Chapter 33: Belenko's defection

A few minutes later, Andre, who had changed into a flight suit, sat in his No. 031 fighter.

Last time Andrei's actions were too shocking, under the propaganda of various media in the Soviet Union, Andrei has become a well-known hero, and he naturally has to be special in treating heroes, although Andrei went to the hospital to recuperate, and he left for more than ten days, Andrei's fighter plane was still carefully maintained and kept full of fuel.

After leaving the hangar, sliding onto the runway, and turning on the afterburner, Andrei felt the huge take-off acceleration, took off from the runway, accelerated!

Belenko, is your fighter really wrecked? Or defection?

If Belenko's defection succeeds, the threat to the USSR will be enormous, the MiG-25 will be dismantled in front of the eyes of the West, all secrets will be leaked, and the deterrent will not be there.

In particular, the rudimentary radar composed of electron tubes made the West know that the Soviet Union was backward in electronic technology, and it would be even less afraid.

This must not happen!

On August 6, 76, a whole month earlier than the historical Belenko defected, and moreover, Belenko was not alone, the reason why he was able to make up his mind so quickly was because of Annie! Inspired by Anne and in order to make the Western world accept him, Belenko finally bravely decided to defect!

Yesterday, he quietly went to Vladivostok and told Anne that he was going to fly a MiG-25 plane and defect to the island country! At that time, Anne and Belenko kissed passionately for five minutes, giving Belenko great encouragement, and Anne would return to East Germany at the same time, waiting for the opportunity to go west with her father.

Moreover, Anne also promised Belenko that she would tell the United States through a special channel that Belenko would fly a fighter plane to the free world today! If there is no mistake in conveying the message, there will be two F-4 fighters waiting for Belenko in the sky over Hokkaido, and as long as Belenko flies over the center line of the Sea of Japan, the other side will fly up to escort and protect themselves!

Today, when sitting in the cockpit, Belenko's mood is excited, he is here, he has had enough! In the original unit, I was treated as a neurotic, came here, witnessed the same situation, and my wife and children also ran away, what is the point of staying here? Thinking that he would spend the rest of his life with Anne, Belenko was extremely excited. Men, having a beautiful wife is also a kind of life's pursuit.

Noisy to change the stock engine for himself, Belenko finally won this opportunity, without a wingman, took off by himself, flew alone, and tested the performance of the engine.

The only pity is that because it took off in the name of testing the performance of the engine, before takeoff, the ground staff did not fill much fuel, only six tons of fuel. Therefore, Belenko could not turn on the afterburner and reach Hokkaido with the fastest sprint speed, so it could only be like now.

When taking off, he turned on the afterburner for a minute, then closed the house, climbed to an altitude of 8,000 meters, entered the sea, Belenko added a wreck, operated the fighter plane to dive down, until it was less than a thousand meters, and then gradually leveled out, and then turned off all the radios.

After aligning the course, at an altitude of three hundred meters above the sea surface, Belenko flew at an ultra-low altitude.

At this height, even if you find out that your fighter plane is wrecked, Sokolovka will definitely not find yourself if you send other fighters to search for it! Even the complex echoes caused by the waves on the surface of the sea will hide their own signals in these echoes! As for visual discovery, in the vast sea, if you want to visually find an ultra-low-altitude aircraft, in the absence of radar to indicate the approximate location of the target, if it is really discovered, Belenko can only sigh that his luck is really bad in the Mariana Trench.

In later generations, in order to publicize the powerful power of the MiG-25 radar, there are different opinions, that is, the radar of the Tornado-A is equipped with a height locking device, and the radar cannot be turned on without flying to a certain altitude to prevent radio radiation from harming ground personnel. There are also accounts of burning rabbits. Actually, these are all wrong.

The MiG-25 has a height locking device, but this is not to prevent radio radiation from damaging the ground human body, but because the processing system composed of the integral circuit of the vacuum tube of the Whirlwind-A cannot effectively process the numerous signals of the ground radar echo, and when it is turned on at a certain altitude, the radar processing system is quickly drowned in the sea of data, and the single-pulse radar cannot effectively filter out the ground echo, which is also the inherent stubborn disease of the vacuum tube radar.

As an actual driver of the MiG-25, Belenko certainly knows that the advantage of the MiG-25 lies in the high altitude, and his own searchers cannot effectively search for him! As long as you survive half an hour, you can live the life you want!

Berenko didn't know that just five minutes after he had completed the "wrecked" performance, a MiG-25PD took off from the base and came to search for him! And this plane is equipped with a Sapphire-25 pulse Doppler radar!

When Andrei took off, at the same time in his mind, a line had been drawn from the "wrecked" sea area of Belenko to the base of Yakumo Town, Nikai County, Hokkaido, even a straight line, if you guessed correctly, Belenko must be on this route!

Before takeoff, it was fully fueled, so Andrei did not hesitate to continue to drive the afterburner, at a speed of Mach 2.6, until he flew over the sea area of the Belenko crash, and then, on the right course, turned on his Sapphire-25 radar.

At the front end of the nose, the antenna of the airborne radar with a diameter of nearly one meter, under the activity of the universal joint, deviates 42 ° downward, and the radar with a peak power of 600 kilowatts continuously radiates radar waves downward, passes through the sea surface, and returns to the radar antenna, and the processing system keeps eliminating the clutter on the sea surface, and a rotating bright line appears on the screen of the cockpit.

Fifty seconds later, Andrei found a faint echo on the screen, a hundred at a distance and three hundred at a height!

Go down and have a look! Andrey turned off the afterburner of the engine, pushed the operating lever forward, and the huge steel fighter plane swooped down from a high altitude, and on the radar screen, the echoes became clearer and clearer.

With the flip of a switch, Andre turned on the TP-26-SH1 forward-looking infrared search/tracking system, and now it is tail chasing, which makes it easy to find the tail flame of the fighter and provide himself with more accurate positioning!

During the dive, the speed continued to increase, and looking at the speed of the Mach watch almost pointing to Mach 3, Andrei's heart also flew down like a rocket.

The altitude was reduced to less than 10,000, and a dense atmosphere was ushered in, and 032 began to slow down.