Chapter 131: Air Force, Kill
"What if you want to hide a tree?"
Shan Nuo still remembers Hu Wenhai asking him this sentence, speaking of which this stalk is not new to Shan Nuo, if you have read a little "Yilin", "Reader" and other chicken soup magazines for the soul, you will always inadvertently sweep this sentence.
Of course, the answer to this question is often given directly later. The best way to hide a large tree is to put it in the forest.
What if there is no forest? Then plant a forest.
The KJ66 turbojet engine is only enough to make toys most of the time, but it also has its advantages - simple structure and low cost.
Hu Wenhai asked the military factories in China to assist in the production of at least 1,000 of these model aircraft-grade turbojet engines, and the total investment was only 1 million yuan, which was already the result of leaving enough profits for the military factories.
The simplicity of the structure also gives it another advantage, which is reliability and stability. No matter how small the airflow is, the KJ66 with only a first-stage compressor will never have a surge, and it can be re-ignited in minutes when stopped in the air, although the thrust provided by a single engine is small, but it cannot withstand its high thrust-to-weight ratio.
"Command!"
Shannuo pulled his thoughts out of his memories and calmly ordered: "The Jian-8 fighter takes to the air and executes the super artillery and deception attack!"
"Yes!" the correspondent quickly passed Shanno's order to the exercise director's office. There is no air contest, so it quietly started in the virtual. China's Jian-8 fighter jets have really taken to the skies, and in the expectation of the exercise director's office, 50 advanced fighters of the Iraqi army are also taking to the air one after another.
A full 50 Iraqi fighters of various advanced Soviet and French planes were quickly lifted into the air under Abadi's orders. From the north of Bohai Province, it quickly moved south. One part went straight in the direction of the advance of the 1st tank battalion. Prepare to provide air cover for the forward troops. The other part rushed in the direction of southern Liaoning, preparing to find the Chinese lurking troops who might take advantage of the opportunity to surprise attack.
Since the ground-based radar network had lost its effectiveness at this time, the Iraqi fighters had to turn on the airborne radar in turn to make a defensive posture against the Chinese air force, which had not yet appeared.
However, on the radar of the Iraqi army, eight air targets soon appeared in the sky in the western direction of Liaoning. The pilots of the Iraqi army who participated in the exercise quickly judged that this was an air cluster that the Chinese side had never shown up!
The strength of the Chinese side in the exercise has long been clear, and there are ten fighters of the Chinese Air Force in active service. In the Chinese Air Force at this time, the most advanced aircraft is naturally none other than the Jian-8. Eight of China's most advanced fighters appeared at once. It can be seen that this is a long-planned raid.
Whether their target is the 1st Tank Battalion in the front or the main forces in the rear, they must not be allowed to succeed!
The air commander of the Iraqi army gave an order, and the fighter detachment composed of Flying Foxes and Mirage F1s turned around and quickly pounced on the climbing Chinese Jian-8 fighter group.
However, soon the French Mirage F1 had to give up its intention to participate in the war, because China's J-8 fighter was almost invincible in climb rate by virtue of the excellent performance of man-operated rockets, and it rose to an altitude of 20,000 meters in a short time.
And the poor French Mirage F1, its ceiling is only 16,500 meters. This air battle is destined to be a battle between two volley monsters. MiG-25 Flying Fox against Chinese J-8 fighters. Of the two fighters that emphasize high-altitude and high-speed interception performance, which one is more powerful?
If you just look at the data on paper. Although the J-8 fighter is known as a human-operated rocket, its performance is inferior to the flying fox MiG-25 of the Soviet violent aesthetic steel monster. If this kind of air battle really happens in reality, presumably the J-8 II may be able to fight, but the J-8A with air intake in the nose should still wash and sleep.
So the outcome of this air battle is actually not unexpected.
It's weird.
After accelerating to Mach 1.8, the Chinese Jian-8 fighters, which had already risen to an altitude of 18,000 meters, fired 32 "missiles" in unison, and then ignored the rapidly approaching MiG-25 and immediately turned around and ran.
Thirty-two missiles?
Yes, each J-8 fighter carried four gliding "cruise missiles", which were launched immediately after liftoff. The target does not need to be asked, it is the front-line airfield of the Iraqi army.
The commander of the Iraqi Air Force was shocked, saying that if these 32 "cruise missiles" hit the airfield, then his fleet would have no choice but to withdraw from the exercise! Even if it was transferred to a temporary standby airfield, it would inevitably take a longer time for the group to regain its organization, and it was very likely that some unpredictable danger would occur to the ground forces during this period.
Regardless of the fact that he could no longer pursue the eight Jian-8 fighters that had escaped, the commander of the Iraqi Air Force hurriedly ordered the MiG-25 to intercept the "cruise missiles."
