Tong Shaoyun asked the tilted rotary wing anti-submarine patrol aircraft to perform reconnaissance missions, but these flights were not suitable for reconnaissance missions at all. In addition to the slow speed, the Chinese Navy's tilted rotary wing aircraft at that time had no stealth ability and was easily discovered by the enemy's early warning aircraft.

Don't forget that French did not attack the Second Fleet, which does not mean that he did not monitor the Second Fleet.

At that time, at least four US Air Force strategic early warning aircraft were monitoring the Second Fleet. In addition, about 400 kilometers west of the Second Fleet, dozens of US fighter jets were patrolling.[..com]

Shortly after the tilted rotary wing aircraft was launched, it was discovered by the US early warning aircraft.

The interception operation began immediately, and US fighter jets were basically easy to capture and had no difficulty in dealing with these surprisingly slow anti-submarine patrol aircraft.

Interestingly, after half an hour, France received a report from the Air Force.

At that time, the US Air Force must have believed that the tilted rotary wing aircraft were used to perform peripheral anti-submarine patrol missions, so they did not report to France.

It was not until two o'clock that the US Air Force reported the war to France on time that it shot down a large number of the Second Fleet's inclined rotary wing anti-submarine patrol aircraft.

Obviously, French would not make the same mistake.

The battle report clearly mentioned that these inclined rotary wing anti-submarine patrol aircraft took off almost at the same time, and all flew westwards and were shot down 400 kilometers away from the Second Fleet.

There is no doubt that this is not an anti-submarine patrol aircraft.

You should know that if the anti-submarine patrol mission is performed, then the anti-submarine patrol aircraft should not be dispatched, and at least one-third of the anti-submarine patrol aircraft should be retained to deal with the accident. More importantly, the anti-submarine patrol is all-round and should not be concentrated only on the west side of the fleet. In addition, the patrol radius of the inclined rotary wing anti-submarine patrol aircraft is generally about 200 kilometers and rarely fly to 400 kilometers away.

Obviously, this is an anti-submarine patrol aircraft that performs reconnaissance missions!

After making this judgment, French suddenly realized that if the First Fleet was nearby, it would be impossible for the Second Fleet to perform reconnaissance missions with an inclined rotary wing anti-submarine patrol aircraft. Although French was a little unbelievable, the only reasonable explanation was that the First Fleet was not nearby. To be precise, the First Fleet was still very far from the waters where the US fleet was located, exceeding the combat radius of the carrier-based fighter jets.

After making this judgment, French did not hesitate anymore and immediately decided to attack the Second Fleet first.

After two o'clock, French issued an attack order to the rear through the US Air Force's early warning aircraft, namely, dispatching bombers to assist the carrier-based aviation force in attacking the Second Fleet.

According to the tactics arranged by France, the bomber first used heavy anti-ship missiles to attack the Second Fleet.

In order to ensure that carrier-based fighter jets arrive at the same time, the attack operation will be commanded by the navy's carrier-based early warning aircraft. That is, after the bomber group takes off, it will first cooperate with the carrier-based early warning opportunity, and then drop heavy anti-ship missiles at the exact time according to the orders issued by the carrier-based early warning aircraft.

Therefore, the US fleet first dispatched twenty-seven carrier-based early warning aircraft.

These early warning aircraft are not in two batches, one batch is twelve, which are specifically responsible for guiding bomber operations, and the other batch is fifteen, which are responsible for guiding carrier-based fighter operations.

The escort fighter planes responsible for seizing air supremacy were taken off immediately.

Because it was determined that the distance between the first fleet and the second fleet was relatively far, French did not arrange the escort mission according to traditional tactics, but decided to rely on absolute numerical advantage to seize the air superiority of the second fleet, allowing fighters performing attacks without blocking them.

To this end, French dispatched 300 carrier-based fighters in one breath.

At that time, there were only 170 air defense fighters over the Second Fleet, and there were only 12 carrier-based early warning aircraft guiding operations.

It seemed that it was not safe enough, and French let the Air Force participate in the battle at 2:20.

According to his deployment, the US Air Force will dispatch 150 fighter jets and six strategic early warning aircraft to assist carrier-based fighters in seizing air supremacy.

However, French did not use Air Force fighters to perform attack missions.

At that time, the US fleet was able to dispatch 300 fighter jets to perform attack missions, and with the Air Force's 400 bombers, France had enough confidence to kill the Second Fleet.

At 2:30, the carrier-based fighter jets carrying out the attack mission began to take off.

At this time, the US Air Force's fighter jets had already taken off the air and were sprinting at the maximum speed of Mach 3. Their mission was to arrive over the Second Fleet before the carrier-based fighter jets, impact the air defense network in the form of intercepting operations, and try to attack the Chinese Navy's early warning aircraft.

At this time, the Chinese Navy's fighter jets were also approaching the US fleet.

It must be admitted that Tong Shaoyun is definitely the kind of person who goes to death. As long as he finds the right direction, he will break through all obstacles to achieve his goal.

After the tilted rotary wing aircraft dispatched was intercepted by the US military, Tong Shaoyun did not delay and immediately contacted the air defense fighter that had just arrived.

