Chapter XIV MiG-25PD

"Andrey, it's not too early, it's time to go back and rest, and tomorrow I have to be on duty for combat readiness." In order to avoid more accidents and make these experts unhappy, Kozhdub immediately asked Andrei to leave.

"Young man, you have a lot of ideas, if you have a chance in the future, please come to Moscow to talk." Just when Andrei, on the order of Kozhdub, who had pulled down his face, had to leave, he heard Simonov's words.

Originally, Andrei still had a lot of ideas, the Su-27 of later generations was completely dragged down by the radar with a total weight of more than one ton of metamorphosis, if you integrate the circuit early, don't waste time on the tube, the weight can be reduced by hundreds of kilograms, and the Su-27 with excellent appearance does not have to go back and forth between weight gain and weight loss, and finally has a congenital hypochondria.

After all, it is only 76 years now, and there are still ten years before the Su-27 is officially finalized.

However, Andrei is only a pilot after all, and if he talks about the T-10 now, he will definitely be arrested by the KGB and taken to a small black room to ask how he got those performance data.

Now, hearing Simonov's invitation, Andrei felt a burst of excitement in his heart: "Well, if there is a chance, I will definitely go!" ”

Leaving the reconnaissance plane with easy steps, Andrei knew that he had done something important this time. Having come into contact with the most advanced electronic technology in the United States, the experts in the field of electronics in the Soviet Union will also be greatly touched, and I hope that they will broaden their horizons and not go further and further down the wrong road with the idea of winning the world with electron tubes.

In particular, the radar production plant for the new generation of fighters, whether it is NIIP or the NIIR design bureau, should be inspired by this most advanced electronic reconnaissance aircraft in the United States.

When he returned to the dormitory, Belenkov was already snoring, and sure enough, alcohol could make people forget all their troubles. Andrei knows that with the advancement of electronic technology or something, there is a remedial plan, and this guy in front of him is a bomb that doesn't know when it will explode!

What to do? Do his ideological work? Remembering that when he just crossed over, this Belenko was his own long plane, although this guy wants to be a traitor, but after all, he still helps himself cover up his mistakes in front of the commander, which is interesting enough. As a last resort, I should try to save this guy.

Lying on the bed, Andrei tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, how did he cross over? And on the first day of this world, my experience is extraordinary, it can be said that history has changed, and in the future, how will it develop?

The next day, the sky was clear, and when Andrei came out of the dormitory, the EP-3 on the airfield had disappeared, it must have been last night, the plane was dismantled, and then it was transported somewhere, maybe in a hangar at the base, maybe it had been transported to the factories of companies such as Sukhoi, or Mikoyan.

After breakfast in the base's cafeteria, Andrei came to the hangar, and the brand-new fighter plane caught his eye.

MiG-25PD, this model with deep improvements on the basis of the MiG-25P, the focus is on the radar!

The front end of the huge nose is no longer the Whirlwind-A radar system, the 339 factory has improved the Sapphire-23 radar of the MiG-23, using a 90cm diameter antenna, and the maximum range is increased to 115 kilometers compared to the Sapphire-23 radar, using a new scanning system and fire control computer, and the new radar has an upward 52 °, downward 42 ° pitch scanning range, which makes the MiG-25 have the initial downward / downward firing capability, The ability to independently search for targets has also been greatly improved, and this set of radars, named the Sapphire-25 radar, is nicknamed Fox Fire in NATO.

This radar is a pulsed Doppler plus continuous wave system, which is a lot better than the single-pulse system of the Cyclone-A. Although it is not comparable with the AWG-9 with flat slot antennas of the Tomcat fighters of the US Navy that has been in service at this time, it is also much better than the original.

At the same time, Andrei also saw a new equipment at the nose of the nose, the TP-26-SH1 forward-looking infrared search / tracking system (IRST)!

In later generations, this system has been widely equipped on a variety of fighters, especially the Su-27 and MiG-29, and now, although this system is not mature, it has also been used by Soviet engineers. In terms of electronic technology, the Soviet Union was much worse, but the combination of various rudimentary systems could play a stable role, and the level of system integration of Soviet engineers was inferior to that of their American counterparts.

This system is to make up for the shortcomings of the Soviet radar, the target search range reaches 45 kilometers, and can provide aircraft with a stable and reliable target search means in a strong electronic jamming environment. In addition, the fighter's fire control system has also been upgraded and improved, and it has the ability to launch R-60 combat missiles.

At this time, the fighter had completed maintenance, and under the wings, two R-40 and two R-60 missiles were already mounted.

Looking at his new landline, Andre couldn't help but feel a little excited, if it weren't for his own performance yesterday, this fighter would definitely not be his turn to control, although his own fighter will definitely be improved in the later stage to reach the same level, after all, he flew this improved aircraft first!

Climbing down the gangway and into the cockpit, Andrei said according to the instructions, watching the panel improve.

In later generations, the West criticized the ergonomics of the Soviet cockpit, believing that the cockpit design of the Soviets was unreasonable, allowing people to adapt to the machine, and the placement of various buttons was unorganized and inconvenient. These are indeed shortcomings, however, this also has advantages, that is, the modification of the pilot, quite simple, it can be said that as long as you can fly a model, the instrument placement of other models is fixed, and there is no need to be like Western fighters, every time you change a new model, there will be a greatly changed cockpit.

Now, this improved MiG-25PD is almost identical to the cockpit layout of the original, except with a few more knobs on the radar panel.

Andrei was fiddling with the knobs with great interest when he heard the sound of a sharp air defense siren outside, emergency!