The MiG-25, which did not have a cannon, had to use AA-6 air-to-air missiles mounted under the wings to intercept it, and 10 air-to-air missiles were aimed at 10 "cruise missile" targets and were launched.
The MiG-25's radar claims to be able to roast rabbits on the runway at a distance of 300 meters, but of course this is only a military joke based on false rumors, but it can also be seen that it is powerful.
But on the other hand, the Sapphire-25 radar used by the MiG-25 uses electron tube technology, although the detection range is long and not easy to be interfered with, but its resolution and tracking and guidance ability are relatively very poor.
In other words, the MiG-25 radar can be seen as a digital camera with a high standing and a large zoom factor, but extremely low resolution.
You know how far away something is, but you don't know what it looks like if you don't get close, and at the same time, you can only guide one missile to attack.
Therefore, the commander of the Iraqi Air Force did not know that the Jian-8 fighter group did not shoot a "cruise missile," but a "model aircraft" disguised its own signal as a cruise missile.
These "missiles" launched by the Jian-8 fighter have the same knapsack glider as the gliding "cruise missile", and their appearance is similar to that of a real cruise missile after camouflage. However, there is a slight difference that the real cruise missile uses the original French TRI-60 miniature turbojet engine, expensive mechanical gyroscopes, complex autopilots and sophisticated terrain matching systems, and the cost of each one is as high as one million yuan, not counting the engine.
The camouflage cruise missile uses a four-shot KJ66 camouflage "cruise missile", a cheap fiber-optic gyroscope, and a follow-up control system. There is no charge, no redundant terrain matching and navigation system, and a "pilot projectile" is used to lead these camouflage shells through the air.
In this way, the cost of a camouflage bomb is only about 50,000 yuan.
Its only role is to cover the real cruise missile to enter the target at a distance of 200 kilometers, and then switch to a low-altitude mode to penetrate the defense. As long as the power is enough to glide through the air for half an hour, the task is already complete.
But the Iraqis did not know that only one of the 32 missiles was a real cruise missile, nor did they know which one was a real cruise missile, and they did not dare to let any of them land on the runway of the airport.
They had to intercept all the missiles.
In order to ensure that the rear route was not cut off, the commander of the Iraqi Air Force had to bring back more fighters from the central and southern directions to intercept the cruise missiles coming straight to the airfield in the north.
However, before the Foxes intercepted all the first batch of 32 "cruise missiles," the reloaded J-8 fighters rose into the sky again.
In the desperate eyes of the Iraqi Air Force commander, another 32 "cruise missiles" appeared on the radar screen.
Although the commander of the Iraqi Air Force mobilized more fighters to intercept the missiles, they were not as fast as the Chinese airfields that had been waiting for a long time to carry the missiles.
Thirty-two followed by thirty-two.
The 1,000 KJ66 engines in Hu Wenhai's hand were fully transformed and 200 camouflaged popped out.
Soon, the commander of the Iraqi Air Force realized his mistake. If the Jian-8 fighter cannot be destroyed, there will be no end to the interceptor missile alone.
With his order, the MiG-25 Flying Fox finally no longer had to intercept the "cruise missile", but galloped away at the fastest speed in the direction of the take-off J-8 fighter.
And then.
The signals of the two MiG-25 Flying Fox fighters, suddenly disappeared on the radar screen.
And then two more.
Immediately after that, there were two more.
The commander of the Iraqi Air Force was inexplicable, until two new radar signatures suddenly appeared behind the MiG-25 Flying Fox.
The two F-14 fighters, taking advantage of the gap in the Iraqi army's radar network and the inferior downward vision ability of the MiG-25, actually went around the airspace behind the Iraqi army's MiG-25 fleet long ago!
The six AIM54 Immortal Bird missiles carried by each F-14 easily eliminated six MiG-25s that did not have rear radar alarms at all.
Like the emperor of the sky, the two F-14s suddenly rose from a low altitude, launched missiles, and rushed towards the already panicked MiG-25 group.
The poor MiG-25, although it can fly at a high speed of Mach 3.2 and can rise to an altitude of 37,000 meters, does not save them from the danger of being shot down by missiles.
At this moment, the commander of the Iraqi Air Force seemed to recall the eagle in the sky over Iran, and angrily ordered the remaining MiG-25s to quickly withdraw from the battlefield.
However, he forgot that the eight diligent Jian-8 fighters were still constantly replenishing the endless "cruise missiles" in the air.
It's just that at this time, cruise missiles in the sky are no longer more than cheap decoy bombs.
In the exercise director's office, a group of generals looked at the air force general with Russian blood with a smile on his face, and Hu Wenhai, who was sitting beside him with a calm face. (To be continued......)