Chapter 114: The Battle of Tomcats (2)
Fools go down! André watched as the height of the point of light on the radar screen continued to rise, and he knew that he had succeeded in luring the other party high into the air. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The practical ceiling of the Tomcat fighter is only 18,000, and even if it rises to 20,000 meters now and can perform various flight maneuvers, the performance is also greatly limited, and what American pilots should do now is to turn around and go back, instead of rushing up to fight with themselves.
Since it is here, then it is better, two R-40 missiles, ready to go!
Andrei pushed the nose forward, his fighter plane had already returned to level flight at 20,000 meters in the air, and it couldn't be too high, if it was too high, the other party wouldn't come up.
Breathing in the fresh air from his helmet, Andrei's mind was very clear, he turned off the afterburner, saved precious fuel, and continued to fly in the direction of the other party.
The climb rate of the Tomcat fighters is not high, and this is the case with the fighters of this era, and when the silver fighter plane appeared in the field of vision, the distance between the two sides was only three kilometers.
The other party finally entered the launch envelope of their own Sparrow missile, but it was useless! Through the goggles, watching the other side fly fast towards him, William knew that he had to move faster!
The TF30 engine at the rear has been running for a minute! Fuel was running out at an alarming rate, and William's time was running out.
In this era, combat bullets can't effectively lock onto the front hemisphere for attack, so if you want to take out the opponent now, you have to take the lead in a circle after flying head-on!
Moreover, the other party is an excellent pilot, and he only has one chance! Tomcat fighters will not lose!
The speed is quite fast, almost after passing by, William pushed the lever, the wing of the fighter automatically adjusted the sweep angle to the minimum, and the turning radius at this time was the smallest, William was completely confident that he could turn around first and lock the opponent's chrysanthemum!
At this time, the weapon operator in the rear cabin is vigorously twisting his head to the back, and in close combat, he is responsible for observing the airspace, which is equivalent to the pilot's extra pair of eyes.
It's a pity that the tall ejection seat blocked his backward vision, and he didn't see the MiG-25 that flashed by, and instead of steering horizontally like them, he pulled up into the air!
Compared with horizontal maneuverability, maybe the MiG-25 is not as good as the Tomcat, and Andrei does not want to outperform the other party in horizontal maneuverability, the advantage of the MiG-25 is high-altitude performance! He pulled the operating stick back, and the afterburner was fully opened, and the huge MiG-25 fighter, with its nose up, quickly pulled up.
Soon, Andrei turned his head down, the fighter plane had flipped one hundred and eighty degrees, and from here, it could be seen that in the direction of a few hundred meters below, the Tomcat fighter was shaking from side to side looking for itself.
Yankee, I don't know if the master is above, right? Andrei continued to push the nose of the plane, and the fighter swooped down from high in a graceful arc.
If you look at it from a distance, you can find that the Tomcat fighter drew a circle in the horizontal direction, and the MiG-25 drew a circle in the vertical direction, if you look at the size of the circle, it is still the Tomcat fighter that has an advantage, and its radius is less than half of the MiG-25, but, judging from the effect, after turning a circle, the Americans found that the MiG-25 was gone, and Andrey firmly captured the traces of the other party.
"God, he's coming down from above!" At this moment, suddenly, the weapon operator in the rear cabin noticed that there was a huge thing flying down overhead, and when he looked up, he saw the steel fighter plane and the red five stars on the wings!
William looked up and saw it, only to see the other party falling rapidly and turning behind him!
Damn it! William knew that at this moment, his advantage had been lost, and if he wanted to regain it, there was only one way!
Draw them into the air!
Although Chrysanthemum was already rushing at the other party, William had no choice, he pushed the lever forward, and in a loud roar, the fighter began to dive downward.
Altitude translates into speed, this dive, will make the speed of the fighter quickly exceed the design value, but only in this way can the opponent follow him to the low altitude!
Obviously, the other party has bitten its own tail, and if the other party wants to attack it, it must continue to track and then launch infrared missiles.
Therefore, William did not simply dive, he kept pushing the lever left and right, pedaling the rudder, and in the dive, the course of the fighter plane was constantly changing.
The altimeter is constantly turning, the altitude is falling rapidly, and at the same time, the speed display of the Mach watch is constantly increasing, and soon, it will exceed Mach 2.5!
The huge overload made the bodies of the two pilots tightly pressed against their seats, and their hands began to become heavy and weak, and the infrared bombs were fired without warning, which further deepened the psychological burden of the two.
Infrared decoy bombs are constantly being thrown from the tail, hoping to jam the missiles that the other side may launch.
Die, what's wrong with the Americans? Andre, who was following behind, couldn't help but wonder.
The Americans' actions at this time are very crazy, it can be said that the test flight is a dangerous subject, and the Americans are doing this now, just to pull themselves to a low altitude?
Constantly swaying left and right, out of the range of the missile seeker, and at the same time there are a lot of decoy bombs, Andrei has never been able to get the opportunity to launch missiles, but Andrei knows that the Americans do this, they don't need to launch missiles themselves at all, and the other party will have to crash because of a mechanical accident, because the Americans' Tomcat fighters use TF-30 engines!
TF30 is a high-pressure ratio axial flow twin-rotor turbofan engine developed by Pratt-Whitney in the United States. In 58 years, the company began to develop a civilian JTF10A with a private business plan. At the end of 61, the F-111 fighter chose the military afterburner TF10-P-1 of the JTF30A. The TF30-P-1 of the TF30-P-6 was chosen by the US Navy for the carrier-based attack aircraft A-64.
The current engine TF30-P-412A used in the F-14A is developed from the TF30-P-12, and the TF30-P-12 is the afterburner model of the JTF10A turbofan engine. The engine has a small thrust, with a maximum military thrust of 5,600 kg and an afterburner thrust of 9,480 kg, giving the Tomcat a thrust-to-weight ratio of only 0.7, limiting maneuverability.
If that's all, then forget it, relying on the excellent aerodynamic performance of the Tomcat fighter, it can also make up for these shortcomings. However, another flaw in the TF30 engine is the most fatal. In addition, in order to improve the compression efficiency, Pratt & Whitney designed the compressor stall tolerance to be too small, so that the engine is extremely sensitive to changes in airflow, and it is easy to surge or stop!