In the past few years, it has not been easy for the troops to seize a chance to fight anti-ship missiles. The unit price of a YJ-83 medium-sized anti-ship missile is millions of yuan, and the money for two is enough for the expenses of an army infantry regiment for more than half a year.

This time, not only will we have to fight, but we will also fight hard, and the air detachments will fight the surface detachments and the underwater detachments, and even the naval and coastal defense units will also fight. With the main purpose of the exercise to check anti-ship combat capabilities-2012, the implementation phase is expected to burn about half a billion in three days.

For example, Li Zhan clearly saw that in the Flying Shark squad, which is part of the air detachment, Dai Wenming and Han Hongjun each carried a YJ-83 anti-ship missile under the heavy pylons under the belly of the plane, and they were responsible for attacking the sea, while the other three fighters were responsible for air cover and using air-to-air missiles to hit flying targets.

The YJ-83 anti-ship missile is the first medium-sized general-purpose anti-ship missile of our army, which has developed into a family that can be used on various weapon platforms, and is the main anti-ship missile of the People's Navy

But to be honest, even Dai Wenming, these old HNAs, have never seen YJ-83 much, let alone have a good time. The army's history is so indebted that it can barely maintain basic combat training for many years, and it will take about three or five years for this situation to complete a complete change.

The fact that so many expensive live ammunition will be fired in this Denial-2012 live-fire exercise shows that the situation is changing, and that there will be more live-fire training in the future, and the troops will be severely beaten in the direction of actual combat.

All the shots were ready, Li Zhan and Dai Wenming kept flying level, and filmed the scene of the J-15 launching the YJ-83 anti-ship missile from the side. It is also meaningful to let Han Hongjun, who pilots the J-11B, be responsible for launching the second YJ-83 anti-ship missile, and the air force and navy can get data to test the use of the YJ-83 anti-ship missile of this model, because the J-11B will be the main fighter of the two major services in the future.

Li Zhan could hear the command post giving Dai Wenming an order to allow the attack.

Dai Wenming turned on the airborne radar to search for large surface ship targets dozens of kilometers away, and the domestically produced passive phased array radar on the nose of the J-15 easily captured the target 60 kilometers away, and after confirming the accuracy of the target parameters indicated by the early warning aircraft, he began to carry out the attack procedure.

It was the first time that Li Zhan had watched the fighter plane launch missiles so closely from the perspective of a bystander. In terms of the number of missile shots, except for test pilots, it is estimated that no pilot in the active army has more than him. Although air-to-ground missiles can be used as anti-ship missiles, the fact is that Li Zhan has never launched an anti-ship missile. This tickled his heart, and he didn't know what it was like to shoot an anti-ship missile.

"Security One Begins Attacking!" Dai Wenming reported and pressed the launch button at the same time.

The YJ-83 anti-ship missile, which was more than six meters long, broke away from the pylon, and the nose of the carrier aircraft was slightly raised up under the action of inertia, and Dai Wenming quickly controlled the attitude of the fighter. The YJ-83 anti-ship missile, which weighs 0.7 tons, moved forward by inertia for a certain distance, and ignited the booster rocket at a position about 50 meters below the front of the fighter, and the missile accelerated frantically to dive forward and downward, reaching a speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour in a very short time, the booster rocket detached, the turbojet engine took over, and the missile began to skim the sea at an altitude of only 20 meters above the water surface.

At a distance of 30 kilometers from the target, the first stage of the turbojet engine detached from the missile body, and the second stage rocket engine ignited, rapidly accelerating the missile to Mach 1.7, while continuing to dive down to a height of five meters above the water.

After entering the attack phase, the active radar guidance seeker locks on to the target, at which point the carrier aircraft can break away and return home, and the rest of the work can be done by the missile autonomously.

Although the maximum range of the YJ-83 air-launched anti-ship missile reached 200 km, in practical use it was launched at the closest possible distance. This is the significance of fighter penetration. The closer you are to the target, the higher the success rate of the strike.

Li Zhan could not see the scene of the missile hitting the target ship, and he immediately moved to the side of Han Hongjun to record the launch of the second YJ-83 anti-ship missile by Han Hongjun.

Two Rolls-Royces went out.

There was no time to go over to see the effect of the strike, and the other fighters were about to hit the flying target, so Li Zhan quickly pulled up the fighter plane and followed Cheng Da, Yang Fan, and Gu Mingmu into the airspace for aerial shooting. Unmanned targets have been released by the guaranteed ships on the sea, and three will be released one after another, and the method of no target prompt is adopted, and the difficulty is quite high for the pilots to search for them on their own.

The radar reflection area of an unmanned target aircraft is much smaller than that of a fighter aircraft, and whether it is visual search or radar search, it is a great challenge for pilots.

Li Zhan had fought unmanned target planes when he was working in Beiku, but it was a very backward unmanned target aircraft, while the navy used relatively advanced unmanned target planes, and the navy had money. Therefore, he is more worried about whether Cheng Da and the other three will be able to successfully find the target and lock on to the target, but he is not worried about the combat performance of the PL-9 air-to-air missile, although this missile is a transitional model, but the tactical performance is very reliable.

