Chapter 210: Strange Snake-3!
Not long after the F-15 fighter launched the missile, there was finally a roar above the mountain range in the east, and the first wave of medium-range bomb strikes killed I don't know how many planes were killed, but now, Syrian fighters are still flying over.
There are more and more of them, and it seems that it makes people's scalps tingle, and in the sky above the narrow Bekaa Valley, I am afraid that hundreds of fighters have gathered!
Everyone looked up and observed.
For many years, Israel's air force was quite strong, and at the same time, the Syrian air force, with its full support from the Soviet Union, could almost be seen as a copy of the Soviet air force.
The air battle between the two sides is destined to be extremely fierce!
There are so many fighters, even without a telescope, you can see it clearly, and without a telescope, you can see a wide field of vision, and you can see more fighters.
Suddenly, everyone raised their necks, and just above the town, two warplanes were fighting!
On the right is a MiG-23 fighter, in the fierce air battle, the pilot can not take care of the changes in the wing, so, the general pilot, is fixed the wing at the middle angle, so that the most balanced, but now this flying fighter, must be a veteran pilot, when flying, the wing is fully swept back, shrunk to the rear, so that you can play the role of a quick sprint, just after approaching the opposite fighter, only to see the wings brush forward, actually all unfolded!
Definitely a veteran!
Qin Feng once went to Egypt and made friends with the Egyptian pilot, and the other party complained about how complicated the wing control of the MiG-23 was, and the pilot's action required at least six switches to be triggered.
At the same time, everyone also knows what the other party is going to do, bite the tail and attack!
From the period of machine gun air combat in World War II, the tail biting attack is the most common tactic, the two fighters are entangled with each other back and forth, both want to chase each other's buttocks, which is like two dogs fighting, always to bite each other's tails, so the close combat of the fighter is also called dog fighting.
When the wings of the fighter are all extended, it has quite high hovering performance, and it is obvious that the pilot of the MiG-23 intends to circle horizontally and go around the back of the opponent, as long as it is faster than the opponent!
Everyone watched intently, even Qin Feng admired, the pilot of this fighter is definitely a veteran, although the F-15 fighter is an advanced third-generation aircraft with good maneuverability, but horizontal combat may not be able to win, if you are an F-15 pilot, it is best to turn on the afterburner immediately and pull the plane up.
The F-15 fighter has two high-performance high-thrust turbofan engines, and when the afterburner is turned on, the thrust-to-weight ratio of the whole aircraft exceeds 1, which allows the fighter to climb vertically effortlessly!
The other side will definitely pull up, will definitely climb, and after climbing up, and then dive down, the pilot of the MiG-23 will be blind.
Just in Qin Feng's judgment, he saw a puff of white smoke rising from the wings of the F-15.
No way?
Everyone's eyes widened, how could it be? How could the other side open fire in such a situation?
Everyone also opened their mouths wide, and everyone's expressions expressed the same meaning, impossible, absolutely impossible!
Until now, in everyone's consciousness, fighting is so important because everyone has to go around the tail of the enemy.
In the era of air combat with machine guns, with the continuous increase in the speed of fighters, it is impossible to hit the target with a head-on attack, and it can only be a tail chase, after all, after the tail chase, the movement of the enemy aircraft can be judged in advance, so that the cannons of the cannons and the opponent's aircraft have close contact.
In the era of missile fighting, missiles must also stare at the chrysanthemum of the opponent's tail, where is the jet engine, the high temperature of thousands of degrees, is the best target of infrared combat missiles.
Now, this has formed a mindset in everyone's mind, and if you want to fight in close combat, you have to go around the opponent's tail so that you can strike hard.
For example, our own missile, the Thunderbolt-2, can only hit because the rotation range of the seeker is very small, and it is almost a direct shot at the tail nozzle.
But what about now? It's a head-on attack!
At such a close distance, it is impossible to be a radar-guided missile, the radar does not react so quickly, and after the missile is launched, the nose of the opponent has already been pulled up, and it is obvious that the radar is not used to continue to guide.
It's an infrared combat bomb, and it can be fired head-on!
Everyone stared intently, watching the missile drag a puff of white smoke and fly to the MiG-23 fighter opposite, the pilot of the fighter saw the white smoke, urgently pulled up, and threw out one decoy bomb after another, but it was useless, the missile dragged the white smoke up, and then, exploded.
Everyone saw the flash of the explosion, and then the MiG-23 fighter turned into a fireball, and in the midst of the fireball, the pilot's ejection seat erupted into a blazing flame, and the fighter plane ejected and escaped!
How is this possible?
If it can be launched head-on, then in the future air battle, what else do you need to go around the back of the opponent, as long as it can be aimed at the target, you can fire, in this way, you need the fighter to have a strong instantaneous hovering ability, and stable hovering is in a secondary position, in this way, it is just in line with the characteristics of Song Lao's new annihilation model!
The canard layout of the fighter has a super instantaneous hovering ability! Because it's positive lift!
"I see, it's Snake-3!" Qin Feng suddenly shouted. At the Paris Air Show, Qin Feng glanced at it hurriedly, at that time, he thought that the other party was bragging, where did he think that the performance was so strong!
The Monster Snake-3 missile is a third-generation short-range infrared air-to-air missile developed by the Israeli Rafael company on the basis of the "Dragonfly" 2. The design began in 1975, the engineering development in 1977, the delivery of the prototype bomb in 1981, the first appearance at the Paris Air Show in June of the same year, and the entry into service in 1982.
Compared with the previous missile, it uses a newly designed fragmentation high-energy explosive warhead, weighing 11 kg, such a heavy warhead, as long as it explodes, the target will definitely not be able to stand it! At the same time, the biggest feature is that the infrared seeker of the Monster Snake-3 adopts a nitrogen-cooled antimony detection element, which greatly improves the sensitivity of the missile guidance system and realizes the omnidirectional attack of the missile!
Not only can you chase after it, but you can also meet it head-on!
"Smack!" General Lin's hand slapped heavily on the wall of the staircase room, and said, "We need this missile, no matter what the cost, we must buy it!" ”