Chapter 155: Attack of the Immortal Bird (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
The MiG-25 has been accelerating incessantly, has sprinted to Mach 3, and now, it will use its fastest speed to get out of the skies over Pakistan and return to the safety of India.
Even if the engine is burned, Verma will not hesitate, after all, his own life is the most important.
Of course, he was only just in case, after all, he had flown half a circle in the skies of Pakistan, and he had not seen what the Pakistani Air Force had done to him.
Moreover, the MiG-25 is equipped with a radar warning receiver, and when the other party locks on itself, it will use continuous radar waves to irradiate, and the radar warning receiver will sound an alarm.
"Missile launches." Jackson said in the back compartment of the Tomcat, "Eon, baby." β
There was a tremor under the belly of the plane, and more than four hundred kilograms of Immortal Bird missiles fell from the pylons, and almost at the same time, the engine in the tail section ignited, and thick smoke came out.
In this era, hypersonic missile ramjet engines have not yet appeared, and the AIM-54 Immortal Bird missile, which is achieved entirely by rocket engines with high thrust. And to achieve a theoretical range of 150 km, it has reached a diameter of 380 mm. At 380 mm, it is almost the size of an ordinary sedan steering wheel, so when the Tomcat fighter is mounted with the Immortal Bird missile, it can be clearly seen in the belly.
At this time, the rocket engine pushed the missile, quickly left the underside of the fighter, flew forward, and began to climb rapidly.
Even with a high-thrust engine, it is still very difficult to reach a range of more than 100 kilometers, and the American company Hughes has thought of many ways. For example, the initial flight stage of the Immortal Bird missile is to climb to an altitude of 24,000 meters! The higher the altitude, the thinner the air and the less drag there is to fly, allowing the maximum range to be achieved with the most energy-efficient flight path. And its modification AIM-54C reached 30,000 meters.
"Now, go to continuous tracking mode." Jackson said as he began to flip the switch in front of him.
When the missile was launched just now, the MiG-25's radar warning receiver did not make any sound, because Jackson locked on to the target by tracking and scanning at the same time. The powerful AWG-9 radar is required to have multi-target attack capabilities when it is designed, and it is required to attack six targets at the same time in the extreme case, so. The AWG-9's radar has a tracking and scanning mode that can lock on to the target and transmit, in this case, there is no need for continuous radar irradiation to trigger the opponent's radar alarm receiver.
At the same time, this is also due to the fact that the initial stage of the Immortal Bird missile is inertial guidance, and at the same time the number of targets is received in the semi-active radar guidance mode.
In order to be able to shoot better at the target, which is now a single target anyway, Jackson switched to continuous tracking mode. The wide-band circular flat plate slit array antenna in front of the nose gathers more electromagnetic waves. It flew to the MiG-25 fighter in front, and at the same time, the reflected radar wave was transmitted to the DSQ-26 radar at the front end of the Immortal Bird missile, and the missile's radar at this time only had the ability to receive. Passive semi-active mode.
After switching to continuous tracking mode, the radar beam increased, and suddenly, the MiG-25's radar warning receiver found that the irradiated radar wave was wrong. Warnings began to be given to the pilots.
"Drip, drip, drip." There was an intermittent alarm sound in the headphones, and Verma was suddenly shocked, oops, being targeted!
However, now he has nothing to deal with, he has already flown to an altitude of 24,000 meters, and at the same time has accelerated to the limit speed of Mach 3.
Fly, keep flying! Verma looked at the navigation equipment, he would soon be able to fly to the territory of India, and the other party would definitely be chasing after him, even if he locked himself, the missile was not as fast as his own plane!
He can only fly in a straight line, and with each maneuver, he loses valuable speed.
"Okay, Eon." Jackson continued to stare at the 25.4-centimeter-diameter cathode ray tube tactical information display in front of him, and the trajectory of the target on it was so straight that even the target aircraft did not fly so smoothly when shooting the target.
The Immortal Bird missile rushed to an altitude of 24,000 meters, and flew smoothly in the same way, although the target reached Mach 3, but the ultimate speed of the Immortal Bird missile in the high-altitude sprint exceeded Mach 5!
At the beginning of the launch, the distance between the two sides was rapidly expanding, and now, when sprinting to the limit speed at high altitude, the distance between the Immortal Bird missile and the target began to rapidly shrink again.
Finally, the target was detected only 20 kilometers away from him, and the radar at the front end of the Immortal Bird missile began to turn on, and the continuous radar signal irradiated the target.
"Drop..."The alarm in Verma's headphones turned into a long beep, which was the most dangerous situation.