Chengda first entered the state of engagement, although the accuracy and reliability of the passive phased array radar of the J-15 are not as good as the active phased array radar used by the J-10C, but because the nose size is large enough, the size of the radar can be made very large, and the search distance is farther.

However, Cheng Da didn't seem to be focusing on the airborne radar search, and Li Zhan could tell from the flight maneuver he chose that he still pinned his hopes on visual search. That's the way the old birds like to use it.

Li Zhan drove the No. 81198 Old Flying Leopard to follow Chengda's actions closely, keeping the distance at an appropriate level, which would neither affect Chengda's maneuver nor break into Chengda's front hemisphere position - if he broke into Chengda's front hemisphere position, PL-9 would most likely chase after him and beat him in the ass.

The PL-9 air-to-air missile is an infrared-guided combat missile with a maximum range of 15 kilometers and is the main weapon used in close-range air combat. Although the missile is considered to be a new generation of short-range air-to-air missile, it is generally believed in the military that the missile has a good transition before the PL-10 new-generation short-range combat missile under development is put into service, which is equivalent to the status of the J-10B in the J-10 family, and plays a role in connecting the previous and the next.

This missile is very powerful, and Li Zhan has a deep experience.

Cheng Da is worthy of being the main commander of the prestigious Red Eagle Division, and he is quite experienced in flying. He used a skillful set of flight maneuvers to search the designated airspace, which not only ensured that he would not be ambushed, but also obtained a fairly good search vision.

In the end, an unmanned target plane with a speed of more than 400 kilometers per hour and yellow paint was visually captured by him.

"Discover the target! Prepare to attack! Chengda quickly reported, and at the same time accelerated to cut into the side of the unmanned target aircraft, and the airborne radar also quickly switched to lock mode.

Li Zhan quickly approached Cheng Da's rear and condescendingly filmed the scene of him firing the PL-9 close-range combat missile. Niu Jun even took out a wide-angle lens camera and never stopped shooting. She saw the real aerial combat scene today, and the seemingly simple process was actually stepping on the edge of the cliff at every step, especially the old flying leopard she and Li Zhan often had to change positions everywhere, and if she was not careful or the cooperation between the fighters was not tacit, there was a possibility of accidental injury. Under such stimulation, she realized what it was like to be in real combat.

"Lock on to the target! Command post, request attack! "Chengda asked for AWACS.

The commander of the AWACS aircraft, who was in charge of commanding the air detachment, immediately gave the order: "Attack as planned!" ”

Chengda launched the PL-9 close-range combat missile.

The missile accelerated to a speed of Mach 2 in a very short period of time, and in the blink of an eye, it hit an unmanned target plane with yellow paint seven or eight kilometers away -- the unmanned target plane, which is equivalent to a B-class car, was hit and exploded in the air, and the wreckage was even shattered into small fragments that were difficult to see with the naked eye.

"The target is destroyed!" Cheng Da made a neat evasive maneuver and quickly returned to the formation.

Immediately after that, the support vessel on the surface released a second unmanned target aircraft......

The Flying Shark squad completed the attack mission within the specified time, and in particular, the breakthrough and anti-ship attack in front performed quite well. The exercise command demanded that the attack be completed within three minutes, but in fact, Dai Wenming and Han Hongjun launched two YJ-83 anti-ship missiles in just over two minutes, and the results were better than expected.

Dai Wenming and the Flying Shark squad were transferred to patrol the air defense alert and no-navigation zone, while Li Zhan was ordered to rush to the sea area where the target ship was located to replace the Su-30MKK that was already in charge of damage assessment there, and the latter had been stranded there for more than two hours and needed to return to replenish fuel.

The exercise was carried out step by step according to the plan, and Li Zhan was still doing relevant support work. And this time he will not only be responsible for judging the effect of the damage, but also responsible for guiding the anti-ship missiles launched by the surface detachment - the integrated tactical pod he brings will come into play.

When Li Zhan arrived at the designated sea area, he was surprised to find that the target ship was not a target ship, but a bulk carrier with an estimated displacement of 30,000 or 40,000 tons! It's a real ship!

Generally, target shooting is used to use iron pontoon boats to build a few iron pipes, pull cloth or whatever, and use the radar reflection area to simulate target ships of various tonnages, and many times the ammunition only needs to fall into the specified killing range of the water area to be judged as a hit. It's about the same as artillery target shooting. This kind of target ship can generally be used repeatedly, and when it is needed, it will be towed to the designated sea area by the support vessel, and then towed back when it is done.

But this time, the navy really brought in a scrapped 30,000-ton or 40,000-ton bulk carrier to be used as a target ship! The implication of verifying the damage effect of anti-ship missiles is very obvious!

When Li Zhan arrived at the sea area where the target ship was located, 20 minutes had passed since the anti-ship attack of the Flying Shark squad, and although the bulk cargo ship that had been hit by two YJ-83 anti-ship missiles had been cut off, it was still stubbornly floating on the water.

"It must have been modified with watertight tanks, and bulk carriers are not so resistant to construction." Li Zhan couldn't help but say.

