Chapter 101: A New Opponent
Returning to the base, everyone has sincere respect for Andre, the atmosphere of the base has become positive again, everyone knows that this is all Andre's credit, especially the nephew of the base commander, I don't know how many people applauded. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"During this time, are the Americans across from us honest?" Andrei asked Ivanov, who was beside him.
The existence of the 513 regiment is to deter the Americans on the opposite side! Especially in the second half of last year, Andrey's existence put great pressure on the Americans, and the steel fighter like the MiG-25 is simply a sword pressed on the heads of the Americans! When Andrei left for the last time, he shot down a Blackbird.
"The Americans have been very honest in the past two months, and even electronic reconnaissance planes have not dared to cross the median line of the Sea of Japan." "However, the U.S. Navy has recently made a move, and a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, replacing the USS Midway, has been stationed at Yokosuka Naval Base," Ivanov said. ”
Kitty Hawk class aircraft carrier! Andrei's brow furrowed suddenly.
At this time, the Americans had just been freed from the Vietnam War, and they used a lot of military force in the Vietnam War, including aircraft carriers, a symbol of American power, and at most times, there were even four aircraft carriers loitering in the waters outside Vietnam at the same time, which involved a great deal of energy from the United States, so in the Far East, the American garrison of the island country, for a long time, was equipped with aircraft carriers that were not in the port.
In fact, from the island country to the Soviet Far East, it is only about 1,000 kilometers, all of which are under the combat radius of land-based fighters, and whether to deploy aircraft carriers in the island country is not a very urgent choice for the US military stationed in Japan, and their aircraft carriers are often fighting fires in various parts of Asia, and they do not concentrate on staying in the island country of Yokosuka to prepare for the battle with the Soviets.
It is not how powerful the aircraft carrier is, in fact, the danger of the Americans deploying the aircraft carrier to the island country is not small, after all, the entire island country is within the combat radius of the air force and air defense forces in the Far East, especially the long-range supersonic bomber such as the Tu-22M, which carries anti-ship missiles, is specially designed to fight aircraft carriers.
The aircraft carrier is not important, the important thing is the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier!
Now, the Soviet MiG-25 is too stressful for the Americans, so the Americans have to take out their magic weapon. In this era, the F-15 is only the initial fighter produced at low speed, and it has only been delivered to the American air force, and the F-16 has not yet completed its design, so if you want to fight the Soviet MiG-25, the Americans only have the Navy's F-14 fighters to deploy!
The F-14 Tomcat fighter is a two-seat supersonic multi-purpose heavy carrier-based fighter developed by Grumman in accordance with the requirements of fleet air defense and escort of the US Navy from the 70s to the 80s, which is used to replace the Navy's F-4 fighter. It mainly performs tasks such as fleet defense, interception, strike, and reconnaissance.
The development of such a fighter began in the early 60s. The development of the aircraft began at the end of 1967, the prototype made its first flight on December 21, 1970, and was delivered in May 1972. Historically, by the time of 79 years, the naval aviation had acquired nearly 400 fighters, and at the same time, the pilots of the navy's carrier-based aircraft were also very comfortable with the operation of such fighters, and they could completely reach the level of entering actual combat.
Compared with the original main F-4 fighter, the F-14 mainly adopts the layout of the typical third-generation aircraft of twin-engine and double-vertical tail, and the most popular variable sweep wing is now used to achieve the most outstanding aerodynamic performance in all airspace in the high, medium and low, and unlike the MiG-23, this fighter uses an electronic computer-controlled wing box operating mechanism, and the sweep angle is completely automatic, and the performance is quite advanced.
In addition to its own maneuverability, the electronic system of the Tomcat fighter is also quite powerful, for example, the AWG-9 radar that uses a flat slot antenna can easily detect the fighter flying close to the ground in the clutter at ultra-low altitude using the pulse Doppler function, and with the heavy immortal bird missile, it is simply an air killer!
In later history, the Iran-Iraq war was fought for eight years, and the Iranians, with the advantage of Tomcat fighters, have been pressing the Iraqi air force, and even later, as long as the Iraqis discovered the beam irradiation of the AWG-9 radar, they immediately fled.
The deployment of this kind of fighter will be the biggest enemy of the 513 regiment! Andrei knew that from now on, he would no longer have a complete technological advantage.
According to the time, it should be the Kitty Hawk, Andrei couldn't help but think in his mind, last year, the Kitty Hawk left the waters of Vietnam and returned to its home port for transformation, and now, nearly a year has passed, it should be completed and then returned to East Asia. The Midway had limited performance and could not operate the Tomcat fighter jets, so it did not deal with the threat of the MiG-25. This is probably the reason why the Americans deployed the Kitty Hawk, after all, in history, it was not until 98 that the Kitty Hawk began to be stationed in the island nation of Yokosuka.
"We need more information." Andrei said: "I hope that the intelligence services will cooperate so that we can obtain enough performance data of the American Tomcat fighters." ”
Tomcat fighters! History is also ill-fated, with the US aircraft carriers running around, but there is no decent record, the Cold War has just ended, and it has been thrown into the cold again, and it has been replaced by fighter attack aircraft with performance far lower than its own.
In his previous life, as a pilot, Andrei knew a little about both Chinese and foreign aircraft, he knew how difficult the Tomcat fighter was, and at the same time, he also knew a serious flaw in the Tomcat fighter of this era.
TF-30 engine! This is the early power of the Tomcat fighter, which was originally a civilian engine, but it was moved to the fighter, and as a result, the Tomcat fighter was greatly restricted, which cannot be blamed on Grumman, after all, when the Tomcat fighter was developed, there was no mature high-thrust turbofan engine at all. The Americans even planned to replace this engine with Spey's modified TF41, but fortunately, the F100 engine matured later, and the Tomcat was replaced with a heart problem, but by that time it was almost the nineties.
In the future, it is very important to confront the Americans and know the flaws of the other side, but now Andrei can't say it directly, he can't explain why he is so familiar with the Americans' fighter planes, so now he can only hope that the intelligence department can get enough information.
Kitty Hawk, an old rival, Andre couldn't help but think of the time before the crossing, the Chinese army often faced the threat of the Kitty Hawk.