Two TF30-P-412 turbofan engines output surging power, and after being squeezed by Arcie's performance potential, they pushed a heavy fighter with a full load of nearly 30 tons to an altitude of 15,000 meters.
During the climb, the fuselage oscillated slightly under the impact of the airflow. As the altitude increased, Zhou Qingfeng saw the first ray of morning light at dawn.
The ground quickly shrank, the blazing sun rose slowly, the fighter plane rode across the clouds, and the horizon quickly stretched into the distance. Only by flying in the air can you feel the vastness and magnificence of this world.
The Persian side reacted extremely sluggishly to this'Tomcat' that suddenly lifted off. HESA is undergoing a purge, and when he heard the roar of the engine, he sent people to investigate. You can count the factories and airports, and all the fighters that can fly are still there.
No one thought that the'organ donors' piled up in the warehouse were actually renovated and soared into the sky.
Although the ground radar found Zhou Qingfeng who was flying in the air and tried to establish a communication link with him, it was not possible to send a fighter plane to intercept him at all.
As for air defense missiles on the ground, they are all key points of protection, as long as the'Super Tomcat' doesn't directly hit it, just avoid it far away.
Zhou Qingfeng's goal is Kuwait, which is more than 500 kilometers away. Since the distance is still quite far, he chose to approach from high altitude to save fuel. After all, flying at low altitudes cannot avoid the E-3 early warning aircraft deployed by Eagle Sauce in the Middle East.
The'Super Tomcat' has not yet flown from Persia to Kuwait. Zhou Qingfeng chose to detour slightly. His route was northerly, and he broke into Iraqi airspace and passed near Basra.
This series of embarrassing operations shocked the radar stations on the ground of the two countries, and the communication lines became hot. Persia thought that his own'tomcat' had defected, and Iraq thought that his old opponent had come to harass.
The two families of Piansheng are currently weak.
I won't talk about Iraq. I was beaten by eagle sauce just now. All kinds of ground facilities and equipment were bombed out. Basra was close to Kuwait. The radar station and airport were almost completely destroyed. There were not many repairs that could be done.
Persia has been blocked for years. The 62nd Tactical Fighter Squadron deployed in the Gulf region has only a dozen "Tomcats" capable of flying, and only single digits of which the radar works normally. Other heavens have to rely on the ground to guide them.
The two difficult brothers could only watch the "Tomcat" flying above their heads at a cruising speed of Mach 0.8, and they had no reaction ability.
The only one that can respond to this is the Eagle Souce Garrison, which is carrying out a no-fly mission in the Gulf. When Zhou Qingfeng broke into the sky over Basra, the E-3 AWACS mission nearby spotted him on the radar screen.
This E-3 belongs to the Eagle Sauce Eighth Air Force. It took off from its base in Qatar and used the large S-band pulse Doppler radar on the back of the aircraft to monitor air movement within a 300-kilometer radius around Kuwait.
The four F-15Cs are divided into two groups, responsible for air escort within 100 kilometers of E-3 to ensure the safety of the early warning aircraft.
The E-3 is modified from the Boeing 707 passenger plane, which has several multi-function display consoles in its body. Twelve radar operators and a duty officer work in it.
When the radar operator recognized that a'tomcat' appeared in the direction of Persia, the duty officer inevitably took a look.
Because fighters all have a service life, the Persian "Tomcat" in addition to general training, routine patrol tasks are thrown away to the cheaper F-5E.
"This should be the Tomcat who went to Bushehr." The officer on duty didn't care too much. "I don't know how many Tomcats can fly in Persia?"
Eagle sauce has just won the Gulf War. There is an unshakable military advantage in this area, but no one with a normal mind will come to pick things up.
To be on the safe side, the E-3 carrying out the air control mission let a group of F-15C escorting him to meet him.
In theory, the two sides will pass by the center line of the Persian Gulf with a distance of over a hundred kilometers, drawing the boundary of the site like a dog peeing, but neither will provoke anyone.
But it didn’t take long for the radar controller to issue a warning, staggeringly reporting: “This Tomcat broke into Iraq’s airspace and was flying over Basra. It was accelerating and was facing our whipping No. 6 ."
On the green radar display console, the icons representing the fighter planes beating from grid to grid. Various vector data changes all the time. The duty officer realized that the situation was not right and he ordered the two F-15Cs to make tactical maneuvers not to stay in front of the enemy plane.
Unlike the omnidirectional detection early warning aircraft, the fighter radar can only detect a certain sector area in front of the nose. There is also a'non-escape zone' for missiles in this sector.
Radars and missiles with different performances constitute different "no-escape zones". The F-14A has strong radar performance, and the "phoenix" is a large-scale long-range missile that is actively guided.
With the combination of the two, the'no escape zone' is very large.
In contrast, the F-15C's killer'AIM-120' is a medium-range bomb, and it has just been equipped with Type A. Its maximum range is only 70 kilometers, far inferior to the 150 kilometers of the "phoenix".
In the E-3 cabin, the judgment of the duty officer was correct. The two F-15Cs that were a hundred kilometers ahead were immediately ordered to deviate and avoid the opponent's radar.
According to common sense, this was at best a demonstration in the air. The two sides greeted each other in the airspace tens of kilometers away, used radar to detect each other, and then "go back to each house and find each mother."
"Major, this'Tomcat' is still accelerating. It did not respond to our evasive actions. It is still approaching'Flashing' No.6." The radar controller yelled.
The'Tomcat' has crossed the sky over Basra and continued to fly south. It just broke through the speed of sound and threw a beautiful Mach ring behind the body. At this moment, it swiftly moved forward with the thunderous popping sound.
The officer on duty quickly grabbed the microphone and issued a radio warning to the F-15C in front. Without waiting for him to speak, a curse call from the pilot ahead came from the encrypted radio.
"Damn, he locked us, and his radar locked us. The Eagle's Nest, I am the No. 6 Whiplash, and we demand to fight back."
The duty officer can imagine the mood of the crew ahead, which must be upset by the beeping of the radar warning machine. But now no one is authorized to fight back, and he must report the situation to his superiors.
But things are not over...
In the next second, a beep sounded in the cabin of E-3. This large aircraft weighing more than one hundred tons is also equipped with a radar warning machine. But the cabin crew have never heard this sound since they entered service.
Whether it was a driver or a radar controller, or a duty officer with the highest military rank, everyone was dumbfounded and wondered how this sound came from
After several seconds, more than a dozen people in the cabin shouted in unison: "**, we are locked."
It's the Tomcat, only its AN/AWG-9 pulse Doppler radar has this ability. It is really impossible for another fighter to be able to lock onto a target one or two hundred kilometers away.
Provocation, this is a naked provocation!
The officer on duty was furious. He didn't care about reporting the military situation. Instead, he ordered the F-15C guarding him first: "I am the Eagle's Nest, and the Flogging No. 6, I authorize you to fight back against the enemy's provocations. Allow to shoot down the opponent."
Without finishing this sentence, the'Flashing' number 6 was yelling, "Damn, we are running for our lives. The other party launched the'phoenix.'