Damn, what exactly is the weapon of Pakistan! Verma cursed as he began to pull his lever back, the flat tail of the tail spun around, and quickly and lightly pried the nose up, and the MiG-25 fighter continued to fly high altitude.
Due to the use of a wide tail, this fighter is relatively sluggish at medium and low altitudes, and even has too much steering torque, but at high altitudes, it is very light and agile.
The active radar seeker of the Immortal Bird missile immediately discovered that the target was continuing to rise, so the on-board computer followed the control of the wings, and the huge Immortal Bird missile climbed with it.
It is only programmed to be limited to 24,000 kilometers, but it can climb higher, and when it enters the active guidance process, it almost means that it is impossible for the target to escape from its field of vision. In the case of high speed, the overload that the MiG-25 can withstand is very small, and it is impossible to make large maneuvers, and in this case, the Immortal Bird missile, which has an overload capacity of 17G, can fully keep up with any action of the MiG-25.
At a speed of Mach 5, it was rapidly approaching the MiG-25 fighter in front, as if the two sides were competing to climb the height.
Unfortunately, it was all in vain, and when climbing to an altitude of 26,000 meters, the Immortal Bird missile caught up with the MiG-25 fighter.
"Boom!" When there are still a few tens of meters from the MiG-25, the Immortal Bird missile has already entered the final attack stage. In its head, 60 kg of connecting rod warhead was stored, and with the explosion of the warhead, the connecting rod expanded and untied in the shape of a wheel spoke, and countless connecting rods flew into the tail of the MiG-25 aircraft.
Although the MiG-25 is made of stainless steel, the skin is still very thin. Moreover, the warhead, moving at high speed, brought huge kinetic energy, and these connecting rods tore through the tail of the MiG-25, knocking it to pieces.
Verma watched as a red light flashed on the front gauge, both engines stopped working at the same time, and the MiG-25, like a huge stone, began to fall downward.
By this time, it had already flown into Indian airspace.
Verma is unlucky. The MiG-25R, which has been equipped with the Indian Air Force for more than a year, finally completed the training mission and began combat readiness, however, the first cross-border reconnaissance, was shot down, and at the same time, he was lucky. The MiG-25R did not explode in a volley, moreover. Flying into the territory of India, he had plenty of time to escape.
The fire flickered, the ejection seat flew out of the cockpit, and Verma ejected and escaped, watching the MiG-25 fall from a distance, Verma felt very uncomfortable.
"Good. Prepare to hit. In the back cabin, Jackson said to Rick in the front cabin, "Turn left immediately and prepare to return to base." β
"Understood." Rick expertly pressed the slope and pulled the lever while pedaling the rudder. The heavens and the earth were spinning, and suddenly, Jackson had the urge to vomit again.
The elite of the dignified Grumman test pilots, although he is only the radar operator in the rear cabin, Jackson is also very proud, if he vomits because of the plane, it will become a joke to return to Grumman, therefore, he tried his best to control his discomfort, all of which are the reasons for not resisting the load.
"Fly smoothly and don't do big overload maneuvers." Jackson couldn't help but shout: "Damn, you don't wear an anti-load suit, try pulling an overload." β
"I'm sorry." Rick said: "Jackson, this time we shot down the MiG-25, you are the first to take credit. β
Rick is not greedy, the launch of the long-range Immortal Bird missile is mainly the role of the radar operator in the rear cabin, he only needs to fly smoothly to the interception position.
Although just before taking off, Rick even took out a pistol, but now that he shot down the MiG-25, thinking that the company's reward was in hand, Jackson had already left Rick's excessive behavior behind, Rick was a young man after all, and he was easy to be impulsive.
Jackson had generously forgiven Rick, and the return flight was very pleasant, he looked at the blue sky and white clouds, and felt that Pakistan was also beautiful.
"Drip, drip." At this moment, the 12.7 cm detailed digital display in front suddenly flashed a signal.
"Oops, our missile, which didn't shoot, is already out of control." Jackson said.
Jackson was a little worried that the missile hadn't been fired just now, but just now, his attention was still mainly focused on the guidance of the other missile.
The guidance number jΓΉ has been introduced into the missile's computer, the missile has been activated, the launch command has been entered, but the missile has not responded, at this time, the missile has become a bomb, and it will eat the tomcat at any time.
"Cast it now." Rick said.
Six Immortal Bird missiles, four in the belly, and two at the root of the wings, are the most powerful way to mount the Tomcat fighter, but it affects the landing of the Tomcat fighter, so when it is mounted like this, the Tomcat fighter either chooses to fly back to the land airfield or throws the two missiles into the sea. Compared with other fighters, the Tomcat fighter has more ways to throw missiles.
"Understood." Jackson immediately flipped the switch. (To be continued......)
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