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As one of the best pilots in the Air Force, Kino immediately realized the mistake he had made: he did not throw away the drop fuel tanks under the wings.

The F-22J is a stealth fighter that only uses an external drop fuel tank when flying in transition.

Due to this limitation, the maximum maneuverable overload of the F-22J cannot exceed four G, and it can only reach seven .5 G by throwing away the auxiliary fuel tank. If the maximum design index, which is nine G, is to be reached, the flight control software needs to be manually dismantled, and the pilot will have full control over the fighter of more than twenty tons.

Kino's movements were fast, and while throwing out the auxiliary fuel tank, he disarmed the flight control software.

In front of him, the F-22J piloted by "Uesugi" had already jumped straight into the air, and according to the calculation of the climb angle, the overload must have exceeded 7.5 g.

Kino didn't think too much about it, he had to catch up with "Uesugi".

It's a pity that after throwing away the auxiliary fuel tank, the longitudinal rod is still vibrating, and the F-22J is like a loose horse, not listening to the pilot's call at all.

What's going on?

Kino quickly checked the flight parameters on one side, as well as the working conditions of various equipment, the engine speed was normal, the hydraulic system was normal, the fly-by-wire system was normal, all the equipment related to flight control was working normally, and the plane should not have such a violent vibration.

In a hurry, Kino also checked the state of the landing gear.

All normal, there are no problems with the control system and power system of the aircraft.

What's wrong with that?

As the climb speed became faster and the elevation angle increased, the F-22J's overload increased, and just when Kino felt a little struggling, a gray object flew over the cockpit.

Ji Ye was startled, and when he saw it clearly, he gasped even more.

The "head" of the F-22J, that is, the radar fairing, is gone!

It was part of the radar fairing that began to fly over the cockpit. Due to the high-speed air flow, the fire control radar installed in the nose of the aircraft has been scattered.

At this time, the control system of the fighter sounded an alarm: the fire control electronics suffered serious damage.

Because the flight resistance has increased dramatically, the flight speed of Kino's F-22J has also slowed down.

It is no longer possible to catch up with the fighter in front.

Kino was very frustrated, because the radar and the electro-optical sighting system also installed in the nose were all destroyed, and he was unable to attack the "Uesugi" landline with missiles.

From Liu Wei's launch of the missile to Ji Ye's forced withdrawal from the pursuit, it was only a matter of more than 20 seconds.

At this time, the three missiles launched by Liu Wei had already caught up with the three fighters in the first squadron.

Although before that, the three pilots of this formation had heard the conversation between Maehara and Kino and "Uesugi" and knew that there was something wrong with the formation in the left rear, they never expected that "Uesugi" would attack them with missiles, and it was not until the missile warning plane sounded that the three of them discovered the approaching missile.

This is also understandable, Liu Wei only used the AN/AGP-79 to track the target, obtain the target information, and the whole process took only a few seconds, and the AIM-120D fired at these three fighters were all guided by the habitual navigation system in the middle course, until they entered the tracking and locking distance of the missile fire control radar, and did not begin to irradiate the target.

Only then will the missile warning aircraft on the F-22J raise the alarm.

Prior to this, radar warning aircraft on all three fighters had sounded the alarm, but they were not heeded. The three pilots thought it was Uesugi who activated the fire control radar, and Maehara and Kino were warning him. Besides, when entering the sky over the Pacific Ocean, Uesugi made a similar mistake.

It is too late to wait for the missile warning aircraft to sound the alarm and then maneuver to evade.

In order to improve the hit rate, Liu Wei shortened the AIM-120D's self-guidance distance from the usual 20 kilometers to 10 kilometers, and only 5 kilometers to attack the fighter that was slightly closer. At this distance, no matter how good the F-22J's stealth surname is, the AIM-120D's missile-borne radar can also detect it.

What's worse is that these three F-22Js also have four large auxiliary fuel tanks.

Before the F-22J on the left rear side of the formation could throw off the auxiliary fuel tank, the AIM-120D missile pounced and sent the $400 million fighter into the arms of the sea with a 20-kilogram high-energy warhead. Because he was preparing for battle and was highly concentrated, the pilot did not have time to parachute to escape.

By the time the other two fighters threw off their auxiliary fuel tanks and maneuvered to evade, the AIM-120D was already approaching.

The distance is less than two kilometers!

While the maximum maneuvering overload of the F-22J is nine G, the maximum maneuvering overload of the AIM-120D is more than forty G. Normally, the maneuvering overload of missiles is three times greater than that of fighters, and it is difficult for fighters to escape. In almost five times as many cases, the fighter was even more unable to escape.

The AIM-120D is the latest model in the AIM-120 family of medium-range air-to-air missiles.

Compared with the previous three models, the biggest improvement of the AIM-120D is the replacement of the rocket engine with a ramjet engine, which increases the maximum range from 120 kilometers to 160 kilometers of the AIM-120C, and the maximum attack range in the rear hemisphere is also more than 80 kilometers.

In addition to increasing range, the ramjet engine also has a prominent ability, that is, it can maintain a higher flight speed of the missile at full range. The AIM-120C, which uses a rocket engine, reaches its maximum range at Mach 2.5 instead of Mach 4 when launched.

