Chapter 147 Shooting Down EC-121

Andrei seized a loophole of the Americans. In the Americans' mindset, the conflict now broke out on Sakhalin Island, so the battle would be confined to the airspace over Sakhalin Island.

Naive! You started the war, but how, how big, and where to fight it are all up to you? Do you think you are the banker?

Of course, Andrei would not follow the Americans' thinking and chose Iturup Island, an island with an area of ​​more than 3,000 square kilometers. Because it is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean and has no strategic depth, the Soviet Union only stationed troops symbolically and did not actually mobilize the Pacific Fleet and other main forces there. The tragedy of Pearl Harbor suffered by the Americans during World War II was not far away, and Iturup Island was not suitable for large-scale garrison.

Moreover, the front line of the Soviet Union's confrontation with the West is in Europe, where the equipment and personnel are not first-class. Even so, the Soviet Union has invested a certain amount of money in Iturupu Island to repair the deep-water port and airport and other military bases here, so that troops can be mobilized at any time in the event of a war.

From the perspective of defense zone division, the islands here are all under the jurisdiction of the Sakhalin Island Defense Zone.

Therefore, Andrei was able to boldly deploy surprise forces here. The Tu-22 bombers that took off from Sakhalin Island successfully tied down the power of the US Navy, and relied on new tactics to beat the Americans into a pulp. Now, Andrei's mission is the most difficult and tempting of the entire mission, which is to destroy the American early warning aircraft!

With the support of their own early warning aircraft and electronic warfare aircraft, it was not difficult to detect the American early warning aircraft. The main difficulty was how to get close to the opponent's early warning aircraft. Therefore, Andre and his wingman first flew at an altitude of 15,000 meters, imitating the flight characteristics of other fighters to let the opponent relax their vigilance. Then, when they found that the opponent had sent out an interceptor, they climbed quickly to make the opponent's interception fail.

Who says high altitude and high speed are outdated? As long as it is used properly, it can still create miracles!

Andre is the man who creates miracles!

At this time, the early warning aircraft was desperately flying south, and at the same time, the Yokota base was quickly taking off the second wave of fighters. Although they were old F-4 fighters, they were willing to use their fuselages to block the early warning aircraft in order to save the precious early warning aircraft!

Unfortunately, it was too late. The EC-121 was just a propeller plane with a limited maximum speed. At high altitude, the two MiG-25s, not caring at all that their engines would be burned out, were flying at maximum speed. The distance between the two sides was closing rapidly.

One hundred kilometers, eighty kilometers, sixty kilometers...

The only threat to the MiG-25 is the Tomcat fighter. Unfortunately, the Tomcat fighters are now confronting the Tu-22 at sea!

The Tu-22 had no escort fighters, but would the Americans dare to really attack the bomber fleet? Even if they had the guts, they wouldn't dare. If they shot down the bomber, the war would really begin! The Americans just gave them an opportunity to let the Far East Military Region's troops land on the island country and completely pacify the island country!

The main forces of the Americans in the Far East are the Air Force and the Navy, while the strength of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces on the road is not even close.

At this time, the F-4 fighter jets took off from Yokota Base and flew rapidly towards the direction of Andre's MiG-25 attack. Unfortunately, it was too late!

The two MiG-25s in the air, like killers, launched a fierce attack from an altitude of 30,000 meters!

Under the wing, flames flickered, and the two missiles on the inside left the racks one after another. This scene was pleasing to the eye.

The enemy has already launched a missile! At this time, the crew members on the EC-121 early warning aircraft were about to cry. They held on to the things beside them tightly, feeling the propeller plane rapidly losing altitude.

Get low and disengage their radar!

At the same time, the radar antenna on the top continued to release electromagnetic waves, tracking the information of the incoming missiles.

Four spots of light, four missiles!

These missiles are approaching quickly, what's going on?

With Soviet technology, it is very difficult to filter radar waves reflected from the ground. In fact, even the current EC121 early warning aircraft does not have the ability to filter complex ground echoes and can only be used on the sea or flat land. This is why the Americans are eager to develop the E-3.

"The MiG-25 has returned!" an early warning officer shouted, "What they fired was not a radar-guided missile, but an infrared-guided missile!"

The Soviets had poor electronic technology and their radar-guided missiles had poor performance, so the seekers of their missiles were interchangeable between infrared and radar. Now, since the other side fired the missile and left, it must have been an infrared seeker.

Active radar seeker? Don't be ridiculous. The Soviets' electronic technology would never allow them to develop such a thing!

"Quick, release the infrared decoy bombs!" the early warning aircraft commander continued to shout.

He didn't know, and no one knew, that they had made a big mistake, a mistake that sent them to hell!

Infrared decoy bombs were continuously released from the rear fuselage of the early warning aircraft, like fireworks blooming in the sky, so beautiful.

None of those flying missiles missed the target and they were all chasing us quickly!

"Boom!" The first missile caught up with the early warning aircraft, and a violent explosion occurred at the location of the radar bulge on the top.

"Boom!" The second missile flew up and almost caught up with the location where the first missile exploded, and continued to explode. In the attack of the second missile, the EC-121 broke from the middle of the fuselage, and in the air, it rolled down like a kite with a broken string!

The two missiles that followed failed to find the target and exploded not far away. But now, they are no longer needed.

The Americans absolutely don’t know that the missiles that they were unable to interfere with just now were not radar seekers or infrared seekers at all, but anti-radiation missiles!

What Andre wanted the rear to provide was this special missile, which was specifically designed to chase the source of electromagnetic radiation! If the Americans turned off the radar, these missiles would lose guidance and become uncontrolled rockets. Unfortunately, the Americans wanted to closely track these incoming missiles, so the radar was always working!

Unfortunately, due to the limitations of the Soviet Union's solid rocket engine technology at the time, the range of this missile was not high, and the pursuit distance was less than 40 kilometers. If there were missiles with a range of more than 200 kilometers in later generations, Andrei would not have to take the risk of rushing forward and could snipe the early warning aircraft from a distance.

A successful hit!