Chapter 36 Head-on Interception of Sparrow Missiles

The United States attaches great importance to this Belenko defection, and Anne is also an intelligence officer assigned by the CIA, who has been hiding for four years in order to operate in the Soviet Union.

It was very difficult to install intelligence agents in the Soviet Union, where there was little turnover and the vigilance of people was quite high. Therefore, the United States will not use these intelligence agents unless there are serious circumstances.

The MiG-25 fighter of the Soviets, which is an advanced fighter that can reach double three, has brought heavy pressure to the United States, coupled with the "lost" incident of the EP-3, the Americans very much need to reverse the passive situation, and the defection of a MiG-25 has become the most urgent task of the CIA at present.

Anne did a very good job, she investigated, and chose Belenko as the breakthrough, this guy who was dissatisfied with the Soviet system, and his wife and children were gone, was the most promising to defect, and after a quick love, Anne conquered Belenko.

And the last step of the entire defection, Belenko flew the MiG-25 fighter to Hokkaido, and it was also the most critical, the United States dispatched two F-4 fighters, hovering over Hokkaido, waiting.

And at this final stage, something went wrong.

When the target flying at an ultra-low altitude was discovered, Major Dick Houston, the pilot of the F-4 fighter, and his wingman thought that this was the defector fighter they were waiting for, but when the two F-4 fighters flew west and approached to greet them, they found that it was two!

Two MiG-25s? What's going on? Just as the two F-4 fighters were whizzing towards them, the on-board radar spotted one of the MiG-25s and was firing at the other MiG-25! Apparently, the Soviets had already discovered Belenko's defection!

Protect this MiG-25! The two F-4 fighters quickly got ready for battle, and the AN/APQ-120 launched a continuous wave to lock on to the attacking MiG-25!

Only by killing the MiG-25 that is trailing behind can we protect the defected fighters in front! At this moment, the two F-4 fighters locked on the MiG-25 in front, and at the same time, they were not afraid of escalating into a world war because of this conflict, the fire flashed under the wings, and each F-4 fighter launched two Sparrow missiles!

Unfortunately, it was too late, and when they locked on the MiG-25 in the back, the defected fighter in front had already fallen into the Sea of Japan!

After receiving an order from the rear, Andre, who was originally going to return to the air, heard the sound of a sharp radar warning receiver in his headset, and he was locked!

It's still a hundred nautical miles away from Hokkaido, and the other side dares to launch missiles at itself in this public sea! Andrei was glad that he had just carried out the order correctly and shot down Belenko, otherwise, being entangled by these two F-4s, Andrei was afraid that he would really be unable to take care of Belenko, who defected.

How do you feel when you are locked on by the other party's radar and the other party has already launched a missile? In later generations, when air-to-air missiles have been as high as more than 40 overloads, they are almost locked, which means they are shot down, and even if they dodge, it is completely a matter of character, especially in later generations when medium-range interceptor missiles using active radar seekers and close-range combat missiles using infrared focal plane arrays are used, and it is quite difficult to get rid of them by decoy and maneuvering. When locked, pilots will subconsciously panic in their hearts.

But now, in the seventies, the hit rate of missiles was simply pitifully low!

The AIM-9 Sidewinder missile does not yet have the ability to intercept head-on, and since the opponent is launching a missile head-on at itself, it must be the AIM-7 Sparrow missile.

The development of the Sparrow missile can be traced back to the end of the 40s, when the Douglas company began to study the anti-aircraft weapons mounted on the fighters, until 69 years, the missile developed to the AIM-7E-2, the performance is still not ideal, in the Vietnam War, the pilots of the US Air Force, almost all the missiles at one time, in order to be able to shoot down the enemy plane, and when the Vietnam War is over, the United States statistics of the missile's hit rate, that is, slightly higher than 0 percent.

It was not until this year that the performance of the latest modified AIM-7F was stabilized and could be used, but it was just successfully developed this year, and it will definitely not be deployed to the island country first. In later generations, the AIM-7M, which was replaced with a new guidance head, had excellent air combat capabilities and became a sharp weapon of the US Air Force.

Now, in the face of the missiles flying from the other side, listening to the sharp sirens in the radar warning receiver, Andrei did not panic, he operated the fighter plane to accelerate, and continued to fly forward.

Although he received the order to return, he was now intercepted head-on by two enemy planes, and if Andre turned around, it would expose the chrysanthemum to the other party, and at this time, Andre's altitude and speed, it would take a few minutes to accelerate to Mach 2.4, so Andre chose to continue to fly head-on.

The four sparrow missiles were also flying head-on towards Andrei, and in the clear sky, three kilometers away, Andrei saw those missiles.

Closer, closer, Andre looked through the helmet goggles, and the four missiles in his pupils were like spears.

It's time! Andrei jerked on the afterburner and pulled the lever back.

The huge steel fighter plane instantly began to climb upwards like an enraged cobra.

At this time, half of the fuel in the aircraft has been consumed, and the thrust-to-weight ratio of the fighter exceeds 0.8, although it cannot climb vertically effortlessly, but compared with the Sparrow missile that has burned out of boosters and flies completely by inertia, the MiG-25 has extremely high maneuverability.

The two Sparrow missiles, which did not keep up with Andrey's pace, continued to fly forward, and the semi-active radar guidance antenna at the front end of the warhead could not receive the echo, and lost guidance in an instant, and could only choose to self-detonate after continuing to fly for more than ten seconds.

And the other two Sparrow missiles, following Andrey's MiG-25 to climb upward, are getting slower and slower, and when there is still a kilometer away from Andrei's fighter, they have already lost all their kinetic energy and begin to fall downward.

Relying on a simple climb action, he got rid of four missiles, although it was not as good as the J-11 with a thrust-to-weight ratio of more than 1 piloted by later generations, it was already quite good, and Andre, who leveled the fighter, had a battle glint in his eyes.

If the Americans did not fire missiles at themselves, then they could go back to their own homes and find their own mothers. Now, since the Americans are taking the initiative to provoke, then don't blame yourself for being unkind. Come and don't be rude!