The AIM-120D does not have this problem, and after flying more than twenty kilometers, the speed is still Mach four.

This is the relative velocity to the target, not the absolute velocity relative to the ground.

In the last two kilometers, the missile's flight time was less than two seconds, and in such a short time, the F-22J could not make any evasive maneuvers, and the pilot did not even have time to release the decoy jamming bomb.

Like the first two missiles, these two missiles were detonated in close proximity, destroying fighters with shrapnel.

AIM-120D has two types of detonation fuzes, one is a proximity fuse controlled by LiDAR, and the other is a collision fuze. The bump fuse will only come into play if the proximity fuse fails.

A fighter is not a tank fighting vehicle, and even the thick-skinned A-10C is vulnerable to air-to-air missiles.

Hit by prefabricated fragments, the F-22J is definitely in danger.

When the three F-22Js were shot down, the F-22Js piloted by Liu Wei had climbed to an altitude of 15,000 meters, compared with the previous cruising altitude of only 9,000 meters.

The speed has not decreased, and it is still Mach 1.8.

After flying eastward for about a minute, Liu Wei pressed down and pulled up the longitudinal pole, and the F-22J tumbled and climbed for about a thousand meters, and began to turn to dive.

When the flight altitude dropped to 10,000 meters, Liu Wei activated the fire control radar again.

A few seconds later, the AN/AGP-79 radar again locked on to three targets, the three F-22Js to the right of the large formation.

It's a pity that there are only two AIM-120Ds left on Liu Wei's F-22J, and at this time, the pilot already knew that the fighters in the front formation were attacked.

In order to ensure the maximum harvest, Liu Wei chose a target and shot two AIM-120D.

When the bomb bay door was closed, Liu Wei could already see the three F-22Js behind the large formation with the naked eye. At this time, the distance between the two sides was about thirty kilometers, which was beyond the visual range of ordinary people. If the sun rises a little more, Liu Wei can see farther.

Because it did not occur that the enemy aircraft had already come to the rear, the three F-22Js did not disperse.

To be sure, all three fighters have activated their fire control radars and are searching the airspace within one hundred and twenty degrees ahead, looking for enemy aircraft attacking them.

For Liu Wei, this is the perfect opportunity.

After adjusting the fire channel to the AIM-9X, Liu Wei activated the optoelectronic tracking system.

The F-22J was advanced, but it was not equipped with a helmet-mounted sighting system like the J-10, so it could not be visually guided by the pilot, and the fire control system on the fighter had to be used.

In line-of-sight combat, the most reliable is, of course, the optoelectronic tracking system.

Although the AIM-9X is a combat missile, it has a maximum head-on attack range of 20 km. It is a pity that the tail chase attack is less than ten kilometers away.

To be on the safe side, Liu Wei did not rush to launch the missile.

It was only when he approached within 10 kilometers that he opened the rib bomb bay door of the fighter and let the AIM-9X mounted on the pylons stick out of its head, and the infrared/ultraviolet dual-mode guidance head on the missile found and tracked the target on its own.

As the missile locked onto the first target, Liu Wei fired the first AIM-9X.

Just a few seconds later, the second missile also flew out of the bomb bay of the F-22J.

At this time, the first F-22J to be attacked had begun to maneuver to evade. Although the AIM-9X does not emit electromagnetic signals when searching for and attacking targets, the rocket engine generates a lot of heat that can still be detected by the missile warning aircraft on the fighter jet.

Immediately afterwards, the second F-22J, which was attacked by missiles, also began to maneuver to evade.

Liu Wei ignored the two fighters, but stared at the F-22J at the front of the formation.

AIM-9X is known as the world's most advanced combat missile, with an off-axis launch capability of up to 120 degrees, a maneuvering overload of up to 60g, and a dual-mode planar array seeker that can automatically generate infrared/ultraviolet images of the target, which is almost unaffected by decoy jamming bombs.

Dealing with the most advanced fighters with the most advanced missiles is exactly what is used for it.

The wingman was attacked, and the leader of the captain immediately spotted the enemy plane coming from the rear hemisphere.

The pilot must have been shocked into a cold sweat, because when the fighter planes were on par, being attacked by enemy planes in the rear hemisphere meant being passively beaten.

The F-22J pulled out a nice arc and rushed high into the air.

Not to be outdone, Liu Wei immediately pulled up. He had used up all his missiles, and all that was left was the six-barreled 20-millimeter Vulcan cannon, which had to be shortened to less than a kilometer.

The pilot strictly followed the guidance of the American instructor and gave full play to the vertical maneuverability of the F-22J.

Thanks to advanced aero engines, U.S. fighter jets pay more attention to vertical maneuverability, and the F-15 series fighter has better vertical maneuverability than the Su-27 of the same era. The F-22 is no exception, with a thrust-to-weight ratio of up to 1.4 percent with a standard air combat load and world-class vertical maneuverability.

It's a pity that it was also an F-22J that bit him.

Because all the missiles were used up and more fuel was burned, Liu Wei's F-22J had a higher thrust-to-weight ratio and better acceleration and climb ability.

What's more, Liu Wei doesn't need to worry about the high overload caused by the strenuous maneuver.

For the pilots who only have the physique of ordinary people, this is a hurdle that cannot be overcome.

(To be continued)