Chapter 245: Missiles Fight Missiles
Fighting missiles with missiles has not been tried in this era.
In later generations, anti-aircraft missiles can be used to hit anti-ship missiles fired by the other side, because the targets of anti-ship missiles are relatively large, just like a small plane, and at the same time, there are also anti-aircraft missiles that use ballistic missiles, and this difficulty is not ordinarily high, and only a few countries can do it.
As for using air-to-air missiles to fight air-to-air missiles, there has never been such an attempt in later generations.
One of the main problems is that the radar reflection echo of the air-to-air missile is too small and not easy to be locked, and the maneuverability of the air-to-air missile is too high, and when the fuel is not exhausted, it is often overloaded by more than 30G, and it is suddenly freed from the missile's seeker.
But now, there is still hope for the interception of air-to-air missiles.
Because this is the R-33, this huge missile, the radar echo is still there, and the AG-9 radar, the performance is quite strong, and now, under the control of Lieutenant Gus, the second and last immortal bird, in the direction of the target, pounced fiercely!
At the same time, on the Super MiG-25, Colonel Fedotov was fiddling with his own radar.
Compared with flat slot radar, phased array radar also has its advantages, that is, it can attack multiple targets!
Is the Americans' one-dozen six, very awesome? On the current Super MiG-25, it is also possible to play a dozen fours! It can't hit six at once, because it can't carry six missiles, otherwise, it's absolutely fine.
It is more than a dozen tomcats, and the technical route is different.
The last stage of the Immortal Bird missile is active guidance, so as long as the carrier aircraft leads the Immortal Bird missile to the corresponding position, it can be freed, and the Immortal Bird missile attacks the target autonomously.
The R-33, on the other hand, is semi-active and needs to provide radar guidance throughout the process.
If it is an ordinary radar, at such times, the antenna can only be aimed at the target, constantly releasing a continuous wave of radar signals to provide signals to the missile, however, for phased array radars, it can be dispersed!
Phased array radar relies on the ferrite in front to change the phase of the radar wave, so as to radiate to different directions, so as long as the large radar antenna in front of the nose is divided into several pieces, and each antenna radiates the radar wave in one direction, it can attack multiple targets.
Like now.
For the target early warning aircraft, the radar echo is too obvious, if it is not for the four escort fighters next to it, it is even enough to use a radar antenna with a quarter of the area.
Now, Fedotov operates the sophisticated radar, aiming half of the beam at the front, providing guidance information to the four launched R-33s, while spreading the other half of the antenna to scan the airspace to his left.
This is even more awesome than the AG-9's tracking and scanning, when the AG-9 guides the immortal, it can't search the surrounding airspace in time, but the Super MiG-25 can!
This is the advantage of phased array radar, if it is an active phased array radar, then the advantage is even more obvious, it has many transmitting and receiving components, and some of them can be used continuously, which means that its reliability is quite high.
In later generations, the MiG-31 can be used as a small AWACS aircraft, which is definitely not lying.
They had just been locked by a Tomcat fighter jet, and if the Tomcat had locked on to them behind them, their radar would have been unable to detect it.
However, it is impossible to be behind, because behind is Hokkaido, which is the direction they came from, and when they flew over, they did not see a Tomcat fighter fighting there, and the planes there were all island F-4 fighters with plaster flags.
The Tomcat fighter took off from the sea, so the most likely position should be in the airspace in front of them, and the direction given by the radar warning receiver is on their left side.
Now, the half of the radar antenna on the left radiates dense electromagnetic waves, and soon, the electromagnetic waves are reflected back.
"On the left, one hundred and fifty kilometers, a Tomcat fighter, wait, it also launched a missile!" Colonel Fedotov shouted.
The missile, which had already flown halfway through the distance at this time, would soon be able to detect its target from its own radar screen.
"It's going to attack our missiles!" Fedotov shouted: "Are the Americans crazy? ”
If the missile launched by the opponent attacks itself, it can also force the opponent to maneuver to dodge, and when the opponent maneuveres to dodge, the missile launched by the opponent will naturally become an uncontrolled rocket.
However, the Americans did not do this, and this is where the shrewdness of the Americans lies, because their missiles do not have enough range.
Now it's only one hundred and fifty kilometers, and the other side needs to keep flying forward to get their missiles within reach.
In this case, their missiles did not fly when their own missiles had already hit the target in front.
Therefore, the other side aimed at the missile launched by its own side.
The question is, is it possible that the other side actually wants to intercept missiles with missiles?
Fedotov discovered the purpose of the plane, but he was helpless.
Once the missile is launched, it is no longer possible to change the target, the target is determined before launch, and it is possible to change the target in flight unless the missile and the carrier aircraft have a two-way data link to exchange information.
At the same time, the trajectory of the missile cannot be changed, the missile is flying in the nearest course, and when the target course changes, its flight direction will also change.
At this time, the immortal bird also continued to fly forward.
The most nervous, of course, were the personnel of the AWACS aircraft, who watched the bright spots on the screen.
Those four bright spots are the four long-range missiles launched by the opponent, and on the side, it is a missile launched by the Tomcat of the other side, which is intercepting.
Can it be intercepted? Immortal birds, they've never been used like this!
"It's about to go into active mode." Gus said to Nathan.
The last stage of the immortal bird is guided by the active radar, and when it enters this terminal stage, the immortal bird missile does not care, whether it can hit or not, it depends on the creation.
"Prepare to launch the Sparrow." Nathan shouted at Gus, and then, turning on the afterburner of his fighter again, adjusted the direction, and pounced in the direction of the MiG-25!
If the MiG-25 goes into supersonic mode, especially after the speed exceeds Mach 2, it means that it is no longer playing, no aircraft can catch up with it, and the only Immortal Bird missile that can intercept it has been used up.
However, now Andrey's plane, the speed has slowed down.