Chapter 2569: Air defense omission

If you don’t go through the air to refuel, it’s impossible for the F-14 formation to fly over, otherwise it can only fly one-way. Therefore, the stealth F-14 fighters did not dispatch, nor could they sneak attack on their E-2 early warning aircraft. , This point is almost the same as that of Oort’s analysis.
After all, the F-14 is a light aircraft. This is the biggest shortcoming of a light aircraft. The range cannot be too long and the bomb load cannot be too large. However, in addition to the F14, the date palm country has expanded its armaments for war preparations and has other equipment. For example, the MiG-29 fighter!
It was the MiG-29 fighter that escorted the JH VII. Back then, Xiong Guo was able to sell the MiG-29, which was also the role of Qin Guan's promotion.
The biggest reason why the MiG-29 is unattended is that the range is too short, only a maximum range of more than a thousand kilometers, not even the combat radius of a western aircraft, a typical short-legged king, an airport guardian, this aircraft conforms to the bear country The positioning of the frontline aviation force is difficult to open up the international market.
So, Qin Guan helped them modify it and developed a special kit, adding a 1400-liter conformal fuel tank between the 3rd and 8th bulkheads on the back of the aircraft. A conformal fuel tank with a volume of 480 liters was installed before the 8th and 10th bulkheads in the rear of the aircraft, and a fuel tank was also installed in the front of the auxiliary air inlet. After such a modification, it is necessary to carry three auxiliary fuel tanks. Under the circumstances, the maximum range reached more than 3,000 kilometers, which was the same as the JH-7 fighter.
This is absolutely incomparable to the F-14. The F-14 does not use aerial refueling and can only have a one-way voyage at best. Therefore, this aircraft was dispatched this time.
Rajawi, the pilot pilot of MiG-29, looked at his mighty formation and was quite satisfied. Their twenty MiG-29s escorted thirty JH7s, and the entire formation was fifty. The fighter planes formed a huge offensive force. Now, they are getting closer and closer to the aircraft carrier formation of Eagles, and they are about to enter the launch position!
They should not expose the target now, but if the Eagles dare to come over, they will immediately switch from sneak attack tactics to strong attack. Twenty MiG-29s will quickly climb up, intercept the arriving Tomcat fighters, and give them to their own The JH-7 formation provides the opportunity to launch missiles.
Now, they are relying on the opportunity provided by the electronic jammer to move on. The electronic jammer has attracted all the attention of the Eagle State Navy, so that it has relaxed the threat to the back.
The Eagle Nation’s aircraft carrier formation is facing the north for air defense. After all, the Date Palm Nation is in their north. They would never have thought that the Date Palm Nation’s aviation forces would go around a large circle and launch a fierce attack on them from the southern waters!
Pull it up!
The ultra-low-flying formation continued to fly on the sea. At this moment, the pilot JH-7 suddenly turned on its afterburner from the sea and quickly climbed upwards. It just climbed to hundreds of meters and immediately dived. After that, although it was only a short moment, the advanced pulse Doppler radar on the nose had searched the huge aircraft carrier battle group at sea and determined the location of the target.
Calculate target data and perform target assignment! Advanced airborne computers are performing rapid calculations, and at the same time they are transmitted to other fighters through the data link system. Now they are 150 kilometers away from the target. As long as they continue to fly dozens of kilometers forward, they can launch missiles. This attack is complete.
So far, they have not been discovered by the Eagle Nation Navy, but they must always be prepared.
At this moment, on the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, Tom saw the flashing bright spot on his screen.
The interference distance of the electronic jammer is limited. Generally speaking, one or two hundred kilometers is the limit. Their E-2 early warning aircraft flies in the sea 100 kilometers in front of the aircraft carrier, and the electronic jammer is outside the E-2. Hundreds of kilometers, so they can't interfere with the operation of the powerful Aegis radar at all. They can observe everything around them.
"There is a suspicious echo from the rear." Tom shouted.
They were in the front of the fleet, and now they actually saw an echo from the back. Oort said proudly: "There is nothing there, and it is not the airspace that we are responsible for. Don't worry about it. It has disappeared now. It may be interference."
Haven't you found the electronic jammer yet? What do the pilots of those Tomcat fighters do?
"No, in addition to interference, it may also be the opponent's JH VII, which is a sharp leap before they plan to attack and search for the target." Tom said.
"If they were to come, how could they appear from the southern waters? Don't be suspicious, do your own thing." Alter said.
Oort was very proud. He didn't know that his arbitrary decision caused the entire fleet to enter the final disaster.
The Eagle State Navy’s aircraft carrier protection circle is four hundred kilometers long. In other words, from the center of the aircraft carrier formation as the center of the sphere, a semicircle with a radius of four hundred kilometers can be drawn outward to cover their formation.
This is also the most proud of the Eagle State Navy.
This defensive circle is undertaken by the Eagle Nation’s carrier-based aircraft. The search distance of the early warning aircraft and the patrolling Tomcat carrier-based aircraft are used to achieve such a defense. Therefore, the defense will naturally have omissions.
For example, now, there are a lot of carrier-based aircraft, and early warning aircraft are also in the sky, but they are all looking for the electronic jammer, and may even accompany the powerful formation next to the electronic jammer, all in the northern part of the fleet, that is, The defenses in the north are now airtight, but the south is different.
The south is empty.
The 400-kilometer radius has long been breached. The second defensive circle has a radius of more than 100 kilometers. It depends on the Aegis warships around the formation to open the protective umbrella.
The scanning range of Aegis is also hundreds of kilometers, but for targets flying at ultra-low altitudes, the search distance will be greatly reduced to about tens of kilometers. They rely on early warning aircraft to supplement the blind spots.
The analysis of military bricks after the incident will lament the unforgivable mistake made by the Eagle State Navy. Since it is a formation of dual aircraft carriers, why only ejected one E-2 early warning aircraft? If there is an E-2 early warning aircraft in the rear, then this sneak attack will definitely not succeed.
However, they did not take into account that the Eagle State Navy is also a high-intensity continuous operation, attacking at night, attacking during the day, almost day and night, each carrier has only four E-2 early warning aircraft, they are already exhausted, maintain one. The search of the early warning aircraft is supposed to be absolutely no problem.