Chapter 159: What a Fight!
"Two consecutive lock on to the target, two attacks!"
No. 037 J-7E rushed out of the mountain pass with a gust of wind and rockets. The second company of the Doyle battalion ambushed in front of the mountain pass captured the target at the first time, the fire control radar quickly completed the lock, and the launch commander pressed the launch button at the same time as the report!
The combat process of the Doyle air defense missile is roughly to capture the target by the target search radar, and then transmit the target information to the guidance radar, which gives information on the preparation for launch after the guidance radar stabilizes the target, and completes the functional detection of the combat vehicle and the missile within five seconds.
After receiving the launch command, the power supply on the missile is activated, and the detonating catapult will launch the missile into the air about 20 meters, and the missile ignition accelerates and flies towards the target. In this process, the guidance radar always maintains locked tracking of the target.
Generally speaking, the entire process from confirming the lock of the fire control radar to launching the missile takes no more than 20 seconds.
The goal is definitely finished, and no one will doubt that.
Two 9M332 anti-aircraft missiles were ejected from the vertical launch canisters of the two combat vehicles by the detonating catapults, and after ignition, they rushed straight to the No. 037 J-7E according to the turning command.
At this time, neither the battalion commander in the command vehicle nor the members of the combat vehicle knew that they were going to attack a manned J-7E, not an unmanned target aircraft!
Li Zhan had twenty seconds.
If it was the No. 037 fighter he flew before, then he didn't even have twenty seconds. Before the transfer of the J-7E of the Fourth Regiment, some improvements were made, and the avionics were basically improved compared with the G-type. One of the most important is the installation of an omnidirectional alarm.
When the alarm beeped, Li Zhan was almost scared to pee.
In a situation that he could not have imagined at all, he was suddenly locked by the fire control radar, and such a fright can be imagined. Precisely, he had planned to turn eastward after the mountain pass and continue to fly at ultra-low altitude along the southeast side of the Beiku Mountains, so that he could get more cover before entering the desert Gobi.
At this time, after being locked by the fire control radar, his mind could not keep up with the movements of the conditioned reflex at all, and the nerve center reacted accordingly after the subconscious operation action was made. This is due to the battlefield knee-jerk awareness he has gained over the past period.
If it were someone else, they would definitely follow the normal evasion maneuvers, because everyone knew that it was just a simulated attack, and there would be no real missiles flying over. In this way, something big is doomed.
The battlefield subconsciously reacted to save Li Zhan.
He thought that the No. 27 radar station might have coordinated the MANPAD detachment of the ground-to-air missile unit to lie in ambush at the mountain pass, and it was not until he clearly saw two missiles with long tails coming straight at him about eight kilometers in front of him, that he suddenly realized that they were definitely not man-portable air defense missiles.
What the hell is that?
Isn't it just a simulated attack?
"I'm going to your lungs, really!" Li Zhan subconsciously scolded!
Two or three seconds after the Doyle battalion locked on to the target, the No. 037 fighter issued a radar warning, that is, at this time, Li Zhan was speeding up the flight, and slightly increased some altitude, to about 20 seconds after the missile was launched, Li Zhan's choice of every operation action was actually theoretically unable to escape the pursuit of two 3M332 missiles.
At this time, the No. 037 J-7E was at an altitude of one thousand meters and a speed of more than 800 kilometers, and it happened that Li Zhan pushed the throttle stick to the bottom after leaving the mountain pass, which means that the fighter was struggling to accelerate.
At this time, the two missiles were about ten kilometers away from Li Zhan.
For a missile that is doing an acceleration motion and will eventually accelerate to more than Mach 2, a distance of 10 kilometers will only take about five seconds.
Both sides move in opposite directions, and both are diagonally upward. This is the most comfortable attack posture for the Doyle missile, but it is the most difficult flight posture for the target fighter to escape.
Li Zhan's first action was to turn on the afterburner switch.
The first action is crucial!
Even if you choose all the actions correctly, as long as the first action is wrong, you have no chance of survival!
According to common sense, if a missile is attacked head-on at a distance of 10 kilometers, the pilot should immediately turn around and widen the distance as much as possible, and take the method of exhausting the energy of the incoming missile to avoid the missile. The maximum effective combat range of the 3M332 missile is about 12 km. If you turn to escape, there is a good chance that you will be able to dodge.
The problem is that Li Zhan didn't know that the incoming missile was a Doyle air defense missile, and it was impossible for him to rely on visual judgment of the model of the missile at such a distance!
A U-turn will lose a lot of speed, regardless of any maneuver you use to make a U-turn.
Speed is everything, it's the foundation of life!
Energy is everything!
Li Zhan's second action was to make the fighter show a vertical climbing attitude, and the No. 037 J-7E, which had already opened the afterburner, seemed to have been dragged hard from a high altitude, and in just three seconds, it continued to gain a height of more than 600 meters.
At this time, the first missile was already close to entering the killing distance.
The 3M332 missile uses a proximity fuse, detects that the target has entered the killing range, and the fuse activates the detonation warhead to kill the target with prefabricated fragments.
