.This battle did not come suddenly, because on the night of June 7, the East China Sea Fleet returned to the east of the Diaoyu Islands, and the Second Fleet also moved to about 30 kilometers behind the East China Sea Fleet. All the main warships of the Chinese Navy on the East China Sea battlefield were deploying offensive and defensive deployments.

Because the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force no longer has combat capabilities, even if there are more than a dozen submarines, it is difficult to break through the peripheral anti-submarine network composed of four attack nuclear submarines and twelve conventional submarines, and it cannot threaten the Chinese fleet at all. Therefore, when conducting offensive defense deployment, the Chinese fleet focused on facing air threats.

Accompanying the fleet are early warning aircraft and strategic electronic reconnaissance aircraft.

The team's high pressure forced the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force to counterattack.

In a sense, it was Teng Yaohui's active tactics that made Imai Tatsumura decide to take action to try to turn the situation around through a large-scale air strike.

To this end, Imai Tatsumura not only used all his strength, but also made careful arrangements for combat operations.

On the night of June 7, all the FDs deployed in Kadena were transferred to the air bases in Kyushu and Shikoku, leaving only the F-22a used to seize air supremacy.

With the scale of the Jiadena Air Force Base, it not only has no problem supporting 120 F-22a, but also achieves the highest efficiency.

Before the attack began, the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force dispatched four squadrons of forty-eight F-22a to compete with the Chinese Air Force's air defense fighter jets for air supremacy.

This scale is definitely not small. With the combat power of f-22a, it will definitely be fine to deal with twice its j and j-10.

Obviously, it is difficult for the Chinese Air Force to invest so many fighter jets at the first time. You should know that the patrol waters of the East China Sea Fleet are nearly 600 kilometers away from the mainland and less than 300 kilometers away from Okinawa. Even if the Chinese Air Force fighter jets take off at the same time, it will take twice as long as Japanese fighters to arrive at the battlefield. Fighting over the East China Sea Fleet, the combat time of Chinese fighter jets is only two-thirds of that of Japanese fighter jets. If the ammunition consumption is not considered, it means that the Chinese Air Force will have to dispatch half of the more fighter jets to tie the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force.

In other words, the Chinese Air Force needs to use 144 fighter jets to maintain air supremacy.

Of course, this is the result of theoretical calculations.

In combat, the Chinese Air Force and even the East China Sea Fleet will use electromagnetic weapons on a large scale to weaken the advantages of F-22a and thus reduce the requirements for air combat.

Even if calculated one-to-one, the Chinese Air Force needs to dispatch forty-eight fighter jets.

At the same time, forty-eight fighters are guided to fight, and the limit of J-2000 is reached. If an electromagnetic warfare is carried out, the KJ-200 needs to be used to provide support.

Of course, air defense warships can also guide fighter jets to fight over the fleet.

It can be said that the only advantage is that there is the East China Sea Fleet. Without the support provided by the East China Sea Fleet, it will be difficult for the Chinese Air Force to defeat the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force near Okinawa.

The problem is, this is just the beginning.

When four F-22a squadrons were dispatched, the FD aircraft transferred to the local area and the newly acquired FD fighter jets began to take off.

One hundred and eighty FDs were dispatched at one time, and Imai Tatsumura definitely went all out.

Although the airport's ability to deploy on the local level is not a problem, organizing 180 fighter jets to launch attacks is definitely a big problem.

You know, even if it is 3g, you can only command more than 40 fighter jets at a time.

To this end, the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force had to carefully arrange attack tactics.

After the FD aircraft group was launched, each three squadrons formed a large aircraft group, with one FD piloting ahead, and other fighters lined up in dense formations to follow up. Therefore, on the way to the war zone, only the pilot fighter jets needed to support them, and no need to guide all fighters.

However, it is difficult to keep confidentiality when a super-large-scale aircraft group is dispatched.

If normal flight altitude is used, these fighter jets will be discovered by Chinese early warning aircraft over the northern waters of the East China Sea shortly after takeoff.

More importantly, the combat radius of fd is far less than that of f-22a.

When carrying four anti-ship missiles, the FD can only carry a secondary fuel tank on the center mount of the fuselage. Even if the fuel in the back-retained fuel tank is included, the maximum combat radius is only about 1,000 kilometers. The straight-line distance from Kagoshima to the patrolling waters of the East China Sea Fleet exceeds 900 kilometers, which is close to the maximum combat radius of the fighter. Because it must be considered to be intercepted before the attack, the FD aircraft group cannot fly along the shortest route, and even extend the distance of ultra-low altitude penetration. In this way, the FD's combat radius will not reach 1,000 kilometers, and the actual attack range will exceed 900 kilometers.

The best solution is to allow the fleet to replenish fuel on its way back.

Unfortunately, the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force does not have enough tankers, and can only barely guarantee that thirty-six FDs will return to their homeland.

Obviously, other fighter jets have to fly to Kadena Air Force Base or nearby field airports.

Even so, the problem remains prominent.

The main reason is that the combat radius of FD is only 1,000 kilometers. If the ultra-low-altitude penetration distance exceeds 500 kilometers, it will be difficult to reach the attack area.

To this end, when orchestrating tactics, the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force could only disperse the FD aircraft fleet.

