Now, the Aegis system, which the US Navy is proud of, has not yet completed the final integration. The large number of service in the US Navy are still the Allen Sumner-class destroyers and Killing-class destroyers that were started during World War II. Among them, the Allen Sumner-class destroyers have gradually withdrawn from active service. Most of the main Killing-class destroyers left in the US Navy in later generations have been modified and equipped with Stir radar and Sea Sparrow air defense missiles. Unfortunately, the Sparrow missiles are not yet mature, and there are simply uncontrolled rockets over the Vietnam battlefield, and have not been transferred to the warships at this time.

As for the standard missiles with very high accuracy in later generations, they were even more invisible. Therefore, the main force of US ship air defense was the ship-based air defense system developed in the era of World War II to deal with the Japanese Kamikaze suicide aircraft.

These include three missile systems, namely Beagle, Tatar, and Brass Knight, which constitute the first-generation faced defense ship-to-air missile system of the United States. Since the first letter of the three models of English names starts with "t", there is another commonly known as the "Three T" ship-to-air missile system.

Among them, the Beagle and the Tatar, the medium-range and short-range missiles, respectively, had a shooting height of almost 10,000 meters, while the Brass Knight was a big guy who used ramjet engines.

The Brass Knight air defense missile, originally codenamed sam-n-6, was later changed to Japanese m-8. This is the first long-range, medium and high-altitude carrier-based air defense missile system developed by the US Navy. It is mainly used for fleet air defense to deal with attacks from various aircraft. The maximum range reaches 120 kilometers and the shooting height reaches 3 to 26.5 kilometers.

However, for the MiG-25, which can easily climb to a height of 30,000 meters, all the air defense missiles of these US fleets are not reachable, which is why Andre can boldly use the MiG-25 for reconnaissance.

In order to prevent threats, the US aircraft carrier formation this time included two cruisers equipped with brass Knight missiles, the CG-11 Chicago heavy cruiser and the CLG-5 Oklahoma missile cruiser.

At this time, on the Chicago, the SPS-43 search radar was responsible for the main air-to-air search mission of the formation. Unfortunately, the farthest search distance of this kind of radar is more than 200 kilometers, and the air-to-air surveillance is limited. The detection distance of 400 kilometers to the later Aegis system is very far away.

Therefore, the formation did not find the target. Instead, it was the base in Hokkaido that discovered an aircraft flying from above Sakhalin Island. Judging from the other party's radar reflection wave, the echo was very large. It should be a large aircraft, such as the Tu-95rt "Bear-d" reconnaissance aircraft. Looking at the other party's flight route, it is likely to go to the southern waters of Guogo Island to find trouble for its own aircraft carrier formation.

"Good come!" Colonel Ted said: "A Soviet reconnaissance plane would dare to come to our aircraft carrier formation to make trouble! We might as well knock it down too!"

Last year, the US Air Force was covered in dust and an ep-3 reconnaissance plane was hit by the Soviets, and it was forced to land at the base of the Soviets. After that, the Soviets refused to admit it and refused to hand over the reconnaissance plane and the personnel above. These made the Americans hate it. Now, the opportunity to take revenge has finally come!

The Soviets actually took off their reconnaissance planes and came to investigate their own aircraft carrier formations, and simply knocked the other side down!

The Mao Bear is very tough, and his own pilots are not vegetarians!

Lieutenant General Jonard frowned when he heard Colonel Ted's words. This might destroy his own plan? However, it doesn't seem to matter. If the Soviet planes flew over his head and he was still indifferent, it would be embarrassing to the US Navy.

"Lever General, what do you think?" asked Colonel Steve, the captain of the aircraft carrier.

"I do not participate in this specific combat operation. This belongs to fleet air defense and is up to you to decide." Lieutenant General Jonard said.

"Yes." Colonel Steve said: "Attention on the deck, eject two Tomcat fighters! Heading north, prepare for interception! The power compartment, aircraft carrier speeds up, accelerates to twenty knots, all warships pay attention to, and prepare for air defense missiles!"

Do it! I finally got to fight with the Soviets at sea. Everyone was very excited. The exercise didn’t even have a Blue Army. It was too boring. This Soviet reconnaissance plane flew over was simply an appetizer for our side!

With his orders, the entire formation accelerated eastward, and dark smoke emerged from the boiler of the aircraft carrier, and the speed continued to increase.

The Kitty Hawk is not a modified cargo for World War II aircraft carriers. It is a real aircraft carrier built with a post-World War II thinking! The catapults laid can completely allow heavy air-control fighters such as Tomcat fighters to take off. However, the weather is too bad now. In order to allow Tomcat fighters to take off safely, the aircraft carrier still needs to provide a larger initial speed and increase the deck wind. However, if the speed increases, the warship will shake violently. In this case, twenty knots are the best choice.

The speed of the cruise just now was only fifteen knots. Now, as the aircraft carrier speeded up, the people on the deck were also busy.

From the shutdown area on the side of the bridge, two Tomcat fighter jets were dragged by, and deck personnel in various colors were working tensely.

The wings slowly rotated forward to reach the minimum sweep angle. The various rudder surfaces rotated, check whether the rudder surface was normal, and then check the huge volleyball missile mounted under the belly of the aircraft, which was correctly connected. Then, the Tomcat fighter jet was pulled to the catapult in the takeoff area, fixed the front wheel, and the back cover slowly rose.

In the cockpit, George, the major pilot of the 27th Fighter Squadron of the Fifth American Fleet, looked at Captain William, the wingman on another catapult next to him, stretched out his hand and clenched it into a fist.

The other party also made the same move.

"Kids, Kitty Hawks, boxers requested takeoff." George shouted in the radio.

"You can take off and intercept the mission. There is no early warning plane. Open your eyes wide." An order came from your ears.

"Received." George looked at the gestures of the personnel on the ground and replied with a familiar signal. Then, he adjusted the thrust of the two TF30 engines behind him to the maximum.

When the guide's body squatted down and his arms moved forward, George felt a huge thrust coming, and for a moment, he felt dizzy.

Surrounded by steam on the aircraft carrier, the huge Tomcat fighter accelerated from the deck under the combined action of its own power and catapult. When leaving the runway, the fuselage first fell down and then flew up again.

Take off and meet the enemy!
Chapter completed!