The location of the Yunba tanker is about 200 kilometers away from Nanzi Island and 700 kilometers away from Lingshui Base. With the voyage of the Yunba transport aircraft of more than 5,000 kilometers, it can currently carry at least 12 tons of fuel in this sea area for more than four hours.

After Ning Lei, who took off with the tanker in this sea area, had consumed nearly half of the fuel in the aircraft. Ning Lei could almost replenish more than three tons of aviation fuel in this air refueling.

Feeling the plane trembling slightly, Zhou Sheng knew that Wang Aimin, who was responsible for refueling the F14 fighter in the cabin, had turned on the switch of the refueling hose.

Generally speaking, for hose-type aerial refueling, the maximum refueling volume per minute can only reach about 1,500 liters. The more than three tons of aviation fuel required by Ning Lei will be added in less than five minutes.

Zhou Sheng first felt the trembling of the plane slowly stop. After a while, the landline stumbled slightly. Zhou Sheng knew that the f14 fighter refueling behind had completed the refueling operation and left the refueling hose.

Sure enough, a few seconds later, the smooth back curve of the f14 fighter emerged from the airspace below Yunba. After shaking the wings twice, the two originally dark blue spots at the tail of the fighter suddenly became brighter. As the wings gradually closed, the entire plane disappeared into the distant skyline in a blink of an eye.

"Captain, it seems that the goal of this operation is very big." Meng Fang, the co-pilot of the Yunba tanker, said.

Zhou Sheng nodded and said, "When we came here, there could be at least hundreds of fishing boats heading south in the northern waters, which seemed to be serving the battle. We just didn't know where to send the supplies."

"The Americans' plane is advanced. That guy is almost as big as our Yunba. I really don't understand how the jet can fly so slowly." Mongolian looked at the direction where the f14 fighter disappeared, gently patted the joystick in his hand and said with emotion.

Zhou Sheng laughed and said, "The two F14 fighters who came here to refuel today are basically full of ammunition, which looks like a Vietnamese and a pot of drinks."

The airport cabin door rang, and Wang Aimin, who was originally responsible for the switch of the aerial refueling equipment in the cabin, stuck his head in and said, "Captain, you must not guess what I saw."

"The F14 fighter we just refueled was the newly born ace in the Nansha Air Battle a few months ago. When the plane left, I saw a record of falling under the canopy hood." Wang Aimin's voice was full of incredible surprises.

Ning Lei was just in time for the routine maintenance of the landline when he participated in several aerial refueling training sessions, so he was just transferred to a tanker unit that was not familiar with in Hainan. I still don’t know that Ning Lei was the ace pilot born during the 8.09 Nansha Air Battle.

"Oh, let's talk about it. Are there six crash records?" Zhou Sheng was also very interested in this question. While adjusting the Yun-8 tanker to a fixed driving state in circles in the predetermined airspace, he asked curiously.

"Although it passed by in a flash, I'm sure there are 100% six." Wang Aimin said in and his affirmative tone.

Then the three-person crew of the Yunba tanker began to discuss the various rumors about the air battle that happened not long ago.

"Two holes, did you find the birds?" Ning Lei slowly controlled the accelerator and accelerated the F14 fighter to the most suitable economic speed for cruise.

"Ho, no flocks of birds were found. Their height was probably below 35 meters." said Rock, the radar officer in the back seat.

The bird flock is the code name for the entire A7 attack aircraft fleet in this operation. Although the F14 fighter is equipped with awg9 radar with outstanding performance, due to the technical limitations of the development era, the radar's downward vision ability is limited and its ability to distinguish the clutter on the ground or sea surface is not strong. Generally speaking, the distance for ultra-low-altitude moving targets is basically within 40 kilometers.

"We are still 30 kilometers away from the owl. The owl heads at 160, the speed is 700, and the height is 1000."

A moment later, the flat rear fuselage of a light gray f14 fighter and two tall hanging tails came into Ning Lei's eyes.

"Haidongqing called the owl, please answer when he received it." The two machines finally approached the visible range, and Ning Lei directly called Qiao Pengfei's new call sign to the headset.

"The owl received."

"I'm 2,000 meters behind you, where is the bird flock?" Ning Lei asked.

Qiao Pengfei took off 30 minutes earlier than Ning Lei. After refueling in the air, he was patrolling 50 kilometers above Nanzi Island, searching for the traces of the Vietnamese Air Force. Qiao Pengfei chose this location to patrol in order to avoid the long-range air alert radar set up by Vietnam on Nanwei Island, more than 200 kilometers away.

Judging from the level of long-range air defense alert radar in the 1980s, large high-altitude bombers such as b52 can be found at a distance of 270 kilometers. However, if you want to distinguish the targets of the size of the F14 fighter, unless a large number of F14 fighters form a large group of aircraft in the high altitude, the chance of being discovered is negligible.

Taking the abnormal AWG9 radar of the F14 fighter, which is more than 200 kilometers long, it can be used as a small early warning aircraft throughout the entire battle. Qiao Pengfei patrolled 50 kilometers behind the fleet and also provided nearly 10 minutes of air early warning time for the special mixed formations on the sea.

"The bird flock has just flew past me, and I guess it will be able to reach the sky above Nanzi Island in another 5 minutes." Qiao Pengfei said.

