Chapter 145 Figure-22 Eyepatch

In the northeast, more than a dozen planes took off from Iturup Island and were heading towards the aircraft carrier formation! Judging from the reflected radar echo and the opponent's flight altitude, they should be bombers!

What happened to the Soviets? Are they going to start a world war? When the commanders of the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier formation received the news, their brains short-circuited instantly.

Now, the U.S. Air Force and the island nation's Self-Defense Forces are fighting the Soviet Air Defense Forces on Sakhalin Island. However, this is just a small-scale friction, just one or two sparks in the Cold War.

Because of the incident of the civilian airliner being shot down, both sides couldn't help themselves and started a fight like two kids fighting over a toy. After they finished crying, they continued on with what they had to do.

This is also the idea of ​​the US top leaders, but now, this idea seems unrealistic.

After all, air combat in the Sakhalin area is one scale, and using bombers to bomb one's own aircraft carrier formation is another scale.

Aircraft carriers are a symbol of the United States' military strength. If an American aircraft carrier is sunk by the Soviets, it would mean the beginning of World War III!

The Soviets are all crazy!

The United States does not want to expand the scale and turn it into an uncontrollable war. Having just experienced the Vietnam War, the U.S. military no longer has the confidence to fight another war! Especially the collision of the two giants, which could turn into a nuclear war at any time! But now, the situation is developing in the direction of deterioration.

"Immediately order the Tomcat fighters to abandon their original mission and perform the air defense interception mission!" said Captain Steve.

The joint operation with the Air Force can be postponed. At most, they will not be able to hunt down those MiG-25s. However, the Air Force's F-15s will have no difficulty dealing with other Soviet fighters. Moreover, the Air Force has always been bragging about how excellent their F-15 fighters are. It is better to just let the Air Force down.

There is no way around it. As a naval carrier-based aviation force, they naturally have to take care of their own air defense mission first. If more than a dozen enemy planes come over, if they are really large bombers, the danger they face is still very great.

Moreover, they could not open fire first. If this was a Soviet conspiracy, and their Tomcat fighters opened fire from a distance and shot down the enemy with Phoenix missiles, it would really lead to a world war!

As the captain of an aircraft carrier, one must not only have military command capabilities, but also political insight.

The other Tomcat carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier were urgently taken out of the hangar, ready to continue launching carrier-based aircraft if the situation changed seriously. Even the A-7 carrier-based aircraft were equipped with Sidewinder missiles and had to rush upward at critical moments.

Since the contact with the Air Force has been cut off, Steve no longer cares about the mess in the Air Force and decides to deal with the problem at hand first!

The Tomcat fighter immediately turned, swept its wings back in unison, and rushed towards the direction where the large targets were flying.

In the command cabin of the aircraft carrier, everyone stopped talking and waited for a response from the air.

When they flew to a distance of 300 kilometers to the north of the aircraft carrier, eight Tomcat fighters switched to cruising mode, and two Tomcat fighters continued to move forward and pounced on the large targets 200 kilometers away.

"Report to Kitty, the boxer is approaching, one hundred kilometers away." The voice coming back from hundreds of kilometers away was so long.

"Keep getting closer, be careful, don't take the initiative to attack." Colonel Ted ordered on the radio.

This is really not a good idea! At high altitude, breathing the air in the oxygen mask, George felt his breathing become a little short.

As a carrier-based aircraft pilot, George often played hide-and-seek with Soviet planes. These games of the Cold War were no stranger to him.

But now, it's not a game of hide-and-seek anymore! The air force has already started a fight with the Soviets. Now, the Soviets have suddenly sent out a large number of bombers. If there are escorting fighters among these bombers, and their goal is to sink their own aircraft carriers, they will definitely launch missiles. As a pathfinder, George's two-plane formation can easily be shot down by the enemy.

However, now is not the time to worry about these things. Since we have already flown here, we must remain vigilant!

The radar operator at the rear was also extremely nervous. He stared at the display of the AWG-9 radar intently. The signal on it was constantly refreshing. If the enemy launched an attack, then smaller spots of light would definitely emerge from those spots of light.

The distance is slowly getting closer, and at this moment, time seems to slow down.

Finally, he could see it with his own eyes! George took a deep breath.

When he visually spotted the enemy formation, it was turning left. George pushed the joystick and turned right, thus catching up with the enemy formation.

It has a slender fuselage and a pointed nose. The most representative feature is the two high-thrust engines under the vertical tail. When viewed from the back, it looks like an eye mask, so NATO gave it the code name "Eye Mask".

"Calling Kitty Hawk, calling Kitty Hawk, Boxer reporting, visually determined to be a Tu-22 Eyepatch, visually determined to be a Tu-22 Eyepatch, the size of a flying regiment, no portable kitchen was found, no portable kitchen was found!"

The AS-4 "Kitchen" anti-ship missile, code-named Kh-22 "Burya" Storm by the Soviet Union, looks like a small plane. It is a large-scale strategic air-to-ground missile developed by the Soviet Union and equipped by its troops. It uses a liquid rocket engine, has a range of more than 400 kilometers, and can reach a speed of Mach 2.5. It can attack a wide range of sea and land targets, such as aircraft carriers and other large ships, military industrial centers and military bases, etc. This missile is the nightmare of the US aircraft carrier formation.

However, this large missile could not be loaded into the belly bomb bay of the Tu-22 and could only be hung under the belly. Therefore, everyone breathed a sigh of relief when no missile was found visually.

Moreover, at this time, the Tu-22 formation had turned and flew towards the eastern sea, while the two Tomcat fighters continued to perform surveillance missions.

Looking at the American Tomcat fighter jets on the side, Igor Milosevic, the commander of the 777th Regiment, showed a look of contempt.

These Tu-22 bombers belong to the 777th Regiment. A few days ago, they moved from the base on Sakhalin Island to the Petrel Base on Iturupu Island for this operation!

Although there were no missiles mounted under the belly of the aircraft, they had just completed a simulated attack! They had recently reached a position 400 kilometers away from the aircraft carrier formation. If they had mounted anti-ship missiles, they would have just completed the attack! At this time, there would be countless missiles flying towards the American aircraft carrier formation!