At that time, Tong Shaoyun did something extraordinary: let the pilot perform a suicide mission voluntarily.

This mission is very simple: let some air defense fighters search for the US fleet.

Because the First Fleet did not arrange a partner tanker, and there were US fighter jets on the periphery, the fighter jets performing reconnaissance missions had to sprint to the US interceptor net at full speed, so these fighters certainly had no way to return to the First Fleet, and even did not have enough fuel to return to the second Fleet. The result was that after completing the reconnaissance mission, they could only fly as much as possible in the direction where the Second Fleet was located. The pilot had to parachute after the fuel was exhausted and then wait for rescue, and Tong Shaoyun could not guarantee timely rescue.

The reason is simple, the Second Fleet has no tilted rotary wing aircraft that can be used for rescue.

In fact, it is impossible for reconnaissance aircraft to return after discovering the US fleet, because they still have to stay to provide battlefield information for the Second Fleet.

In other words, fighter jets that perform reconnaissance missions basically go but never return.

Fortunately, the eight squadron captains were all active, and they all knew that Tong Shaoyun was the supreme commander when fighting the US fleet.

The result was that all eight squadron leaders volunteered to do their own mission.

At less than two o'clock, forty-eight j-33bs of four squadrons left the formation and began to fly westward in a two-plane formation.

In the first twenty minutes, the flight speed of these fighters was not very fast, less than Mach, mainly to save valuable fuel. Of course, the purpose of saving fuel was not to return to the air above the Second Fleet, but to ensure that after discovering the US fleet, there was enough fuel to hover for more than half an hour, and to deal with US air defense fighters and assist the Second Fleet in shelling the US fleet.

You should know that after the afterburner chamber is turned on, the fuel consumption rate of the fighter aircraft will increase by more than 60%.

This means that with the same fuel, the range of the fighter will be reduced by 40%.

In fact, except for performing interception missions and conducting air combat, fighter jets rarely use afterburners, and maximum military thrust is enough.

More importantly, the j-33b is not an ideal interceptor, but an air-optimal fighter.

When performing interception tasks, the performance of j-33b is not as good as the later improved version of j-31. It is mainly because the fuel consumption rate when flying at the maximum speed is too high, and the interception combat radius is less than 1,000 kilometers. The interception combat radius of j-31's later improved version is more than 1,500 kilometers.

In fact, at 2:25, French received an alarm.

At that time, French was very shocked because it meant that his previous judgment was wrong, and the First Fleet might be near the Second Fleet.

The problem is that by this time, the arrow has left the string and cannot be collected.

French could only pray that his previous judgment was correct, or that the First Fleet had no way to launch an attack on the US fleet immediately.

Of course, he also made another arrangement, that is, to allow the remaining fighter jets to carry ammunition for air defense missions, and after the attack aircraft group set off, each aircraft carrier battle group would dispatch twelve air defense fighters, and retain twelve fighters on the flight deck that could take off at any time.

French's idea was very simple: he launched the attack first, so the First Fleet had to cover the Second Fleet first, and there would not be too many fighter jets that could be used to attack the US fleet. When the attack aircraft group of the First Fleet arrived, there were more than 200 air defense fighters over the US fleet, which was enough to deal with it.

As for attacking the First Fleet, France has not considered it yet.

What he has to do now is to ensure that the Second Fleet is killed, otherwise it will be impossible to concentrate on attacking the First Fleet.

After three o'clock, the battle begins.

From a time perspective, first of all, the reconnaissance aircraft sent by Tong Shaoyun was intercepted by US fighters, and then the fighters sent by France fought with the air defense fighters of the Second Fleet. However, the interval between these two battles was less than one minute, so it can basically be regarded as the beginning at the same time.

There is no doubt that the Second Fleet has been on the verge of death.

The impact of 150 shore-based fighters is very powerful and has been supported by strategic early warning aircraft. The target of the attack is the carrier-based early warning aircraft over the Second Fleet. What's more, when the carrier-based early warning aircraft discovered the US fighter jet, the speed of the air defense fighter jet was less than Mach 2.

The result was that under the impact of US shore-based fighter jets, air defense fighters immediately became in chaos.

Just three minutes later, the US carrier-based fighter jets arrived and began to siege the dispersed air defense fighter jets.

In desperation, Tong Shaoyun ordered the air defense fighter jets to retreat northeast while organizing air defense operations and using regional air defense missiles to intercept US fighter jets.

At that time, four of the eight large air defense warships of the Second Fleet had air defense configurations, that is, in addition to a fixedly installed large-caliber electromagnetic gun, the other two combat modules were equipped with air defense missiles, and three-quarters of them were regional air defense missiles with a range of more than 200 kilometers.

This was mainly learned from the lessons of the Battle of Solomon.

In fleet air defense operations, regional air defense missiles still have their own value, such as dispersing incoming aircraft groups at a longer distance, making it impossible for enemy aircraft to attack in concert.

However, these air defense warships are simply impossible to cope with the upcoming air strikes.
Chapter completed!