632 Sea and Air
The Americans feel incredible, although the F-80 is not their best jet fighter, but it is also the first-line equipment of the US Air Force, if the F-80 is piloted by the Scraping Democratic Party pilots and cannot do the T Communists, then the Americans still think that this Scraping Democratic Party pilots are too scum, and now the American pilots who are serious about flying the F-80 can't do the MiG-15. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info This can only show one problem, I'm afraid that the MiG-15 is more advanced than imagined.
So the CIA began to try to collect intelligence on the MiG-15, even if they couldn't get the actual MiG-15 for the time being, they would buy the pictures at a high price. After intense reading, they came to a preliminary conclusion that the MiG-15 was an advanced fighter made with backward technology.
The so-called backward technology is naturally the VK-1 centrifugal engine, which belongs to the backward technology with no development prospects, and the Americans know that Britain has a similar engine, but the Americans themselves still use axial engines. However, although the centrifugal engine is a little behind, the thrust can still be guaranteed, and the performance indicators of the British centrifugal engine, the Americans can probably calculate the performance of the MiG-15. It is indeed above the F-80.
This creates a great sense of insecurity among the Americans, and the MiG-15, which is already in service, is stronger than the F-80, and it is initially estimated that the F-86 will have to wait to close the gap. But who can guarantee that the USSR was not developing more advanced fighters?
So much so that Congress began to demand a review of the F-86 program, because Congress believed that the F-86 was likely to fall behind as soon as it hit the production line, which was tantamount to wasting taxpayers' money. The U.S. Air Force can't laugh at this, of course they hope to get more advanced fighters, but this does not mean that they are willing to give up the F-86 project, because this project can basically be said to be successful, and it will only take one year at most to put into use, if it is abandoned at this time and put on a new project, according to the normal law of development, they can only use the F-80 for at least three or five years in the future, and this is what the Air Force absolutely does not want to see. So they kept lobbying the Congress, and they tried their best to get the old men of the Congress to keep people.
Even in order to prove that the F-86 is not weaker than the MiG-15, the Air Force dispatched two F-86 prototypes to the Zhoushan Islands via Japan, preparing to drill with the MiG-15 on the spot, in order to achieve the most satisfactory results, the Air Force sent the best pilots and the best service team, and even carefully planned an ambush operation, only when the lone MiG-15 was found, the F-86 would attack.
That morning, according to the usual practice, he flew the MiG-15 to carry out an air patrol, because the MiG-15 has a limited range, and this kind of air patrol operation generally does not go beyond 200 kilometers along the coast, that is, it has just covered the waters around the Zhoushan Islands. As usual, Zhang Huangxin easily shot down two P-51s, bringing his results to 50 in one fell swoop. Truth be told, it was the happiest time he ever had, he was able to get results almost every day, and it was too hard to get injured or injured, and the jet fighter overwhelmingly overwhelmed the propeller pilots. According to the surveillance, the propeller fighter pilots of the scraping party have refused to take to the skies.
In fact, in the past two days, Zhang Huangxin has also discovered that the fighters of the Scraping People's Party are rarely dispatched, and even if they attack, they will be coordinated by the F-80, and the P-51 is rarely dispatched alone anyway. This directly led to a significant reduction in the results of the MiG-15 in the last three days, because there were almost no targets left in the air to attack.
And today he was lucky enough to run into two P-51s, and the corners of Zhang Huangxin's happy mouth reached the root of his ears. He did not realize that it was a trap, and while he was happily hunting the P-51, two F-86s had already pounced on him. Both F-86s were piloted by bald-headed American ace pilots, who quietly entered from the tail of Zhang Huangxin, preparing to launch a sneak attack.
Zhang Huangxin didn't realize that he had been targeted, and he was still imagining what kind of welcome he would receive when he returned to the airport. After all, he was the first man to shoot down 50 enemy planes, which is a special honor, even in the Soviet Union or even in Europe and the United States, there are not many pilots who can shoot down 50 enemy planes, and it can be said that it is the trump card among aces.
It was too late to say that it was too fast, just when the two F-86s rushed towards Zhang Huangxin one after the other and were about to open fire, Zhang Huangxin suddenly moved, he suddenly pulled the lever and enlarged the throttle, and the nose of the MiG-15 pointed to the sky and pulled a somersault, narrowly avoiding the attack of the F-86.
This sudden maneuver caught the F-86 pilots off guard, they really couldn't figure out how the prey could react at the last moment, their attack should be very stealthy and invulnerable!
In fact, the attack of the American pilots was indeed very covert, with the help of the dodge of the clouds, they launched the attack from the most advantageous position, if it was World War II, then they would have succeeded. But this is not World War II, although their opponents are young and not so experienced, but they fly larger planes and do not lack the courage to fight to the death, and of course, more importantly, the performance of radar in this era has been greatly enhanced.
