Chapter 235

Hearing his teammate's cursing, the pilot named William soon discovered the missile in the thermal imaging of his helmet.

Immediately, he and his teammate pulled up their heads in advance.

However, once a fighter jet is locked onto by a missile, the chance of escape for even a fighter jet like the F-22 is very small.

Because although fighter jets possess a certain degree of maneuverability and flexibility, as well as the operational capability of excellent pilots,

in actual confrontation, escaping a missile lock is usually an extremely difficult task.

Because the speed of modern air-to-air missiles is usually far beyond that of fighter jets, generally around Ma He 4, and some even exceed Ma He 6.

This means that once locked onto by a missile, the fighter jet needs to react quickly to avoid being shot down.

Additionally, even experienced pilots will feel pressure when facing a missile lock,

especially in tense and dangerous situations, they might lose their cool and make wrong decisions, thereby increasing the probability of being shot down.

And the general escape probability is between about 10% and 20%.

Not to mention, the Pili-21 launched by the Jian-20, this kind of active radar missile.

It must be known that with the development of technology, one point is very clear: the value of dogfight missiles is becoming lower and lower.

Currently, in terms of dogfight missiles, various countries are improving flexibility, not paying attention to increasing range, and requiring omnidirectional capability, which can be coordinated with helmet-mounted sights to guide the missile to the target for off-boresight launch.

But after entering the fifth-generation aircraft era, because both sides are stealth aircraft, beyond-visual-range victory will inevitably become the mainstream.

How to kill targets at ultra-long distances is the key for future fighter jets.

Like the past semi-active radar guidance, it has been eliminated; for example, the Dragon Nation's Pili-15 and Pili-21 have both entered the active radar guidance era.

The millimeter-wave common-aperture phased array radar it carries can easily lock onto the F-22.

Following the sound of an explosion,

an F-22 fighter jet turned into a fireball.

"Matt...!!!" the pilot William looked in terror as the fighter jet that had become his comrade turned into a fireball, his heart unable to calm down for a long time.

It must be known that this was the first F-22 Raptor fighter jet destroyed since they entered the Syrian battlefield.

In the past, as long as they appeared, they were invincible over the Syrian sky.

Those air defense missiles simply couldn't lock onto them.

So during this period, relying on the F-22 fighter jet, which was like a dagger, they destroyed countless Syrian air defense weapons.

At the same time, they killed many civilians.

Even some pilots would deliberately drop missiles into civilian areas; even if condemned,

they would say it was an aircraft accident.

Just like when they bombed the embassy back then.

But today, their F-22 Raptor fighter jet, which they claimed to be invincible,

was actually destroyed.

More importantly, they didn't even discover the opponent.

They didn't even know what kind of fighter jet the opponent was, or which country it belonged to.

This beyond-visual-range combat made the Ugly Nation's pilots seem as if they didn't know how to fight for a moment,

because in the past, no country could possess this capability.

To be able to discover the F-22 Raptor from such a distance and lock onto it.

It was as if the F-22's stealth capability was of no use to the other party at all.

Even more terrifying was the opponent's missile, Ma He 6, equivalent to 2.052 km/s.

That is to say, in a minute and a half, this missile could cross two hundred kilometers, exceeding the F-22 radar detection range.

This speed was too fast.

Basically, by the time the F-22 discovered the missile, the missile was already close at hand.

Too late to mourn for the teammate who lost his life, the pilot William, who had just dodged the missile with extreme danger, immediately said to the communication system:

"Thomas, disperse, formation 5!"

"OK!"

Immediately, the remaining two aircraft turned to the side and dispersed.

The two aircraft were like two pincers heading towards the missile's direction.

However, they were not given any chance to catch their breath, and more missiles flew towards them.

Immediately, the F-22 fired two AIM-120 medium-range air-to-air missiles towards the opponent's missiles.

As for why they didn't fire just now,

it was because they hadn't reacted at all, and the enemy's missiles were already close at hand.

Basically, when locked onto, they couldn't make any moves other than dodging.

But now, with the lesson just learned, they immediately began to use missiles to bombard the opponent's missiles.

Immediately, two Pili-21s were intercepted.

However, they hadn't caught their breath yet when the beeping alarm on the aircraft sounded again.

"FUCK!" William couldn't help but curse.

Because the opponent's combat style of not showing their head and continuously shooting from a distance,

he felt it was too despicable.

If you have the ability, let us fight with real swords and guns, and speak with flight skills,

instead of continuously shooting from the dark like this.

The opponent relying on stealth capability and beyond-visual-range strikes truly made the F-22 pilots feel very aggrieved.

At this moment, they would absolutely never think that

they were relying on stealth capability to kill continuously over other countries' skies without restraint;

was that not very despicable?

If Lin Yi, who was piloting the Jian-20, knew what the F-22 pilot was thinking, he would probably sneer.

Although even if it were close-quarters combat, he wouldn't be afraid of the opponent at all.

After all, over 5,000 hours of fighting and hundreds of deaths were not for nothing.

But conversely, why should he abandon his advantages to fight the opponent?

That would be a hero, but a fool.

And Lin Yi had the advantage of infinite ammunition and energy as long as he had money.

In this situation, no matter how many missiles were fired, he could grind the opponent to death.

However, these Ugly Nation F-22 pilots didn't know at all.

They retaliated with AIM-120 medium-range air-to-air missiles.

But the problem was the ammunition capacity.

Although the F-22 possessed a maximum ammunition capacity of 8 missiles, even two more than the Jian-20's main bay,

they had already fired them over the Syrian sky just now.

Now the two aircraft actually didn't have much ammunition left.

"Thomas, how many missiles do you have left!"

William asked in the communication system.

"I have one AIM-120 missile left!"

Thomas looked at his remaining ammunition, his face extremely ugly.

Because if the opponent fired in the next round, he would be empty.

However, in just the short time just now, the opponent had fired seven of those super-fast air-to-air missiles.

But the problem was, until now, they couldn't determine how many aircraft the opponent had come with.

If there was only one fighting them, the opponent should basically have no ammunition now.

But if there were multiple, then they had to retreat.

However, unfortunately, the opponent had always been avoiding close-quarters combat, as if they knew the F-22's radar system very well.

They simply couldn't search for the opponent.

This made the two F-22 pilots' faces extremely ugly.

However, before they could think much, the familiar beeping sounded again.

"Damn it!"

Thomas immediately fired his only remaining missile.