft flying into the combat area are considered enemy aircraft, and you can attack at will."
The intelligence officer of the early warning aircraft said so.
"Received." Wang Yu replied, and then said in the team channel, "You also heard it, attack at will."
Random attack is actually a very interesting command. It means that the pilots do not need to determine the identity of the target or consider the consequences. The only thing they have to do is to use any weapons they can use to attack anything that appears in this airspace.
Even if a civilian airliner enters this area, it will be shot down mercilessly.
Although it is during the war, no civil airliner would fly into a war zone like this...
That's too far.
The remaining members of the Ghost Squadron repeated it, confirming the order to attack at will.
At this time, the four enemy planes that first appeared finally approached the airspace while climbing and accelerating, just as the Ghost Squadron was preparing to meet the enemy.
The enemy's speed is currently relatively slow, perhaps because they discovered that the Orillia Federation has many fighter planes in this airspace, so they decided to act cautiously.
After all, they have an early warning aircraft in the air this time. The Orillia pilots currently flying in the air can see through the radar warning system that the enemy has an E-3C early warning aircraft providing battlefield intelligence support to the enemy pilots.
In addition, friendly forces do not have electronic jammers, so the enemy should know the location of the Ghost Squadron clearly.
To put it simply, this battle was a head-on battle, with both sides going head-to-head, with attacks ranging from beyond visual range to within visual range.
Currently, the Phantom Squadron with its nose pointed at itself is regarded by the enemy as a major threat, so even if other fighters of the Orillia Federation Air Force have more or less entered an air combat posture - such as conducting ground attacks, the distance
As they were still relatively far away, the enemy did not use radar to lock on them and launch missiles - of course, it may also be because the Ghost Squadron started the attack first, so the enemy had to focus on these main opponents first.
Just when the Ghost Squadron was preparing to exchange missiles with the enemy, the early warning aircraft informed them of the mission progress: "The ground forces have successfully captured a railway bridge. The railway bridge is intact. All the enemies have been wiped out, and other troops have also
Attack smoothly, so we can entangle these enemies in the air and buy time for our battle."
"You don't need to tell us that we can do it too."
Soon, the Ghost Squadron began to exchange fire with enemy aircraft.
Although they are talking about firefights, they are more likely to launch missiles immediately after locking on the extreme distance...
I won’t talk much about the effect.
This is the characteristic of BVR combat, you have to taste it.
The overall process is roughly like this - both sides fire missiles and evade them, and after getting rid of the incoming missiles, they will continue to point the nose of the aircraft towards the enemy, then launch missiles again, and then enter evasive maneuvers again, so that the two sides will fight again and again.
The distance will gradually shrink until it is within sight distance.
And if no one is killed during this beyond visual range attack, it will inevitably enter a close combat.
Many times, after the two sides approach and enter the no-escape zone of the missile, an unlucky person will be knocked down by the missile. Therefore, after the two sides start a beyond-visual-range air combat, it is difficult to enter the combat mode.
BVR air combat is a relatively boring way of air combat compared to close combat.
Both sides repeatedly launched missiles, evaded, waited for the rapid radar warning to disappear, and then headed towards the enemy plane again to prepare to attack...
This is what the Ghost Squadron is doing now.
There are four enemy planes and three of them.
So this is an uneven game.
Of course, the Ghost - or Polaris Squadron, seems to have always been fighting with fewer enemies, so Wang Yu has already acquiesced that this kind of unbalanced battle is normal...
The first wave of attacks from both sides failed to achieve any effective results - since both sides launched missiles at the extreme range, only a slight adjustment of the course in this first round of exchange could make the missiles ineffective, so the enemy still remained at
Their altitude was high, and the Phantom Squadron's fighter planes did not lower themselves to avoid it.
But it is obvious that this situation will not last long. The two sides are still flying in opposite directions, and the close rate is very high. As time goes by, the two sides will enter a more exciting air combat session.
"Pay attention, the enemy fighters this time are better, not like the early fighters in the last interception battle."
Murong Lan gave a friendly reminder in the channel.
"You don't need to remind us. As long as the enemy can match our BVR, we know that these fighters are better." Wang Yu replied, "But the enemy's electronic warfare capabilities must not be outstanding. Let's not waste ammunition and try to interfere.
They locked onto and closed the distance - Ghost Squadron, all turned on radar jamming."
