Climb! Climb continuously! Soon, the airflow is invisible and has entered the stratosphere at this time.

Fly, continue to fly to a high place! Higher, faster! This is the goal pursued by fighter jet designers in this era!

As he continued to climb higher, Andrei's heart began to feel a little excited. The altimeter in front had reached an altitude of 24,000 meters!

Now, only the MiG 25 can reach this level in the world! Except for the SR-71! Of course, if the Americans insist that the Blackbird is also considered a fighter.

Gently pushing the operating lever forward, Andre leveled the plane, and the sound of the ground CGI came from the headphones: "Note, heading is 240, cruise of Mach 2.4."

"Received." The captain of the second brigade came from the headset: "Tail 240. Speed ​​2.4."

Pressing the operating rod, the fighter drew an arc in the air and flew towards the direction guided by the ground.

The Soviet National Air Defense Force's standard interception tactics were carried out under the guidance of the ground. Andre followed his four-machine formation in front of him to press the slope and turn, while continuing to increase his speed.

At this height, the air resistance is quite small. The two engines at the tail sprayed out hot tail flames, pushing the fighter to continue to accelerate. With the emergence of the conical sonic bomb cloud, the fighter quickly pierced the sonic bomb cloud and entered supersonic cruise.

The acceleration process was short and long. When the pointer of the Mach meter on the green instrument panel pointed to Mach 2.4, Andre closed the throttle a little, and the fighter flew stably at Mach 2.4.

The temperature in the cockpit continued to rise, and the hands holding the driver's rod began to sweat. Andrey breathed the oxygen sent from the respirator and began to pull the radar panel in front with his fingers.

Other fighter jets in the formation are loaded with old-fashioned cyclone-A radar. Although the inverted Caseglen antenna has a diameter of more than 1 meter, it is quite simple. Since the scanning line basically coincides with the axis of the fuselage, it does not have the ability to lower the sight-down shooting, and the detection distance of typical bomber targets is only 100 kilometers.

Fighters sprinting in high altitudes like now and at low altitudes cannot be scanned by the cyclone-A radar.

Now, the landline that Andre drove is loaded with an improved RP-25M pulse Doppler radar, which has a pitch scanning capability of 42° downwards. So, thinking about the manual I just flipped, Andre turned on the radar.

When it was taken off, the radar's vacuum tube was preheated, so now, after turning on the main switch, the radar began to emit pulsed Doppler signals. At the same time, the radar scan was purposeful through the automated interception system.

Radar powered on!

At the nose of the steel fighter, the inverted Caseglen antenna with a diameter of 90 cm radiated a strong electromagnetic signal towards the airspace below the front, and the peak power of hundreds of kilowatts instantly made Andre feel that the lights of the instrument in the cockpit were dimmed.

"Report, 032 discovered the target, with a distance of 100, a speed of 0.8, a height of 13, and a quantity of 20." Andrei looked at the light spots appearing on the screen and said to the radio.

This set of sapphire 25 radar has a really good effect! Andre looked at the light spots on the screen and was very satisfied.

The scanning signal of the I band filled the airspace ahead. Almost at the same time, the E-2 early warning aircraft hovering over the western part of Hokkaido also discovered this group of MiG-25 fleets that came to intercept.

The Soviets were also aggressive and actually dispatched nearly twenty MiG-25s, which was almost the size of an aviation regiment!

"Simon Squadron, Simon Squadron, note that the target has appeared, eighteen MiG-25s, a distance of one hundred." E-2 early warning aircraft conveyed the message to its fleet.

The 13th Fighter Squadron of the 35th Fighter Wing of the Misawa Base, nicknamed the Siren Squadron, took off from the Misawa Base after dawn, and an E-2 early warning aircraft also took off for early warning support. The fighter jets flew for more than half an hour before flying near the center line of the Sea of ​​Japan. The MiG-25, which was responsible for interception on the opposite side, flew only ten minutes.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was close to 100 kilometers, and the relative speed exceeded that between fighter jets with a relative speed of more than Mach 3. The distance of this hundred kilometers was less than a hundred seconds.

"Received." Major Dick Houston, the squadron leader, shouted in the radio: "Be careful, hit the secondary fuel tank, turn on the afterburner climb, and prepare to lock!"

The flames of the two J79 turbojet engines at the tail suddenly turned blood red. After turning on the afterburner, the engine burst out with maximum thrust and the fighter began to accelerate.

At the same time, under the control of the radar operator in the rear cabin, the AN/APQ-120 in the nose also began to enter the working state, scanning the target aircraft in the front airspace. Due to the use of transistors and integrated circuits, the size and weight of this radar are very small, but its performance has developed greatly. The continuous wave scanning signal fills the airspace in front. Soon, the radar began to look upwards and it has discovered the targets in the high altitude!

"Be careful, prepare for radar lock!" Major Dick said.

Locking does not mean killing the opponent, but rather means that one side has the ability to kill the opponent! In fact, compared to target aircraft flying at high altitudes at speeds of more than Mach 2, the Sparrow Missile can not launch that altitude at all. Only the immortal birds of the Navy's F-14 Tomcat fighter can pose a threat to the MiG-25.

Now, the radar is used to lock the target in order to threaten the other side. During the Cold War, the hostility of the United States and the Soviet Union will trigger silent confrontation in the war if they are not careful. I don’t know how many times it has been staged.

"Be careful, prepare to dive and lock the target!" Almost at the same time, the MiG-25 fleet also received signal guidance from the ground CGI.

Due to the lack of downward shooting ability, if the MiG-25's cyclone-A radar locks the target, the side can only dive down, and it must reach a height below 20,000 meters before it can successfully lock the opponent.

Diving? Hearing this order, Andre couldn't help but feel speechless in the cockpit. The main advantage of MiG-25 is high-altitude high speed. Now rush to low altitude and circling in the middle and low altitude with the opponent, which is not fun.

Anyway, his onboard radar already had enough downward vision ability, so Andre did not dive with the fleet ahead, but directly pulled the radar switch and turned into a locked state.

"Report, 032 has been locked and requested to launch." Andrey shouted in the radio.

Fire? Don't shoot the first shot! When Kuori Dubu heard this sound, he immediately sweated from his forehead. Damn, I didn't plan to let this guy participate in the confrontation yesterday, so he didn't let him attend the first-level combat readiness meeting. Did he not know the order to not shoot the first shot?

"Note, you are not allowed to fight back until you are attacked!" Kuori Dub shouted with a wireless telephone.

Andre, who was almost at the edge of the atmosphere, smiled on his face and the show began!
Chapter completed!