"Form a dense formation of dual-members and enable radar sharing mode. I will take over you and continue to be alert." Ning Lei said.

Inspired by Liang Yuan's large dollar amount, Grumman upgraded the an/asw27 bidirectional data data links of the Republic's six F14 fighters to C-type that does not require early warning aircraft to be transferred. After the data link is successfully upgraded, within the visual range, every four F14 fighters can be individually networked and share the scanning information of an awg9 radar.

For Ning Lei and Qiao Pengfei, the radio silence, dense formation flight and so on brought here are not the biggest benefits. In the Twin Reefs waters are more than 600 kilometers away from Vietnam, and the nearest long-range air alert radar is 270 kilometers away. Factors such as radio interference and confidentiality can be ignored to no.

The biggest benefit of the F14 fighter that has been upgraded to data links now has brought Ning Lei and Qiao Pengfei the firepower density that is greatly enhanced. When sharing a radar, the F14 fighter in the dual-aircraft formation can completely launch four Aim54 Immortal Air-to-air missiles at one time, which is much higher than the launch of the two aircraft respectively.

After completing the dual-plane formation, it was less than 3 minutes after Ning Lei took over the patrol mission, and a striking radar prompt sounded in the radar cockpit behind him.

"Dongya, I found the UFO, the orientation is 210, the speed is 900, and the height is 6000." Rock's voice sounded in the headsets of the other three.

"I saw it too, wait, another group of targets appeared, with a position of 210, a speed of 900, and a height of 3000." Qiao Pengfei's radar officer Sun Qiliang said excitedly.

"Dongyao. It seems that the Vietnamese still can't hold it back."

"Dragons of caves, keep observing. In fact, it is best to clean them up at once. I hope that the Vietnamese will not only dispatch such a few aircraft." Ning Lei's tone was still calm.

When the awg9 radar first discovered the UFO target, the distance between the two sides was 220 kilometers. In just three minutes, the distance between the two sides was close to 160 kilometers. At this time, the radar officer in Ning Lei's back seat had already figured out the scale of the dispatch of the Vietnam Air Force.

Looking at the flashing light spots on the tactical radar screen, Rock said bitterly: "Dongyao, so far, a total of three batches of flight targets have been found, each batch is at a height of 6,000 and a low altitude of 3,000. Each formation is composed of four MiG 23s, and the flight distance between the three batches is about 10 kilometers."

"The Vietnamese should have come out in full bloom." Rock finally couldn't help but add.

Ning Lei in the front seat laughed and said, "Two holes, seven holes, turn on the weapon master switch to supply air to the Aim54 air-to-air missile. After locking the target, the volley of 110 kilometers, we will knock out the first batch of the bottom ones first."

He first said to the headset: "Haidongqing calls the Eagle Nest, and Haidongqing calls the Eagle Nest."

"I received the Eagle's Nest, Haidongqing please speak."

Ning Lei first reported the location, quantity, height, formation and other data of the Vietnam Air Force, and continued: "Notify the birds to speed up and prepare to implement the predetermined plan."

Ning Lei could clearly hear the sound of the dispatcher at the Lilingshui Airport who was pumping air conditioners.

"Hairdn's Nest is received, Haidongqing is careful." The airport dispatcher said with a tight voice.

In the cockpit of the f14 fighter, the sound of the radar locking dripping became shorter and shorter. When the sound turned into a long sound, the sounds of Rock and Sun Qiliang almost rang in the headset at the same time, and I locked it.

In the blue sky, two light gray large fighter jets with smooth curves were more than ten meters apart, with half a distance between front and back flying towards the south.

Suddenly, four ignition lights flashed at the wing roots of the two fighters almost indiscriminately. As soon as the white mist that rose with the flames rose, it was instantly left behind by the fighter.

As the flames gradually stretched into a small line of fire, four off-white Aim54 air-to-air missiles slowly left under the wings of the F14 fighter. The missile seemed to be breaking through some kind of viscous liquid. After leaving the fighter 3 meters, it began to accelerate suddenly. After a white line flashed, only four straight smoke traces left on the waterway in front of the F14 fighter.

Huang Wenye gently pushed the joystick in his hand, maintaining a certain angle, so that the long machine more than ten meters away from the left front of the landline could be maintained at an appropriate distance.

The voice of the commander in the headset rang from time to time, reminding himself and another formation to pay attention to the sea so as not to miss the fleet that was operating near Nanzi Island.

"Gaoyama Third Team, is there anything unusual on the sea?" The leader's voice sounded again in the headset.

"Gashan team, everything is normal, no abnormalities are found at present." Huang Wenye heard his headplane reply in the headset.

"Continue to stay on the police..." Huang Wenye swore that his feelings have never been clear in his life as they are now.

The voice of the leader echoed in his ears. The headmaster in front of his eyes looked strange, as if he was being twisted by something. A white dot in front of his eyes suddenly appeared in the air, instantly becoming larger, covering the windshield of the entire cockpit. A golden light suddenly appeared in front of him, and in a blink of an eye, it was dyed black and red again. Huang Wenye's last thought was just to feel his breathing suffocated, and then he lost consciousness.
Chapter completed!