Of course, this does not mean that the MiG-15 is equipped with radar, it is basically impossible for fighters of this era to be equipped with radar, and the accuracy of the only conical scanning system that can be used is not ideal. The so-called radar still refers to the ground-based radar network, and at the same time as the MiG-15 was introduced, the Soviet Union's early warning radar was also introduced, and although there was no money to cover the whole country, there was no problem in ensuring the coverage of one or two key theaters, and almost all PLA fighters were engaged with enemy planes under the guidance of ground radars, and this was something that the Kuomintang did not expect.
Scraping the Democratic Party has always believed that the Communists. The bandits are a group of turtles, and there is definitely no radar on the tall, in fact, if it weren't for the godfather's high-priced "sponsorship", he would not have a radar, and because the radar is too expensive, the scraping army can't buy too much, that is, two or three radars can be used for life.
So when the F-86 was ready to solve the MiG-15 by sneak attack, it was quickly discovered by the PLA's radar, and after some tedious identification of friend and foe, the radar station of the PLA was basically certain that this was a jet fighter of the Scraping People's Party. The only thing that made them a little puzzled was why this batch of jet fighters reflected different from the previous F-80 radar reflections.
Zhang Huangxin can solve this problem, he can see it very clearly, and the sneak attack on him is definitely not the F-80 he saw before. The F-80 is the appearance of air intake on both sides of the front, and the enemy aircraft in front of him is honestly too similar to the MiG-15 he is flying.
In fact, if it weren't for the radar station alerting him to the presence of enemy aircraft behind him, he would definitely mistakenly think that the F-86 that attacked him was his own man. Even when he slammed it up and looked at the enemy, it was a little strange, because the two sides were so similar.
However, similarity does not mean the same, because the performance bias of the MiG-15 and F-86 is still very different, and the thrust of the two is almost the same grade, but because the fuselage of the MiG-15 is lighter, the thrust-to-weight ratio is better, especially the thrust-to-weight ratio of air combat, simply put, the MiG-15 has better climb and stronger vertical maneuverability. So we can see that in the air battle to resist US aggression and aid Korea, the MiG-15 always used extremely simple yo-yo maneuvers. And the F-86 is actually a good aircraft, but its focus is on horizontal maneuvering, which is worse than the hovering and grappling of the MiG-15. Moreover, historically, the electronic equipment of the F-86 is more perfect, especially the sights are much stronger than the rudimentary MiG-15.
However, it is not in history that neither the American pilots nor Zhang Huangxin know anything about the enemy's performance, and such air battles are even more accidental. I have to say that Zhang Huangxin was lucky, because he was the one who was attacked, so he chose to dodge first, and the MiG-15's best dodge was yo-yo maneuvering, Zhang Huangxin subconsciously made this move.
And the American pilots did not expect the vertical maneuver of the MiG-15 to be so powerful, and they subconsciously caught up with them, and soon found that they had fallen into a pit, and the MiG-15 quickly turned a somersault, and they were still in the ascending stage of the somersault. In this way, Zhang Huangxin changed from the attacked to the attacker, and he pulled the trigger without hesitation when he went around the back of the F-86's butt, and a series of shells flew out, hitting an F-86 just right.
In the blink of an eye, the F-86 fell into the sea in a circle, and Zhang Huangxin subconsciously glanced at the theodolite and marked the seat. Although he didn't realize the use of this at the time, it did come as a surprise later.
This is not to be mentioned for the time being, back to the battle itself, another F-86 was also taken aback, in the blink of an eye, the attack and defense were different, and his long plane was directly shot down, and the enemy bit his tail tightly and constantly sent the most cordial greetings with shells. In the face of this situation, the average pilot may panic, but this pilot is a trump card, and the trump cards are all experienced in constant battles, and to put it mildly, he has encountered more dangerous situations than this. So the American pilot was not too flustered, he was very aware of the performance of his car, and it should be said that the maneuverability was very good, especially the horizontal maneuverability was quite gorgeous.
Thinking of this, he made a decision, since the vertical mobility competition has been blown up, then let's stop doing this and play what we are best at. He immediately kicked the rudder and started circling. At first, Zhang Huangxin was really ready to keep up with the tail and bite the tail to stalk, but he soon found that it was difficult for him to grasp the tail of the enemy plane steadily, but the enemy plane had a tendency to attack behind his tail.
Continuing to play horizontal hovering means that the opponent can accumulate enough potential energy to dive down and hang him after gaining a height advantage, and it is not enough to follow the enemy plane to pull up vertical maneuverability.
After thinking about it, he felt that there might be no good fruit to eat if he continued to entangle with his opponent, and the thirty-six plan was the best plan, and this one decisively gave up the battle and turned to return.
Zhang Huangxin was also a little dumbfounded, his plan was actually very simple, that is, to take advantage of the height and then kill the opponent, it would be better to shoot down the enemy, and if it didn't work, he would continue to play yo-yo. Anyway, the enemy's vertical mobility is poor, as long as you don't stupidly dive over your head and run in front of the enemy, it's generally fine.