The frequency of the alarm beep has become a line, and the violent roar of the engine fills the cabin. Li Zhan slammed the rudder lever, and the nose of the fighter plane suddenly turned down and frantically made a drum maneuver at the same time, looking like it was rolling down in a straight line like a weight of tens of millions of tons. In just two seconds, fighter No. 037 lost more than a thousand meters in height.
The approaching 10 g overload caused the aircraft's fuselage structure to groan violently, and foggy fluctuations occurred on the surface of the wing caused by the air being broken by supersonic speed. The airspeed of the fighter did not exceed the speed of sound, but the speed at which Li Zhan rolled was too fast, and the actual speed of the wingtips crossed the speed of sound!
"Battalion commander! That's a manned plane! He's falling! The company commander of the second company finally found that something was wrong, and instantly broke out in a cold sweat, and roared to report, and at the same time quickly opened the hatch and climbed outside, wearing a headset to look in the direction of the No. 037 fighter. Saw the crazy big overload maneuver of the 037 fighter.
The two missiles were stunned at the same time, but they still stubbornly carried out the command transmitted by the guidance radar, and after discovering that the target was running towards the escape zone, the missile made a sharp turn, the butt of the bullet ran forward, and the warhead stubbornly pointed at the No. 037 fighter plane that fell sharply.
As a result, both missiles successively exceeded the design range of overloads.
The 3M332 missile can withstand an overload of up to 30 G-values, and the No. 037 fighter is only approaching 10 overloads, how can it exceed the design tolerance?
It's not a simple comparative calculation.
Generally speaking, according to the prescribed formula, if the target reaches an overload of 10g, the missile needs to withstand an overload of more than 200g in the case of a head-on attack to be completely directed at the target.
Despite the fact that this is theoretical data, in any case two missiles have already been introduced into the large overload maneuver that greatly exceeds the limit. As a result, the two 3M332 missiles disintegrated in the air without suspense, and the warhead then exploded under the action of a powerful tearing force without suspense!
"Whoosh~Whoosh~"
The battalion commander of the Doyle battalion was about to crack his eyeballs, and yelled: "What a bastard!" That's a manned plane! That's not a target machine! Not a target machine! The whole battalion is out of combat status! The whole battalion is out of combat status! Bastard! The whole battalion is out of combat status! Bastard!!! ”
The second wave of missiles was fired in accordance with combat procedures.
From the discovery that it was a manned fighter to the launch of the second company's company commander's report to the response of the commander of the Doyle battalion, it was actually only a short period of more than 20 seconds. When everyone was stunned by a completely unimaginable scene, the battalion commander's head also went blank for several seconds.
In this extremely short period of time, the No. 037 fighters, which were attacked by them in turn, had already detonated the first wave of two 3M332 missiles with a large overload of more than 10 g in a rolling dive.
At this time, the second wave of missiles went straight to the No. 037 fighter, which was already close to the ground, and faithfully carried out the instructions of the guidance radar. Although the launcher of the second wave of missiles forcibly turned off the guidance radar at the first time, the target data that had been acquired had already been transmitted to the missile, and at such a close distance, everything was irretrievable.
All the preparations and procedures they received were carried out in accordance with the live-ammunition target shooting, which vehicle hit first, and how the target should be hit from the secondary direction, all of which had several sets of plans.
Being able to make an emergency stop in less than half a minute, objectively speaking, the Doyle battalion cannot be completely blamed.
The second wave of missiles is coming, but Li Zhan has already entered a state of stall, and his biggest danger is not the missile, but the altitude of only five hundred meters above the ground at this time, about when the missile is in the air.
He went into a stall tailspin in a transonic situation. Whether it is a stall or a tailspin, every pilot must master the danger of solving skills, and even the pilot must master the method of changing out if he wants to fly solo, which can be said to be one of the basic skills.
However, there are many types of stall tailspins.
Li Zhan entered a stall tailspin in a state of transonic roll and dive, which was an abnormal flight attitude that had never been simulated.
The auxiliary fuel tank and the four multiple rocket launchers were all on the pylon, and Li Zhan wanted to throw them away, but he knew very well that any superfluous action at this time would put him in a place of no return.
From the moment the radar alarm sounds, his every action must be absolutely precise and necessary. He must make every inch of the fighter completely follow his will, but if there is even the slightest deviation, today next year will be his death day.
He entered a stall tailspin at an altitude of only 500 meters and fell for only three seconds, and there has never been a successful case in the history of world aviation that he can change the stall tailspin at such an altitude. He was actually only given two seconds, which was impossible to make.
Even if he can complete it, there is a delay in the return of the fighter, and it will not help.
It's time to consider skydiving!
But!
If you parachute, then all the flight parameters obtained by ultra-low-altitude penetration in the mountains today will no longer exist! Such a result is completely unacceptable! At least Li Zhan thinks that no one can fly such extreme data at present!
He stubbornly completed the operation of changing the action in two seconds, and there was only one chance, and when it was done, his hope was pinned on the 037 fighter body.
"Old man, let's go back together! Change out! Change out!! Changing out !! ”