Chapter 262: Pursuit at Sea

In the Kushiro-Rumoi area, the Soviets are to the north and the islanders are to the south. The armies of both sides are on high alert at the border and are ready to engage in fighting at any time. According to this situation, their air forces should also patrol the airspace over the border frequently.

However, the reality is just the opposite. The skies over Hokkaido have always been very quiet. Although the island nation has redeployed a large number of fighter jets at the Chitose base in Hokkaido, training has always been conducted in the southern airspace, rarely flying to the north, and even less to the border.

The reason is simple: the islanders are afraid of escalating the conflict before they have the necessary confidence.

Everyone knows that the Soviets are unreasonable and they are always aggressive. If the fighter planes of the island countries patrol the border, the Soviet fighter planes will definitely follow them on the other side of the border. At this time, the accompanying flight can turn into an accidental shooting at any time. The Soviets are all crazy Ivan! Collisions can occur at any time, and then turn into large-scale air battles, and ground battles will also follow. The Soviets just take advantage of this opportunity to occupy the entire Hokkaido!

Therefore, the islanders were very restrained, looking north, gritting their teeth, and acting like turtles.

The helicopters, on the other hand, were not subject to any restrictions and continued to operate on their own territory, destroying the Chi troops that continued to appear in various places.

The two AH-1 Cobra helicopters that received the order quickly took off from the apron of the base. They had received a report that the defected No. 024 was flying towards the east, so they quickly pushed the nose of the helicopter, flew over the white bran, and flew towards the sea.

Without any radar equipment, the pilot of the Cobra helicopter can only rely on his own vision to observe targets at sea.

First Class Lu Wei Tianzhong kept looking at the sea in the distance. If the helicopter wanted to defect, it would definitely fly to the northeast! Therefore, that was his main search direction. In order to prevent being discovered by radar, they would definitely lower their altitude and fly close to the sea!

After receiving the news that the city was under attack, the two helicopters took off. They were only a dozen kilometers away from the defecting helicopter. In a clear sky, the visual distance of an excellent pilot would be more than 20 kilometers.

"Found the target!" Tanaka discovered the bright spot on the sea in the distance. Under the sunlight, the light reflected from the propeller was so clear!

"Chase him and kill him!" the pilot at the back shouted. The engine on top of the helicopter made a huge roar and had been accelerated to the maximum speed of 277 kilometers per hour, which exceeded the speed of the defecting 024 flying close to the sea!

Tanaka turned on the weapon switch, and a TOW anti-tank missile was ready to be launched.

When helicopters appeared on the battlefield, anti-helicopter research began. It was eventually proved that helicopters were one of the most effective anti-helicopter weapons!

The Ah-1 Cobra also has good anti-enemy helicopter capabilities. It can use onboard anti-tank missiles to deal with the enemy, and it can also use special Sidewinder missiles. However, it is in a hurry to attack now and does not have Sidewinder missiles mounted, so it can only use TOW anti-tank missiles.

Five thousand meters, four thousand meters, three thousand meters, the distance was constantly decreasing. At this time, the defecting helicopter was only focused on flying forward and did not even notice it!

What a great opportunity!

The infrared ray of the sight has been successfully aimed at the flying helicopter. Tanaka gently pressed the launch button, and a TOW anti-tank missile flew out from the short-wing rack, dragging a tongue of fire and moving forward!

The wire releaser at the tail continuously releases the wire, which is a common guidance method for missiles nowadays.

Missiles guided by radio commands are very susceptible to electromagnetic interference on the battlefield. Therefore, by dragging the guidance wire and using wired guidance, you can avoid the enemy's electromagnetic interference and improve the hit rate. At the same time, compared with the first-generation missiles that need to be controlled by an operating handle, the second-generation anti-tank missile has a greatly improved degree of automation. As long as the infrared ray is aimed at the target, the missile will be adjusted automatically. This is called infrared semi-active guidance.

The missile is not fast, with a maximum speed of 360 meters per second. It takes more than ten seconds to fly a distance of three thousand meters.

Holding his breath, Tanaka counted down silently in his mind: nine, eight, seven, six…

The missile was still flying forward steadily, and it would only take a few minutes to hit the target.

Just when the missile was one second away from the target, the Cobra helicopter, which was originally flying close to the sea surface, suddenly gained altitude at such a fast speed that Tanaka could not react. Just as he was frantically adjusting the aiming device to re-aim at the target, the TOW missile had already passed by the side of the target helicopter.

It's not a proximity fuse, it has to make contact to hit! Tanaka couldn't help but curse, "Baka! If it was a rattlesnake, the battle would have ended long ago!"

Pull it up! Maruoka Osamu raised the total torque lever to the highest position with his left hand, still panting heavily. It was really too dangerous just now!

He was only concerned with flying close to the sea surface and reaching Kushiro as quickly as possible, as he would be safe there. However, he did not expect that there were pursuers behind him!

Fortunately, at the last second, Maruoka Shu noticed that the sparkling sea surface suddenly turned red, and immediately thought that it was the light of the missile with a tail flame reflected on the sea surface! He could see it from the side of the sea surface, which meant that the opponent was very close and was about to hit him!

So, without any hesitation, Maruoka Osamu quickly pulled the total torque to the end. If it was an ordinary civilian helicopter, it might fall down like this. But this armed helicopter had very good performance and was flexible to operate, and it immediately gained altitude.

Pushing the joystick and turning, Maruoka Osamu saw from the side the two helicopters of the same model that were chasing them.

"Baka!" Maruoka Osamu cursed, knowing that he was in big trouble.

"No, go!" Ohashi Rokuro shouted, "We have no weapons!"

Rockets are useless in air combat, but anti-tank missiles still have hope. However, both weapons were used up when attacking the US military headquarters just now. At that time, people were afraid that there were still survivors inside, which left regrets. Now Ohashi Rokuro regrets it. If he had known earlier, it would have been a good idea to leave one or two anti-tank missiles!

"We can't escape. If we don't kill them, we won't be able to return safely." Maruoka Osamu was very calm: "We still have a machine gun. Ohashi-kun, think about Mieko!"

In addition to the weapons under the short wing racks, the AH-1 Cobra helicopter also has an M1 Gatling-style "cannon"!