Chapter 131 Eagle Wall

Captain Osipovich sat in his fighter plane and took off quickly following the other fighter planes in the regiment.

Captain Osipovich had no regrets about shooting down the so-called Korean airliner. If he were given another chance, he would still do it! Defending Soviet airspace was his sacred duty!

And now, the American Air Force is about to invade Sakhalin Island from Hokkaido in the south, which makes the Americans' intentions even clearer. It is just a cover and an excuse!

Are we going to fight another world war? Come on, the Soviets will never be afraid! Evil capitalism will collapse in this world war!

"Attention, this is not an exercise. If you find Americans invading Sakhalin's airspace, fight back immediately." The voice of the regiment commander Yuri Mozgov came from the headset.

All twenty Su-15 interceptors of the regiment took off and headed towards the south under the guidance of ground radar!

Inside the nose of the aircraft, the Typhoon-M airborne radar has been preheated. This radar has adopted an inverted Cassegrain antenna and is one of the more advanced Soviet airborne radars. However, the detection range of targets the size of fighter jets will not exceed 60 kilometers, and for targets the size of bombers, the search distance will be more than 100 kilometers.

Anyway, the range of the R98 missiles on both sides is limited, and the disadvantage of radar search distance will not cause too much problem for interception. After the Americans began to make propaganda, the air defense forces in the entire Far East were on high alert to prevent American attacks. These Su-15 interceptors were all standard interceptor mounts, with four R98 missiles distributed on both sides of the wings.

The main combat method of the air defense force is still interception under the guidance of ground radar, which is the standard tactic of the air defense force.

Twenty Su-15 interceptors were arranged in two rows, two kilometers apart, ready to conduct a large-scale interception tactic. The scheduled collision point between the two sides was in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk in the east!

Everyone was holding back their anger in their hearts: How dare the Americans be so provocative? Get ready to accept the Soviets’ punishment!

The distance between the two sides is closing rapidly. Our airborne radar has intercepted the target at a distance of fifty kilometers!

At this moment, a radar warning sound came from the headset. Damn, I have been locked on by the enemy!

Almost at the same time, the F-15 fleet on the opposite side was doing the same thing. On the wide attack surface, eighteen F-15s were divided into two horizontal rows, three kilometers apart and five kilometers apart in height, preparing to launch beyond-visual-range missiles.

At this time, as the F-15 advanced, it was like two waves moving forward, or like two walls. The Americans called this tactic Eagle Wall!

At this time, Eagle Wall’s biggest advantage is fire control and missiles!

The AN/APG-63 radar radiates the X-band radar beam into the airspace ahead. The United States' flat-plate slot radar antenna technology is now fully mature. Most of the energy is converted into electromagnetic waves instead of being dissipated in the form of thermal radiation by the huge transmitting tube. Moreover, the radar beam has small side lobes and concentrated energy.

This is a digital pulse Doppler radar with a full waveform design of high, medium and low PRF (repetition frequency). Although it does not have the detection range and multi-target attack capability of the AWG-9 radar, the reliability and performance of the radar have been greatly improved, and the cost is also low.

At a distance of 80 kilometers, the AN/APG-63 radar had already intercepted the target. Through the data link, Captain Nathaniel Christopher had assigned the target to his own fleet, and each fighter had locked onto a target.

"Speed ​​up!" Following the command, the two walls moved forward rapidly. The F100 turbofan engine at the tail made a huge roar. The auxiliary fuel tank had been dropped. The F-15 fighter jet under the air combat mount had very little resistance. The fighter jet quickly broke through the sound barrier and reached a speed of Mach 1.5.

Forty kilometers, the maximum launch distance of AIM-7F!

"Fire!" Nathaniel gave the order on the radio.

All the pilots pressed their hands on the red button on the joystick at almost the same time.

Under the wing, flames flickered, and an AIM-7F missile flew out, trailing a tongue of fire. The entire eagle wall was instantly covered in white smoke.

Launching a missile at the maximum range has limited effect. After the missile flies past, it has completely lost power and is in the final stage of inertial flight. Its maneuverability is also quite poor. The opponent can shake off your missile with just one maneuver.

However, this is just a tactic of the US Air Force, breaking the opponent's formation! As long as the opponent chooses to evade, they have to make maneuvering flights, and as long as they fly, the formation will be messed up. A group of Su-15s maintaining formation and launching missiles will pose a certain threat to the F-15, while the scattered Su-15s will pose no threat at all.

Sure enough, after discovering that they were locked on by the enemy, the 592nd Regiment was faced with a difficult choice: what to do? Seeing a new echo appear on their radar screen, it was obvious that the enemy had launched a missile!

Keep going forward? That's like being shot in a line! If you don't keep going forward, you can't stop them!

"Keep in formation!" Yuri said on the radio, "Prepare to launch missiles!"

A distance of dozens of kilometers is just a short minute in the air. Although the opponent launched the missile first, our side did not fall into a disadvantage!

The Su-15 formation continued to fly forward, fearlessly facing the rain of missiles from the F-15s.

"Aim two missiles at one target and fire!" Soon, the distance was shortened to 20 kilometers, and the flying light spots could be seen on the horizon. At this moment, the 592nd Regiment started its first missile salvo!

Thick smoke filled the sky, and the first fierce confrontation between the American and Soviet air forces since the start of the Cold War began.

While watching their missiles fly out of the missile racks, the American missiles were already firing head-on!

Evasion! The pilots of the 592nd Regiment risked getting close to the location where they were hit before launching missiles. After completing a salvo, they began to perform high-overload evasive maneuvers to avoid the incoming missiles.

After all, the air-to-air missiles at that time were not like the active radar-guided high-mobility missiles of later generations. Being locked almost meant being destroyed. The American Sparrow air-to-air missiles had a pitifully low hit rate on the battlefield in Vietnam.

At the same time, according to the pre-planned tactics, after launching a round of air-to-air missiles, they would retreat and continue to organize a second round of missile salvos in the rear.

An interceptor is not a fighter. The characteristics of the Su-15 are still high altitude, high speed and rapid interception. Close combat is not its strong point.

Unfortunately, the Americans on the opposite side did not give them any chance at this time.