Chapter 159: Advantages of Phased Array Radar

In the face of the Soviet plane that fired missiles at them, the Tomcat fleet did not return home, just kidding, one plane on the other side, four of their own, can they still be frightened by the other side?

If you turn around and run like this, it will be a shame for the entire Fifth Carrier-based Aircraft Wing! Don't be stationed on an aircraft carrier in the future, just stay in the rear as a reserve wing!

The radar of the long plane quickly locked onto the other party, and then, the fire flashed under the wings, and two immortal bird missiles flew out. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Two salvos, aim at one target!

The other side actually launched four missiles! Want to attack four of your fighters at the same time? Amusing! Even the American technology has only carried out the operation of attacking six targets at the same time in the experiment, and the results achieved are ideal, but unfortunately it is only ideal!

In actual combat, there will be no enemy aircraft as a target, without changing any course, waiting for the Immortal Bird missile to shoot down, if the cruise missile is almost the same!

Now, after the opponent launched the missile, the Tomcat fighter formation also began to maneuver, except for the long plane to aim the nose at the opponent, for the immortal bird missile to carry out medium-range guidance, unable to move, the rest of the fighters, all began to maneuver to dodge.

A Tomcat fighter climbed high and rushed to an altitude of 20,000 meters, one to the left, the other to the right, to see how the opponent's backward radar continues to lock itself!

The radar antenna needs to be aimed at the target to be able to lock, just four fighters are in the same direction, it is possible to be locked by the other party at the same time, and now, with the dispersion, the other party must make a choice, which direction the radar antenna is moving! You can only keep an eye on one direction, and the other three directions have to miss the target!

Pity. They still miscalculated, because. They did not anticipate each other's radar, and it was not an upside-down pot lid at all. It's not the same flat slit like theirs, but a phased array radar that changes the beam by a phase shifter!

The 3,000 ferrite phase shifters of the SBE-16 phased array antenna radar began to quickly change the direction of the beam, and the beam radiated by the entire antenna was divided into four directions, continuing to track the target just locked, and the opponent's maneuver was a clown show in front of the SBE-16 radar!

R-33 missiles after launch. Coupled with the speed of the carrier aircraft, up to Mach 5, during the flight, with the effect of air resistance, the speed is constantly decreasing, and by the time the target is reached, the speed has been reduced to Mach 3, and even so, the distance of flying this 90 kilometers. It won't take more than a hundred seconds!

The Tomcat fighter is changing its bearing, but it simply cannot get out of the search range of the MiG-31's radar!

Vertically scan plus or minus 70 degrees, horizontally plus or minus 60 degrees, a target inside a vast cone. Can't escape the hunt of the MiG-31!

After the missile was launched, the MiG-31 turned off afterburner, which increased the airspace range of the radar scan.

"Thirty seconds. Prepare to move to the terminal semi-active guidance. Fedotov in the rear compartment said as he flipped the switch.

Although a powerful phased array radar is used. But the electronic system of the MiG-31 is still quite complex, guiding the R-33 missile. It is also necessary to manually intervene in the entire process to improve the efficiency of attacks.

The guidance of the R-33 missile was divided into three parts, and when it just flew out, it was controlled by a program, and then the trajectory was corrected with radio commands, and after approaching the target, it was tracked using the radar echo of the receiving target.

Semi-active radar guidance means that the missile only receives the radar beam, does not emit it, and relies on the carrier aircraft to illuminate the target, just like turning on a flashlight in the dark and then walking along the flashlight.

"A ten-second countdown." Fedotov counted down in his mouth: "Nine, eight..."

The R-33 missile, scattered in the air, flew towards four targets, and the one aimed at the opponent's long plane was the first missile to be launched!

When being targeted by a missile, maintaining the same flight attitude as a target aircraft, and carrying out medium-range guidance for one's own missile, is the most important time to test a pilot's endurance.

At this time, the pilot of the long plane, Major Hugh Strong, felt that the sweat on his forehead was about to come out.

"It's been transferred to active guidance!" The radar operator in the aft compartment shouted.

The Immortal Bird missile is the first active radar-guided missile in the US arsenal, and when it is twenty kilometers away from the target, the active seeker is turned on, and at this time, the carrier aircraft can retreat!

"Good!" Major Hughstrong pushed the nose and began to dive downward.

The Soviets' electronic technology was backward, and the radar lacked effective ground scanning capabilities, so Hugh Strong chose to dive down to dodge, and the other three planes, flying up and left and right respectively, as long as he went down, he could not only get rid of the opponent's missiles, but also give other wingmen more opportunities to get rid of missiles.

Unfortunately, he still miscalculated.

The 3,000 phase shifters of the phased array radar must have strong data computing capabilities, and the MiG-31 radar has a processing capacity that exceeds that of any previous fighter's radar, and the ability to filter ground clutter has also been enhanced.

Moreover, the dive speed of the Tomcat fighter is simply not comparable to the flying R-33 missile.

"Boom!" Just ten seconds after the R-33 missile continued to fly, it was already close to a distance of 20 meters from the Tomcat fighter, and at this distance, the R-33 missile's proximity fuse ignited 47 kilograms of ********, and the sideways flying fragment warhead brought countless fragments to the death of the Tomcat fighter.

"The target disappears." As the radar operator spoke, he focused on the three other missiles, while the more than 700 phasers that were left free spread out to provide some airspace scanning performance.

"Two immortal birds, flying towards us, fifteen kilometers away! Expected to arrive in fifteen seconds! Fedotov looked at the extra light spots on the radar screen and suddenly shouted.

Phased array radar is not omnipotent, and to guide four missiles at the same time, it is necessary to disperse the radar beam in four directions, and it will lack the ability to observe other airspace, so this MiG-31 did not detect the two missiles of the other side coming.

And now, the vacated phase shifter, using the radar beam to scan the sky, suddenly found an abnormality, the other party is not only dodging, but also launching missiles to attack their own side!

"Keep booting." Andrei shouted loudly to the back.

Fifteen seconds, that's enough time!

The second missile, five seconds later, hit the second target aircraft.

"The third missile is malfunctioning! Prepare to guide the fourth. Fedotov shouted, the missile flew well, and when it was still two kilometers from the target, it suddenly fell.

At this moment, he felt a dizziness in front of him, his body turned upward at a large angle, under the effect of the anti-load suit, the blood in Fedotov's body was constantly flowing back, he felt the big overload maneuver of the fighter, Andrei in the front cabin had already begun to operate the fighter to maneuver and fly, dodging the two incoming missiles. (To be continued.) )