"Understood, radar interference is on."
When the three fighter planes of the Ghost Squadron were locked by the enemy, they immediately implemented countermeasures. They turned on radar jamming, which prevented the enemy planes from easily locking on themselves. Instead, they could rely on better radars to lock on them.
Enemy aircraft.
Wang Yu gave a reminder, although he felt that this reminder was unnecessary: "Determine the target and do not repeat it. It is best to shoot them down at the same time."
"Understood." Luo Yu and Murong Lan replied.
Kill three enemy fighter planes first, and then take care of the remaining one easily.
Wang Yu and the others established a lock on the enemy aircraft. The distance bar representing the missile attack range on the helmet display changed with the movement of both parties. Three key points were also marked next to the dynamic distance bar to indicate the "maximum launch range."
”, “non-escape range” and “minimum attack range”. Generally speaking, you should wait until the distance bar is shortened to between the second and third key points before launching. However, in many cases, BVR air combat emphasizes launching first to defeat the enemy.
, many times the enemy will not give you time to stabilize your flight and enter the optimal attack range. They will launch missiles at you to force you to evade.
After all, even if it is outside the no-escape range, it does not mean that the missile cannot achieve a hit.
And if you despise this missile because you think the enemy has not entered the optimal launch range, then you will be in big trouble.
The Ghost Squadron continued to accelerate and climb slightly to obtain better missile performance. At about the same time, they took the lead in launching missiles in the direction of the enemy.
For this kind of mid-range attack, the missile will not immediately open its guidance head to lock on the enemy after it leaves the pylon. Instead, it will rely on the fighter's radar to maintain a lock for a period of time before searching for the enemy on its own.
For a period of time, the attack method of this kind of active radar bomb is actually similar to that of semi-active radar bomb.
The information bar on the helmet sight displays the countdown until the missile turns on its seeker, and during this countdown period, the fighter's fire control radar must keep tracking the enemy at all times.
Before the countdown was over, Wang Yu heard his fighter plane's radar warning system blaring rapidly.
Wang Yu said calmly: "The missile is approaching."
The enemy planes finally reached burn-through range, established a lock and quickly fired counter missiles at them.
Luo Yu continued calmly: "I was also attacked. I'm not sure whether it was an active radar bomb or a semi-active radar bomb."
"We will understand this later."
"Me too." Murong Lan said equally calmly: "Don't rush to evade for now, wait for the missile guidance head to turn on."
The Ghost Squadron has seen a lot of battles. They don't seem to be panicked by the incoming missiles, but continue to keep the fighter's radar locked on the enemy aircraft.
Even facing the threat of missiles, the pilots of the Ghost Squadron still kept their radar locked.
The enemy plane originally thought that launching missiles at the opponent would force the opponent to evade, thereby reducing the probability of being hit. However, he did not expect that after the missile was launched, the enemy would not dodge or evade, but would still maintain a lock on him, while inside the fighter plane
The radar warning system and high-frequency rapid sounds made him feel extremely irritated.
Because of this continuous locking, the enemy seemed to be very nervous, so after discovering the incoming missile, they started an evasive strategy.
On Wang Yu's head sight display, the direction of the enemy aircraft locked by him changed, and the closing rate also suddenly decreased.
It seems that the enemy couldn't wait to use evasive strategies such as sharp turns.
Perhaps it is indeed effective for missiles whose guidance heads have been turned on, but the situation on the battlefield is often not the best.
In this way, the enemy's lock on you will be released because it is out of the radar detection range. If he launches a semi-active radar bomb or an active radar bomb whose seeker head has not been turned on, then the missile will lose guidance at this time.
It will turn into a straight-flying fire stick.
The experienced pilots of the Ghost Squadron naturally noticed that the enemy aircraft began to change direction, and at this moment, the countdown representing the boot of the guidance head ended and returned to zero.
The missile's guidance head took over the guidance authority from the fighter plane, guiding the missile to start tracking the enemy.
"Avoid immediately."
Mainly because even after the enemy had turned, the rapid warning sound of incoming missiles still did not disappear.
This means that the missile is still tracking them. If they don't evade immediately, the missile will hit them later.
"It seems to be an active radar bomb." Wang Yu said, "Perform a direction change to allow the enemy's missile to consume energy."
But at the same time, they heard the notification from the early warning aircraft.
"Confirmed the downing of an enemy plane, well done."