Chapter 818: B-2 Found
This radar can last 24 hours and has a power of only 3 kilowatts, which is the level of a water heater. After digital transformation, the performance has been completely changed.
At this time, the radar operator is engrossed in staring at the radar screen, and the bright line keeps rotating with the rotation of the antenna, scanning at a speed of two weeks per minute.
Suddenly, the operator's eyes widened, and after the bright line was swept, two vague bright spots appeared, with echoes!
"Attention, alert, suspicious target spotted!" The radar operator shouted, and at the same time began to flip various switches.
Spotting targets, distances, and bearings are all approximate data! The rest of the warships, at the same time, found the target.
Scan position! Several warships were separated, and through the data link, several radar-searched targets were unified onto a Shield of Friendship battleship for synthesis, and soon, the intelligence was accurate.
At a distance of three hundred and fifty kilometers, due east, two stealth planes!
Stealth planes! The Americans actually used stealth aircraft to strike at their own naval formations, what did they come this time?
The American F-22 has not yet been developed, so it will definitely not be this kind of fighter, then there are only two left. F-117, generally only throwing precision-guided laser bombs, this weapon is generally used to attack targets on land, and the two are simply unable to destroy their entire aircraft carrier formation, it seems that the other party sent this time, it must be a bomber like B-2!
Although an experienced radar operator can determine from the radar echo what kind of aircraft the other side is coming, it is not true for stealth aircraft, and the echo of the huge B-2 bomber is smaller than that of the F-117. It can only be judged by speculation.
Moment. Emergency alarms are sounded on various warships, and phased array radar is the best to deal with stealth aircraft, because the beams of phased array radar can converge to the most obvious direction of the target, thereby increasing the detection range of stealth aircraft.
Although the networked meter-wave radar can be found and the specific location can be detected. But it is still not enough to have enough accuracy to guide anti-aircraft missiles.
On the aircraft carriers Indomitable and Endeavour, the Tomcat fighters on standby immediately and quickly slid to the take-off position, and in the white smoke of steam, they quickly attacked.
And the two Tomcat fighters that were already guarding the aircraft carrier had already turned on the afterburner at this time, and pounced towards the target position, quickly intercepting the two arriving enemy planes!
It's a pity that the other party is still one step faster.
America at some point. Like the Soviet Union, it is all going to extremes, but the Soviet Union attaches importance to speed and power, while the United States deliberately attaches importance to stealth, and the B-2 bomber is the second type of fighter that completely attaches importance to stealth capabilities, sacrificing a certain amount of maneuverability, for example, although there are four engines, the maximum speed does not exceed the speed of sound. However, it reached Mach 0.95, which is already much better than the F-117.
B-2 flying at high subsonic speeds. At the time of the rapid sortie of Pakistan's naval aviation, another fifty kilometers were flown forward.
In the cockpit, the two pilots made the final preparations before the attack, as the most advanced bomber in the United States, the combat capability is far stronger than that of the B-52, but the personnel used at the same time is greatly reduced.
The crew of the B-2 is two. All sat in the ACEII ejection seats in front, with the pilot on the left and the mission commander on the right. There are 4 large windscreens in front of and on both sides of the cockpit, and the occupants enter and exit the cockpit through the belly door. In an emergency, the ejection seat is ejected through a fragile hatch at the top of the cockpit.
Compared with. For other bombers of the same era, the ejection of flight personnel is very cumbersome, such as China's H-VI, ejection speed, altitude, and ejection sequence of each personnel have requirements, and when the plane has an accident, it is almost impossible to leave enough time for members to eject and survive.
The American B-1B bomber also made a compromise and adopted the ejection method of the whole cockpit, which is almost a small spacecraft, which greatly increases the complexity of the mechanism.
The mission commander is responsible for navigation and weapon delivery, but both crew members can complete the entire mission alone.
During the long voyage, the U.S. military lost the ability to use GPS guidance due to the failure of GPS satellites, but the B-2A's navigation system was sufficient for the entire mission, even without satellite navigation. The B-2's navigation system consists of two systems, an inertial measurement unit, that is, a high-precision laser gyroscope, and a Northrop NAS-26 astronomical inertial unit, which is commonly used for starlight navigation, a system of photoelectric telescopes with a stabilized base that locks onto pre-selected stars on cloudy days.
The position of Pakistan's aircraft carrier formation at sea has been detected in advance by an E-3 early warning aircraft that rushed in, and the B-2 has obtained the approximate coordinates of the aircraft carrier formation through the data link system, and now it has flown to a distance of 300 kilometers from the aircraft carrier formation, and the final attack of the B-2 bombers is gradually unfolding.