But who would have thought that this goods would run away directly, which made Zhang Huangxin very regretful, he wanted to catch up, but one fuel has been alarmed, and the other is that the horizontal mobility of the other party should not be underestimated, and the MiG-15 is really not an opponent when playing dog fighting. In desperation, Zhang Huangxin could only give up this piece of fat and return home.
Immediately after landing, he reported to the regimental commander about the encounter with a jet fighter that the enemy had never seen before, and informed him of the exact location of the downed enemy plane. This situation soon attracted the attention of the Communist Air Force and the Soviet Air Force, and after the photos taken by Zhang Huangxin's camera gun were developed, the American version of the MiG-15 immediately attracted the attention of the two committees. Soon the two sides reached an agreement to jointly salvage the new American jet fighter and figure out its specific performance data.
On the other hand, the Americans were disappointed, originally expecting to usher in a good start, but who would have thought that it would be a good start. If this lets the Senate know that the F-86 was shot down by the MiG-15, then no matter how the Air Force does its work, I am afraid that the F-86 project will be cut. As soon as possible, the US Air Force decided to block the news and urgently transport the remaining F-86 back to China, and as for the one that was shot down, it claimed that it crashed into the sea due to bad weather during the test flight.
Of course, because Lao Chiang also learned this fateful information, the US Air Force promised to sell him the second batch of F-80s at a relatively favorable price in order to keep his mouth shut, and even promised to help the Kuomintang attack the Congress and get Congress to agree to sell the F-84. Anyway, it took a lot of effort to wipe this ass clean.
As for the T Republic, the Soviet Union was very comfortable to salvage the F-86 that fell into the sea, and soon shipped it to the Soviet Union, after rigorous testing, the Soviet Union basically figured out the technical performance of the F-86, and its J47-GE-27 turbojet engine is very interested, and the MiG-15 centrifugal engine compared with this axial engine is still a lot more advanced.
According to the ideas of some departments of the Soviet Union, it is just right to copy the J47-GE-27 turbojet engine in reverse and install it on the MiG-17 or the MiG-19 under development.
But this proposal was rejected by Li Xiaofeng on the grounds that it was unnecessary, because at this time the Soviet Union already had an axial jet engine project, and this J47-GE-27 turbojet engine did not have a technical advantage over it. Since it is at the same level, why is it better to prevent others, and it is not better to brush up on your own engine research institute experience.
At this time, the Soviet Union had many jet projects, including the MiG-17, which had just been put into production, and the MiG-19, which was being tested intensively. The fighter-bomber has Sukhoi's Su-7, and the performance of the Su-7 at this time is not stable, mainly because the reliability of the Al-7 engine is not up to par, and the frequent failures must pass the manufacturer's intense research, and I believe that the problem should be solved within one to two years. Among the bombers, Tupolev's Tu-16 has begun to produce prototypes, and the next thing is to test flights, as for the Tu-14 project, it has lost to the Il-28, speaking of which this Il-28 is also a legend, and it has served in the Red Air Force for nearly thirty years. Of course, the Il-28 is so durable, and it has a lot to do with the fact that it uses the same engine as the MiG-15, and although the centrifugal engine is backward, it is still relatively durable.
The same Americans did not rest, although they did not dismount the F-86 project, but also formed a new project to prepare for the development of an advanced supersonic jet fighter, which became the F-100. And the F-95 project is also being carried out, and the so-called F-95 is actually a deep improvement of the F-86, which was later simply called the F-86D. This is to change the nose intake of the F-86 to the lower jaw intake, and let the nose position install the radar, this radar was also quite amazing at the time, because it has 495 tubes, 6400 coils and electronic components, as for the performance in the future, it can only be said hehe.
Let's talk about aircraft and air combat first, because according to the plan of the T Communist Party, after seizing air supremacy, the next work is to cross the sea and liberate the Zhoushan Islands. However, there is a problem here, the PLA Navy that has just been established is still relatively weak, and most of the equipment is converted from civilian ships or second-hand goods obtained from Hong Kong, and most of the ships are slow and weak, and the machine condition is difficult to say. More importantly, there is a particular lack of transport and landing ships.
The Navy of the People's Party on the other side, although it is also garbage by the standards of a naval power, is still much stronger than the T Communist Party, and even if the T Communist Party obtains air supremacy, it does not dare to guarantee that it will be able to successfully cross the sea and land on the Zhoushan Islands.
To this end, the T Communist Party tried to collect and refurbish all kinds of ships that could be found, and on the other hand, it also reached out to the Soviet big brother to ask for assistance. It is hoped that Big Brother will be able to support the construction of the PLA Navy, and it is best to provide a batch of destroyers, frigates, frigates and landing ships at a discount...... (To be continued.) )