Even the most advanced slow-burning missile engine cannot burn all the time, it is just a matter of tens of seconds, and after that, it is inertial flight, also called unpowered flight.

After inertial flight, the speed will be lower and lower, after all, there is air resistance, after that, as the speed decreases, the lift of the missile body decreases, and the height of the missile will gradually decrease, and finally fall to the ground.

In order to prevent the precious missile from falling to the ground and being obtained by the enemy, under normal circumstances, the missile will generally choose to self-detonate when the speed is reduced and there is no possibility of continuing the attack.

Whether it is radar guidance or infrared guidance, the warhead part is the seeker, and the one next to the seeker is the warhead, so the explosion of the warhead will completely blow up the warhead and will not cause a leak.

Now, the missile that disappeared chose to self-detonate at the end of the range, and when it exploded, it turned into fragments, and naturally it could not be detected by radar.

If it is a high-resolution radar, it can see the debris after the explosion, but for the Super MiG-25, its phased array radar cannot do it for the time being.

The target is gone.

In the next second, Andrei had already thought of something, and couldn't help but grit his teeth with hatred: "Damn Yankee!" ”

The Yankees are very cunning, and they actually use a sparrow missile to pretend to be an immortal bird missile, and deliberately let their own side be hit, which is simply too despicable!

If he turned around and left just now, regardless of the fake immortal bird behind him, he would have climbed to an altitude of 25,000 meters now, and at this altitude, he was not afraid of missiles other than the immortal bird at all.

But now, I was attracted to it, I wasted my precious time, and I actually fell for it!

Now, the distance between the two sides is less than thirty kilometers.

Since the other party has just used Sparrow missiles to fake the Immortal Bird, it means that there are no Immortal Bird missiles on the opponent's plane.

I don't have much fuel for myself, so I don't have to fight too much with each other, it's time for me to go!

Thinking of this, Andrei was about to pull up the nose of the plane and fly away, and at this moment, Colonel Fedotov, who was behind, spoke: "The other side fired missiles at us, three!" ”

It's definitely not an immortal bird, these three must be sparrow missiles!

This distance is already at the distance of a head-on attack, and Andrei knows that he is now within the attack range of these three missiles, so he has only one simple solution!

Fly up!

Andrey pulled the lever, and the Super MiG-25 climbed upwards at a high angle of attack, and at the same time, it did not lose speed.

In the same way as the MiG-25, this super heavy fighter, which has surpassed many bombers, is quite bulky when it comes to takeoff.

Take the current super MiG-25, that is, the MiG-31, its take-off weight is as high as 46 tons, although the two engines in the tail are also super perverted, which only provides 30 tons of thrust.

In this case, its maneuverability cannot be better, the thrust-to-weight ratio does not exceed 1, let alone high maneuverability.

But now, having launched four R-33 missiles and burned half of the fuel, its own weight has been reduced to 30 tons, and its afterburner thrust can reach a perverted figure of 30 tons, in which case Andrey could have climbed straight up if he had straightened the plane.

But Andrei didn't do that, although it was cool to do that, but the fuel would also be consumed at an alarming rate, and he couldn't consume it indefinitely now, otherwise, without fuel, would he have to make a forced landing in Hokkaido?

Of course not.

He had to fly the plane back.

Super MiG-25, climbing upwards at an elevation angle of about 60 degrees, the radar of the Tomcat fighter tightly captured its trajectory, and Lieutenant Gus in the rear cabin couldn't help but say: "The other party is too cunning!" ”

The word cunning should be a compliment, praising the other party's wit.

Now, the other side has launched three Sparrow missiles, no matter how the other side gets rid of them, it is impossible to throw off all three missiles, and there will always be missiles that hit the target, even if it only hurts the other side, it is a victory.

However, the other side did not fall for it, did not continue to fly towards its own missiles, did not turn around and return home, but went straight up!

As the opponent climbs, your own missiles must climb in order to hit the target.

Generally speaking, when launching a missile, the carrier aircraft will try to climb high and accelerate as much as possible to give the missile more energy, and after the missile flies out, it is best to fly flat or downward, but if it flies upward, it will be unpleasant, because the speed will be lower and lower, and the speed of the stone will definitely be lower and lower when throwing stones into the sky!

Moreover, any missile has its own design height, beyond which the air will become thinner, the aerodynamic efficiency of the missile's rudder surface will become low, and it will be understeered, and it will not be able to hit the target.

In addition to this, there is the problem of the angle of the aircraft's onboard radar.

The flat slit radar in front of the nose of your own side is quite advanced, but it is still an ordinary radar, and you need to rotate the antenna to radiate the radar waves to the place where it is needed.

Therefore, the radar antenna is connected to the nose through a universal joint bracket, and although this bracket is called a universal bracket, it also has an angle, and the maximum angle cannot exceed 30 degrees. (Hua Dongxiong guessed according to the picture, and then turned, the radar antenna collided with the back, if there is specific information, please inform the book review area, thank you.) ）

When the opponent climbed, it did not change direction, and it was still coming towards itself, so that the radar antenna of the other side had to constantly raise the elevation angle, until the end, the radar beam could not be illuminated.

The Sparrow missile is a semi-active radar-guided missile, and once the carrier aircraft cannot carry out radar irradiation, then the missile will not be able to be guided.

Air battles are all quick and quick to solve the type, the pilot's reaction is very fast, and now, this kind of peak duel also reflects the level of the two, both are masters of the master, with fast fighting, every reaction is quite wise.

Lieutenant Gus looked at his radar screen, and the missiles he launched were flying towards the opponent, and at the same time, he had to climb high, forming a curve on the screen, and as he climbed higher, the speed began to decrease.

The target, however, is constantly flying, although the trajectory is intersecting, but the time cannot be synchronized, and at the same time, the intersection of the trajectory has fallen to the outside of the screen, on the extension line.

"I'm afraid we're going to fail this attack." Lieutenant Guth muttered.