The AN/APQ-181 phased array radar at the front of the nose is energized, the most advanced radar manufactured by Hughes, which works at a frequency of 12-18GHZ, has a small side lobe, and has strong anti-electronic interference ability. There are a total of 21 working modes, among which the synthetic aperture radar working mode can clearly obtain scanning images of the inland surface at a distance of 161 kilometers, which is used for ultra-low-altitude penetration, and the sea surface scanning and searching for a huge aircraft carrier formation at a distance of more than 300 kilometers. Even for such a small target as a torpedo boat, a search range of a hundred kilometers can be obtained.
The radar quickly locked on the aircraft carrier formation on the sea in front, 300 kilometers is already a very close distance, you know, the air defense circle of the aircraft carrier formation can be expanded to 600 kilometers, and the strong interception ability of the Tomcat fighters is also obvious to all, and now the two bombers without any self-defense ability can rely on their own stealth performance.
After working for two seconds, the radar has already captured all the data of the target, and through the rapid calculation of the on-board computer, it provides the initial launch data for the missiles it is mounting.
Thirty-two AGM-158 missiles, enough to destroy the entire aircraft carrier formation of the opposing side!
In the air, the scene of fireworks-like launches made the two Pakistani Navy pilots who went to intercept them suddenly feel anxious.
Generally speaking, relying on outstanding stealth capabilities, the B-2 will not be detected, but the networked meter-wave radar provides accurate target coordinates, and these two Tomcat fighters have chased to the visual distance.
In the clear night sky, the tail flame of the other party's missile launch was so clear that Lieutenant Colonel Hlaba gritted his teeth.
Along the way, following the guidance information provided by the meter-wave radar in the rear, the two Tomcat fighters, which were originally responsible for the patrol of the fleet's air defense tasks, swooped straight over, and at the same time, constantly used their own radar to scan the airspace in front of them, but they were empty and found nothing.
Pakistan's self-produced advanced radar with flat slot radar antennas has a great advantage in dealing with conventional fighters, but in the face of stealth aircraft, their disadvantage is obvious, and they have only vaguely found the echo at a distance of 20 kilometers, but they can't lock the other party, just like that, now they have flown to a distance of five kilometers, and they can already be visually discovered, but they found that the other party launched a missile!
"Indomitable, Indomitable, the target has already launched a missile!" Hlaba said on the radio: "Visually it is an American B-2 bomber, ask for instructions." ”
At this time, whether the side should intercept the two bombers or intercept the missiles fired by the other side needs instructions from the rear, which is a difficult choice.
The opponent must have launched anti-ship missiles, which flew by inertia in the early stage of flight and were easy to shoot down, but it was difficult at the end of the flight, and at the same time, these missiles were also the greatest threat to their own formations. However, if these missiles were intercepted, the two B-2 bombers would definitely fly away and would not be able to shoot down the culprit, which made Hraba very uncomfortable.
Fortunately, the order soon came: "Shoot down the bombers of the Americans!" ”
At this time, the Tomcat fighters that are constantly catapulting and taking off are coming quickly, and those missiles can be handed over to the fighters behind to deal with, and now, the opponent's bombers must not be allowed to run away!
"Understood!" Hlaba converted the weapon switch, although it was close to visual visibility, the radar still could not lock on to the other party, it can be seen that the radar stealth performance of the other party's bomber is too good, switching to the optoelectronic radar, in the dark night sky, the effect of the photoelectric radar has also become very poor, the other party is not only radar stealth, infrared stealth and visual stealth, have done very well.
Helmet scopes can't lock onto each other either! As the distance between the two sides gradually shortened, eventually, they met head-on.
At this time, the two B-2 bombers that had finished launching the missiles were ready to turn in the direction of the southern island of Diego Garcia, and the long voyage was also very physically exertive on the pilots, and the two pilots needed to land and rest before returning home.
At this moment, the two fighters flying on the opposite side, the flames in the tail made their eyes accustomed to darkness instantly glow.
Damn, what's that? The two subconsciously looked back, but unfortunately this was not a fighter jet and did not have any backward vision.
The New York Ghost was the first to break the radio silence and shouted to the American Ghost: "Pakistan's Tomcat fighter!" God, how did they find out about us? ”
The American Ghost visually determined the model of the two incoming fighters, and great fear occupied their minds, what did it mean that a fighter without an escort, a bomber that carried out its mission completely on stealth performance, was discovered by enemy fighters? (To be continued.) )