The Soviet Union has a tireless pursuit of range, pursuing a longer range, faster speed, and greater power! And these embodiments are the Soviet Union's high-altitude killer MiG-31.The MiG-31, which was improved on the basis of the MiG-25, has realized many ideals of the Soviet Union's territorial air defense forces, and in battle, the MiG-31 is an air killer, they are the kings of the sky!

It's just that the missiles that were supplied to the MiG-31 still did not satisfy the protectors of the Soviets, and the latest R-33 missiles, when using specially designed projectile ballistics, could achieve a range of 200 kilometers, but for the American AWACS aircraft, this was still not enough! There must be missiles that reach 300 km, or even 400 km!

In later generations, the research and development of this missile is continuous, but when the missile matures, the powerful empire is gone, and the strong combat effectiveness of the MiG-31 can only be lonely for life, and it has not been fought once. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The ultra-long-range R-37 missile supporting the info was also born at an inopportune time, and the hero came to an end.

And now it is different, as Andrey, who was born in the Territorial Defense Forces, is very concerned about the construction of aviation, especially since he once used the MiG-31 to snipe American early warning aircraft, and constantly put forward new requirements for this set of tactics.

So, just after the R-33 missile was finalized and put into service, the modification of the R-33 missile, the R-33M, also entered the rapid research and development, although the performance has surpassed the later R-37, there is still no new number, but an M is added in the back, which represents the modification, which is completely fooling the Americans.

An important improvement over the prototype is that the rocket engine has been turned into a ramjet engine!

Compared with solid rocket engines, the biggest advantage of ramjet engines is that they do not need to carry oxidizers, and they can use oxygen in the air, so that all the weight can be used to load fuel, which naturally increases the range, and the ramjet engine has a simple structure, does not need compressors, turbine blades, and other equipment, which can be simplified to just a combustion chamber.

So, after the use of ramjet engines, the range of missiles will be greatly increased, and without changing the length and weight of the missile, by switching to ramjet engines, the range of the R-33M missile when using high-altitude ballistics will exceed three hundred kilometers!

300 km is a critical value, although the US E-3 early warning aircraft claims to have a scanning range of 600 km radius, but, in a complex air situation, such as now, there are hundreds of aircraft to command, they will definitely not take into account all targets in the airspace within a radius of 600 km at the same time, for non-key directions, a distance of 300 km is good! In this case, the Americans will not detect their own missile-carrying fighters coming at all, they can only find missiles flying!

And ramjet engines, another advantage is speed! Mach 3 in the middle section, and even Mach 5 at the end, so that the Americans simply could not defend against it!

The Soviet Union has the technology to develop ramjet engines for missiles, such as the Sam-6 missile, which uses a rocket ramjet integrated engine, because it is launched from the ground, and the ramjet engine can only work if it exceeds Mach 2, so it is necessary to use the rocket engine to speed up the speed, and in the air, this solid rocket is not used, and the carrier aircraft can provide enough speed to meet the working needs of the ramjet engine.

"300 km missiles? This will make it possible to hunt the AWACS aircraft of the Americans! Air Force Commander Abid's face instantly softened, and his heart was a little excited, he could already think of the overwhelming advantage of using this missile.

"Still, how does our radar guide? Our MiG-25, although equipped with a new radar, has a maximum distance of only 200 kilometers! After a moment, Abid frowned again.

Steer! Why are there no ultra-long-range models of air-to-air missiles? Because there is no carrier aircraft radar capable of guidance! You must know that although the Soviet Union has now mastered the technology of flat slit radar, which can greatly improve the radiation efficiency of the radar antenna, and the nose of the MiG-25 is very large, the radar antenna area is the largest, even so, in the long-range mode, that is, all the radar beams are gathered, the distance is only 200 kilometers, if the method of tracking and scanning is adopted, it is only 100 kilometers.

With a missile at a distance of 300 km, but without radar guidance, the missile will not be able to hit the target! As a matter of fact, when this missile was developed, it was assigned to the MiG-31 interceptor, and the MiG-31 used a perverted phased array radar, which could barely reach a distance of 300 kilometers when the beams were concentrated.

And now, Iraq has only MiG-25s! No matter how perverted this fighter is, it will not be able to guide a missile at a distance of 300 kilometers.

"This rest assured, our batch of missiles uses an active radar seeker, as long as our carrier aircraft is aimed at the target azimuth and then shoots in mad dog mode." Andrei said.

Mad Dog Mode! This is a unique mode of active air-to-air missile, only to the missile to specify a specific airspace, and not to specify a specific target, wait until the missile flies to their own radar can work range, turn on the radar, search for the target that appears in their field of vision, and then lock the attack, and in this process, it is friend or foe, so this mode is called mad dog mode!

This is also something that only actively guided missiles can have! Andrei was very proud in his heart, at the beginning, under his strong suggestion, the Soviet Union sent troops to occupy the island country, although it was at the risk of triggering a world war, but now it seems that the dividends of the war are sufficient, and the biggest benefit is to greatly improve the level of electronic technology in the Soviet Union! In later generations, even in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, because of the processing accuracy problem, the flat slot radar antenna could not be made, and now, relying on the advanced industrial technology of the island country, the Soviet Union has eaten through these equipment, and the core of this active seeker is the flat slot radar antenna at the front end of the missile! Thinking of the stool-like spiral antenna after the dismantling of imported Russian missiles in later generations, I don't know how many times it has progressed! (Don't complain, it's just a metaphor.) ）

Part of the inspiration for this seeker comes from the dismantling of American Immortal Bird missiles, and at the same time, it also has a way of attacking radiation sources, which is most suitable for attacking American electronic warfare aircraft!

"However, for the best results, we also need the command of AWACS, so I transferred an AWACS aircraft from the Turkestan Military District, which will fly over the eastern part of the Persian Gulf when the time comes, to provide command for our sneak attack formation." Andrei said. (To be continued.) )