Originally, when the Blackbird was designed, it emphasized the radar stealth, and the black coating of the fuselage was the stealth coating, but in fact, the aircraft could not hide its whereabouts at all, and the huge sonic boom cloud became a good reflection carrier for long-range radar, and the body was hot and easy to be found by infrared devices. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

However, the Blackbird is still unimpeded, and its tricks are height and speed!

The altitude continued to increase, and Olmsted calculated in his heart that as long as it would not take twenty minutes, he would be able to fly over the target, and then the altitude would rise to about 28,000, and the first thing to reconnoiter was the belongings of the Soviet Pacific Fleet!

"Topol, prepare the reconnaissance equipment." Olmsted said to his companion in the back seat.

The Blackbird is a two-seater reconnaissance aircraft, with the pilot in front and the reconnaissance system officer in the back.

"Understood." As a powerful reconnaissance aircraft, it carried advanced electronic and optical reconnaissance equipment such as reconnaissance cameras, infrared and electronic detectors, and AN/APQ-73 synthetic aperture side-looking radars.

When it comes to optical photography, daytime is the best. Therefore, after a night flight a few days ago, it was discovered that the MiG-25 fighters, which were proud of the Soviets, could not pose a threat to their own side at all, and the Americans were emboldened and finally began daytime reconnaissance!

Will he be the next Gary Bowles? (The pilot of the U-2, shot down in '60 while conducting reconnaissance of the Soviet Union.) Of course not! At that time, it was only height, but now, it is both height and speed! With the backward electronic technology of the Soviets, it is simply impossible to create a missile capable of intercepting a three-fold sonic reconnaissance aircraft!

Just after the Blackbird flew over the Korean Peninsula, a large early warning radar deployed in the Far East Hort Mountains had already spotted the uninvited guest flying from high in the sky and sent an early warning signal to the interceptor force through an automated air defense network.

Sokolovka base.

"Report, reported by superiors, a suspicious target has been found, with an altitude of twenty-six thousand and a speed of Mach three, which has crossed the Korean Peninsula and is flying north, and the superiors have instructed us to be ready to intercept at any time!"

Hearing this alarm, Kori Dubu suddenly took a breath of cool air, the target of Mach 3 is the American blackbird again! They are too arrogant! This time it was daylight!

For the units of the Air Defense Forces of the USSR, the Blackbird was simply their natural enemy, especially the units of interceptors armed with MiG-25s!

At one time, the Americans' U-2 reconnaissance planes, flying indiscriminately over the territory of the USSR, slapped the Soviet Air Defense Forces in the face, until later, with a loud bang of the SAM-2 missile, the Americans stopped reconnaissance operations. A few years later, the Americans returned, this time at Mach 3 and at an altitude of more than 25,000 meters.

Only Soviet MiG-25 fighters were able to fly to such heights! These days, the Sokolovka base is disgraced. As an important air defense interceptor unit of the Far Eastern Military District, the 513 Regiment, which is equipped with the most advanced fighters such as the MiG-25, is really humiliating, and they have launched interception operations many times, but, without exception, these interception operations have failed!

The Americans even proudly announced that there is no forbidden zone for the SR-71!

"Sokolovka, Sokolovka, 032 request to take off to intercept!" Just then, a familiar voice came over the radio.

When he returned, Andrei was on a transport plane flying from Moscow to the Far East, so he soon arrived in Sokolovka and held a meeting in the flight regiment to discuss how to deal with the American reconnaissance planes, but the pilots who intercepted it several times were not very clear, and Andrei knew that he could only determine his judgment if he went up and looked at it. So, he took on the task of combat readiness duty, and just when he put on his flight gear and was on standby in the duty room, the Americans' reconnaissance plane came!

Running quickly to his fighter plane and sitting back in the cockpit, Andrei felt his fighting intent burning.

And his 032 fighter, as if he knew that he was about to take to the air again, was excited with Andre, like a war horse galloping on the battlefield.

Under the cockpit, the stainless steel skin has been painted with bright five-pointed stars, two red solid five-pointed stars, and one red hollow five-pointed star, which means that there have been two downed and one wounded. During the Cold War, this was very difficult to achieve.

However, Andre is not completely confident in this interception, because the opponent is Blackbird!

The typical combat mode of the Soviet Air Defense Force is to take off into the air under ground guidance and use air-to-air missiles to intercept at a long distance.

It is the task of ground personnel to set the most suitable interception route for the MiG-25 and guide the fighter to a position where missiles can be fired.

So, after receiving the order, another five minutes passed, and it was not until the blackbird flew over the Sea of Japan that the order to take off and intercept came.

As tough as ever, Andrey turned on the afterburner, and the two R-15 turbojet engines burst out with maximum afterburner thrust, pushing the steel monster to glide down the runway, take off, and under the wings, the four missiles were so dazzling.

In order to match the MiG-25's strong interception capability, Soviet engineers also equipped the MiG-25 with missiles specially used for interception operations, that is, the R-40 weighing half a ton!

The missile body is slender, adopts a canard aerodynamic layout, and the trailing edge of the trapezoidal wing with a large sweep angle behind is equipped with four rudder surfaces to control the flight of the missile. This is also the main combat mission of the Air Defense Forces. Although Andrey's MiG-25PD can be equipped with R-60 missiles, the current interception, the R-60 is simply useless, the mass is too light, and the power of the warhead is limited.

"Maintain the current rate of climb and deviate two degrees to the right." The voice of the ground guide came from the headphones.

"032 Roger." André continued to climb as instructed on the ground, and at the same time, turned on part of the dense switches on the right.

The missile is pre-energized, the infrared seeker is refrigerated, ready to launch at any time! The on-board radar of the vacuum tube also began to be energized and heated, and after half a minute, the vacuum tube was warmed up, and the powerful radar could be started.