Chapter 593: Knowing Yourself and Knowing Your Enemy
The battlefield is the best place to test weapons, and the new fighters of the Soviet Union are designed to confront the American fighters and overwhelm the opponent's third-generation aircraft, and now, these Su-27 fighters belonging to the territorial defense forces of the Soviet Turkestan Territorial Air Force, hastily painted with the logo of the Iranian People's Air Force on their wings and tails, participated in this air battle. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The responsibilities of the Territorial Defense Force and the Air Force are different, and the original role of the Su-27 is to replace the Su-15 and use it as an interceptor. Therefore, the regular tactics of the Su-27 should be to project R-27 missiles at a long distance, then retreat to safe airspace, and then launch a second round of R-27 missiles, which is the combat mode of interceptors. This is how the air defense forces stationed in East Germany operated.
However, the Su-27 fleet of the Turkestan Military District, influenced by Andrey, is not limited to long-range missile projection, this huge, advanced fighter has incomparable maneuverability, if only this fighter is used as a medium-range missile launch platform, just like the MiG-31, it will not be able to play its full role at all!
Therefore, in addition to launching medium-range missiles, the pilots of the Su-27 have trained more on how to fight in close combat, which is also a favorite tactic of pilots.
After dodging the Bird missiles fired by the Americans at long distance, and after a rain of bullets dropped by both sides at medium range, the close-range combat began.
Captain Nikolaev, piloting his own Su-27 fighter, came head-on with a Tomcat fighter, and just three kilometers away, each side fired a close-range combat bomb.
Captain Nikolaev flew towards the combat bomb, and just as he was about to encounter, he quickly rolled sideways and released a set of infrared decoy bombs at the same time, creating a second-by-second fireworks smoke screen on the tail of the plane, and the Sidewinder missile followed the infrared decoy bomb.
Successfully shake off!
In this era, the performance of the infrared seeker is still limited, as long as the use of infrared decoy bombs plus the correct action, the probability of getting rid is very large, until later generations, after the development of infrared focal plane guidance, the missile sees not an infrared light source, but the shape of the entire aircraft, at that time, it is almost impossible to deceive the missile.
And the Tomcat fighter on the opposite side is clearly also a veteran, and it also got rid of missiles.
The two sides flew head-on, and then began to turn.
The Tomcat's wing automatically spreads forward, and when the sweep angle is minimal, the Tomcat has excellent steering performance and a small turning radius, which is an unbeatable advantage! As long as you turn the corner, you can go around the back of the opponent, attack with missiles from behind, and then it is not so simple to get rid of it!
When Michael, the pilot of the Tomcat fighter, flew the fighter plane and recovered from the large overload, he was stunned.
Because the other party is not turning in circles on the horizontal plane, the other party is still climbing upwards while spinning in circles! So, even if your own hovering radius is better than the opponent's, you can't attack now! At the same time, seeing the other party's tail nozzle, Michael almost subconsciously moved, turned on the afterburner, and climbed with the other party.
The two fighters, while circling and climbing, spiraled up, Michael, in the rear, couldn't help but be a little anxious.
From his point of view, it seems that he can catch up with the enemy plane at any time, catch up with the opponent's rear, and launch his own missiles, but it is always a little bit worse, and the missiles cannot be locked for a long time!
Unconsciously, the altitude has risen by a thousand meters, and at this time, it seems that it is about to catch up, and the fighter in front has changed from the state of spiral climbing, and the opponent's flat-tail action, the entire fighter plane raised the nose and climbed upward at a large angle of attack.
Oops, hit the mark!
Of course, Michael knows that the opponent's large-sized MiG-29 fighter must be a Soviet-made third-generation fighter, and the other party is aimed at the F-15 development, although compared to horizontal combat, his Tomcat fighter can gain the upper hand with the aerodynamic advantage brought by the variable sweep wing, but it will not work if it is vertically maneuvered!
The engine of the fighter developed more than ten years ago is an absolute shortcoming, and the thrust-to-weight ratio is less than 1, so it is impossible to achieve an upward climb without losing energy, and the opponent is definitely without pressure.
In this way, if you follow the opponent to climb, you will be in a trick, and if you don't follow the opponent to climb, then the opponent will definitely dive down and attack you!
What to do? Looking at the chic appearance of the opponent, turning on the afterburner and climbing quickly, Michael pressed the head, went in the opposite direction, and withdrew from the battle!
The wings swept back, shrunk together, and sprinted at full speed!
After all, when the opponent pulls up and climbs, he can't see the situation behind him, and by the time the opponent thinks it's almost time and swoops down, he can't find himself from this airspace!
Air battles are fought quickly, and it is not uncommon to lose targets.
It's a pity that Michael miscalculated this time, because although the opponent can't see the situation below when he pulls up, the opponent still has the advantage of AWACS!
"035, target reverses in the direction of 340." During the climb, Captain Nikolaev heard the voice in the headset and immediately replied: "035 received." ”
At the same time, pulling the operating stick, the fighter ended its climb, flew backwards, buckled over, his head was down, and he had already seen the trajectory of the opponent's escape! Flipping over, the Su-27 dived downward, and at the same time, Nikolaev stared intently at the Tomcat that left the battlefield, at this time, he had already come to the position of the opponent's rear hemisphere, with a vertical axis angle of thirty-five degrees, launch!
An R-73 missile flew under the wing, and a few seconds later, an explosion occurred in the tail of the opponent's plane, and thick smoke rose from the fire.
Michael, who was on the run, was blown up in the chrysanthemum without warning.
Looking at the crooked appearance of the other party, Nikolaev adjusted his weapon to the machine gun and decided to go up to replenish the gun.
American pilots are not familiar with the Su-27 fighter, and the Su-27 pilot, often fighting against the Tomcat fighter of the Iranian People's Air Force, has long been familiar with the performance of the Tomcat fighter, the disadvantage of the Tomcat is the two engines with insufficient thrust!
At the same time, the current Su-27 is not the same as the original Su-27 in history, and the solution of electronic technology has made this fighter not born with hypochondriasis, and close-quarters combat is also first-class! (To be continued.) )