Chapter 70: Interception Failed
The Blackbird's steering is very slow, only flying at a speed of Mach 3.2, and the steering requires a radius of hundreds of kilometers, however, Lieutenant Colonel Olmsted is very confident, because, for head-on interception, the missile needs to react fast enough!
Two missiles streaked in the distance, and at such speed, all you could see was two bright spots like meteors flashing by. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Two more!
In a matter of seconds, two more missiles, in a bright arc, detonated the warhead at a distance of several hundred meters from the Blackbird.
The launch weight of the R-40T is almost half a ton, the warhead also has almost forty kilograms, and countless fragmented warheads are flying in the air, but alas, the fragments of these warheads did not catch up with the Blackbird that accelerated to Mach 3.5!
Look, no missile will be able to hit the Blackbird!
For the head-on R-40T missile, the seeker has locked on the blackbird with the blazing infrared signature, but the control circuit in the missile can't keep up with the speed of the blackbird! Transmitted to the tail, when controlling the rudder surface, it was half a beat slower, just like that, I thought that if I moved the tail, I would be able to jump to the blackbird, and then detonate the warhead, this kind of high speed, it is not a precise impact, as long as it is close to a distance of more than ten meters, the warhead is detonated, even if a broken rod hits the blackbird, it can also smash the blackbird out of control and crash!
It's a pity that the control of the circuit is too slow! The relative speed of Mach 8 can only be described as lightning speed, it is too late, it was fast, and it still didn't blow up!
If the rudder surface is more responsive, the reaction time of the control system is faster, or the tail chase attack, maybe it will work!
It was only a few seconds, as if it was as long as a century, and although it was not the first time that the reconnaissance system officer in the rear compartment had performed a mission, he still felt sweat on his back, and finally got rid of those missiles!
The MiG-25 followed the missile in front and flew up towards the Blackbird, and the blue target clearly appeared in Andrei's field of vision.
The SR-71 Blackbird is originally black, but when flying at speeds of Mach 3 or more, the surface turns pale blue due to friction with the air. Like a blue flame, it disappeared from Andrei's field of vision at once.
Interception failed!
In the past, the interception was the basic version of the MiG-25P, and now, Andrey is piloting an improved fighter like the MiG-25PD, and the interception still fails!
The sound of the ground guide returning to the home was heard in the headset, and Andrei piloted the fighter plane back to the Sokolovka base.
"The order of the command of the Air Defense Force has been given, let's take down the Blackbird no matter what we think! Even if it's just a collision, knock the Americans down! "The commander of the 513 regiment, Colonel Ivanov, said to the flight personnel of the whole regiment.
The arrogance of the Americans is so arrogant, it used to be only at night, and now, during the day, during the day, they come to scout with great fanfare! As the territorial air defense force of the Soviet Union, it is simply a shame that there is nothing they can do!
"Our existing weapons and equipment cannot achieve the purpose of intercepting the Blackbird." Having just taken off a flight suit similar to a high-altitude compensatory suit, Andrei sat on the side of the conference table and said his thoughts.
In his previous life, he was a pilot, and he knew a little about the equipment of the world's aviation, and when the MiG-25 was introduced in public information, it was said that the Soviets' 3 times the speed of sound fighters could follow behind the Blackbird and supervise the reconnaissance of the Americans. Grandma's, according to the temper of the Soviets, has long been attacked!
Now Andrei understands, so the Soviets put gold on their faces, because the Soviets can't shoot down the Blackbird reconnaissance plane! So it can only be followed behind the ass!
Not only could the Blackbird not be shot down, but the Soviets' own MiG-25R reconnaissance aircraft also had no record of being shot down during the mission, and now an attack on a fighter with a speed of more than three times the speed of sound is indeed beyond the current level of technology.
Due to the inherent shortcomings of radio command remote control guidance and semi-active radar homing guidance, its accuracy is no longer able to attack such targets that move more than 600 meters in one second. At closer distances, the firing window is too narrow, and due to the missile's low maneuverability, it is simply not possible to attack effectively. As for the anti-aircraft missile with infrared seeker, the same is true, the maneuverability of the missile at this time is not as maneuverable as the 35g to 50g overload of later generations, and the electronic performance of the missile is too poor to effectively launch an attack at all!
Since becoming a Hero of the Soviet Union, Andrei has won the respect of the whole regiment, and, in the first few actions, Andrei has always been bold and pungent style, this time everyone thought that Andrei would be able to beat the blackbird down, but now, the blackbird is still flying proudly!
When Ivanov heard Andrei's words, he also frowned, and said to Andrei: "Andrey, we really have no other way?" ”
"Yes!" Andrei said firmly: "Our electronic technology is not up to the task of shooting down a target with three times the speed of sound, but we can take the local method, we can modify my fighter plane and install two hanging guns!" ”
At the current level, using missiles to kill the Blackbird is definitely hopeless, and the only thing that can be relied on is the artillery!
Although the Soviet Union was influenced by the theory of missile omnipotence, and did not remove the aircraft guns on the second-generation aircraft like the West, the MiG-21 and MiG-23 all used the aircraft guns as the main weapons, but the MiG-25 was not equipped with an aviation gun.
This is related to the combat objectives, the MiG-21 and MiG-23 are fighter planes, the task is to destroy the enemy's fighters, the electronic technology of the Soviets, the high-efficiency rocket engine technology is not mature, it is necessary to continue to use the weapon of the aircraft, and the United States, with the progress of electronic technology, believes that the aircraft artillery is no longer useful. As a result, the Americans suffered great losses in the Vietnam War.
However, the MiG-25 is an interceptor, and its mission is to intercept enemy bombers quickly and efficiently, and the use of missile attacks is the most suitable choice.
And now, fighting the Blackbird, the aircraft gun is a good choice!
Hearing Andrei's words, everyone was stunned, with an aerial cannon?
"Andrei, this doesn't seem to work, does it?" Hearing Andrei's words, Ivanov couldn't help but deny it.