Chapter 468: The Battle Tomcat
"Two targets, one hundred and five, six thousand in height, and one two in speed. Pen %Fun %Cabinet www.biquge.info" Christophe looked at his radar screen and reported calmly.
These two targets must have taken off from an aircraft carrier, just because the targets of the aircraft are much smaller than those of the aircraft carrier, and their own radar can detect them at a distance of one hundred and fifty kilometers, which is already quite good.
And in the distance, there must be American carrier-based AWACS aircraft, but the distance is too far for it to be displayed on their own radar. While the Soviet Aerospace Forces were all suitable for ground-guided operations, the exception was the newly formed Soviet Navy's carrier-based fixed-wing aviation, which had to be able to fight independently!
Although the long-range radar of the warship in the rear can also act as a ground CGI guide, the distance will not exceed 300 kilometers, and the two carrier-based aircraft of our own side are actually providing more long-range early warning for the warship.
"Monitor American planes, be careful, do not take the initiative to attack." The voice of the commander on the rear aircraft carrier came from the headset.
Unlike the submarine that just dealt with the Americans, the submarine appeared in the sea area where it sailed, so it was necessary to find out the other side, but the aircraft on the aircraft carrier was different, the aircraft had a long range, and it could not be said that all the airspace was its own, right? If the opponent flies into its own aircraft carrier formation, or if the distance is too close, for example, within 40 kilometers, its own side can shoot it down, but now, in the airspace hundreds of kilometers away, they can only approach each other, and they cannot start the battle lightly.
"Understood." Christoph turned on the afterburner and quickly climbed high, these two American planes were obviously coming towards their side, and they didn't have to guess to know that it must be a Tomcat fighter with air superiority, if it was still the previous model, maybe they would be afraid, but now, their own fighters are already extremely powerful!
On the opposite side, the two Tomcat fighters of the Coral squadron also had the same idea, their task was only to test the Soviets, and they must not fire first!
The long plane Powell turned on the afterburner, the F110 engine emitted a majestic thrust, the wings swept back, and it flew forward quickly and continued to climb.
In order to improve the heart problem of the Tomcat fighter, the US Navy finally made up its mind to gradually replace the TF30 engine of its Tomcat fighter with the latest F110 engine!
As the first turbofan engine used in fighters, the original TF30 engine of the Tomcat is not reliable, and the compressor stalls often occurs, and in the usual flight training, the engine must be carefully served, and in the fierce air battle, the engine drags down the pilot, which happens more than once. Moreover, the Tomcat equipped with the TF30 engine has a thrust-to-weight ratio of only 0.7, which would not have allowed the Tomcat to dominate the sky if it were not for the advantage of the variable sweep wing.
So, the US Navy has long wanted to improve the engine! In 73, it was equipped with the F401 engine for test flights, but unfortunately the engine at that time still had various problems.
If according to the progress of history, the F110 is now extremely immature, but the war in the Far East made the fighters of the US Air Force lie down at a critical time, and the F110 engine is almost facing the possibility of falling out of favor in the US Air Force.
And the U.S. Navy, facing the threat of the Soviet Navy, also needs powerful carrier-based fighters, so the F110 was installed on the Tomcat fighter, and the U.S. Navy pilots, since then, have raised their eyebrows, this is a real fighter, and there is no need to be careful with the engine!
The thrust of the F110 is 30 percent greater than that of the TF30, and the thrust-to-weight ratio of the Tomcat fighter has long exceeded 1, which means that you can finally climb vertically effortlessly!
At an altitude of 10,000 meters, breathing the oxygen inside the oxygen mask, Powell's field of vision, two identical variable sweep wing fighters appeared, I heard that the Soviets have changed this fighter to be extremely perverted, how about it, just give it a try!
For American pilots, apart from being afraid of the pervert of the MiG-25, nothing else has been feared!
Both sides were head-on, and as the planes whizzed by, they began to turn at the same time. If it's just a formal air battle, your own omnidirectional fighting bullet Sidewinder, it's time to launch! And now, let's play with the Soviets!
The air combat performance of the Panda fighter is the most powerful of all fighters in the United States, and even the F-15 of the US Air Force cannot go a round under the body of the Tomcat fighter! Powell pulled the rod to the rudder, and the huge overload pressed him tightly against the chair, the wing was already fully open, and its circling radius was minimal.
A dashing arc, circling over, Powell looked towards the airspace ahead, clean, nothing!
And what about the planes of the Soviets? Where did it go?
"Sequoia Tree, six o'clock!" The shouts of the pilot of another plane were heard in the headphones.
The radar operator in the rear tried to look behind him, but unfortunately he was blocked by the tall seat back, and he could not see directly behind, but it was completely certain that the other party was behind!
Damn, his hovering is not slow, how could the other party turn and fly behind him? How terrifying should the other party's hovering ability be? Of course, he didn't know that the other party was not just hovering horizontally, but hovering horizontally plus rolling vertically, a spiral of ascent and change course!
And now, facing the plane behind him, Powell did not have the slightest fear, he pulled the head of the machine and turned on the afterburner.
Come on, the clown of the Soviets, that rustic-looking second-generation aircraft, come after me!
The tail of the F110 engine came out of the tongue of fire, and the surging thrust pushed the Tomcat fighter to climb up rapidly, and at the same time, Powell was still pulling the rod and pedaling the rudder to make a spiral ascent.
Stupid Americans, do you think you are flying an advanced plane? Kristof sneered to himself, turned on the afterburner, pulled the lever, and climbed upward.
The two fighters that spiral upwards are like tangled vines, and in air combat technology, this action is called scissor climbing.
And in this confrontation, whoever has excellent vertical maneuverability will have the advantage! Or to put it more simply, this is the thrust-to-weight ratio of the fighter!
If it is a single-engine MiG-23, then the thrust-to-weight ratio is definitely not enough, even if it is a model with the latest turbojet engine! And the Americans, precisely because they got the performance data of the latest single-engine MiG-23 exported by the Soviet Union, dared to play such a trick with Soviet fighters. (To be continued.) )