Take off, take off!

The 513th Regiment, although it was only recently transferred, was still fully prepared, and now, with the orders of their superiors, one after another MiG-25s flew into the sky with blazing tail flames.

If it is an emergency, the MiG-25 can take off with afterburner, fly with afterburner, and reach the battlefield at the fastest speed.

However, Andrey did not give such an order.

Sitting in his cockpit, flying at an altitude of 18,000 meters, Andrei was also thinking about his own tactics.

What are the tasks of the 513 regiment? Of course, it's not about fighting with those miscellaneous fish, they have a more important task, which is to shoot down the opponent's AWACS aircraft!

Up to now, our side's cross-sea landing operation has encountered huge variables, and it is about to fail, and the most important reason is that the other side has taken off an early warning aircraft!

AWACS aircraft are multipliers of air combat forces, and in the presence of AWACS aircraft, all actions of the opposing side are transparent, so if you want to gain superiority in air combat, you must first knock out the opponent's early warning aircraft.

As an interceptor capable of flying to Mach 3, knocking out the early warning aircraft is simply their forte, but the MiG-25's radar has high power, but most of it has become heat, and at the same time, the missiles that match it cannot complete the sniping of more than 100 kilometers like the immortal bird.

But now, Andrei is still confident, because the MiG-25 he drives is a little different from others.

The MiG-25, with its twin engines and twin tails, looks tall and mighty, and the huge rectangular air intake is the most obvious feature.

From this point of view, it is an authentic MiG-25, but, if you look closely, you can find something strange.

The MiG-25 is a single-seater, two-seater trainer with a much higher position in the rear compartment than in the front.

But now, the one that Andre is piloting, there is obviously a cockpit in the back, although it looks small, inside, there is indeed a person operating something there.

This is the latest achievement of the Mikoyan Design Bureau, although there are still some test flight projects that have not been solved, but, for the sake of this battle, it was specially delivered to the 513 regiment, and its number was not changed, in order to maintain maximum secrecy, in fact, it looks similar to the ordinary MiG-25, in fact, there have been reborn changes!

Improvements to the MiG-25 had already been carried out before Belenko's defection, and the MiG-25's turbojet engine, although powerful, was quite fuel-guzzling, which limited the range of the MiG-25, and now, after improvement, it has begun to use the latest Soloviev D-30 turbofan engine with an afterburner thrust of 14,886 kg.

Now, the newly developed fighters are almost all turbofan engines, because it has a great advantage, that is, low fuel consumption!

The lower the fuel consumption rate, the longer the aircraft will be in the air, with drop-fuel tanks, four R-33 missiles, and a range of 3,000 kilometers cruising at Mach 0.8.

The disadvantage of the turbofan engine is that the high-altitude and high-speed characteristics are not as good as the turbojet, because its outer duct leads to an increase in drag, so the top speed of this improved aircraft is lower than that of the original.

After repeated demonstrations, the theory of the high altitude and high speed of the MiG-25 is outdated, it is useless to deliberately pursue Mach 3, and it is worth slightly reducing the maximum speed and bringing about a significant increase in range.

In addition to the turbofan engine, the important problem that this aircraft solves is the problem of long-distance hunting.

At the same time, through the forced landing of EP3, the Soviet Union also saw the advanced technology of the West, but because of the problem of the industrial base, the difficulties of flat slit radar can not be overcome at once.

In order to solve the problem of the weapon system as soon as possible, the Soviets could not wait, so they simply found another way and directly installed the passive phased array radar on this interceptor!

In later generations, when the development of flat slot radar has no potential, the new generation of fighters invariably adopted phased array radar, simply put, to control the phase of radar waves to achieve more powerful performance.

However, the phased array radars of later generations, which are all active phased array radars, are composed of T/R units, and now, the radar on this aircraft is a passive phased array radar, the difference is whether it will emit radar waves.

Its radar waves, or the waveguide in the back, are still emitted, but the phase is changed through the ferrite phase shifter in front, the structure is complex and super heavy, but, by this means, the Soviet Union also achieved the function it wanted, and was able to guide the R-33 missile with a range of more than 100 kilometers!

It took the effort to install this radar just to be able to guide the R-33!

The origin of the R-33 is quite mysterious, and in later generations, some say that it is called the Immortal Birdsky, and according to some sources, this new combination of interceptors and R-33 missiles was only put into service in the early eighties.

In fact, like the MiG-25, it is in the midst of an extremely secret project.

At the earliest, from May 24, 1968, the Mikoyan design started, at that time, the test flight of the MiG-25 had not yet completely ended, and the pre-research of the next generation began.

The accompanying missiles were deployed between the K-33 of the chief designer of the "pennant" A. Liapin and the K-50 of the chief designer M. Bisnovat. In the end, the design scheme of the "pennant" was adopted.

It began to be developed at the end of the sixties, and after entering the seventies, the test flight of the missile began, first on the MiG-25, and two years ago, it carried out live firing and shot down the first test target aircraft, the MiG-17.

The acquisition of the Immortal Bird missile is of great benefit to the improvement of the R-33 missile and the overall technology of the Soviet air-to-air missile, and the current R-33 missile has not yet found much to do with the Immortal Bird.

In order to operate the complex phased array radar and launch this anti-sky missile, this aircraft also added a radar officer in the back seat, and at this time, sitting in the back was Colonel Fedotov, who was originally a test pilot of the Mikoyan Design Bureau, and had been testing this aircraft all the time, and was quite familiar with these equipment.

Andrey flew this super perverted MiG-25 for a long time, in total, it was not enough for ten sorties, but he had already mastered the operation of the aircraft, after all, the dashboard in front of him almost did not change the position, although the turbojet changed the turbofan, the aerodynamic shape of the aircraft did not change, and the operating characteristics were the same.

This secret weapon of your own, you must gain something, take out the early warning aircraft of the Americans!