According to the attack tactics of the Air Self-Defense Force, a group of aircraft flew along the shortest route, penetrated extremely low altitude throughout the entire journey, and flew to the Okinawa Islands after completing the combat mission. Because these fighters are likely to be exposed in advance, the combat loss rate is definitely the highest, and there will not be many fighter jets returning to the air.

The three aircraft groups headed south from the east of the Okinawa Islands, turned to the East China Sea in the north of Okinawa Island, and then turned to ultra-low-altitude penetration after entering the East China Sea, ensuring that there is enough fuel to return to the Okinawa Islands after completing the attack mission. As the main attack force, this group of fighter jets will be covered with key points.

The last group of aircraft also headed south from the east of the Okinawa Islands, but flew to the north of the Miyako Islands before turning, entering the East China Sea and conducting ultra-low-altitude penetration. Because the attack distance exceeds 1,300 kilometers, these fighters will join the refueling opportunity in the east of Okinawa when they return to the airport and then return to their homeland.

In the view of Imai Tsukimura, this is almost a perfect attack plan.

The Chinese Air Force will definitely focus on the first FD aircraft fleet and use a large number of air defense fighters to allow the FD aircraft fleet to launch an attack without any obstruction. If one hundred and eight FDs still cannot send the East China Sea fleet to the bottom of the sea, the last thirty-six fighters will conduct additional attacks. Of course, if the East China Sea fleet has been wiped out, the third FD aircraft fleet will attack the second fleet, ensuring that the Chinese fleet in the East China Sea will be wiped out in one fell swoop and help the Maritime Self-Defense Force seize the sea control power.

Of course, there is a prerequisite for whether the attack can be successful, that is, whether the whereabouts of the East China Sea Fleet can be accurately grasped.

At half past two, all the FDs were launched and had already flown south for about fifteen minutes, the fifth F-22a squadron took off from Kadena Air Force Base.

This batch of fighter jets did not seek air supremacy, but performed tactical reconnaissance missions.

The previous few naval and air battles have proved that tactical reconnaissance is crucial. The reconnaissance planes are of great significance to the ability of the Chinese Air Force to eliminate the third guard group in one fell swoop.

To this end, the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force made special improvements to these twelve F-22a.

In addition to replacing a more powerful tactical communication station, an aerial camera has been added to ensure that the East China Sea Fleet can still be found when the radar cannot be used normally.

Of course, this requires reconnaissance planes to fly over the East China Sea Fleet.

In addition to reconnaissance aircraft, the Air Self-Defense Force also has to provide enough escort fighter jets for the attack aircraft fleet.

The FD is not a stealth fighter, but also fights at night. Even if it is super low-altitude penetration, it is easily discovered by the Chinese Air Force's early warning aircraft.

Without escort fighters, it is difficult for FD to survive, let alone attack the East China Sea Fleet.

In the battle on May 29, just four J-20s collapsed the attacks launched by sixty F-2s, causing the Air Self-Defense Force to fail.

However, when arranging the escort fighter jets, Imai Tsukumura encountered trouble.

The question is, how to allocate escort fighters.

If the feint attack aircraft group wants to play a role, it must obtain enough cover. If the Chinese Air Force thinks that the threat comes from the north, it must arrange enough escort fighters. However, the Air Self-Defense Force only has sixty F-22a left. If too many escort fighters are arranged for the feint attack aircraft group, the escort force of other attack aircraft groups will inevitably weaken the escort force of other attack aircraft groups. If enough escort fighters are not arranged, feint attack will not make much sense.

After weighing the trade-offs, Imai Tatsumura decided to provide twenty-four f-22a for the feint attack fleet.

If the ratio of one to three is 1, 24 F-22a is enough to cover 72 FDs, and the Chinese Air Force will not be able to ignore so many attack aircraft in any case.

The remaining thirty-six f-22a are all used to cover the main attacking aircraft group.

As for the FD aircraft group that performs supplementary strike missions, there is no escort force.

According to Imai Toshimura's judgment, if the last thirty-six FDs are needed, the Air Self-Defense Force will definitely win air supremacy, and the previous two rounds of strikes have also achieved results, so there is no need to arrange escort fighters separately. Even if necessary, fighters that seize air supremacy can be drawn to cover.

More importantly, this batch of fighter jets finally arrived, and the other crews had returned, and there were enough fighter jets in the air.

According to this arrangement, at 2:45, the F-22a aircraft group that was responsible for the escort mission began to take off.

At this time, it was about half an hour before the first batch of f-22a was launched.

Before the FD aircraft group that was in charge of the strike mission arrived, the air combat began, and the Chinese Air Force also invested enough air defense fighter jets as Imairimura expected.

According to the information detected by e-3g, there were more than 70 Chinese fighter jets on the battlefield.

However, the situation is not ideal.

Before the air combat started, Chinese fighters used electromagnetic weapons. More importantly, the battlefield was near the East China Sea Fleet, and Chinese warships also participated in the battle.

Instead of using air defense missiles to support fighters, they use electromagnetic weapons to help fighters fighters fight.

The result is that when fighting with Chinese fighter jets, it is difficult for the f-22a to obtain the support of e-3g and it is even more difficult to conduct visual outer space combat.

The number of fighters has become a key factor in conducting close combat.

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