Niu Jun was able to understand it at one point, looking at the bulk carrier that was slowly sinking and had broken into two, she was amazed, "It turned out that the big ship was hit by a missile and sank. Brother, are you saying they encrypted the watertight cabin? ”

"It has to be like this. Make the redundancy to the maximum so that you can play a few more times. You see, the hull is disconnected from the middle, but there is not much water intake. Not only did the watertight compartment be encrypted, but also the various cabin stones were sealed. It is estimated that a few more missiles will not sink immediately. Li Zhan said.

Niu Jun smiled and said, "This is very good, it gives full play to the role of the target ship." However, with such a large ship as a target ship, your navy is a real tyrant. ”

Li Zhan circled and flew around the target ship, the altitude was very low, he could see it clearly, subconsciously raised his chin, and said, "Look at the name of the bow of the ship, the chicken coop, if I remember correctly, it should be an old cargo ship that has been in service for more than 20 years in a shipping company, and it should be the first generation of standardized bulk carriers produced by the Third Shipyard in the early nineties." ”

"Don't you, you even know that?" Niu Jun was so surprised that she didn't forget to shoot at the target ship, and the photos she took would also be used as a basis for judging the effect of the damage.

Li Zhan smiled and said, "Do one line and one line." Now that we are engaged in naval navigation, in the future, in addition to hitting planes, we will also fight ships, and we must remember the radar reflection characteristics of various ships. I just wondered why the radar reflection signature doesn't look like a target ship, it turned out to be a real ship. ”

"You just turned on the radar." Niu Jun said with a smile.

Li Zhan said, "Yes, if you want to act as a relay station for the surface detachment for a while, you must have a clear idea of the target. ”

Next, the two Hyundai-class missile destroyers will launch a 3M-80 "Bailing" heavy supersonic anti-ship missile from a distance of 100 kilometers to carry out an over-the-horizon attack on the "Chicken Coop", and the follow-up guidance of these two missiles will rely on the integrated tactical pod carried by the No. 91198 J-7.

One of the purposes of the emergence of the integrated tactical pod is to solve the problem of incompatibility between the avionics system of Russian-made equipment and domestic equipment.

Although the 3M-80 "Bailing" heavy supersonic anti-ship missile uses inertial intermediate guidance and terminal active homing guidance, in order to ensure the hit rate, it is very necessary to guide the missile throughout the process.

And this time the shooting was also aimed at verifying the integrated tactical pod and the tactics of its use. The Second Fleet conducted an open 3M-80 "Bailing" heavy supersonic anti-ship missile firing in 07, without relay guidance, relying entirely on the ship's launch control system to send commands to the missile and the missile's seeker, and the hit rate was 100 percent!

In today's view, this missile is a monster, its range is not far but it has a length of more than nine meters and a weight of nearly four tons, it is a veritable behemoth, but its longest range can only reach 120 kilometers, after all, it is a product of the seventies of the last century, but its terminal attack speed can reach Mach 2.7!

Just by looking at its extremely ferocious appearance, you can know that it is a difficult to mess with, a missile with four air intakes, and a warhead charge twice as much as the Harpoon anti-ship missile, a full 150 kilograms!

The YJ-83 anti-ship missile is just over six meters long, its total weight does not exceed one ton, and its warhead charge is only seventy or eighty kilograms, which is comparable to that of a Harpoon.

Among the active fighters of our army, only J-11, J-7, H-6, and J-15 can carry the air-launched version of this missile, and in addition to the H-6, other fighters can only carry one, which is too big and heavy, and the small body of the J-10 can't carry it at all!

One can imagine what kind of monster the 3M-80 "Bailing" heavy supersonic anti-ship missile is.

Moreover, it was an ultra-low sea-skimming altitude of 7 meters above the surface of the water, which at that time was considered an almost indefensible supersonic anti-ship missile.

Most of the attack methods of our country's anti-ship missiles come from this, and it must be admitted that the missile technology of the Soviet Union is very powerful.

Russia has improved this missile in previous years, increasing the range to more than 200 kilometers, keeping up with the requirements of the times.

Li Zhan thought to himself, the wreckage of the "Chicken Coop" was next to another 3M-80 "Bailing" heavy supersonic anti-ship missile, and it would sink quickly no matter what. Destroyers of six or seven thousand tons have to say goodbye at every shot, let alone bulk carriers built to civilian standards.

However, what he needs to consider is how to guide two 3M-80 "Bailing" heavy supersonic anti-ship missiles to hit the "Chicken Coop" at the same time, and the two missiles are launched at the same time, and the theory should hit the target at the same time. In real combat, hitting the target at the same time is obviously more tactically valuable.

Li Zhan flew to the airspace between the Hyundai-class destroyer and the "Chicken Cage" bulk carrier, 20 kilometers away from the "Chicken Cage," where he wanted to send a correction command to the 3M-80 "Bailing" heavy supersonic anti-ship missile, which had entered the terminal attack stage, and then quickly rushed to the vicinity of the "Chicken Cage" bulk carrier to shoot the scene of the hit.

"Comrade Maverick, cheer up, let's sing the leading role next."

"Uh-huh!"